Eating beef again!???

[Marshdrifter]

Whoa! That's a lot of crap there!

Ok, I can empathize on the Jack's Cheese pizza. As far as I can
tell, those are the healthiest frozen pizzas (no hydrogenated oils).
I usually doctor them up. I've some soy-based pepperoni
substitute that actually isn't that bad (ha! take that meat
eaters!). In college, my senior year consisted of practically nothing
more than beans and rice. You can do a lot with beans and rice.
It's cheap and it's easy (and it can be tasty). Of course, I opted to
buy pop instead of vegetables, but nobody eats that healthily in
college.

I have a theory about the craving beef thing. I notice that when
your body needs fat and protein, it craves the kind you've been
eating lately. So when I've been eating a lot of nuts (cashews are
nummy), I crave nuts. When I've been tossing back the tofu
(because cashews has way more fat than I need), I start craving
tofu. I dunno. It's just a theory.

[Serpent]

I think IF is just addicted to **** food!

[joedoe]

I reckon if he was addicted then he should sue whoever provides that food

[Serpent]

Nah. Already proven not to work. He needs to sue on the basis that he's addicted to stuff he didn't know was in there.

Like ****.

[fa_jing]

I hear you about the college thing.

One bad thing about beef is a high level of uric acid. If you boil it first for a few minutes with carrot slices, then remove the carrots, this treatment aleviates the above problem.

I find that some other cow parts are quite tasty as well, when prepared the way I like:

Tripes (stomach)
Feet
bones (like neck bones, soup bones) - especially with ligament

When I eat the above, it gives me a lot of energy and I feel it's good for the joints, etc.

[joedoe]

Interesting thing about the carrots - I suffer from gout so that may be a useful thing to try sometime.

[Serpent]

Originally posted by joedoe
Interesting thing about the carrots - I suffer from gout so that may be a useful thing to try sometime.

Hey, do you think that the Chinese are prone to gout? I know a couple of Chinese guys with it and none of them are too old.

[fa_jing]

My wife has gout, and so does Royal Dragon, BTW. However, neither of them are Chinese, AFAIK.
I do think that Chinese are prone to Lactose intolerance,

[Serpent]

What's AFAIK? That's a new one on me.

[joedoe]

Originally posted by Serpent


Hey, do you think that the Chinese are prone to gout? I know a couple of Chinese guys with it and none of them are too old.

I dunno - it can be a genetic thing I was told. Basically it is an inability of the body to eliminate uric acid sufficiently so it ends up accumulating in large joints causing a type of arthritis.

It does depend very heavily on your diet.

[Serpent]

Right. It's just interesting that I've never really come across it before and the only people I do know with it are Chinese. Interessin'!

AFAIK = As Far As I Know? That would make sense.

[joedoe]

I know it used to be a problem in the British aristocracy, leading it to be labelled a rich man's disease . Some people reckon it is from eating a diet with too much rich food in it, which is kind of supported in some ways by the fact that gout sufferers should be careful of their intake of things like red meat, shellfish (esp. prawns), alcohol (esp. red wine and including port) and any other foods high in purines (even some vegetables).

It is an extremely painful thing to get stuck with though

[SevenStar]

Originally posted by Serpent
Jeeezus Keeerrist! You people sure do eat a lot of ****!

You know, there's not a lot of decent beef in those burgers and most of the chicken is reconstituted crap that's mostly water. Not to mention all the preservatives and growth hormones and stuff.

Man, Ironfist, reading your post made me feel sick!

I attribute my hyoogeness to the growth hormone in the chicken.

[Serpent]

Originally posted by SevenStar


I attribute my hyoogeness to the growth hormone in the chicken.

That thought makes me shudder.

*shudder*

[dnc101]

Originally posted by Marshdrifter
I have a theory about the craving beef thing. I notice that when your body needs fat and protein, it craves the kind you've been eating lately.

That could be one reason for the cravings, but your body also craves what it needs. One experience that illustrated this to me was mountaineering with some of my more liberal friends who were vegitarians. I've seen them crave fats so bad at altitude that they ate butter straight from the container. They were allways cooking me vegitarian dishes to try to convert me- but in the end a couple of them reverted and started eating real food again.