Whats a good idea for a costume/theme party?!
Whats a good idea for a costume/theme party?
tiz for an 18 yr old and shes thinking of doing 's'.so what r some good things starting with s aswell.:)
Answers:
S themes:
Superhero party--dress as your favorite one
Summer Days---beach, shorts, swimsuits, kiddie pool filled with something (also works for Sun, Sand, Surf)
Sixties--all that sixties era stuff
Siliness--comes as the silliest thing you can think of
Secret Agent (come as a spy or everyone's in masks and you have to figure out who's who)
Super Star (come as your favorite rockstar)
Stupid pet tricks (come as an animal)
Toga parties are always fun and the costumes are easy to make and come by.
toga is always good, 60's is fun, hillbilly is fun...
The 50's. The girls can dress in poodle shirts. Play 50's music.
"Happy Days" . . . or "Grease"?
By JAYNE HURLEY & BONNIE LIEBMAN
It's the food most of us grew up on. Meatloaf. Pot roast. Chicken pot pie. Turkey with stuffing.
It was cooked by Mom or maybe Swanson or Morton's on those rare occasions when Dad had to pinch-hit. It was classic American food before classic American food became a burger, fries, and a Coke.
Does anyone still eat '50's food? You bet.
For millions of people, it'll be on tonight's dinner menu. For others, it's comfort food . . . a once-in-a-while trip back to a safer, less complicated time.
Safer? To find out, we analyzed food from 14 so-called "family-style" restaurant chains like Denny's, Shoney's, Big Boy, Coco's, and Marie Callender's.
The results: What comforts your soul can mean trouble for your arteries and waistline. But no more than you're likely to encounter at an Italian, Mexican, steak house, fast food, or more-upscale dinner house restaurant.
Think you know '50s food?
It doesn't take a Ph.D. in nutrition to guess that a Country Fried Steak (beef that's been breaded, deep-fried, and smothered in gravy) can gum up your arteries.
Ditto for a Patty Melt (a hamburger covered with melted American or Swiss cheese and fried onions and served on grilled rye bread, typically next to a pile of french fries).
But other items on a family-style restaurant menu may fool you. For example.
1. Which has the least artery-clogging fat?
a. pot roast b. turkey with stuffing c. chef salad with dressing
2. A chicken pot pie has roughly the same fat and calories as:
a. a chicken salad sandwich b. a nine-piece order of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets c. an overstuffed corned beef sandwich
3. Which has the most fat?
a. two pork chops b. a plate of lasagna c. a serving of meatloaf d. a 12-oz. sirloin steak.
The answers:
1. a. Pot roast does the least damage. You can thank the turkey's stuffing and the chef salad's cheese and dressing for that.
2. c. A chicken pot pie isn't fried, but it's worse than fried Chicken McNuggets or a mayo-laced chicken salad sandwich.
3. b. Lasagna gets the booby prize. But the meatloaf is still worse than two pork chops or two 12-ounce sirloin steaks.
The take-home message: Family-style restaurants may be cheap, but if you don't want to blow the savings on doctor's bills, order with extreme care.
Most restaurants offer grilled chicken or fish, and you can usually get a baked potato with sour cream and a salad with low-cal dressing. Some -- like Denny's, Bob Evans, Village Inn, Carrows, and Coco's -- even have "healthy" or "lite" foods o their menus. Once you venture beyond those "safe" options, watch out.
The food may be no worse than many dishes served at more-upscale restaurants, but "no worse" is cold comfort. Don't forget: '50s food helped make the '60s the heart attack decade of the century.
Here's the lowdown on the 13 main dishes and side dishes we analyzed. We went to some of the largest family-style restaurant chains: Bakers Square, Big Boy, Bob Evans, Carrows, Coco's, Country Kitchen, Cracker Barrel, Denny's, Friendly's, IHOP, Marie Callender's, Perkins, Shoney's, and Village Inn. (Many other restaurants serve similar food.)
Within each category we've ranked the dishes from best to worst-that is, from least to most artery-clogging fat (saturated plus trans).
