Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Exciting stuff here!
I don't think of lentil curry as containing dairy? Maybe some?
Re freezing tofu - I'm lazy and generally running by the seat of my pants - so I throw the entire block in its package in the freezer and pull out as necessary. Smell? I don't know why :) I hate the look of that water inside the package and expect it to smell bad. But it does NOT :)
Coconut milk adds fats yes - but lots of nice flavour, even with just a little.1 -
Well I don't know. Figured I'd try this with no salt broth and coconut milk and my package of red lentils (without the meat.)
How to make curry link
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Let us know how it goes! And pictures :)
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sticky air fried chicken and salad ‘ere - made from scratch! Can see why people (including me when I have cals 🤗) do a KFC! Takes ages with the marinade, specially when ihalf of the ingredients are still in supermarket. Started at 6; eating at 8:30! Starvin’
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But your perseverance paid off in more chicken for less calories!!!!👍🏼
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It is challenging cooking from scratch! Why I tend to batch cook. A couple of big cooks - days of eating :)
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1/2 shop brought, as 1/2 price sourdough pizza base, with tomato sauce; topped it with garlic herbs and cheeses.
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So the bunny dish with carrots and cauli rice and fresh onions was added to a "japchae glass noodles with sauteed vegetables" (relatively high calories, 492 Cal for the 328g pouch) to which I ALSO added 255g of edible portion of previously frozen crustaceans, aka shrimp cooked from frozen at 119 Cal per 100g!
All together a pretty substantial meal at over 1000g before cooking and almost 1000 Cal after cooking, thus sufficient to split in two!
In fact, I DID split it into two meals: the before dog walk dinner and the AFTER dog walk dinner which is to follow! ;-)
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Chortle! kept back 60g of shrimp and mixed in with 5g of sriracha 20g of lime juice from a fresh lime 30g of sliced black olives and 5g of fresh onion…. actually quite nice. Thawing another 500g of "ice cube" shrimps (date COULD be about 6 or 7 months the wrong side of "best"… so planning on working through it fast! 🤣)
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Look at you go, PAV. Fresh lime juice and fresh onion and everything :)
I have to look to see what ice cube shrimps are…0 -
Were they really shrimps frozen individually within ice cubes??????
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No!!!!🤣🤣🤣 They just had little snow balls around them because they are almost (but not quite) freezer burned. They are best before as of October of last year 🤯😅
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I mean NOT perfect… but not terribly terrible, especially once peeled! (thawed in cold water, drained, hot tap water, drain, hot tap water, drain, kettle of boiling water, cool down (picture), peel, kettle of boiling water, drain… weigh… eat! WAY TOO TIME CONSUMING 🤣)
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But you did it! Look at those little pink thingies
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Pulled beef in red onion & Yorkshire’s here today.
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Oh that sounds like a "goodly" tea… Ms Tea!
Yooly… in terms of "efficiency" both the bunny pic and the shrimp pic (together) plus the juice from half a lime come up to ~775 Cal and should make a couple of reasonably good meals in terms of volume.
Yes, I am rounding to whole Cal numbers. F.e. carrots were actually 303g and shrimp were 320g.
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Laurie… hide!
Pork roast from Costco (pre-cooked, refrigerated, entering time to eat dates, 44th street ones). 500g cauliflower rice (508g), bag of instant mash.
Definitely can serve two. And would be nicer with a few colorful veg instead. Maybe I will do those with the NEXT bag as there are two bags in a box!
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closed my eyes - didn't see a thing!
One of my favourite suppers lately is what I've been calling red curry soup - basically veggie broth with half bag of frozen veggie mix (peppers/celery/onion/carrot), frozen chopped kale, diced tofu, chick peas, canned diced tomatoes and a few tablespoons of red curry paste. I batch cook this and now - in a big show of defiant decadence - when I warm up my individual servings I add 50g of rice noodles (vermicelli) which soften in the pot as the soup warms and about 6 grams of peanut butter. It is ridiculously decadent seeming - super quick and so very delicious. For a dinner under 400 calories!
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Now if only something under 400 Cal were the extent of my decadence! 🤣
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It's funny how decadent this feels! I think the noodles which used to be a nono and the richness of the peanut butter? Thank the weight management heavens for this one. :)
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I think I want to try Laurie's curry!
I admit, especially now that I re-read the above, that maybe it had something to do with my "late lunch"? Though Laurie's rice noodles and peanut sound much much nicer than what I made!
I was about to grab a couple of slices of (almost stale) bread and toast them when I decided to use up one of the "Korean noodle" soup containers (310Cal) instead.
What I actually did is take out 40g out of the 140g of fully-cooked udon noodles from the pouch. The 40g went to you know who who was begging for goodies by the kitchen door! I opened the "veggies and sauce package" dumped in the other 100g of noodles, and added the 900g pack of low sodium broth and nuked the whole thing.
So basically a reduced noodle and more broth soup…let's see how long it carries me…
Ended up at about the same 315 Cal: -53 for the noodles that went out and +55 for the broth added.
But let's not kid the kidders: another 300 Cal of both good and crappy chocolate complemented the soup and rounded up the ~620 Cal "lunch slot": a snickers bar at 249Cal and a theobroma raspberry / dark chocolate chunky at 10.9g / 53 Cal
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This is the special ingredient - everything else you can play with!
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LOL - that is a BIG jar of red curry paste :)
The good thing about it is that it seems to last forever and you don't need a lot to add a whole lotta flavour :)1 -
And this lovely little bag makes "mirepoix" feel like child's play :)
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Nice BIG bag of that too!
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And a BIG pack of tofu - diced into 1/2 inch ish cubes - could resist cause I'm on a roll now….
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Woohoo! And you got the RIGHT BRAND (the sunrise guys who make the pudding one too ;-)
So. I am now confused. I see a one day bag of veggies and a bit of paste…. you KNOW I am going to make something like this don't you…0 -
Okay…just a few more things are essential :)
two containers of veggie broth
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😁 a tin of chickpeas
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diced tomatoes
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