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A few minutes ago, I was going through my email, when I ran
into a coupon offer from an eating place that I have never tried. It was for a Lobster salad sandwich. I love lobster. In fact I love all kinds of seafood. (Can you
tell I am not allergic to shellfish?) In
Ohio, it is rare to get any type of seafood, anywhere, unless it comes from Red
Lobster, The Columbus Fish Market (I highly recommend it-but expensive) or is breaded
(a la Long John Silvers or Captain D’s), so I thought I might stop in today on
my way home from a meeting. After all,
it has a coupon attached to the offer.
Like most emails with a coupon attached to it, you have to
click in to get to the coupon that contains the reward (which is to print the
coupon), so I click on the button. Once
inside the website, I was not greeted with coupon I can print. Oh no, that’s too easy. I was greeted with a “Pavlov-like” greeting…”Did
you know that the sandwich you are craving to eat is 440 calories?” It seemed to say. I was upset that I was greeted with that fact
finding tool, that the government seems to demand on eating places these days,
but more important, no coupon.
I just realize that people cannot enjoy food no more. Gone are the days, where we can just go out
to eat, and not worry about how much fat and calories we are piling in our
bodies. Since when did the government get
so concerned about how much food we consume?
I am not worried about the amount of calories I consume, I am worried
about how big of a portion size we are consuming. I am sure that this one little sandwich is
most likely going to have more lobster meat on it than the average sandwich,
but what is average anymore?
I heard that my meat portion size should be that of a deck
of cards (3 oz.), and that is not all. A
medium baked potato should be about the size of a computer mouse. A half cup of rice should be able to fill a
cupcake wrapper. One ounce of cheese
should be the size of four dice. And
finally, they say that sandwich meat should be the size of a standard slice of
wheat bread. That still does not answer
the question on how big the lobster sandwich should be.
OK what is really in that sandwich?
The other thing that you have to worry about these days, is
what is actually in a dish. There are
groups out here who actually gone to “picket line “methods to protest
chemicals, such as GMO, BHA, and that chemical that has been reported in Chinese
food (I cannot think of the name right now).
I am not here to warn you about these groups, because they actually have
some good, legitimate points that makes congress, FDA, and food companies
think, but now, I have to police everything that I eat both inside and outside
of my own home. No wonder everything is so
expensive from food in the grocery store to a simply meal at Wendy’s. Remember the McDonald’s scare of 2011? I refuse to eat a hamburger from there now,
because of the fluff.
So what to do….
Do I still want the lobster sandwich? Yes. Nothing’s wrong with it except it is high in
calories. Am I cautious of what I
eat? Yes, but you have to weigh out what
you think is good for your body. My
doctor says everything in moderation, and that is one the best advice she could
give me. So it is settled. I am getting the sandwich, but it will be a
while before I get another one.