ENTREES & PLATTERS
Chicken Stir-Fry (23 grams of fat, 7 of them artery-clogging). Most of the fat comes from the oil used to stir-fry, not the skinless chicken breast (3'/2 ounces), veggies (I cup), or rice (I cups). It's roughly as fatty as an order of chicken fajitas with tortillas but no guacamole or other side dishes. Grilled chicken breast with a baked potato and vegetable has less fat. Chicken chow mein from a Chinese restaurant has more (largely because you get a bigger serving). So do most other restaurant meals. But few are as salty: the 2,300+ mg of sodium is about a day's worth.
To make it better: No need to.
Pot Roast (16 grams of fat, 7 of them artery-clogging). A lean cut of beef and a small-for-restaurants serving (Si. ounces of meat) mean that pot roast uses up "just" a third of a day's saturated fat. Fat-wise, it's better than a Quarter Pounder, worse than grilled chicken, and comparable to a trimmed 12-ounce sirloin steak.
A small bonus: Pot roast often comes with half a cup of carrots, celery, and onion. Add mashed potatoes with gravy and a side of vegetables and you're well on your way to a day's worth-five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, the sides also boost the sodium from an admirably low 570 mg to 1,310 mg.
To make it better: No need to.
Turkey with Stuffing (19 grams of fat, 9 of them artery-clogging). It' not the turkey or the gravy, but the six ounces of stuffing, or dressing, that supplies half a day's worth of artery-clogging fat. That's what you' get in a 12-ounce untrimmed sirloin steak. Add all the fixings -- mashed potatoes with gravy, vegetable, and cranberry sauce -- and the sodium overshoots a day's worth.
As for fat, the whole meal is like getting chicken marsala with a side of spaghetti at an Italian restaurant or a turkey sandwich with mustard, or even mayo, is less fatty.)
To make it better: You could substitute salad or fresh fruit for the stuffing (but then it wouldn't be turkey with stuffing).
Hamburger (27 grams of fat, 14 of them artery-clogging). Assuming you add lettuce, tomato, and onion but no cheese, mayo, or bacon, a family-style restaurant burger is worse than a Quarter Pounder. But it's not as bad as a burger from upscale dinner houses like Chili's or Applebee's (that's because it's smaller).
Still, a main dish that uses up three-quarters of a day's artery-clogging fat is nothing to write home about. With an order of fries, the calories climb to 1,100 and the heart-damaging fat tops a day's worth.
To make it better: Head to a chain like Carrows, which serves a meatless, delicious Gardenburger as one of its "Fit Favorites" meals.
Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich (35 grams of fat, 17 of them artery-clogging). Eat this facsimile of Philadelphia's famous sandwich -- steak smothered with fried onions and melted cheese -- and you're mainlining almost a day's worth of artery-clogging fat. Two six inch Subway Steak & Cheese Subs have less fat than one six-inch Philly Cheese Steak. Add french fries to complete your meal and there goes 1,300 calories and a day's fat.
To make it better: You can't. Order a roast beef sandwich instead.
Chicken Pot Pie (37 grams of fat, 17 of them artery-clogging). More pie crust and cream sauce than chicken and veggies means nearly a day's heart threatening fat . . . and that's before you've even looked at a side dish. Your blood vessels will think of it as a 13-ounce rib eye steak. The typical family-style restaurant pot pie is twice the size of a Banquet or Swanson Pot Pie.
To make it better: You can't. Order a grilled chicken dinner instead.
Country Fried Steak (42 grams of fat, 18 of them artery-clogging). There's twice as much breading and gravy as beef in this deep-fried meat. Fat-wise, it's equal to two 12-ounce sirloin steaks or two Quarter Pounders. That's without any sides.
To make it better: You can't. Order just about anything instead.
Chef Salad with Dressing (71 grams of fat, 18 of them artery-clogging). How does a salad end up with 930 calories and a day's fat and saturated fat? Most of the damage comes from the full-fat Thousand Island dressing. (We were served anywhere from 1/4 cup to one cup and used cup in our calculations. Had we used less dressing, the salad would have moved up in the rankings.) The rest comes from an ounce and a half of cheese. That's why a chef salad has more artery-clogging fat than a chicken Caesar or an Oriental chicken salad with dressing from a more-upscale dinner house like Applebee's.
