No Reason To Avoid White Foods
COLOMBUS, Ohio Some
one addressed the following ques
tion to Martha Filipic, who writes
Chow Time for the Ohio Exten
sion: “I want to lose weight, and
a friend of mine told me that a
good trick is to avoid eating any
thing white. Is that really a good
rule of thumb?
As you probably suspect, that
guideline has “fad” written all
over it. In some cases it might
prove to be useful, but not very
often, Filipic answered.
On one hand, some products
such as rice and flour are refined
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to achieve their traditional white
color. That processing removes
nutrients that the original prod
ucts possessed.
Although the end products are
usually enriched with some of the
nutrients they lost during pro
cessing, they don’t get everything
back.
For example, brown rice has its
bran, husk and germ removed to
make white rice. Even after it’s
enriched, white rice has less fiber,
vitamin E, phosphorus, and calci
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Still, a cup of cooked long-
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grain brown rice contains 216
calories, compared with 205 in a
cup of cooked long-grain white
rice. Brown rice might be more
nutrient-dense, but it's very simi
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Wheat undergoes a similar
process when flour is made.
However, when buying breads
and other grain products, you
can’t always rely on color to be
your “healthfulness meter.”
Many brown-colored breads
are not made with the whole
grain and the whole grain is
what you want. Whole-grain
breads give you more fiber, more
vitamins and more minerals than
breads made with refined flour.
White sugar, potatoes, and
pasta are also usually named as
culprits in this odd guideline.
However, brown sugar offers no
weight-loss advantages over
white sugar, and potatoes and
pasta can be healthful parts of a
weight-loss regimen when eaten,
like everything else, in modera
tion. Just watch those toppings!
Besides, if you really took this
piece of advice to heart, you
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half-gallon of chocolate ice
cream, satisfied that you passed
up that cauliflower sitting in the
refrigerator. That wouldn’t do
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On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard
Joyce Bupp
Comfort food,
What’s your favorite?
Food plays a large role in most
of our lives. Certain things we ate
growing up, things that Mom and
Grandma, special aunts or
friends, fixed for regular and spe
cial occasions, are part of the her
itage each of us carries into our
adult life.
Many of us who graduated
from being “the fed” to “the feed
er” carried many of those favor
ites along into our own cooking
routines. Along the way, we’ve
added recipes we may have pick
ed up from friends, publications,
the internet, special occasions
or out of desperation.
Cold, dark, wintry days espe
cially seem to bring out a need
for those comfort foods, many of
which are hot, filling and satisfy
ing, both to stomach and to the
psyche.
Macaroni and cheese be
loved by the grandkids as “mac
and cheese” seems to be a per
ennial favorite. The baked ver
sion, with buttered bread crumbs
crispy and brown on top, was a
special treat for me as a child. As
a younger mom, I found a recipe
for an enhanced version, which
includes loose sausage, browned
along with chopped green pepper
and onion, and the cheese melted
in a white sauce.
“Ooh, one of grandma’s spe
cialities,” our daughter tells the
grandchildren when I fix a dou
ble batch to share of this favorite
casserole.
On a chilly day last week, 1
tucked some roundsteak into a
pan to roast, enhanced with some
brown gravy mix, while I trotted
between house and barn sketch
ing calves for registry. Just before
lunch, milk-fixed instant mashed
potatoes went into the microwave
as an accompaniment.
After years of vowing never to
slide into instant potato use, I
went over the wall from potato
peeling. They must be whipped
up with lots of milk and butter,
never, ever, ever, with water.
Some days they show up with
pork and sauerkraut, sometimes
with meatballs and gravy.
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Soups and stews are great
comfort food, too. Beef vegetable
is a personal wintertime favorite,
simmered for a couple of hours
on the stove while various addi
tions join the base-starter beef
and broth. Sometimes it’s chick
en or turkey com soup, maybe
with a handful of noodles
crushed for extra body.
My dad’s choice was always to
mato soup, made with Mom’s
home-canned tomatoes, a pinch
of baking soda and milk. Fixing
it never fails to bring his memory
to mind, while recalling how
much he enjoyed this quick,
healthy and satisfying simple
food. Grilled cheese sandwiches
with the familiy tradition of
adding sweet pickles or relish
were the expected accompani
ment.
Meatloaf is another standard
comfort food, usually fixed in my
kitchen with an “icing” of catsup,
just the way mom used to make
it. Scalloped potatoes make a
great side dish, but baked ones
white or sweet are a quicker
and tasty alternative.
Though I’ve rarely heard it
mentioned as a comfort food,
The Farmer appreciates a bowl of
fruit salad fixed in the refrigera
tor. So our shelves usually hold a
few cans of the requisite canned
pineapple and canned mixed
fruit, to which bananas, grapes,
fresh oranges, maybe some kiwi,
or extra home-canned fruits
might be added. The last few
spoonfuls usually become part of
a glorified gelatin dessert.
While we enjoy sampling new
dishes, few folks I know seek out
culinary comfort in the likes of
raddichio or capers, artichokes or
argula.
Just let us stoke up against the
chill of January with meat and
potatoes, fresh homemade bread,
and a hearty bowl of steaming
hot soup.
And, even in January, it’s
never too cold cold for ice cream.
Or too hot in July for chocolate.
The ultimate two comfort
foods for this cook.
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