So when do people stop going out to eat?

[fan4ever]

I have a customer who owns 5 Mexican Food Cafes here in the Phoenix area. The past few years we've reprinted their menus 6 times...always to accommodate higher prices. Their typical cost now is about $18.00 per entree...Mexican food.

On a personal note I stopped by a McDonald's today and paid $4.96 for a large order of fries. There's got to be a breaking point for most folks.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Here sir, have a side of bread with your sandwich. LOL WTF

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Man that's like getting a ****ing double cheeseburger with a side of fried cheese curds and some nacho cheese dip for the curds.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Ive been having persistent heart burn and indigestion problems for awhile now. I know i can fix it but....that would require me cutting out like 90% of the shit i like to eat.

No tomato based sauces? Nothing spicy or acidic? Well ****, if it doesn't include those elements then idk wtf else to eat. Just kill me now.

I've also developed a lactose intolerance. Fuggit, i'll trade a night of bubble guts for a bowl of ice cream any day. It is....what it is.

If I ever get that tick disease that makes you allergic to red meat, I'll be right there with you.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

I went to Panera last night. Only my 2nd time eating Panera. Ordered a couple of sammiches for myself, wife and child.

Worker says, "Sorry, we're out of chips. Would you like a side of bread? "

....A ****ing side of bread to go with my sammiches?

To make matters worse, i get home and the mother****ers didn't make/include my sammich in the order. So my wife and son ate Panera, not me.

I aint too mad tho. They comp'd me pretty good for the **** up.

Chicken Noodle in a bread bowl is 🔥

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by srvy

BLyin fits.

No clue what you said

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Sort of, but if you're getting labs once per year, then yes.... you'd hopefully also catch the silent killers.

I've seen enough people barely make it to retirement age before having preventable health issues... sometimes completely ignoring that chill out alarm, other times not getting one.

It's not so much about getting to 95 instead of 90, but making sure I can enjoy some years of retirement once I finally get there. And yeah, it doesn't take anything extreme (I enjoy the hell out of red meat, bourbon, beer, etc.), just being cognizant of the bad shit you can do to your body over the course of decades and going to the doctor every once in a while.

As a minor digression, I'll occasionally hear people say, "The years at the end aren't great anyway, so I'll just [drink/smoke/fight/whatever]." The problem is that the years at the end aren't the years that you lose. You always have the unhealthy years at the end. The years you lose are the healthy years right before the unhealthy years.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Chicken Noodle in a bread bowl is 🔥

Bread bowl? Why? I mean yeah it probably tastes great. But the average bread bowl adds 750 calories of pure carbs to your meal.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Bread bowl? Why? I mean yeah it probably tastes great. But the average bread bowl adds 750 calories of pure carbs to your meal.

I dont care about calories. Until I get fat its not a thing I worry about. Maybe it is Because I was so skinny in middle school and early HS that Im self conscious but Id much rather be 195 to 210 than 140 to 170.

Everyone is so fearful of bread I dont quite get it. I love bread and butter. Some steakhouses I go to because their bread and butter is so good and Ill eat like 4 of them on my own. And its free.

[King_Chief_Fan]

Originally Posted by fan4ever

I have a customer who owns 5 Mexican Food Cafes here in the Phoenix area. The past few years we've reprinted their menus 6 times...always to accommodate higher prices. Their typical cost now is about $18.00 per entree...Mexican food.

On a personal note I stopped by a McDonald's today and paid $4.96 for a large order of fries. There's got to be a breaking point for most folks.

Thanks Biden

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Bread bowl? Why? I mean yeah it probably tastes great. But the average bread bowl adds 750 calories of pure carbs to your meal.

Thanks Gluten

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I dont care about calories. Until I get fat its not a thing I worry about. Maybe it is Because I was so skinny in middle school and early HS that Im self conscious but Id much rather be 195 to 210 than 140 to 170.

