Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Making my mom's pot roast tonight. It is one of the few recipes I was able to get from her before she passed away in 2013. It is super simple... chuck roast, red potatoes, carrots, and onions. Only change I have made is I use baby carrots instead of normal carrots because I am lazy. It doesn't change the taste at all. Just a big plate of comfort.3
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We are having bbq chicken tenders, salad,rice and broccoli or else a stir fry...can’t decide!2
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I think I'm just gonna make some taco meat with bell peppers and onions, and put them in whole wheat tortillas for dinner tonight. I have a minor surgery tomorrow, and feel like "comfort" food tonight to help settle my nerves!4
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I was feeling stumped as I had small calorie budget for dinner, pulled together
Air fry wide sliced cabbage spritzed with avocado oil + salt 400deg 10 min
Add prepared sauerkraut
Add 3oz thin sliced kielbasa (fresh previously cooked in air fryer)
Pretty tasty & filling!
Next time will use some sauerkraut juice, oil & salt to coat cabbage.
I hear great thing about egg roll in bowl, think will try it with wider style pappredelle strips. Could go with bulgogi beef bibimbop bowl too, need to find some banchan recipes, seaweed salad or other pickled things. Temped to get Costco Kimchi on my next trip!3 -
I did the tea party!
This was not a spread made to diet, but it's the sort of thing where it would be amenable to diet, because everything is finger food, and I can think of numerous ways to "lighten" some of the dishes up. (Not much I can do about clotted cream though. Cause it's....cream.)
Sandwiches of brown bread, filled with cream cheese beaten soft with finely chopped pecans and herbs.
Slices of cucumber topped with smoked salmon and a sprig of dill.
Gougeres (cheesy choux paste) made with Gouda cheese and red pepper, filled with a ham salad made with dill pickles and Dijon mustard.
"Boats" of pie crust baked in a mini loaf pan, filled with a chunky chicken salad made with chicken breast, celery, apple, onion, a touch of roasted garlic, and Green Goddess herb blend, and just enough mayo to bind.
Mini cupcakes with icing. I used Russian piping tips to put little roses on top.
Cream puffs with fresh raspberries and whipped cream inside.
Lemon-poppyseed sweet bread.
Lemon curd, made sugarfree with Splenda.
Red raspberry jam, also sugarfree (I'll be finishing that off on my English muffins in the mornings!)
Clotted cream
Plain scones, made English style (round) to split.
We had a lovely relaxing time, I got out my china (pattern https://replacements.com/china-noritake-sweet-leilani/c/69459 ) and had a really pretty floral tablecloth, and we just had a nice time talking and my mother and my aunt enjoyed every bit of it, and my mother wants me to do it again for a birthday present to her best friend. Except she wants more sweet and less savory, because her friend is always all about the sweet.
I managed to do pretty well and not do a lot of piecing once it went back to the kitchen, but tonight has been a bit more calories than I should have. But tomorrow is another day.5 -
Your “ tea “ sounds amazing!...you should cater events!3
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Holy whack me tea party how do I get invited wow!!!3
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Turkey kielbasa, fresh green beans, red potatoes, cinnamon carrots and a tossed salad....dessert is Skinny Banana Bread and coffee!1
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Tonight is Kung Pao chicken with mixed stirfry vegetables on rice/cauliflower rice.2
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Tonight was low fat burgers and air fryer zucchini sticks with low calorie ranch dressing....dessert was a fiber one cookie and coffee...snack will be almonds,trisquits and veggie cream cheese!0
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nicsflyingcircus wrote: »lauriekallis wrote: »I've just started eating eggs recently - not in the morning though - I would find them just a bit too intense (all that sriracha
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But frequently I'm cooking only for myself, and I don't eat meat, but scrambled eggs are so quick and pack so much protein and fat into so few calories that I eat them almost every day now even though I don't like how they taste. And I always add an extra for the dog and that makes her day.
I eat eggs because I love them. I add whites for low calorie bulk, but given my druthers, on just a taste basis, I wouldn't.
I am repeating yesterday's scramble today.
And @PAV8888
I've finally tried the egg whites with dinner tonight - WOW - I love them ! I love the "neutral" flavour. Extra protein, few calories, for me - better taste! A win, win, win! Thank you both.
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Joseph lavash is giant wrap for 120 calories. Can make flatbread wrap or crunch wrap in pan as it crisps up flakey. (Put the bubble side down.)
Costco carved rotisserie chicken, cheese, bbq, ranch with balsamic vinegar tossed cabbage flatbread.
Need make up some quick pickled red onions for next time. Been digging briney vinegar crunchy veg lately to spice it up for little calories.
Costco Tasso double garlic jalapeno olives carry some more calories, 10 / olive, but they are mammoth & delish😋2 -
Need make up some quick pickled red onions for next time. Been digging briney vinegar crunchy veg lately to spice it up for little calories.
