In Moderation
Providing health, nutrition and fitness advice in moderate amounts to help you live your best life.
Rob: Co-host of the podcast "In Moderation" and fitness enthusiast. Rob has a background in exercise science and is passionate about helping others achieve their health and fitness goals. He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the show, providing valuable insights on topics such as calories, metabolism, and weight loss.
Liam: Co-host of the podcast "In Moderation" and new father. Liam has a background in nutrition and is dedicated to promoting a balanced and sustainable approach to health and wellness. With his witty and sarcastic style, Liam adds a unique flavor to the show, making it both informative and entertaining.
In Moderation
Transforming America's Favorite Foods into Healthier Meals
The comfort foods we grew up with don't deserve their bad reputation. From cereal and hamburgers to mac and cheese and fried chicken, America's favorite dishes can actually be part of a balanced diet with some thoughtful modifications.
Breakfast becomes a nutritional powerhouse when you add fresh fruit to cereal, use high-protein milk, or mix in fiber-rich options. Even the humble peanut butter and jelly sandwich – which University of Michigan researchers found adds more years to your life than almost any other food – proves that comfort and nutrition can coexist.
Those classic hamburgers? They're already a balanced combination of protein, carbs, and fats – the problems come from preparation methods and proportions. By choosing leaner beef, whole grain buns, and generous vegetables, you transform fast food into real nutrition. The same goes for pizza, chili, and spaghetti with meatballs. These aren't inherently "bad" foods; they just need some rebalancing.
The air fryer revolution has breathed new life into fried favorites. Chicken coated in cornflakes and air-fried delivers that satisfying crunch without excessive oil. Homemade french fries get crispy exteriors and soft interiors without deep-frying. Even simple swaps like mixing Greek yogurt with mayonnaise in potato salad maintain the creamy texture while improving the nutritional profile.
American cuisine doesn't need to be abandoned for health – it just needs thoughtful modifications. Try our tuna mac and peas recipe with protein-enhanced pasta for a quick meal that satisfies comfort food cravings while delivering balanced nutrition. What American classic will you reimagine tonight?
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Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast, which is slowly becoming what Liam thinks up on the fly, because for a second week in a row, I have come up with an idea, like last minute, what we're going to do, and I think it's actually a pretty good idea. Ready for this, rob? You ready for this? I'm ready for this. Okay, here's my idea. We uh, what I wanted to do originally was look up the most common breakfast, lunch and dinners in America and then be like how do we make them more balanced?
Speaker 2:right, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1:America, because obviously that's really all that matters in the world. Anyway, the problem is like lunch and dinner and stuff, like it's all just kind of all over the place, because I've learned that America's a melting pot. Did you know this? That like America's big and there's a lot of different cultures and shit.
Speaker 2:Who knew I didn't I mean it was a melting pot. I mean I feel like they're trying to get rid of that.
Speaker 1:We're working on that. We're making that melting pot, just one thing of I don't know, just chicken stew. That doesn't make any sense, I don't know whatever. So what I'm thinking is, uh, I I have like this poll for like breakfast, but then I have also just like a list of like some of the most common american food items, like food setting in america there's probably people eating this in canada along with their whale blubber or whatever you guys eat.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't judge um I feel like we're more of melting pot than you guys are.
Speaker 1:I don't I have no idea. What I do know is starting with um, uh, the poll for, like, what americans eat for breakfast. I bet you can guess what most americans are eating for what the most common breakfast item is right, is it sausages? Not, so, no, not sausages. What do you think?
Speaker 1:no, it's not rob, rob, rob, rob Rob, you came to this. You came to America and saw that there was just like aisles of this thing. There's just so many options. Aisles of this thing, yeah, we have just aisles with just tons of different options of this and we eat it for breakfast. Alcohol yes, we have alcohol for breakfast. That's our most common fucking Jaeger bombs, and I don't know, for breakfast, that's our most common fucking jaeger bombs and I don't know. No, that's that's. That's a firework. I was saying something else, doesn't matter. Uh uh. Cereal. Was the? Was the answer, rob.
