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What a wonderful day to pick blueberries in Oregon. I headed out to Redland, driving the Barlow Trail route through Carver and spent an hour in this gorgeous blueberry field. The bushes abounded with big, plump, flavorful berries. The weather was perfect in the mid 70's and sunny. The experience is always truly memorable, eliminating the middleman, and going to the source for the bounty. No barcodes and checkouts, just pure bliss, harvesting the berries, putting them in a pail, weighing them, paying with cash and heading home where many delicious culinary creations await.
When I first heard of this I got excited, but I am also concerned that it is a short-sighted effort to make a quasi attempt to appease the health conscious.The menu board cannot possibly address many of the critical components to good nutrition. Simply listing calories and amount of fats is not enough.There are so many other potentially hazardous ingredients that go into fast food.I eat locally grown, natural and organic foods. I eat grass finished beef and buffalo. I eat wild caught Alaskan fish and supplement with molecularly distilled fish oil.I rarely shop chain grocery stores and do most of my shopping at Farmers Markets and Natural food stores and co-ops.I don't worry about salmonella outbreaks because I know where and how my tomatoes and jalapenos and spinach are grown.It's not FATS that cause havoc, it's the type of fats and the balance of the fats. It's not the carbs that cause havoc, but the types of carbs.Fast foods are fast foods...whether you eat a 1200 calorie mondo cheeseburger or a 450 calorie junior mondo cheeseburger, it is still a saturated fat laden, sodium infused dietary time bomb, and coke or diet coke... well, they both have high phosphate levels and leach calcium out of your bones, and one has potentially hazardous fake sweeteners as well.It may be a step in the right direction, but I hope it doesn't give the fast food feasters a false sense of security. America hasn't got it right yet.
Just having some fun with my Paint Shop program. I catered a party for 35 last weekend. They wanted a variety of appetizers and finger foods, so the menu included Pulled Pork Sliders, Meatball Sliders, Cookies-on-a-Stick for the kids to decorate, Fruit Kabobs, Mini Taco Bites, Spinach Artichoke Dip and Chili Con Queso Dip, an assortment of pinwheel sandwiches and even Better Than S*x Cake.
Oh My!
Seems like the Multnomah County (Oregon) Commissioners are on a new mission.
They just announced that they are wanting to make chain restaurants with 15 or more locations list the calorie count on all their menu items...that is ON the reader boards on the drive-thru and on their menu boards at the order counter.
I think they are missing the mark! We all know that you don't go to a fast food restaurant to watch your calories.
Furthermore, it's not the calories we should be worrying about. We should be worrying about the type of fats, the additives and preservatives, and the way they prepare the food.
C'mon Commissioners.