I was right into pickled red onions this past year - and have now added kimchi and saurkraut - started making them a few months ago and wow! Lots of flavour - few calories - and all that good bacteria that I hope will make my guts happier and less inclined to crave sugary things.
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Oven roasted red potatoes, chicken breasts and cauliflower....coffee and cookie for dessert...snack trisquits and string cheese and an apple!1
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We had homemade lamb gyros. It's done by baking the ground spiced meat in a pan like meatloaf, weighting it while it cools, then slicing very thin slices off it and crisping them quickly in a hot pan before putting on a pita with all the goodies.2
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@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I am starting to have a serious food crush on you!
In the not so bad (though not necessarily inspirational) department.... 12g of avocado oil, 10g garlic, 55g fresh onions, 13g sriracha, 7g brown sugar (yes, I broke down and didn't use liquid sucralose due to parental whining), 750g of green and yellow wax beans ("da frozen bag"), 500g of crushed tomatoes, 4g of Knorr veggie/mushroom powder... stir fry in the beginning, add tomato, boil the crap out of it, let it cool.... 60g of minute rice prepared as directed and with another 4g of Knorr/veggie mushroom powder, mix and match stir one into the other and consume... about 800 Cal for the lot!2 -
@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I am starting to have a serious food crush on you!
In the not so bad (though not necessarily inspirational) department.... 12g of avocado oil, 10g garlic, 55g fresh onions, 13g sriracha, 7g brown sugar (yes, I broke down and didn't use liquid sucralose due to parental whining), 750g of green and yellow wax beans ("da frozen bag"), 500g of crushed tomatoes, 4g of Knorr veggie/mushroom powder... stir fry in the beginning, add tomato, boil the crap out of it, let it cool.... 60g of minute rice prepared as directed and with another 4g of Knorr/veggie mushroom powder, mix and match stir one into the other and consume... about 800 Cal for the lot!
I love green beans in a tomatoes based sauce - this sounds delicious!
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@lauriekallis I am definitely contemplating having the leftovers, especially since I've already logged them into pre midnight and I haven't gone to bed yet!!!😜
(And use a bit less crushed tomato while throwing in a couple of fresh ones... )
.... Yup, seven minutes later... done!😹😹😹
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Aww, thank you! I can't do what a lot of people can do with volume eating owing to my IBS and food allergies. I have to eat "regular food", just tiny portions of it because a lot of what I eat does tend to be calorie-dense. But my take is that I would rather eat real food and enjoy the eating of it, and then go about my life and enjoy the rest of it too.
I'm also constrained by cooking for my partners, who have food issues of their own.
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@lauriekallis I am definitely contemplating having the leftovers, especially since I've already logged them into pre midnight and I haven't gone to bed yet!!!😜
(And use a bit less crushed tomato while throwing in a couple of fresh ones... )
.... Yup, seven minutes later... done!😹😹😹
They look amazing. I feel that coming to my belly soon!
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Enjoy your green beans and tomatoes!....not me lol....I like them both but not together.....just NO!....lol....2
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That's the second hug you're getting from me today Connie! And they're both sympathy hugs!!!😹1
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Thanks for the hugs!...definitely needed!....for dinner we are having baked lean ground beef patties, petite green peas, and Simply mashed potatoes...( none of it mixed or touching ).... dessert is a Fiber One cookie and coffee and a snack later will be popcorn or veggie chips....there is a hockey game on so everything is ready to stick in the oven during the game at 3.... kids do major cooking on Sundays so I an staying out of the way because the kitchen will be a battle zone!That's the second hug you're getting from me today Connie! And they're both sympathy hugs!!!😹
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Roast chicken & all the trimmings here this evening ....🍗🥔🥕🥦🧄....3
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Tenderloin pork chop with Penzey's Krackow Nights seasoning on it (highly recommend), wild rice pilaf, and I found that I could have a half cup of unsweetened applesauce for 50 calories, so I'm having that too, along with a pill to let me digest the fruit sugar. I adore applesauce with pork.
I've learned to abide my food touching sometimes, but I think that's what little dishes were made for. I have the cutest little glass prep bowls and they work fine for a little bit of veggie or the applesauce I just had.3 -
It was Greek lamb day today (Easter Sunday).... there was (excessive) lamb consumption! There was lack of any counting
(sorry)
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Last night I made chicken fajitas and corn on the cob. I load up the fajitas with peppers and onions in order to have more food for less calories. Topped them with a little cheese and sour cream. I would have had avocado but I seem to not have bought any. Or I bought some and left them at the store or something.2
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Today lunch is chicken, jalapeno, and cheese quesadillas. That's our usual Monday lunch, which works out to 416 calories. I like my meals to be between 400=500 calories.3
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Chicken quesadilla (no jalapenos on mine, way too hot for me.)
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We had grilled Italian sausage with spicy mustard, air fryer fries and a huge salad with feta cheese!....was delicious!....some days eating less is so much easier than others!2
