Silk and Sushi
August 22, 2004 2:25 PM   Subscribe

Silk and Sushi : Chocolate Silk for Breakfast, Sushi for Lunch, Sushi for Dinner -- everyday for a month. It is probably more healthy then eating nothing but McDonalds.
posted by chunking express (29 comments total)
 
Mercury poisoning's a real risk and not fun. Better half's step-sis had a nasty experience that took a long time to get over.
posted by Flat Feet Pete at 2:37 PM on August 22, 2004


Better for you? Certainly. Nothing but MickyD's sure is cheaper, though.
posted by fraying at 3:06 PM on August 22, 2004


They claim it's actually cheaper than mcdonalds in Vancouver BC, at least.
posted by mathowie at 3:16 PM on August 22, 2004


Brilliant! Sushi is my favourite food. I remember in Japan I could get very full in a "kaiten-sushi" restaurant (sushi on a conveyor belt) - "tabehodai" (all you can eat) - for about 5 British pounds. I swear I could not get so full in a UK McDonalds restaurant at that price. So much for Japan as being an expensive place (hah!). That's what I call good value!
posted by SpaceCadet at 3:31 PM on August 22, 2004


a month...? oh please, i've been living on vanilla soy milk and california roll for about a year now. it's just what i crave most.
posted by t r a c y at 3:53 PM on August 22, 2004


I used to drink silk for breakfast. but now I have a beer and a vitamin, and everyone at work remarks on how calm and collected and intelligent I am.

but good lord! I really need to move to canada if sushi is so cheap there.

it's kinda sad, you can either eat wild fish or farmed fish -- one will give you mercury poisoning, t'other will give you pcb or some other sort of poisoning, sigh.
posted by dorian at 4:21 PM on August 22, 2004


(also, much as I love soy milk, almond milk ('specially zyugulik) is all kinds of tastey)
posted by dorian at 4:26 PM on August 22, 2004


Am I misreading, or is this post inaccurate? I thought they were doing two meals of Silk a day, and only ONE meal of Sushi. That would 1) explain why it's cheaper than McD's, and 2) absolutely rule it out for me. One meal of solid food a day? By choice?
posted by jonson at 4:33 PM on August 22, 2004


Being on a low carb diet, I really really miss sushi.
posted by jca at 4:45 PM on August 22, 2004


so order sashimi instead! (often served with shredded daikon which, I imagine, has much less carbs than rice...)
posted by dorian at 4:52 PM on August 22, 2004


Sushi for breakfast might be a bit much, but onigiri for breakfast rocks! I spent several weeks in Japan living on onigiri for breakfast, noodles for lunch (udon or ramen) and a "sensible" dinner (usually consisting of noodles with fish or pork) and I lost 15-20 pounds easily. I *heart* the japanese diet.

One of the saddest things in Japan is to see all the kids eating @ Ma ku do na ru do. (though, I do LOVE me some Mos Burger)
posted by shoepal at 5:27 PM on August 22, 2004




Vanilla Silk is OK, but for some reason, to me, Chocolate Silk is gagworthy. If I were doing this diet (which, uh, I guess I wouldn't be because I don't eat fish) I'd definitely make it Rich Chocolate VitaSoy. Mmmmmmm.

Almond milk is great, too. What the hell is "zyugulik," though?
posted by soyjoy at 7:28 PM on August 22, 2004


Jonson, looks like I can't read. Apparently they are just planning on eating sushi dinners. Perhaps that will change as the month goes on. Two liquid meals a day is kind of nasty. Though I've never had this silk stuff. Perhaps it tastes really good.
posted by chunking express at 7:31 PM on August 22, 2004


Funnily enough, I live in Vancouver and have been dieting for the past couple of months, and sushi has played a big part in my diet - I probably have sushi for lunch 3 or 4 days a week. I've managed to lose 20lbs so far (down from 185 to 165.) Basically my diet plan was to reduce calories and do more exercise, and sushi is cheap, filling, tasty, easily available, relatively low in calories and fat. A bit of a no-brainer really.

I can confirm that sushi is incredibly cheap in Vancouver: at the places close to my office, tuna or salmon nigiri goes for $0.99 a piece, maki (rolls) for $2-4 for 6 pieces depending on contents. In the Cambie & Broadway area that this lot appear to be talking about, there are some insanely cheap places.

Regarding the whole mercury poisoning thing that some people have mentioned - you should remember that sushi means "rice", not "fish". There is a lot of sushi you can have without fish. For example, one of my regular lunch haunts offers the following kinds of roll: chicken yakidori, beef teriyaki, vegatable tempura, yam tempura, cucumber etc etc.