Everyone is so fearful of bread I dont quite get it. I love bread and butter. Some steakhouses I go to because their bread and butter is so good and Ill eat like 4 of them on my own. And its free.

That's just thing. You can't wait until you're "fat" to worry about calories or it's too late. You have to be mindful of it now.

And it's actually pretty simple. You don't even need to keep track of it, it just needs to be a mental note that you read when you're hungry. Take one scoop of ice cream instead of two. Or an obvious one - don't get a ****ing bread bowl! I'm just ribbing you but seriously, a bowl made out of bread should jump off the page at you as a bad idea. Panera's chicken noodle soup is like 250 calories but put it in a bread bowl and it's like 1100. Even eating 3300 calories a day like you said you do, that's a full ONE THIRD of your day.

As for bread in and of itself, the reason I don't eat bread is because it functions like a sponge in the stomach. With my stomach being small like it is, it only takes a little bit of bread to make me uncomfortably full so I just don't eat it.

I'm not suggesting you shouldn't eat bread. You do what you like and enjoy it. I'm just suggesting that you might want to eat 1 roll instead of 4.

[Megatron96]

I used to love bread bowls. Bread. Pasta. Rice, but that's a given.

I don't think bread/carbs in and of themselves are really that big a health problem, unless you are fat/getting fat. Of course, eventually your metabolism changes and converts all that stuff directly into fat, but until then . . .

The worst stuff is the sodium, 'bad' fats, sugars, and all the processed stuff. That shit starts killing you way before a bread bowl will.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Megatron96

I used to love bread bowls. Bread. Pasta. Rice, but that's a given.

I don't think bread/carbs in and of themselves are really that big a health problem, unless you are fat/getting fat. Of course, eventually your metabolism changes and converts all that stuff directly into fat, but until then . . .

The worst stuff is the sodium, 'bad' fats, sugars, and all the processed stuff. That shit starts killing you way before a bread bowl will.

Most bread uses processed flour and sugar.

No I agree with you it's not bread/carbs themselves that are bad for you by themselves but in excesss, unless you're baking your own bread or getting high-end stuff, you're ingesting a lot of things that you said are bad - too much sodium, too many preservatives, loaded with processed ingredients, especially sugar.

You're far better off eating the wheat that it came from than eating bread at a restaurant or buying it at the store.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

As a minor digression, I'll occasionally hear people say, "The years at the end aren't great anyway, so I'll just [drink/smoke/fight/whatever]." The problem is that the years at the end aren't the years that you lose. You always have the unhealthy years at the end. The years you lose are the healthy years right before the unhealthy years.

Yeah, and if I was guaranteed to live until I was 110, but could take off a decade of my life by eating whatever I wanted, I might just do that.... but, if we're talking the first decade or two of retirement, I kind of want to see that part.

I also saw a study a while back that says despite people thinking your personal rate of change plateaus as you reach adulthood, you tend to keep changing your hobbies/interests/etc. at the same rate or even more often as you age into and beyond your 40s/50s/so on... so I think that fallacy leads people into thinking they'll be bored out of their mind at 80 or 90, so who cares about those year.

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Most bread uses processed flour and sugar.

No I agree with you it's not bread/carbs themselves that are bad for you by themselves but in excesss, unless you're baking your own bread or getting high-end stuff, you're ingesting a lot of things that you said are bad - too much sodium, too many preservatives, loaded with processed ingredients, especially sugar.

You're far better off eating the wheat that it came from than eating bread at a restaurant or buying it at the store.

The wheat by itself is a little too gritty. But seriously, you have to eat a ton of bread for the sodium/sugars to be a bigger factor than just the mass of carbs that convert to blobs of fat.

Once I dropped the really excess weight, I allowed myself to eat bread a couple times a week and it hasn't done a thing. And I never stopped eating rice, just ate less.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Chicken Noodle in a bread bowl is 🔥

You should try clam chowder in a bread bowl.