SteveR wrote:
> aem > writes:
>> SteveR wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> I also wanted to have a "control" diet, with two healthy meals -
>>> breakfast and dinner - and a McLunch. This would be a second
>>> function of the program, where it uses healthy food at breakfast
>>> and dinner, and simulates someone going out for fast food at lunch.
>>> Again, the program would average the results over the entire McDo
>>> lunch-time menu.
>>>
>>> I'm looking for suggestions for the breakfast and dinner meals -
>>> something healthy, but something that "regular folks" might eat if
>>> they were trying to eat healthily rather than what nutritionists
>>> would suggest. [snip]
>>
>> First question has to be, What do you mean by "healthy"? It's not
>> enough to say "regular folks". All the various diet congregations
>> are going to assume you mean Their Diet, and even the U.S.
>> Government has new guidelines. So, are you looking for balance, low
>> fat, low salt, low carb, fruitarian, vegan, whale meat and seal oil
>> -- please define your objective. -aem
>
> The objective is balanced, not too much refined sugar, and following
> calorie intake guidelines. McDonald's says that their food is good as
> part of a balanced diet, and I'd like to frame it as such, with lunch
> at McDonald's and breakfast and dinner as the non-fast food part of
> the balanced diet.
>
> The other thing I should have specified is the US/UK factor. I live
> in the UK, and Morgan Spurlock did his dietary experiment in the US,
> and I'd like to get the balanced diet thing to reflect US tastes
> rather than my own tastes, influenced by the UK.

Well, I think this is an interesting program for you to create. I live in
the U.S. and I eat a lot of fish - broiled, baked, grilled. Ditto veggies -
steamed or baked. I can't say I've never had a "McLunch" but it's been
about 10 years since I did so. I make a lot of food so I can take leftovers
for my McQuown lunch to the office

Breakfast, however - sausage and biscuits (the bread kind, like scones - not
cookies like you call them in the U.K.). Lunch is normally my biggest meal
of the day. Leftover pot roast, steamed veggies, some tatties.

Dinner is chicken stew; pan-fried white fish topped with spinach and feta
cheese; veal piccata. Baked acorn squash. Globe artichokes stuffed with
breadcrumbs and shrimp. Steamed brussels sprouts.

Does this help?

Jill