Watcha eating?

[JDgreen227]

Eating a chicken wing without the bone would be like eating corn on the cob without the cob.

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

[IslandTractor]

WP, not to be critical of your choice but I for one have never understood the appeal of chicken wings. To parody Clara Peller: "Where's the meat?" Unless of course, you are referring to boneless chicken wings... but to me a real chicken wing is mostly skin and bones.

1) They are a great excuse to eat chicken skin which is very tasty
2) There is a bit of meat and half the fun is getting it all
3) Despite all the chicken fat, the amount of work you do to eat them helps keep your BMI in a reasonable range
4) Better than just dipping your fingers in bbq sauce and licking them
5) Great way to start a debate on whether southern style bbq or "Buffalo" style is best

I'm sure there are many other good reasons to eat chicken wings too.

 

[whistlepig]

Smoking is low and slow. Thicker cuts of chicken can dry out in a smoker (there are ways around this). Smoked wings are tasty, quick, and easy prep. I dip them in warm Frank's Buffalo sauce after they come out of the smoker.

 

[sixdogs]

.. I'm not anywhere near to being a vegetarian, but my intake of red meats is almost nil, and I don't eat eggs anymore than once every 6 months. I eat low-fat low-sodium soups with some chicken, and I eat mostly salads with roasted chicken when I go out. My local Mexican food restaurant has a roasted chicken chipotle salad with lettuce, tomato, avocado, roasted chicken with chipotle sauce, and a small amount of crumbled feta cheese on top.:licking: I also love every kind of bean on the planet and keep the Beano company solvent with my purchases. Earlier this week, my wife fixed both eggplant and chicken parmigiana with a baked instead of fried recipe. The chicken had crumbled cornflakes for the breading. Actually, I preferred the eggplant. Its flavors and textures are far more interesting than the chicken. Don't get me wrong. The chicken was good and I had some, but not nearly as much as the eggplant. Eating that was a big splurge for me. Mostly, I eat fruit, beans, and soups. Those are my staples.

My heart doc would approve of this diet in a big way. It's a shame more people don't eat this way.
Couple the above diet with low blood pressure, some exercise and you'll likely be around longer than you want. Worth noting, my friend that's a heart doc says a key component of a heart attack or a plaque issue is the high blood preesure that preceeds it and goes on for too long and couple with an errant diet.

 

[herd0ne]

Just had a Wendys Chili.. I love that stuff.. but can someone tell me why sometimes the container if full other times it's an inch from being full other times a quarter inch from being full etc.. You never get the same portion size..

 

[txdon]

Jdgreen227, About your inquiry on protein:
I was just looking over the fine details of the recent Mediterranean Diet study that was compare to the supposedly low fat diet. The Mediterranean Diet group had 41% fat and the Low fat diet group (AKA control group) had 37% fat (most consider low fat less than 10% fat). Interestingly I also found that in the table where the % of protein is compared. The control group had a slightly higher protein intake 17% compared to 16% in the Mediterranean Diet group. In the study there was no difference in statically significance of heart disease between the two groups but they added in strokes which did have a statically significance and combine it with the heart disease to obtain the outcome. (The control group reported their diet from a short question survey taken once a year during the first three years of the study- how controlled is that?)

I have gone to a conference where Dr. T. Colin Campbell had spoken, and in his study of diet in the China Study, he showed an increase of heart disease and cancer in people is proportional to the increase of protein and fat in the diet. The threshold of 10% was where the diseases were virtually nonexistent. Protein is not the cause of cancer but has been shown to be the "fertilizer" of cancer. Excess protein in the body is turned to fat, not muscle.

When I ate chicken wings years ago, I agree, tasty because of the crisp fat and BBQ sauce, but too much work for any satisfying eating.

 

[brin]

" When I ate chicken wings many years ago, I agree, tasty because of the crisp fat and BBQ sauce,

but too much work for any satisfying eating. "

:confused3: Come on now Don.....Chicken wings , you gotta be kidding...We don't eat them often but when we do we trim as much of the excess skin as we can and we bake them with sauce in the oven >..Yum !

Not too much work for us... eating them is part of the fun :thumbsup: and the taste is the reward for the effort...Each to his own...:licking:

 

[Ted Summey]

Just finished a plate of beer can chicken, corn and fried okra.

 

[DFB]

Chicken here too...but with a penne, tomato sauce, mozzeralla cheese and crushed red pepper!

 

[JDgreen227]

txdon...Ok now...so far today my protein intake has been 12 grams from 2 hard boiled eggs, 8 grams from 2 slices of whole grain bread with peanut butter, 10 grams from a sandwich prepared with lunchmeat on 2 slices of whole grain bread, and another 12 grams from 2 slices of cojack cheese. Tonite I will enjoy about 6 ounces of baked cod fillets which will provide me with another 25 grams of protein. Total intake for the day will be about 67 grams. According to what I read, the recommended RDA for men my age is 56 grams. So am I doing it wrong?

 

[JDgreen227]

Just had a Wendys Chili.. I love that stuff.. but can someone tell me why sometimes the container if full other times it's an inch from being full other times a quarter inch from being full etc.. You never get the same portion size..

