I recently spoke with employees at Jet City Pizza in Seattle about their usage of trans fat.
Unfortunately they are taking advantage of the ban’s 0.5gram or less per serving rule.
Jet City Pizza uses a mix of butter and margarine in their pizza crust.
A serving is typically one slice, and I know at least when I have pizza, I rarely have just one slice.
Sorry Jet City, not only did you lose my business, but many other people I know as well.
I sent another email to AMC Theaters making sure that there wasn’t anything else bad in the popcorn (high fructose corn syrup, MSG), and I got this reply
Gil,
The nutritional information for most of our items can be found at their respective manufacturers’ websites. Our hot dogs are Oscar Mayer, our tortilla chips are Tostitos, our cheese is FunNacho, and all of our candy is name-brand.
Our popcorn is Orville Redenbacher brand popcorn seed. It is popped in a mixture of 100% coconut oil and butteral (a salt & butter blend which contains milk and soy). There are no additional ingredients in our popcorn besides what I have mentioned here.
Please let me know if I can be of any more assistance!
While milk and soy are debated non-paleo ingredients, for a fun time at the movies, this seems like very good news.
An exciting day for all late night burger craver’s:
It has come to my attention today that Dick’s Drive In in Seattle has gone trans fat free!
I sent AMC Theaters an email asking about transfats in the popcorn. This was the reply I got (and less than 24 hours after sending)
Dear Gil,
Thank you for contacting AMC Theatres. I have attached a copy of the nutritional information for our small, medium, and large sized popcorns. Our popcorn is prepared with coconut oil, which is not hydrogenated and contains no trans fats. Additionally, I wanted to let you know that we do not offer any products at our concession stand which contain trans fat.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact me directly at (800) xxx-xxxx.
Sincerely,
Nick LaBruzzo
Coordinator, Operations Excellence
AMC Theatres
Ph: (800) xxx-xxxx
Fax: (816) xxx-xxxx
I am still going to try to find an ingredients list and will post it once I have it.
The attached nutritional guide showed that there are still pretty high levels of sodium and saturated fats, but at least transfats are at a zero.
Friday April 25th:
8:00am:
-1 Hard Boiled Egg
-1 Banana
-Orange Juice
10:30am:
-Pistachios
12:00pm:
-Chicken Ceaser Salad
-Fruit Cup
6:00pm:
-Salad w:
-Lettuce
-Spinach
-Broccoli
-Green Peas
-Mushrooms
-Chicken
-Beef
-Olive Oil/ Vinegar
Cheats:
-Dairy in Ceaser Salad
This was the last day for this Paleo trial. I enjoyed it very much and the energy boost was amazing. I stopped my usual routine of struggling to wake up in the morning, and was easily able to get up each day. I’ll decide at what level I want to do this if at all once I am done reading “The Paleo Diet” by Loren Cordain.
Thursday April 24th:
8:00am:
-1 Hard Boiled Egg
-1 Orange
-1 Banana
-1 Cup Orange Juice
-Smoked Salmon
10:30am:
-Pistachios
12:45pm:
-Mixed Green Salad W/ Chicken
3:45pm:
-1 Hard Boiled Egg
-1 Apple
5:15pm:
-Organic Baby Carrots
9:00pm:
-3/4 Chicken
-Mixed Green Salad w/ Nuts
Wednesday April 23rd:
8:00am:
-2 Hard Boiled Eggs
-1 Banana
-1 Orange
-2 Cups Orange Juice
10:30am:
-Handful Pistachios
12:30pm:
-2 Chicken Breasts
CHEAT:
4:30pm:
-1 scoop Baskin and Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Ice-cream
7:15pm:
-Salmon W/ Green Onions
-Stir Fry Vegetables:
-Broccoli
-Green/ Yellow Peppers
-Mushrooms
-Onions
-Grapes
The sun was out and I was really craving some ice cream. Ben & Jerries decided to go out of business so I was stuck with B&R. I felt horribly after eating it; bloated, tired, and had a weird feeling in my throat. Made me want to keep going with Paleo.
Other Improvements:
-Chicken at lunch had questionable ingredients. It was from QFC and everytime I get it there is different ingredients listed, I believe they printed the wrong label and what I ate was just chicken with nothing bad.
-Ice cream was an obvious mistake
-Salmon was cooked in soy sauce, making it not truly Paleo
I will try to finish Thursday and Friday strong and then take a break over the weekend. I don’t know how fully I will be able to continue after this week, though I will try.
Tuesday April 22nd
9:30am:
- 1 Hard Boiled Egg
- 1 Banana
- 1 Orange
- 1 Cup Orange Juice
10:45am:
-Handful Pistachios
12:15pm:
-Taco Salad
-Handful Pistachios
-1 Banana
-Water
3:15pm:
-1 Hard Boiled Egg
-Apple
7:15pm:
-1/2 Chicken
-Mixed Green Salad
Dessert:
-Organic Apple Sauce
Cheats:
-Taco Salad contained cheese (and was from a school cafeteria)
-Organic Apple Sauce contained added sugar
Monday April 21st:
8:15am:
-Smoked Salmon
-1 Hard Boiled Egg
-Orange Juice
12:15pm:
-2 Chicken Breasts
-Water
4:45pm:
-Canned Tuna W/ Canola Mayo
7:00pm:
-4 Egg Omelet w/
-Onions
-Smoked Salmon
-Left over salmon from last night
-Mixed Green Salad w/
-Lettuce
-Black Olives
-Broccoli
-Carrots
-Green Peppers
Water
Dessert:
-1/2 Grapefruit
-1 Bowl Organic Apple Sauce
Possible improvements:
-Salad Dressing’s first ingredient was sugar-nothing artificial in it though
-Applesauce contains added sugar
-Canned Tuna has some preservatives in it
I have been reading up lately on the Paleo Diet. It is based off only eating foods that the hunter/ gatherers of the Paleolithic societies had available. The diet is made up of eating lean meats, chicken, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. There are no processed foods allowed as well as no wheat, potatoes, rice, soy, processed/ fatty meats. This is obviously a very hard diet to follow but it is worth experimenting with. Here is what I ate today.
Sunday April 20th:
10:30am
-3 Scrambled Eggs
-Smoked Salmon
-Orange Juice
-Orange
-Banana
3:30pm
-Chicken Caaser Salad
-Apple
-Water
5:30pm
-Handful Pistachios
7:30pm
-Salmon w/ spices, onions, lemon
-Stir fry: W/ Garlic and Parsley Flakes
-Green Pepper
-Yellow Pepper
-Broccoli
-Onions
-Mushrooms
-Side Salad
-Cucumber Salad
-Water
-Strawberries
-Grapes
While this is the concept of an ideal diet, this blog will continue to update information for non Paleo foods and restaurants as well. I partially cheated having dairy cheese in the Caeser Salad.