Speaker 2:Cereal, breakfast cereal it's like in the name I mean, that does kind of surprise me I would have assumed it would have been more like a sausage and egg no, it's it's.
Speaker 1:I thought it was higher than this. Uh, the study cited 31 percent who eat. They eat cereal for breakfast. I thought it would be more like closer to 50. I thought it'd be at least over 40, because, like cereal is just like so common right, I was definitely expecting bacon. Um, I think that there are some after that but anyway cerealereal is like actually pretty easy to balance.
Speaker 1:We've talked about this a little bit before. Easiest way is just like add fruit right To whatever you're eating. What did I eat the other day? I had a bunch of kiwis. I had some like Cheerios, because my daughter really likes like Cheerios. Now for some reason she gets like different kinds of Cheerios, like Honey, nut Cheerios. And then I just put some like Kiwis in it, cause I had a bunch of the gold Kiwis and they were going bad, so I put those in there. Boom Easy.
Speaker 2:Another one is just using the high protein milk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like you get fair life or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 2:U? S has fair life. Canada's got dairy land. You can tell they're slightly more expensive, but the trade-off's kind of worth it because you're getting double the protein Right.
Speaker 1:So you get protein with it. Um, like the some of the more like, like some people, like the Catalina crunch cereals and stuff, those things are like, uh, it's, those are like real crunchy. There's something once in America that are like, uh, I don't know about that, but what I will say? Taking like some fiber, one cereal or whatever, and adding it to your cereal, not a bad idea. You just add a little bit of that to the cereal that you like a little bit extra fiber yeah, the cereal doesn't need to be a hundred percent compressed.
Speaker 1:Metamucil tablets yeah, I know man like those that's, you don't want to just eat like pure fucking fiber one for breakfast, but like sprinkling some of that into, uh, you know um, whatever your cereal is. And then let me tell you, especially in the States, puffins, puffins, man, those are underrated. I need to get some more of those. I love that cereal. It's like four or five grams of fiber along with shredded mini-wheats. It's up there with me with shredded mini-wheats.
Speaker 2:But yeah, mini-wheats and raisin bran are two awesome just out of the box.
Speaker 1:Man my daughter's been, Oakley's been just smashing raisins. So many raisins I'm like whatever man, just eat as many raisins as you want, I'm sure it won't go bad, doesn't matter. So then, yeah, so breakfast, so cereal's like really not bad at all, and then about two in 10, you usually eat eggs with or without bacon or ham, so that's. The next one is eggs, and like eggs, that's pretty easy on itself. I think people just get. I feel like people get bored of eggs really quickly. That's what I see a lot. It's like people start eating eggs and then they get bored of them quickly, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I prefer my eggs in the form of French toast or pancakes. French toast right.
Speaker 1:I prefer it in the form of cake Chocolate cake. That's how I get my eggs in.
Speaker 2:But I mean, that's what French toast is. It's just bread dipped in eggs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you can do like egg whites and stuff like that. What I'll say with like eggs if you're trying to get more protein, egg whites on their own tastes like sadness, but adding like, having like two eggs and then adding in some more egg whites, it's not bad. It just kind of ups the protein. You still get the eggs, like the egg yolks and stuff. So I think that's a pretty good idea. And then having it with like obviously it's more breakfast. I usually have fruit in the morning. So yeah, just like whatever fruit, easy peasy, right, easy, easy, eggsy, easy, eggsy Put a little berries on your French toast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, that's good. So and then just over one in 10 usually have a bagel, toast, muffins or pastry. So that's a few things there. With the bagels man, like I think people think of bagel anything like oh, just bagel and then and then butter or like, I guess, cream cheese or cream cheese, yeah, you can do more stuff with that right, like you have, like an avocado thing, a smile of the smoked salmon. I'm a big smoked salmon fan can't say I've tried that oh, man, they got.
