Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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... along fluffy scrambled eggs (eggs + egg whites+ cottage cheese) ...
Okay - I tried this tonight - on a bed plain sauteed kale - and it is delicious! I wasn't sure. After I cooked them and there seemed to be a lot of liquid I was really really unsure. But poured that "juice" over the dog's dinner and gave it the old college try and wow. The cottage cheese in there was amazing. Much more toothesome meal - and protein galore!
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Breakfast today was oatmeal and blueberries, lunch was chocolate PB2 yogurt dip and an apple. Snack was caramel corn (oops) and half a slice of husband's pizza (double oops).
Dinner tonight is another salad of spring greens, with blueberries,some dried fruit and nuts, and topped with some more fake meat for protein.3 -
see Connie how Laurie engages in most excellent kitchen management? I got rid of 65g of rice AND got rid of the remains of a tub of 0% greek yogurt by utilizing the dog today!!!
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see Connie how Laurie engages in most excellent kitchen management? I got rid of 65g of rice AND got rid of the remains of a tub of 0% greek yogurt by utilizing the dog today!!!
I gave our dog a slice of turkey kielbasa!….I would be leery of eating some kind “ liquid “ on my eggs!….yuk!…and no kale….if I HAVE to eat an egg, I want it scrambled really done with ketchup on it!…or deviled with a lot of relish in it!….
Happy the one meal I do not mind missing is breakfast….2 -
But, but, but, Connie you're forgetting the sriracha ❣️👍😇😹2
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »see Connie how Laurie engages in most excellent kitchen management? I got rid of 65g of rice AND got rid of the remains of a tub of 0% greek yogurt by utilizing the dog today!!!
I gave our dog a slice of turkey kielbasa!….I would be leery of eating some kind “ liquid “ on my eggs!….yuk!…and no kale….if I HAVE to eat an egg, I want it scrambled really done with ketchup on it!…or deviled with a lot of relish in it!….
Happy the one meal I do not mind missing is breakfast….
I too must disguise my eggs - lots and lots of sriracha - it is such a "given" I don't write it down anymore
What I loved about the cottage cheese is how it changed the texture. For some reason (maybe the sodium?) the liquid separated from the eggs so they had a firmer texture. I'd even go so far as saying they had a bit of a "chew"! Woohoo!! Chew isn't easy to come by as a vegetarian - which is probably why I like those fake sausages. And - who said anything about breakfast? These babies were for dinner!!!!
Lucky pups you have there PAV, with fine tastebuds! My girl won't go near greek yogurt. She has to wait for the grandson and his sweetened vanilla yogurt leavings for her yogurt fix.2 -
Today is hamburgers and chips for lunch, and tonight, fried fish or fried shrimp with shoestring fries and green beans cooked with onion and bacon.6
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Breakfast was an egg white and tempeh bacon wrap with hot sauce. Lunch is probably going to be an apple and pb2 yogurt dip. Supper is TBD, but will probably involve lentils, roasted tomatoes and....I dunno. We'll see what we can come up with.2
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You all would be so proud of my dinner this evening….all for less than 400 calories!….sliced Zuchinni layered with black olive slices, mushroom slices, diced onion, Parmesan cheese and PREGO!…plus a huge salad with light dressing…it’s in the oven and really smells good….husband opted for regular pasta!….we had a really good watermelon this afternoon….dessert tonight is coffee and fiber one brownies….haven’t decided on my snack….can’t wait to read what everyone else is eating!4
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Now that sounds good and almost like something Laurie would cook!!!
I need to go get me some plain greek yogurt... though I'm doing my best to eat my expired (fruity) Yoplaits of which I had a few sitting in the fridge! Given that I started with the oldest ones... I believe I'm fairly safe! I mean I'm moving from expired July 4 to expired July 17 now... this is practically contemporary!!!4 -
Now that sounds good and almost like something Laurie would cook!!!
I need to go get me some plain greek yogurt... though I'm doing my best to eat my expired (fruity) Yoplaits of which I had a few sitting in the fridge! Given that I started with the oldest ones... I believe I'm fairly safe! I mean I'm moving from expired July 4 to expired July 17 now... this is practically contemporary!!!
What do you do with all of the plain Greek yogurt?…I only recently started eating the Greek yogurts and I really like them….you are probably safe eating the expired yoplait as long as there is no mold growing in it lol…2 -
It does sound delicious, Connie! I would probably add a whack of cottage cheese though and .... a sprinkle or ten of sriracha just for the fun of it 1
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My dinner tonight is going to be awfully skimpy. And that is because I had a long walk today and came back so hungry I ate my lunch, dinner, and 2 snacks almost right away. It almost felt like a binge - but maybe not quite? And it stopped and I'm not hungry now. So maybe for whatever reason I was just really hungry. Probably because that inner demon saw the scale and just couldn't bear seeing a reduction in weight so sent the hunger hormone hamsters on a full out blitz.
Grandson is coming over and he likes sitting on the bench out front, before bedtime, and eating frozen cherries - so though I have no calories left in my ideal deficit world I MUST join him and that will be dinner
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We landed on thin sliced chicken breasts, lentils, roasted tomatoes, and roast zucchini. I had a bowl of HaloTop (caramel macchiato, the one flavor I really like) for dessert.3
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Dinner last night was yummy. Maple glazed salmon, some roasted zucchini that I drizzles some of the glaze on, and garden vegetable rice (one of those 90 second microwave packs).
Tonight I am making ramen. Have yet to decide if I want chicken in it or not.3 -
Tonight we are going to try a stir-fry again. Last week the BOY chose that from a picture in a cookbook - but there were just too many "not distinct?" vegetables in there with the golden fried tofu, pineapple and almonds (which he loved). So tonight we'll pare it down to carrots and broccoli (and some ginger that I will leave in big enough pieces to pull out of his bowl). Gotta hand it to this boy - for a five-year-old he is pretty game on the food front.
