Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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What is a green soup?0
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Soup of all green things (lots of green veggies in a split green pea base
) This particular version includes broccoli, asparagus, kale, mucho frozen green chopped spinach, green peas, green pepper and green beans
My younger son (33 this year ) loves it - he convinced me to look more carefully at its benefits so I would more fully appreciate its grandness. Now we do a weekly exchange. He arrives with 6 jars of blueberry/spinach/ginger/lemon smoothie -- we eat green soup and maybe crustless pumpkin pie while watching an episode of No Reservations and maybe play a game of chess -- and then he leaves with 6 jars of green soup. (yes I live a blessed life )
I make enough to put 6 good sized servings in the fridge for breakfast for the week (it seems to last well enough!) and give a few containers to friends. Lol. Trying to start a green soup revolution here in steeltown 2 -
This could work for you and your approach to cooking, PAV! Boil water - add a bag of split green peas - let it cook until the peas soften - then one by one add frozen green vegetables of your choice! (I add them one by one so the soup heats up to a gentle boil in between.) There is a decent amount of protein in the peas - and if you like that flavour - it takes care of the flavouring. All you really need to add is some salt - and maybe some olive oil to add a bit of fat.2
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This does freeze really well - but Son Number 2 has made me swear off of storing food in plastic and I don't have enough stainless steel containers for freezing yet (they are on order )
I tried mason jars since so many people swear by that approach to freezing soups - but yes - as I feared - they burst. Only good thing is that the soup was frozen so there was no mess in the freezer - just cracked jars of frozen soup.
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Keto bagel thin, half an avocado, 2 eggs, 2 egg whites, 1oz Cheddar cheese (reduced fat). Never done Avocado "toast" before but had one I needed to use up. Did open face egg sandwiches with mashed Avocado. About 500 calories, decent macros4
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Sounds filling Nic.
Mason jar explosion? LEAVE SPACE, freeze without lid. Add lid later. Problem solved!
I *like* peas. I like YELLOW PEA SOUP
From Habitant. In a tin!
You mean there are other ways to get pea soup?!?!?!?!?!0 -
Let's see so far...
remainder of bunnies on mash from yesterday because last night I diverged with "asian chicken wrap" from our friends at Costco. I have the other half available for today.
Out of the "goodies" so far: 270 Cal of pop-corn triangle chip things yesterday, and 2x 120Cal 7 baby cookies in a pack cookies. One 10g (but logged as 11g per official count) Reese's thin at 57 Cal, and a 120 Cal pack of korean bbq pork bites today. Let's add 200 Cal of fig bars.
The boxes of Madelaines, limoncelo biscotti, dark chocolate, almond-seaweed thins, dried figs and dried dates and caramel popcorn are all intact!
For now
S'ok Laurie. Drugs galore! 1 -
Wraps are "wrapping" in the calories. they don't LOOK terrible. No excess gratuitous sauce or anything.
But the ~535 guess by the NCCDB when you consider the ~250g weight... it does not feel like an under-estimation either1 -
Exactly has I proceeded with the mason jars. Online recommendation of course. So far, I don't know anyone actually successful in the freezing liquidy stuff in mason jars endeavour. Soup doesn't seem to understand that it is only to expand upwards into the open space - not everywhich way
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hmmm..... I haven't tried it lately.... I thought I had done it as described once or twice in the past?1
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Out of the "goodies" so far: 270 Cal of pop-corn triangle chip things yesterday, and 2x 120Cal 7 baby cookies in a pack cookies. One 10g (but logged as 11g per official count) Reese's thin at 57 Cal, and a 120 Cal pack of korean bbq pork bites today. Let's add 200 Cal of fig bars.
The boxes of Madelaines, limoncelo biscotti, dark chocolate, almond-seaweed thins, dried figs and dried dates and caramel popcorn are all intact!
That’s quite an arsenal of stress weapons!😱 It’s especially scary when they’re all within arms reach. 🍩🍫🥟🍿2 -
McDonald's is at the end of the block with a pizza hut, donair, sushi, vietnamese, subway, starbucks, and a couple of extra once you cross the intersection... at least the block is long and on a hill and it takes six to seven minutes to get there!
The problem child is located across the street / within ONE block of three pizza places, a donair shop, mexican wrap shop, subway, starbucks, McDonald's, Burger King, Cora's, fancy topping for $50 per gram ice cream joint, eat in/take out noodle place, sushi. Let's not expand to two blocks. No uphill or downhill required.
