Progressive International Vegetable/French Fry Cutter
SUMMARY: Fast! Works great so far!
I have wanted a french fry cutter for a while. Restaurant quality cutters were way more than I wanted to spend. I looked around and found some for under $10. The the sub $10 french fry cutters seemed cheaply made and got poor reviews. I found some more expensive models, but they also got poor reviews. I gave up looking for a while.
But then I looked again. I found a french fry cutter made by Progressive. It was under $10, and got pretty good reviews. Hmmm. I ordered it. Well the cutter came yesterday. I used the 25 hole blade to beging with. The size of the cutter will not allow for a whole russett potato to be cut into fries. I had to trim a little off the ends of the potato. It took a just little bit of muscle to pull the lever down to force the potato through the blades. But the cutter made the work quick and relatively easy.
Tonight we decided to make low fat french fries again. I decided to use the 49 hole blade. My wife offered to make the fries, but I suggested I better do it. Good thing. Using the cutter with the 49 hole blade took more strength. For me it was still not to difficult. But I doubting it would have been as easy for my wife.
The unit seems strong enough. Time will tell whether the cutter will hold up or not to repeated uses.
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I don’t normally log everything I eat. I just try to be conscious of it, and eat healthy. But right now I mostly trying to sustain my weight while lowering my body fat. Back when I was actually trying to lose weight, I logged everything.
But a friend of mine is trying to lose weight. So asked her to log the stuff she eats for a couple days. I told her I would keep a diary of my eating as well. Here it is for yesterday:
6:00am: banana & a diet pepsi (12 oz)
7:30am: diet pepsi
8:15am: Lean Cuisine meal (150 cal) & diet pepsi
9:30am: diet pepsi
10:00am: one chocolate chip cookie & mini-cinnamon roll (from a birthday)
10:40am: banana
10:25am: Healthy Choice meal (220 cal) & diet pepsi
11:45am: banana & diet pepsi
1:15pm: Healthy Choice (210 cal) & diet pepsi
1:30pm: two small squares of pizza left over from a meeting
2:00pm: diet pepsi
2:30pm: banana
3:00pm: handfull of m&ms
3:45pm: banana
7:00pm: banana & diet pepsi
9:00pm: banana
9:30pm: low fat oven baked seasoned french fries
9:45pm: 95% lean ground beef hamburger (grilled) with fat free cheese (with ketchup,relish,tomato, lettuce) & diet pepsi
Yeah I drink a lot of diet pepsi! And I have been eating the bananas because they are cheap, I like them, and they count as a cup of fruit each in the Eat Well Live Well Challenge that I am doing at work.
And lest you think I ate all this, and then sat on my butt all day, I also ran 6 miles in the evening.