Do you still enjoy eating at restaurants page 3

[canio6]

We almost never eat out, we live in a small town with a pretty pathetic selection of restaurants and I'm a former chef so it seems pointless to pay for food that is low quality. Hubby grows a lot of our veggies, we have chickens, we buy half a pastured cow at a time and next week are butchering 2 pigs that hubby raised. We will be smoking our own bacon and hams.

On the rare occasion that I'm in a big city with high end restaurants then, yeah I'll eat out. I get great ideas that I take home and re-create.

So, what I get from this post is that I really need to figure out a way to eat at your place

[JoanieL]

I enjoy dining out, but it is has become an almost constant disappointment for both my boyfriend and myself.

I need to get better at researching high quality eateries rather than going to the same habitual ones I know of from my CW days.

Any recommendations in the Long Beach area? :P

qqemokitty, I would start yelp.com for your area and search for the kinds of restaurants you like (steak, fish, ethnicity, etc.). Once you have an idea of how people in your area rate given restaurants, you can go to the restaurant's website and look at their menu.

[Crabbcakes]

Yes. I eat at buffets and assault the fruit table. When you consider the price per and the fact it's all you can eat, it's a pretty good deal. Plus it's seedless fruit.

Hey, Derpy, how about this angle...

I once had a raw vegan research kick, ended up buying some cookbooks and all (hey - a good veggie recipe is a good veggie recipe, irregardless of whether it came packaged in a Paleo or Raw Vegan cookbook). Anyway, you know how how Primal supports grass-fed beef and free range chicken and all that because it is the proper way for that animal to eat, and how (among other problems) wheat is a problem because it is complicated hybrid and corn is GMO??

Well, to apply that analogy to fruit - one of my raw vegan authors supports only eating fruit WITH seeds, because, in nature, seedless fruit does not exist - that defies its fruity evolutionary purpose. I.e. all seedless fruit is an artificial hybrid, and you would be better fed and the environment would be better off if folks supported the open-pollinated, real fruit.

[Derpamix]

Hey, Derpy, how about this angle...

I once had a raw vegan research kick, ended up buying some cookbooks and all (hey - a good veggie recipe is a good veggie recipe, irregardless of whether it came packaged in a Paleo or Raw Vegan cookbook). Anyway, you know how how Primal supports grass-fed beef and free range chicken and all that because it is the proper way for that animal to eat, and how (among other problems) wheat is a problem because it is complicated hybrid and corn is GMO??

Well, to apply that analogy to fruit - one of my raw vegan authors supports only eating fruit WITH seeds, because, in nature, seedless fruit does not exist - that defies its fruity evolutionary purpose. I.e. all seedless fruit is an artificial hybrid, and you would be better fed and the environment would be better off if folks supported the open-pollinated, real fruit.

I agree with you. Fruit without seeds have had them mechanically removed, usually. The seeds are toxic though, so I usually only eat fruit which seeds are easily avoided.

[j3nn]

Is there a difference between eating seeds and evacuating them and mechanically removing them and returning them to the earth? I think the latter is better and faster! Either way you're transplanting the seeds per the fruit's "wishes." heh

As for the OP: I love eating out! But only things I actually enjoy. Greatly dislike a bad meal that I not enjoy.

[Crabbcakes]

Hey, Derpy, how about this angle...

I once had a raw vegan research kick, ended up buying some cookbooks and all (hey - a good veggie recipe is a good veggie recipe, irregardless of whether it came packaged in a Paleo or Raw Vegan cookbook). Anyway, you know how how Primal supports grass-fed beef and free range chicken and all that because it is the proper way for that animal to eat, and how (among other problems) wheat is a problem because it is complicated hybrid and corn is GMO??

Well, to apply that analogy to fruit - one of my raw vegan authors supports only eating fruit WITH seeds, because, in nature, seedless fruit does not exist - that defies its fruity evolutionary purpose. I.e. all seedless fruit is an artificial hybrid, and you would be better fed and the environment would be better off if folks supported the open-pollinated, real fruit.

I am amending my post in the following way, since my wording seems to have caused understanding different from my intent -

By "fruit with seeds" I mean fruit that grows with viable seeds, not actually consuming the seeds themselves. Case in point - seedless watermelons; if you planted those little seedsy things that are in seedless watermelons, they would not grow. That is what that raw vegan author meant.

[j3nn]

Makes more sense now. I was thinking unavoidable seeds, such as berries.

[lala70]

I would rather eat at home because I can cook better than most restaurants.

Agreed! I prefer to cook at home because I know exactly what I am putting into my body. I have been out for lunch once in the last 7 weeks and the day before I went I was so stressed out trying to think about what I was going to order. But I went and did just fine . Even the thought of being invited to a friends house for dinner worries me lol.

[Annieh]

Going primal has spoiled me for some things. Takeaways, cheap restaurants...don't like them any more. Fortunately the occasion doesn't arise often anyway. I can usually find something to be comfortable enough with, but really I prefer my own food.

Not really at a stage yet to afford expensive restaurants, something to look forward to perhaps.

[Damiana]

I only eat at sushi restaurants where I can order sashimi or other small bites that aren't fried, covered in mayo, or packed with hidden sugar.