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How to Make Oatmeal…Wrong By MARK BITTMAN There???s a feeling of inevitability in writing about McDonald???s latest offering, their ???bowl full of wholesome??? ??? also known as oatmeal. The leading fast-food multinational, with sales over $16.5 billion a year (just under the GDP of Afghanistan), represents a great deal of what is wrong with American [...]

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I ran out of the house in a hury one day without eating breakfast so I figured I would stop at Starbucks and pick up some oatmeal there but I came up to a McDanalds and figured I would try the oatmeal there instead I was very disapointed ended up throwing it out because I was expecting it to be like starbucks plain allowing you to add what you want including sweetner. I ended up at the Starbucks down the street
and had my oatmeal.
 
I hated the McDonald's oatmeal. Tasted like shit to me.
 
Good article. Nothing more that the Almighty buck driving their marketing. More BS food.

Eat real People
 
SloppyJ said:
I hated the McDonald's oatmeal. Tasted like shit to me.
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Mc Donalds is great for one thing.. Making your ass fat as hell. I havent had fast food in a very long time...
 
Micky D's and oatmeal... Mmmm, wait, that can't be good!
 
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stylus187 said:
Mc Donalds is great for one thing.. Making your ass fat as hell. I havent had fast food in a very long time...
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Double cheeseburger = 400+ cals with 25g protein.... That's a quick post workout protein load if u ask me. Dont be hatin. :coffee:
 
SloppyJ said:
Double cheeseburger = 400+ cals with 25g protein.... That's a quick post workout protein load if u ask me. Dont be hatin. :coffee:
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Only cost a buck also . I like a chicken sandwich from Chicka fila .. damn I can't spell
 
a big mac here and there never hurt anybody.
 
Not feeling the moral outrage for some reason.

McDonald's sells "tastes good" to people, not "good for you", because that's what their customers want. You can rest assured that this product was tweaked and market tested to conform to the common denominator's tastes. And that CD puts sugar and butter in their oatmeal at home. As much lip service as people pay to eating healthy, the money for McD's is still in giving them the fat and sugar laden foods that they come to McD's looking for.

If people cared enough to stop eating it, then McD's would have to change its M.O. to stay in business. But people don't. Just a couple of days ago there was a news blurb about a study which shows that even though we have access to calorie/nutrition info at restaurants, we are still making the same food choices. So it still comes down to "want to" for the consumer. And so far, consumers in general don't want to. And since McD's makes its money off the billions who want sugar and fat in their oatmeal, not the tens of thousands who don't, why would we expect their oatmeal offering to be any different than what the billions served want?

When I want to blame someone for my fatassedness, I blame that MF'er I see at the gym. The one staring back at me in the mirror. He's the one to blame, not McDonald's. He got me into this mess, and he's the only one who can get me out. I'm not going to puss out and blame McD's, American greed, capitalism's rape of the environment or anything else for my own bad decisions.
 
JamesTheScot said:
Not feeling the moral outrage for some reason.

McDonald's sells "tastes good" to people, not "good for you", because that's what their customers want. You can rest assured that this product was tweaked and market tested to conform to the common denominator's tastes. And that CD puts sugar and butter in their oatmeal at home. As much lip service as people pay to eating healthy, the money for McD's is still in giving them the fat and sugar laden foods that they come to McD's looking for.

If people cared enough to stop eating it, then McD's would have to change its M.O. to stay in business. But people don't. Just a couple of days ago there was a news blurb about a study which shows that even though we have access to calorie/nutrition info at restaurants, we are still making the same food choices. So it still comes down to "want to" for the consumer. And so far, consumers in general don't want to. And since McD's makes its money off the billions who want sugar and fat in their oatmeal, not the tens of thousands who don't, why would we expect their oatmeal offering to be any different than what the billions served want?

When I want to blame someone for my fatassedness, I blame that MF'er I see at the gym. The one staring back at me in the mirror. He's the one to blame, not McDonald's. He got me into this mess, and he's the only one who can get me out. I'm not going to puss out and blame McD's, American greed, capitalism's rape of the environment or anything else for my own bad decisions.
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True. The man in the mirror makes the decisions.

The biggest problems is MC'd's wants people to believe that their tasty oatmeal is actually healthy.

Along the lines of your post,try taking your kids to Mcd's and order a kid's meal with milk and apple slices and see what happens!
 
jagbender said:
True. The man in the mirror makes the decisions.

The biggest problems is MC'd's wants people to believe that their tasty oatmeal is actually healthy.

