3. Pork, Tomato and Potato Bake

Ingredients
4 pork chops
6 large potatoes peeled and thickly sliced
6 large tomatoes sliced thickly
2 cloves garlic chopped
Rosemary (6 sprigs fresh or 1 Tblspn dried)
Olive oil
Salt and black pepper

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C
2. Brown chops in a little oil until browned.
3. Cook potatoes in boiling salted water until soft (about 8 minutes)
4. Drizzle olive oil over base of dish and layer potatoes and tomatoes adding salt and pepper between layers. Add garlic and half the rosemary.
5. Drizzle oil over top and bake in oven 15 minutes
6. Place pork chops over vegetables, add seasoning and remaining rosemary and cook a further 30-45 minutes or until potatoes and chops are tender.

Serves 2. To serve four use 8 chops. This can be served by itself with a tossed salad, but if you serve with mixed green vegetables such as beans and broccoli, it will go further.

2. Fast Food Items You Should Never Eat Order According to Employees

McDonalds’ Fish Fillet

If you’re concerned with the freshness of your meal then listen to what this McDonald's employee of 20 years has to say. “Don’t order fish fillets or grilled chicken unless it is just after the breakfast/lunch switch-over. They don’t sell a lot outside of the lunch rush, so you might get a patty that’s near the end of its cycle.”



McDonald’s’ Shakes/Smoothies

An old McDonalds’ employee voices his concern for the cleanliness of the smoothie machine. “The machine gets cleaned once a week and every time it was pulled apart there would be black slime/mould backed up inside the spout.” Be sure to stay well away from these frozen treats next time you visit a McDonald's.


McDonald's chicken nuggets, unless you order them fresh

"If you order, especially chicken nuggets, just ask for them fresh. Otherwise they've been just sitting in their container in the heat. They have a timer, but 9/10 times when that timer goes off, people just reset the timer instead of making new ones. This could go on until all the nuggets are sold."
I can attest to this because Saturday night I was baby-sitting and took Master 10 and Master 11 to the local Maccas. We ordered the Family Favourites Dinner Box™

and the chicken nuggets looked nothing like the ones in the picture - mine were hard as rock, tough as anything and the chicken did not taste of chicken, actually it had no taste at all. Those nuggets had either been cooked to within an inch of their life and/or left for several hours waiting for some dummy to order some. Sigh..............


Anything that comes out of McDonald's McCafé machine

If you want the full visual, check out the tale spun with great detail by Reddit user Enviromenth. For the TLDR version: "All McCafe beverages run through a horrifically dirty machine; we're talking 5+ inches of uncleaned, liquid bulls--t making up its inside parts, and the smoothies have glass cleaner in them."



Certain Subway sandwiches
There were plenty of Subway employees warning people that most seafood sandwiches and the egg salad sandwich are just imitation meat and/or bagged products with an unethical amount of mayo mixed in, but this quote is the kicker: "Worked at Subway 2010-12. Only thing I have to say is that tuna and seafood packages used to have a label on it that said that it didn't contain dolphin or turtles in the meat, then that label suddenly disappeared in 2012."

Today's quote: "We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly" ~ Anna Thomas.


Source: Equinoxley and Eonline