3-cheese mac and cheese bread bowl? 730 calories, 14g saturated fat, 1g trans fat and 1,420mg sodium.
Yup, that's bad, but not that bad. Is this really a Frankenfood?
Those numbers?
They're for "1 serving". According to Domino's nutritional information chart each serving of bread bowl pasta is half a bowl.
Funny, looking at the advertisement I scanned in above it doesn't mention anywhere it's meant to serve 2.
What that means of course is that one of these monstrosities packs 1,460 calories, 28g of saturated fat, 2g trans fat and 2,840mg sodium (comparable to 3 Big Macs), and unlike some of the other Frankenfoods I've had on here it doesn't look or sound even remotely worth its calories.
My Food Inc. Review 24.11.2009 10:30:0 +0000 Just in time for the holiday season Food Inc. has been released to DVD.
For those of you not familiar, Food Inc. is a documentary film that details the industrialization of the American food supply with lenses trained primarily on corn and beef.
I have mixed feelings about the film. On the one hand it's a tremendous tour of what's wrong with how we get and subsidize our food. On the other hand, it doesn't really offer up any solutions and the folks they chose to champion change in many cases are indeed great on camera but shy on authority. While it's wonderful to have the wise, sustainable agriculture farmer waxing philosophic on the food supply I do wonder whether or not his means of farming are in fact scalable to supply the masses.
One thing's for certain however, the movie is both powerful and frightening. While I'll often blog about the health risks associated with red meat consumption and the development of various chronic diseases, Food Inc. takes the viewer on a tour of the acute diseases associated with contaminated ground beef and I found the story so chilling that I've decided to give up mass market ground beef.
To that end some kind folks at Cookware.com sent me a meat grinder to try out to see what grinding your own meat's all about. I tried it out this past weekend and clearly I've yet to get the hang of it. I did succeed in grinding out 4lbs of beef, but I think I used meat that wasn't quite frozen enough (semi-frozen is apparently the way to go) and the grinding took multiple attempts, many cleans and a great deal of frustration.
Despite the movie's shortcomings, I highly recommend this film though be forewarned, I'd bet this film has birthed its fair share of vegetarians in the past 6 months - it's that jarring.
(If anyone reading this has any meat grinding tips, I'm all ears!)
Sure, I don't have the readership of the Citizen, but then again, I've got the ear of plenty of influential folks many of who probably don't read the Citizen.
Last week the Citizen published an editorial critical of the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Health Check program.
Not surprisingly a few days later there was a letter in the paper defending Health Check and this time, surprisingly, it was written by Stephen Samis, the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Health Policy Director.
This was surprising to me in that usually it's Terry Dean, Health Check's Director, that gets to write the letters of defense (he's had to write quite a few over the past few years).
Stephen I've met before. He seems like a genuinely nice guy (Terry may well be too). I saw him at a recent conference we both attended and while I wanted to chat with him, I couldn't think of a way to do so without raising his ire. Truly I've got nothing against the Heart and Stroke Foundation, or Stephen, or Terry, it's just that their Health Check program is an embarrassing circus-mirror reflection of a healthy eating front of package program and they should know better.
In any case, I wrote a letter to the Citizen in response to Stephen's and while the Citizen has found reason not to publish it, I think it sums things up pretty well:
Re: Health Check strategy helps identify products, Nov. 20
Not only is Health Check misinforming Canadians about healthy eating, in his letter to the editor Stephen Samis is misinforming Canadians about Health Check.
Mr. Samis reports the foundation takes a “comprehensive” approach which includes “strict nutrient criteria” yet 65% of Health Check’s product categories score only 3 or fewer nutrient criteria, and of those they do bother to score many have set criteria half as strict as the ill designed and now embarrassingly withdrawn American Smart Choices program.
Mr. Samis then goes on to state that the Foundation, “continues to be a leader in having trans-fat removed” in the foods we eat, yet Health Check allows for 5% of a product's fat to come from trans-fat sources. How is it that McDonald's, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken who have banned trans-fat entirely from their product lines have stricter trans-fat criteria than this so-called “leader” in trans-fat reduction?
