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I love this thread!
I'd never heard of this term until the past week or two, but it makes sense now why I eat the way I do -- lots of veggies at dinner, and a serving of protein. Keeps me from sniffing around the cupboard at 9pm before bed. If I'm craving starchy stuff, I'll steam a whole sweet potato.
This also answers why I love big salads and fruit over a dinky sandwich and side, and why I never cared for multiple small meals throughout the day. I only graze when I'm stressed or bored and it's frequently poor choices (because it's for comfort obviously), plus my stomach never stops growling -- so eating that way is, to me, inane.
I'd rather get 3 big meals.3 -
I am making this today, and eating two servings. I might even have it on some greens and up the amount of veggies in there.
I'll be looking to see if there's some decent watermelon to have for dessert.3 -
When it comes to volume protein, you can't beat cod. I made this orange and fennel roasted cod last night and it was ridiculously simple, amazingly tasty and one and a half servings was around 400 calories, which was 12 ounces of fish! You could easily add a ton of veggies too.
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/orange-and-fennel-roasted-cod2 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I am making this today, and eating two servings. I might even have it on some greens and up the amount of veggies in there.
I'll be looking to see if there's some decent watermelon to have for dessert.
That looks yummy! I never really thought quinoa was a volume food, I always put it in the same category as rice and well all know that is NOT a volume food lol. I love quinoa but always avoided it because i thought it had a lot of calories. I'll have to check mfp on that again and maybe bring it into my nightly salad bowls.0 -
Kimblesnbits13 wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I am making this today, and eating two servings. I might even have it on some greens and up the amount of veggies in there.
I'll be looking to see if there's some decent watermelon to have for dessert.
That looks yummy! I never really thought quinoa was a volume food, I always put it in the same category as rice and well all know that is NOT a volume food lol. I love quinoa but always avoided it because i thought it had a lot of calories. I'll have to check mfp on that again and maybe bring it into my nightly salad bowls.
It's only a little less than rice. I don't eat it.
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Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.3
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Dinner:
6oz mixed greens
1 Apple diced
1c diced strawberries
1/2c green grapes
1/2 blue cheese crumbles
1/2c fiber one cereal (for added crunch)
4T vinegrette
4oz grilled salmon
625 calories
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Kimblesnbits13 wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I am making this today, and eating two servings. I might even have it on some greens and up the amount of veggies in there.
I'll be looking to see if there's some decent watermelon to have for dessert.
That looks yummy! I never really thought quinoa was a volume food, I always put it in the same category as rice and well all know that is NOT a volume food lol. I love quinoa but always avoided it because i thought it had a lot of calories. I'll have to check mfp on that again and maybe bring it into my nightly salad bowls.
It's not that quinoa itself is a volume food, it's that it's part of the salad with all those vegetables. I need starch, so I like grain salads for volume with the starch I need for satiety, but I usually double the vegetables that they call for to get a nice big portion.3 -
Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.
Yup! I need some starch! Just a serving is fine, and I pad it out with plenty of veggies, but if I don't have it, I can eat all the protein and vegetables in the world and still feel like something is missing.
I had terrible binging problems for months because I was trying to eat high volume without starchy food for a while.
That stopped when I added starchy food back to my diet.8 -
Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.
That's a good idea. I never messed with homemade soup because I always thought it was something that had to cook all day. I guess not. I might mess around.0 -
Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.
That's a good idea. I never messed with homemade soup because I always thought it was something that had to cook all day. I guess not. I might mess around.
Nope, if you don't mind canned chicken! Or frozen veg.
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Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.
That's a good idea. I never messed with homemade soup because I always thought it was something that had to cook all day. I guess not. I might mess around.
Nope, if you don't mind canned chicken! Or frozen veg.
*kitten* no. I'm lazy. Sounds good4 -
Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.
That's a good idea. I never messed with homemade soup because I always thought it was something that had to cook all day. I guess not. I might mess around.
Nope, if you don't mind canned chicken! Or frozen veg.
*kitten* no. I'm lazy. Sounds good
I make lazy soup ALL the time. It's a great volume food. Frozen veggies, canned tomatoes, bagged spinach, pre-chopped onions, boxed broth. Now I'm a vegetarian, so for protein I either top it with cottage cheese (not as weird as it sounds) or add beans, but you could throw in canned chicken or tear the meat off a rotisserie chicken.5 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.
That's a good idea. I never messed with homemade soup because I always thought it was something that had to cook all day. I guess not. I might mess around.
Nope, if you don't mind canned chicken! Or frozen veg.
