Healthy Snacks?

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Larry-Lambert

Caption: Everyone has a different idea about what constitutes a healthy yet delicious snack. That’s the general theme of today’s blog.

 

Meme of the Day

 

Bullet Points:

** The Prospect of Whitby, London’s oldest riverside pub (right), dates back to 1520. Outside is Execution Dock, where pirates like Captain Kidd were hanged until washed by three tides. It survives on nostalgia and pirate lore.

** I didn’t know that humming around the house was dangerous. A word to the wise?

** ABC tweeted, “The FDA has classified a previous Frito-Lay potato chip recall under its highest risk level after some bags of Lay’s Classic Potato Chips were potentially found to contain undeclared milk ingredients.” Thank goodness our $6 trillion-a-year government protects us from potentially undeclared milk ingredients in our potato chips. We would not want any healthy food in our snacks, would we?

** White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the mystery drones spotted nightly over New Jersey in November and December were American research craft authorized for flight by the FAA mixed in with a bunch of hobbyist drones. What were those drones researching?”

** More on healthy snacks. Cause and effect.

**A Lizard Eats a Healthy Snack (left) ‘Krakatoa, a 75-pound, 7.5-foot long Komodo Dragon, celebrates his eighth birthday with fellow eight-year-olds from R.B. Hunt Elementary School at his enclosure at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park in St. Augustine, Fla. The children sang Happy Birthday to the large lizard as he was presented with a meat cake topped with mice.’  — Someone walked into work that morning, clocked in, and was told it was their job to go put the birthday hat on the Komodo Dragon.

** While we’re talking snacks – I can’t get over how one guy says, “Americans are fat and depressed and chronically ill, and we should fix that,” and politicians respond, “How would the drug companies that fund us survive if we fixed it? Have you thought about THAT, you sick bastard?” There are two sides to every argument about healthy snacks.

** The government just announced that Medicare’s price for the diabetes-slash-weight loss drug Ozempic will soon be negotiated lower as part of a new program designed to reduce prices. Ozempic is one of 15 drugs now subject to price changes that will take effect in 2027. Does that mean you can eat less healthy snacks and retain a svelte appearance?

** Bitcoin and crypto are dropping in value.

** I started watching the Grammy Awards a little while ago. I don’t keep very current with new music…. but already, it made me think of a Stevie Nicks quote I read recently: (And if you have to ask, “Who’s Stevie Nicks?” Then keep scrolling)

She wrote: “I’ve never been to a strip club, but I turn on MTV and see in every single video what it must look like… if you have to work so hard at appearing sexy, then perhaps you weren’t that sexy after all, perhaps your music has no sensuality, perhaps your music is dull, indeed, that you have no choice but to pelvic thrust your way through a pop video in a leather bikini to detract from its mediocrity… it might be advisable to do something else.”

I couldn’t watch the Grammys for very long and don’t know who won/don’t care.

 

The Swamp Fights Back

 

Jules Suggests British TV

In other news- literally – we have a show called ‘Plank of the Week.’ If we call someone a plank, they are as thick as a plank. And somebody gets awarded the ‘plank of the week every week.’

I’ve attached a recent show about 45 minutes long, and I suggest you watch it till the end because it is brilliant. The show is on every week and will highlight the fact that most British people are thoroughly pissed off with what’s going on over here and have massive Trump envy. The candidates they put up for plank of the week have little stories behind them and are pretty funny – see what you think. I thought it might be suitable for your blog or some of your readers to see.

In the US, we’d call them as dumb as a box of rocks; same thing. One question – Are you allowed to have a Muslim plank of the week in the UK? We know how you treasure the religion of peace there.

 

Yes, I think this is the case.

 

Identify the Aircraft

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Identify the Shrunk Tank

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You should also be able to call the nationality.

 

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Am I being tricky here? Yes, a little. Give it your best shot.

 

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The markings will give you the nationality – big hint.

 

 

 

Parting Shot

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71 thoughts on “Healthy Snacks?”

  2. I know who Stevie Nicks is, but prefer Christine McVie’s voice.
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    Komodo dragon. I can’t see one of those things in a zoo setting without thinking of Phil Bronstein.

