While looking for something else on the USDA’s official My Plate site last week, I came across a list of daily meal plans. I presume the meal plans are intended for people who are too stupid to simply look at the new and improved, colorful, easy-to-understand My Plate example and fill their plates accordingly. I don’t think people are that stupid, but the USDA clearly does. After all, when the Food Pyramid came along and people got fatter instead of thinner, the USDA took that result as evidence that the Food Pyramid was too confusing. Couldn’t possibly be that the advice was wrong.
Anyway, here are some screen shots of the sample menus for a 2,000 calorie diet:
Although it was a bit tedious, I looked up nutrition information for everything on the Day 1 menu and added it up. We’re looking at 2039 calories, 94 grams of protein, 82 grams of fat, and 254 carbohydrates. That’s not a huge carbohydrate load (although far more than I would consume), but look at some of the major carb sources: raisins, brown sugar, orange juice, lasagna noodles and a wheat roll. Fructose and wheat.
Go through the rest of the week online, and it’s more of the same. Sure, there are recommendations to eat vegetables, but there are also plenty of juices, English muffins, rolls, bread slices, crackers, cereals … heck, fat-free chocolate milk is even on the menu for Day 5. Every single cut of meat is specified as lean and every single dairy product is specified as low-fat or fat-free. Recipes call for margarine and corn or canola oil, but of course never butter. There’s almost no quality fat on the menu to make you feel full and nourished.
I would shrug it off and say most people will ignore these menus – which they will – but of course every public school, military installation, prison, government cafeteria, etc., etc. is required to serve meals like these.
The My Plate site is full of nonsense about how eating this way can help people lose weight. Riiiight. The only people who will lose weight because of these menus are the prisoners – and only because they can’t go out and stuff themselves with snacks after their USDA-approved meals leave them feeling hungry.
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Oh… ahhhh…. I am almost at screaming point over this. All I see is low fat this and buy lean that. We have a celebrity nutritionist here in New Zealand who now has a diet book out as well. She is on radio and television and last week, what did we see? This.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL8Ae6n1pkI
And you think you are banging your head on the desk!!
I am indeed.
Hunger is exactly what I was thinking reading those meal plans!
I would starve to death. Where’s the real meat? What happened to eggs?
No wonder people are always hungry.
It’s a joke but the saddest joke because it’s inflicted on people who want to do the best for themselves and their families.
Currently we are holidaying in Hawaii and now I understand so much more about the struggles anyone who wants to cut carbs, especially wheat, and eat good meat, healthy fats and fresh veggies. Not that there isn’t lots of wonderful food here. I had a perfect Caprese Salad for lunch today, but avoiding $^%$#^* food is not always easy. Each place we’ve stayed in has wonderful coffee and jars of powdered coffee creamer for guests. What gives with such junk food? Sorry. I don’t mean to offend. I’m just looking at your food with different eyes having been reading low carb/paleo, real food lifestyles in all their different forms for the last 15 months, this trip has been a journey back to earth regarding what is readily available and what most people eat.
We are from rural New Zealand and this is our 4th time in the United States since 2005. Thanks to Dr Davis, yourself and others I have an entirely different perspective on food. Finding wheat free food is requiring a certain amount of imagination and sometimes, deeper pockets.
Apart from our wheat free status being challenged we are having an amazing time and can highly recommend going off the beaten track on Big Island.
Currently we are staying on a coffee plantation and will wake up tomorrow to the most stunning view down the mountain side and out to sea.
Wish there was a faster way to wake up every-man to the absurdities of state generated health advice. Thanks for being a voice of common sense.
Blessings
Blessings to you as well, and enjoy that vacation.
Day 1:
– Breakfast: 2-3 eggs with butter
– Lunch: not hungry
– Dinner: 500g steak with garlic butter, maybe some broccoli, and a bottle of wine
Day 2:
– Breakfast: not hungry
– Lunch: grilled SKIN-ON salmon in creamy garlic sauce with sweet potato and a couple glasses of wine
– Dinner: a few slices of chorizo and cheese, and a bottle of wine
Etc etc.
So much simpler to make the meat the centre of the universe, and just add random stuff for variety and taste.
And wine.
Yup, I end up skipping meals simply because I have no desire to eat.
Any of those breakfasts would leave me starving hungry and shaky by mid-morning. I have scrambled egg yolks with heavy cream and butter. Keeps me going until the evening.
