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[miraje]

I. Have. Kettle. Cooked. Chips. *dances* This is my favorite type of chip that exists. I kinda wish I would have gotten the healthy variety since this Hy-Vee brand is nearly dripping in grease and salt, but the good ones were soooo expensive. Why is it that the healthier foods seem to be so much pricier than the shave-years-off-your-life stuff? Do they expect only yuppies to buy it or something?

Also, why is it that olive oil is considered so much better for you than vegetable, canola, or corn oil? They all have nearly identical nutrion labels, and I saw nothing on the package that made olive oil look any better than anything else.


These chips taste oddly like sunflower seeds. I thought that maybe the chips were fried in sunflower seed oil, but the ingredient list says otherwise. Does cottonseed oil taste like sunflower seeds? Does sea salt taste like sunflower seeds? Are sunflower seeds salted with sea salt? I love a good mystery.

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[glowkitty]

yummmmm, kettle chips. i used to get Lay's Kettle Cooked chips all the time, until i started cooking with peanut oil at home, and realized that rancid peanut oil smells a lot like Lay's Kettle Cooked chips. ugh.

the Old Dutch brand is really good, as are Krunchers, if you can find them. the last time i saw Krunchers was at Panera, with a sandwich. i don't see them in the store so much though.

and olive oil is considered better for you because of the ratio of monounsaturated to polyunsaturated fats is more healthful than some of the other oils out there. i think there's more to it than that, but you can google on it. plus, it's a natural food, unlike canola, which nobody actually eats as a foodstuff (soy is borderline, corn is fine but the fat profile is different). and it's naturally oily... i think they have to work pretty hard to get it out of the corn kernels, but i could be mistaken. olives are just little chunks of oil-packed goodness.

[glowkitty]

oh, and in regards to healthier stuff costing so much more, that really pisses me off. i am trying very hard to learn and live on a healthy diet, and it is extremely expensive to do so unless you pretty much swear off convenience foods and stick to fresh fruits and vegetables (which still cost more than candy and canned goods) and trim your own meats. the only product i have seen that is consistently cheaper to buy the healthier version of is skim milk, but that's just because the cream is more valuable to butter and ice cream producers... it has nothing to do with healthfulness.

[glowkitty]

my thoughts are scattered tonight. i keep finding more things i want to comment on.

when i was little, my dad had this jar of sea salt chunks that he bought from the nutrition store. my friend Stacy and i would regularly dig chunks of salt out and suck on them. it tasted just like regular salt but not as biting and chemical, if that makes sense. i don't eat sunflower seeds, so i can't tell you if they taste the same, but i imagine it's just kind of an organic saltiness.

[miraje.livejournal.com]

You have not had kettle chips until you've tried the "Art and Mary's" brand. I've only seen it in Kansas, though, so they might be kind of hard to find. My absolute favorite chip of all time is the Art and Mary's Dill Pickle flavor. Yum yum. It's a luxury every time I go home. :)