I didn’t think we ate THAT clean, until we went to a party with all processed foods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What exactly makes homemade potato salad or "jacked up canned baked beans" infinitely healthier than store bought?

And what hot dog from any source is healthy?

Kosher hot dogs are not "healthy," but they are less gross.

Do you ever read labels? Try it sometime.

[Anonymous]

I have a hard time stomaching all this " but we are so normal we eat CHEDDAR BUNNIES" nonsense. If you were really one of us you'd be giving your kids Goldfish like the rest of the normals. Puh-lease.

[Anonymous]

I know you're being sarcastic, but I'll answer.

For a BBQ, we do high-quality hamburgers, hot dogs and buns. I make my own pulled pork BBQ, baked beans, potato salad. Huge fresh vegetable platter, huge fruit salad, plus sliced watermelon. Fresh corn on the cob. Tortilla chips, salsa, homemade guacamole. Homemade brownies and Rice Krispie treats (which are just fun, I know they're not fine fare).

The quality of dogs/burgers/buns matters. Making the items I make vs. buying at grocery = far less sodium! preservatives, etc. Fresh options are great to keep it all balanced.

Ok, that food sounds better to me, but your snobbery is offputting. I don't enjoy Domino's pizza - I think it is the MSG in it that makes me feel sick - but if someone ordered some for an event at their home, I wouldn't flame them. I just wouldn't eat it and enjoy sides or whatever instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly makes homemade potato salad or "jacked up canned baked beans" infinitely healthier than store bought?

And what hot dog from any source is healthy?

I do not do "jacked baked beans," so I can't speak for those. But I can say making my own potato salad means I'm able to control the sodium. Add more celery than is usually used, and I don't need to use gelatin products as thickeners.

Wait, what? Celery = gelatin? Am I missing something? Are we talking about potato salad? Do you mean celery takes the place of mayo? They are not equivalent.

[Anonymous]

HIGH QUALITY BUNS! Buns matter!

The only thing jacked in here are you guys. Baked beans are unhealthy no matter what. Same with potato salad no matter how much celery you cram in it. Whoopdedoo you saved 100mg of sodium. Hooray for you. They’re still not healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What exactly makes homemade potato salad or "jacked up canned baked beans" infinitely healthier than store bought?

And what hot dog from any source is healthy?

I do not do "jacked baked beans," so I can't speak for those. But I can say making my own potato salad means I'm able to control the sodium. Add more celery than is usually used, and I don't need to use gelatin products as thickeners.

Wait, what? Celery = gelatin? Am I missing something? Are we talking about potato salad? Do you mean celery takes the place of mayo? They are not equivalent.

No she just thinks a zero calorie food added to a freaking carb and mayo slop makes it healthier lmao

[Anonymous]

Here's Reser's Fine Foods Potato Salad from Giant, folks:

Potatoes, Mayonnaise (soybean On Water, Egg Yolks, Vinegar, Salt), Sugar, Celery, Water, Sweet Pickle Relish (cucumbers, Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Salt Contains Less Than 2% Of: Mustard Seed, Xanthan Gum, Celery Seed, Dehydrated Red Bell Pepper, Calcium Chloride, Natural Flavoring, Turmeric, Dehydrated Onion), Mustard (water, Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Salt, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Turmeric And Paprika, Annatto Color, Garlic, Spices, Xanthan Gum, Calcium Disodium Edta (retains Product Freshness), Natural Flavor, Citric Acid), Onion, Salt, Red Bell Pepper, Vinegar, Modified Corn Starch, Spice, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Xanthan Gum, Annatto Color.

Here's mine:
Potatoes
Celery
Mayonnaise
Salt, pepper
Finely diced baby dill pickles
Fresh dill, paprika and sliced hard-boiled eggs on top

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's Reser's Fine Foods Potato Salad from Giant, folks:

Potatoes, Mayonnaise (soybean On Water, Egg Yolks, Vinegar, Salt), Sugar, Celery, Water, Sweet Pickle Relish (cucumbers, Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Salt Contains Less Than 2% Of: Mustard Seed, Xanthan Gum, Celery Seed, Dehydrated Red Bell Pepper, Calcium Chloride, Natural Flavoring, Turmeric, Dehydrated Onion), Mustard (water, Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Salt, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Turmeric And Paprika, Annatto Color, Garlic, Spices, Xanthan Gum, Calcium Disodium Edta (retains Product Freshness), Natural Flavor, Citric Acid), Onion, Salt, Red Bell Pepper, Vinegar, Modified Corn Starch, Spice, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Xanthan Gum, Annatto Color.

Here's mine:
Potatoes
Celery
Mayonnaise
Salt, pepper
Finely diced baby dill pickles
Fresh dill, paprika and sliced hard-boiled eggs on top

No mustard? Boo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's Reser's Fine Foods Potato Salad from Giant, folks:

Potatoes, Mayonnaise (soybean On Water, Egg Yolks, Vinegar, Salt), Sugar, Celery, Water, Sweet Pickle Relish (cucumbers, Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Salt Contains Less Than 2% Of: Mustard Seed, Xanthan Gum, Celery Seed, Dehydrated Red Bell Pepper, Calcium Chloride, Natural Flavoring, Turmeric, Dehydrated Onion), Mustard (water, Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Salt, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Turmeric And Paprika, Annatto Color, Garlic, Spices, Xanthan Gum, Calcium Disodium Edta (retains Product Freshness), Natural Flavor, Citric Acid), Onion, Salt, Red Bell Pepper, Vinegar, Modified Corn Starch, Spice, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Xanthan Gum, Annatto Color.