Speaker 1:They got different ones. They got like everything, bagel seasoning this or like spicy ones. Those are really good with, uh, some yeah, again some avocado or something like that a little hot sauce. Oh so, like you know doing that, or obviously they have now like the fucking fiber bagels, bro, those I think it's called better bagel. Yeah, better bagel is one of them, and they are just like 40 something grams of fiber in a bagel. I'm like there's. You can't do this to people like I get. I've eaten them, I'm fine, but you can't do that to the average person no, the average person is gonna.
Speaker 1:Their intestinal tract's gonna die from that they're gonna be stuck to the toilet, like that's just mean, uh, but yeah, so like those, at least they do have those.
Speaker 1:Or like toast you could get the, the bread or whatever, right, that's like, oh, protein bread, fiber bread, that sort of stuff, right? Um? Like jams there's like lower sugar jams, if you want to do that, like I've been using this. Like jelly, that's like half the sugar jelly or whatever I've got. Like peanut butter, I do like peanut butter and jelly, and fuck it. It's breakfast. Who gives a shit? Like breakfast food is whatever food you're eating, right, what I do like whatever food starts you off on the day.
Speaker 1:On the right foot doesn't matter, or just whatever you're feeling. Four donuts, man, I've like crisp, like I got crispy cream like they came. I remember I was like in albany, like new york, and they came for the first time and everyone started going to crispy cream for like the coffee, because we were used to Dunkin' Donuts and everyone goes to Dunkin' Donuts for the coffee. So they went to Krispy Kreme for the coffee and were like this coffee tastes like shit. It's like, well, yeah, they're not known for their coffee, they're actually a donut place that's known for their donuts. They're not a donut place known for their coffee like Dunkin' Donuts, but their donuts are very good. Krispy Kreme best, healthiest breakfast ever. But hell, I'll definitely have one here and there Dip it in some protein milk.
Speaker 1:39% of Americans have at some point eaten cold pizza for breakfast and I'm like, yeah, totally, I would do that too For me. I know you put it in the air fryer it's better, but I just eat that shit cold. I have it in a Ziploc bag, I take it out and I just eat it like it's good. It works those are.
Speaker 2:Those are the americans that are having a hangover.
Speaker 1:I bet this will help some cold pizza well you, I mean, that is our most common breakfast item is fucking alcohol, so maybe just throw some of that in there with it all right.
Speaker 1:so that was kind of like the most common breakfasty stuff and then for like lunch it was kind of all over the place. So I found this list. I found this list of, like traditional American food. So I feel like this is something you know a lot of people eat, right. So maybe how we kind of work with this a little bit, number one what do you think number one is with, like most common most traditional American foods, most traditional American food.
Speaker 2:Like what do you think america and you're gonna be? Oh, is it. Are we including desserts? Is apple pie gonna be in there?
Speaker 1:uh, I'm sure apple pie is here somewhere but no, the first one is not apple pie um what does?
Speaker 1:all of our fast food places sell basically hamburgers. There you go, hamburgers with fixings, that's pretty much that is the number one and like again, I feel like this is really not like. I remember this was going around for a while, like I did a video on this there was like a woman that was like why are hamburgers unhealthy? Cause it's like you got bread, you got, or you got carbs, you got protein and you got fat. So you have all those things. Yeah, throw some vegetables on the more. The issue is you get a fast food place and there's a lot of extra calories. So just, we've talked about it before A lot of extra oil.
Speaker 2:Yeah, leaner beef, the ratio of like vegetables to everything else We've talked about that before.
Speaker 1:Just throw more fucking shit on there If it's green or red or whatever, like yeah, and now I'm going to get people like I put Swedish fish on there. Good for you, Tony, fucking putting Swedish fish on your hamburger. If that's what you want to do, I would say, come on tomatoes. But you know what you got free will Do whatever the hell you want to do.
Speaker 2:Whenever I go to a fast food place, I always ask for extra lettuce on my burger. Sometimes I'll ask for triple if I feel like they'll actually do something.
