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Originally Posted by LordEden
Question here is, is chili good for you? ......
EDIT: Another question, does grits have the same nutritional value as oatmeal? Cause I'm a bigger fan of grits than oatmeal.
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pork makes EVERYTHING taste better. a little won't hurt, but i make a totally vegetarian chili using seitan and tofu crumbles, and i don't use v8. honestly, it was made for me once and i swore up and down there was meat in it. if you start with a few strips of healthy bacon (bacon without all the chemicals, as natural as you can get) it's not bad for you. pork fat is actually kind of good for you, and in chili, all the beans give you tons of fiber.
grits are corn, and oatmeal are oats, so nutritionally they are different in a "corn vs. oats" sort of way. grits have less fiber. but they sure do taste good.
a big thing in eating healthy is to READ THE NUTRITIONAL INFO ON THE PACKAGE.
i wanted a healthy snack from the vending machine at work (no such thing as "healthy" in a vending machine, i'm talking relatively here). there was a bag of peanuts and a bag of m&ms (there were more things, but i narrowed it down to these two). the bag of peanuts were so damn high in sodium, and had 330 calories. the bag of m&ms had 220 (or so) calories and less sodium. and they had tasty chocolate. pretty easy decision there.