my Nachos are not junk food

[resetusername]

So yesterday I was talking to another mum, was saying what we were having for dinner and explained all the ingredients in my nachos and she replied "wow, you hit the junk food hard on a saturday night, I couldn't do that"

I thought my nachos were relatively healthy.

They contain:

Corn tortillas (just made of corn, salt and sunflower oil - no nasties and the corn counts as 1 of 5 a day) a great source of carbs
Fresh guacamole (avacadoes , lemon juice, coriander, garlic) 3 of your 5
Fresh salsa (tomatoes, onion and vinegar) 2 of 5 a day
Full fat sour creme and cheese, only a small amount but a great source of vitamin d, calcium and protein.

That's not junk right?

[CheerfulYank]

She didn't mean that her guacamole contained 3 out of her five a day, I don't think. It looked to me as though she were counting 1) corn from tortilla chips 2)veg from salsa 3) avocado from guacamole. So three total.

When I make tortilla chips from tortillas I don't deep fry them, I bake them.

[Waltonswatcher]

FFs ,when did food get so bloody observed?

Its tea . Not world peace . It deserves all this attention ?

[twoopsie]

Totally agree and

[andsmileitschristmas]

lack of education on this thread surrounding what constitues a healthy meal is astounding.

[twoopsie]

Sounds pretty healthy to me

[FrenchJunebug]

corn nachos are not one of your five a day! I'll see the mean as a treat not as a regular. And I do love nachos!

[writtenguarantee]

Every food is fine in moderation. The problem is people over indulge.

true. but I think people need to recognize the not all nachos are the same. you can have nachos with store bought salsa (heavy in sugar and salt) covered in cheese and served with sour cream. Now that is more akin to junk food.

however, if you cover them with beans and veggies and serve with homemade salsas, you get a very different food.

[writtenguarantee]

Maybe you baked the nachos yourself?

store bought nachos (the plain kind) have only corn, salt and oil.

We serve our nachos with loads of beans, tomato salsa and guacamole (all homemade).

the tortilla chips are the only junk food there.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

Smile.

You are just assuming its a tiny amount of veg

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

I think the food police take it too far. Everyone in my house is thin and healthy and does plenty of exercise. We eat plenty of cheese and avocados and cream. Hell yeah we eat crisps and tortillas too. No one has any issues with food or weight problems. Everything in moderation.

[TheChandler]

I was thinking of having two bags of Monster Munch and a packet of Space Invaders, with extra onion, garlic and coriander, and some salsa sauce on top. Sounds equivalent!

In fact, theres loads of protein in chocolate - Mars Bar for breakfast anyone? Just think of all that goodness, swirling around in those saturated fats!

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

Wouldn't go near a hotdog though.

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

See my burgers and pizzas are not junk either. My burgers are homemade with steak mince, onion and breadcrumbs and served with a lot of salad and homemade wedgies. My pizza is homemade base and sauce and fully loaded with veggie toppings and moderate amounts of mozzarella and small amounts of salami.

Any meal can be junk or decent depending on how it is made.

[NoLongerJustAShopGirl]

Yawn..

If you don't think nachos constitutes a meal then you aren't doing it right! Had nachos in Texas and the meal occasion lasted for about 3 hours....

and proper pizza is not junk either - basically an open topped hot cheese and tomato sandwich...

anything processed is junk???? crap.... tomato purée/tinned tomatoes contain heaps of lycopene and are higher in nutrients than raw unprocessed tomatoes flown in from hothouses in Spain. White bread is fortified with calcium in the UK and has been regarded as responsible for the reduction in "widows stoop" osteoporosis.

[TheChandler]

Without going into the precise definitions given on here, I classify nachos as basically crisps unless they are freshly and very healthily made and they are not something I would consider a formal meal. Add avocaodos, cream and cheese to that and you have a combination of the most fat heavy ingredients possible.

Its something I would classify as a treat, a bit like chocolate or a bag of crisps.

Maybe you baked the nachos yourself?

[Artandco]

Self - that's how I would make also but like I said would still use a decent amount of avocados. We tend to eat less nachos though as each has larger topping/ dip

[andsmileitschristmas]

well I like burgers, pizzas and hotdogs and they are all junk food. Just because you like something and it has a tiny amount of veg in it does not make it ok.

anything processed is junk including products with refined flour and grains in, sugar...any process that is so severed that food manufatures have to add synthetic vitamins back into the food - along with the salt, sugar and fat and any other carcinogenic causing chemicals.

[Bulbasaur]

Every food is fine in moderation. The problem is people over indulge.

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

NeedsA, they are very good with chicken posole too!

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

Well I like round nachos with slices of avocado a great big spoonful of onion salad and spicy gherkin salsa and sometimes I like to eat them after hot and sour soup.

And I'm quite comfortable with that

[SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker]

I live about 15 miles from the Mexican border, it is probably the most popular cuisine here and my city has plenty of restaurants where most of the staff speak very limited english and the menu is all in spanish etc so pretty authentic. If you go to a restaurant you would pretty much never get ½ an avocados worth of guac even though we grow avocados here. It is usually made by making pico de gallo and then adding chopped/mashed avocado it in. It usually has onion, fresh chili, coriander (we call it cilantro) and plenty of tomato in it. If I make it for my family of four a generous amount (and my sons are 14 and 18 so hungry) is two avocados worth once mixed with the other ingredients. And as we live near the part of Mexico that grows wheat the freshly made tortilla chips at a restaurant are usually flour based.

[PrimalLass]

I do add tomatoes to guac though. confused

And again, I am a bit greedy, so would think nothing of having a huge heap of guac and a huge heap of salsa, plus lettuce etc. I do think that when we have tacos it's pretty ok, health-wise.

[MaidOfStars]

People who think eating 1/2-1 avocado's worth of guac is implausible simply aren't making their guac right. I use 3 avocados for 2 adults and it's gone. This is not puréed mush, this is chunky deliciousness.

[Artandco]

I wouldn't say 1 avocado each is 'vast quanities', for same meal I. Would use x3 avocados between x2 adults and x2 children. Salsa would be a whole vine of tomatoes ( about 8 large ones)

[StillSquirrelling]

PrimalLass No, the tomato/onion mention was for the salsa - sorry for the confusion. I'm just saying, that to get the equivalent of a portion of fruit/veg from what is effectively a condiment then you'd have to be eating vast quantities of it!