Oh… ahhhh…. I am almost at screaming point over this. All I see is low fat this and buy lean that. We have a celebrity nutritionist here in New Zealand who now has a diet book out as well. She is on radio and television and last week, what did we see? This.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL8Ae6n1pkI
And you think you are banging your head on the desk!!
I am indeed.
G’morning Tom,
You know, this repackaging of the Food Pyramid to My Plate – just a reshuffling of the same old-same old – mirrors what I see when I wander down the cereal and cracker/cookie/snack food aisles. The food manufacturers continue to come up with “new” products, but when you look at the label, it is just a reshuffle of the same ingredients, over and over: wheat, sugar, veggie (seed) oils, salt, flavorings, which seem to get more aggressive and in-your-face over time. There truly is nothing new under the sun in this case, but there are more and more products on the shelves masquerading as such.
While I do get that part of the government policy is their belief in the low-fat theory of health, hence the pushing of low- and non-fat dairy, oil and butter have the same calories and relatively same fat content (not type of fat, but overall fat). And since butter is dairy, something that is subsidized like corn and wheat, you would think they would promote that in some way as well.
That said, I guess canola and other oils wouldn’t be feeling the love unless they got a loud shout out on the menus, so butter had to take one for the team in this case.
We had a gathering at work the other day, and someone sprung for “breakfast” for everyone….bagels, donuts, croissants, breads, with sweetened spreads like honey cream cheese and Nutella. I almost went into a sugar coma walking past the table. And maybe, just maybe, the word about carb overload is getting out, because I heard several muttered comments about how carby it all was.
Hope springs eternal. 🙂
Have a good day and a happy spring!
K2
I think the word is getting out. The Wisdom of Crowds effect is doing its work, despite the USDA.
I could feel my blood sugar spiking just reading those menus…
Hunger is exactly what I was thinking reading those meal plans!
Seriously, margarine? MARGARINE?? I thought EVERYBODY had gotten the memo that margarine is awful. I’m not expecting MyPlate to embrace butter, of course – but I’d at least figure they’d come up with something less poison-y to put on your tiny dry whole-grain roll – maybe smear it with fat-free cream cheese (shudder), or pretend that “apple butter” is an actual substitute for real butter?
Unfortunately, the memo about margarine most people got it is: it used to be bad because of the trans fats, but now it’s good again.
But Canola oil is good for you, except if you’re a specially bred-stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive (SHRSP) rat, comparable to the average American, in which case:
Results
Canola oil ingestion significantly decreased the life span of SHRSP rats compared with soybean oil, 85.8 ± 1.1 and 98.3 ± 3.4 days, respectively. Systolic blood pressure increased over time with a significant difference between the diets at the 6th week of feeding. Canola oil ingestion significantly reduced RBC superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and
catalase activities, total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol compared with soybean oil.
In conclusion, canola oil ingestion shortens the life span of SHRSP rats and leads to changes in oxidative status, despite an improvement in the plasma lipids.
from “Differential effects of dietary canola and soybean oil intake on oxidative stress in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats”.
I would starve to death. Where’s the real meat? What happened to eggs?
No wonder people are always hungry.
It’s a joke but the saddest joke because it’s inflicted on people who want to do the best for themselves and their families.
Currently we are holidaying in Hawaii and now I understand so much more about the struggles anyone who wants to cut carbs, especially wheat, and eat good meat, healthy fats and fresh veggies. Not that there isn’t lots of wonderful food here. I had a perfect Caprese Salad for lunch today, but avoiding $^%$#^* food is not always easy. Each place we’ve stayed in has wonderful coffee and jars of powdered coffee creamer for guests. What gives with such junk food? Sorry. I don’t mean to offend. I’m just looking at your food with different eyes having been reading low carb/paleo, real food lifestyles in all their different forms for the last 15 months, this trip has been a journey back to earth regarding what is readily available and what most people eat.
We are from rural New Zealand and this is our 4th time in the United States since 2005. Thanks to Dr Davis, yourself and others I have an entirely different perspective on food. Finding wheat free food is requiring a certain amount of imagination and sometimes, deeper pockets.
Apart from our wheat free status being challenged we are having an amazing time and can highly recommend going off the beaten track on Big Island.
