Living the Lifestyle, Wildcard Friday! 12-16-2022

steve0mania

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Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.

Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Flintwinch (Tim)
Wednesday - misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard

Today's Topic: Hot hot hot!

My dinner menu mostly revolves around some version of baked chicken, a microwaved potato, and some roasted veggies (broccoli, squash, zucchini, onions, red peppers). The chicken usually has some very light spice on it (no sauce, per se), and I just use salt and pepper for the potato. However, I like to put some sort of sauce on my veggies.

My question is: what's your favorite "healthy and tasty" sauce that you use for meals that also fits with your weight-management plan?

steve0mania

I often work my way though various hot sauces (which is why I wrote "hot hot hot"). I use a lot of Sriracha. More recently, I've become a fan of Cholula chipotle sauce. It's got a really good flavor and a bit of a kick.

I like hot sauces because a small amount goes a long way, and thus, it's hard to add many calories with these so they fit into my plan very easily!

imastar2

I'm a Tabasco original man myself. I use it about 99% of the time. It's usually my choice. I will use others when out and about and it's not available.

As far as sauces are concerned I'm a southern boy raised in regular old sawmill gravy as we called it. A mixture of flour & milk and usually pretty thick. Now adays I stay away from that as the floor is a big no no. So occasionally I'll fix some variation of broth from a chicken or beef and mix it with corn starch for thickening and some milk and it's close to my good old boy gravy with out the cals.

crewahl

I’m in a mixed marriage - I like hot as long as it doesn’t make me cry. My wife, on the other hand, breaks out in a sweat if I even wave a pepper sharer over the top of a meal while it’s cooking. I like to let the heat blend in while food is cooking, but I can’t get away with that.

My go-tos?

- Frank's Red Hot sauce
- Crushed red pepper flakes
- Fresh-ground black pepper, and plenty of it
- Coleman’s English Mustard (too much and you’ll flinch when you take a bite)
- Coleman’s Horseradish Sauce (have to import it direct from England, usually).

I’ve tried the Cholula sauces when eating Mexican (both green and red) and liked them both.

Al_Howard

TOL has gastro problems with any spices, including black pepper, so I use my pepper grinder at all meals that require it. I also use a generic Louisiana hot sauce into my bowl of WW Chili Mac. Other than that... salt on corn on the cob.

cakeman21k

You guys are triggering my acid reflux with this discussion of hot sauces!

imastar2

@crewahl Charlie...Your go to list is almost verbatim to mine. My horseradish sauce Publix carries but they've been out of it lately but the hotter the better for me. Some of the Chinese fresh ground yellow mustard makes my eyes water but I keep going back for more.

88olds

Mustard, A-1, Ray’s No Sugar BBQ.

A couple of dashes of low cal Italian dressing for plain veggies.