Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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So I’m not the only one that squirrels away condiment packets! Handy packets of premeasured stuff. Honey, soy sauce, spicy ketchup, salsa…. I don’t take extras but these little treasures go in the fridge for future food embellishments.
I will try the sauté method on the fried rice. Doubt if I will add real rice cause that would involve math!
I am also considering making dolmas using cauliflower rice but with less olive oil in the prep.2 -
I "fry" mine in the tiniest amount of water. Take maybe 1 minute? Never tried actually frying it? I'm not even certain that the frying is what makes fried rice golden brown?
Maybe it is?????
I'm thinking of rice a roni now? That you can dry fry before adding water to brown everything??????
I don't think that is how our North American Chinese food restaurants brown the fried rice though? I thought that was pretty well soy sauce????2 -
Well - the Costco instructions said to fry in oil. But I would think it would take forever to dry out the cauliflower and pretty much trash the added peas, carrots and corn. But a mix of cauliflower and rice might work.
Steaming and soy is probably the way to go. Cause I don’t have time for all that!3 -
Just nuke the sucker uncovered! 😘
If you're that insistent maybe a bit of cellulose enhanced Kraft parmesan and a stint under the broiler! 🙀?
Having a hard time seeing the Golden brown cauliflower! I don't know what magic they use but the president choice riced veggies do come out closer to Al dente than mushy even when nuked.
Maybe you ladies will surprise me. But I wouldn't sacrifice more than a 10 or 20 Cal spray for brown color! My 🐹 have better candy to eat. 🤣3 -
Because I sooooooo want to turn it into something it can never be. Hope springs eternal!3
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Golden polarized sunglasses?3
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ridiculously enough - this conversation has me craving cauli-rice!!!!
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Today it’s fish tacos. I’m doing shrimp rather than fried filets like hubby. Also using the low carb tortillas (50 cal). Side of coleslaw vinaigrette. Maybe some hot sauce here and there too. Saving calories for ice cream tonight! 🍦1
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You know what? I was going to do something different but now I am thinking along the Yooly-Laurie axis of power: tri-color-riced veggies (cauli-broco-carrot I think, I have a walmart bag) and... shrimp, might actually be prawns... maybe even one bag of rice and split it 1/3-2/3 and 2/3-1/3 among the locals in these here parts! Now... tomato sauce... or something else... or nada?!?!?!
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Soy or teriyaki sauce? Or a carbonara type sauce made with eggs? All good.
Toss in a few extra frozen veggies too.2 -
Can't think of an appropriate sauce with the shrimps/prawns - never eaten seafood - would a dab of butter, salt and pepper work? Squeeze of lemon?2
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Hmmmm ... I would personally just do a tom yum noodle pouch (300 cal) and a *bag* of veggies plus shrimp for about 700 Cal. 750 with enough hot sauce 😹 but I can already hear the gallery crying about their mistreatment!!!!!🙀 Actually maybe I'll do exactly this (two different items). Real rice for boo-hoo and my tom yum and bag of veggies and shrimp for me!2
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Sounds like a plan! I’ve never tried Tom yum noodles. Have to check that out.1
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quickly googled Tom Yum and ??? too many varieties to feel like I learned anything!
Would this taste anything like kimchi???1 -
Tom yum soup... lemony is the closest I would come up with. I don't normally like it as a soup. But I do seem to like it as a noodles broth! Usually I've seen it done w/seafood.
Actual end result was: "other person" 63g dry minute rice, 3.5g mushroom knorr, a full chicken and thigh plus 17g cooked costco rotisserie chicken breast plus 125g of broco, cauli, carrot riced veg. "PAV" 375g of broco/cauli/carrot, plus 100g cooked costco rotisserie chicken (no skin eaten), plus "overweight" bag of "tom yum noodles" so 74g instead of 65g which will probably push the calories to about 330 from the "advertised" 290... plus the left over knorred and rice starched water I drained from the minute rice experiment!!!
Mine are not the same brand! https://www.amazon.ca/Mama-Tom-Yum-Flavour-Noodles/dp/B000QFOXTS2 -
Very interesting. I saw a tom yum paste - a few varieties - first ingredient was lemon grass.2
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Tonight is General Tso's Pork, white rice and "mixed Asian vegetables", per the bag. Some of us have meat, sauce and rice only, some of us have meat, sauce, and veggies only, and some have all three, but it all works out.4
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Yeah well it’s just too darn hot to care. 🥵104F (40C) today.
Cereal and yogurt tonight. It will be 100+F (38+C) for the entire coming week. So stocking up on yogurt and cereal tomorrow. Might have an ice cream meal to break it up.
Lunch daily is simple salads with 3-4 oz of protein. Fruit, egg, yogurt breakfast.
Summer is too hot for regular cooked 🔥evening meals so my eating is grab and sporadic. And often not good choices (chips, cookies, grain bars....) 🥨🍫🍪🍿🍦 I log everything but...
Got to make more of an effort to plan and not rely on day long snacking.4 -
Wow. That's freakin' hot! Can't imagine breathing, never mind cooking!3
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There’s AC - but I can sense the heat and humidity. Makes me lethargic and inclined to siesta a lot.
Windows closed and blinds drawn day and night. And my house is well insulated and energy efficient. It’s 11pm now and 78F. Won’t get much cooler overnight.
So yeah - no real cooking, lots of cold food, even too hot to bbq outdoors. I try to mindfully prepare and eat regular meals rather than mindless snackathons. Snacking leads to uncontrolled crazy food choices and way too many calories.
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At least chocolate melts and is not an option. Unfortunately things that rhyme with dream and cream are not on ice when it comes to hot climes 🙊🙉🙀3
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Cereal and yogurt again today cause ya know 🥵🔥. Hubby defrosted and nuked some veggies and meatloaf at lunch - salad too. So all was not lost nutritionally. But there was half an unnecessary granola bar, a few gummies, stray chips. Ugh.
There is no good reason to break good habits just because I hate being locked in air conditioned spaces. Seasonal claustrophobia! It makes me anxious and that leads to stress eating.3 -
Weather extremes suck2
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Today was tuna salad with low fat mayo, celery etc. and some jalapeño cheddar Goldfish crackers. Threw in some lettuce and cherry tomatoes.
Maybe work on some popcorn later?2 -
Goldfish 😂 they make a pretzel (inside voice: and a vanilla) one too! 🤣2
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And a S’Mores flavor too. 👅. The jalapeño cheddar ones are the larger -megafish - and nicely spicy.
I open the bag and portion out servings in small containers or in baggies. Saves me from reaching in mindlessly and snarfing down too many.
Goldfish also had a Franks Hot Sauce flavor which was really good but was temporary.
I suddenly realize I know WAAAAY too much about this kiddie snack.3 -
Who the kiddie? You kidding me, right?! Suffice it to say that I DISCOVERED goldfish ONLY AFTER I joined MFPeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! 2
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Don’t get me started on Atomic Fireballs! 20 cal per. Impossibly hot and long lasting- curbs most urges to eat anything afterward. The bane of my dentist’s existence.2 -
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