Currently we are staying on a coffee plantation and will wake up tomorrow to the most stunning view down the mountain side and out to sea.
Wish there was a faster way to wake up every-man to the absurdities of state generated health advice. Thanks for being a voice of common sense.
Blessings
Blessings to you as well, and enjoy that vacation.
Day 1:
– Breakfast: 2-3 eggs with butter
– Lunch: not hungry
– Dinner: 500g steak with garlic butter, maybe some broccoli, and a bottle of wine
Day 2:
– Breakfast: not hungry
– Lunch: grilled SKIN-ON salmon in creamy garlic sauce with sweet potato and a couple glasses of wine
– Dinner: a few slices of chorizo and cheese, and a bottle of wine
Etc etc.
So much simpler to make the meat the centre of the universe, and just add random stuff for variety and taste.
And wine.
Yup, I end up skipping meals simply because I have no desire to eat.
I don’t know about nutrition… but I used to fly a lot ( a nice Cessna 182 ) and the big joke in aviation was, and probably still is, “I am from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and I am here to help you!” Absolutely disgusting what the mentality of these mid-level bureaucrats can spawn without any of them ever being directly responsible.
Well, I don’t eat that crap. Neither does my family. We all dance to the tune of a different piper.
Non sequitur: for some reason I think that you live close to Franklin. You are familiar with Nashville’s farmer’s market?
I haven’t been to that one, but we’ve been to the farmers’ market in Franklin.
Any of those breakfasts would leave me starving hungry and shaky by mid-morning. I have scrambled egg yolks with heavy cream and butter. Keeps me going until the evening.
G’morning Tom,
You know, this repackaging of the Food Pyramid to My Plate – just a reshuffling of the same old-same old – mirrors what I see when I wander down the cereal and cracker/cookie/snack food aisles. The food manufacturers continue to come up with “new” products, but when you look at the label, it is just a reshuffle of the same ingredients, over and over: wheat, sugar, veggie (seed) oils, salt, flavorings, which seem to get more aggressive and in-your-face over time. There truly is nothing new under the sun in this case, but there are more and more products on the shelves masquerading as such.
While I do get that part of the government policy is their belief in the low-fat theory of health, hence the pushing of low- and non-fat dairy, oil and butter have the same calories and relatively same fat content (not type of fat, but overall fat). And since butter is dairy, something that is subsidized like corn and wheat, you would think they would promote that in some way as well.
That said, I guess canola and other oils wouldn’t be feeling the love unless they got a loud shout out on the menus, so butter had to take one for the team in this case.
We had a gathering at work the other day, and someone sprung for “breakfast” for everyone….bagels, donuts, croissants, breads, with sweetened spreads like honey cream cheese and Nutella. I almost went into a sugar coma walking past the table. And maybe, just maybe, the word about carb overload is getting out, because I heard several muttered comments about how carby it all was.
Hope springs eternal. 🙂
Have a good day and a happy spring!
K2
I think the word is getting out. The Wisdom of Crowds effect is doing its work, despite the USDA.
Conventional wisdom, blessed and codified by the government, is killing people. This is criminal. This continues to make me very angry. I’m doing everything I can to get the word out there. Thinking of even starting a podcast and writing a book or two.
Go for it. We need all the contrary voices out there we can get.
When I first started looking into “Healthy Eating” the biggest problem I had with it all was the USRDA (recommended daily allowance). It should have been easy to get all the vitamins and minerals I needed from a “Healthy SAD Diet”, but you could not even come close without a slide rule and a vvvverrryy regimented menu and that included supplemented bread and cereal . It just did not add up, with low-carb/paleo it is simple and i exceed most requirements although now i suspect that most of the science behind those recommendations is questionable too. My bet would be if you broke this menu down it would be severely lacking in several key nutrients.
The RDAs are based on outdated information anyway. For example the RDA for vitamin D (400 units) is just enough to prevent rickets, which is how the level was established. It’s not enough to be optimally healthy.
I could feel my blood sugar spiking just reading those menus…
Seriously, margarine? MARGARINE?? I thought EVERYBODY had gotten the memo that margarine is awful. I’m not expecting MyPlate to embrace butter, of course – but I’d at least figure they’d come up with something less poison-y to put on your tiny dry whole-grain roll – maybe smear it with fat-free cream cheese (shudder), or pretend that “apple butter” is an actual substitute for real butter?