*kitten* no. I'm lazy. Sounds good
I make lazy soup ALL the time. It's a great volume food. Frozen veggies, canned tomatoes, bagged spinach, pre-chopped onions, boxed broth. Now I'm a vegetarian, so for protein I either top it with cottage cheese (not as weird as it sounds) or add beans, but you could throw in canned chicken or tear the meat off a rotisserie chicken.
Awesome. Definitely gonna mess with this.
I have a confession though. As an MFP user for 3 years...I never make "recipes". I always cook one meal and log it. It annoys the crap out of me to figure out servings and *kitten*. But I guess since I'd be eating the soup in a day or two it'd be fine for my dumb *kitten*0 -
My dinner a couple of nights ago... not the family's....mine.
Riced cauliflower "chicken fried rice"4 -
I feel like our pictures don't really do the volume justice. The riced cauliflower meal doesn't look that big. I know some of mine don't look as big in pictures though.0
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I'm definitely a volume eater, particularly at dinner. My protein portion is usually a good 1/2 lb and then a lb of veggies with it, and a starch. I do cut down on the starch though, usually by bulking it with veg (I add veggies to pasta, use 1/2 riced cauliflower with rice etc.
When I make chilli, or stew or anything like that for lunches, I bulk it with a lot of veg so that I have bigger servings.4 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Quinoa and rice are both pretty much non-volume foods (for me), but does anybody else feel like if they don't have a tiny bit of starch with their meal, that they're still 'hungry' after? Even if I just have a quarter cup of quinoa in a pot of soup or a quarter cup of beans in my salad, I just feel so much more full after. My latest thing is to make a 3 quart pot of soup and eat it throughout the day. The base is usually onions/garlic/1 can rinsed chicken, plus a little bit of bouillon, then whatever I want on top of that. Lemon chicken is good, chicken+tomatoes+spinach, chicken with peppers and black beans. I bought too much spinach and it's starting to get a little less fresh (not rotten just not salad quality) and this is a really good way to use it up... I shove a ton of spinach into the pot when it's done cooking. Depending on the ingredients, the pot's about 500 cal, but it's a lot of food and I just eat a cup whenever I feel hungry.
That's a good idea. I never messed with homemade soup because I always thought it was something that had to cook all day. I guess not. I might mess around.
Nope, if you don't mind canned chicken! Or frozen veg.
*kitten* no. I'm lazy. Sounds good
I make lazy soup ALL the time. It's a great volume food. Frozen veggies, canned tomatoes, bagged spinach, pre-chopped onions, boxed broth. Now I'm a vegetarian, so for protein I either top it with cottage cheese (not as weird as it sounds) or add beans, but you could throw in canned chicken or tear the meat off a rotisserie chicken.
Awesome. Definitely gonna mess with this.
I have a confession though. As an MFP user for 3 years...I never make "recipes". I always cook one meal and log it. It annoys the crap out of me to figure out servings and *kitten*. But I guess since I'd be eating the soup in a day or two it'd be fine for my dumb *kitten*
Yes, it is annoying. It's not too bad if I have a small 3 quart pot of soup and I can easily weigh out the grams, but if I decide to cook a giant pot of soup or a couple of meatloaves or something, it is so much extra work to figure out calories per serving. Hopefully I can figure out a more streamlined method. I just ordered a food scale that goes up to 11 pounds versus my current 5 pound scale so hopefully that will help.dulcitonia wrote: »My dinner a couple of nights ago... not the family's....mine.
Riced cauliflower "chicken fried rice"
I love… absolutely LOVE this meal. I would eat it more often but I find it to be kind of time-consuming at this stage in my life, but I freaking love it. Yours looks great.
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Re the soup - I throw 2 chicken breasts into a pot with chicken stock, boil them for a bit, pull them out and shred them and add them back with a 1kg bag (sometimes 2) of frozen mixed veggies (the cheap ones that are cut into cubes), seasoning and a cup of milk. I get 7 - 8 decent sized serves of soup at less than 200 cals a serve, or 4 ish huge serves for around 300.3
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dulcitonia wrote: »My dinner a couple of nights ago... not the family's....mine.
Riced cauliflower "chicken fried rice"
I love… absolutely LOVE this meal. I would eat it more often but I find it to be kind of time-consuming at this stage in my life, but I freaking love it. Yours looks great.
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What I love about this. All I do is cook the chicken, dump a bag of frozen "riced cauliflower vegetable medley" and a can of water chestnuts... Soy sauce heat and YUM!
Honestly it's better with an egg scrambled in but I'm usually too lazy for it.
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