Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Post-antibiotic-bombs eating has been a challenge. Everything tasty results in heartburn 🤢.
Today egg, mango, banana and yogurt for breakfast. Lunch is a shrimp Alfredo frozen casserole that will be carefully weighed and measured. I think late meal will be cereal and yogurt because that causes least problems.1 -
I originally couldn't see EITHER dog! Now I can see both cuties! He has a very inquisitive face! Skylar says there are no squirrels up that tree... because if there are these dogs are lazy!!!2
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222g of lahm bi ajin interrupted my planned blue menu 1.13kg about 960 Cal of vegetable lasagna and 650g about 250 Cal of green and yellow beans and carrots! apparently green and yellow beans and carrots is called Prince Edward mix!3
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Oh lasagna, good idea! It's been quite I while since I made some and the freezer is running out of things to pull out, think I'll make some tomorrow or the next.
Today, last raid on my frozen green bean stew batch, I'm out. Had a pretty decent gluten free low cal turkey sausage to add to it, pretty good once in a while.
Now I have to go get some mince for the lasagna..
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oh that stew....mine is long gone - time to make more. Looks so delicious!2
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It is really looking good. Maybe you should mention again where to get the rusks.... CCCGG may make her way towards my neck of the woods over the next couple of months.... and she can bring a couple of bags instead of candied pistachios from Aigina 🙀 or maybe both 🤣2
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So this was unexpected!
Probably quite a bit out of allotment too.
Unexpectedly tried to go for Pho at 22:40, and the place was closed before the posted 11:00 p.m.
So ended up at the Korean place next door. Eating a kimchi and pork stew 🤷🏻♂️
For sure there's some bunnies there! And some not!1 -
It is really looking good. Maybe you should mention again where to get the rusks.... CCCGG may make her way towards my neck of the woods over the next couple of months.... and she can bring a couple of bags instead of candied pistachios from Aigina 🙀 or maybe both 🤣
She can go to any supermarket here and grab some. I use two particular brands personally. These are my favorite:
https://www.sklavenitis.gr/eidi-artozacharoplasteioy/kritsinia-paximadia-fryganies/paximadia/filedem-dakakia-me-haroupi-horis-alati-400gr/
and in a pinch I can also get those:
https://www.sklavenitis.gr/eidi-artozacharoplasteioy/kritsinia-paximadia-fryganies/paximadia/papadopoulou-krispies-paximadia-me-haroupi-200gr-1514441/
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Surely the presence of the lovely CCCGG is gift enough! No need for her to be toting rusks and candied pistachios halfway across the world.2
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But - she is out to secure the heart of our wonderful PAV. She doesn't want him slipping away to the table of another woman with delicious treats.2
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Sorry girls. No carob, no party.
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So, made some lasagna today!
Taste was incredible but look,..not so much.
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Mine always look that way because I slice and portion while they're hot! Searching for carob rusks. And think of it this way yooly: if she brings carob husks she gets to use more space for less calories and a smaller expense than if she were to fill the space with candied pistachios and chocolate pistachio nut butter... which she would do anyway! 😹2
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Taste was incredible but look,..not so much.
@Dante_80 By 'look...not so much' I thought you were referring to the modest serving that you'd put on your plate. As in, "it tasted incredible but look, I only had a little..."
In terms of visual presentation, it looks pretty darn appealing to me!2 -
@Dante_80 Enquiring minds need to know...
a) Do they taste chocolatey? If so, do they taste good with savoury dishes such as your cheesy beef lasagne? Do they do a non-carob version?
b) Are they tooth-breaking, dense and hard like ship's hardtack? Or are they crisp, light and crumbly like twice-baked rolls? The version in your second photo look a little like these Swedish Krisprolls (widely available in the UK), which are nice and crunchy but not so hard that you need dentristry afterwards.
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Bella_Figura wrote: »@Dante_80 Enquiring minds need to know...
a) Do they taste chocolatey? If so, do they taste good with savoury dishes such as your cheesy beef lasagne? Do they do a non-carob version?
b) Are they tooth-breaking, dense and hard like ship's hardtack? Or are they crisp, light and crumbly like twice-baked rolls? The version in your second photo look a little like these Swedish Krisprolls (widely available in the UK), which are nice and crunchy but not so hard that you need dentristry afterwards.
a) Both are more savory tasting, with a very slight hint of sweetness coming from the carob flour. They go very well with anything really.
b) The first one is a proper rusk, made with 3 ingredients only. Hard but not too dense and definitely not tooth-breaking. The second one is much crunchier (and processed tho), I think it would feel very similar to those you posted.
