As usual, Jacek started it (desperately and hopelessly munching rice cakes...) Post #162348. Derek, true to style, picked it up, “Ah, yes, rice cakes. I was considering using those to insulate our living room ceiling but unfortunately they are usually circular (and burn too easily) and 3 cm-thick styropor sheets turned out to be easier to handle. " Post #162377. "Rice cakes..." Bertha chimed in Post #162430 "Some people say they feel like foam, but I love them." 

“I want a rice cake,” Nichole wrote in, Post #162431 “they are a lifesaver for those that can't tolerate wheat.

Liliana made a sinful suggestion in Post #162432 “Pancakes with blueberry marmalade are heavenly too. “ Causing trouble in  Post #162433 where Jacek is going sugar-cold while dreaming of “various flavors of rice cakes“ topped with “marmalade or almond butter on them”. I say they taste okay but, “they are not cookies, no...”

Comparing RICE CAKES:

• Glenny's Bar-b-que Lowfat Soy Crisps
• Hain Pure Foods Organic 100% Popped Corn All Natural Mini Cakes White Cheddar Low Fat
• Krispy Crunchy Puffs Cheddar
• Krispy Crunchy Puffs Natural Corn
• Krispy Crunchy Puffs Ranch & Herb
• Krispy Crunchy Puffs Tangy BBQ
• Mama Says 100% Natural Soy Crisps Original Lightly Salted
• Mama Says 100% Natural Soy Crisps Ranch
• Mighty Bites Cheddar Oven Baked Rice Crisps
• Mr. Krispers Natural Gourmet Rice Chips Cheddar Salsa
• Mr. Krispers Natural Gourmet Rice Chips Classic Barbecue
• Mr. Krispers Natural Gourmet Rice Chips Sour Cream & Onion
• Osem Rice Cake Snack Natural Flavor
• Quaker Quakes Rice Snacks Caramel Corn
• Rice Works Sea Salt Brown Rice Crisps
• Sensible Portions Multi Grain Chips Apple Cinnamon
• Sensible Portions Multi Grain Chips Cheddar
• Snakatas Sea Salt & Vinegar Rice Snacks
• Sonora Mills All Natural Popped Tortilla Chips Nacho
• Tastemorr Crispeez Oven Baked Rice Crisps Barbecue
• Tastemorr Crispeez Oven Baked Rice Crisps Caramel
• Tastemorr Crispeez Oven Baked Rice Crisps Cheddar
• Tastemorr Crispeez Oven Baked Rice Crisps Nacho
• Trader Joe's Rice Chips Sea Salt & Cracker Pepper
• Trader Joe's Wasabi Rice Chips

Nichole,

If it's 2008 Presidential Election-related, I would say to post in the other thread.

Jacek

Rice cakes are food.

Health food, supplements and other related issues...

Fire away.

Nanna

Originally written by Nichole Barlow on November 21, 2008 9:23 PM yes, you can get good food in the US if you really desire.  You have to go to the health food store or a local farm.  You also have to pay more. What do you guys think would happen if farmers could no longer use bovine growth hormones?  What if the food industry was not allowed to use msg in their products?  Would the cost of food increase or would the food industry have to eat that cost? ...

Organic foodstuff is expensive. It often tastes better though. Years ago, while I lived in the States, I was in a rush home from work, and ran into the supermarket. Got a broccoli, paid, and ran out. That broccoli tasted so good that I went back for more. I had purchased an organic broccoli and didn't know it. That taught me something.

Here, the stores are slowly but steadily stocking more and more organic food. The more competition, the cheaper the food, although it is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. But the prices are coming down.   

I try to eat locally produced foodstuff. I like the idea of eating what is produced in or around the place where you live. This is possible with apples, pears, plums and some plain old vegetables, like potatoes, carrots, and other root vegetables. I love sweet potatoes but they are wildly expensive.

After I saw a documentary where cows were transported under the most terrible conditions, I decided that I would only eat meat from animals that have been treated decently and not feed hormones and penicillin. The price difference between a 'factory produced chicken' and an 'organic chicken' is approx. DKK 55.00 to DKK 155.00 for the organic chicken... 

Nanna