To make it better: Get low-cal dressing on the side and use just a couple of tablespoons. Ask for extra turkey and hold the cheese.
Meatloaf (38 grams of fat, 19 of them artery-clogging). A half-pound of meatloaf will plaster your arteries with more fat than two orders of pot roast with gravy, two 12-ounce sirloin steaks, or two six-ounce pork chops. That's a day's worth of bad fat before you touch your side dishes.
To make it better: You can't. If you want meat, get pot roast instead.
Patty Melt (50 grams of fat, 25 of them artery-clogging). A patty melt is a cheeseburger with fried onions between two slices of grilled rye bread. It's also more than a day's worth of artery-clogging fat -- more than you'd get in two Big Macs (but not quite as much as you'd get from its upscale cousin, the mushroom cheeseburger sold at dinner houses like Chili's).
An order of fries brings the total to two days' worth of heart-damaging fat. A vanilla milk shake ups the ante to three. Congratulations. Your 2,000 calorie lunch has the fat of two 16 ounce T-bone steaks.
To make it better: You can't.
SIDE DISHES & DESSERTS
Mashed Potatoes with Gravy (8 grams of fat, 3 of them artery-clogging). Like the mashed potatoes at Boston Market, KFC, and other fast food outlets, it may not be as fatty as you thought. Too bad it's got 600 mg of sodium.
To make it better: To cut the fat in half and the sodium to almost zip, get a plain baked potato and add a tablespoon of sour cream.
Apple Pie (28 grams of fat, 13 of them artery-clogging). It's more than twice as fatty as a McDonald's Baked Apple Pie. That's because it's more than twice as large.
To make it better: Order fresh fruit instead. Second best is fat-free frozen yogurt or sherbet. Friendly's and a few other chains offer them.
Vanilla Milk Shake (30 grams of fat, 21 of them artery-clogging). A 13-ounce shake has half a day's fat and a full day's artery-clogging fat. It's twice as fatty as a Wendy's shake, four times fattier than a Burger King shake, and six times fattier than a McDonald's shake. You could have a Quarter Pounder plus a McDonald's shake and still get less fat and saturated fat than you'd get from a family-style restaurant shake.
Gothic
Renaissance
Retro-pick a decade like 50's, 60's, 70's, etc.
Romeo and Juliet-anyones idea of what their Romeo and Juliet should look like(meaning orig. look from way back or a modern day couple)
Have a Red and White party.....everything centered around those colors or any other colors of choice
Rock-n-Roll
Disco
Come as your favorite movie star/singer/or other famous person
School Uniform Was Always A Good One
Sixties
Seventies
Spies And Villains
Sports
Stockings And Suspenders
Super Hero's
Silent Movie Stars
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There's Nothing Better Than Arriving In Stile.
Favorite singer, movie or TV character, Dream Career, 50's 60's 70's 80's theme. Baby party, Toga ...
car crash party
ever one acts like their best friend just got killed in a car crash
that can also be played as aircraft, boat or ship, train or bus.
Cowboy and Indians
or should i say
Native American
The battle of Iwo Jima
How about the civil war party then you can find out witch one of your friends are raciest. the one dressed as it he Southern Troops
Donner Party I hope that is spelled correct the people in the mountains that ate the dead people.
a political party
teeth pulling party weather they need to come out or not
SPAM PARTY
sexy party
sandwich party
sewing party
spiting party
sneezing party just have lots of pepper ever where
snorkel party
smoking party
slapping party
stomping party
slip and slide party
sloppy Joes party
swimming party
smelling party
suicide party
stripping party everyone bring some furniture over and remove the finish
stop drop and roll party
seven and seven party
How about a murder mystery?
The game will assign how everyone should dress.
alice in wonderland
tea party, tarts etc, etc...decks of cards, croquet
as so 's' surf, sweets, make you own soda flavor, sevens(everything has to with the number 7)
I don't know.
Sexy Seventies Party. Everyone come dressed in 70's costumes!