Feel the warmth of the earthtones. Look at the amber glow of the heads of wheat, their rough husks housing plump, tough kernels, ready to be ground into hearty flour. Ah, the wholesomeness!
Here is an amusing blog entry mocking the recent move by Krispy Kreme to offer whole wheat doughnuts. Favorite quote: “You don’t want to eat whole-wheat doughnuts because amber waves of grain are not to be mixed in with the pure, fluffy happiness that you are aiming for when you eat a damn doughnut.”
In related news, one day I will actually do my “7 Days with a Starbucks Frappuccino” photo essay, but until then here is a quick peak into what’s in your “coffee drinks.” Make sure to check out all four pages. The dubious winner for calories and fat grams? White Hot Chocolate with whipped cream:
16 ounces
580 calories
28 fat grams
95 mg cholesterol
310 mg sodium
Oh, and Krispy Kremes nutritional info. Here you go.
This just in. I recalculated the White Hot Chocolate with whipped cream as a Venti.
20 ounces
720 calories
33 fat grams
110 mg cholesterol
400 mg sodium
In london…yesterday we went into a little cafe for lunch and i had “melted chocolate.” i have no idea how many calories, etc. but oh, the yumminess.
MMMMMM Melted Chocolate! But I must say ick to Krispy Kremes healthified! I’m a sourcream cruller gal myself. Once I made a birthday cake for Jake with whole wheat flour…you’ll have to ask him about it.
Sarah, melted chocolate, in London, sounds lovely. I have no objection to calorie rich desserts, by the way. In fact, part of the point of this post was encourage us to keep them the way they are…just eat them less often. So, perhaps that logic should apply to frappucinnos, if we treat them as desserts.
I hope the rest of your time in London is good.
Heidi, a whole wheat cake? My, my. You can get away with substituting at least half the flour, may be even all of it, in banana bread, which has always amused me as a name. We should just cut the denial and call it what it is “banana cake,” at least the recipe I use that is, which is called “Hawaiian banana bread.” I think this name works only because it has so much sugar in it. Though sometimes, rather grudgingly, I do lower the amount.
Banana cake…how true! Hey, aren’t you a vegan?
Me, a vegan? Alas, no. I have been in the past for 3 months at a time. And, I am having veganish thoughts these days or at least thoughts of doing a web project on how to eat vegan on low income.
I want to expound my thoughts on this entire topic soon, but very briefly just now my ideal diet (which I am following quite well just now) is to eat vegetarianly, indeed mostly veganly, for the large part of the week and then eat free range meat and fish and cheese only once or twice a week.