What really won him over though was the adventure of cooking some super (really super) fine egg noodles. They are long and straight like spaghetti. I broke them in half and put them in a smallish pot with about 2 inches of noodles poking out diagonally over the rim of the pot. They instantly burst into flames. The BOY loved it. I brought the pot over to the sink, cut the flaming bits off with some kitchen shears, and the noodles that were in the water were already done.
Stir-fry flambe????4 -
Sounds exciting lol1
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Breakfast today was bell pepper, egg white and seitan chorizo scramble with avocado and homemade hot sauce. Lunch will be leftover lentils and chicken, with pb2 yogurt and an apple for a snack. For supper, husband is making venison burgers (for him) and black bean burgers (for me). I'll probably have a salad too for good measure. If we get out for a bike ride, I'll have enough calories left for an ice-cream treat of some sort.2
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Boiled shrimp is on the menu for tonight…rice pilaf and steamed broccoli for the sides plus the nightly salad!…also making a peach and blueberry crisp with a crunchy topping….using a little brown sugar, cinnamon and some oats…..no cool whip but I did see some whip cream in the fridge….see how the calories vs exercise plays out!2
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Ooooh peach blueberry crisp sounds amazing. What time do we eat??2
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5 p.m. lol1
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I forgot to eat breakfast, but had a pulled pork sandwich with chips for lunch, and will have Sweet and Sour Pork for dinner.2
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AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »I forgot to eat breakfast, but had a pulled pork sandwich with chips for lunch, and will have Sweet and Sour Pork for dinner.
Sounds great and knowing from your posts, you probably have it ready to go!….I wish I could plan meals, buy groceries, and budget better…..our grocery bill is outrageous!1 -
I wish I could put pictures on my I pad because my Crisp looks amazing!4
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »I forgot to eat breakfast, but had a pulled pork sandwich with chips for lunch, and will have Sweet and Sour Pork for dinner.
Sounds great and knowing from your posts, you probably have it ready to go!….I wish I could plan meals, buy groceries, and budget better…..our grocery bill is outrageous!
I discovered I can batter and fry the pork pieces and freeze them, and then stick them in a low oven on a rack on a sheet pan to warm through. So I'm sitting here 45 minutes before dinner is to be served at my ease; all I have to do is a little work to make the sauce, nuke the packets of rice I premade, nuke some frozen Asian veggies, and cut the garnishing veggies, assemble as necessary, and there we are.
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AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »I discovered I can batter and fry the pork pieces and freeze them, and then stick them in a low oven on a rack on a sheet pan to warm through. So I'm sitting here 45 minutes before dinner is to be served at my ease; all I have to do is a little work to make the sauce, nuke the packets of rice I premade, nuke some frozen Asian veggies, and cut the garnishing veggies, assemble as necessary, and there we are.
Let's see... dig out big kitten glass container, put on scale, tar, (OK, I know it is 995g but I still do that!)... look through fridge... hey the zucchini has been sitting there since before my last trip... hmm, half of it has a boo-boo, find big kitten knife, cut and throw out that half... rest looks good... rince. Hold zucchini in hand, slice lengthwise twice and then chop in hand and in the air dropping the cut pieces straight into the glass container (261g). Dig up bag of leftover onion, chop off dangling piece of skin, cut in hand (careful, no cutting THE hand), drop in container 46g... start water boiling... find bag of shin light noodles. use knife to open the four-pack. knaw on corner of one pack. Knaw on corner of little packets. spill contents of the three little packets and the noodles in the glass container. 97g EXACTLY (boy does their factory do a good job matching exactly to the nutritional info!)... Oh... the water boiled. Pour 500g.... hmmm... nah, make it 600g. Oh well, 615g. Oh look. The dog's rice is cooling in the microwave. Better take it out. Nuke glass container for 4.5 minutes... add PLAIN 0% greek yogurt to dog's rice (yes her bathroom issues are improving).... Oh... food's ready! Drop off dog bowl on kitchen floor... scurry to computer to eat.
Sounds just about the same, right?!?!?!?!?!?!
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You got it, PAV. So far for us today...walk to park, play in water and on equipment, walk to chip truck *****CLOSED***** sit down on the little wooden porch and hope. She comes around from behind. We say - wow your hair looks fantastic, Debbie!!!! It does - it is trimmed and bright blue. The pandemic must be just about over.
We walk home with 3 medium chips. Two for Isaac, me and Laine to share. One for Butch, a neighbour who is always sitting on his front stoop. He loves fries.
On the way home we stop to watch a helicopter take off from the hospital roof! Wow! LOUD!!!!
Butch is nowhere to be found. So we knock on the front door of another neighbour - talk her into accepting Butch's chips.
Get home, wash all those walking germs from our hands, divvy up the chips, add a side of ketchup, put on a Spiderman DVD (original from 1967), lean back on the extra bed in the office (where the tv lives) and thoroughly enjoy the ???? guessing 700 calories worth of chips! Follow up with a Lime Smoothie frozen bar.
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The dinner was good, though Son didn't partake because Mom wants him to drive back to hometown (which is an hour drive) and switch out cars so she can take the one he's been driving to the shop to get something fixed.
I'd loan him our car but we only have one and we have to go to Lowes tomorrow so we can repair the wall where the wired connection was run for Son's room.4 -
But, but, but, Laurie, were the chips still WARM?!?!?!?!
Sounds good so far!
Happy Lowes Outing Alexandra!
Connie did you send me some crisp?
Have added RX protein bar! And plastic tool to get into external hard drive box and "shuck it"!1