Unfortunately, the memo about margarine most people got it is: it used to be bad because of the trans fats, but now it’s good again.
But Canola oil is good for you, except if you’re a specially bred-stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive (SHRSP) rat, comparable to the average American, in which case:
Results
Canola oil ingestion significantly decreased the life span of SHRSP rats compared with soybean oil, 85.8 ± 1.1 and 98.3 ± 3.4 days, respectively. Systolic blood pressure increased over time with a significant difference between the diets at the 6th week of feeding. Canola oil ingestion significantly reduced RBC superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and
catalase activities, total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol compared with soybean oil.
In conclusion, canola oil ingestion shortens the life span of SHRSP rats and leads to changes in oxidative status, despite an improvement in the plasma lipids.
from “Differential effects of dietary canola and soybean oil intake on oxidative stress in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats”.
On the bright side prisoners are not supposed to feel all comfy and loved, they are being punished so I guess doing you time constantly hungry is just a little bonus pain and suffering!!!
There is a tendency to question myself from time to time, am I pro LCHF because it makes me one of the cool kids who was in on it early, or is it really because the data supports that position. Then I read what my government tells me is correct and understand the data is supported by the facts… and I’m one of the cool kids! Bonus!!
The downside is that prisoners on lousy diets tend to display more anger and aggression.
And most prisoners will be released. It’s bad enough they have great difficulty getting employed and may have to resort to crime to live. Maybe Wells Fargo will hire them?!
I don’t know about nutrition… but I used to fly a lot ( a nice Cessna 182 ) and the big joke in aviation was, and probably still is, “I am from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and I am here to help you!” Absolutely disgusting what the mentality of these mid-level bureaucrats can spawn without any of them ever being directly responsible.
Well, I don’t eat that crap. Neither does my family. We all dance to the tune of a different piper.
Non sequitur: for some reason I think that you live close to Franklin. You are familiar with Nashville’s farmer’s market?
I haven’t been to that one, but we’ve been to the farmers’ market in Franklin.
Substitute starches with coconut oil and you have a great diet.
Conventional wisdom, blessed and codified by the government, is killing people. This is criminal. This continues to make me very angry. I’m doing everything I can to get the word out there. Thinking of even starting a podcast and writing a book or two.
Go for it. We need all the contrary voices out there we can get.
When I first started looking into “Healthy Eating” the biggest problem I had with it all was the USRDA (recommended daily allowance). It should have been easy to get all the vitamins and minerals I needed from a “Healthy SAD Diet”, but you could not even come close without a slide rule and a vvvverrryy regimented menu and that included supplemented bread and cereal . It just did not add up, with low-carb/paleo it is simple and i exceed most requirements although now i suspect that most of the science behind those recommendations is questionable too. My bet would be if you broke this menu down it would be severely lacking in several key nutrients.
The RDAs are based on outdated information anyway. For example the RDA for vitamin D (400 units) is just enough to prevent rickets, which is how the level was established. It’s not enough to be optimally healthy.
This reminds me of when I was on a low-fat diet. Soaking and roasting beans, cooking potatoes, and brining lean meat to make it edible chewed up a lot of my time. So did the daily exercise. LC is way easier. Here’s the menu for last night:
Broiled fish topped with egg, almond flour, butter, salt & pepper
Mayonnaise
Cucumber slices with vinegar & Splenda
Dark chocolate
Water
No exercise.
A much more appealing menu.
On the bright side prisoners are not supposed to feel all comfy and loved, they are being punished so I guess doing you time constantly hungry is just a little bonus pain and suffering!!!
There is a tendency to question myself from time to time, am I pro LCHF because it makes me one of the cool kids who was in on it early, or is it really because the data supports that position. Then I read what my government tells me is correct and understand the data is supported by the facts… and I’m one of the cool kids! Bonus!!
The downside is that prisoners on lousy diets tend to display more anger and aggression.
And most prisoners will be released. It’s bad enough they have great difficulty getting employed and may have to resort to crime to live. Maybe Wells Fargo will hire them?!
In trying to create a lot of (unnecessary?) variety, these menus are also kind of complicated and fussy. Eating simpler food would be, well, simpler! (Steak + big pile of broccoli, e.g.) There’s also the unnecessary effort to create a fast-food style meal (“baked potato wedges”) instead of forgetting about potatoes because, hey, they are too starchy. I completely agree about the lack of good fat and all that juice.
