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LA Buckeye Fan
Mar 26, 2012 03:15 PM
Absodamnlutely.
I would pour chocolate milk on top of my Lucky Charms Cereal to get my daily fiber.
Banana Split for my fruit points.
My most eaten vegetable would come in sour cream and onion, barbeque, and cool ranch flavors.
My spinanch salad with warm bacon dressing would only have a pinch of spinach in it.
And dinners would be math centric. Think 3.14. And never ending. Margherita, Blueberry would be first on the list of pi. -
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Assuming costs remained as they are now, probably not too much. My family enjoys lots of stereotypically "yucky" vegetables, so there aren't many we'd want to jettison. There would be some more bacon and animal fats in our diets, but probably not many more processed foods. We like to cook, I don't see that changing.
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Monica
Mar 21, 2012 02:09 PM
not really. I basically eat what I want right now but I rarely eat junk food or fast food because I simply don't find them tasty and usually ruin my appetite for real food. I also try to avoid processed food...so yeah...my diet wouldn't change so much even if all the foods were nutritionally equal.
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pinehurst
Mar 21, 2012 12:11 PM
I'd eat lots more butter! But seriously, in terms of content, what Caroline said....my diet would change the most if a lot of the stuff I and my family love became more affordable to cook and serve en masse. Then I'd stock up on expensive-in-the-Northeast tropical fruit and berries instead of bananas, and serve lots of lean beef and lovely fish instead of beans, etc etc.
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omg yes. I'm diabetic.
chili cheese fries, ice cream, steak and prime rib, IN
freshly baked Italian bread IN
Hot Fudge; Hot Caramel IN
Baked and Mashed potatoes IN
Macaroni and cheese; crispy thin crust pizza IN
Spaghetti and Lasagna IN
Bagles w/cream cheese; long john cream filled doughnuts; jelly filled doughnuts IN
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mcf
Mar 21, 2012 11:54 AM
I'm diabetic and I eat butter, mayo, cream cheese, creme fraiche, etc... but no bread, little fruit, and no sugars. Plenty of full fat cheeses and yogurt, though, grass fed meat and dairy, wild caught fish. My diabetes is tightly controlled in non diabetic numbers this way, without meds. But...
If it didn't matter, I don't think I'd change the way I eat at all, I've come to love my protein and veggie diet. The only things I ever miss are fresh hot NY pizza and bagels, but not to the point of craving.
If I ever find out I'm terminal, though, I'm going to eat a slice of pizza with the crust. :-)
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Absolutely. Cake, cookies, baguettes, croissants, crappy holiday chocolate, ice cream... There are a lot of foods I limit/avoid because they have little redeeming nutritional value. I could quite happily live on bread and chocolate if I didn't have to worry about weight gain or malnourishment. On the other hand, I already refuse to eat foods just for health benefits - if I don't like it, I'm not eating it, I don't care how good it is for me (I'm lookin' at you, oatmeal). So my mostly healthful diet is at least full of foods I like, some of them even among my last meal level favorites.
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eastofnevada
Mar 21, 2012 06:00 AM
If that also meant that I wouldn't suffer from any *ahem* internal distress from anything, then yes.
I would eat more potato chips for sure. A whole lot more fries. Croissants, cheese, use a lot more butter, loaves of bread in one sitting....
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Caroline1
Mar 20, 2012 02:23 PM
Throw me in that briar patch Go on! I double dog dare you! ....chocolates .....cream puffs ....truffles, both sweet and fungi .....foie gras ....Chateau d'Yquim by the bucketful ...
Oh, shit.
Wait a minute!
Nobody said anything about all food being nutritionally equal AND the same price!
NEVER MIND.
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Perilagu Khan
Mar 20, 2012 01:58 PM
Hell no. I don't alter my diet even when foods are nutritionally unequal.
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I would eat a lot more white rice. with lots of salty fatty caramel braised pork. And a lot of rice noodles. And more white bread. And lots of more dishes would end up with cheese melted on top.
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visciole
Mar 24, 2012 07:21 PM
I love mashed potatoes, and make them with low-fat milk, olive oil, and with the skins on. Still not super low calorie but allows me to eat them more often. Added bonus: they are great cold and do not congeal the way the ones with butter do.
But then again maybe you're low carb, in which case it's the spuds themselves....
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alliegator
Jul 25, 2011 08:26 AM
I would probably eat the same things, but fill my plate a bit more. I don't avoid any food, but I do use a fair amount of portion control. I rarely "stuff my face". So maybe I would completely pig out on some of my favorites. Things dripping in butter and cheese come to mind first.
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To quote the wonderful Ms. Child "fat gives things flavor". So, all things being equal, my diet would consist of wonderfully warm breads and flaky pastries with butter; fresh-baked croissants oozing chocolate; thick and creamy mushroom-barley, beef, and french onion soups; crunchy thin-crusted pizzas topped with cheeses and veggies, paninis with cheese, tomato, basil, and olive oil; and of course - ice cream: hot chocolate brownies with french vanilla ice cream, warm apple crisp with ginger ice cream, and a bourbon-chocolate mousse with chocolate ice cream.
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absolutely! i love to eat foods that are nutritious because i feel great when i eat healthy. if all foods were healthy, i would of course eat the "junk!" however, i do really enjoy the textures and flavors of a lot of very healthy foods so i wouldn't want to give up the foods i like.
if you could make chocolate cake with the same nutritional value as broccoli...
