What's your Kryptonite?
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KnitOrMiss wrote: »@nvsmomketo It is also very close to polenta, though polenta is usually cooked to form, and grits are, as Dan said, servered like a savory oatment, usually with cheese and butter. I've never seen the served sweet as Dan mentions above.
In other countries, polenta, corn meal, or corn flour are sometimes used as the terms there, depending on location.
If you are familiar with the Mexican food staple cornbread, it is what is used in that, but prepared as a porridge type meal.
Weird... I've never had grits before but I always pictured something crispy and possibly fried?
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bluefish86 wrote: »KnitOrMiss wrote: »@nvsmomketo It is also very close to polenta, though polenta is usually cooked to form, and grits are, as Dan said, servered like a savory oatment, usually with cheese and butter. I've never seen the served sweet as Dan mentions above.
In other countries, polenta, corn meal, or corn flour are sometimes used as the terms there, depending on location.
If you are familiar with the Mexican food staple cornbread, it is what is used in that, but prepared as a porridge type meal.
Weird... I've never had grits before but I always pictured something crispy and possibly fried?
Colour me stunned. O_O
I think the name "grits" comes from the "gritty" texture. Corn is dried, then ground, and grits are just a coarser ground "corn flour." They can be cooked, formed, and then fried so like a sausage patty. There are about a million ways to make it.0 -
I just realized that I've successfully been around almost all of my kryptonetic foods this month and have been able to resist them at some point. If I indulged, it was just a bite or too and I was able to stop. I'm a binge eater so this realization is huge!
Pizza - have not eaten at all
Potato Chips with Extra Shart Cheddar Cheese or Cheese Spread - had a couple, but they failed to thrill
Dark Reese's - had a few but only 1 at a time. These are still yummy!!
Pepsi - had a glass. It tasted awful. I think the bottle has gone flat, a first.
Baked pastas - had a few servings of this on dates, but not to excess
Egg Rolls - have not eaten at all
Empanada - they were out at my local deli - YAY!
Cheese - okay for many in this group, but not for me alas0 -
Ice Cream, any flavor will do0
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Grits....... My favorite breakfast was always grits, eggs over easy, and bacon, all mixed together with butter.... Minus the grits, I suppose I could still eat that. Grits just sort of made it special.
My main kryptonite is cake, specifically the local bakers birthday cakes she makes. Granddad's 90th birthday is next week and I'm dreading having to face that cake.
But:
Pizza
Chocolate in all forms
Red Lobster cheesy cheddar biscuits
O'Charley's rolls
Chinese, all of it... I get carried away even if the options are lower carb
Pasta in all forms
My grandma's lasagna
My grandma's anything aside from the things like greens lathered in bacon grease.
Hmmm, now I want big pot of her mustard greens. Time to go sweet talk my memal!
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KnitOrMiss wrote: »I haven't dared delve back into the bad carby world, but I would say:
Eggrolls - maybe. I still am searching for an excellent inside out recipe (stir fry of the insides), but they all have way too many ingredients for me to experiment with.
They have low-carb wrappers that are made from coconut. Very expensive and I thought they tasted awful. I've made a filling for egg rolls that seem to be rather low-carb with 6 ingredients: ground pork, ginger, garlic, green onion, sesame oil, and soy sauce. The ratio is Fat 60%, Protein 21% , and Carbs 10%
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chaoticdreams wrote: »Grits....... My favorite breakfast was always grits, eggs over easy, and bacon, all mixed together with butter.... Minus the grits, I suppose I could still eat that. Grits just sort of made it special.
My main kryptonite is cake, specifically the local bakers birthday cakes she makes. Granddad's 90th birthday is next week and I'm dreading having to face that cake.
