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It's protein.

Hmm.. Many, many years ago , my first cat's name was CiaoMeow.. She was a beautiful Russian Blue, with a temperment to match..

me

And if I still ate cheese whiz I'd still be doing it too. LOL!

Murielle

Corned beef I still have and eat. And the family still enjoys rissles (sp). I don't make them anymore, too time consuming, but I do love a rissle every now and then.

Murielle

Yes indeed. I buy both that and vienna sausages regularly, to donate to the food pantry collection at church. It seems the homeless people are very fond of those two, as well as peanut butter, because they can pop open a can without tools, then spread the contents on bread or crackers which they also acquired at the food pantry. Of course, those who spend their days trudging the streets, carrying or pulling all their worldly goods with them, do not have to worry about the high fat content, they need all those calories. (And they don't worry about the preservatives, most of them figure they are going to die young anyway.)

Which part of town are you from?

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

Olwyn Mary6/25/07 7:33 PM

I would never turn up my nose (tongue?) at SPAM--the edible kind--because it just sits there on the shelf and KEEPs until I get ready to use it, unlike something like bananas that spoils almost before I get them home from the store.

I have had very good luck fixing Spam for picky eaters by fixing it the same way I would a real ham--with brown sugar, mustard, wine vinegar, etc. and baking it in the oven. Try it with your favorite baked ham recipe--maybe add a pineapple slice or two, and you might be pleasantly surprised!

Lilajane

As much as SPAM is convenient it isn't healthy:

A 56 gram (approx. 2 ounce) serving has:

- 15 grams of fat (23% recommended daily intake) of which 6 grams is saturated (28%recommended daily intake)

- over 174 calories (137 of which come from fat)

- 767mg sodium (nearly a third of the recommended daily intake of salt)

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Indeed it is!

Higs, Katherine

Higs, Katherine

Recipe? You want recipes?

Campbell's Soup had this recipe in their cookbook eons ago, and it's one of my favorites. If you don't like Spam, you can also use regular ham.

Dump into the bottom of a casserole dish 2 cans sliced potatoes (or the equivalent in fresh potatoes you've peeled/sliced yourself), 1 can peas,

1 can cream of mushroom soup (or cheddar cheese soup or cream of celery). Stir to mix.

Top with 1 can of Spam/ham, sliced. The top of my casserole accommodates 6 slices of Spam side-by-side, so I cut them rather thickly. If yours will fit more slices, cut them thinner.

Stick it in the oven for 45 minutes to an hour at 425. It's done when the Spam/ham is nicely browned.

Goes well with cornbread. Goes well with cheese melted on top of the leftovers.

Yep. XH was put on a low-sodium diet, and we discovered that when they took out the salt, they generally replaced it with fat or sugar, so the packaged foods that screamed "low sodium" were no healthier overall; often had more calories than the full-salt version.

Olwyn M Riddell spun a FINE 'yarn':

Born in New Orleans East, raised in Metairie.

I think it depends how things are prepared. Convenience meals (from cans/packets etc) often need fat or sugar or salt to taste good (and/ or to extend their shelf life). But fresh, simple food normally tastes fantastic. Carrots fresh from the garden - divine. Carrots from the supermarket at least a few weeks old - not so much. Fresh bread, just baked - yum! Stale bread definitely needs some butter or other condiment to lift it.

VP

So, you don't eat it every day. As somebody said, it is useful as an emergency food in the same way as corned beef etc. I find corned beef hash a great meal when we go camping for a weekend as I don't need to fridge any of the ingredients:

Trinity Scouts Corned Beef Hash

Chop and fry a large onion till soft. Add 2 potatoes per person scrubbed/peeled & diced (approx 1/2" dice) Add 2 carrots per person prepped as above Just cover with beef stock (water & stock cube) and simmer until the veg are tender. Dice a 12oz tin of corned beef (allow 1 tin per 3 adults) and stir in.

Serve.

The scout troop I learned this from uses TVP/soya "mince" when on camp to make it suitable for the vegetarians - sometimes the cooks will do two identical dixies of it and label one as vegetarian. The meat eaters have never noticed that it isn't real meat!

Lizzy

What's a rissle? Google was no help C

Some things NEED to contain a certain amount of salt (porridge, for example), and some need fat (whoever heard of lardy cake with no fat in it!). SOME high fat/salt/sugar foods are great as occasional treats, but most of the time I avoid them: I don't actually like most sweet things or salty stuff, and fats go through me like, well.. Greased s**t comes to mind! Most processed foods are utterly revolting and I avoid them like the plague. I make an exception for filo pastry, noodles, pasta (though I do sometimes make that from scratch), and tinned tomatoes.

90% of the meals eaten in this house consist of home cooked foods made with fresh ingredients. I've used more salt in one machine load of dying this year than in food.

Spam *is* greased sh**t.

I think that must be a reginoal language idiom. In all the places I've lived in tha states, never, ever heard canned, processed meat stuff referred to as Potted Meat. But, I knew what was being referred to because of my time living in the UK. So, perhaps us New York, DC, even Florida East Coasters, don't use that phrase. Never heard it in NM, either.

ellice