Originally Posted by
It'sHip2B^2
Add fiber and protein then reduce fat and carbs. WW point plus values are a real valued function on R^4 whose first partial derivatives are negative with respect to fiber and protein and postive with respect to fat and carbs.
Michael Pollan's rules sounds a little like bunk to me. Using his definition of factory made you'd have to aviod make anything with dihydrogen monoxide. Everything has a chemical name and almost all of them are polysyllabic. Heck homemade whole wheat bread requires two types of flour, sugar, yeast, water, egg, salt, and shortening -- all of which if broken down into chemical components would have polysyllabic names. Seems to me it's much better to teach portion sizes and change peoples eating habits from fatty, nutrient deficient foods to lower fat, nutrient rich foods.
I have misrepresented Michael Pollan, and I apologize. He doesn't say anything about polysyllabic ingredients (my attempt to be humorous about chemical additives to food) except things like "Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature." For me, homemade bread meets this standard; things with guar gum, inulin and carageenan generally don't (but maybe I just need to expand my horizons). At least a third of his rules deal with portion sizes and avoiding mindless eating.
I find his rules useful, but everyone has their own things that work for them.
Originally Posted by
kipper
The ingredients for their oatmeal: oats, oat bran, inulin, natural flavor, carrageenan, sea salt, cinnamon, sucralose (splenda brand), natural vitamin e for freshness.
I think there are less ingredients in it than there are in my standard instant oatmeal.
It wouldn't occur to me to eat instant oatmeal either, so I guess this is just a class of foods outside my comfort zone.
I asked because it seemed to me that rolled oats were a pretty basic low fat food, and I couldn't figure out what WW could take out of them to make them lower in fat and carbs (since that's what points represent, thank you It'sHip2B^2).