Speaker 1:I really like pickles and jalapeno Relish though Relish, I know it's traditionally more on hot dogs, which I'm sure we'll see on here. But yeah, number two, I'm not surprised. Pizza, like you know, like hamburgers, pizza, right, I feel like that's, that's most common, like you know, american foods, and again, pizza gets a lot of shit, I guess, just because of the calories, right. Um, but you know what I found at aldi? They have like some flatbreads I guess maybe they're not technically pizzas with flatbreads, whatever right and they have and they have like a garden vegetable one which is like a bunch of different vegetables on there and the whole thing was only like four or 500 calories and tasted pretty good. So, like they do have some of those options now where they have the pizza crust that are like hired fiber and stuff you know the hamburgers and the pizza.
Speaker 2:It's always a case of if you ate each individual thing separately, consider it healthy, but as soon as you put them together, it's all of a sudden bad, but it just comes down to the extra calories, whether it's from oil. Sometimes it's from putting all the alcohol you drink with a cheese on on the pizza.
Speaker 1:All the alcohol washing it down with jack daniels. That's the problem. But yeah, like you know, there's a like margarita pizzas.
Speaker 2:Oh fucking good margarita pizza I'll often like I often, when I order pizza, I'll ask for half cheese, because it's still plenty of cheese on it.
Speaker 1:Cheese the cheese. I guess there's two, I don't know, I'm I'm iffy on that. The third, number three, though, is meatloaf.
Speaker 2:I don't remember like the last time I ever had a meat, really I've.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't even to be, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be real with y'all. I don't really know what's in meatloaf I'm assuming meat put into a loaf and I don't really know much past that I don't think I've ever really heard americans talk about meatloaf here we go. Okay, it's made with fresh ground beef, savory, breadcrumbs, eggs for binding, and seasoning like garlic or sweet onions. That doesn't seem so bad. Beef breadcrumbs, eggs, seasoning, I don't know. I got nothing on meatloaf because I can't remember.
Speaker 2:I'm sure lots of people also throw vegetables in there too, like yeah and like you have it on the side, like they a little picture like green beans with it or something great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, number four is s'mores. Fucking I what s'mores fuck. Fuck being healthy. You just need to eat a s'more. Sometimes when you're out camping. You fucking get that. You get that marshmallow all melty and the chocolate and the crunch of the graham cracker yeah, but like how many people are eating s'mores in their homes? A lot apparently if it's on the list.
Speaker 1:Apparently this is like kind of the most traditional american things. Uh, what traditional american food? So s'mores are apparently super it's. It's even higher than apple pie, which I'm sure will be on here somewhere, but even more than that fucking s'mores. But you know what S'mores smack Like s'mores are so good, it's the quintessential camping treat.
Speaker 1:Man, when you just get, it's like you're working when you're there to get the marshmallow perfectly melted, so it's not like too melted or burnt, but it's got a little bit of that toast on it. I know some people really like fully burnt. I don't like that. Then it's just like kind of got that bitter, a nice golden color, yeah, exactly. And then you get the chocolate it's like warmed up from the marshmallow. You heat up just a little bit in the graham crack. Man, those are so good but like you know, I'm not eating s'mores all the time. Right, you go camping, you eat a s'more. Yeah, oh, number five is hot dogs.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised that's not even higher yeah, I thought that would be higher yeah, but again like, oh, I tried the keto buns, you know like the, the high fiber buns, and they were actually pretty good. I was surprised. I was like this this tastes for the most part like a regular bun and you know hot dog, how much, like how many calories a hot dog gotta be like 100, around 100, that's not too bad. Uh, you know, like some, like high fiber buns, a hot dog. I've even tried like the vegan dogs and they're not bad, because I know some. You know the processed meats aren't great for your health, blah, blah, blah. So like you could try like the, the meat alternative ones.
Speaker 2:I like them all those people going out to the baseball games eating their glizzies and then yeah like you.
