Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Laurie your palate is almost as peculiar as PAV…1
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Almost
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Pffft. If you gals don't experiment how will you know???
We now know that cauliflower potato salad (and cauli mash and cauli) rice can all work! Cauli brownies... not quite! Really! Do not quite smell right🤣 Sweet potato brownies? All-in! 😎
@Yoolypr ... yesterday I was at a ~500 deficit and I still consumed 2531 Cal. (Fitbit burn 3123 by giving Laurie a run for her money with the mutt and the once a decade cleaning!)
The family of four was lunch and dinner with 54g (two slices) of light rye per session. With the sriracha I blended in in the evening when I run a knife through to get the bigger pieces more size harmonized and better blended, it was all under 1300Cal!
The rest of the calories were split between two clif bars, and, more importantly, since I was so full from the salad, to no more than 174g of the "Sawsan attack" which was like a mini sausage roll filled with dates and walnuts and who knows what terrible things! I logged them as 50% mincemeat pie and 50% pecan pie🤷🏻♂️
I wouldn't have survived the evil downstairs a few years back!!!3 -
Breakfast was a bacon buttie (bacon air fried until crispy and snappable) on squidgy granary bread, followed by my usual prunes.
Lunch was a protein shake because I had a turbo ride planned for straight afterwards so I didn't want anything too heavy in my stomach...full fat greek yoghurt/blueberries/raspberries/banana/avocado/10g peanut butter/25g scoop of chocolate peanut cookie flavour vegan wondershake. Yummy, filling and easily digestible. Crammed with protein, fat AND fibre.
Dinner was minced beef and onions slowly cooked in rich gravy, with boiled spuddies and a mountain of steamed veggies.
And sporadic pieces of fruit to ramp up the bunny tally.
That's it...no more calories left.3 -
Sounds 🐰🐇🐰 😻 your ride etc, you've assigned extra Cal's, right?1
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Yessiree.
Hence the avocado, peanut butter, full fat yoghurt etc.3 -
Pav, I noticed above you use Cronometer for your recipes...I’ve just started logging into Cronometer...though I’m still logging 75% of my intake here too as a cross-check until I’ve assessed Cronometer’s accuracy.
I’m very impressed with it so far (though I wish it allowed me to assign times/meals to my intake.) Do you like it?1 -
Bella_Figura wrote: »I’m very impressed with it so far (though I wish it allowed me to assign times/meals to my intake.) Do you like it?
Not an absolute improvement as missing a lot and I end up finding something close or making entries... so there's good stuff for MFP.
But the deal breaker for me was MFP no longer keeping logging data past two years for non premium accounts and not allowing official and easy export of logged data. And the workarounds were painful to implement.
I mean fitbit has almost made it on my *kitten* list for forcing export to be a month at a time. MFP's attitude was just NOT acceptable to me. They are MY data and they belong to me. If we can't agree to that...
I had paid the small one time amount for no ads for crono on the phone (a very good investment) years ago... and that tilted the favour to crono... and it is working fairly well, integration with fitbit no worries, one very brief and small outage on a Sunday for a few hours as opposed to constantly with MFPeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ....
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Are you sure? This is a day, selected at random, from my 2012/2013/2014 logging...all my entries are still there but I'm not (and never have been) a Premium member.
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Same here. Never a premium member and have all my info for the last three years.2
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Check posts and support articles. Could be it's random? Could be that there was a cut off? Could be that they wanted to cover up a database loss or perform a database repair? When I'm at a non phone I'll maybe try to post a link2
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Don't disbelieve you, but looks like I'm one of the lucky ones whose data slipped through the delete net.1
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In fact I believe it's a closed discussion where I had laid it in pretty thick that they should allow for official export before deleting people's data in the suggestion or what have you thread2
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Maybe you convinced them to leave the data alone? Maybe we have you to thank for still being data-rich?
Yay, thanks Pav!2 -
Maybe it was the revenge of the IT guys. They only deleted PAV?2
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Okay - so I made PAV's potato salad - and I give it 5 thumbs up. Tasty, ridiculously filling, lots of bunnies and protein. Modified it a bit - a la PAV (otherwise it wouldn't be PAVs Potato Salad). But this recipe is definitely a keeper.3
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OK... like MFPeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
So, based on Bella's and Yooly's insistence.... I was obviously a member of MFP in a different universe in some place far far away?
There is no mention of the "two years" anywhere that I can find! My previously NOT accessible logs from 2014.... ARE now accessible!
I can still only finagle about 62 days at a time for an export using the view complete report printable feature. But it beats the less than 45 days that I was getting near the "end" when I was trying to actually export them.3 -
Tomorrow's meat will be taken out tonight. Pork chops, I believe. I'll look at the menu I just posted.
I made myself orange cranberry muffins with yogurt and vanilla sugar in them. That will be nice tomorrow morning.