    3. Stevie Nicks was sexy because, well, she was. A little off-center, skanky, trashy type of woman that if you took her home she’d break you and you’d remember it in a good way for the rest of your life.
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      Not that I ever had a chance with her, but that’s the type of women she seemed to be to me.
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      Virtually unobtainable but if you did, I mean, wow, who could ever forget that encounter (or so my imagination tells me. Sadly, past history of my imagination not correlating to reality probably means she was a mean drunk who was dead in the sack and probably tossed her cookies before you can toss your salad dressing if you know what I mean.)

  3. If they want a challenge try putting the hat on a 3 000 pound Australian salt water crocodile. Not a 75 pound pet.

    Two cyclones colliding in our north has caused extreme rain with over 4 feet in some areas and still raining. Flood rescue involves being careful of crocodiles while getting people off roofs.

  4. Identify the Aircraft:
    1. Martin P4M Mercator
    Identify the Shrunk Tank:
    2. TKS tankette with a Browning 50
    3. Belgian Carden-Loyd Mk.VI with 47 mm AT gun
    4. TKS tankette
    5. Renault UE Chenillette
    6. L3/35 light tank

  5. IDA:
    1. Martin P4M Mercator maritime reconnaissance aircraft
    IDST:
    2. TKS tankette with a Browning 50
    3. Belgian Carden-Loyd Mk.VI with 47 mm AT gun
    4. TKS tankette
    5. Renault UE Chenillette
    6. L3/35 light tank

  6. I love it when Pocahontas has a coronary during a Senate hearing. I often wonder sometimes if her head will start to spin around and start spewing pea soup. These senate hearings have been fun to watch. Now if only we could get a POSREP on “Big Mike.” I’m sure a lot of people would sleep better at night knowing his location. Especially Obama and Jen.

    1. Worse was the Florida DNC “meeting”, talking about vote allowances and they can now vote for their binary preference, then one of them started singing, nominating David ‘I have no arms’ Hogg…on and on with their ingrained demented-ness. Dem’s have not learned anything…which is good for us as PDJT and The A Team are at it with results….as the rats scurry for the doors faster than one can say “You want fries with your grifter nothingburger?”.

        1. It was…unreal. SNL could take notes. Thinking We The People need a “catchy” theme song, but not so cringeworthy…maybe “Stranglehold”, or…???

  7. Healthy Snacks: Had biscuits and gravy yesterday morning, figured I maxed the health meter so refrained from snack-age. Then saw this: “Chocolate Recall Updated to Highest Risk Level, FDA Warns Consumption Could Cause Death”. Geez, can these people get anymore chicken little? Turns out the product “may” have had…how did the FDA put it…oh yeah, “undeclared milk, soy, wheat, sesame, FD&C #6 and almonds.”…and can cause death in those allergic. What that hay is “undeclared milk”? It’s chocolate…I thought milk was an inherent ingredient, as in, “milk chocolate”. Apparently “undeclared milk” is as bad as botulism according to “officials”…but what do I know. Nice to know Big Gov’t is looking out for us plebes.
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    My how the mighty have fallen…but…there is hope for America (who could say that prior to Nov. 5th, or even Jan 20th as we all held our collective breath waiting?): Trump and The A Team are righting the ship in short order, working a well-defined take no prisoners plan…and it’s cheaper than cable to watch. Love it.

    1. Meant to ask: Are snacks healthier now since they’ve been shrunk to half the size from when we were kids?”
      One could always employ the Amish Diet: You can eat whatever and how much you want, just have to work like the Amish.

  8. Healthy Snacks: one of the things that just blows me away is how EVERYTHING says it’s gluten free now except for the handful of things like breads and cakes that people with a gluten sensitivity would know to avoid. I have a bottle of baking powder that says that in bright red type above the ingredients, and I’m not aware that baking powder has ever had gluten in it. I’ve seen a gluten free claim on tons of things that have never had gluten.

    As for ozempic and GLP-1 agonists (enhancers) for weight loss, there are foods that have that effect.

      1. I still maintain that six rounds of rituximab+CHOP chemotherapy beats 98% of weight loss plans. But I don’t know if it’s gluten free.

