Quote from killthesunshine:
That greasy pile of decaying crap is at least 700 calories and 30+ grams of fat.. that's half your calories for the DAY alone, 3 times the FAT (without the butter and sour cream), and you haven't even eaten dessert yet.
SEVEN large heads of lettuce = approx 700 cals too but supplies far far FAR greater nutrients and NO saturated FAT!
what a maroon
You can eat 50 heads lettuce and no B-12.
So have balance.
Like this for example.
I make this.
1 ham hock
yellow squash
escarole (or spinach or both)
onions
black bean
garbanzo bean
tomatoes
chicken stock (use "Better than buillion" brand) Delicious! A paste from whole chicken, NOT a cube
Ok, cook onion in pot with ham hock, couple minutes.
Add about 1 1/2 gallon of water, and 3 or 4? spoonful of the paste from chicken(taste it and see what you like for how much paste.)
put in tomatoes and very little brown sugar (1/2 tsp?)
Cook about 2 hour for the flavor of the ham hock and tomato.
Take ham hock out of pot.
Put in spinach/escarole, yellow squash, black bean,garbanzo bean. Cook low for maybe 10 minutes.
Take about 2 cup of all in the pot out of pot and put in bowl to mash to the paste. Put back in pot (this make it thick)
Take ham hock that you put out before, and cut off the fat, cut ham in peices and put in the pot. Finish!
Now you have low calorie, many vegetable nutrients, AND VERY SMALL amout of meat for the flavor, B-12 and iron.
So it is a BIG pot of food with only about 4 ounces of meat for many meals, but many vegetables.
Delicious and healthy and not alot of money to make.
My grandfather and brother love this!