Read the disclaimer on the package of cereal or chips: "This container is packed by weight, not volume....some settling may occur...." Do you really expect uniformity in a container that is probably packed by a different Wendy's employee every time?

 

[txdon]

txdon..... So am I doing it wrong?

It depends on what you are trying to do or not do and it depends on who's information you value as being correct.

#1 The AHA will say that you should not consume more than 200 mg, cholesterol a day if you have heart disease - 1 large egg has 215mg.
If you don't have HD or any plaque build up you can have 300 mg - either way you are over.
#2 The American Cancer Society favors beans for daily protein requirements because of the vitamins, minerals and fiber that come along with the protein.

Peanut butter and lunchmeat, cheese, fish will probably put you close or over the max for fat for both the AHA and the ACS. The lunchmeat and cheese will be the biggies containing the saturated fat.

So do you feel that this was a normal eating day or a healthy eating day?
Looks great when compared to some others here, but If you have heart disease I would say you did not help stop it today.

The non-goverment health experts would say that you just ate a tad better than the Standard American Diet.

I'm impressed you had no alcohol and no sweets/deserts on a weekend - but it is early....

 

[JDgreen227]

It depends on what you are trying to do or not do and it depends on who's information you value as being correct.

#1 The AHA will say that you should not consume more than 200 mg, cholesterol a day if you have heart disease - 1 large egg has 215mg.
If you don't have HD or any plaque build up you can have 300 mg - either way you are over.
#2 The American Cancer Society favors beans for daily protein requirements because of the vitamins, minerals and fiber that come along with the protein.

Peanut butter and lunchmeat, cheese, fish will probably put you close or over the max for fat for both the AHA and the ACS. The lunchmeat and cheese will be the biggies containing the saturated fat.

So do you feel that this was a normal eating day or a healthy eating day?
Looks great when compared to some others here, but If you have heart disease I would say you did not help stop it today.

The non-goverment health experts would say that you just ate a tad better than the Standard American Diet.

I'm impressed you had no alcohol and no sweets/deserts on a weekend - but it is early....

I DO NOT eat sweets or desserts, period...my sole indulgence is an 8 ounce glass of wine with dinner every night. Red of course, which is said to be good for the heart. You could say this is pretty much a normal eating day for me....I just had a complete bloodwork profile done recently...my HDL cholesterol is a tad elevated at 41 (normal is 39) and my triglycerides are 165 which is also slightly elevated. Everything else is within normal ranges.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

WP, not to be critical of your choice but I for one have never understood the appeal of chicken wings. To parody Clara Peller: "Where's the meat?" Unless of course, you are referring to boneless chicken wings... but to me a real chicken wing is mostly skin and bones.

+1

I like all my meat "boneless"

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Chicken here too...but with a penne, tomato sauce, mozzeralla cheese and crushed red pepper!

:licking: :licking: :licking:

 

[J F]

+1

I like all my meat "boneless"

I don't know, bone-in ribeyes and nice thick bone-in chops are pretty darn good. :licking:

 

[jinman]

For breakfast this morning, I had a navel orange, a tangerine, and a Jimmy Dean Delight since it's Saturday and I splurge on Saturday. Even so, I think the total was less than 450 calories. For lunch I had. . . hmm. . . nuthin' because I went out to tractor. I just came in and was hungry, so I popped the top on a single Del Monte serving 100 calorie fruit cocktail. YUM! Tonight, we go out to eat Chinese. I'll have hot and sour soup as an appetizer along with half a dozen boiled shrimp. For the main course, a small amount of white rice, green beans, broccoli chicken, hibachi chicken, and a couple of pieces of sesame chicken (Do you see a pattern here?). For desert, I'll have. . . more hot and sour soup.:licking: I stay away from the fried won-tons, but occasionally have an egg roll. That's my restaurant meal for the week. We aren't going to Mexican tonight like we usually do.

If I get hungry before bedtime, I'll have one of the lite yogurts from Walmart (68 calories). I like the banana-creme pie or key lime pie flavors.

BTW: There isn't much meat on a chicken wing, but I think that wings are the very best tasting part of a chicken. I much prefer them to breast meat.

 

[txdon]

....and my triglycerides are 165 which is also slightly elevated.

The American Heart Association has lowered its recommendation for triglycerides to 100 mg/dl or less. It had been 150mg/dl.

"If your triglycerides are high, cut back on simple carbohydrates which would include alcohol, wine, beer, white flour products, sugars including dried fruit, honey maple syrup, molasses, rich desserts, fruit juice or an excess of fruit" - Dr. Esselstyn

I would not say drinking red wine is for the heart. Any of the heart benefits in red wine can be found elsewhere - without the alcohol. So, it even has + and - .

I also found that my triglycerides shoot up with alcohol.

 

[/pine]

I don't know, bone-in ribeyes and nice thick bone-in chops are pretty darn good. :licking:

We are in the 21st century and we still like to cook meat on open flames and chew it off the bone....

 

[J F]

We are in the 21st century and we still like to cook meat on open flames and chew it off the bone....

I do actually use a fork and knife from time to time. :laughing: