Obesity? This is a job for Supernanny(neo soviet barf alert)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2330255,00.html ^ | 8 27 06 | Minette Marrin

[Xenalyte]

Bacon and Hap showed us "Who Wants to Be a Superhero" last Friday, and Xena's Guy and I loved it.

We've only seen the first episode, and I'm already rooting for Creature and Cell Phone Girl to die painfully.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Where do you get the idea that if someone is overweight or a smoker they don't work as hard as someone else?

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First, we are talking about trends and averages, not the perfect prediction of individual performance.

Second, Smokers and the overweight are demonstrably irresponsible with their own health. Irresponsibility in one area correlates (imperfectly) with irresponsibility elsewhere.

Third, smokers and the overweight have more sick days.

Fourth, smokers and the overweight can increase overall health insurance costs.

Fifth, in some jobs, smokers and the overweight are less effective (people might not like a cashier who smells like an ashtray, or a salesman who looks like he has no self-control.) Real biases among the public can mean lower profits for employers.

[maryz]

I meant to ask what is your proposed budget for poor families.

I never propose how other people should live. ;-)

[Froufrou]

That's what my posts are about, that beans are good for you. They happen to be a staple in the diet of many Hispanics I know.

[maryz]

I don't recall making sauerkraut creating much smell -- cooking it does.

My father (Lithuanian), though, used to talk about his making horseradish -- my grandmother made him go out on the porch to grind it!

[Atlas Sneezed]

I guess everybody's not on Phase I.

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Phase I and the following couple months dropped 30 pounds for me. Spiked my cholesterol because I ate irresponsibly fatty foods, which I stopped, and am now stable and healthy, but eating very little if any potatoes, pasta, white bread, and sweetened foods.

I adore short grain (calrose/sushi-type) brown rice, when properly steamed.

[mplsconservative]

Sauerkraut and a perm kit sounds like a lethal combination, not to mention 100 degree heat. Poor Xena. Yikes!

We've got cool weather here in Minnesota today. At least I can comfortably have the windows open for my sensitive-nosed guy.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I never propose how other people should live. ;-)

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If they come to me, the taxpayer, with their hand out, saying "I'm not responsible enough to feed my family on my own", I'll happily propose that if they want my help, they should learn to cook responsibly. If they don't like responsible constraints, they can get a job and buy their own junk food.

[Xenalyte]

Maybe it was cole slaw. It had cabbage in it, I do know that, and he'd put it in giant mason jars on the windowsill, and they'd fizz and leak and that was where the stench came from.

Horseradish, now, I can totally get behind. My husband came into the kitchen once to find me eating creamed horseradish from the jar with a spoon.

[Xenalyte]

That's why my favorite time is autumn - we have three or four lovely weeks where it is just PERFECT outside. I open the windows all over the house and create weird drafts, but there's nothing like fresh air moving through the house.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Caluflower is great with butter and Garam Masala seasoning (I get it from Penzeys.com. Great cheap spices.)

[Overtaxed]

I need to drop a couple more pounds before moving to Phase II. Mmmmm.....rice and beans. And I can go back to buying whole chickens instead of just skinless chicken breast. It's cheaper by the pound and ya get a carcass for making good homemade chicken broth.

I really needed to break a sugar habit.

[luckystarmom]

How do you do that? In California, produce is very expensive. $2/lb for squash and other vegetables. If I have several fresh ingredients in anything, it makes the price sore!!!!!!

We can afford it, so I'm happy. However, I feel sorry for many people that can't afford it.

[MikeHu]

Health and fitness is the bottom line in any life.

If one isn't as healthy and fit as one can be, they're doing something wrong -- and need to find out what it is.

"Liberal" excuses and justifications should not be tolerated.

[mplsconservative]

It's one of my favorties too.

The darn kid doesn't like mashed potatoes and gravy either. Now that's one of my favorite food groups!

I guess he's just weird. Of course I'll blame that on my husband. LOL

[maryz]

It had cabbage in it, I do know that, and he'd put it in giant mason jars on the windowsill, and they'd fizz and leak and that was where the stench came from.

No, I guess you mean sauerkraut. I tried making it a couple of times, but I didn't have a warm enough place to put it (in the oven with the pilot on worked best). Mine came out tasting sort of like sauerkraut, but weak -- It certainly didn't "fizz and leak"! I guess I'll have to move to a hotter climate or keep depending on the canned! Didn't it take a few days or week or so to ferment though?

[absolootezer0]

you forgot some of the other crap they can get.. which is anything at the store. my two favourites are still the girl who would buy lobster, and the guy who would buy the cheapest sodas he could find, dump them out and reurn them for deposit, then buy his beer.

[yankeedame]

Next time you go to the grocery store, get behind someone using a food stamp card and take a gander at what he/she puts on the conveyor belt. Betcha a paycheck there's plenty of expensive high caloric and starchy items and very few vegetables and fruit.

A legacy of slavery??

[Gabz]

There's just no excuse for not eating well at home.

BINGO!!!!

I admit to keeping a bunch of packaged stuff on hand, makes meal planning easier - but the vast majority of meals in this house are from scratch.

A week or so a go a friend, who's husband is a farm manager, gave me a boatload of potatoes - I prefer when I get chicken from them, but potatoes are good, too - Dinner last night was homemade potato pancakes with homemade applesauce. There are enough potato pancakes left for about 3 or 4 more meals.

I don't know where I get it from, but quantity cooking has always just come naturally to me..neither my mother, nor my grandmother ever did it and there are only 3 of us. I just find it far easier, and less expensive, to do up a lot at once and then store it.

[mplsconservative]

I love autumn too. It "feels" like fall weather today, which is what inspired me to make soup.

Too bad autumn is followed here by a Minnesota winter. I envy you Texans like crazy then.