The Health Check program’s “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach to catering to Canadians who choose not find the time to cook from scratch and its endorsement of highly processed boxed foods along with its lax and sparse nutrient criteria does a tremendous disservice to Canadians and is an affront to evidence based nutrition. The Heart and Stroke Foundation and Mr. Samis would be far better off spending their time dismantling this plodding, half-baked initiative rather than defending it.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, MD CCFP Dip ABBM Medical Director, Bariatric Medical Institute
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My Dearest Friend, if circumstance would allow at this time I would say let us walk together through our existence in this world. Thank you Cyn for the friendship :) Have a lovely weekend!
great! i have never heard of zigime, let me know im always open to anything especially if it is being brought to me by a friend. until then take care x
We all need someone to talk to in our life, a friend to whom we run in times of stress or strife: together we must each have ground that's where love's nourishment is found. Have a wonderful weekend my friend :)
Hi Cyne! In the Soo is getting cold, but, that is ok! I already look forward to ice fishing. Leaves starting to change colors and views are spectacular; fall is my favorite time of the year just like winter. Hunting season has started and plenty of time I’ll spend in the bush…yep! I love it. Where do you live? Enjoy your day and be grateful that is above the water. Warm hugs to you my friend.
MS Excel (or any spreed sheet program)would be great for that and you could also copy and paste when you need to use the links. make a columns for 'program name', 'referral link', 'ID', etc. then you can sort the columns by alphabet or whatever.
or
just create a notepad document for each program and name it after the program. Then use it like a 'notepad' for each program... keep the programs' affiliate links, user names, maybe passwords, listed on the document. Then you can put the notepad files you have for each program in a folder in 'your docs' and use the file sort features in your operating system. sort by date modified, name(alpha-numeric), file size ...etc.
Are you talking about me specifically or any one generally? what links are you referring to? you want then easy for others to find or for you to keep track of them?
9/24/2009
Cynergy Diva
47 years old Female South Eastern Ontario, Canada Hometown: Montreal QC
My nest is empty now and I'm looking for new endeavours to keep me busy.While recovering from my broken ankle, I've been let go from my office job, so I've been exploring ways to do something for myself in order to be free from the demands of other people. To that end, I've been looking at learning how to market online. Experimenting with a lot of different things - some of them turned out to be scams - I have stumbled on something that looks really intriguing that I'm going to examine further. (See MoreNiche blog)
I really like this online socializing. The internet really makes the world a small place, and I hope I can really broaden my horizons and meet a lot of new people. Lifelong learning and personal empowerment are important to me. I'm always looking for new ways to improve myself, and if anything I learn can be passed on for the benefit of others, then that makes me happy.
I love the girly stuff: knitting, sewing,quilting, crafting and shopping.
I love to read too, but I'm really passionate about seeing my fellow humans better themselves and their circumstances. Cynergy (Synergy) is my keyword.
R&B - New Country - Pop - Jazz
I like most music and I'm not fanatical about any one artist. About the only music I can't take is Opera and Heavy Metal. My favorite radio stations are: BBC Radio 2; KJAZZ; and the local oldies station AM 1220 Cornwall
Fave song as of Aug 2007 The Way I Are
Movies:
My faves are The Grapes of Wrath, Corrina, Corrina & Edward Scissor Hands - The last movie I saw was Stomp The Yard - 2 thumbs up!
TV:
My two favorites are British soaps Coronation Street and Eastenders; I love the Brit coms and westerns too
Books:
I like to read for personal development, and I love historical and generational sagas, but I'm not ashamed to say that I do enjoy trashy romance novels too. Some of the books that I have enjoyed are: The The Power of Intention by Dr Wayne Dyer - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - Just about all of Danielle Steele's novels. Now Reading: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle
by Dr Wayne Dyer - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - Just about all of Danielle Steele's novels. Now Reading: 
by Eckhart Tolle 