Why don’t Americans give a f*** about what they eat?

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Anonymous wrote:Even at the grocery store,why is there sugar in deli meat? Why is it so hard to find an unsweetened cereal? Even Cheerios have sugar in them. The idea that the best way to have healthy bread is to make it yourself or buy Ezekiel bread for six bucks a loaf. It is not that hard in other countries.

Don’t buy deli meat then. I roast my own chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, pork or whatever for a meal. Then slice meat leftovers for sandwiches or wraps for lunch. I bake my own bread and pitas and pizza doughs. I don’t spend a lot of time doing this either. From experience, I’m pretty efficient at cooking around my work schedule.

FFS people!! I can only assume you all are being wilfully obtuse. I'm not PP, but I'm 90% certain she wasn't looking for recommendations on deli meat alternatives but rather pointing out the ubiquity of bad food options. It shouldn't be as hard as it is. But I guess some of you are so bent on demonstrating your superiority you can't entertain the notion that there could be a better way...and that most people in other countries have access to it.

I’m not disputing that there are a lot of bad food options. I’m just saying that are plenty of inexpensive healthy options too if you learn how to cook.

And why aren't those inexpensive healthy food options at school? Why can't school cooks learn to cook? If parents let their kids down, why does the government?
In the old country school cooks arrive 6 am to have freshly cooked food ready by 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. Nothing is frozen or reheated. US cannot even do it at schools. How do you expect people who work several jobs to do it at home. Get off your high horse. I hate junk food. I got fat just by looking at the food, so did my super skinny friend. She lost the weight when she returned home though. It's the food here unless you eat like a rabbit.

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Making your own bread and roasting your own deli meat is the equivalent of going off the grid, achieving a level of extreme self sufficiency on the food front. For me I have never been able to sustain the making my own granola, hummus etc energy for the long term. And yes the sabra yellow bean hummus has sugar in it. It is everywhere!

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I am surprised how much resistance there is on this thread to the idea American food is less healthy. Shopping at a British grocery store it is clear the portion sizes are much smaller. Meat packages are smaller. Much smaller than here. You can buy junk at fast food places but there are also healthier, smaller portion options that includes a large portion of tasty veggies. You don’t have to search for that option. In Spain a hotel breakfast buffet includes vegetables and fruit and fish. For breakfast. There is a very very small cereal option off to the side for Americans who can’t live without there aren’t significant carb choices. Our food options are incredibly unhealthy. And our portion sizes are huge. It is a generalization, yes. You can bake your own chicken and bread. It shouldn’t be so hard to find good options when you don’t have time to make everything from scratch. Grabbed a container of chicken salad as a weekend lunch for me and kids recently. It had added honey. The store actually sweetens chicken salad.

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Anonymous wrote:I am surprised how much resistance there is on this thread to the idea American food is less healthy. Shopping at a British grocery store it is clear the portion sizes are much smaller. Meat packages are smaller. Much smaller than here. You can buy junk at fast food places but there are also healthier, smaller portion options that includes a large portion of tasty veggies. You don’t have to search for that option. In Spain a hotel breakfast buffet includes vegetables and fruit and fish. For breakfast. There is a very very small cereal option off to the side for Americans who can’t live without there aren’t significant carb choices. Our food options are incredibly unhealthy. And our portion sizes are huge. It is a generalization, yes. You can bake your own chicken and bread. It shouldn’t be so hard to find good options when you don’t have time to make everything from scratch. Grabbed a container of chicken salad as a weekend lunch for me and kids recently. It had added honey. The store actually sweetens chicken salad.

+1 this

Our restaurants and grocery stores are filled with horribly unhealthy crap. We went out of town this weekend,so we're eating out a lot, and good lord, why do restaurants list all the vegetables a dish has, then it has maybe a quarter cup total of them? That's not even close to enough. The American diet as promoted in our grocery stores, restaurants and schools is meat and potatoes with an added serving of sugar and oil. This is not healthy and then half of these things are promoted as "healthy" and "natural".

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A small bottle of Gatorade has 34 grams added sugar- yep that drink parents hand to their kids during a soccer game or after a hike. Total crap

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Anonymous wrote:Making your own bread and roasting your own deli meat is the equivalent of going off the grid, achieving a level of extreme self sufficiency on the food front. For me I have never been able to sustain the making my own granola, hummus etc energy for the long term. And yes the sabra yellow bean hummus has sugar in it. It is everywhere!

I’m hardly growing my own wheat, hunting my animals, fishing, or foraging. I even have an iPad for which I find recipes! Most of my meals I prepare in less time than it takes to order delivery with my iPhone! I taught myself how to cook when I got married. Taught myself about nutrition when I started seriously training in a competitive sport. I don’t spend a whole lot of money on food. I find it in the local store. Hummus is easy to whip up in the food processor.

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Americans love fake easy food! I was constantly made fun of by my coworkers over my lunches. Because eating healthy should be mocked, ya know?!

The avoidance of vegetables will be the downfall of our country. We will collapse under the cost of diabetes.