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crowmuncher
Jul 24, 2011 02:31 PM
Assuming my bowel movements or mood won't be affected (yes, I know it's make-believe) i would switch to white instead of brown bread, rice, pasta,etc. I would also eat brownies and chocolate cake (made with enriched white flour of course) everyday, preferably 3x/day
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crowmuncher
Jul 24, 2011 09:56 PM
Good point-it's already nutrionally equivalent. I don't know what i was thinking...
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mcf
Jul 24, 2011 01:46 PM
My diet already consists of most of the stuff other folks think is unhealthy (Ignoring how obese and diabetic the population has become since restricting fat and protein and moving to grains and fat restrictions), and I love my diet, but if they weren't so harmful to my health, I'd eat pizza and bagels, only occasionally. I don't miss them terribly, but they're still the only two things I ever miss since giving up starches.
And I live in NY, where the best ones are! :-(
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jmcarthur8
Jul 24, 2011 01:38 PM
I know I'd be eating a lot more homemade macaroni and cheese.
And have an egg cream every afternoon.
And I'd probably try out a new cheesecake recipe every week.
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The first thing I would do is stop feeling guilty for preferring white rice to brown! Then I would go on a fried foods spree, eating all my favorites until I was absolutely bored of them. As if that were possible!
On the other hand, the fact that my health problems lead me to avoid excess fat has led me to be far more creative in my cooking and has led me further afield in eating out. So, as much as I think nutritionally equivalent foods would be a utopia for me, I don't regret that it isn't the case.
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TheHuntress
Jul 24, 2011 05:43 AM
I'm happy to say that I wouldn't change my diet at all. I eat exactly what I want, when I want (as long as time/logistics permit - a 2am night shift craving for wonton soup is likely to go unfilled) and am quite happy doing so. I eat and enjoy a wide variety of foods, so I think that's probably why my weight stays in check. I don't eat or avoid anything in particular just for nutritions sake, however I am certain that I ought to include more calcium in my diet.
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Assuming that this also means that I'm not allergic to anything, then yes, my diet would change. The thing is, I still ENJOY fresh fruits and vegetables, and would still eat them, just because they taste good to me. I would, however, add in some whipped cream and cake and such, and perhaps end my love affair with Splenda :)
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babette feasts
Jul 23, 2011 06:18 PM
Yes. Nachos, french fries, bacon, butter, cheese, cheese, cheese. And more carnitas.
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Pixie Muse
Jul 23, 2011 08:42 PM
I would be tempted by fattier, and possibly sweeter foods but then the problem would be that I would feel far fuller with much less. I hardly ever eat past that comfortable feeling, because I like it when my tummy feels just right, and and so maybe I will keep my current diet because it gets me more food on my plate. Good question though : )
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No more guilt and deep thinking about balanced menus every day. One day my tired harried friend asked her DH how he felt about ice cream, popcorn and soda for supper and he cheered. You know, it probably wouldn't kill us or shorten our lives if we we actually did that once a week.
As for me, ice cream and pasta and lots of pie crust.
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No, because my diet already consists largely of "forbidden" foods. I've never given one thought to healthy eating, and I never will. I know what tastes really, really good. " if it's also healthy, that's fine, but not the deciding factor.
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re: Veggo
iluvcookies
Jul 24, 2011 05:53 AM
Veggo, your post is the perfect place for a "like" button. Because of the humor in it.
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arktos
Jul 23, 2011 04:33 PM
More like a permanent goodbye to kale, tofu, salmon, oats and broccoli.
Makes me so mad everything that's good for you tastes crappy and everything that tastes good will eventually kill you. Genetic DNA engineers need to take notice!! Forget about increasing our I.Q.s or life spans, make it so that we can live on bacon, nachos, salt, deep-fried things and cake.
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I'm more with arktos' sentiments. I already eat everything I want to eat, but eat a lot of stuff that I'd rather not eat so often. It's not limited to vegetables. I like berries and have them just about every day, but if they weren't so beneficial I'd cut down to maybe 1-3 times a week. I love variety. If everything was nutritionally equal, then that would mean I get to have an entirely different diet day to day.
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re: arktos
As a vegetarian who subsists mostly on veggies, I can tell you that they do start tasting better once you stop eating the other and focus on veggies. Then, when you try to eat something fattening and crappy, you feel sick and awful and vow to never eat crap again. Your taste buds and body get used to the veggies and that becomes the good stuff.
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cowboyardee
Jul 24, 2011 02:06 PM
"More like a permanent goodbye to kale, tofu, salmon, oats and broccoli."
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Go figure. That's all stuff I would eat even if it wasn't healthy. Though I've been known to dump a good bit of browned butter on my kale, to wrap my salmon in bacon or serve it with a nice rich cream sauce.-
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arktos
Jul 25, 2011 10:56 AM
The only way I can eat kale is Brazillian style, with the hard centers of the leaves cut out, the leaves stacked on top of one another and then rolled into a cigar shaped cylinder. It's then cut chiffinade-style into 1/8" ribbons and sauted in plenty of bacon fat and some garlic. It's really quite good!! and much better than the aweful stuff you get from people who cook it as if it was spinach.
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