Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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AlexandraFindsHerself1971 wrote: »So I will be able to handle dinner and all will be okay.
You are so organized! The new-hire paperwork is a nightmare but hopefully only done once. And you’ve got dinner all planned. ALL WILL BE WELL 👍2 -
Tonight is leftover chili, but I’m planning to start a pot of split pea soup to share with my Mom. I’m also hoping to make some homeade whole wheat naan tonight, but I’m fairly tired and it may need to wait until tomorrow night.1
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Hi @Yoolypr! The situation is... interesting! The ribs are currently not a major concern though I can occasionally feel the effects of the collision, especially when trying to push open a door!
I am reminded of the vets' description of Skylar.... "eyes nice and clear. ears nice and clear. weight fine, muscle tone 5/5, general condition 5/10"
I mean there is that left front paw that has no tendon and the back hips that as the years go by are showing some of the usual issues and the other paw that occasionally... you know... it is amazing that she can actually outrun so many non ailing animals given that she probably only has a total of one out of four paws working at any one time... and then we have the tummy and bladder issues too, right!?!?
So all is fine in my world except for that loud snap that was heard from the vicinity of my hurting left leg as I was walking up the stairs of the hotel I stopped at given how slow the day had gone because of the frequency of breaks to deal with the discomfort I was feeling from the aforementioned leg
Snap and no longer being able to lead up the stairs using the left leg. Who knew that your carry on bag can be dual used as a cane if swung forward in an appropriate manner!
Made it up the stairs dragging the ailing left leg semi uselessly behind me... hunkered down in a very nice room and currently applying copious amounts of ice on said paw. Not 100% sure what the plan is for tomorrow.... fastest route home only hits small towns. and the snap had the definite feel of a ligament type noise which can't really be dealt with at a random dr's office.
Unfortunately this has the feeling of being on track to become a longer term issue and the need to position the left is putting pressure back onto the right hand sciatic nerve I had managed to successfully offload these past few weeks
Hmmm... 5/10 is my pity party valuation.... probably 6 or 7/10 in the world of real problems. 4.33 hours from home.... without stops.1 -
morning waffle was followed by evening veggie delight footlong. yellow cheddar. Jalapeño potato chips! Over calories due to pity party Mr. Big candy bar. Popcorn would have been smarter!
Will be an interesting day tomorrow! today weather wise was a beautiful gem of a day: 100% sunny!2 -
Hope you can see your doctor soon. Not something you can ignore which I learned the hard way. Pushing through the pain ended up being a two month mandatory exercise rest along with much ibuprofen. I hope the Mr. Big provided some temporary relief.
Oh - why is it we can’t get ketchup potato chips in the US? Our stores have entire aisle of endless varieties of chips but no Herrs ketchup chips. Hubby loved them and I confess to eating some too. We shared a bagful for dinner in Vancouver two years ago rather than eating tweezer food at the hotel. Yes I logged them! Amazon sells them at exorbitant prices at would probably arrived crushed and stale. 😝2 -
Ouch PAV that sounds sooooooo painful! The heart-sinking snap of a ligament is something that once experienced is never forgotten - get it looked at by someone qualified to do a proper assessment as soon as you get home! I fear your prediction of a lengthy lay off may be prophetic, but hopefully the damage isn't as bad as your first impression would suggest.2
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Omg, you don't have ketchup chips? I mean they're like a default thing in the little lunch boxes plain salt and vinegar ketchup barbecue and dill pickle!
Amazon packaging is sometimes amazing and sometimes craptastic!🤷🏻♂️1 -
Omg, you don't have ketchup chips? I mean they're like a default thing in the little lunch boxes plain salt and vinegar ketchup barbecue and dill pickle!
Amazon packaging is sometimes amazing and sometimes craptastic!🤷🏻♂️
Oh we have all the chip flavors- chipotle, lime and jalapeño, pickle, tamarind, bbq, BUT NO KETCHUP. I have looked from the east coast to west coast. There’s a weird ketchup mustard flavor that not good. On Amazon at about $20 a bag plus shipping. We plan on returning to Vancouver as soon as we can - probably with an empty suitcase for our haul of ketchup chips.2 -
Oh, PAV. That sounds really scary. You seem to be in a terrible state of withdrawal. Hope your trip home goes by in a blink and you get good knews from the clinic you are going to visit very soon?
Bad, pity-party food will not help....I've been achy all week. Pretty sure it has more to do with the food I've been devouring (the anxiety-distraction flavoured variety) than all the old booboos that have decide to sing in the night (and the morning and afternoon!)
Chips - of any flavour - are one of the few foods that don't torment me. If there was an open bag by my hand I could certainly eat too many of them, but I'm never even tempted to buy a bag or hunt them down (until now of course)...:)2 -
I like chips but they have to be non-potato and they only get eaten with meals.