    2. Regarding Gluten-Free labelling. It’s because of lawyers. “Oh, your package of all-natural bison jerky isn’t labeled as Gluten-Free, so you now owe this consumer watch-dog organization $50 million.”
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      And, yeah, having someone who has Celiac’s (total body aversion of anything with gluten in it, bad things happen, very bad things,) it is nice that they now list a lot of stuff as ‘gluten-free.’ And are serious about it. At one time the food processing companies were putting gluten and ‘modified vegetable starch’ (gluten starch) in everything as a filler. So, yes, cheap baking soda had… gluten in it. Making the rat-bastids in the food companies not put gluten as a filler in everything is a good thing.
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      Unfortunately, they’ve gone to either various versions of corn starch or to some abominations like Carrageecolonen, which comes from red seaweed and has been known to cause colon blowouts and cancer since 1968 yet it’s found in things like store-bought eggnogs, ice creams, puddings and such.

  9. Breaking – Mexico dodged the bullet. “Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed Monday that she reached a deal with President Trump to halt the imposition of 25% tariffs for one month in exchange for concessions on the border. Sheinbaum said that Mexico agreed to reinforce the US-Mexico border with 10,000 personnel from Mexico’s National Guard to help crack down on fentanyl dissemination into the US. Both Sheinbaum and Trump held a call Monday morning. The US will then work with Mexico to Prevent the trafficking of weapons into America’s southern neighbor.”

    1. The Negotiator in Chief. Best I’ve ever seen…as he and his Team take their velvet sledgehammers to everything needing fixing. The World is on notice and acting accordingly. Full speed ahead Mr. Trump.

    2. Have to wonder if the US troops will have to keep a very close watch of the Mexican troops?
      By the way; may be a bit late, but I got a copy of Bloody Mexico and have started reading it.

      1. I’m just recovering from fighting off a virus for 2 weeks. Mrs W bought me Bloody Mexico AND White Powder. L.L. the post civil war – Pinkerton novel will be well worth waiting for. What ever ” work” has to be priority, I thank you for your services.

        1. I need to finish the short story volume and get it into print – It’s close to complete. For now I’m about 2/3 of the way through the first volume of four in the Post Civil War series, which begins before the War of Northern Aggression.

  10. Most all snacks are healthy. They’re just like poison. It’s the dose that is dangerous. The same goes for vitamins.

  11. For us seasoned citizens, one of the worst slow motion killers is salt. Recommended daily intake of Sodium is 1,500 milligrams, max is 2300 milligrams. According to IN-N-OUT, their Double-Double w/onion has 1660 milligrams, 210 of which is in the bun. Wife and I get the lettuce wrap. Someone in the medial community told us that the cells in our taste buds get replace about every ten days. Acclimating to lower salt hasn’t been that hard. I find the less I use, the less I want. I now find most pickles to be too salty.

    1. For some reason, Middle Eastern cooking involves adding 3X normal salt. I counter it with drinking a lot of water. It means water in, water out, which can be an issue too. Add to that 25 hours in the air and the compensation problem for added salt leads to swelling. The wristband of my watch told the tale as it dug in. I’m doing ok with it all, but it’s a challenge when you’re traveling.

      1. Yeah, and if you walked up and down the aisle every two hours to mitigate, people would start to wonder. They need those bicycle pedal machines under the seat in front, a 1st Class Pod could have a rowing machine.

        1. In Colorado, it looks like the vicious and evil gun control law SB25-003 has been put on hold until February 7th. Looks like the pressure against the bill is working!

          1. Excellent…hadn’t seen that yet. 85% of the state is getting royally peeved at the 15% who control the Statehouse for running over our lives, maybe this is a shot across their collective Socialist bow.

