Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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lauriekallis wrote: »
It was only 23:12 for me!3 -
Supper tonight is a field greens salad with balsamic vinegar and hummus (my new salad toppers) and the 3 lonely veggie weiners in the fridge. We had glorious weather here today - so I got to try out my "new" shoulder in the backyard. So much better!!!! I can almost sweep. Can dig and weed. Can drink tea and enjoy the sun even
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Laurie that was almost poetic!
I am out, escaping the asylum, wearing track pants and short sleeves at 5:40pm on a 15°C gloriously sunny afternoon. With a nice breeze to keep the scorch down!
Behind me the large industrial building is the area Hospital... not recommended! 😹
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Link up for a few days 😎
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Tried carrot hot dogs once with hubby and son. It was the only time we all tossed out the food and started over. Vile! I am hoping Laurie’s veggie wieners are more meat substitute-like?
Looks like spring has arrived in Canada too. Enjoy 😊2 -
I think the photo gray lens tint tells you about the level of UV 😎🤯🤔 I'm actually considering sweating 🙀🤣😹2
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59F for heavens sake. That’s sweater and coat weather! 🥶2
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Ya know what? I just mentioned "a bunny" and I realized that we've never covered bunnies here. O-boy-were bunnies fun way back when when I came up with them!
So.... Laurie would probably be a bunnie leader but Connie might too.... hmmm.... that would have been an accountability item back in the day, I guess!
-A Bunnie is hereby defined as 85g of vegetables or fruits or at least 40g of dehydrated /dried ones such as dates, or prunes or fruit-leather or tomato paste!
Contrary to the British "code of ethics" we WILL be counting potatoes and plantains and other vegetables often used as starches in our MORE than 5-a-day... as long as we're not talking french fries or re-constituted mashed potatoes (wait as second... why am I not counting reconstituted mashed potatoes?
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We're counting them because I'm a pro-potato prejudiced person 'cause I don't understand when I look at micro/macros *and* calories why, say, sweet potatoes are so superior and would count as a vegetable but potatoes wouldn't. So as long as they're not covered in flour and oil... they count!
But as usual... I digress.
A bunny = food eaten by a bunny (not the consumption of the actual bunny who is actually eating the bunny (food) which is equal to a bunny or bunnie for the purpose of counting... whatever you can type faster!!!!
Goal is.... and absolute minimum of 5 bunnies a day! But, since some long term study or another than I read at some point of time, or another (might have been the nurses one, or maybe not)... in any case... it was clearly demonstrating good baseline effects with the generally recommended five portions of vegetables and fruits (split 3 veg and 2 fruit) a day and continued incremental additional benefits by increasing vegetables and fruits to the 8-10 portions a day range.
And let us not forget that whats-his-name-lots-a-studies-smart-guy, oh, yeah, Kevin Hall, says we are better off eating, ya know, whole type food thingies if we want to be mini-mes instead of mega-mes!
So... of course the "stretch" goal is 8-10 bunnies a day!
With 100g lettuce, 202g tomato, 50g radishes, 20g onion, 300g mixed cauli, brocco, carrots... I am in good shape (for once) to call at least 8 bunnies without relying too heavily on the tomato portion of the pasta sauce used on the mixed veggies which were also mixed with 70g cooked rice. And without trying to rely on the one piece of corn in the frozen red curry I scarfed for lunch!
Now... do remember that cocoa beans ARE fruits--and we've never established whether 60g of coffee grounds partially dissolved in hot water count for something or NOT?!?!?!
Oh boy... we're going to need a bunny referee! Who will we appoint?!?!?
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Kind of had bunny food today. Homemade cole slaw, shrimp, salad and low carb tortillas wrappers.
Maybe some fruit later. I think I generally get 5-8 portion of bunny food daily.2 -
So are you calling 5 bunnies or 8 bunnies today? Slaw (weight before dressing... my observation is that the weight is about 50-50 for cabbage and dressing absent full knowledge of how it was prepared)... slaw would count, of course! And so would salad. The tortilla's? Low carb or not... not on my bunny list!1
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Do prunes count as bunnies? I now have 80g every morning to break my fast....2
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The dried prunes my dear friend count as a bunny per 40g, so that would be TWO super official BUNNIES!
If it is fresh prunes... well I personally prefer 85g per bunny; but I suppose 80g would be acceptable for a charitable bunny pass (some literature counts the portion of veg/fruit at 80, some at 85)1 -
They're dried prunes so that's 2 bunnies down every day before I've had my first cuppa!
I LOOOOOOVE them....and they're working!2 -
Love the bunnie idea, PAV. Glad we don't have to eat them. I think I'm in for 6 bunnies so far...but going out to a kinda small, kinda crowded place tonight so am saving dinner (salad with beans) till I come home, just in case
So...for easter...do we get to count the chocolate bunnies? Or the strange chocolate bunny eggs?2 -
You will still stand on fields of green, PAV. We had mostly a day of cool rain here today - but now the sun is out. After winter - that 59' feels so warm, Yooly!!!!!2
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So explain to me how it can be 24 today and feel much colder than yesterday when it was 15 and sunny?🤷🏻♂️
The overnight low temperature is expected to be minus 2 🙀
Oh no, I'm going to fry the sun is out 😹
Well at least the view is okay
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I count 9 bunnies today - prunes, raspberries, blueberries, cabbage, carrots, onion, lettuce, tomatoes, sweet potato. Not all full servings but certainly variety!