So I buy the big catering boxes of small bags of Fritos. When I eat a sandwich that requires chip accompaniment, I have them, and they are good, and then I'm done. I don't know why eating them by themselves is "wrong" to me, but it is. I don't care if others do it, but not me. It's "wrong". #Autism.
Today is an Italian day apparently; Italian hot beef sandwich (which does not require chips) for lunch, and it will be chicken fettucini alfredo tonight.3 -
Alexandra - I always learn so much from you. About organizing, acceptance, planning amazing menus, and about the experience of autism. Thank you for taking the time to spell it all out - I appreciate it. I know I wouldn't pick up on the nuances if you didn't.
I'm not trying to stick to any specific calorie limit today. Just trying not to eat as if I'm the purveyor of some new-fangled Laurie Fois Gras. The past two weeks have been horrific on the eating front. And I think I should be on a deficit break come surgery day next week. So for the moment I'm going to try to find maintenance. Though I'm having serious doubts about my ability to do that unless I start running 24/7.
Managed a health first meal of the day. Some sauteed cabbage, veggie breakfast sausages and baked sweet potato wedges. Not ideal - but a million times better than it was looking for a few minutes there.
Thank goodness I picked up that "flat" cabbage yesterday. I kinda like those babies - and it was sitting on the table looking at me with those big ol' flat cabbage eyes. So, chop chop!
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I’ve been hungry all day trying to save calories for dinner tonight. We have a social dinner event to attend. I have no idea what they’re serving. I’m assuming something tasty but heavy on salt and sauces. Probably dessert too. 🥺. I can try to pick around the plate but will probably charge right in. I should have filled up on a big salad at home first. I’ll have to try harder tomorrow.3
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For me it's 50/50 between trying not to eat in order to leave room and eating enough to blunt hunger and avoiding a big meal.
I keep flip flopping and not always succesfully.
I would say that I lost most of my weight by accurately counting calories and often skipping a formal meal if my various snacks and mini meals would have had me going over. And fitting my eating at the time of the day that I was hungry.
When trying to fit other people it is obvious that meals larger ones than f.e. noodles with veggies (perhaps I should say more elaborate ones) anyway the more special meals tend to happen and calories have to be allocated to them.
I'm still trying to find my way I guess around that. The save the calories till later does work. But insufficient shut down after sufficient calories have come in also tends to happen 🤷🏻♂️
Anyway.
Gimpy has arrived home and into 10 days of expected rain.
Will try to post some pictures of the trip back. Wow was it brilliant before and after I broke me. I'm on a mission to get Garfield to bring some British tourist dollars to British Columbia 😘
Gimpy also has to look into lowering average calories given current loss of mobility! Boo! 🤯 *Kittens* 🐹🥺☹️ hoo!1 -
So sorry to read "Gimpy" - how long will Gimpy suffer loss of mobility?
This is so true for me too when my body thinks it is being/has been starved (it doesn't care about any big, planned meal):
"....insufficient shut down after sufficient calories have come in also tends to happen."
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Get those photos posted Gimpy - my British tourist cash is itching to find a worthy destination!
I hope you get mended soon...2 -
Has Gimpy seen a doctor yet? I speak from experience here. 😢 Ignore it and it’ll come back to bite you harder next time - hence my two month mandatory exercise rest. I’m working on getting back some endurance now but have to go slow. No more 4 mile hikes in the foreseeable future.
The dinner last night was as expected. Banquet food. I managed to get salad with no dressing, ate half the stuffed chicken breast sans most sauce. Avoided the mashed potatoes but ate the veggies. It was like most banquet meals - salty, over cooked, bland. Lest you think I did well, I did eat half the cheesecake dessert but not the graham cracker crust.
Tonight I’ll be having a big salad with tuna. Meh!2 -
Has Gimpy seen a doctor yet? I speak from experience here. 😢 Ignore it and it’ll come back to bite you harder next time - hence my two month mandatory exercise rest.
(ugh) Gimpy has petitioned his official family doctor to see him. Official family doctor, who is probably not yet past his late 80's (though it is a close call) has been a working GP since the late 1960s. He has been farming out patients to others in his practice starting a good 10 years ago... but still sees a select few. Mainly for longer appointments such as complete physicals. However with COVID the process now involves some emailing back and forth between himself and his office as to whether he is actually willing to see you (and when)... or whether he wants to farm you out. So waiting to hear back!
Will probably also make a physiotherapy appointment to see what else can be started. I mean... gimpy already has the other knee without an anterior cruciate... and ortho appointments that are not an infection or other (worker's compensation or star athlete) emergency... are not exactly speedy. Plus you first have to do useless x-rays before anyone will decide to look into soft tissue imaging.
If I hear nothing back will probably hit a walk in clinic to at least get the useless x-rays ordered and out of the way (protocol apparently requires x-rays so that you can then be told by the doctor that the x-rays won't show soft tissue damage and thus were useless for the purpose of investigating soft tissue damage... gives some sort of pleasure to someone to have this whole dance take place????)2 -
Yup had the useless X-ray series twice. Neck, spine and hip. Not to count the X-rays of a stress fracture in my foot 👣for which I got a nifty boot. All in the same few weeks. I now glow in the dark from radiation.
