Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Today's sad food:
3 oz deli chicken meat with 10g full fat mayo and 5g dijon mustard and 1 oz reduced-fat cheese
Clear whey protein drink (Raspberry lemonade)
Two Good mixed berry yogurt
Fairlife chocolate protein milk
I was actually going to have eggs for "breakfast" but when I went to make them, we didn't have any. So deli meat and cheese it was.
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Is that it for the day Nic?2
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So far.... a bag of 340g California riced veg ~100Cal and a 297g bag (302g) of quinoa rice veggies blend ~235Cal nice mesh together happy munching on phone.... then phone disintegration added 98g candy covered chocolate eggs ~450 Then snack was 12.5g cashew ~75 and 42.5g dark chocolate fig truffles ~90. So sitting at about 1300 eaten if we include some early morning consumption of light hot chocolate and potato wedges
Contemplating pre dinner snack or dinner 🤔 but heading out for a glimpse of daylight first1 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Is that it for the day Nic?
It is. It's 90g of protein and about 600 calories. Plus 64+ oz water. Not unusual with bariatric surgery.3 -
Where is the 90g of protein!!!! I have to go check these things out
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POOR PERSON'S BREAKFAST AND LUNCH......
Well it was actually two separate eating instances. The breakfast with coffee and the lunch with coke zero... but I combined the egg white entry weight so it is all one on my screen!
But the macros are good... and while the price cost is NOT in the "poor" category given the $3.75+ tag (US$2.73, GBP2.18, EU2.55, AUD4.18) for the green giant baggy... the Calories are probably suitable for a RELATIVELY POOR BUDGET!!!
Reminder that the white bread is not a preference... it is internal medicine vet doggy diet requirement and thus exists in the house crowding out my preferred rye bread
So: Coffee with "egg white french toast".... sad instructions: mush bread to little bits with knife fork scissors or hands! add egg white beaten with less milk than I did and sweeten with one-two drops of sucralose--i.e. your "french not so toast toast comes pre-syrupped! ****Nuke till ready!
Lunch: Nuke cauli in bag for 5minutes 30 seconds per instructions. Move to micro safe dish. Possibly break up a bit if into "presentation". Add egg whites from carton. Stir a bit to mix with buttery sauce and to start heat transfer from cauli. Nuke another 2.5ish minutes stirring half way through for your oh so fluffy and tasty cauliflower egg bake!!!!
There you go!
Final burp is optional (garlic in cauli and coke zero combo might encourage that!)
I am sure more appropriate cooking of french toast would make it more suitable for say... Yooly!
Total protein in the above is about 37g, Cal about 475 for both meals.1 -
Nope - I actually like your French toast method Mr. PAV. It’s a strata or a bread pudding. You can add fresh or frozen fruit instead of the sucralose?
There are also savory versions using bread, milk, egg - and maybe adding a bit of cheese, ham, crumbled bacon or veggies. Good for using up leftovers . I do prefer the oven over nuking but whatever works.3 -
Are you saying Yoily that somebody has already invented the wheel?
Ha!
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Are you saying Yoily that somebody has already invented the wheel?
Ha!
Have you considered making savory dish using a stuffing mix? Has to be made up the night before to let bread cubes soak up egg mix.
Or toasting the white bread before breaking it up? Or using unsweetened corn flakes instead of bread? So many options!2 -
Experimenting with BOILED mango custard powder, ratio of milk to almond milk and sucralose.2
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lauriekallis wrote: »Where is the 90g of protein!!!! I have to go check these things out
20 from clear protein drink, 30 from chocolate milk, 12 from yogurt and 28 from chicken and cheese.2 -
Chicken thighs are marinating in Olive Garden Italian dressing. I will likely make a salad to have with it along with some pasta roni or something. I am so stressed about work atm that I am keeping is simple. Not worrying about anything else like calories and macros. Too tired.3
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hmmm..... stress is not a portion control friend!
Maybe when you've had a chance to catch up and feel a bit less tired you can think on good strategies or "go to's" for these times.
I hit on an interesting concept on the "main boards" when someone mentioned something I though was weird but I can see how it can work out to keep "approximate" track.
They said (as a younger male) that their "go to" portion of cooked, fully sauced using not thick and not cream based sauce, pasta and toppings was one lb. I can see how that can establish "rules" where the approximate calories for a meal are known within a 100 or 2.
