Road Kill Blues

[Guest guest]

Yes, a cooler is your best road companion

as is knowing where the grocery stores are.

lol@ your road kill comments.

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, The Stewarts <stews9@c...>

wrote:

 

> Finally, let us address the topic of road-kill. Basically there

are two

> types, animal and vegetable. The animal kind is to be avoided by

all but

> the most ardent taxidermy amateurs and back-roads gourmands, while

the

> veggie kind are indeed suitable for consumption by the average

lacto-ovo

> as long as there are fewer than three tread-marks, no part of the

bumper

> or grill remains embedded in the product, (this includes chips of

glass

> from headlights, a hazard encountered surprisingly often in dark

> communities), and most importantly as long as the product has been

mowed

> down in a fair and reasonable manner by a relatively sober primate.

>

> Beyond that you're on your own.

[Guest guest]

" The lunch was a pita bread stuffed with fake bacon,

cheddar cheese, salad, and some picante. "

 

Sounds good...those strips are great.

 

" There is Taco Bell for bean burritos and bean tacos "

 

Is there lard in those suckers? 10 grams of fat for one bean burrito.

 

" Wednesday'

s also sells wonderful baked potatoes if you're not on a low-glycemic diet. "

 

Get yourself a 99 cent side salad and a 99 cent baked tater, get the italian

or house vinagrette dressing and pour on both and you have nice cheap meal.

 

" . IHOP can work, "

 

I recently discovered a Denny's down here had a Boca burger meal on their

menu.

 

" Then there is Olive Garden for the once in a while splurge "

 

Ugh, I would hardly call that splurging...just my opinion though. Generic.

 

HaHa, funny roadkill bit.

 

Have a great weekend all!

Shawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live on nothing but food and

water.

- W.C. Fields

 

 

 

 

 

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The Stewarts <stews9

 

 

Road Kill Blues

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:17:38 -0500

 

We face this all the time. One trick is to stop thinking of food time as

fast food time. Instead, find a grocery store -- there is usually one

along those strips where one finds the BK and KFC and so on -- and buy

some healthy fresh alternatives.

 

One great veggie lunch we used on the road, usually on the first day out,

is to make the Morningstar Farm bacon stuff up ahead of time and put it

into a plastic bag. The lunch was a pita bread stuffed with fake bacon,

cheddar cheese, salad, and some picante. Simple, tasty, and didn't take

up a lot of room in the cooler.

 

We are often grateful for Subway, and of course in most grocery stores one

can buy a baguette and many other yummy, fresh things.

 

We also started taking along an electric wok, in which we've successfully

made spaghetti, stir-fry, and soups -- amazingly versatile, just plug in

on the bathroom counter. (This is for when you don't spring for hotel

rooms with kitchenettes, which usually means a microwave.)

 

If you do get a room with a wave, you can eat all sorts of yummy frozen

entrees. We enjoyed the Linda McCartney brands when traveling in CA, for

instance.

 

There is Taco Bell for bean burritos and bean tacos, there is Wednesdays

for Spring Salads, and there is now BK for veggie burgers which, as you

mentioned, get old fast. Fries are to gag for no matter where. Wednesday'

s also sells wonderful baked potatoes if you're not on a low-glycemic diet.

 

We boycott McDonald's and see no point to Arby's or Bonanza or Ruby

Tuesday's or Bennigan's or Carlos O'Kelly's or any of those cutesy kitsch

crap places. IHOP can work, but is pricey and high-caloric. Fazoli's is

a fast-food Italian chain but rumor has it it's McDonald's who owns it.

Then there is Olive Garden for the once in a while splurge, which for road

food isn't bad.

 

Finally, let us address the topic of road-kill. Basically there are two

types, animal and vegetable. The animal kind is to be avoided by all but

the most ardent taxidermy amateurs and back-roads gourmands, while the

veggie kind are indeed suitable for consumption by the average lacto-ovo

as long as there are fewer than three tread-marks, no part of the bumper

or grill remains embedded in the product, (this includes chips of glass

from headlights, a hazard encountered surprisingly often in dark

communities), and most importantly as long as the product has been mowed

down in a fair and reasonable manner by a relatively sober primate.

