Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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Fresh corn on the cob, baby white potatoes,fresh green beans and Florida strawberries!....followed by an Amish homemade molasses cookie and a big mug of coffee!1
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Tonight they had burritos and I had a taco salad, because at this point in the month I always crave taco salad. I guess for other women it's chocolate. (shrug)
Tomorrow it is pork sate with peanut sauce, with jasmine rice and Thai spinach. The pork is already cut and frozen in marinade; I just have to grill the pork, boil the marinade, and make the spinach and warm up the rice. Easy easy.1 -
OMG I can't believe with all the Biscoff spreads that are about now it never occured to me to make my own cookie butter. I ❤ amaretti biscuits, so decided to make some Amaretti Biscuit Spread (Butter, Condensed Milk, Evaporated Milk & any kind of cookie).
As they're super sweet you don't need too much of it, a spoonful comes in around 100 cals. I stirred some into some Greek Yoghurt earlier with some fresh strawberries for dessert and it was delicious.2 -
We are having homemade chili and it smells wonderful!4
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Under sauces. Made a spicy tomato ariabbatta- type sauce & did courgetti for the first time!
Was very disappointed as was soggy! Texture Ugh! Am I doing something wrong? Dry fried it for a few minutes.....wanted to try it as seemed a no-brainier calorie wise?2 -
Were having..
Grilled Strip Loin, Grilled Asparagus and Grilled Lobster Tail... One grill to rule them all! :P
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Pepper steak simmering in the crock pot!....rice on the side.....huge salad2
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Salmon baked with lemon and butter, steamed broccoli with a sprinkling of parmesan3
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Grilled New York Strip, Grilled Asparagus, Grilled Lobster.
(a repost from the Daily Low Carb forum I usually plaster my food.
I have to say I love cooking this exact combo... I just lay the asparagus out on a sheet of foil, use a brush to lay some melted butter on them... Salt pepper.
Then I cut the back out of the lobster, and pull the tail out, brush it with avocado oil and again salt and pepper. Pop them back in the shell and seal them up in a foil pouch.
Prepare the steaks with all the that fine seasoning...
Heat the BBQ up to 500-550 or so... Then everything goes on once and it's all ready in 10 minutes flat.
Basically lay the sheet of asparagus open and flat on one side of the BBQ. position your steaks on the other side, and throw the pouch of tails on. Close it. 5 minutes later open it roll the asparagus around, flip the steaks and flip the tails. 4 minutes later every thing is done. Tails or moist and perfect, steak is usually medium rare depending on thickness, and well just look at those tasty asparagus.
But I should note, I actually started the asparagus about 5 minutes ahead this time as they were quite a bit thicker then usual.
And the added bonus, almost no dishes were dirtied in the cooking of this fine meal. 3 -
Avocado pesto linguini for dinner tonight. It's creamy and comforting and so filling it's difficult to eat more than one serving!2
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Fixing BBQ chicken tenders, sweet potato fries,and mixed veggies for dinner....I am already hungry!1
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Is Lunch applicable to this thea?
The roasted chicken thighs were on the small side last night... Nothing left for todays lunch. So we had to improvise...
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Poobah1972 wrote: »Is Lunch applicable to this thea?
The roasted chicken thighs were on the small side last night... Nothing left for todays lunch. So we had to improvise...
This looks delicious!....yes, you can share any meal here....send me a dozen of those roll ups!3 -
Made a big batch of "breakfast" daal yesterday. Yellow lentils, lots of spinach and pumpkin - which I've never cooked with before this month and it is nice and light. This feels nice and satisfying - put a whole stack of single servings in the freezer and just had some with scrambled eggs and rutabaga (they were on sale - nice little baby ones - but I had to buy a whole bag so I'll be having rutabaga with everything for awhile.
It was a very "yellow" brunch. But feels very nice in the belly :-)
It is very strange not tracking calorie right now. I know this meal is okay...oodles of veggies so I'm full while staying on the lower end of the calorie spectrum - but it feels pretty luxurious not trying to figure out exactly how much of each odd ingredient was on my plate.
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Cottage Pie here .... no pic sorry, already eaten!2
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I am making Shepherds Pie for dinner and I have to say it looks amazing!....I used Bob Evans mashed potatoes, mixed frozen vegetables, diced onions, Heinz Beef gravy, lean ground beef and a few basic seasonings.....I have these really cute little Ree Drummond ( Pioneer Woman ) metal crocks to bake them in....can’t wait for John to get home from the Pain Management doctor so I can eat!3
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Prefer a Shepherds Pie to a Cottage Pie! I put my veggies inside too!4
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Home made Keto Sweet with Heat Meatballs and Sauce on Cauliflower Rice.