Here's mine:
Potatoes
Celery
Mayonnaise
Salt, pepper
Finely diced baby dill pickles
Fresh dill, paprika and sliced hard-boiled eggs on top

No mustard? Boo

Dry mustard, yes; sorry, forgot to mention. I've tried it with prepared mustard, but don't enjoy it that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's Reser's Fine Foods Potato Salad from Giant, folks:

Potatoes, Mayonnaise (soybean On Water, Egg Yolks, Vinegar, Salt), Sugar, Celery, Water, Sweet Pickle Relish (cucumbers, Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Salt Contains Less Than 2% Of: Mustard Seed, Xanthan Gum, Celery Seed, Dehydrated Red Bell Pepper, Calcium Chloride, Natural Flavoring, Turmeric, Dehydrated Onion), Mustard (water, Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Salt, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Turmeric And Paprika, Annatto Color, Garlic, Spices, Xanthan Gum, Calcium Disodium Edta (retains Product Freshness), Natural Flavor, Citric Acid), Onion, Salt, Red Bell Pepper, Vinegar, Modified Corn Starch, Spice, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Xanthan Gum, Annatto Color.

Here's mine:
Potatoes
Celery
Mayonnaise
Salt, pepper
Finely diced baby dill pickles
Fresh dill, paprika and sliced hard-boiled eggs on top

No mustard? Boo

Dry mustard, yes; sorry, forgot to mention. I've tried it with prepared mustard, but don't enjoy it that way.

Are you making your own mayo and pickles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what do you serve a crowd, OP (and all of you who put "ready to eat" "food" in "quotation marks")?

Are you all growing organic blueberries and transforming them into nutritious not-too-sweet quick bread whilst straining your own organic yogurt and lightly roasting organic kale into chips?

Honestly. It's a party. Have some baked beans and a hot dog. It won't kill you.

I know you're being sarcastic, but I'll answer.

For a BBQ, we do high-quality hamburgers, hot dogs and buns. I make my own pulled pork BBQ, baked beans, potato salad. Huge fresh vegetable platter, huge fruit salad, plus sliced watermelon. Fresh corn on the cob. Tortilla chips, salsa, homemade guacamole. Homemade brownies and Rice Krispie treats (which are just fun, I know they're not fine fare).

The quality of dogs/burgers/buns matters. Making the items I make vs. buying at grocery = far less sodium! preservatives, etc. Fresh options are great to keep it all balanced.

OP, if I am grilling I absolutely will NOT buy those premade burger patties (they use them when they occasionally grill for the employees where I work and they are horrible), I make my own potato salad and jack up canned baked beans. But I don't require other people to, particularly people who like getting together but are also dual working couples with young children and whose goal is a good time with friends as opposed to expecting a restaurant experience of food.

OP here and I didn’t write that reply above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imagine pigging out so much on banana bread and yogurt you make yourself sick and then have to make a post about it lol

OP here. I didn’t eat it. I took a bite, but it tasted so much like chemicals I couldn’t eat it.

I did eat the sugar shack donut and I think that made me sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's Reser's Fine Foods Potato Salad from Giant, folks:

Potatoes, Mayonnaise (soybean On Water, Egg Yolks, Vinegar, Salt), Sugar, Celery, Water, Sweet Pickle Relish (cucumbers, Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Salt Contains Less Than 2% Of: Mustard Seed, Xanthan Gum, Celery Seed, Dehydrated Red Bell Pepper, Calcium Chloride, Natural Flavoring, Turmeric, Dehydrated Onion), Mustard (water, Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Salt, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Turmeric And Paprika, Annatto Color, Garlic, Spices, Xanthan Gum, Calcium Disodium Edta (retains Product Freshness), Natural Flavor, Citric Acid), Onion, Salt, Red Bell Pepper, Vinegar, Modified Corn Starch, Spice, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Xanthan Gum, Annatto Color.

Here's mine:
Potatoes
Celery
Mayonnaise
Salt, pepper
Finely diced baby dill pickles
Fresh dill, paprika and sliced hard-boiled eggs on top

No mustard? Boo

Dry mustard, yes; sorry, forgot to mention. I've tried it with prepared mustard, but don't enjoy it that way.

Are you making your own mayo and pickles?

My MIL makes pickles for our whole family, so I'm lucky I get homemade pickles of several varieties. I make my own mayonnaise; it's super easy with a stand mixer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suggest you just never speak to the people who threw the party again.

Also how long was this party? Couldn't you just wait and eat later?

Only for an hour or so this AM. I thought it was homemade, until I took a bite and realized it was all highly processed stuff. I didn’t eat more, except the donut, and promptly felt sick. It was my own fault obviously. I haven’t been eating much sugar at all so the sugar made me sick.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Im mostly talking about the “chemical” taste in processed food. Here are the ingredients for the bakery wal mart bread.

Ingredients: ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, WATER, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN AND PALM OILS), BANANA, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: CORNSTARCH, SALT, DEFATTED WHEAT GERM, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SOY LECITHIN, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE), XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM ALGINATE, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), VITAMIN A PALMITATE, BETA-CAROTENE (COLOR), NONFAT DRY MILK.