 

Beyond that you're on your own.

 

On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 03:15 PM,

wrote:

 

> Hard to Eat Well While Traveling

>

> Hi all! Just got back from a week of travel (my first since becoming a

> vegetarian a month ago) and boy is it difficult to eat healthy on the

> road! The only vegetarian options I could find at most of the places I

> went were veggie burgers or plain salads. That got old fast, and then I

> was left with deep fried vegetables or other grease-loaded stuff which I'

> m sure were fried in the same oil as the meats. I guess next time I need

> to plan better, take more of my own food, and call ahead to find out

> where to eat! Hugs, Ronda in Oregon

>

" We are dark thoughts in shadow lost at night in a brain development gone

wild. "

--Diogenes Trannell, keyboards

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

> Is there lard in those suckers? 10 grams of fat for

> one bean burrito.

 

Both the beans and rice at Taco Bell (as well as the

flour tortillas) are vegan. The rice used to have

chicken broth in it, but Taco Bell removed it by

popular demand.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

yay! something i can have from taco hell that doesn't ahve dairy in it!

 

Megan

 

-

" Lori " <mrsshf

 

Saturday, May 03, 2003 8:17 AM

Re: Road Kill Blues

 

 

> > Is there lard in those suckers? 10 grams of fat for

> > one bean burrito.

>

> Both the beans and rice at Taco Bell (as well as the

> flour tortillas) are vegan. The rice used to have

> chicken broth in it, but Taco Bell removed it by

> popular demand.

>

>

>

>

> The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

> http://search.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the information Lori, much appreciated. I'm still trying to

figure out how to get 10 grams of fat out of 1 of those suckers if it

doesn't contain lard though. It's not like they load it with cheese. Maybe

I misread this info. on their site. What ever happened to that annoying

dog....though cute (in a wacky way) at the same time. That Long John Silver

shrimp (or whatever the heck it is) sounds like that dog....voice-over guy's

career continues.

 

S.

 

 

 

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live on nothing but food and

water.

- W.C. Fields

 

 

 

 

 

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Lori <mrsshf

 

 

Re: Road Kill Blues

Sat, 3 May 2003 08:17:35 -0700 (PDT)

 

> Is there lard in those suckers? 10 grams of fat for

> one bean burrito.

 

Both the beans and rice at Taco Bell (as well as the

flour tortillas) are vegan. The rice used to have

chicken broth in it, but Taco Bell removed it by

popular demand.

 

 

 

 

The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

http://search.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Add Fritos for a nice crunch and better flavor!

 

S.

 

 

 

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live on nothing but food and

water.

- W.C. Fields

 

 

 

 

 

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" Megan Milligan " <yasminduran

 

 

Re: Road Kill Blues

Sat, 3 May 2003 09:15:48 -0700

 

yay! something i can have from taco hell that doesn't ahve dairy in it!

 

Megan

 

-

" Lori " <mrsshf

 

Saturday, May 03, 2003 8:17 AM

Re: Road Kill Blues

 

 

> > Is there lard in those suckers? 10 grams of fat for

> > one bean burrito.

>

> Both the beans and rice at Taco Bell (as well as the

> flour tortillas) are vegan. The rice used to have

> chicken broth in it, but Taco Bell removed it by

> popular demand.

>

>

>

>

> The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

> http://search.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I had one last night. They do have cheese.

[re:taco bell bean burritos]

I guess you can order them without cheese if

you are a vegan, but be warned, they do contain

cheese, and that is likely where that mystery 10 grams

fat comes from in the nutritional info.

 

~ PT ~

 

Bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

~ Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

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, " _- matrixenos -_ " <

matrixenos@h...> wrote:

> Thanks for the information Lori, much appreciated. I'm still

trying to

> figure out how to get 10 grams of fat out of 1 of those suckers if

it

> doesn't contain lard though. It's not like they load it with

cheese. Maybe

> I misread this info. on their site. What ever happened to that

annoying

> dog....though cute (in a wacky way) at the same time. That Long

John

Silver

> shrimp (or whatever the heck it is) sounds like that

dog....voice-over guy's

> career continues.