Speaker 1:Could you throw a bunch of stuff on there? Man, fucking mustard too, I like, I love mustard. I don't give a shit if other countries give us like crap about. You know, like all yellow mustards, I'm real muster. I don't care what, if it's real or not, I like it. I mean I also like other mustards, like your dijon's and, like you know, stone ground, whatever. But man, I love mustard, you know what I don't love.
Speaker 1:You know what I really don't love? Uh, children. Yes, that's why I had one. Fucking just gotta give it. I was very mad at myself. So no, clam chowder, I don't like clams, I don't like clams. I don't like clams. Or oysters, fucking sea boogers.
Speaker 2:They're gross I don't like it. I had oysters only once and I was like yeah, that was an experience that was meant to stay in the ocean.
Speaker 1:That's what that was meant to do, not get dragged out. And oh, they're just. I don't like shellfish, I don't. I'll do a shrimp. I can deal with shrimp, I can't do it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I got nothing on clam chowder. I got nothing except ew. At least shrimp is meat. Shrimp is different than scallops and oysters and clams Mussels. I'll eat them if they're there, but I still don't love them. I don't know. I got nothing on clam chowder.
Speaker 1:It doesn't seem that bad. I guess there's a lot of cream, it's a lot of heavy cream, yeah, it's a lot of fat, so I guess I could see that. But yeah, macaroni and cheese, yeah, see. See, now we're talking like classic, like my wife all the time makes tuna mac to mac and peas, I guess. So she makes tuna, mixes tuna, peas into mac and cheese and we generally get like the goodles, which is like the high protein. They throw a bunch of vitamins and shit in there and there's more fiber. That's a great meal. You got tuna for more protein, peas so you get technically a legume, but it's kind of like a veggie and it's good. I highly recommend it. Tuna, mac and peas.
Speaker 2:Mac and cheese would probably be number three on the Canadianadian list, just after maple syrup and moose jerky syrup and just maples.
Speaker 1:As find it funny with the canadians is always with just like the maple syrup on on everything. I mean it's good, I can't. I can't lie like maple syrup is good but it's just like it's just everywhere. I always find it funny, uh. But yeah, like mac and cheese is really not bad, it's just like you know, like again, you know, if you do like kind of traditional style, it's just a lot of calories, not a ton of nutrition. So it's just about adding to it. You know, um, add what you need. And then potato salad fuck, potato salad's good, bro. Like a good potato salad, love it. Like your thanksgiving. If I'm at thanksgiving, mostly what I'm eating is like mashed potatoes or potato salad or whatever, something like that.
Speaker 2:I usually just eat the potatoes raw.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, cooked I just see fucking Canadians over there drinking their maple syrup and eating raw potatoes.
Speaker 2:Maple syrup and the potato just fresh out of the ground. I cook my potatoes in maple syrup.
Speaker 1:But so what I find? What I find is that I see people like substitute mayo for Greek yogurt and I'm like I like the idea. It just loses all of like that flavor when you're like nonfat. A cup of nonfat Greek yogurt is so fucking far from a cup of mayonnaise, it's not, it's just so. It's different, different worlds, right, but doing a little bit of both, that actually kind of works, I'm telling you. So you do some mayonnaise and you do some Greek yogurt. You also do some sour cream, or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't have to go 100% in one direction or the other. There's a middle ground there.
Speaker 1:I think mixing those two together with some potatoes which potatoes are great Potassium, vitamin C, all that stuff. So I think potato salad again all that stuff. So I think potato salad again. Not that hard man, I'm still not seeing fucking apple pie. Maybe it was somewhere else. No, this is weird. Oh, cornbread, I like cornbread man, have you had cornbread? Do Canadians have cornbread?
Speaker 2:No, I've never had cornbread.