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Anonymous wrote:A small bottle of Gatorade has 34 grams added sugar- yep that drink parents hand to their kids during a soccer game or after a hike. Total crap

Yes! It’s outrageous. My kids friends drink it after school! 🤯

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Anonymous wrote:Making your own bread and roasting your own deli meat is the equivalent of going off the grid, achieving a level of extreme self sufficiency on the food front. For me I have never been able to sustain the making my own granola, hummus etc energy for the long term. And yes the sabra yellow bean hummus has sugar in it. It is everywhere!

I’m hardly growing my own wheat, hunting my animals, fishing, or foraging. I even have an iPad for which I find recipes! Most of my meals I prepare in less time than it takes to order delivery with my iPhone! I taught myself how to cook when I got married. Taught myself about nutrition when I started seriously training in a competitive sport. I don’t spend a whole lot of money on food. I find it in the local store. Hummus is easy to whip up in the food processor.

Homemade hummus taste better too!

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Anonymous wrote:Swede again- plus, if you are actually European or even canadian you would have written ‘travelled’. Can’t believe no one else picked this up. It’s your spelling. Try harder next time, you sad little troll.

German PP here. You're probably correct about the troll, but I learned (yeah, not learnt) American English instead of British English, and have never used any other form. I'm not the only one out there. Thanks, JFK Schule

You literally went to a German-American school. Why are you posting here being all misleading like it’s normal to learn American English in Europe????

Why are you so upset by it? I said that in the first post. I never said it was normal, I said it's not unheard of for Germans to speak American English or a mix. Good grief. Why do you care? It's not disparaging you, or Sweden, or what form of English you speak.

I am posting from my game in Germany. It is very clear that you do not know much about this country. I am guessing you were here for a brief holiday, but it is clear you don’t know much about what it is like here.

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Anonymous wrote:Swede again- plus, if you are actually European or even canadian you would have written ‘travelled’. Can’t believe no one else picked this up. It’s your spelling. Try harder next time, you sad little troll.

German PP here. You're probably correct about the troll, but I learned (yeah, not learnt) American English instead of British English, and have never used any other form. I'm not the only one out there. Thanks, JFK Schule

You literally went to a German-American school. Why are you posting here being all misleading like it’s normal to learn American English in Europe????

Why are you so upset by it? I said that in the first post. I never said it was normal, I said it's not unheard of for Germans to speak American English or a mix. Good grief. Why do you care? It's not disparaging you, or Sweden, or what form of English you speak.

I am posting from my game in Germany. It is very clear that you do not know much about this country. I am guessing you were here for a brief holiday, but it is clear you don’t know much about what it is like here.

‘Home’, not ‘game’

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The worst thing is regardless of whether we make our own granola or hummus, we pay for our country's unhealthy eating anyway in our taxes and health care premiums.

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Anonymous wrote:I am surprised how much resistance there is on this thread to the idea American food is less healthy. Shopping at a British grocery store it is clear the portion sizes are much smaller. Meat packages are smaller. Much smaller than here. You can buy junk at fast food places but there are also healthier, smaller portion options that includes a large portion of tasty veggies. You don’t have to search for that option. In Spain a hotel breakfast buffet includes vegetables and fruit and fish. For breakfast. There is a very very small cereal option off to the side for Americans who can’t live without there aren’t significant carb choices. Our food options are incredibly unhealthy. And our portion sizes are huge. It is a generalization, yes. You can bake your own chicken and bread. It shouldn’t be so hard to find good options when you don’t have time to make everything from scratch. Grabbed a container of chicken salad as a weekend lunch for me and kids recently. It had added honey. The store actually sweetens chicken salad.

Agreed. So much of our food has added sugar. I buy an organic whole grain bread for breakfast thinking it’s super healthy. I just looked at the ingredients (which I hadn’t done before because I wrongly assumed it was healthy) and lo and behold it has “organic cane sugar”. Why does bread need added sugar?! It’s ridiculous and just one of many, many, many examples.

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Anonymous wrote:I am surprised how much resistance there is on this thread to the idea American food is less healthy. Shopping at a British grocery store it is clear the portion sizes are much smaller. Meat packages are smaller. Much smaller than here. You can buy junk at fast food places but there are also healthier, smaller portion options that includes a large portion of tasty veggies. You don’t have to search for that option. In Spain a hotel breakfast buffet includes vegetables and fruit and fish. For breakfast. There is a very very small cereal option off to the side for Americans who can’t live without there aren’t significant carb choices. Our food options are incredibly unhealthy. And our portion sizes are huge. It is a generalization, yes. You can bake your own chicken and bread. It shouldn’t be so hard to find good options when you don’t have time to make everything from scratch. Grabbed a container of chicken salad as a weekend lunch for me and kids recently. It had added honey. The store actually sweetens chicken salad.

Agreed. So much of our food has added sugar. I buy an organic whole grain bread for breakfast thinking it’s super healthy. I just looked at the ingredients (which I hadn’t done before because I wrongly assumed it was healthy) and lo and behold it has “organic cane sugar”. Why does bread need added sugar?! It’s ridiculous and just one of many, many, many examples.

I've noticed it sometime ago - for some reason whole grain bread usually has more sugar than white bread. WTF???

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Anonymous wrote:Um…you’re pretty judgmental for someone who is pre-diabetic because of their own crappy American diet.

This.

So? That doesn't mean OP is wrong. It just means that he or she fell into the same traps that many Americans fall into. At least he or she is doing something about it.