Oh, and I agree with whoever it was who said that onigiris rock.
posted by pascal at 7:58 PM on August 22, 2004


dorian: I'm a big fan of maki sushi (rolls), so I don't know that sashimi would work as a substitute for me.
posted by jca at 8:21 PM on August 22, 2004


朱古力 (zyugulik) == chocolate, sorry for laziness.
--
makizushi as well as chirashizushi are big favorites of mine, but in the end it's all about the fish y'know ^_^
posted by dorian at 8:27 PM on August 22, 2004


never had this silk stuff. Perhaps it tastes really good.

as western versions of soymilk go, it's not bad -- there is nothing that can beat the sweet (or salty!) implementation of soymilk that can be had at a decent taiwanese restaurant (served with hot 油炸鬼!!), but for mass-production buyable stuff you can't go terribly wrong with silk (or westbrae, imagine, etc....store versions of chinese soymilk generally end up being much too sweet/salty for my taste...)
posted by dorian at 8:40 PM on August 22, 2004


yes, sushi is very cheap in that area. Personally, I like sushi a lot, but that much?....

I can't think of another type of food that would be harder to get fat on though.

(first post, hello everyone! Please ignore the horrible eye searing color scheme on the link).
posted by concreteforest at 8:41 PM on August 22, 2004


welcome, concreteforest!

Not to spread an urban legend or anything, but isn't it bad to consume a lot of soy? (I know, I know, anything in moderation.) Seriously, though. I swear I read something about studies involving soy consumption and, er, "problems." Then again, I swear I read somewhere that the Okinawan's live to be 100 particularly due to their soy consumption. oi vey.
posted by shoepal at 9:40 PM on August 22, 2004


as western versions of soymilk go, it's not bad -- there is nothing that can beat the sweet (or salty!) implementation of soymilk that can be had at a decent taiwanese restaurant (served with hot ???!!), but for mass-production buyable stuff you can't go terribly wrong with silk (or westbrae, imagine, etc....store versions of chinese soymilk generally end up being much too sweet/salty for my taste...)

So what does the store-bought versions of soymilk taste like compared to the Chinese version? I've only had the Chinese versions and it would be nice if I could get a similar tasting product at the grocery store. I especially can't imagine having chololate or vanilla versions of soymilk.

posted by gyc at 11:00 PM on August 22, 2004


oops forgot to unitalic my question:

So what does the store-bought versions of soymilk taste like compared to the Chinese version? I've only had the Chinese versions and it would be nice if I could get a similar tasting product at the grocery store. I especially can't imagine having chololate or vanilla versions of soymilk.
posted by gyc at 11:01 PM on August 22, 2004


Sushi *is* way cheap in Vancouver. I pretty much stuff myself with it when I visit BC. And I live in Seattle normally, where sushi isn't exactly scarce.

Silk is good stuff. I find the plain is actually much tastier than the vanilla. The added vanilla flavor bugs me, unless I'm using it to make a dessert or something. I never ever liked soy milk until I tried Silk. What's extra good, though, is the Silk Nog at Christmastime. It's not all thick like normal store-bought egg nog, but it has a good nog flavor and really helps those egg nog cravings.

In general I find that Silk is less "watery" feeling than most soy milks. It doesn't gross me out to eat it with Cheerios, say. Doesn't really taste like milk but is enough like it that it was an easy transition.
posted by litlnemo at 11:03 PM on August 22, 2004


It's nice that they are limiting their intake of raw salmon and tuna in an effort to avoid too much mercury, but perhaps they should look at this list of fish/mercury levels. It's not just salmon and tuna that's a problem.

I just can't see that in the long run a diet of nothing but soy milk and sushi is any healthier than McD's.
posted by Orb at 2:35 AM on August 23, 2004


In the long run, it's got it's on nutritional problems, I'm sure. But the fat content is so far below McDonald's that you won't see the same immediate health problems.
posted by agregoli at 7:29 AM on August 23, 2004


yeah Orb, except for the fact that the food you are consuming is better FOR you. I'd suspect that fish, seaweed, and rice is superior to bread, beef, cheese, and ketchup.

Don't get me started on Silk vs. Coke...
posted by Dantien at 7:31 AM on August 23, 2004


gyc -- you can definitely find bottled chinese soymilk in stores, but I never found a brand that I really liked.

western soymilk is a fairly different beast, I can't think how to explain it, just try some and see ^_^ it's sort of like those vitasoy drink boxes (e.g. malt flavor, yum!) definitely very sweet. but if you're not into chocolate and vanilla, I know that silk, vitasoy, etc. make plain unsweetened versions which are not bad (hell, one of the companies even makes an unsweetened chocolate soymilk, which is quite nice once you get used to it!). silk also makes a coffee flavor which tastes ok and is probably somewhat healthier than one of those frozen-coffee-sugar beverages.
posted by dorian at 10:42 AM on August 23, 2004


for those of you who regularly eat fish, please read some of the links above about mercury. not many newspapers picked it up outside of the west coast, but this recent EPA data leak from Clear the Air claims that

In recent U.S. EPA tests of fish caught from America’s lakes, every fish sample tested was contaminated with mercury, 55 percent contained mercury levels that exceed EPA’s "safe" limit for women of childbearing age, and 76 percent exceeded the safe limit for children under age three
posted by mrgrimm at 10:51 AM on August 23, 2004


gyc -- you can definitely find bottled chinese soymilk in stores, but I never found a brand that I really liked.

Yes, your're right of course. I'd forgotten about the ones they sell at Chinese groceries which tasted OK to me, although I've never found them at regular grocery stores.
posted by gyc at 10:58 AM on August 23, 2004


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