    2. It’s not so much salt, it’s that a lot of salt seasoning has things like MSG and other things that also cause swelling mixed in with the salt.
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      Wife and I went low salt a while ago, but there are days where, yes, I crave it. If you follow what your body craves, that’s not a bad thing to do. Sudden urge for broccoli or carrots? Your body knows what’s good in them. Craving meat? It’s your body craving something, and lots of women get a craving for something iron-filled about every 4th week or so…

      1. I suffer from chronically LOW sodium. Normal sodium levels are 135~145, and mine runs in the low 130’s. When I had the medication-induced emergency, it was down at around 121, when causes all kinds of Bad Things to happen, and put me in the Cardiac ICU for 9 days.
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        So I “salt away” on my food to keep it elevated some, with the approval of my Doctor, and monthly full blood tests.

  12. Healthy snacks? Analyzing why I gained eight pounds in a week. The only diet change was fast food burgers (twice).

    Swamp fights back.
    Upside, by keeping them busy trying to save their personal fiefdoms, they have less time to mess with the rest of us.

  13. Jules,
    TNX for the introduction to a highly amusing show
    though I’m competent in a number of languages, it would be far more entertaining to have closed captioning available

  14. I’m no Beth Dutton [1], but I suspect I now know my “work family” role.
    So we’re attending this HR Management Training talk, and texting “under the table” as one does.
    My direct boss: I want to learn how to be more bossy.
    Me: Your style overall is good.
    Boss: thank you
    Me: You don’t need bossy. If you need anything, it’s being a stubborn asshole. I can help with that.
    Boss: Why do you think I always pull you into everything?
    —
    Touche. And ahahaha!
    [1] until a few weeks ago, if I declared myself Beth Dutton everyone was obligated to treat me as if I was an Irishwoman playing a dangerous Montana gal. But no longer. Drumpf is the ruination of this country. The ruination I tell you!

    1. Nicely done…no sense sugar coating anything these days…our Prez doesn’t, so the rest of us should follow suit as we may or may not be inclined or equipped.. Me?…the inbred and born East Coast does come out once in a while…never pretty…but I do forewarn (like that Bull+ a few other options/Pasture sign the other day).
      –Oh, what bad fatum got you sitting in an HR Training Talk? Hopefully it’s not some weird penance and you get to shower afterwards.

  15. Remember Olestra??? And Hogg? Really? THAT is scraping the…’stuff’ off the outside of the barrel. That Mercator was attached to VQ-1, so it was an EW bird, so ‘technically’ it was a P4M-1Q.

    1. BREAKING NEWS – Canada folded like a napkin. They’re spending CAN$1.3 billion to improve security and fight cartel terrorism. No tariff is required. Thank you, President Trump.

    2. >Remember Olestra??? And Hogg?
      —
      Olestra: Introduced in Frito-Lay “Wow!” chips in 1998.
      David Miles Hogg: Born April 12, 2000.
      Olestra: “May cause anal leakage.”
      Gunny Hartman: “Five-foot nine! I didn’t know they stacked shit that high!”
      Hmmm. Much that was obscure becomes clear. But it’s up to y’all to make the connections and draw the conclusions. I just lay the pieces out.

  16. I didn’t know there was such a variety of adult Powerwheels.
    —————-
    Dragons can get quite tame. The London Zoo used to let children ride their’s (way, way back).
    —————-
    Do all these actors from English speaking lands come here because all the parts in their home countries go to Africans and Asians?
    —————-
    I had an uncle that my brother and a cousin despised and in truth he was quite an ass, but as I told them, of all the people in our family, he would be the one who would step between them and a bullet.