@Ed Terry–Knowing soy oil is dreadful, it’s so discouraging to read that canola oil is worse! (But thank you.) Many restaurants have been duped into using canola because it’s considered “healthy.” What happened to simple olive oil, the hero of Mediterranean diets?
That occurred to me as well. I doubt people are going to go to the trouble to make those meals.
Substitute starches with coconut oil and you have a great diet.
After those meals I’d fall asleep and wake up hungry.
The FAA’s other motto is, “We’re not happy ’til you’re not happy.” The “nutrition” agencies probably hew to “We’re not happy ’til you’re not healthy.”
Positive note, a friend of mine who insisted she’d never give up bread actually ordered her pulled pork sandwich with no bun the other day when we had lunch together. People are getting it!!!!
Slowly but surely.
Unfortunately, the whole lot of us are becoming prisoners to this nonsense in one way or another.
This reminds me of when I was on a low-fat diet. Soaking and roasting beans, cooking potatoes, and brining lean meat to make it edible chewed up a lot of my time. So did the daily exercise. LC is way easier. Here’s the menu for last night:
Broiled fish topped with egg, almond flour, butter, salt & pepper
Mayonnaise
Cucumber slices with vinegar & Splenda
Dark chocolate
Water
No exercise.
A much more appealing menu.
Looking at this list makes me feel hungry and anxious.
This is how I used to eat, and that is how I felt all the time.
I don’t like the food pyramid either but just because people has gone fatter since it was introduced doesn’t mean that the food pyramid caused the obesity epidemic. Correlation doesn’t prove causation as you’re well aware of.
No, correlation doesn’t prove causation, but here’s what we do know:
1. People haven’t gotten thinner since the Food Pyramid was introduced.
2. People have gotten fatter since the Food Pyramid was introduced.
3. Diabetes rates have gone way up since the Food Pyramid was introduced.
4. If we check NHANES data, we see that people are consuming pretty close to the macronutrient ratio recommended by the USDA.
So for the USDA to decide the problem is that people didn’t grasp the Food Pyramid and essentially repackage the same advice is ridiculous.
In trying to create a lot of (unnecessary?) variety, these menus are also kind of complicated and fussy. Eating simpler food would be, well, simpler! (Steak + big pile of broccoli, e.g.) There’s also the unnecessary effort to create a fast-food style meal (“baked potato wedges”) instead of forgetting about potatoes because, hey, they are too starchy. I completely agree about the lack of good fat and all that juice.
@Ed Terry–Knowing soy oil is dreadful, it’s so discouraging to read that canola oil is worse! (But thank you.) Many restaurants have been duped into using canola because it’s considered “healthy.” What happened to simple olive oil, the hero of Mediterranean diets?
That occurred to me as well. I doubt people are going to go to the trouble to make those meals.
After those meals I’d fall asleep and wake up hungry.
The FAA’s other motto is, “We’re not happy ’til you’re not happy.” The “nutrition” agencies probably hew to “We’re not happy ’til you’re not healthy.”
Positive note, a friend of mine who insisted she’d never give up bread actually ordered her pulled pork sandwich with no bun the other day when we had lunch together. People are getting it!!!!
Slowly but surely.
Do you know of any studies that look at diet in connection to post traumatic stress disorder? I’m wondering if there could be a link to the “heart healthy diet” that is being fed to our military personnel.
None that I’m aware of.
Unfortunately, the whole lot of us are becoming prisoners to this nonsense in one way or another.
Oh, if only the entire Federal government had to eat this way. Maybe we’d see some changes in this advice. I’m not holding my breath.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure these aren’t the meals being served to senators, representatives, high-level bureaucrats, White House staffers, etc.
The federal government routinely exempts itself from regulations it imposes on the rest of us; no reason they’d break that pattern in this case.
I just looked at the menus more carefully. Wow–one egg and some starch for breakfast? Two ounces of meat and a little cheese, a lot of starch and a salad for dinner and soup for lunch on Day 4? I weigh 120 pounds and work in an office and I’d have a tough time on those rations. When I did a low-fat diet, I ate a lot more protein, which is why it worked for me for so long.
These meals would be guaranteed-hungry meals for me.