Ended up with a very uncomfortable MRI and more glow in the dark 😱radiation. The upshot was quit doing whatever causes the inflammation pain, lots of ibuprofen, stretching and rest. Basically just STOP. I’m on the “see you next month” followup plan. So far, so good but had to cut back on the daily calories because RESTING!
Hope your dance with the docs is quicker and gives some relief. Glad you aren’t stupidly ignoring pain like I did for months hoping it would 🧚🏻♀️magically go away.
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Yes... this stupid can't eat as much as when you move thing... on top of things I am *kittens* freezing because... well... you guessed it... can't really move. Usual response I have to freezing is.... eating. Yup. Almost always. Somehow... not the best combo!2
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Yes... this stupid can't eat as much as when you move thing... on top of things I am *kittens* freezing because... well... you guessed it... can't really move. Usual response I have to freezing is.... eating. Yup. Almost always. Somehow... not the best combo!
Soups. Hot coffee. Tea. Sweaters. Those ugly cozy blanket thingies? I’ll trade for your fine Canadian weather. It’s going to be a humid near 90 today and for the rest of the week. AC pumping away.
On the food front - I’m going to bake cookies friend birthday. I will try to stay out of the batter 😇4 -
Well... I've broken out all the "little pony" tricks, or is that tricky ponies?... in any case I'm more of a puppy than pony guy, so there's that!
riced veggies? check -- 260g = 76.5 Cal
shiritaki rice (konjac fiber basically)? check. -- 200g = <25Cal
super salty maggie vegetarian chicken cubes? check. 1.5 cubes, or just about 25 Cal.
Terrible sodium overload for health... but retained water makes you feel more full, right? And I'm not concerned with what the scale will show temporarily... just what it will REALLY do longer term.
And... frozen pacific white shrimp. boiled, peeled ended up about 190g / 226 Cal when ready to add into the pot!
Water Nuked, boiled, and otherwise heated.
Whole kit and kaboodle was 2059 grams--that's over 4.5lbs for ya bro!--and totally NOT the lady like portion preached by Garfield!!! .... BUT: 350 Cal!
Well... not that I didn't round up with a clif bar and some premium plus crackers... cause I did... but so far I'm heading into the evening in good shape to end up closer to my 2K estimated sedentary maintenance than my more usual 3K range.1 -
Today hasn't been terrible. My partners had beef and bean enchiladas with rice and beans and all the nice side stuff, and I had a taco salad. It helps that I don't like much in my tacos or taco salads but meat, cheese, lettuce, and the taco shell, so the calories aren't terrible.
It's been 50 degrees and wet today, and this is not weather my body likes, so I've been very low-speed today. Lots of fibro pain in the various joints. I'm going to see what I can get done this evening, which is probably low key picking up and tidying. Maybe some sewing. I have an altar cloth to hem, and I need to do a little ironing on the work pants I hemmed for Boyfriend, just so the hem will lie nice and flat. Then he'll have five pairs of work pants, and that works just fine to get us through the week.3 -
So uninspired - skipping supper. I spent the morning baking citrus butter cookies for friend’s birthday tomorrow. There was was some tasting and sampling as the dough had to be rolled into tablespoon sized balls before baking. Then I made my mothers German sauerkraut recipe for Sunday dinner. It really is better a day or two later. A good part of the day in the kitchen left me not caring about evening meal today. 🤢 Maybe some crackers? Jello?3
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So uninspired - skipping supper. I spent the morning baking citrus butter cookies for friend’s birthday tomorrow. There was was some tasting and sampling as the dough had to be rolled into tablespoon sized balls before baking. Then I made my mothers German sauerkraut recipe for Sunday dinner. It really is better a day or two later. A good part of the day in the kitchen left me not caring about evening meal today. 🤢 Maybe some crackers? Jello?
If I cook all day I have trouble eating anything I was cooking, or much of anything, really. I would make you up a nibbling plate of crackers and nuts and veggies and cheese and just nibble and rest from your labors.
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I would eat the sauerkraut.... cause I'm me!!!!2
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Small cubed steaks fried in a tsp. Of olive oil,sweet potato,broccoli and salads….dessert was Itsy Bitsy Tate’s cookies and coffee….later an apple and almonds!2
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Connie, your supper sound wonderful. Hope your husband was able to enjoy it too.2
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Interesting bit @Yoolypr after a lot of calculations I have to say that baked and boiled potatoes fall under my "good deals for the calories" category. So does the sauerkraut actually. Snausages not as much, though venison I imagine would be a leaner deal.
Random day so far. Found a non expired "tofurkey" roast from LAST year... and it is now in the oven!3 -
Never been a big plain potato fan so why waste the calories on so-so food. Now a good poutine!3
