July 22, 2006
View Comments | Post CommentWhole vs. Low Fat vs. No Fat
When you go to buy almost any dairy product, you have an important choice to make. That choice is one that will shape the type of person you are, and tell someone else more about you than you would probably like. It is a choice that must be made conciously, and a choice that many would die to protect, maybe, in some kind of screwy world run by Kraft.
That choice is whether or not to buy reduced fat dairy products. Some people think in some cases the health benefits outweigh the tradeoff in taste. Others think the opposite. Personally, I always get reduced fat, but never fat free. Fat free is crossing the line. Fat free is a declaration that you have no interest in how your food tastes at all. If I used milk in my coffee, I wouldn't buy fat free, because it just doesnt cream the coffee as well as whole milk. But I don't even think whole milk does that great a job either, so I stick to half and half, unless Im at work where there is none, a situation that has taught me to drink that shit black.
The tide is changing, however, in my stance on cream cheese. I last bought a little tub of reduced fat cream cheese to go with my blueberry bagels in the morning. My bagels have been rather unsatisfying as of late, but usually they are fine with publix reduced fat cream cheese. My roomate Dan knows better. He only buys Philadelphia soft cream cheese. I borrowed a little bit of it to use the other day, and I was amazed at how I had forgotten the difference. The bagel had a lot more wetness with the full fat cream cheese that perfectly countered the dry, thick breadiness and blueberry flavor of the bagel.
So now hear this, reduced fat cream cheese. My time with you is through. I know this is hard on you. I would be upset if I broke up with me too. I'm not pulling myself away from you; I'm just pulling myself more towards me.
In which cases do you make the reduced fat tradeoff and by how much?
Posted by Chris Santoro at July 22, 2006 7:38 PM | Comments (8) | EatFoo 1.0 Posts
Comments
Post a new comment
In which cases do you make the reduced fat tradeoff and by how much?
With dairy products, never. There's just too much of a difference. Potato chips and Club crackers, I'm fine with Reduced Fat. Everything else is full fat for me.
Posted by: Barzelay at July 23, 2006 4:48 AM
- 1% or 2% milkfat.
- never reduced fat ice cream. never.
Posted by: Mark W. at July 24, 2006 11:57 AM
I rarely lean towards reduced fat anything, except milk from time to time. I prefer food all-natural in all its fatty goodness.
Yes, that is my chin you hear wobbling.
Posted by: Natasha D'Souza at July 24, 2006 12:16 PM
Aw yeah man, definitely, if you are going to eat ice cream, you just have to do it. I don't know if I could be friends with someone who eats reduced fat ice cream.
Posted by: Chris Santoro at July 24, 2006 7:13 PM
who wants reduced fat ice cream?
who wants steak with reduced flavor?
give me both of those things RAW.
Posted by: Mark W. at July 24, 2006 8:27 PM
Considering I'm from Wisconsin, this is a subject near to my heart.
I drink skim milk because everything else is too damn thick to be rightfully called a beverage. But basically everything else has to be full fat. I love my cheese, and I just can't compromise on the flavor.
Posted by: Aaron at July 26, 2006 12:22 PM
i recently bought some low-fat cheese to try on crackers. not only was the taste sub-par, but the consistency was completely awry and strangely plastic-like. needless to say, i cannot and will not make the low-fat compromise in the cheese arena (except for laughing cow, which somehow manages to make a really good garlic and herb swiss soft cheese that is really delicious, low in calories, and perfect with crackers).
Posted by: jeanette at July 28, 2006 10:09 PM
You should try taste-testing Edy's full fat ice cream vs. Edy's Slow-Churned (1/2 fat, 1/3 less calories). The low-fat version is creamier...better. We did a blind taste test and chose the lower fat version as the full fat version.
Posted by: me at October 26, 2006 4:12 PM