We had pepper steak with rice, egg rolls, and crab rangoon for dinner. It was very very good. I have a good sauce/marinade blend worked out now and it makes the meat amazingly tender and good.3 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Okay - so I made PAV's potato salad - and I give it 5 thumbs up. Tasty, ridiculously filling, lots of bunnies and protein. Modified it a bit - a la PAV (otherwise it wouldn't be PAVs Potato Salad). But this recipe is definitely a keeper.
I wanted to report too, that under threat of the already delivered 103g of freshly made baklava... I wanted to see about creating version 2 of "ALMOST Yoolie's potato salad from a different mother and another father!"--as enhanced by Laurie's ideas and perfected by PAV, of course!!!
Equal amounts of boiled potato, boiled cauli, and 0% Greek Yogurt (333g, each). 3 hard boiled eggs (144g cooked), 111g pickled onions, 102g sweet green relish!, 60g yellow mustard, 35g sriracha, 9g garlic powder, 8g onion powder, 7g veggie knorr powder. ~1400g and ~1050 Cal.
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AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »Tomorrow's meat will be taken out tonight. Pork chops, I believe. I'll look at the menu I just posted.
I made myself orange cranberry muffins with yogurt and vanilla sugar in them. That will be nice tomorrow morning.
We had pepper steak with rice, egg rolls, and crab rangoon for dinner. It was very very good. I have a good sauce/marinade blend worked out now and it makes the meat amazingly tender and good.
I don't trust me near muffins
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I make great light potato salad using normal ingredients!….2 servings…..10 oz. Potatoes,1 egg,2 sweet pickles,diced celery and onion,mustard,pepper and parsley leaves,and 3 T. of light mayonaise….it is a big portion and no “ surprises” in it!
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Connie - the cauliflower is really worth trying. It almost magically turns into potato in the potato salad - with 1/3 the calories. The Greek yoghurt was a welcome creaminess (I eliminated mayo from the fridge years ago and don't want to get started on that front again
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I'm still thinking I haven't quite pushed the different ingredients as far as they can go/in the right direction I'm trying to make a western style potato salad with "healthier" easter ingredients. Maybe should think more of eastern flavours too? I'm thinking more along the lines of tzatziki? Which will bring us full circle to Yooly's posted salad?3 -
I have found that I am vaguely nauseated by food in the morning, but I also know I need to eat SOMETHING before taking my meds. I can tolerate sweet/bread sort of things better than savory/meat/cheese sort of things when my stomach is in that mood, so one small muffin nibbled with my hot tea works to short-circuit that nausea before I start being truly sick and can't eat anything at all to relieve it. Another muffin nibbled with tea about 9:30 am is enough to get me through to lunch, and that's 400 calories which is a legitimate meal. I haven't been snacking so I can do 400 for breakfast, 3-400 for lunch, and 5-600 for dinner pretty easily while staying in the calorie budget.
I was eating an English muffin, but the butter wasn't working for me first thing, and I didn't want jam.5 -
Tea is salmon and roasted veggies, baked in a bought lime & chilli sauce with berries & ginger yoghurt. Just me & OH so no pressure for a Bank Holiday roast. 🤗3
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Tonight is food fit for a bunny!….diced roasted leftover boiled potatoes, fresh asparagus, green salad and corn on the cob….a very small portion of turkey kielbasa to add some protein….dessert is a large mug of coffee and a Pamela’s Whenever chocolate/ coconut oatmeal cookie bar!…..if you haven’t tried Pamela’s Whenever bars, they have 180 calories of pure yumminess!….3
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You go Connie! Woohoo!
So it's totally 🐹 boggling how two people can eat the same thing and find totally different parts of it satiating and/or satisfying.
I like corn, don't get me wrong. I used to make a pot of mash, add corn, and happily munch away. One of my favorites. As are still corn on the cob on the BBQ!
But then I sat there and compared (and it's funny because it was turkey kielbasa from Walmart and corn in my mash that day) and decided that corn was too expensive to be in my daily driver list!!
I would rather add extra kielbasa or chicken or what have you and substitute out the corn for a lower cal and higher quantity of other veggies: Carrots, green beans, Brussels sprouts, zucchini, broccoli, cauli, etc
Or that if I was going to pay the caloric price of corn I would use peas instead which doubleup as a protein source (edamame/soya would also be in the same group for those so inclined)
I still love corn on the cob but it's in the "for when I crave" as opposed to "a great staple for the daily arsenal" category for me!!!!🤷🏻♂️
Which goes to show how differently we appreciate the same foods! And also the totally different trade offs we're willing to make. Garfield and Alexandria going for small but super tasty plates... me looking for lower caloric density to mitigate the damage when I (inevitably) end up going overboard in terms of quantity!🐹🤷🏻♂️2 -
We are in the height of our vegetable season….we have lots fresh here year round nut berry season is almost over…corn and melons are fresh now….I usually cook an extra ear of corn to MIX ( yes, mix ) with black beans….I cut the kernels off and don’t just throw the entire cob in Willy Nillie !….3
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Mix? Like touching??????🐹🤯🤔1
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I think mixing and touching are different!3
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Doesn’t matter anyway, my daughter ate the left over ear lol1
