After dining on choice, home-cooked eats at Zuccotti Park last week, the secret to the protests' delicious menu may be as simple as finding a kitchen to cook in. Collette McLafferty, who lives on Rivington Street in the Lower East Side, has offered up the kitchen to protesters three times to cook for 300 people. "I may not be a millionaire, but I do have a valuable resource to offer, which is my kitchen," she tells the Post. The paper describes the dishes as food "that would make a meat-loving Wall Street banker cringe," but that's only because Wall Street bankers drink the blood of unsuspecting livestock. more ›

Americans may say they want to eat healthy but the truth of the matter is we really like to eat disgusting fatty foods. Despite efforts to bring healthier fare to fast food restaurants—thanks, Michelle!—when it comes time to order we turn to the fried stuff nearly every time, according to the AP. In totally unrelated news, Pediatrics magazine now recommends doctors not call kids fat since their parents would prefer to be told their kids are at an "unhealthy weight." more ›

Is Mayor Bloomberg's crusade to turn New Yorkers into healthy eaters really just a product of his own struggles with self-control, roller coaster dieting and poor body image? It turns out that the man who has banned trans fats, made us face calorie count signs on a daily basis and now has his squinty eyes aimed at sodium levels in restaurants and sugary soda drinks is the type of guy that "an unflattering photo of himself can trigger weeks of intense dieting and crankiness." more ›

3) Eat less cheese. Okay, this is a big weakness for us. In order to cut calories, we've decided that cheese does not need to be added to sandwiches or salads willy-nilly. If we're going to eat cheese, it should be high quality, and low quantity. A little goes a long way.
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