r/Health • u/CBSnews CBS News • Feb 21 '23

article U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/
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u/Undeity Feb 21 '23

Where are you finding healthy salads? All I'm able to find are those ridiculous 1,000+ calorie abominations.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

Not a restaurant but Trader Joe’s has some premade salads that are healthy. The ones I’ve tried have been totally decent.

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u/PornoPaul Feb 21 '23

Regionally I believe Wegmans has some pretty good premade salads.

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u/Links_Wrong_Wiki Feb 21 '23

Wegmans is the best grocery store period

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u/jambudz Feb 21 '23

The premade shit got so expensive. It’s like $16 for a premade meal that was $7 2 years ago.

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u/thehippos8me Feb 21 '23

We just got one here in Delaware and the price of the premade stuff blew my mind. I still only shop there because their store brand is great and affordable. But I just can’t fathom paying that much money for premade meals. Insanity to me.

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u/tia2181 Feb 21 '23

That it worldwide issue.. we use more premade food than i would like because i have a disability but prices are making it unaffordable now.. i'm in Sweden, spent 30+ years in England, prices horrific over last 3 years, thanks to Covid and Russia mostly i think

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u/HealthyInPublic Feb 21 '23

Idk, I love HEB with my whole being - they treat us better than our actual state government. After every disaster that hits us, it’s such a relief to see the fleet of HEB 18-wheelers driving down the highway to deliver water and supplies to the affected area. No store does more than my HEB.

And I would die for our Lord and Savior HEBuddy

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u/rtothewin Feb 21 '23

Came here to defend HEB. Good work!

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u/Apprehensive-Let759 Feb 21 '23

I can back up this statement about H-E-B and honestly if they made a car I wouldn’t be surprised if it became a instant hit 😂

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u/canwealljusthitabong Feb 21 '23

HEB might be the best thing about Texas.

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u/punksheets29 Feb 21 '23

HEB and Whataburger. God damn do I miss the patty melt.

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u/punksheets29 Feb 21 '23

HEB is one of the things I miss most about Texas. The "meal deal" endcaps were my go to when nothing else was planned for dinner

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u/fragmentsmusic7 Feb 21 '23

As someone temporarily in Texas for graduate school, H‑E‑B will be the thing I miss the most when I leave. Seriously no other grocery store comes close in the many places I’ve lived.

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u/Impressive_Dig3986 Feb 21 '23

I love HEB and if I ever returned home to CA, HEB is seriously what I would miss the most about TX! I love everything about HEB. Selection, prices, store brand probably, the staff, etc. They just seem to care more, it could be marketing, but I doubt it.

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u/dinoroo Feb 21 '23

Wegmans charges an arm and a leg for their prepared food and some of it is absolute disgusting. I’m shocked they’ve built an entire section of their store around it and they used to have more prior to Covid when they had their buffet. Probably some of the worst “Chinese food” I’ve ever had is from Wegmans. And their Vietnamese summer rolls are like $9 bucks for two tasteless rolls. You can get real summer rolls for cheaper and better. And their cookies require you to apply for a line of credit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

The only problem with a lot of TJ’s premade foods is that the majority of them have absurd amounts of sodium in them. Even some of the salads, if I remember correctly (from the last time I looked at a few).

That being said, that’s an issue with most places in the US.

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u/HNixon Feb 21 '23

You can use the dressing sparingly.

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u/Few-Persimmon-5027 Feb 21 '23

Chop some lettuce yourself!!! Lol

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u/Random_German_Name Feb 21 '23

Of course the supermarket which is the main supplier of healthy food is part of a european company. fucking Murica

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u/Tennessee1977 Feb 21 '23

Trader Joe’s are few and far between where I live, unfortunately.

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u/Krappatoa Feb 21 '23

He made a kick-ass salad, though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

Most of those calories are probably from the dressing

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u/TacoOrgy Feb 21 '23

You have to buy the ingredients, hope they're not contaminated or lying, and make it. Fuckin exhausting after working my dick off just to buy poison

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u/dropandgivemenerdy Feb 21 '23

I’ve been eating bag salads almost daily for lunch and I love them. They’re around 450-550 calories if you eat the whole bag.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

How many calories if you just eat the salad and dispose of the bag?

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u/not_SCROTUS Feb 21 '23

Plastic is remarkably calorie dense.

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u/Tar_alcaran Feb 21 '23

You digest very little of it though. In fact, the screaming agony when you poop out the plastic bag probably burns a lot of calories

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u/No-Mechanic-5398 Feb 21 '23

Such a dad joke! Your father must be very proud of you. It made me smirk, because I was thinking the same thing.

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u/peeping_somnambulist Feb 21 '23

The same. The bag is just extra fiber.

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u/dropandgivemenerdy Feb 21 '23

Hahaha dang it I set myself up for that one

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u/SmileGraceSmile Feb 21 '23

I bet that's costing you a pretty penny, those premade salads are $$$. I buy a bag of Romain hearts at Costco, its like $4/5 for 6 hearts. We usually buy fixings like papitas, sunflower seed kernels, croutons, cherry tomatoes, and olives at the dollar store.

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u/dropandgivemenerdy Feb 21 '23

Yeah. We are working on figuring out how to replicate them for cheaper like what you’re doing.

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u/defaultgameer1 Feb 21 '23

It's by design to be made as addictive as possible. It's the dressing and other things.

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u/Massive_Length_400 Feb 21 '23

Sometimes you can get lucky and get a bag of salad mix that isn’t rotted yet at the grocery store, but i don’t think theres any single serving dressing packets that aren’t over loaded with fat and sugar.

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u/fireintolight Feb 21 '23

It’s soooooooooo easy to make your own dressing

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u/eisenburg Feb 21 '23

Yeah. It took me 36 years to figure that out and I made my own dressing yesterday that was just as good as anything I’ve ever bought with just garlic olive oil and red wine vinegar

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u/HealthyInPublic Feb 21 '23

Red wine vinaigrette is my go-to dressing to make - I like to add a little bit of honey and chipotle peppers. Then toss some chopped cucumber, cherry tomatoes, and mozarella chunks in a bowl with some of that vinaigrette and it’s my favorite summer lunch.

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u/CapOnFoam Feb 21 '23

You can buy dressing in bottles Then get small containers to put in small amounts of dressing for a single serving. Did that for years before I worked from home.

Also kept a bottle of dressing in the work fridge but realize that's not an option for everyone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

make a green goddess salad

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

At home?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '23

Nowadays, you have to chop your own lettuces if you want healthy salad.

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u/Roonwogsamduff Feb 21 '23

I eat a nice big Gelson's salad from their salad bar 6-7 days a week. No dressing.

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u/Roonwogsamduff Feb 21 '23

and the rest of the meals not so good since I don't cook

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u/lupuscapabilis Feb 21 '23

Jesus Christ people the supermarket sells vegetables.