Speaker 1:I got nothing on that besides, have some cornbread and like this I'm sure you could make it like more nutrition, whatever. But when you just get that southern cornbread, that's all the butter and everything, it's really good. And then number 10 is fried chicken probably. I mean it's fried chicken. Oh, you know what I've seen people do and I've tried it and it's good. Here's the thing it good. It takes a little bit more work, but I guess fried chicken just kind of does take work on its own. I've seen people take more like chicken breasts and you can either like just slice them thin or, I guess, into strips. But typically I see people slice them thin and then do this traditional, like you know, egg bath and like flour. But then they do corn flakes they brought up in corn flakes and instead of deep frying it, they air fry it. I did that once and it actually turned out pretty darn good. I'll say that, like the corn flakes give it that crunch that I really like I was gonna say, yeah, the corn flakes.
Speaker 2:At least give it the texture that you don't really get when you right.
Speaker 1:So when you grill it or whatever, just bake it, so it gives texture that you don't really get. When you're right, so when you like grill it or whatever just bake it so it gives it that, so I think it's worth it.
Speaker 1:I like that. It's just for me like it's such a pain in the ass when I'm like, okay, I've got this chicken, now there's chicken juices everywhere, right, and I'm like trying to clean stuff and cutting it and I'm gonna clean this, and then I'm like I got three plates and I'm like, okay, I've got my eggs, the eggs, I got the flour and then I got the corn flakes and then I air fry it and for again. For me, like I when I cook, I like to make a bunch of something so I have more meals for the future, like kind of a meal prep style, like I make dinner and then I also have more meals. You can't do that shit with fried chicken. You don't just put it back in the fridge and it's fine. It doesn't work like that, you know. So that's always been kind of my issues. I make it for one meal. Like this is kind of a lot for just one meal, you know that's a lot of cleanup to do
Speaker 1:that. Well, there's a bunch on this list and I'm not gonna like say every one of them, I'm just gonna go through and pick some ones I like. After number 10, there number 13 peanut butter and jelly sandwich Bro. I'm planning on making a video here just being like, why don't more people eat peanut butter and jelly for the health? Everybody's like? Oh, it's expensive and it takes a lot of work. Fucking peanut butter and jelly bro. Like University of Michigan looked at like almost 5,000 foods or something and they found out all the foods that take away time or add time to your life. The food that added the most time was peanut butter and jelly. Fucking peanut butter, it's just a classic peanut butter, jelly peanut butter, jelly, and most of us like the peanuts.
Speaker 1:Peanuts like nuts and seeds super good for your health. So, like whatever and people allergic to peanuts, almond butter, sunflower butter who gives a shit? Any sort of seed or nut butter, giggity will be fine, just use that. Uh, so yeah. And then obviously you can do like whole wheat bread and blah, blah, blah, but just eat a peanut butter and jelly peanut butter and jelly poke bowls. I feel like that's. Is that a quintessential american food? I don't feel like poke bowls are like traditionally american, is it? Oh, originally in hawaii. All right, I guess, did they? Oh, this is news to me, I did not I guess that does make it american then it does make it american.
Speaker 1:Hawaii is technically we. It may not be continental in the United States, but it's still the United States nonetheless. I like, because I like, I do sort of that. But like I don't have, like the raw tuna or whatever I typically have, like the edamame, like I love edamame, you just keep it in the freezer. It's good for freaking ever, and then I usually have avocados on hand. So like I have that avocados, maybe tomato, something like that. Uh, and that's really simple. Put it over rice, boom, rice bowl, call it whatever you want. Oh, bro, chili, chili, though, that's one of the easiest ones. Man and people say like, oh, without beans, fuck it. For me chili isn't chili if it doesn't have beans, I don't care, I don't want just a beef chili. It's gotta have beans was going to say.
Speaker 2:That sounds like something entirely different if it doesn't have the beans Right.
Speaker 1:But people are like no, it's not chili, it has beans. Like what? The first thing I think of is beans. I know it's me, so I'm not surprised, but still.
Speaker 2:Actually, wouldn't that just be meatloaf if you made it without the beans?
Speaker 1:It. It's meatloaf, it's meatloaf soup, meatloaf soup oh shit. But yeah, that's like one of the easiest ones. Oh, you know what's really good? Great tempeh. A lot of Americans don't know of tempeh. It's fermented soybeans. You can get it next to tofu typically in most stores. Oh, just be aware, it does look like it's moldy out of the package.