>

> S.

[Guest guest]

Taco Bell puts vegetable oil, they said corn oil, in the refried beans; about 20

years ago they switched from lard. That is where most of the fat comes from;

they put very little cheese in, but you can ask them to leave it off.

 

Fazoli's used to have a little tomato symbol on the menu to indicate vegetarian

items, but the local manager said the corporate office thought they were

" growing past that " . Their vegetable soup has chicken broth, he told me, but he

said they still have several vegetarian, and a few vegan items.

 

Panera Bread had a little sign informing their vegetarian clients that one of

their salad dressings has gelatin; they suggested a different dressing that is

vegan.

 

Johnny Rocket's has a veggie burger which they cook on the same grill as their

other burgers, after scraping it off a bit.

 

Wendy's has garden pita wraps and baked potatoes.

 

Cracker Barrel has egg substitutes, but it seems to be the lower cholesterol

kind made with egg whites. They have a veggie platter, and although most of

their vegetables are cooked with pork, it is possible pick 4 that aren't.

 

Ryan's and some of the other buffet places usually have enough unseasoned

vegetables and salad to make a meal for a vegetarian.

 

Subway has the veggie delight and sometimes veggie patty sandwiches, plus

salads.

 

Blimpies has at least one, and sometimes three choices of garden burger or black

bean burger patties; they are the Morningstar patties that aren't vegan.

 

Bagel deli shops usually have some kind of veggie sandwich with hummus or

avacado.

 

McAllister's deli has several vegetarian sandwiches plus vegetarian chili and

sometimes soup.

 

Walmart and most grocery stores sell little tubs of hummus to make quick

sandwiches when all else fails. I travel with a cooler full of veggie things,

just in case.

 

 

[Guest guest]

Oh yeah, I know they have cheese, but it's not like they load it on there

(or maybe my place doesn't). I just didn't think the amount would generate

that amount of fat grams. There should be a rule against them calling their

lil packets of sauce hot, medium and fire...it doesn't even deserve mild for

that matter, lol.

 

I got a package of flour tortilla mix to make some yummer tortillas.

 

Happy cinco de mayo all,

Shawn

 

 

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" ~ P_T ~ " <patchouli_troll

 

 

Re: Road Kill Blues

Mon, 05 May 2003 18:36:52 -0000

 

I had one last night. They do have cheese.

[re:taco bell bean burritos]

I guess you can order them without cheese if

you are a vegan, but be warned, they do contain

cheese, and that is likely where that mystery 10 grams

fat comes from in the nutritional info.

 

~ PT ~

 

Bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

~ Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

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, " _- matrixenos -_ " <

matrixenos@h...> wrote:

> Thanks for the information Lori, much appreciated. I'm still

trying to

> figure out how to get 10 grams of fat out of 1 of those suckers if

it

> doesn't contain lard though. It's not like they load it with

cheese. Maybe

> I misread this info. on their site. What ever happened to that

annoying

> dog....though cute (in a wacky way) at the same time. That Long

John

Silver

> shrimp (or whatever the heck it is) sounds like that

dog....voice-over guy's

> career continues.

>

> S.

 

 

 

 

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" Taco Bell puts vegetable oil, they said corn oil, in the refried beans;

about 20 years ago they switched from lard. That is where most of the fat

comes from; they put very little cheese in, but you can ask them to leave it

off. "

 

Oh ok thank you. That's what threw me off. I always see cans of refried

beans in the store that either contain lard or just beans and water. Being

the notion that TB bean burritos were vegetarian I assumed no lard and no

oil. Duh grocers aren't raunts. Yes sir I agree, they do skimp on the

cheesers...best to make your own...gotta toast them tortillas anyway unlike

TB. Thanks again.

 

S.

 

 

 

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" Dick Ford " <dickford

 

 

Re: Re: Road Kill Blues

Mon, 5 May 2003 13:57:09 -0500

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I took some Taco Belch burritos home and grilled them with onions and their

'fire' sauce in a fajita pan. It was tasty, but not as good as making something

from scratch.