At my own front I think I may need to engage in another navel gazing episode because this is weird and I thought I had gotten around the phone thing by pacing but I've "rediscovered" that I am back to form pacing and eating and talking--all at the same time!
Stressful but busy actually dealing with the stressful situation I do not actually want to eat -- mind you I more than compensate after the fact. But not at that time. But stressed and TALKING about it or thinking about it... I catch myself eating and talking FKS! (for **KITTENS** sake!)
And you would think that just out of "manners" one would not do that. Yet, I catch myself doing this again and again and again.
The only win here is that I used to think that on top of all the grazing I would still DESERVE (this was literally part of the though process) to have a "nutritious lunch or dinner" because "healthy food is important". At least logging takes care of killing that--because I still weight and log while talking and pacing!!! OK errors do happen but I do capture most of it. Habits, even manufactured ones, help!
New discovery from the closet of doom!
Expired September 2021: "National" mango pudding powder! Probably from the "ethnic" section at Walmart. Experimenting with the balance of milk/almond milk and with sucralose only, or will I break down and add some sugar? Today even with cocoa powder on top! Considering throwing in a (greek) peach cup. The dole boxes have country of origin stamped on a little label on the side of the carton. I buy the greek peaches when costco has them but not the chinese ones! The mixed fruit ones tend to be thailand or equador or china.
Of course good greeks are not having puddings but they are having their easter lent at this time. Sunday is Greek Easter this year so I am eagerly anticipating pictures from @Dante_80 who is probably in Euboea (Evia) by now! ...
That's it! Off to the races I go!😘3 -
PAV - are you using hands free phone? Maybe if you had to actually HOLD a phone it might cut down on mindless eating? Yeah it’s very inconvenient but at least one hand would be unavailable for snacking.1
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Dinner tonight: pan fried ham steak and boxed scalloped potatoes. I am making them with fairlife milk and added 35g of unflavored protein to the liquid, we will see how it turns out.0
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Absolutely 100% a bad idea. The protein powder, though well mixed in, appears to have curdled and rendered the sauce clumpy and gritty. So gross.
So ham it is for dinner, lol3 -
Stress is very bad for portion control and for making the right choices. Though dinner ended up not being too bad. I baked the boneless/skinless chicken thighs, measured a portion of the pasta, and then had canned green beans a friend had canned last year. So not HORRIBLE. Actually quite happy with myself.
I knew it was going to be a hectic week because I was out Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. What I did NOT expect was to basically have my workload doubled while I was gone. We have a coworker who is leaving next week so her projects had to be reassigned. I got 7 of them... and 3 proposals. Plus my original projects/proposals. So yea. Things went from "it will be busy" to "do I have time to pee" very quickly.4 -
How many projects did exiting coworker have! 7 assigned to you seems kind of excessive Athijade. 😤.1
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Last nightwas chilli prawns with courgetti, tonightI’m not sure what! Nowt taken out of freezer 🙄3
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Today's food:
Lemonade protein drink
1 egg, ham steak
Top Sirloin steak and mushrooms
And I'll have to add some other protein source3 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »Today's food:
Lemonade protein drink
1 egg, ham steak
Top Sirloin steak and mushrooms
And I'll have to add some other protein source
Do you get to add veggies at some point? Or fruit? 🍎0 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »Today's food:
Lemonade protein drink
1 egg, ham steak
Top Sirloin steak and mushrooms
And I'll have to add some other protein source
Do you get to add veggies at some point? Or fruit? 🍎
I've been eating some fruit, berries mostly. And I do have some veg. Tonight it's the mushrooms. The issue is volume. I can only fit so much in my stomach at a time, so I have to prioritize protein.
I am the opposite of Pav. Low volume eater lol.
I do take a bariatric multi and calcium everyday, plus 2 fish oil caplets.2 -
The funny part is that I am definitely a WAY lower volume eater than I USED to be.... and I don't even (often) miss it, surprisingly. Last few times I've gone to AYCE (and it hasn't been much more than 2 or 3 times that I HAVE gone to them over the past couple of years) the total quantity I consumed is not even 2/3 of what I used to eat there, yet I was feeling similarly uncomfortable from over-stuffing.
Funny part is that in spite of high or low volume... with weight loss and time the internal calorie counting hamsters seem to have become QUITE adept at figuring out their actual caloric intake better even than the apps.
