My favorite protein source is ......

[Stinky The Clown]

Poll question: My favorite protein source is ......

... and why?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. How do I vote

for all of them?

[grasswire]

2. nobody voted for tofu

Oddly enough.

It might not be my favorite source, but my most common source is dairy. Milk, cheese, yogurt. Milk and a handful of almonds for breakfast. Yogurt for snack. Cottage cheese for snack. Cheddar or jack with some vegetables for lunch. More glasses of milk.

Ah, the life of a low carber.

[troubleinwinter]

23. Tofu

On a hot summer day, I cube some cold tofu, put it in a bowl, sprinkle it with a bit of shoyu and green onions and call it lunch*. Light, cool and refreshing ('course, I partly grew up in Hawaii, so it's a 'childhood favorite').


*May only be eaten with chopsticks.

[hippywife]

3. Hard for me to vote, too.

If we're talking strictly taste, beef is probably my number one favorite. That being said, I try not eat much of it. I used to eat lots and lots of it but raising beef is not good for the environment. Now I have it maybe once every week or two. Same with other meats. I have to watch protein as a whole because I develop uric acid kidney stones at the drop of a hat. As long as I watch my intake, take my allopurinol and drink lots of water, and lemonade, I do lots better.

If we're talking which source I use more often, it has to be peanut butter.

[supernova]

4. I love fish, but it's complicated

:P

Deciding what and how much of any one fish you can safely eat for health or environmental reasons is tricky, which is why I usually wind up with chicken.

[hippywife]

8. Try checking out that

Better World Shopper link I posted this weekend. He covers seafood, too, based on those criteria that you mention.

:hi:

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I intended "Favorite" to be interpreted in the most hedonistic way possible

[hippywife]

7. Well, if we're being total hedonists

and consequences be damned, give me a big ol' rib eye medium rare! :rofl:

[japple]

9. Then it would have to be bacon. Of all the foods I miss

the most...bacon.

[japple]

6. I voted for fowl because it can be prepared in so many ways

and is relatively affordable. If I were going on taste alone, the flavor and texture of bacon is my favorite, but my diet doesn't allow that except on rare occasions, and I don't buy it anymore.

[Lucinda]

10. I'm a bit of a Protein Ho. I have favorite dishes with them all

and can switch happily to vegetarian at the drop of a hat, and have a several times.

Bill however, is a pork fanatic. It's a food group for him. And seafood.

[The empressof all]

11. My favorite is not the same as the one I use most often

My favorite would of course be a Juicy Rib Eye or T Bone...with onions and mushrooms. The Protein I use most often...every day in fact are the egg whites in a carton. I make omelette's and I make sugar free meringue fluff for desserts....Pretty much at one point each day, I'll use the egg whites.

[hippywife]

19. Yeah, I forgot about eggs.

With 8 chickens and all the baking I do, I use lots of eggs. Not everyday tho. Which reminds me, I have too many in the fridge. Gotta take some to work and give them to the girls in the kitchen who save me the scraps from the salad bar.

[troubleinwinter]

12. I couldn't manage to vote.

I sat there for the longest time trying to decide. I love them ALL. But you forgot eggs.

[eleny]

13. I can't choose between pork and fowl

We eat so much chicken these days and enjoy it a lot. But toss me a bone-in pork chop and back away! Or green chili with pork shoulder meat in it... mmm..... mmmm!

I also love seafood. Grew up on the east coast where fresh caught fish could be purchased right at the dock when boats came in. Or we'd go crabbing off a bridge. There's nothing like it.

Maybe I should choose "Other" because I'm stumped.

[troubleinwinter]

14. I love pork.

Pork and duck may be my favorites, but lamb was not on the poll list.

Went out to dinner with my dad a few nights ago to an Indian place & had saag (lamb & spinach). We don't get much lamb in this country.

The restaurant owner was enthused about the goat and gave me a 'tasting' after dinner. Seemed uninteresting to me (stringy), without the special taste of lamb. I wish lamb wasn't so expensive.

The best fish I have tasted was when husband and I were back-packing in the high eastern Sierra. The eastern brook trout flesh is pink like salmon. A high-mountain trout at 14,000 feet in a pan with a little lemon is about as close as I've come to heaven.

[hippywife]

15. Mine keeps promising

me fresh trout cooked in butter for breakfast at our campsite. Been promising me that since we've been married, too. :rofl:

[troubleinwinter]

17. I won't be having them any more.

For one thing, I'm too rickety to go hiking in the high Sierra carrying my house and kitchen on my back. Also, husband had "a conversation" with a trout, and hung up his rod forever.

:shrug:

[hippywife]

18. A conversation?

Did it threaten to kick his ass?

We usually car camp. I would love to pack it in somewhere remote but I'm too old and too out of shape.

[troubleinwinter]

20. We had very often fished for trout...

streams, rivers and lakes. Great way to be 'out there' and eat wonderfully.

One day, he caught a particularly big and wonderful Brook trout. As he held it, it looked him in the eyes and said, "I don't want to die."

He put her back into the water and hung up his rod.

That's all I know.

[troubleinwinter]

21. I love car camping!!!!!!

I loved backpacking, but those days are gone for me.

[hippywife]

22. I'm waiting for the day

when the tent is a thing of the past. But we're putting it off as long as possible.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

25. You got that right

Long ago, we were tenting on the Snake River in Idaho, and I, the brand-new-fly-fishergirl, was lucky enough to snag a rainbow trout. My then-new husband, skilled and experienced at these things, immediately built a fire, cleaned the fish and cooked it for me.

Later, on a trip to Arkansas, camping in the Ozarks, he caught a black bass. Did the same thing, cooked it right up for me to eat.

There will never be anything as good as those fish. Nothing. Not ever.

[pengillian101]

27. Hey! That's my story too!

"Long ago, we were tenting on the Snake River in Idaho, and I, the brand-new-fly-fishergirl, was lucky enough to snag a rainbow trout. My then-new husband, skilled and experienced at these things, immediately built a fire, cleaned the fish and cooked it for me."

I could have written pretty much exactly the same experience. :hi:

Living in Idaho in 1970's and 80's was quite a time.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

28. We built a beautiful house there

Got it blown up by The Order. Ugly story, ugly time. It was in the early eighties. I'm glad I can't remember the exact year without opening a file cabinet drawer.

But, oh, yes, what a place. What an achingly beautiful place. We both had high-powered jobs, one in Los Angeles, one in Washington, DC, and we rendezvoused in Denver on Friday afternoons, and made our way northwest.

I'll wager you've got story upon story, hmmmm?

:toast:

[pengillian101]

29. Do you mean this Order?

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/paranoia-as-patriotism/the-order.html

I can't imagine. How awful.

"I'll wager you've got story upon story, hmmmm?"

Not really, we were just blue and pink collar workers in Boise that loved to experience the rest of that beautiful state and surrounding states every chance we got. My best photograph ever taken was in Stanley, Idaho and I swore I would retire there.
:hi:

[pleah]

16. A balance of all of the above.

Although we don't eat as much beef these days, to expensive.

[htuttle]

24. Tender juicy little birdies

I love fowl in all of it's forms, though rabbit ain't bad, either. I should have been born a cat!

[pengillian101]

26. ... and why?

I chose fish because I included shell seafood. Crab, shrimp, scallops, lobster including almost any fish are my favorites.

But I love all proteins (not including tofu, lol.)

[Beacool]

30. My favorite protein is beef,

but I eat it only once in a while and tend to eat chicken and turkey much more often. I also try to eat fish twice a week. Why? Because it's healthier and tend to have less calories too.

:(