Friday, May 11, 2007
`AHH THE CHICKEN BOWL!!!!!
I've been getting my fitness on and returned to my vegetarian ways, I've attended many gatherings where the food of choice has been meat, grease, fat and more meat grease and fat.
I don't know one person in this day and age who hasn't heard about the obesity epidemic or has recognized how fat this nation is. And it doesn't help that the food industry is getting FAT from pushing overprocessed greasy quicky eats every five minutes. Case in point? My husband and I were indulging in some tv coonery last week while watching VH1's latest black EXPLOITATION Charm School featuring the girls from their first coonery effort Flavor of Love. In between the ignorance, we took notice of the ads. The KFC chicken bowl is the one that really caught our eye and turned our stomach. Yes The Chicken Bowl is their latest sodium venture.
The ads promises layers of flavor by piling all white meat, sweet corn, 3 cheeses, and white gravy ontop of a white mountain of potatoes. Now if you didn't know it, KFC is standing by the 0 TransFat. Now to the average consumer who knows a lil something something about nutrition may think Oh I can down one of those chicken bowls and get my daily servings on and there's no trans fat. That's got to be good right. Sure but no Trans fat doesn't mean there isn't any fat. And while we're at it let's really get down to the greasy bizness of it all shall we. I went and looked on the oh so lovely nutrition chart the KFC website provided(becuz I"M A NERD) and found some tangs.
Though white meat is way better than dark meat nutritionally, there are still some flavorings and large sodium quanities I take issue with. As you peruse the actual ingrediates for everything, take notice of your four food groups. SALT, SODIUM, SUGAR, AND MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE!!
Add some other forms such as enriched flour, sodium bicarbonate, dextose, syrup, mono, sugar, other forms of sodium etc and on and on.
Yes while there is no trans fat to be found, you can fill up on 2200 something miligrams of sodium in a chicken strip. And lets not even talk calories here.
Not once was the commercial shown during celebrity fit club.
So back to the functions I've been attending. One was a church function in which I ended up eating lettuce, water, and a small slice of cake since everything seemed to have had pork in it. Can I get some vegetables without pork flavoring. No. I was scared to even eat cake fearing I'd bite into a pork rind. I mean PEOPLE! Black people. My people. We know how we get down as far as cooking. But come on. Too many of us are dying early of heart disease, high cholesterol and diabetes. Can we have some better nutritional choices.
I am fortunate for my country upbringing. My parents had their own gardens and we're not talking a little vine of tomato by the curb. I'm talking a serious garden where whatever we grew, we stored away, cleaned, cooked and ate. We had rows upon rows of corn,squash, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, lima beans, watermelon, cantoloupe, and some more stuff. And there was a peach tree right beside our house. And the crem de la crem: White Grapes and concord grapes(u know the purple ones) grew on vines along my grandparents driveway which happened to be right by my house. So you know when they were ripe, my mother and I were THE JELLYMAKERS. We were short on Jelly. And when I was even younger at my great-great grandmother Annie's house, which had a long lane right out of a fairytale; we would churn homemade ice-cream in this contraption that looked like an ole washing machine.
And still today in all my 34 years I have yet to taste an ice cream that was just as banging!
As a rebellious teenager I couldn't stand working in the garden in 90 plus degree weather. Yet now I really wonder why I still live in the city.
I can hear Joni Mitchell now. " You don't know what you got til it's gone".
Thanks for tuning into this latest episode of As The Country Gurl Turns.
There are still some questions left unanswered.
1) Will Seshat drop her hip gurl charade, turn her back on the city life and convince her family to don overalls(funky ones of course) for life in the great wide open.
2) Will she forget about being a vegetarian and go straight to raw food?
3) Or will she turn into a fab hippie mom with big dreamgirl hair?
find out next time on As The Country Gurl Turns
I've been getting my fitness on and returned to my vegetarian ways, I've attended many gatherings where the food of choice has been meat, grease, fat and more meat grease and fat.
I don't know one person in this day and age who hasn't heard about the obesity epidemic or has recognized how fat this nation is. And it doesn't help that the food industry is getting FAT from pushing overprocessed greasy quicky eats every five minutes. Case in point? My husband and I were indulging in some tv coonery last week while watching VH1's latest black EXPLOITATION Charm School featuring the girls from their first coonery effort Flavor of Love. In between the ignorance, we took notice of the ads. The KFC chicken bowl is the one that really caught our eye and turned our stomach. Yes The Chicken Bowl is their latest sodium venture.
The ads promises layers of flavor by piling all white meat, sweet corn, 3 cheeses, and white gravy ontop of a white mountain of potatoes. Now if you didn't know it, KFC is standing by the 0 TransFat. Now to the average consumer who knows a lil something something about nutrition may think Oh I can down one of those chicken bowls and get my daily servings on and there's no trans fat. That's got to be good right. Sure but no Trans fat doesn't mean there isn't any fat. And while we're at it let's really get down to the greasy bizness of it all shall we. I went and looked on the oh so lovely nutrition chart the KFC website provided(becuz I"M A NERD) and found some tangs.
Though white meat is way better than dark meat nutritionally, there are still some flavorings and large sodium quanities I take issue with. As you peruse the actual ingrediates for everything, take notice of your four food groups. SALT, SODIUM, SUGAR, AND MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE!!
Add some other forms such as enriched flour, sodium bicarbonate, dextose, syrup, mono, sugar, other forms of sodium etc and on and on.
Yes while there is no trans fat to be found, you can fill up on 2200 something miligrams of sodium in a chicken strip. And lets not even talk calories here.
Not once was the commercial shown during celebrity fit club.
So back to the functions I've been attending. One was a church function in which I ended up eating lettuce, water, and a small slice of cake since everything seemed to have had pork in it. Can I get some vegetables without pork flavoring. No. I was scared to even eat cake fearing I'd bite into a pork rind. I mean PEOPLE! Black people. My people. We know how we get down as far as cooking. But come on. Too many of us are dying early of heart disease, high cholesterol and diabetes. Can we have some better nutritional choices.
I am fortunate for my country upbringing. My parents had their own gardens and we're not talking a little vine of tomato by the curb. I'm talking a serious garden where whatever we grew, we stored away, cleaned, cooked and ate. We had rows upon rows of corn,squash, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, lima beans, watermelon, cantoloupe, and some more stuff. And there was a peach tree right beside our house. And the crem de la crem: White Grapes and concord grapes(u know the purple ones) grew on vines along my grandparents driveway which happened to be right by my house. So you know when they were ripe, my mother and I were THE JELLYMAKERS. We were short on Jelly. And when I was even younger at my great-great grandmother Annie's house, which had a long lane right out of a fairytale; we would churn homemade ice-cream in this contraption that looked like an ole washing machine.
And still today in all my 34 years I have yet to taste an ice cream that was just as banging!
As a rebellious teenager I couldn't stand working in the garden in 90 plus degree weather. Yet now I really wonder why I still live in the city.
I can hear Joni Mitchell now. " You don't know what you got til it's gone".
Thanks for tuning into this latest episode of As The Country Gurl Turns.
There are still some questions left unanswered.
1) Will Seshat drop her hip gurl charade, turn her back on the city life and convince her family to don overalls(funky ones of course) for life in the great wide open.
2) Will she forget about being a vegetarian and go straight to raw food?
3) Or will she turn into a fab hippie mom with big dreamgirl hair?
find out next time on As The Country Gurl Turns
Labels: the chicken bowl diaries and other greasy stories
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