  17. Regarding healthy snacks vs unhealthy snacks. Really, it’s not so much the healthiness or unhealthiness of the snack itself, it’s the lack of exercise in the average American that is the issue.
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    It’s like The Mediterranean Diet. Oh, people in the Med area eat lots of olives and oily foods and this and that and they’re all, in average, more healthy than Americans.
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    So?
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    They also walk everywhere, buy foods daily rather than going into Sam’s and stocking up for a month, they don’t have elevators in a lot of their buildings, they don’t have central air or heat, they are far more active so they can burn off all the oil calories and fat calories and all the booze and wine and beer they drink while eating overly salted foods.
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    Send an American over there and make him or her do the same, live on a Med diet, walk or bike everywhere, climb up and down steps and hills and everywhere and said American will be as healthy as the Med People around him/her.
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    Conversely, bring a Med Diet person to America and give him/her the American home with central air and heat and a car to go everywhere and elevators and escalators in buildings 2 stories or higher or flat, one story buildings everywhere and keep that Med Diet person on the same diet without the Med Exercise Life program and said Med Diet person will bloat like an American.
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    As to all the foreign nations not wanting to import our foods because they’re unhealthy and when they do there are huge tariffs on anything ‘American,’ yes, part of that is because some American foods are unhealthy but a lot of that is because other nations are total shits and force their people to eat the crap they produce.
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    I’ve had authentic English ‘crisps’ and, well, bleh. Rather eat the more processed and flavorful American chips. Same with a lot of cookies. American baked beans rock over English canned beans. And so forth.
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    Yes, there’s room, vast room for improvement in America’s diet. A lot of that will be breaking the stranglehold on the FDA of various companies who fund the studies that make the food pyramid the pile of crap that it is. Really.
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    Vegetable oils? Gee, if it wasn’t for WWII, we wouldn’t have vegetable oils. Oh, sure, Crisco got its toe in the door before WWII, but once said War came about all animal fats went into war production, either for foods for the soldiers or for war commodities like explosives derived from animal fats or various greases that were based on animal fats. And so vegetable oils replaced animal fats during the war years. Come the end of the war, said Veggie Oil companies, seeing the end of their products looming with the return of animal fats and oils, fund ‘research’ ‘proving’ that animal fats are bad for you. When they aren’t.
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    It’s like salad, which is supposed to be ‘good for you’ but just sucks the enjoyment and life out of the eater unless one does a taco salad or adds meats and cheeses and dressings that add all the bad things to it that its not supposed to have.
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    Properly done, a steak and baked potato with sour cream and butter is as healthy or more healthy than that salad with seeds and soy all over it. Especially if one is relatively active.
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    And that’s the thing. The more active one is, the more one can ‘get away’ with ‘eating bad.’ But too many office jobs, too much sit-down work while eating an active-job’s amount of food, that’s the problem.
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    But, well, you’re not taking my AC away, nor my van, nor my attempt to only go food shopping for fresh food and dairy once a week while making a big protein and other food trip once a month. And I hate the outside world, so I’ll walk the dog at 4AM and avoid the rest of the world and try to cut down on my portions…

    1. One of the key points to the Mediterranean diet as you point out, is the fresh element. There are others such as yogurt to aid digestion, etc. but the value of fresh vs canned can’t be overstated.

      1. And the other unspoken points about the Med Diet is the genetics of the Med peoples and the Med Forced Exercise Plan. Give a Med Person who’s on the Med Diet a sit-down and do-nothing job with limited distance from desk to home and that person will bloat like an American
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        I’m not knocking the ‘fresh element.’ That’s a very important element in any reasonably healthy diet.

    2. “And I hate the outside world, so I’ll walk the dog at 4AM and avoid the rest of the world and try to cut down on my portions…”
      – First off: Hahahah…love the honesty.
      -2nd: That about encapsulates many of us out here in the hinterland that have to make a town run here and there, save for the DeeOhGee walking at 4am, which does happen on occasion but mostly is standing inside watching to make sure the little one doesn’t get picked off right by the house by an owl or bobcat.
      – Your other thoughts are so true…I’d add that most seed oils are basically plastic once heated. Heck, Canola (rapeseed) was used as a lubricant back in the day but discovered it could be sold as a cooking oil. BUT, there’s a problem…..I watch AvE’s tool reviews (the guy is brilliant in machine design etc, and albeit funny, he is a bit…uh…coarse…but smaat, as they say in Boston). Did this video on various seed oils and what happens when heated, but with a science-minded approach to back up the unnerving results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_tCL5-4c0
      We use a good olive oil for everything now (peanut oil is ok too) and avoid products that contain the others, if possible. Our foods are so manipulated, moreso after the 70’s (Mickey-D’s stopped using beef tallow for frying, went to a cheaper oil…bean counters of course, but the product took a downturn after and people partaking get fat).
      We have no idea what it is Big Ag is doing for our foodstuffs, especially once the loy-yers and accounts took over…look up Alltech.com, a huge animal/people food science company.

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