Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking Wonder what the poor folks are eatin' tonight?

I don't eat mac and cheese often, but I like it once in awhile. Boiling water is a lot of trouble if you think that boiling water is a lot of trouble. I find mac and cheese easy to prepare and bake in about an hour or so, and it makes a light lunch or dinner (moderate servings). I eat pasta about once or twice a week. I love it. I suppose if you're diabetic that you should forgo it, but I've seen diabetics enjoy it without any problems. Remember a few years ago (or was it decades?)that eggs suddenly were bad and would kill you? Suddenly all the hypochondriacs either stopped eating eggs all together or just egg whites. Really. People have been eating eggs for thousands of years, and all of a sudden they became a problem. Maybe eating a dozen or two per day with a pound of bacon will present some health challenges, but I doubt that an egg or two once in awhile present any risk for a normal healthy person. Hey, and remember when butter was also ostracized as hazardous to your health and you should have immediately switched to margarine? I never did, nor did anyone in my family. Now they're saying that margarine is bad for you, and you should use butter. Go figure. At any rate, pasta is one white starch that I enjoy.

There are some tasty dishes that call for whole-grain pasta, but I prefer the white starch variety. The issue reminds me of the green tea vs. black tea. I'll drink green tea, but, if I want to enjoy a cup of tea, I have a cup of black tea- preferably Earl Grey.

I like The barefoot Contessa's recipes as well. But Giada's are a bit more on the healthy side. Plus I love to hear her say things in Italian!

I do not like the taste of whole grain pasta. I like almost any kind of tea, hot or iced. I was the only kid in the family that didn't like mac and cheese. I also wouldn't eat tuna fish as a kid. Funny, but I like tuna salad now-a lot-with diced celery onion and dill pickles.

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I tend to avoid sugars and other carbohydrates, along with some fats, as garbage calories -- but I don't make a religion of it.
In my moderately long lifetime, I have seen all too many food fads come and go, and all too many "authoritative" pronoucements by the "experts" disproven or rendered questionable.
My normal state of scepticism applies to almost all food dogmas, as it does to all the rest of life.

My strong suspicion is that heredity and personal physiology and conditions of exercise are what makes food good or bad for you.

"One man's meat is another man's poison."

However, in most cases, I think being abstemious is good for most people, most of the time.
After all,

"You dig your grave with your teeth." · ·

I abstain from food. It's boring...

My grave will be thirty feet deep.

Indeed. Today it seems that around 82.3% of the Eugene residents have decided they are allergic to gluten. The allergy du jour in our neck.

If one is predisposed to that precondition one can find “gluten free” anything here. Which reminds me of a clip I recently saw from the satire program “Portlandia” in which a “Allergy Pride Parade” was slated for the day.

Then I envision some starving children somewhere refusing to eat a piece of freshly baked crusty bread because it happened to contain wheat.

Funny, because bread is the one thing that almost all cultures have.

Your tastes change as you get older.