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

[mplsconservative]

I never really like goat cheese until some friends prepared it at a picnic at their hobby farm last autumn. Up until then, it reminded me of smelly socks.

IIRC, it consisted of pita bread topped with roasted red peppers and garlic, kalamata olives and goat cheese (darned if I remember the brand). Probably a little olive oil drizzled over all. They finished it on a hot grill so the pita had a few black bits and the goat cheese was bubbly. I was an instant convert.

I'll have to try your version, cinives. It sounds really good!

[Trillian]

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[elmer fudd]

Where do you get the idea that if someone is overweight or a smoker they don't work as hard as someone else? I thought a person was hired due to their being able to do the job? Silly me. I am a smoker and when I worked I put 150% into my job. And alot of non-smokers couldn't hold a candle to me as far as my health was concerned. But then I did eat right and got plenty of exercise.

It's just simple statistics. Your health relates to your ability to do your job. I'm sure there are plenty of hardworking smokers and fat people, but statistically speaking you're more likely to require medical care and time off from work.

[elmer fudd]

Why are your posts about Hispanic people?

And beans are good for you.

Not refried beans.

[Not just another dumb blonde]

If it's simple statistics then anyone with a family history of cancer or heart disease or even diabetes would be passed over for employment. They're health relates to their ability to do their job. So statistically speaking they'd be more likely to require medical care and time off from work. Does this sound about right?

[wouldntbprudent]

I believe Newt also proposed a return to a modernized and humanized version of orphanages, as a substitute for at least some of the pathetic segments of the foster care system.

He was demonized for that, too, but he was right.

[wouldntbprudent]

Food processor? Bread machine?

I saw that Italian dude on the Food Network make what seemed to be a beautiful pizza crust dough by putting a mound of flour on the kitchen counter, making an indentation in the top, pouring in some water and oil, I think, and mixing it with the back of a wooden spoon.

Anyway, it looked easy and yummy.

[wouldntbprudent]

My boys eat Mozz like it's candy. Does this cheese you make keep in the fridge for a while? How does it do melting?

My boys love tuna melts, too.

[Atlas Sneezed]

You, being a non-smoker, have deemed it necessary to tell me I am irresponsible....

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You need to go back and read ALL of what I wrote.

I said nothing about YOU, so stop making things up.

[SupplySider]

I use the processor for dough just to save time. If you run it for a minute it's kneaded, whereas I think handmade dough takes a 10-20 minutes of kneading.

This kind of cheese is just fresh curd, the first step for fresh mozzarella and other cheeses, without any salt or further processing. Great if you need to watch the sodium. It is a little bland, and it doesn't really melt, but I love the freshness, and the simplicity and economy. It keeps for a few days in the fridge, but is more like milk than cheese in how it keeps.

If you google homemade paneer you'll find lots of recipes for this.

[elmer fudd]

I wouldn't have any problem with a business adopting such policies, but the problem is they would be totally ineffective. Since medical records are protected information all the applicant would have to do is lie on his application and there would be no way to prove otherwise. If you're overweight on the other hand it's readily apparent and that's largely true of smokers too. Very few smokers can go 10 hours a day without a smoke and those that can probably aren't much of a health risk. Dopers can ussually be rooted out with piss tests.

[luckystarmom]

Trader Joes sells pizza dough for fairly cheap. It's $1 for enough dough to make one large pizza.

I haven't made dough from scratch, but I like the convenience of Trader Joe's dough.

(I know lots of people don't have a Trader Joe's nearby.)

[SupplySider]

I asked at a a local pizza place and they do this, too, only $1. Pretty cheap and really makes it fast. I am a health nut, though, and like to make my dough 50/50 whole wheat and white, and I like to save the buck also :)