YES-- THAT is how grits should be eaten! YUM
And I hear you on the cake. LOVE IT.0 -
chaoticdreams wrote: »Granddad's 90th birthday is next week and I'm dreading having to face that cake. :
Don't dread it, just eat a little and relish every morsel!0 -
Does it have flour, sugar and butter in it? Bam! Kryptonite!0
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KnitOrMiss wrote: »I haven't dared delve back into the bad carby world, but I would say:
Eggrolls - maybe. I still am searching for an excellent inside out recipe (stir fry of the insides), but they all have way too many ingredients for me to experiment with.
They have low-carb wrappers that are made from coconut. Very expensive and I thought they tasted awful. I've made a filling for egg rolls that seem to be rather low-carb with 6 ingredients: ground pork, ginger, garlic, green onion, sesame oil, and soy sauce. The ratio is Fat 60%, Protein 21% , and Carbs 10%
I can't stand the taste of coconut, so no temptation there. It's the filling that I've loved most, and most of the filling should be low carb friendly. I'm just trying to find a recipe without 45 ingredients to try. And sesame oil is gross... LOL Would you send your proportions or a recipe? The only one I've found online calls for making psyillium husk dumplings with it. And it has a ton of non-standard ingredients. I'd love to find out what my local place uses to make theirs - then I could just make it like a crack slaw version!0 -
I think "pop" is a midwestern thing. Growing up in New York, we all called it "soda." "Coke" was reserved for Coke.
And I never knew what grits were until I moved to Louisiana ten years ago. Seriously, I'd never even heard of them. Cream of Wheat, Farina, and oatmeal were the hot cereals we had available to us. Never grits. Also, when I first ate grits I added sweeteners like I'd always done with my oatmeal and thought they were disgusting. Eventually I learned to eat them with butter and salt, and then I grew to enjoy them. 0 -
Potatoes used to be until I allowed myself to eat a tiny bit in moderation every now and then if I budget carbs (under fifty total, around 30 net). Dark chocolate I have nightly if I've been good.
I think the only thing I can't find room to budget in is my old favorite Mexican restaurant, but I make deals with myself, like thirty days on = one meal at Mexican with no carb limit. It's all about balance and moderation if you're in it for the long haul. 0 -
I can binge on nuts and cheese. Too much of a good thing is still too much!0
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I still eat at Mexican places. Tostada or taco, no rice. I just eat around the shells, get extra avo and sour cream. Find it very satisfying. Has carbs of course, but I can budget for it. If it does take me over, its not detrimentaljessicatroberts wrote: »I think the only thing I can't find room to budget in is my old favorite Mexican restaurant
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jessicatroberts wrote: »Potatoes used to be until I allowed myself to eat a tiny bit in moderation every now and then if I budget carbs (under fifty total, around 30 net). Dark chocolate I have nightly if I've been good. I think the only thing I can't find room to budget in is my old favorite Mexican restaurant, but I make deals with myself, like thirty days on = one meal at Mexican with no carb limit. It's all about balance and moderation if you're in it for the long haul.
Order the fajitas with extra meat, ditch the tortillas, add avo & sour cream. Voila! Noche Mexicana!
(sorry for the mixed Latin languages, lol)
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Our Mexican place has something called Pollo Loco - basically a chicken breast covered in queso cheese sauce with grilled seasonal veggies (summer squash, carrots, zucchini, and broccoli, I don't eat the carrots) smothered in butter. It's cheap, delicious and on plan. I either do that or the fajitas with no tortillas.
My husband however always gets the taco salad and always eats the shell anyways. What can I say.... he's still managed to lose 35 lbs.0 -
@Knit--They have a seaweed felted sort of thing that is used to wrap sushi. You might try wrapping your egg roll mixture in that. Don't know what it costs, but it sounds interesting.0
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@saraphim41 - I had forgotten about seaweed. Thanks for the reminder. I'll have to check to see if I can eat it too.0
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Don't dread it, just eat a little and relish every morsel!
I feel this is key with any kryptonite or any time someone falls off the wagon. Most of us are so used to inhaling our food we eat 8 cookies before we even taste the first one. If we take our time and savor each bite we can get all the enjoyment we want out of one cookie.
