Healthy meals

[guest2013-1]

Making Assumptions is generally a bad habit, rather ask questions

In this post you assumed:

1: My definition of healthy/balanced is a bit off.
2: They don't use preservatives/excess oil/ processed food

And you completely left out the possibilty of oversized portions/ portion variables between starch/vegetable and meat

First off, I didn't assume. I gave an "if" statement. An "if" is when someone isn't sure about something and usually used in programming, like:

if myPenis > yourPenis then I win End If

So no, I didn't assume that they don't use preservatives/excess oil/processed food. i said all of those meals, if they were cooked from scratch without any added preservatives or excessive use of oil or use of processed foods, are balanced and healthy

No assumptions there.

Secondly. Your statements regarding the food you listed, including that of your comments on portion size, leads me to believe that your definition of healthy/balanced IS off. It's not an assumption. I know that for a fact, simply because:

a) If you eat healthy/balanced, portion sizes won't matter because you will stop eating when you're full by yourself
b) Your belief that most/all of those foods are unhealthy (regardless of how it's prepared) shows me that you're not maintaining a balanced/healthy diet yourself. Someone on a balanced/healthy diet would be able to eat McDonalds for lunch every day of their lives without gaining weight or causing harm to their bodies. The difference? They eat healthy/balanced 2rd's of the time and exercise and most importantly, don't overeat (they stop when they full)

So no. I didn't assume anything. I worked on the facts presented to me and I used key English words like "if" to convey the possibility of all those foods being able to make the "healthy" standard.

 

[DrewChan]

Attempting to overemphasize the meaning of "if" so as to impose the illusion that you are in fact talking to someone without this understanding is pointless and adds no meaningful context to the debate- it merely makes you look arrogant

Your initial point

[a] If you eat healthy/balanced, portion sizes won't matter because you will stop eating when you're full by yourself is completely invalid - People will NOT on the large eat until they are full - They will eat until their plate is empty. This is by observation so irrelevant of your rebuttal it is what I have experienced

Please support your point
"Your belief that most/all of those foods are unhealthy (regardless of how it's prepared)"


Additionally no point in time did I suggest the individual food items were unhealthy -

 

[DrewChan]

Apologies for arguing- I need to learn to allow people their opinions

 

[patrick]

Chicken, Broccoli & Cauliflower Bake R25.00 looks healthy to me, as long as it doesn't have any starches included.

 

[Slootvreter]

I don't see any healthy meal there.

All our canteen food tastes like....cardboard. No spices used AT ALL.

Not even one? How about the chicken, broccoli and cauliflower bake?

 

[Vegeta]

Our canteen has.... NOTHING
Because we don't have one(all other sites at our company have, they're just stingy at our site)

My favourite meal on the menu is walk or drive to the nearest petrol station for a PIE
Btw there are no fast food/take aways/healthy take aways within a 60km radius either so its PIE or DIE

Can't believe you complain why don't we swop and you eat nothing for a year and I'll take your food

 

[DrewChan]

Already stated that I think our canteen kicks ass - Have actualy mentioned in previous posts thats its one of the favourite things about my company - this was merely to measure whether I was being unreasonable re: Their healthy meal options - but I guess the thread was pointless without photos and examples of the food.

Anyway Vegeta - its not PIE or die - can you not bring food to work? I often used to head to food lovers buy food and pack myself lunches.

 

[noxibox]

If the meals favour protein and fat they're probably healthy.

[a] If you eat healthy/balanced, portion sizes won't matter because you will stop eating when you're full by yourself is completely invalid - People will NOT on the large eat until they are full - They will eat until their plate is empty. This is by observation so irrelevant of your rebuttal it is what I have experienced

Good luck with doing that if the meal favours protein. But if people do stuff themselves to bursting that's not really the canteen's problem or fault. Take the additional food home.

 

[DrewChan]

Meal favours starch/Carbs
Agreed - peoples eating habits are not the responsibility of the canteen -

 

[biometrics]

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