Speaker 1:Time I ever got it I threw it away, thought it was moldy, and then I realized oh no, that's just what it looks like so heads up, um, but yeah, I just get it and then I just grate it just like a grater, just shred it all up, throw it in there with the beans and then, you know, it just kind of gives it this slightly meaty texture, I guess I don't know a little crunch. Uh, it's kind of the tempeh's kind of got this like nutty flavor. It's good, I mean, I like it. So I think that's something really good. You can throw in your chilies, uh, but it's just more for me. Like in the winter I really like a good chili. It's summertime right now, so I don't really like, you know, a hot chili. That's, that's not.
Speaker 2:I love the. I love the dynamic we've got going on here you without a shirt, me with a sweater it's, it's too hot here for me, to me.
Speaker 1:I had to. I put on a sweater for a video for like five minutes and I was like that's too much, that's too much. Uh, oh shit. Red beans and rice. Red beans and rice, that's. I mean you don't have to do anything to that. I eat that like all the time. I mean, I mean not red beans and rice, like rice and beans. You get a bunch of seasonings when they get.
Speaker 2:I love cooking my rice with edamame that's good, I like.
Speaker 1:I like that that I usually go more like the asian route with like uh, soy sauce and that sort of thing and like sesame oil.
Speaker 1:But red beans and rice. When they throw a bunch of like creole seasoning and everything like the creole like cuisine or whatever, oh man, and it's got so much sodium that all that you got like the amount of sodium that you need for a week, that's the best. Oh man, and it's got so much sodium that you've got the amount of sodium that you need for a week, that's the best. Spaghetti and meatballs I can see that that's not bad at all. You get a lean ground beef and then you get some pasta. You get the chickpea pasta or the protein pasta or whatever.
Speaker 2:Or even just whole wheat pasta.
Speaker 1:Why isn't tomato sauce like? Tomato sauce is just tomatoes, little bit of oil, tiny bit of sugar. Sometimes they'll add a little bit of sugar Some basil some oregano.
Speaker 1:Yeah, seasonings. Like tomato sauce is like it fucking don't tell me tomatoes are fruit, I will hurt you. Like it's not put in the fruit salad. So basically it's a jar of vegetables a little bit of like oil, so like shit, spaghetti meatballs. That sounds great, um. And then as you talk about uh, number 23 french fries, you know I mean right now air fryer fries. That's what I made for a video. Real quick. I just, you know, I got the little uh fry cutter that you just put the, you put the little potato on, they go and it cuts them right into fries and then I just uh, like I wash them, get the starch off them. You can microwave them for like a minute or two to kind of partially cook them. That way when you throw them in the air fryer they crisp up a little bit more. They're never going to be like the french fries you get from deep frying, but a little bit better.
Speaker 2:So I think, sprinkle a little baking soda on them when you air fry them.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know what? I have seen comments about that. That's right, I haven't tried that. I guess I'll have to do that. Maybe some MSG as well. It makes shit good, heck yeah. Oh man, you know what? Have you ever had a really good jambalaya?
Speaker 2:No, I've never had jambalaya. Jambalaya man, so I can't have had a really good one at all.
Speaker 1:You need jambalaya, you need cornbread. You need some jambalaya and cornbread together. That's what you need.
Speaker 2:Can you make them with maple syrup? That does not sound all that great.
Speaker 1:I guess cornbread is usually sweet, so you could probably do. I guess you could add a little, a little bit of that, I can see that. But yeah, again, it's usually got like sausage or shrimp and some vegetables. Bro, jambalaya is so good. I haven't had it in a while. I need to do that. Uh, oh, to number 27 apple pie, damn we had to get low for that uh but yeah, it's way down there fuck being healthy with that shit?
