Egg Everything bagel all the way. Also, the best are in NyC. I My husband may be biased towards this, but since I am not a New Yorker, and have been coerced into eating a ton of bagels, the ones in the city/Brooklyn are hands downs softer AND the everything bagels also have rolled oats on top 😉
I completely understand your situation, your dilemma, and the difficulty of working-thru (and past) dieting (healthy?!?!) behavior! Until recently, I ordered brown rice sushi rolls (and also quinoa in place of rice!) which is totally inappropriate and disrespectful to the Japanese sushi chefs...but wasn’t that the “healthy” choice?! Getting comfortable with once-familiar foods (white bread, pasta, white rice, etc) takes time. As RDs, I believe it’s up to us to help reduce the stigma and harm of always choosing the health-promoting foods in place of the foods that bring the most satisfaction and pleasure.
Oh man, you just reminded me of the brown rice/quinoa sushi rolls - I'm definitely guilty of ordering those too! I completely agree with you that dietitians need to be modeling healthy relationships with food, which means choosing the foods that truly taste good to us, instead of just showing off how much *nutrition knowledge* we have by always picking the "healthiest" choice (quotes because even calling something healthy or unhealthy feels like a weird binary to label things). I think the hardest part for me still is that people who know my job but don't know me very well love to comment every time they see me eating something "unexpected" and sometimes I can become tired of saying things like "yes, I'm eating a burger and fries because that's what looked the best to me today..."
I’m constantly criticized for eating “real” ice cream and baking with copious amounts of butter! What’s the point of living if not to enjoy life? When I finished my Dietetic Internship (20+ yrs ago 😬), I knew that clinical/hospital work wasn’t for me. I couldn’t force bland “healthy” diets upon people in their final days/months of life. Where’s the pleasure in existing on a low-sodium/low-fat diet during the final days of life? Sorry to be so grim, but that was not how I wanted to pursue dietetics.
Egg Everything bagel all the way. Also, the best are in NyC. I My husband may be biased towards this, but since I am not a New Yorker, and have been coerced into eating a ton of bagels, the ones in the city/Brooklyn are hands downs softer AND the everything bagels also have rolled oats on top 😉
We need some specific bagel shop recommendations!!! Considering going on a quest to find the best bagels in NJ/NYC...
I really like Blackseed bagels!
Bagel Boy or Mr Bagel in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Oat bran sesame sticks. My new passion.
Yum!!
I completely understand your situation, your dilemma, and the difficulty of working-thru (and past) dieting (healthy?!?!) behavior! Until recently, I ordered brown rice sushi rolls (and also quinoa in place of rice!) which is totally inappropriate and disrespectful to the Japanese sushi chefs...but wasn’t that the “healthy” choice?! Getting comfortable with once-familiar foods (white bread, pasta, white rice, etc) takes time. As RDs, I believe it’s up to us to help reduce the stigma and harm of always choosing the health-promoting foods in place of the foods that bring the most satisfaction and pleasure.
Oh man, you just reminded me of the brown rice/quinoa sushi rolls - I'm definitely guilty of ordering those too! I completely agree with you that dietitians need to be modeling healthy relationships with food, which means choosing the foods that truly taste good to us, instead of just showing off how much *nutrition knowledge* we have by always picking the "healthiest" choice (quotes because even calling something healthy or unhealthy feels like a weird binary to label things). I think the hardest part for me still is that people who know my job but don't know me very well love to comment every time they see me eating something "unexpected" and sometimes I can become tired of saying things like "yes, I'm eating a burger and fries because that's what looked the best to me today..."
I’m constantly criticized for eating “real” ice cream and baking with copious amounts of butter! What’s the point of living if not to enjoy life? When I finished my Dietetic Internship (20+ yrs ago 😬), I knew that clinical/hospital work wasn’t for me. I couldn’t force bland “healthy” diets upon people in their final days/months of life. Where’s the pleasure in existing on a low-sodium/low-fat diet during the final days of life? Sorry to be so grim, but that was not how I wanted to pursue dietetics.