Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Portion Shockers

!±8± Portion Shockers

Ever since I read the book The Portion Teller a few years back, I have been intrigued by portion sizes. Gradually, over the years, the size of our meals (and even our plates) has increased and as a result, so has our waistlines.

I am convinced that the #1 reason for the obesity epidemic in America is due to our portion sizes. If you've ever been to another country you've noticed two things; the people are smaller and the meals are smaller. The relationship between the two is not a coincidence.

Human nature is that we will eat most, if not all, that is in front of us. Can you remember the last time you took a few bites of a cookie and threw the rest away? How about a piece of pizza, a hot dog, or an ice cream cone? Not likely.

We are now so accustomed to the larger portion sizes that we're served and we don't think twice about finishing every last bite. I think if we were made more aware of just how big our portions are we might think about pouring a little less cereal, not going for the second or third slice of pizza, or splitting dessert with a friend.

Here are some portion shockers from Lisa Young's book The Portion Teller:

Sizzler offers a 24-ounce porterhouse steak. This is equal to three days' worth of meat according to USDA recommendations. A typical muffin weighs in at over 6 ounces and contains more than an entire day's worth of grains.Between 1984 and 1987 the exact same chocolate chip cookie recipe on the back of the Nestle TOLL HOUSE package scaled down the number of cookies it makes from 100 to 60.In 1964 Burger King offered a 12-ounce small and a 16-ounce large soft drink. Today's drinks come in five sizes: 12-ounce kiddie, 16-ounce small, 22-ounce medium, 32-ounce large and 42-ounce king.The first Hershey Milk Chocolate bar weighed .6 ounces. Today they range from 1.6 ounces to 8 ounces.

This is just the beginning of our super sized culture, and my hope is that with this knowledge comes power. Start thinking about what a serving should actually look like and make a goal to cut back on the amount of food you eat throughout the day.


Portion Shockers

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Did you know that Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie was an accident?

!±8± Did you know that Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie was an accident?

The cookie is almost mainly eaten chocolate chips which hailed from the United States, although it is the most popular, in fact, all over the world and include chocolate chips in every bite of the cookie, of which there can be many types and forms. The cookie Chocolate chip is also recognized as a Toll House cookie, and entered into a contingency, when a woman named Ruth Graves Wakefield, a hotel called the Toll House Inn has an oven.

While some cooks' chocolateCookies, chocolate short baker Mrs. Wakefield, and was forced, it would be dark chocolate, she thought, to replace loose dough. Since this does not happen, made the first chocolate chip cookies brought to life, and why they are so delicious they were also capable of this recipe on the Nestle Chocolate Company, trade, and in return would get a lifetime supply of chocolate never required.

According to recent surveys, more than 7,000 million with chocolate chipsCookies are eaten each year and, like many of the 50% of all American households, they do eat at home. The key ingredients that go into a chocolate biscuit, are brown and white sugar, flour, eggs and dark chocolate. Some people choose to add nuts to the pasta. Anyone who can combine the ingredients of what they want, if the toll house cookie recipe is what most seek the same thing.

To bake chocolate chip cookies, the baker would be the creamSugar and butter in a very high speed usually with a mixer or electric whisk, then the brown sugar and eggs and add the flour and baking powder. Chocolate chips to the mixture at the end of the whole process before you dig into the cookie dough and place on a baking sheet for baking cookies to be added, although many people love to eat what I like in appearance.

This type of cookie is a big problem in the U.S., and we talk a lot in. Print This also points to TV shows like Sesame Street, Cookie Monster can not forget? Midwest Airlines chocolate chip cookies baked fresh and served on board their aircraft. Also a fact, not far to many it is known that the desert camouflage pattern, the U.S. Army during the first Gulf War was the nickname was "Chocolate Chip" because as strong as the pasta chocolate chip cookies with brown and black spots and beige all within the split model.


Did you know that Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie was an accident?

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