Posts filed under 'Restaurant'
Don’t Eat the Mints!
A lot of people don’t touch restaurant mints because of the germ factor–but here’s another reason why you should leave them alone: they’re not real food!
Behold an average ingredient list for mints:
Sugar, invert sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, soybean oil, sorbital, salt, oil of peppermint, natural and artificial butter flavour, lecithin, Red 40, Blue
Unless you really have a craving for artificial butter flavour and Blue, my advice is to leave the mints alone!
3 comments March 20, 2009
Lunch Money Day
Instead of buying lunch on Thursday February 26, 2009, consider donating it!
Check out this website for more info on Second Harvest’s Lunch Money Day
Big thank to Breanna for bringing this worthwhile cause to my attention!
Add comment February 24, 2009
BYOF: When is Bringing Your own Food Inappropriate?
Whether you’re diet rehab-bing, vegan, vegetarian or maybe just have severe allergies, you spend a lot of time thinking about food. As I have noted in previous entries, going out for the day is difficult if you have any dietary concerns and there are times when brown-bagging is the only way to go.
I have also mentioned how difficult eating out can be–it’s difficult to find appropriate items on the menu. But it’s also hard to wave goodbye to your social life just because you’re choosing to eat differently. What’s the happy medium?
After trying a few vegan/vegetarians restaurants myself, I understand why carnivores prefer not to dine at them (apart from the odd self-righteous vegan and canvas shoe–wink). Since the majority of my friends and family are meat-eaters I feel that if I’m invited to someone’s place, it’s my duty to mention if I’m not eating meat or if I have an allergy to something and I would follow up that up with an offer to bring something to the dinner party.
Going to a restaurant is different–or so I thought. The other evening–at a high-end Toronto restaurant known for steak and seafood–I noticed a woman pull out a tupperware container and start to eat her dinner. I was appalled and thought that it was the height of rudeness.
Why would she agree to come to that particular restaurant if she’s vegan/vegetarian? If her friends really wanted to eat with her (but also have meat) wouldn’t it have been better for her (the veggie) to eat at home and maybe just order a salad and a drink while her friends ate dinner? Or, remind her friends that she doesn’t eat meat and suggest they dine somewhere else?
I would love to know your opinions on this issue–am I totally wrong?
8 comments February 12, 2009