It was 80 today and the bluebonnets are in full bloom all over town and the sides of the highways. Glorious1 -
They are beautiful!😎👍1
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I think I'll start a 🐰 thread!!!2
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You should transfer your bunnies to the bunny thread❣️ Connie can give herself ⭐s2
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Oh my - your photos are extraordinary. I get to see some small pockets of beauty around here - but mostly NOT.1
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Yooly's flowers are awesome
Only my third one is ok. Dangers of posting while walking and wearing dark glasses 😎1 -
Actually it’s not the best bluebonnet year due to several freezes and the previous year’s snowmaggedon. But it is lovely driving down the highway in a blur of blue. My front lawn is half bluebonnets. Best part is they seed themselves and spread easily. No maintenance required because they’re native plants. Soon they’ll be mixed with orange Indian paintbrush, pink buttercups and yellow Mexican hat flowers as the season continues. Once the heat of summer begins though it’s cactus and dry brown grass.
Today hubby is preparing pork chops in the air fryer, broccoli, sweet potatoes and the usual side salad.2 -
Not sure what's for supper today - and the worst part is I've invited two friends over for dinner before we go to a concert tonight (live music is all I really missed during the pandemic - so happy to have these opportunities again!).
What shall I make?????? At least they are both vegetarian leaning/friendly.
I'll report back later.2 -
I think I'm going to make Dante's Greek green bean and olive oil stew 🙂
It seems perfect for an almost spring day.2 -
Dinner smells delicious and everything is on board for my little gathering tonight except that I thought some baklava would be a nice finish to the meal and it only came in a too generous sized box...I put some out on a serving dish...wrapped up the package and tucked it away... And then kept on stealing one until there were no more left in that tucked away package. 😕3
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lauriekallis wrote: »Dinner smells delicious and everything is on board for my little gathering tonight except that I thought some baklava would be a nice finish to the meal and it only came in a too generous sized box...I put some out on a serving dish...wrapped up the package and tucked it away... And then kept on stealing one until there were no more left in that tucked away package. 😕
Those are the times where the freezer is my friend. That and doing something else after dinner so that I'm distracted from eating.
Sorry to all I haven't been around. When my autism comes to the fore, I tend to just drop off the radar until I feel social again, and things have been a bit stressful as we figure out exactly how to redo our lives around Boyfriend's new job. I think all will be good but change is not something any of us like, and I'm still figuring out what my new normal is on the thyroid meds. Also the weather is not helping me feel good. One day it's snowing, the next day it's in the mid-sixties. (shakes head)
I have had something interesting happen. I'm not....hungry anymore. I eat my breakfast, and I'm fine. And the alarm goes off and I start to make lunch and halfway through the process I'm aware that I have an appetite. And same with dinner. And in the evening I don't want to snack. I could, it's there, but nah, I just want to drink more tea. I was a little hungry when I went to bed last night, but it wasn't bad enough for me to actually get out of bed to get something, so I didn't, and I wasn't hungry any earlier in the day than usual today. I don't know if this is temporary or permanent, but it's a great relief.
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Glad to see you! Maybe I missed but did boy get another new job, is this the one that didn't start out 100% perfectly?0
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I’ve missed you here Alexandra! Hope you’re on the wat to getting some equilibrium in your life.
Could the thyroid meds be helping with the hunger control?2 -
I’ve missed you here Alexandra! Hope you’re on the wat to getting some equilibrium in your life.
Could the thyroid meds be helping with the hunger control?
They might be. It could be the Prozac that is doing everything from putting a floor under my low moments to settling my gut down somewhat to easing the fibro pain. It could be that I'm more sensitive to the amphetamine I take daily. (shrug) I dunno. But it's NICE. I know it's not the amphetamine because I take an absurdly tiny weird dose (and I know it's weird because they always have to special order it at the pharmacy) and within the last three months I have taken it, had dinner, and then proceeded to piece all evening. (I can also go to sleep on it. TINY dose. But it makes all the difference in my executive function.)2 -
Next week's menu, for those interested:
Monday: Chicken and Jalapeno Quesadillas.
Chicken Parmesan, pasta marinara, pan-seared zucchini, garlic bread.
Tuesday: Street tacos al pastor or carne asada
Chicken bacon alfredo fettucini with broccoli, garlic bread.
Wednesday: Hamburgers/cheeseburgers to order, chips.
Crab cake, wild rice pilaf, asparagus au beurre noir, bread roll.
Thursday: Pulled pork sandwich or wrap, chips.
Sweet and sour pork or chicken, mixed Asian vegetables, white rice.
Friday: Patty melt, chips.
Tacos, hard or soft, rice and beans.
Saturday: Chicken patty sandwiches, chips.
Beef stroganoff, pan-seared zucchini, bread roll.
Sunday: Walking burrito or leftover cleanup.
Cashew chicken, white rice, egg roll with choice of dipping sauce.
As always I provide recipes.
Once he goes back to work I'll add in a mention of what he's taking to work. He gets more calories and less carbs than I do, so whenever you see pasta, he's probably having the meat and sauce on the vegetable, with no pasta involved. I'm usually not having the vegetable because either I don't like it or it doesn't like me.3
