Not that I would ever stop eating it anyway, but at least us Nutheads have validation:
http://www.slate.com/id/2300390/ – “Go Ahead, Eat Chocolate for Breakfast: Why the lawsuit against Nutella is bunk”
It’s nutritious as part of a larger landscape of wholesome foods that by themselves lack the taste appeal and indulgence of chocolate. Nutella makes the medicine go down.
People that put nutella on a sandwich instead of peanut butter are missing out on one of life’s great pleasures. The thing to do is put BOTH peanut butter AND nutella on a sandwich. I slather one slice with PB and the other with nutella. Slap 'em together, add a glass of milk (+1 if it’s chocolate milk), and enjoy! It’s a life-altering experience.
Proves the point that there is no law against being stupid, but there should be. The problem is most of the folks I know attack that puppy with a spoon, and in Italy you can buy it in a gallon size jar. We just don’t buy it much anymore cause I do have a spoon ready when it gets home.
People that put nutella on a sandwich instead of peanut butter are missing out on one of life’s great pleasures. The thing to do is put BOTH peanut butter AND nutella on a sandwich.
DAMN right!..or Nutella and Almond Butter on a bagel…preferred preRace brekkie for me…
cheers
S.
People that put nutella on a sandwich instead of peanut butter are missing out on one of life’s great pleasures. The thing to do is put BOTH peanut butter AND nutella on a sandwich. I slather one slice with PB and the other with nutella. Slap 'em together, add a glass of milk (+1 if it’s chocolate milk), and enjoy! It’s a life-altering experience.
+1, this is the best of both worlds. I throw on some honey too and damn damn damn, it’s good good good!
Dont complicate things,
Nutella…check, spoon…check!!
My family and I when we go camping have created the all new smores. Nutella, slices of banana, roasted marshmellows and graham crackers. They are the bomb.
The inventors of Nutella and PB should be enshrined in some sort of World Food Hall of Fame.
Nutella’s like crack in a plastic container…
I avoid Nutella because of the vague “vegetable oil” ingredient and its equivalents (it’s listed differently by market, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutella) and also because more than 50 per cent of this product is sugar.
Also, taste is not bad, but it is too much like children’s food (or dessert) to me – a problem I have with most sports nutrition.
I like savoury more than sweet, food more than dessert, and sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa, dates, bananas, figs, etc, are much more palatable to me than kiddie stuff like Nutella, Nesquick, Ovaltine, etc.
If I really feel like something sweeter, an ice cream (full fat milk and fruit) or a dark chocolate mousse, both easy on the sugar or made with stevia, do the thing for me. But it is a very rare craving.
Industrial fats and sugar are difficult to get rid off, but it is a move well worth it in my experience, with positive effects on your training, race results and general well being.
At the risk of sounding like a bore (I can live with that), my view is that we are not children and should not be expecting candy rewards every time we do something hard – like our training “home work”.
As for recovery, definitely no need for Nutella-type foods.
Nuno
I avoid Nutella because of the vague “vegetable oil” ingredient and its equivalents (it’s listed differently by market, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutella) and also because more than 50 per cent of this product is sugar.
Also, taste is not bad, but it is too much like children’s food (or dessert) to me – a problem I have with most sports nutrition.
I like savoury more than sweet, food more than dessert, and sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa, dates, bananas, figs, etc, are much more palatable to me than kiddie stuff like Nutella, Nesquick, Ovaltine, etc. If I really feel like something sweeter, an ice cream (full fat milk and fruit) or a dark chocolate mousse, both easy on the sugar or made with stevia, do the thing for me. But it is a very rare craving.
Industrial fats and sugar are difficult to get rid off, but it is a move well worth it in my experience, with positive effects on your training, race results and general well being.
At the risk of sounding like a bore, my view is that we are not children and should not be expecting candy rewards every time we do something hard – like our training “home work”.
Nuno
You need more fiber.
I guess there are people that actually believe everything they read or hear on TV, I thought that was just an old wives tale…
Sorry, did not understand your reply.
Nuno
Reply is based on the article in the link…
I personally have not tried Nutella, nor will I. I make home-made almond butter. Delicious!!(I recommend trying it). “If it aint broke, don’t fix it.”
I think that Nutella is a small chip in the corrupt food industry of America. It may not be the healthiest, but we have alternative choices. The FDA does not monitor the “natural” food industry. Supplements/vitamins/workout nutrition is not monitored by the FDA either. If a product has <0.5% of the daily value recommended, the manufacturer does not have to put it on the label. What about Taco Bell only using 40% meat in their menu items…These are real problems… Not that I would ever eat at Taco Bell willingly.
anyone suing Nutella should be counter sued. They are attacking my pursuit of happiness.
As for the person wanting something savory. Spoon Nutella cover with salt.
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I took his response to mean you need to loosen up.
Brad
Yuck!
but on the other hand Marmite…mmmmmmm
(no discernible food value however)
I know that I should have written the exact same post as above, only with a joke inserted somewhere, to show that I’m not too uptight.
I do remember being at dinner tables with everybody (including myself) chain-smoking and, if someone made a comment, even a polite, amiable, non-confrontational one, on the dense fog in the room, the response would always be – you’ve guessed it, “loosen up”. I haven’t heard that one, in that context, for a few years now.
I still find it a bit weird to see grown-ups drooling over a 5 kg jar of Nutella (or similar stuff), but I’m sure that is my problem.
If it is intense pleasure you want, I would trade your Nutellas for this:
http://www.acores.net/...s/view.php?id=403094
With a glass or two of this:
http://putobebe.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html
And then this:
http://bogasdebaixo.blogspot.com/...rejas-do-fundao.html
Saturday hard training session completed, recovery drink drank (for me, this one: http://www.goldnutrition.pt/...o/fast-recovery.html), you can’t go wrong for your next “real” meal with that menu. More than that, you deserve it!
Cheers!
Nuno
The only thing worse than Peanut Butter on the face of this planet is Nutella. God awful stuff.
vegemite rocks.
No really.