How often do you eat rice? (healthy, Indian, polish, pastry)

[Trimac20]

I eat rice - any variety - sometimes for lunch and dinner, on average perhaps 4-7 times a week. I probably eat it about as much I eat bread. I eat pasta and noodles quite a lot too, and occasionally other things like semolina. Of course there's also potato.

There's a lot of Asian food where I live and when I eat out I quite often get Japanese, Malaysian, Thai, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese.etc. My parents are from Asia and my mum would quite often cook rice at home for dinner, although we often had other carbs. As a kid, for lunch, I overwhelmingly ate bread, pastry etc. Still, I kind of miss rice if I don't eat it too much. There are some things like curry which just go the best with rice. I eat mostly polished white, jasmine, basmati or short-grained, although have been trying to eat brown rice more lately.

[Mrs. Skeffington]

I hate it, in any form. We serve rice pilaf at the school cafeteria weekly, and a lot of the kids feel the same about it, referring to it as "maggots". When I look at rice, I can see the similarity.

[hueyeats]

Love my "congee" for lunches (most every day)... since I am not big on sandwiches.
For evenings, I do less rice since I love my pastas & sides just as much.

[andthentherewere3]

I thought this thread was going to be about the latest news of arsenic found in rice. Consumer Reports found unhealthy levels of it in rice brands and foods made with rice that they tested, even baby food. They are recommending we limit our rice consumption now, while we wait for the FDA to look into this latest mess. We used to eat rice once or twice a week, but now I'm planning on cooking with it less. We don't like pasta, good thing we like potatoes.

[OpenD]

I eat brown rice mostly, perhaps 3 - 5 X a week, depending on schedule. Long grain, short grain, basmati, I use them all. Dinners mostly, but leftovers occasionally for breakfast, with eggs. The dietary fiber keeps my system ticking along like a clock, the magnesium it provides means i no longer need a nutritional supplement, and by cooking it in the manner that turns it into what is known as GABA Brown Rice* I feel I'm helping my overall health. Plus, since it is digested more slowly than white rice, it lowers the glycemic impact on my system, helping me control my blood sugar.

I still eat white rice occasionally, only when I'm out, mostly as sushi. (Sushi means "rice," did you know?")


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Brown rice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GABA Rice Has Health Benefits - Succeed in Staying Healthy: School for Champions

[Newdaawn]

Dr Oz has suggested that when we cook rice we do it more like we cook pasta. That is use much more water than the 2 to 1 ratio and cook it in lots of water, then just drain off the extra water when the rice is done. He also recommends rinsing it before cooking. I doubt eating rice every 2 to 3 weeks will add to our poor health.

[missik999]

I always rinse rice several times before cooking.

[dens]

I am from a culture where rice is a staple. Kinda like pasta to the Italians I assume but I have recently abandoned it. Very rarely do I have it. Maybe twice a month and when I do it is either brown rice or the rice and red kidney beans that we make

[french paris]

Two twice a week

[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by Newdaawn

Dr Oz has suggested that when we cook rice we do it more like we cook pasta. That is use much more water than the 2 to 1 ratio and cook it in lots of water, then just drain off the extra water when the rice is done. He also recommends rinsing it before cooking. I doubt eating rice every 2 to 3 weeks will add to our poor health.

Is Dr. Oz a chef or...?