Mashed Potatoes - Carbs, rice and beans a thousand times healthier
Corn on the cob - with butter
Cabbage Rolls - dont they serve those with a thick sause on top?
Meatloaf
Chicken and Dumplings - southern, not the US
Biscuits and Gravy - carbs and fat
Gumbo - southern, not the US
Jumbalaya - southern, not the US
Pot roast
redbeans with hamhocks
butterbeans
ect...
A lot of this stuff you mention I don´t see people cooking those on a regular basis. Not saying its not traditional american food but its definitely not traditional american diet. In Costa Rica most people eat casado once or twice a day. Its simple to make, fast, convenient, healthy.
Please show me how your breakfast listed here is that much healthier than the one you listed? We usually dont do cheese with breakfast unless its on a breakfast burrito and you guys eat just as much syrup as us but ours is actually maple syrup where here you only get corn syrup.
Syrup with what?
As far as the Rice and Beans go you might want to mention that it all starts with chile, cebolla, and aceite in your frying-pan, and chances are the rice probably had a little oil in it when you made it the day before. White cheese has less calories? Well it did before you fried it NUMAR!
Onions and sweet basicaly no calories. If you use vegetable oil, which most households do, then you are still pretty good.
White cheese has less calories than other cheese. Fat content is extremely low. Compare calories on queso tico with mozzarella, american, swiss, or any other yellow cheese for that matter. Tico fried cheese on vegetable oil (olive even better) still less calories than mozzarella. What do you think gives cheese the yellow color?