Along the lines of your post,try taking your kids to Mcd's and order a kid's meal with milk and apple slices and see what happens!
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I'm not sure they want you to believe it's "healthy" if you're using your definition of healthy. Healthy is one of those words that needs context. If you're on the cast of Survivor, it would be damn healthy. If you're comparing it to another menu item with a similar calorie content, the oatmeal might be a better choice if it helps with satiety or fills a nutritional gap in the consumer's diet. If you're comparing it to organic rolled oats boiled in water with nothing else added, it's going to look calorie laden and decadent.

But it's still the same issue. The kiddies like the taste of Coke and fries, just like I do. That isn't McD's fault, though. Don't I make the same decision when I go grocery shopping and choose between skim and whole milk...or choose to eat out instead of cooking at home?

Is it easy? Not always. But at some point I have to realize that I don't need McD's to fight my battles for me when it comes to my or my kids' food choices. I don't want or need someone protecting me from myself nor do I need McD's to help me choose what I feed my kids.

It just starts to smack a bit of "I'm smarter than those people and they need me to tell them what they can and can't do." <---Not directed at you, personally, but more the big brother notion of invasive consumer protection. :)
 
JamesTheScot said:
I'm not sure they want you to believe it's "healthy" if you're using your definition of healthy. Healthy is one of those words that needs context. If you're on the cast of Survivor, it would be damn healthy. If you're comparing it to another menu item with a similar calorie content, the oatmeal might be a better choice if it helps with satiety or fills a nutritional gap in the consumer's diet. If you're comparing it to organic rolled oats boiled in water with nothing else added, it's going to look calorie laden and decadent.

But it's still the same issue. The kiddies like the taste of Coke and fries, just like I do. That isn't McD's fault, though. Don't I make the same decision when I go grocery shopping and choose between skim and whole milk...or choose to eat out instead of cooking at home?

Is it easy? Not always. But at some point I have to realize that I don't need McD's to fight my battles for me when it comes to my or my kids' food choices. I don't want or need someone protecting me from myself nor do I need McD's to help me choose what I feed my kids.

It just starts to smack a bit of "I'm smarter than those people and they need me to tell them what they can and can't do." <---Not directed at you, personally, but more the big brother notion of invasive consumer protection. :)
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Your point taken well, I do hate the "government" trying to regulate what we eat, say and do. The government even tries to legislate morality.

In a suvivor issue any food is healthy.

In America we are facing the biggest outbreak of obesity in the world. American by far have the worst diet of any country in the world. We Americans do not realize that we are poisining ourselves with processed empty carbs and sugar and fat loaded foods. It just bothers me that several resaturants are "trying" to sell us on "healthy alternatives" The alternatives they offer are "healthier" that the regular menu options, But are still crappy foods. Taco Bell takes off the 1/8th ounce of shredded cheese and adds tomatoes instead and pimps that as a drive through "diet".
But like what was said before "we" americans want to eat garbage and think we are eating healthy.
Don't take this wrong but people are stupid and will believe about anything they read or hear on the TV or radio. if they hear it is healthy they believe it. How do you think Obama got elected! "Stoopid peepol"

Hey, I love a Big Mac and fries every once and a while. But I have no doubt about what I am eating and why.

It is difficult and expensive to eat "healthy"
 
I hear that. When your grocery shopping consists of circling the outside walls and avoiding the middle aisles, checkout always brings a cringe.

Funny (ironic) that we are one of the few places on Earth where our poor have obesity issues. And we have a generation of kids growing up that have no real idea of where/how their food comes from.

Well, as long as we have bread and games for the masses...
 
JamesTheScot said:
I hear that. When your grocery shopping consists of circling the outside walls and avoiding the middle aisles, checkout always brings a cringe.

Funny (ironic) that we are one of the few places on Earth where our poor have obesity issues. And we have a generation of kids growing up that have no real idea of where/how their food comes from.

Well, as long as we have bread and games for the masses...
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As I am dieting and thinking I am hungry I have to think about others in the world that are in poverty and don't get to eat daily. I just say suck it up you lucky bum. We are blessed to live here. But it is sad what you said about the poor being obese and our kids not knowing about food and its origins.

I like that show called "Kill it cook it eat it". That takes city folks and shows them where food comes from. Pretty cool show.

When I was in Michigan I hunted and my (at that time) little 5 year old daughter used to help me skin and butcher my deer. I am glad we had that opportunity.
 
Oatmeal Tip: I soak my dry oatmeal flakes in a little water in a bowl overnight in the refrigerator. Milk works well also. They're ready to either microwave or do on the hotplate first thing in the morning.

Saves time and makes them easier to put down.







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I don't understand how oatmeal can be delicious. I don't mean it's nasty, but nothing to crave for. Although I include oatmeal in by regular diet, not everyday, but at least 3-4 days a week. But I do that for health benefits only.
 
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