Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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So diet did not start this week as planned. I started to get sick this weekend and it hit HARD Sunday night. Got so dizzy that I had to lay down and just try to sleep it off about 6pm. Been dealing with a lot of head congestion, dizziness, cough, and fatigue the last couple of days. Finally had energy to cook last night. Monday I was just trying to survive.3
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Did you get cold, COVID, flu, or unknown? R u on path to recovery?
Laurie I was just confused because the soup appeared to me to be somewhat decisive in terms of the debate of whether it should get eaten by spoon or by fork.
I do realize that once warmed it could change, of course. Interesting effect via the beans and buckwheat.
I have to procure frozen veggies I think. Nothing except a single bag of peas for me, or squash I could steal from the 🐕🐩🐶🐾
Yesterday I listened to you ladies and crisped 500g of oven baked eggplant slices in the air fryer till they became crunchy chips. A bit time consuming as a project but they did turn out quite crunchy and filling and, for some unknown reason 😇, spicy!🤣 requiring lots of pop Zero to wash down! 🤷♂️
Sad to report on the last third of the can of diced beets. Laurie's Crisp them in the air fryer would have been a perfect idea, or even to do them up with some tomato sauce and peas and onions. Unfortunately when I opened up the container it had visible indications of having overstayed its fridge welcome so they all went into the compost bin 🥺🥺🥺1 -
well then....
Lacking frozen vegetables I decided to stare at the fridge and I discovered that it was... time to eat "fresh" stuff before it goes bad!!!!
199g aruguala -- 50 Cal
459g tomatoes -- 83 Cal
138g capicola -- 200 Cal
3x Garden Lites spinach egg white frittata (ok they were frozen before nuking and I could have easily stopped @ two!) -- 210 Cal
I've even heard rumors that this would be sufficient food for TWO meals large snacks for "normal" people!!! <burp>0 -
Did you get cold, COVID, flu, or unknown? R u on path to recovery?
Feeling a little better day by day. Still quite a bit of congestion which then leads to the dizziness, but I have not had a dizzy spell anywhere near as bad as Sunday night. That one actually scared me it was so sudden and so bad.
I plan to get back on target tonight though! I am making a Teriyaki Salmon Bowl with rice, avocado, cauliflower rice, and broccoli. I was going to add a sweet potato, but not sure if that much work with happen! But figure it is better to do it without the sweet potato and actually MAKE the dang meal, but skip it because I am too worn out. Give and take.
Then tomorrow I am making a Taco Bowl with ground chicken, shredded lettuce, black olives, salsa, avocado, sour cream, pickled onions, and sautéed onions and peppers. Though I may simply chop up the onion and pepper and just cook it with the ground chicken. That would make for one less step.3 -
Love the idea of “bowls”. I need to explore this more. My general go-to is a bed of lettuce with some tomatoes and a protein on top. Not as creative as Athijades efforts!2
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Way too much creativity for me!🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ I opened a bowl of instant pho (70g size) pour water (270 Cal)! I nuked 503g of mixed veg (just under 300 Cal) I was utterly wasteful (but it proves that the nongshim scientist have my number) but I pulled the noodles out of a kimchi noodle bowl since I love the taste of their broth and added a full measure of water. The noodles are saved in ziplock for later or possibly never! 😳 I'm counting the broth, veggies, and noodle particles at 50 Cal 🤣 there: 500 Cal pretty not healthy and I can already feel the sodium bloat but fast brunch (saved some veggies for later)
Jade's sounds way way better!!!!🤷♂️1 -
So I messed up last night, but I was able to salvage dinner!
I was pan searing the salmon and forgot it was on the stove. So the top of it was burnt BLACK. I was about to cry (salmon is not cheap dang it), but I pulled myself together, cut off the burnt top, and shredded the rest. Then I took the rice, cauliflower rice, and some spinach and "fried" it up in the left over salmon oil with some teriyaki sauce. I topped that with the shredded salmon, broccoli, avocado, and sriracha. It ended up working really well!3 -
Blackened salmon is a “thing” at fancy restaurants! So essentially Athijade you are a gourmet cook! Sounds yummy 👅2
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Hubby brought home one of those giant 18” pepperoni pizzas 🍕 from Costco. Two slices -700 calories later- I’ll be having lettuce and tomatoes for supper. I just don’t have the calorie budget for pizza but it was tasty! He and son had three slices each leaving four leftovers.
Hubby likes cold pizza for breakfast so no problem. Yeah - it’s an Italian thing.2 -
I looked at the pizza slices at Costco. Contemplated two. Came back home instead!
JADE!!!! You already HAD the perfect salmon! Blackened salmon... I have a friend who would have devoured it! Good show in re-purposing though... wish you could forward the crisp bits to me though!
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Supper tonight was a bit of a disaster...Nothing but treats. Soup sits ignored in the fridge.
Thank goodness tomorrow is another day. 3 -
Poor soup doesn't feel the love0
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I got even worse today when I flushed it 😳1
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But there’s a whole new batch of green soup to love 💚3
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You're lucky they took out the disagree button!!!!! But Glad to hear that green is the new red!2
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Sometimes things just don't work as planned
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What happened?0
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I didn’t eat the red soup on time 🙂
I can blame it on my housemates - because he’s not here to defend himself 🙂
I took out enough soup and brothybeans for us both to eat over a few days and then he didn’t eat any 😳 and I couldn’t make up for his lack of eating.
I was relying on a crystal ball that was not plugged in 🙂3 -
Evil room-mate! So what's my excuse for the wasted red-beats? 1
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Too much food and not enough time? Or physical capacity?0
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Both, Yooly. Blame my house-mate, PAV. He should have helped you out with the red-beets!!!!
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Supper tonight was a Jalapeno-Asiago bagel from Tim Horton's, toasted with plain cream cheese and ... an ice cream cone from MacDonalds. Summer is back here this week - and I was out and about with friends so dinner took a more exciting turn (lol - living it right up there ) Green soup maybe for a midnight snack??? lol
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That bagel and cream cheese sounds wonderful. Lately I’ve been craving carbs which I usually avoid. Maybe it’s time for some bread?1
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So in the eating not very healthy but convenient category, start 300g to 500g (59 Cal per 100g) mixed veg in the microwave, get one bowl of 270Cal instant pho (70g) and prepare per directions except cut rice noodle pack in two length wise and use only half in this bowl.
Now, here's the super wasteful part and exponential increase in sodium, remove and donate to friends the noodles from a nongshim bowl of kimchi flavor soup and make the remainder into a flavorful second rice noodle soup using the other half of the nice noodles.
At eating time, decide whether to eat each soup separately together with half the vegetables, or combine everything in one bowl.
It's in the 550 Cal category2 -
Sounds like two very intensely flavoured bowls!!
And you have inspired me to check the calorie count for my dinner…0 -
OK not horrible - not great but not horrible. Bagel 320 + cream cheese 120 + cone 200 = 640. Round that up to 700 even 800 for safety. Manageable on a maintenance day. I’m sorry, Yooly. I get away with much more than you.0
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Oh to be taller. Or at least to stop shrinking!!1
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Cough Cough Cough
McDonald's vanilla cone, Canada, official nutritional info: 147g and 240 Cal.
Unofficial PAV sampling in the lower mainland confirms safer logging in the 300 to 320 range.
But still worth it and within the limits Laurie is talking about!2 -
hence my rounding up to 800 2
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Stand tall Yooly! In spite of any shrinking
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