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Ha! You said cauliflower rice!
nuked into shape:
400g cauliflower rice (frozen)
3g lemon pepper seasoning (everywhere)
oven roasted bunnies:
350g asparagus
121g carrots, raw
2g avocado oil
deadly greek dip:
190g boiled baby red potatoes
17g garlic
17g olive oil
burn oven burn:
275g highliner pan seared haddock
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Tonight I will be making Alice Springs Chicken. So chicken breasts marinated in honey mustard and then topped with mushrooms, bacon, and cheese. I keep the calories down by splitting the breast in half, limiting the bacon and cheese, and increasing the mushrooms. I will be serving it with roasted asparagus and half a baked potato with butter and sour cream.4
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Due to health stuff, I've decided to change my diet up some and adopt more of the Mediterranean Diet for me and my husband.
Tonight's dinner was a lemon garlic pasta with chicken, baby spinach, tomatoes and topped with a little bit of shaved Parmesan cheese.5 -
lunch:
knorr vietnamese pho soup
https://www.walmart.ca/search?q=knorr pho
~210 Cal
Because the amount of soup is pitiful, tripled it by pouring in a bowl, adding knorr vegetable (mushroom base) stock, and nuking it that way!
I admit to eyeballing it! It is ~15 Cal per 3.4g for 250ml water... and I figure about 5g or so and 300 ml water
So under 230 Cal.
Sodium plays havoc with the scale; but if you haven't been consuming as much... the overload makes you thirsty (popped a couple of cans of coke zero and an extra large black 50% de-caf 50% dark since) and strangely full!
No idea as to dinner yet!4 -
Dinner tonight was turkey kielbasa,broccoli, and my lightened version of potato salad!...snacks tonight are trisquits, laughing cow cheese and a tiny Old Wisconsin meat stick!1
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Good ole BBQ'd pork chops and Salad. P.s. the camera angle makes it look like more then 5 ounces.. I promise!
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That BBQ looks tasty! Sometimes... I wonder about me (sure didn't look as nice! But I got bunnies in -- though their paws are up in the air due to trying to kill myself with sodium today!)
Campbell's Chunky, Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, 570g, 342 Cal
Cauliflower (riced), 256g, 60 Cal (poured into the soup bowl to increase the bunnies and mitigate the sodium!)
Onion, 60g, 24 Cal
Cucumber Raw, w/peel, 122g, 18Cal
Lettuce, 56g, 10 Cal
Tomato, year long average, 202g 36 Cal
President Choice Blue Menu zesty italian 37g, 12 Cal
Laughing Cow, jalapeno, 1 piece, 23 Cal
Finn Crisp Rye Crispbread 25g 90 Cal
So the good news is that I managed to eat 8 bunnies in less than 700 Cal.
The bad news is that well... protein and sodium not doing as good today... whey bar to the rescue for one of the two problems!2 -
Bunnies?1
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Believe they are Peep bunnies or other easter candy....2
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Bunnies=food a bunny would eat
More commonly known as vegetables and fruits
One day, a few years back, my hard to wrangle into coherency brain hamsters were idly reading some studies about improved health outcomes for people who exceed 5 portions of fruits and vegetables a day with health results improving into the 8 to 10 a day range, especially when most were veg.
So not only can veg bulk out da food, but good too! So hamsters set a low level desire to try for a good 800g of bunnies a day (dried bunnies require less weight, so an 80g "bunny" is met by eating ~40g of say dried figs or 80g of fresh)
Some fun was had by all while we were counting bunnies for a while, and contrary to UK guidelines that separate out "starches" such as potatoes or plantains, I see nothing wrong with counting boiled potatoes in my bunnies whenever I think back as to whether I've been having my 10, or should kick it up a notch and cut down on the peep and Easter candy bunny section!
(Do note that I have an appreciable tdee due to activity and gender. Lost most of my weight on MFP averaging Cal in of 2560, and have since been around the 2900 mark, so that does leave some room for less nutritionally great choices when it comes to Easter eggs)
TL/dr bunny = made up unit equal to 80g of vegetables or fruits.
Eat at least 5 a day. Increase to 8 to 10. If you can and is suits you, of course, etc!
(and, in fact, my personal bunnies are set at 85g instead of the more common 80g, because hey, let's build in some extra bunny padding!)1 -
I see....I have eaten a real bunny more than once growing up in the Midwest!....I just couldn’t imagine you actually eating “ bunny meat “ lol....
Anyway I must eat a zillion “ bunnies “ a day!
Happy Easter!1 -
Poobah1972 wrote: »Good ole BBQ'd pork chops and Salad. P.s. the camera angle makes it look like more then 5 ounces.. I promise!
Them pork chops look good! Fish Pie here.... 1st ever attempt, sort of to a recipe.....went down well!
Using up stuff in the freezer before a pay day shop next week🤣
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