Speaker 1:I Just give me a slice of apple pie with a scoop of ice cream. That's delicious. Corn on the cob, Bro. Why does corn get so much shit? Like corn is a vegetable. Like corn has fiber. It even has some protein. It's got fucking antioxidants in that bitch.
Speaker 2:Come on, you can turn it into popcorn. It's an amazing snack. I've got a bowl of it right here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, corn on the cob, you could grill it, you could do a whole bunch of things with it. I get it Like high fructose corn syrup. That's not the same thing as corn. Duh, duh, buh, buh. So, yeah, corn man. I feel like like for me when I'm just like shit, I need a meal, like I need something quick, I'm like it gets a. Put some rice in the rice cooker can of beans corn, mix that together.
Speaker 2:Whatever else, I have vegetables, you know, if I got something thrown, they're awesome if not, we have this brand of corn, or I shouldn't say branded, you know, but a cultivar of corn that's called tabor corn, up here from the town of tabor in the area oh it is. It is amazingly juicy and just the right amount of sweetness, beautiful, beautiful that sounds good.
Speaker 1:I, I mean, I, besides candy corn, I haven't met a corn. I don't like candy corn's fucking weird man, I don't like it. That's one of those things that's. It's divisive. You love it or hate it, and I, I hate candy corn, like of all the of all the candies, why it's waxy and the flavor is not even good. Oh, what's this down here? I don't know what this list is, uh, but yeah, I mean, that's pretty much the list there. I'm just seeing if there was anything else that was like popping out oh, grilled cheese, though that's okay. Grilled cheese, that's classic.
Speaker 2:I could grill cheese, it's good Grilled cheese, tomato soup.
Speaker 1:They go together. Man, I'm telling you, just dip the grilled cheese in the tomato soup.
Speaker 2:I don't want grilled cheese now.
Speaker 1:I could totally go for a grilled cheese man. That's good. Well, we're off to make a grilled cheese. We're both off to get some cheese, maybe some high-fri no, probably just regular-ass bread, I don't know Whatever works. You got any quintessential Canadian foods? That all the Crap. What do we call Canadians? I don't even know what we call Canadians. Nice, canucks, Canucks there we go, they all.
Speaker 2:Uh well, I mean, you mentioned it before. We got the seal blubber up here, of course. Yeah, um, I feel like I don't know I was surprised to not see um bacon higher on your guys' list.
Speaker 1:I feel like a lot of people here going for the kind of a cross between american and english breakfast okay, so like eggs, sausage, bacon, that sort of thing, yeah, and I mean this list said like in the beginning, like they'll have eggs and they might have it with sausage or bacon or whatever um, which, and of course, it's customary in can, canada, to have a shot of canola oil, because canola oil is from Canada, the Canada oil. Man, I didn't for the longest time.
Speaker 1:I had no idea that's what like canola was. It was Canada oil. I had no idea. I just saw a rapeseed. Sometimes I was like, oh, I don't want that. Like no shit. They rebranded Good call, canola sounds a lot better here comes the train, just at the end of the podcast, to see you off yep oh, I was helping a friend move the other day and like literally the place they moved, I look out the back window and there's the train tracks, like you can see the train.
Speaker 2:The train tracks are connected to their backyard and I was like damn that's even closer than me, like yeah, mine are, mine are at least a block over there and yours is loud.
Speaker 1:I was like, are y'all like gonna be okay with this? Like it's that's? Look at that shit's loud. You want that right next to your house, that is loud, like literally, like listening.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, my good microphone broke and so now I'm on the cheap microphone that's picking everything up. I can't move.
Speaker 1:I don't think I can move to a place that has, like, the railroads right next door. Like a few times a day, a few times is too much. A few times is too many times.
Speaker 2:One time is too many times no, thank you, but hey, you can, I can go out there and wave them down and get a fresh maple syrup right off the the tracks, you know, right out of the storage.
Speaker 1:I feel like the main benefit is when shit goes real bad for you. You just get a stick and then like a little knapsack and you connect it and you just hop right on board. I'm gonna hobo this shit out, yep.
