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My $1.50 700 Calorie Easy Homemade Breakfast
With a little planning and advanced preparation, you can make a delicious breakfast with no preservatives, artificial flavors or colors in about the time it takes to drive to a fast food restaurant, order, and be served, and for a fraction of what you’d pay for a fast food breakfast. ... more
Read more15 Dieting Tips When Dining Out
Whether you dine out for pleasure, a special occasion, travel, or due to necessity you can eat healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners and prevent weight gain. Many restaurants do not make it easy. Large portion sizes, like the meal pictured, are the norm making it easy to eat more calories than your ... more
Read moreMy 90 Cent Croissant Breakfast Sandwich
Bargain Breakfast? I receive ads for discount and fast food breakfasts almost very week. They seem like a bargain. Two egg breakfast and side for only $2.99. Two croissant breakfast sandwiches, small has browns and small coffee for only $4.00. Why cook when you eat breakfast for $5 or less? ... more
Read moreWhy I Won’t Patronize Einstein Bros
Einstein Bros Bagels is a popular breakfast and lunch quick serve restaurant owned by Einstein and Noah Corp. Their speciality is bagels and coffee. It began in 1995 by chain restaurant corporation Boston Chicken now called Boston Market to break into the breakfast food market. I’ve never been a big ... more
Read more700 Calorie Breakfast: Eggs, Sausage, Pancake
A 700 calorie breakfast can be a large, nutritious breakfast, unless you dine or buy it from a fast food restaurant. Breakfast biscuits have become as common as breakfast burritos. They are flavorful and seem relatively harmless even though they are high in carbohydrates, saturated. fat and sodium. One example is ... more
Read more500 Calorie Cupcakes
Americans wonder why they are overweight and cannot lose weight. It can’t have anything to do with their diet. It must be genes or hormones or nasty bacteria and viruses that’s turned them from svelte to obese. The truth in most cases is the problem is their diet, lack of ... more
Read more700 Calorie Breakfast
The Less Than 700 Calorie Breakfast Wouldn’t dieting be fun and enjoyable if you could eat more food with less calories than fats foods and processed foods? A filling breakfast with 700 calories or less? The truth is you can. Most people were not overweight or obese before fast, convenient ... more
Read moreWhat You See Isn’t What You Get
Welcome to a new series of posts comparing food photography used by the restaurant and food manufactures versus what you are actually served or buy. Is It Real or Is It Photoshop The food industry gets away with murder when it comes to their product photographs versus what you actually get ... more
Read moreContains 18 Grams of Whole Grain
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” P.T. Barnum This is the mantra of many manufactured and fast food marketing departments. How do you make a product or food with little or no nutritional value appear to be healthy for you or at least healthier? Food manufactures and restaurants know many ... more
Read moreRolled Oats vs. Steel Cut Oats
For decades, oatmeal in the United States was dominated by rolled oats. The original variety was made from steamed and rolled whole oat grouts. Regular, also known as old-fashion, oats is a whole grain that can reduce blood cholesterol. A bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, lunch or dinner is a ... more
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