The lasagna were good but I was too impatient to wait for them to cool down before cutting. Thus, they got a little of ye olde blobfish gravity treatment in the end..
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That is some ugly fish!
The rule in our house on lasagna or hot casseroles is at least a half hour waiting time.
Better yet - make the day before, cool, refrigerate, cut it up and then reheat portions. Freeze the rest. Lasagna freezes well. So I make a large pan and divide it up.
No burning your mouth 👅2 -
Yooly you have STRANGE ideas.... like cooking THE DAY BEFORE!?!?!?!?! NOT eating while HOT and BURNING your mouth?!?!?!?!? Strange I say!
P.S. I had a talking to from my GP a good dozen years ago when it turned out that I was eating / gulping my food so hot I was actually burning my esophagus!
P.P.S. That wasn't a smart moment!
P.P.P.S. Don't be that dumb!1 -
Precooking is what I did a lot when I worked. Make two of something at the same time and freeze.
Often I’d cook batches of several meals on Saturday or Sunday so I’d have meals ready to go most of the week. We didn’t go out to eat very often - still don’t. Don’t buy many prepped frozen meals or pizzas.
Originally it was a money saving thing. Four people to feed, mortgage, college tuition, two cars - all on one income for a long time. When we moved every 2-3 years I was unemployable. When we settled down I worked full time. Anyway, it just became a habit and now it’s just what we do.2 -
It's a good thing to do. And it allows you to better determine what goes in what you eat (and how much). And to experiment! I admit to taking the lazy way out quite a bit more often the past few two or three years at least.1
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Learned the precooking/freezing meals tricks from hubby’s Sicilian grandma who cooked for an army of brawny sons and grandsons. She was less than 5’ tall and barely 100 lbs but cooked like Titan! And everything from pasta down to the bread was homemade.
Honestly I had never cooked anything until I got married. So there’s hope for you PAV.
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I do a lot of precooking also. Today was premade pizzas for Girlfriend and I. Boyfriend finally settled on having an egg roll with mustard. He's been coping with an upset stomach and nausea as part of his trauma recovery. We're just feeding him what he can eat when he can eat it until this settles down again.4
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Alexandra, you are the queen of precooking and planning meals! 👸. And homemade rather than processed foods.
I’m happy to figure out one week at a time unlike your long term calendar. Somehow you manage this for three disparate eaters too.
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Who said processed?!?!?!?! I think that err... never mind... fudgecycles are ONLY 80 Cal per 60ml (55g including the stick, 3 out of 3 so far!) and what could be more "natural" than gums of vegetable origin? Huh? Fudgecycles have BUNNIES!!!! (originally, at some point of time... MAYBE!)1
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I love being here. Reading the diverse approaches to nutrition really helps to get rid of overly strict notions. Everyone is different and it seems we all just need to find a way that fits our life at that particular time. On the calorie front - my eating is a hot mess right now. But, other aspects have improved. I've given up some of the extreme rigid thinking I was trapped in. I even bought a box of Cheerios yesterday - plain old cheerios. That shouldn't be a big deal, but it was. I hope this is the right approach. Me of last year was determined that those refined grains had to be completely eliminated because I could not eat them in moderation. I hope that isn't true.
As my heart heals, I am going to try to adopt a more moderate approach to eating as shift away from constant eating plan I've been on. That sounds so overly dramatic - but it is what it is. I'm not going to kick myself to add more negative to the situation. Every morning I'm trying to bring the focus back to taking care of me. Healthy food is good! For the skin, the joints, the brain - and it tastes good. I've been living a bit too much like the junkies I see in the parks these days - except of course their drug of choice leaves them thin. Mine not so much.
A healthy weight feels good too. Much better for the joints and feet.
I'll find my way back to nutrition - away from the dopamine boosting/brain numbing sugar fixes - though "fix" sounds too small - like a square of chocolate.5 -
laurie that sounds like a good plan! I really think that moderation is really hard to master, and somewhat difficult to define from time to time. My personal experience though is that it really pays dividends in the end.5
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lauriekallis wrote: »we all just need to find a way that fits our life at that particular time.
Bingo!
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We can do this!…I, too am taking a different approach….being laid up has made me appreciate how much better I felt at a healthier weight….I swore I would never gain all of the weight back I had worked so hard to lose but I have managed to pack 69 lbs back on in a very short time….ugh2
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Kind of an odd food day. Usual egg, yogurt, fruit breakfast. Lunch was a pack of ramen noodles with frozen peas and no seasoning packet. Usually avoid ramen. Then went out to dinner for friends birthday. Luckily the restaurant has lighter dinners. Had a small steak, broccoli and green beans for about 400 cal. Ended the day only about 100 cals over my deficit.2
