I wanted to throw a shot out there to one of the best tasting and healthy chilli’s I have ever encountered. There are a lot of canned chilli’s that taste great and are really unhealthy, like 20 grams of fat per can. Other chilli’s can be rather healthy, and taste awful. The taste of this blue labeled “Grilled Steak” chilli with beans rates an 8.5 on a scale of 1-10 in my book…. now look at the nutritional info:
2g Saturated Fat per Can
36 g Protein! (WOW- thats like a can of tuna!)
14g Dietary Fiber
18g Sugars
True there is a lot of sodium in these guys, ~1700 mg, but dang…..is this stuff good. They make a turkey variety too. It is getting harder and harder to find.
If someone eats correctly, they will look great. The best thing a person can do for their health is to educate themselves on what they are eating consistently. I think this is more important than consistent exercise, but both are required and both take discipline. Didnt mean to ramble on nutrition, but ya…it matters.
Anyway, check this out: I was watching an NFL game this last Sunday and saw this ad for this new Black Label Soup Campbells is making and decided I would check out the nutritional information the next time I saw it to see if it was really “Fully Loaded”.
I found a can of Beef Stew at the store, and it looked a lot like another one of my Campbells Favorites, “Beef” Soup. I only had my camera phone, so you will have to excuse the picture quality. So I decided to check the nutritional information, and….
Uh…yep….its basically the same stuff. In fact, it seems the regular soup may even be a little more healthy for you and you get the same amount of protein. So….I am wondering…what’s it “Fully Loaded” with? A bunch of marketing crap? It costs almost a dollar more! ~$2.42 vs $1.50 Hmmm….Campbells…..you are getting sneaky!
Apparently the difference is that you eat the "Fully Loaded" one with a fork and that’s a pretty marketable detail, right?
Why is it that you get 120% of your daily value of Vitamin A in the Beef soup, but only 25% in the "fully loaded" can? Hmmm…truly, what is it loaded with? Nice observation Holly, I had a good little laugh over that. 🙂
Fully Loaded or Not Fully Loaded, that is the question. In both cases, it IS fully processed and lots of therefore lots of toxins. NOT full of fresh/live/life-giving/life-supporting natural nutrients. 1700 mg? FULL of sodium: 1700 of 2000 mg daily allowance or 1600 allowable mg if one has high blood pressure or other circulatory challanges. Sorry, had to burst your bubble there. But of course we can indulge or splurge on something like this 2-4 times per year 😉