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Originally Posted by Chatbrat (Post 1544566)

Remember -healthwise, if its spreadable its inedible--guaranteed to slam your arteries shut--

And I've read just the opposite. Once for ounce, the dryer the cheese, the less moisture it has and the more fat, as it's concentrated.

looks like im going to pub 199 for clams and lobster $30:crap2:

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Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 1544579)

IMHO we are what we eat!

When I eat freshly picked fruit and vegetables I just feel better. I cannot explain why but I notice the difference. Although I avoid manufactured and processed food like the plague I do eat frozen vegetables and fruit as well as some dried fruit. I try to eat a small handful of assorted unsalted nuts each day. I avoid soda pop except perhaps a small can of Coca Cola now and then in France where it is still made with real sugar, not a corn based sweetener as I assiduously avoid them.

My belief is "the longer the shelf life the shorter your life". Today's processed food is loaded with sodium, many preservatives which do not exist in nature, corn sweeteners and the 'bad' fats. Processed foods may be necessary to have on hand for emergencies such as earthquakes and hurricanes so they do serve a purpose.

It would be nice if restaurants were required to disclose more about their ingredients. Many do used prepackaged salad mixes and mixed vegetable packets. The veggies are obviously machine cut.

I try to go to restaurants that advertise fresh, never frozen food. I know never frozen steaks and other red meat tastes better to me,

IMHO the high end, quality restaurant industry does not view retirement communities as viable venues. Their market as they see it is to big spenders, expense accounts and luxury tourism. That is where the big dollars are. Although The Villages is large and its median income relatively high, few retirees are willing to spend large on expensive dining out.

Congrats ! If you do not like the taste of the foods you consider unhealthy you are ahead of the game. If you do like them and are denying yourself the pleasure of eating them in the hope of adding a few years to your life that is a noble goal as well.

However, as much as it might seem unpalatable, we all will meet our maker in some fashion or the other. Since most of us are seniors the date to do so is not all that far in the future. My vices are few, but when I do I will have enjoyed them until the date that occurs.

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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 1544580)

Morristown! We used to live in Randolph (Shongum Lake).

Okay, carry on.

From Chester.

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Originally Posted by rivaridger1 (Post 1544621)

However, as much as it might seem unpalatable, we all will meet our maker in some fashion or the other. Since most of us are seniors the date to do so is not all that far in the future. My vices are few, but when I do I will have enjoyed them until the date that occurs.

You are correct. Two of my high school classmates checked out permanently yesterday and a third, a Berkeley PhD clinical psychologist, has developed dementia according to FB posts made today.

I just got back from Costco and am going to broil a NY cut steak (medium rare), steam some fresh asparagus, microwave a sweet potato and prepared a small green salad for dinner. It will all go down with a glass or two of Chateau Mayne Guyon from Trader Joe's.

Bon Appetit!

Amazimg the garbage some people will accept here from the country clubs. Vut then again, I have to assume some here never had more than fast food where they came feom.

As one poster told me...they think beans over cornbread is haute cuisine

Thankfully I don't pay much attention to posts by people who seem to joyfully trash ninety percent of the restaurants in the area. I have eaten at numerous highly ranked eating establishments across the nation, so I am not unfamiliar with haute cuisine, but I have enjoyed dozens of meals at many of the TV country clubs and other local establishments. My tastes may be unsophisticated and substandard by some measures, but I am happily oblivious to my lack of taste. I have had some marginal meals and some bad service, but those are the anomalies. Next time I go to one of the substandard venues in TV and have to wait for thirty minutes for a table I will assume that all the good places must have an hour or more wait

Still your fan, Coach.

I so agree.

When we go out to eat we always look to get a broiled piece of meat or fish and either a salid or veggie. That way it can't be pre-packaged. Not that there is anything wrong with quality pre-packaged food, just that it is kind of a crap shoot and you can't count on it being consistent. That being said, nothing beats going to the farmers market and getting some great fresh seafood like red snapper, mahi mahi, or grouper along with some fresh salid ingredients and grilling the fish and having a fresh salid, along with a skinny (no sugar) margerita made with 100% blue agave tequila :)

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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 1544670)

:agree:

The lack of decent restaurants in TV is a definite downer!

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Originally Posted by Gpsma (Post 1544651)

:BigApplause::BigApplause::BigApplause:

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Originally Posted by Gpsma (Post 1544651)

We prefer a little sweetness in the cornbread. Also serve with grated Vidalia onion.

Here is the recipe served in the U.S. Senate;

Senate Bean Soup Recipe - Allrecipes.com

I first tasted that in the Senate Dining room in 1966. Yum! It may be their most famous dish.

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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 1544580)

Morristown! We used to live in Randolph (Shongum Lake).

Okay, carry on.

I never got kicked out of Smiles see it was a frame-up. I graduated from Harvard on the Highway. County College of Morris with a degree in Law Enforcement. It's a blur. All I know is the hill from the parking lot up to the school was rough so instead I would head to the Little Brown Jug instead. Cheers. :pepper2:

I was a proud slumlord on Lake Hopatcong. Oh Boy.

We rode thru the Hollow in Mo-town blasting Play That Funky Music White Boy trying to stir up trouble. Forgive me for I did not know what I was doing?

I used to drive my wife to CCM before she transferred to Fairly Ridiculus, had to audit some classes for her when she broke her leg--best was teaching her enough math thru a navy correspondence course of a summer--it enable her to ace calculus and analytic geometry