Pork fat rules.

TC

Well, I don't think sat fat is a problem if you 1) aren' overeating, and 2)
aren't over consuming carbs.  However, convincing her of that might not be
easy.

Are there lots of nitrates in bacon?  What about in your overall diet? If
so, then that might be an impedment to bacon being part of a
health-promoting lifestyle.  I think one needs to keep in mind that
typically a single food cannot be said to be healthy or unhealthy.  It all
depends on the context in which it is used.  For real LCers, sat fat ain't a
problem.  And like TC said, pork fat rules! :)

BTW, the taste might be off, but perhaps you could learn to like turkey
bacon (?).  Just don't think of it as bacon.  Perhaps another brand?  Also,
how does the protein content compare to regular bacon?

Awful, it is just awful. Stick with the real thing and walk the extra 3
blocks. Have a good day day.

It's what you're used to.

After my daughter had been vegetarian for a few years, I made her some
"meatballs" out of soy crumbles at the same time as I made myself some
out of hamburger.  She ate one of the vegetarian ones and freaked out
that I'd fed her meat, mixed up the meatballs.  I tasted it... and it
didn't taste at *all* like meat.  Cause... I remembered what meat
tastes like and she didn't.

Similarly, I used to like milk, whole was good, but even 2% or
sometimes 1%.  But a few years of using heavy cream for most everything
and whole milk tastes watered-down and bitter to me, the way skim milk
used to taste.  Can't stand the stuff anymore.

We started cooking everything from scratch a few years ago and most
restaraunt food tastes like crap now.  I can make stuff so much better
at home.

My SIL made us a "wonderful" low-fat cheesecake when we visited a few
years ago.  She was quite successful on the low-fat thing, she lost a
hundred pounds and in a year, had apparently forgotten entirely what
dairy fat tastes like.  She was *thrilled* with this cheesecake
recipe... and we found it utterly gross and inedible.

If you've eaten real bacon lately, the turkey bacon is going to taste
gross.  But... if you didn't eat bacon for a year or two, the turkey
bacon would probably taste fine.

It's important when getting recommendations about what tastes good to
know how the person making the recommendation normally eats

For instance, someone who likes skim milk is not someone I'm gonna take
a recommendation for a cheesecake recipe  from.

Turkey bacon - I tried it in strips on its own and I hated it.  Then I
tried making "bacon bits" out of it and using it in salads or
omlettes.  It was okay that way but not good enough to ever buy
a second package.

Beef bacon - Apparently for folk who want to stay away from
outrageously non-kosher without actually worrying about really
being kosher.  I tried it in strips and I hated it.  I tried it in
"bacon bits" and I hated it that way as well.  Ah well, one less
thing to try in future years.

Port bacon - Try more brands.  Some are a lot better than others.
Oh, so trying more brands somehow ends up meaning eating
more bacon overall?  Drat how that works out anyways!  ;^)

If you are 40+ and need to monitor your blood pressure, there is 10805mg of
Sodium per 445g(1 lb) pan fried bacon.

My solution is to boil bacon with lots of water, then mix it with vegie ->
bacon vegi salad.

The more water, the longer you boil the bacon, the less sodium/nitrate... in
the bacon. (it becomes tasteless)

Why not just buy pork?
Lean pork is cheaper than fatty pork.
Bacon is cheaper than Lean pork.

Read label of salad too. Some have lots of sodium.
Lots of vegis have high Potassium.

BTW. high heat is always bad to food. Boiling water will never exceed 100C
(212F)

=>Turkey bacon.
=>
=>On my (vegetarian) wife's urgings, I decided to try turkey bacon for
=>the first time. She said it would be "healthier" (presumably because
=>it's lower in saturated fat).... well, I'm eating some right now, and
=>it kind of sucks. It doesn't seem to get crispy, it's chewy, and the
=>taste is off. I think I'm sticking to pork from now on.
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=>260/204.5/200
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=>4/27/05