[The Beast1]

Has any one else noticed this lately at super markets?

I normally the standard food stuff that isn't low fat, low salt, etc. i just want it to be the way the makers intended it to be.

However, my staple lunch and breakfast items (greek yoghurt and breakfast sausage) are all either chicken sausage, low fat or 2% greek yogurt, or the like.

As a classic hard gainer, low fat foods discriminate against me and my inability to keep on weight. I demand the rest of america bend to my whims /sarcasm

For real though, I can't find standard serving items as easily anymore. The supposed "healthy" low whatever stuff takes up more shell space.

[Icepasian]

I know exactly what you're talking about. I typically stick with chicken breast, steaks, bacon, and some pork as far as my fat and protein intake goes. If you want more fats in your diet though, I would recommend cooking almost exclusively with olive oil. It's not going to give you a massive boost but definitely a boost. Also, in relation to your hard gains: Rice and oats are your friends.
A website you might like: swole.me

[Blaster]

Second cooking oils. Some other high-fat foods I know of:

Avocado (including guacamole)
Coconut
Most nuts
Heavy Cream (can be added to many recipes, including simply whipped up with yogurt)
Cheese (Cream and Cheese usually have high sodium content as well)
Eggs
Hummus also has moderate fat content.

There's also chocolate, though that tends to taste pretty bad in my experience unless there's significant sugar content which I'm guessing you avoid.

[jmoney29]

Try lamb with barley

[MrXY]

Buy fresh meat, veggies, grains and fruits and prepare them yourself

[Fatass123]

I was in USA last year and i noticed that too. But it's not like that in Europe. I think it's all about food culture. Also a point that you should not miss is that people prefer low carb and low fat food. But for me the biggest reason is that USA doesn't have a food culture. It's just a mixture of other food cultures which i think is not good.

[Sonsowey]

Why are you buying packaged food at all?

Buy meat, fish, eggs, oils, spices, and vegetables.

[The Beast1]

(08-05-2013 12:33 PM)Sonsowey Wrote:  

Why are you buying packaged food at all?

Buy meat, fish, eggs, oils, spices, and vegetables.

Yoghurt is a nice snack to throw into the mix. I also like breakfast sausage.

Back home I would get my sausage from a local butcher, but here in Boston all of the butchers have closed down shop. I can only find the low fat options at whole foods and crappy jimmy dean stuff at the other places.

[JayJuanGee]

(08-05-2013 12:18 PM)Fatass123 Wrote:  

I was in USA last year and i noticed that too. But it's not like that in Europe. I think it's all about food culture. Also a point that you should not miss is that people prefer low carb and low fat food. But for me the biggest reason is that USA doesn't have a food culture. It's just a mixture of other food cultures which i think is not good.

Fantass: You are suggesting these dietary matters probably in a similar light as OP, in that you are suggesting marketing ploys of processed food, and in reality it would be best to focus on ways to eat whole and natural foods. Low carb and low fat are not the same concepts... and likely they are opposites - the low fat phenomenon is baloney marketing from mainstream food industries trying to sell you junk to kill you. As soon as they cut out the fat, the substitute with sugar or some sugar-like substitute or grain such as soy, wheat or corn.

On the other hand, low carb has the potential power to remove you away from these various processed food. that is if you recognize the difference between eating real low carb through natural and whole foods rather than eating something from a package claiming to be low carb or "healthy"

Take milk, for example, it is most nutritious in its raw and whole form - probably straight from the cows teet would be best - but none of us are going to have those kinds of fortunes of getting our food directly from farms and farmers b/c we live in cities and maybe farming life has become much less practical in the modern rush of the city.

In any event, milk gets processed and its fat gets reduced or removed and flavoring gets added as well as the rBGH (growth hormone) crap, and thereafter its nutrition value becomes somewhat equivalent to drinking a soda (coca cola).

Westin Price has a lot of good links about information concerning whole foods (by the way I do not really agree with their being o.k. with eating grains... but there is open debate on the topic of grains and the extent to which we should eat them), and the below link to westin price links to a milk article that is 10 years old but still timely.

http://www.westonaprice.org/making-it-pr...-body-good