Most of us got this way through mindless eating.0 -
I follow this thread from time to time was not coming up with anything to list. Currently anything that has carbs is off of my food list so that seems to be saving me. It seems what is be listed are often carb based foods for the most part. @parkdad73 makes a good point about slowing down when we eat. This morning I ate my almonds and coconut flakes and just finished a 800 calorie cup of coffee and boiled egg and I am stuffed. If I had wolfed down that down I could have eaten even more before I realized I was over stuffed.
I am starting to think my Kryptonite was NOT 'a' food but 'any' food that would stretch my gut.
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Apple cinnamon pastries from panera
Raisinets and Popcorn (yes at the same time)
Strawberries (yes we can eat them in moderation, but they trigger me something fierce)
Corn on the cob
Belgium waffles
Pumpkin spice lattes
Garlic bread
Craft beers with graphically pleasing labels0 -
I always like polenta over grits-- grits seem to be kind of blah while polenta had some texture to it. I made my cornbread with polenta with just a little cornmeal since cornmeal is ground much finer0
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Any sort of specialty drink: pumpkin spice latte's, pretty much any kind of latte really, coolata's from dunkin donuts, pepsi, maine root sodas...
Thankfully my husband drinks coke, which I don't like, but he is also trying to eat better so only has a single coke about once a week. I've been able to start drinking cold brew coffee with cream, so I think that has been helping.
But when fall comes and it's pumpkin spice latte time - lord help me!0 -
Boiled custard was hard to pass on when I was living on carbs. Thankfully I now like heavy whipping cream just as well but for some reason I can not drink two quarts in one evening like I could with boiled custard.0
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AngInCanada wrote: »Chips. I miss chips so bad. Specifically doritos and sour cream and onion ripple chips. I buy pork rinds to make nachos but it just isn't the same thing.
Mine is chips too. Pork rinds help, but I do miss kettle cooked jalapeño potato chips.0 -
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Weird... I've never had grits before but I always pictured something crispy and possibly fried?
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You can refrigerate grits and then fry them when they solidify. My mom used to make the best fried grits. I love grits..0 -
Salted pistachio nuts, avocado oil potato chips, sweet potato fries. I try to avoid these, but can't eliminate them completely, so might sneak in a very small portion here and there, but not regularly.
It's somehow easier for me to limit the potato, but I have difficulty with the nuts. I should not even buy the nuts in the first place, but my daughter also eats them. If this is the worst food item that I consider an unnecessary treat, then I figure we're doing pretty good. At least it's a whole food with some nutritional value and not a processed junk food.0 -
@toadqueen taught me the word "kryptonetic". I need to find ways to incorporate it, it just sounds cool. Lol
I would consider my kryptonite to be chewy, fruity or sour candy. Public enemy #1 would be those delicious little devils, lemonheads... The chewy ones that come in various flavors. There have been a couple times that my son had some candy like this and he even offered me some, and i had no problem saying no so far. I've managed to avoid even one. In the past, once I started eating them, I just couldn't stop with a reasonable amount. My mouth would water, and it was like I couldn't get enough of that flavor. So, I'm definitely worried that even one taste would get that craving going hard core.
I also wanted to chime in on the pop, soda and coke thing. I grew up in Houston, Texas. There everything was coke. You would ask "what kind of coke do you have" at restaurants or friends houses. If you actually wanted something else, you would specify Sprite, Mt. Dew or whatever. But (this was 25-30 years ago by the way) you never wanted Pepsi. If a restaurant had Pepsi products, it was a huge disappointment. When I was 12, we moved north, Ohio, and it took me years to adjust and start calling it pop like everyone else. I thought it sounded stupid. I don't ever hear anyone say soda, but I have been known to say that instead of pop just because I didn't want to say pop! Lol
My mom, from Tennessee, absolutely loved grits! I always felt like it was eating a bowl of sweet, wet sand. Yuck!0
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