Stretching my arm is not too hard. Admittedly. Some of these places do close at midnight... yet the drawers are always around.1 -
DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER2
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Time to conquer the demons! No one drags you into those places nor do they pay for the overpriced food. Consider the cost savings!2 -
R u saying their sales are no good????
Nah, I don't visit most of them. Was commenting that there is no dearth of caloric availability!
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Had a big green salad tonight: romaine and Iceburg lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, celery, yellow pepper, red onion, shredded reduced-fat cheese and Greek yogurt ranch. A slice of rosemary olive oil bread with a smear of butter and two grilled Boneless, skinless chicken thighs with a dry BBQ rub on them. So good.4
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Love that salad, Nics flying circus 1
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Good for you, resisting and all, PAV.2
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Interesting Greek yogurt with some cheap(ie-ish) chestnuts. Roasted chestnut origin China. So I would think that Chinese chestnuts, usda entry at 239 Cal per 100g would be close... yet these list on the pouch as 160Cal per 100g.
Of course their low value was part of the reason as to why I bought them. However, given that I could not come up with any justification as to why they would be lower calorie than the USDA estimate, I went with that value. Unfortunately some thoughts of melamine ARE swirling though my head space!
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Trying to stay on plan this week.
Breakfast: Cereal, banana, and milk
Lunch: Avocado Toast with an egg and a side salad or side of veggies with dip
Dinners:
Bratwurst with corn on the cob and mac and cheese
Chicken and mushroom stirfry with zucchini and rice
Steak and kimchi fried rice with mushrooms and onions2 -
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Plastic. Produce from mainland China. I don't even buy the Costco sold (and presumably supervised) chicken and duck breasts for fluffy because they're irradiated in the USA but product of the mainland where some standards are excellent... and some not as much---in my personal evaluation and opinion of course.
Then again where would the concern not apply in terms of agricultural practices and food renaming and or safety ... I need a bubble to go hide in! 😝1 -
Helps. Not complete solution. But helps!1
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Not even sure what post my previous comment was responding to! I am fairly sure it wasn't from this thread through!
yves "ultimate burger" patty with "enhanced" potato salad (costco red potato with boiled egg and greek yogurt and sriracha added--fully home made would be a much better deal in terms of calories). actually smashed a costco egg white frittata on top of the burger (also had two for morning-food-zies).... have had more filling 500-700 Cal lunches. But it's not terrible either.2 -
Garbanzo bean tuna salad. Has the chick peas, tuna, roasted red peppers, onions, parsley and cumin. Topped with feta cheese. Sometimes I’ve added celery or other raw veggies to bulk it up.
The original recipe is made with tuna canned in oil. I used a lemon vinaigrette dressing and tuna in water. Filling and easy to make a batch that lasts for several days.2 -
Who mentioned freezing their yogurt? A bit concerned with crystals forming so we shall see ..... 0% Greek 750g tub with the 30g remnants of my 61g fig bar
double pack, 37g all bran buds, little bit of sucralose, 40g of cut up dates, vigorous mixing, currently freezing its little tub off ... that's (currently planned) dinner!😝 😎1 -
How did the frozen yogurt turn out? I think I’ve tried that before but ended up with a very hard icy product. There is that ice cream made from puréed cottage cheese and mix ins that is supposed to be pretty good. Might try that soon - when I have some spare calories.1
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Medium. Was a tiny bit distracted by other issues so it didn't really register as good or bad. One time didn't have enough time to cool. One time was fairly/too solid. Slows down the eating a bit and is useful if too hot in the house. Wouldn't do well on top of air-conditioning. Will probably keep doing it while hot weather is affecting internal temps as currently.
Mixes tried all include all bran buds and either roasted chestnuts and/or peanut butter and/or fig bars and/or dates or some combinations of above with sucralose. Peanut butter ended up as solid pieces as opposed to helping with the blending so no good, especially for the calories. Today's attempt has tiny bit of 2% milk (41g). So we shall see. Churning might help? Hinder? Don't know for sure. cottage cheese sounds interesting.
Not much into things right now; but treading water OK on the food front.
You know... it actually is not really half bad. It does depend on what you mix in/flavouring. I mean I go all in with 750g tubs... but trying it on a 100g tub... would not be a disaster either way! Definitely eating from center out since it is less solid 1 -
Well... the slow down is real! The ice crystals... meah. So something missing there. But slow down has value too!0
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You okay, PAV????1
