Tag: food
A few favorite recipes
by Jacob on Nov.07, 2008, under General
I like cooking. Today I’m deciding to publish a few of my family’s favorite recipes:
Lion House Pie Dough. - Very forgiving crust for great pie crusts.
Chicken Pot Pie - My favorite meal!
Ginger Cookies - Softer than ginger snaps
Flour Tortilla Surprise - Fast casarole dish that resembles lasagna.
Sugar cereals
by Jacob on Oct.03, 2008, under Insights
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When I was younger, my mom would never allow us to have certain “sugar cereals” except for special occasions like Christmas. It turns out, that my mom had good cause for this.
A recent consumer report reviews children’s cereals and finds that there is a lot of sugar in them. Who would have guessed? Oh, yeah, my mom did.
Honey Smacks and Golden Crisp are almost 50% sugar, by weight. That is gross.
12 cereals reviewed had as much sugar as a glazed donut in one serving. A serving size is 3/4 cup–I usually eat at least two servings.
If you are looking for a more healthy cereal: Cheerios, Kix, Honey Nut Cheerios, and Life contain relatively low amounts of sugar and higher amounts of dietary fiber.
Essential food
by Jacob on Jan.24, 2008, under Funny
Today I was looking through a Safeway (grocery store) ad, and they had a little section in their multi-page ad titled,”Essentials.” I found some of the things there a little interesting. This is what Safeway considers essential:
- Goldfish Crackers
- Handi-Snacks Pudding Cups
- Boost Nutritional Energy Drink
I must be doing pretty bad because I’ve missed out on those essentials for quite a long time.
Review of Wendy’s in Fort Collins
by Jacob on Dec.14, 2007, under Religion
Wednesday night, I used the drive through at the Wendy’s at 3710 S College Ave. in Fort Collins, Colorado. Their service was too fast, which means they gave me food which was already sitting around, and when I looked at my Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, I found that the meat was exceptionally smaller than I’m use to.
I had also thought that they had forgotten to give me a spoon for my chili, but it turns out that I was dumb and just couldn’t find it.
Free calories
by Jacob on Oct.31, 2007, under General
A friend of mine was recently eating some packaged cookies, and we noticed something odd about the nutritional facts. We noticed that the calories didn’t quite match up.
Notice how there are two cookies per package, and that each cookie has 170 calories. 2 cookies per package times 170 calories per cookie equals 340 calories per package. But the package shows that there are 350 calories per package. So where are these extra 10 calories coming from?
You will see a similar error when you look at calories from fat.
