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Old 04-26-2010, 08:08 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Idyllic View Post
O.k. I know this is going to sound like a total cooking cop-out but there is this dish "side dish" they sell at Target, "Archer Farms" Vindaloo. Oh my, if you like Indian cuisine, it is actually pretty good and reading the back it has minimal (Citric and Acetic acid only) preservatives. It is a wonderful side dish/Vegetarian main dish. It is relatively healthy, low in fat (sauce is rich though) and at about $2.00 each serving, a bargain. I love to eat it all by itself, Rice with "a little" sauce and peas/potato curry with chutney, add some toasted naan bread, my husband likes it served with steak or lamb and grilled naan bread "Yum". It is really fast and really inexpensive, and again, really delicious. They also have a Red Garlic Curry, it also pretty good. If you like Indian cuisine and curry that is.

I do cook, but being old south, I do it with a lot of butter and lard, my recipes are raw or fried, just kidding. I don't do a whole lot of cooking right now, but I do try to eat healthy and to serve a quick, inexpensive, healthy meal for the family, one that the boys will eat, which is usually not what I eat.
The main problem with most packaged/processed foods are the levels of sodium. Some people are more sodium sensitive than others, but the levels of sodium in most packaged foods lead people to consume far more sodium than is healthy. When you don't eat these foods, you can freely season your own homemade food with salt, and I can almost guarantee that it will still come in under the amount of sodium consumed when a person eats processed/packaged foods. According to the Daily Plate, the Archer Farms Vindaloo you mention has 1270mg of sodium per serving--that's 53% of the daily value of sodium for someone who eats about 2,000 calories a day. Sodium in and of itself isn't inherently bad, but the amounts we eat it in these days IS bad.
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