Looking at this list makes me feel hungry and anxious.
This is how I used to eat, and that is how I felt all the time.
Such pathetic food plan,wrong on all levels – boring, hunger-causing and unpractical in a preparation food which only a person with OCD could be willing to try to eat day after day ! Imagine measuring 1,25 of cup of a soup, adding exactly 1/2 bananas to a cup of cereal. They recommend ONLY reduced-fat dairy and meats for everyone, regardless of age, health, weight. It made me feel uneasy, what are they going to do about fatty meats and butter in a nearest future? To declare it a poison?
That’s why I’m convinced most people will ignore these menus. Who’s going to put in all the effort to measure out these tiny proportions of fats and lean meats if the reward for that effort is a tasteless, unsatisfying meal?
I don’t like the food pyramid either but just because people has gone fatter since it was introduced doesn’t mean that the food pyramid caused the obesity epidemic. Correlation doesn’t prove causation as you’re well aware of.
No, correlation doesn’t prove causation, but here’s what we do know:
1. People haven’t gotten thinner since the Food Pyramid was introduced.
2. People have gotten fatter since the Food Pyramid was introduced.
3. Diabetes rates have gone way up since the Food Pyramid was introduced.
4. If we check NHANES data, we see that people are consuming pretty close to the macronutrient ratio recommended by the USDA.
So for the USDA to decide the problem is that people didn’t grasp the Food Pyramid and essentially repackage the same advice is ridiculous.
Do you know of any studies that look at diet in connection to post traumatic stress disorder? I’m wondering if there could be a link to the “heart healthy diet” that is being fed to our military personnel.
None that I’m aware of.
Oh, if only the entire Federal government had to eat this way. Maybe we’d see some changes in this advice. I’m not holding my breath.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure these aren’t the meals being served to senators, representatives, high-level bureaucrats, White House staffers, etc.
The federal government routinely exempts itself from regulations it imposes on the rest of us; no reason they’d break that pattern in this case.
I just looked at the menus more carefully. Wow–one egg and some starch for breakfast? Two ounces of meat and a little cheese, a lot of starch and a salad for dinner and soup for lunch on Day 4? I weigh 120 pounds and work in an office and I’d have a tough time on those rations. When I did a low-fat diet, I ate a lot more protein, which is why it worked for me for so long.
These meals would be guaranteed-hungry meals for me.
Such pathetic food plan,wrong on all levels – boring, hunger-causing and unpractical in a preparation food which only a person with OCD could be willing to try to eat day after day ! Imagine measuring 1,25 of cup of a soup, adding exactly 1/2 bananas to a cup of cereal. They recommend ONLY reduced-fat dairy and meats for everyone, regardless of age, health, weight. It made me feel uneasy, what are they going to do about fatty meats and butter in a nearest future? To declare it a poison?
That’s why I’m convinced most people will ignore these menus. Who’s going to put in all the effort to measure out these tiny proportions of fats and lean meats if the reward for that effort is a tasteless, unsatisfying meal?
Since the USDA wants us to eat healthy, what are the nutrients in the above menus? When you ran the numbers did you get what the vitamin, mineral etc. content was? I don’t see a whole lot of anything in the veg/fruit category that are nutritional powerhouses and most of the carb stuff is just filler crud.
I’m a large person to begin with and am losing weight by doing low carb/low wheat/ tracking calories. I could, based on the calorie calcs, take in about 2500 cals a day inactive and still lose weight, and I do. Usually about 2200 calories. The above menus would have me eating the 2000 calories and even adding in another 500 from, I don’t know, 500 cals of air popped popcorn (the mostest healthy snack in the world) with I can’t believe it’s not butter spray on it and still be hungry.
1 cup of raw spinach? Try half a pound sauteed in butter with salt and pepper and lemon washed down with a nice ribeye. Now that’s a dinner I can get behind!
I didn’t look up the vitamin/mineral content, but I doubt it’s adequate.
I’m shocked they allow whole eggs, instead of egg whites! But only one egg at a time, that won’t do. My coworkers laugh at me when I pull out my lunch sometimes – a carton of (soft cooked) eggs and a stick of butter. Tastier, healthier, and easier than any of these sample menus!
My lunch today (sitting in the fridge, waiting for me to leave for work) is sausage and scrambled eggs.