eating on the road

TheRambler

so, yeah.. I do a lot of traveling. Not a TON, but enough. I find that even when I eat "healthy" on the road, I still feel like I didn't eat well. Not compared to when I'm making it at home. Maybe it's the unknown of what's actually going in the food, but I never feel "good" after.

Today in Houston I had a grilled chicken/avocado/salsa salad. Tons of unsweetened iced tea. Great.

Dinner I had shrimp gumbo with no rice. It was very flavorful..yet I feel like I just ate 10000 calories. It was a medium.

I'm not sure if it's a mental thing or not, but I need to get over it!!

Vent over.

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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

Sounds normal to me, when i pick up the grab and go food at the grocery store if i can't feel confident at a general guess on the calories in the item i don't feel comfortable either.

right??? I mean, I ate healthy today. If I ate the same things at home I'd feel great! The only time I feel good is when I'm at Panera.. unfortunately, my accounts don't prefer that type of place!!

I have a couple of trips the next month that will be a challenge.

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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

It's hard.. restaurants make me nervous in general, we don't have this place here but i had a MFP friend one time say she went to the cheesecake factory and ordered their sheppards pie... lol im such a simplistic person, my sheppards pie is just mashed, cream corn and ground beef LOL.. i googled this pie from there and it was over 1700 calories

oh that place is the worst!!!! I went to Bonefish last night and looked up some of the entrees, and the calories blew my mind. I mean, it's FISH! Fish is supposed to be good for you..

ONE entree was a healthy white fish with CREAMED spinach on top. Did they have to do that?

That being said, I tried a fish I never had before.. Cabrio? I think that's what it's called. It's on my top 5 now. mmmm cabrio

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TheRambler

you seem like you live in an exotic or obscure place. Where!? knowing my perception you will say something like New York haha

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COBIA!! (I just looked at my "diary") it's so delicious!!!

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nurseangelamomof5boys

I have a low calorie recipe for Sheppard's pie I will send it to if u would like @ look_its_kriss

TheRambler

nurseangelamomof5boys wrote: »

I have a low calorie recipe for Sheppard's pie I will send it to if u would like @ look_its_kriss

Nurse.. I have made mine like this (and it's awesome)

Instead of mashed potatoes, I mash cauliflower
Instead of beef, I used buffalo meat (more flavor than turkey)
Instead of the corn, I love peas. Give it a soft sweetness

the rest is the same. a lot of my cooking is based around olive oil/onions and garlic...so as always, add away!

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TheRambler

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

LOL... well get ready for this "exotic" place...

I actually live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada lol



oddly enough.. the outside communities are fishing communities LOL

I LOVE it there. I've been there a few times. I saw the Mooseheads play a couple of times. A GREAT hockey town. I love the Scotiabank (sp?) Centre.

Great restaurants in that town.. I'd bee feeling guilt-burgers constantly haha

nurseangelamomof5boys

No prob kris's
We are neighbors by the way I live in cape Breton

TheRambler

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

Hmm... lets see if i can post here now without the giant stop sign... lol...

Although i did inbox you a message in response to your fish picture

and @nurseangelamomof5boys -- i appreciate the offer but im picky with my food in regards to veggies and i probably wouldn't eat it, thus why my sheppards pie recipe is just cream corn, ground beef and mashed potato lol

do you consider garlic and onions vegetables??

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nurseangelamomof5boys wrote: »

No prob kris's
We are neighbors by the way I live in cape Breton

Home of the Screaming Eagles! I have yet to see a game up there.

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TheRambler wrote: »

nurseangelamomof5boys wrote: »

No prob kris's
We are neighbors by the way I live in cape Breton

Home of the Screaming Eagles! I have yet to see a game up there.

Yes my son goes a lot I don't get there often

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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

I do consider them veggies, yeah.. and for garlic, if its finely finely minced.. its okay, however for most recipes i will either use powder or puree the garlic fresh.. onions i will pick out if i see them in anything, but i will eat them puree. lol i also use powder when i can.

And hello neighbor.