I am aware that my calories are (significantly) low in spite of the high volume/full from volume feeling. And I can be out there looking for a small sized high Cal hit in spite of being "physically full". And the opposite. I can be "not hungry", at least for a short while, based on calories without the volume. But adding some volume makes it much better!!! 1 -
The funny part is that I am definitely a WAY lower volume eater than I USED to be.... and I don't even (often) miss it, surprisingly. Last few times I've gone to AYCE (and it hasn't been much more than 2 or 3 times that I HAVE gone to them over the past couple of years) the total quantity I consumed is not even 2/3 of what I used to eat there, yet I was feeling similarly uncomfortable from over-stuffing.
Funny part is that in spite of high or low volume... with weight loss and time the internal calorie counting hamsters seem to have become QUITE adept at figuring out their actual caloric intake better even than the apps.
I am aware that my calories are (significantly) low in spite of the high volume/full from volume feeling. And I can be out there looking for a small sized high Cal hit in spite of being "physically full". And the opposite. I can be "not hungry", at least for a short while, based on calories without the volume. But adding some volume makes it much better!!!
I used to be able to out it away. Haven't done AYCE since pre-covid with the Mexican buffet (umm Queso), but when I'd guilt order Chinese when I was the only person home, I'd get like 8 fried dumplings, 10 fried Wonton, a couple spring rolls and a whole entree for myself (usually some kind of battered, deep fried chicken with calorific sauce) and sub noodles for rice, and actually eat all of it. Or I could get McDonald's, do like a double QP, 10 nuggets and 2 large fries. Or a medium pan pizza and also 10 wings. Or, or, or... You get the idea. I never felt good after I ate like that, I could easily be satisfied with alot less, and I could often go long stretches not doing it... But I could pack it in.
Now, I max out at ~ 4oz (if measured raw) or 3oz if measured Cooked.
Today specifically I had one scoop of lemonade protein powder in 18oz water (20g protein), 3oz ham steak (14) and one egg (6) fried in a tiny bit of butter. Then later I had a "Protean" which is protein iced tea (15), then for supper 4.44oz (raw weight) grass fed top sirloin (18 I think) and 4oz of white button mushrooms (1ish), sauteed in butter with garlic. And even eating slowly and doing all the things I am supposed to, I feel very full after those meals. Not uncomfortable, but full. I will actually get sneezes if I drink too fast, and a runny nose if I get too full.0 -
Heh heh. Interesting concept of guilt order.
My Chinese food order was dinner for two as a minimum with "for three" way more than once with the excuse of variety and leftovers... for the next meal, not the week.
Pizza was large plus 2l pop for a meal or large plus pasta plus garlic bread and 2l coke classic for the day. Or two large pizza and pop. Good healthy stuff.
2l or 6pack of coke classic was hydration. Cause aspartame unhealthy! And I would eat a salad with olive oil (healthy) with the pizza! 👍
In the decade before I started dealing with activity and weight in 2014, I was more likely to go for ayce than order in though.
Multiple times a week either ayce fish and chips or sushi or Indian. Otherwise pho or breakfast places
Funny thing is I didn't even believe at the time that I was overdoing it as much as I was.
Sure. Even I realized that ayce twice a day was a bit much. But not more than just a bit much.
Every other day? No worries. Eating out a large pho plus two fried Vietnamese rolls, or breakfast (usually at lunch time) every day (1500+Cal items at IHOP plus cream, sugar in coffee plus syrup).... I would not even blink!
A diet night time meal was foot long meatball sub with chips and cookies! When trying to lose weight!!!🤔 Cause subway diet! right?😎0 -
Hi all, hope you are all having a good weekend!
Bank holiday weekend here - so dull and raining!
Last night was homemade pizza - recipe from a diabetic cook book - turned out to taste more like a scone than a pizza and was 680 calories and 7g carbs for the lot!
Not withstanding the low carbs, the calorific value was so not worth it! 🥴 Was odd tasting to be sure 🤣
Not really sure how damaging a Dominoes would have been, but convinced I could have got a less calorific bread based one from supermarket!
Tonight is a favorurite - pork & fennel burger and I am having a proper bread bun!
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Peppercorn Pork Tenderloin and roasted spaghetti squash with garlic and Parmesan,
I ate three "real food" meals today.4 -
Real food! Happy for you Nic after the nightmare you’ve had.0
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That pork tenderloin sounds sooo good!
Veggie lasagne ‘ere!1