There is only one restaurant i've been wanting to try here and i've never really had the chance to go.. or maybe i just think i want to LOL but it's called boneheads.

I understand it's the Italian in me, but I love cooking with garlic and olive oil. Garlic is always minced and the bitterness burns away in the oil.

If you tried my Shrimp Marsala over whole-wheat pasta, I could convert you. I would skip the broccoli rabe in garlic/olive oil/crushed red pepper.. that maybe a stretch

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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

I do consider them veggies, yeah.. and for garlic, if its finely finely minced.. its okay, however for most recipes i will either use powder or puree the garlic fresh.. onions i will pick out if i see them in anything, but i will eat them puree. lol i also use powder when i can.

And hello neighbor.

There is only one restaurant i've been wanting to try here and i've never really had the chance to go.. or maybe i just think i want to LOL but it's called boneheads.

Boneheads never heard of it. The food is sooooo good in Halifax

TheRambler

nurseangelamomof5boys wrote: »

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

I do consider them veggies, yeah.. and for garlic, if its finely finely minced.. its okay, however for most recipes i will either use powder or puree the garlic fresh.. onions i will pick out if i see them in anything, but i will eat them puree. lol i also use powder when i can.

And hello neighbor.

There is only one restaurant i've been wanting to try here and i've never really had the chance to go.. or maybe i just think i want to LOL but it's called boneheads.

Boneheads never heard of it. The food is sooooo good in Halifax

if you two go out for a delicious Halifax meal without me I'm gonna... umm.. pout or something. Kick a rock.

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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

TheRambler wrote: »

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

I do consider them veggies, yeah.. and for garlic, if its finely finely minced.. its okay, however for most recipes i will either use powder or puree the garlic fresh.. onions i will pick out if i see them in anything, but i will eat them puree. lol i also use powder when i can.

And hello neighbor.

There is only one restaurant i've been wanting to try here and i've never really had the chance to go.. or maybe i just think i want to LOL but it's called boneheads.

I understand it's the Italian in me, but I love cooking with garlic and olive oil. Garlic is always minced and the bitterness burns away in the oil.

If you tried my Shrimp Marsala over whole-wheat pasta, I could convert you. I would skip the broccoli rabe in garlic/olive oil/crushed red pepper.. that maybe a stretch

Actually i do like broccoli but not crunchy LOL, something about hard/cooked veggies really bothers me, its why i don't buy those premix frozen veggies cause they are hard still after you cook them..

Doesn't have to be mush but im really texture sensitive.. like.. i can eat hard outsides with soft middles but i can't do soft outsides with crunchy middles... so i wouldn't mix onion or celery or anything into tuna salad or stuff like that lol

Boneheads is like a BBQ place.. i hear they make really good meats, i just havent gone probably because its out of the way, they are downtown, they used to have a closer location but it closed cause they could only make so much meat per day and once its gone, its gone

broccoli rabe isn't crunchy... it is a tad bitter and has a bite to it. I love it.

is it just veggie texture you don't like?

nurseangelamomof5boys

Sounds good I'm not heading to Halifax for a few months will check it out thanks

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nurseangelamomof5boys

Wow kris's that's a lot of food you can't eat

TheRambler

you totally made me realize that I eat and enjoy almost everything haha.. I'm going to China the end of this month, it's the one place that I don't quite enjoy the food. I think it's a trust thing. I only eat Fish and Veggies and my KIND bars.

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TheRambler

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

My mother said when i was young i used to love fresh strawberries, until i threw up from eating too many of them and then i never touched them again.. i can feel the little black seeds on my tongue, it really bothers me.. and the taste.. at this point i just can't stand how boringly bland i find fruit.. so its either hard and slimy, soft and slimy but also bland and boring i just really can't get into it haha

I'm gonna say I was 8...so 3 centuries ago... my Grandmother was coating veggies with Bisquick and frying them. They were AMAZING. I ate so many that I got sick. Never again have I had a fried veggie (except onion ring)...let me re-phrase that...fried in coating.

I feel your pain sistah Kriss.