Food inspiration, or what's for breakfast?
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It's fine.... Just back on the tracking and thinking about it!
Which brings us back full circle to some of the very well articulated posts by Novus (which were why I was keeping track of this group even before I joined or posted)!
Paraphrasing: seek long term sustainable actions!
Even more paraphrasing: don't make life so difficult you end up giving up--just difficult enough to make progress in a direction that will get you positive results! 🤪4 -
Still just doing a hard boiled egg in the mornings. It seems to be enough to take the edge off my hunger, but not too much to eat up my calories OR mess up the rest of my eating schedule.2
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Im going to do some Novus post reading when I get back home. Time to reset. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻2
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Finally managed to eat the planned nutritious breakfast.
These are MY food choices to match the parameters given… I don't know why I've had such an aversion to the whole thing for the past few days.
I'm also not sure about having the cottage cheese on toast… I finished eating and I'm ready to have a nap! Maybe I'll try it without test tomorrow...
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What's wrong with that breakfast?
Looks nice!!
Well. looks nice but NOT very plentiful!
Like... raspberries?
You can eat the whole box for like almost negative calories compared to a snickers bar!
Yes yes. There's the money thing.
Walmart is like $8.30 per kg for frozen fruit and superstore even more at $9.10 to $11.00 per kg.
And admittedly most frozen fruit... not great!2 -
There’s always bananas which are fairly cheap here. Or apples slices. I don’t know about cottage cheese on bread though? Maybe on the side. And bit of natural jam on the bread? It’s a fruit!1
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Raspberries! delicious - and on sale here this week - half pint for 2.99 which is pretty good for February! There were more than in the picture - but I ate them before I sat down to eat
I divided the half pint between two meals.
This is that really thin sturdy pumpernickel - and it held up really well to the cottage cheese. Felt very much like cream cheese - but a lot more protein for the calories.
Day two - I like it well enough for a repeat. Those raspberries were soooo good!
I was considering jam, Yooly. But thought for the moment I would have fresh berries instead - more because I couldn't figure out how to spread the jam on top of the cottage cheese and that is where I wanted it so that I could see all the pretty colours....lol
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It's still pretty!
Yooly: do you find bananas as filling as apples? I hear that people consider them filling. For myself I find the apple calories a better bargain!
The bananas for me tend to go under the cake/desert substitute category, or to be eaten at will when there is no need for allocation!
But you're right they remain one of the least expensive and healthy fresh fruit options.
Maybe I'll give them another try as satiety etc do change over time0 -
I prefer bananas to apples mostly for the convenience. I don’t like eating apples whole but sliced up is okay. And it has to be certain apples not the tart ones. Might be a texture thing? I know it’s weird.2
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I slice my apples.
I can overeat bananas compared to apples. I think it is chew time relative to calories!!!😝
But I have a distinct preference to Ambrosia apples which I am convinced are less acidic!2 -
May have to look for Ambrosia apples. 🍎2
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I am very fond of Ambrosia apples now too! Thank you, PAV! Sliced.2
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It's pancake day...and we're having them at MILs, and she's cooking dinner...and she wants company to drink the bottle of red wine that she's already opened so that it can 'breathe' (even though we're not eating for at least 4 hours.) Like many old folks, she eats dinner usually at about 3.30, so I don't think we'll be able to delay her much past 4:30...
So: Breakfast was 2 thin slices of homemade wholewheat bread, with 5g butter and 10g homemade seville orange marmalade. Plus two mugs of tea, each with a splash of full fat milk.
Lunch: Was a bowl of the minestrone soup I made yesterday. I made a huge potful, and it contains homemade ham stock, bayleaf, onions, garlic, chillis, celery, carrots, chopped brussels sprouts, savoy cabbage, leek, 50g brown rice, 50g pearled barley and a mix of legumes that I'd soaked overnight (black eyed peas, cannellini beans, flageolot beans, green lentils and yellow split peas), spices and seasoning. It's almost thick enough to stand up a spoon in. Yum. Followed by a filter coffee with a dash of milk and one gingernut biscuit.
Dinner: Will be (MIL's) homemade shepherd's pie with carrots, brussels sprouts and peas. A modest portion because MIL has the appetite of a gnat and she always makes me feel like Jabba the Hutt if I eat even half my normal portion of food. One small glass of red wine to keep her happy. And maybe one pancake with a teaspoon of sugar and fresh lemon juice, but I may skip it and have some fruit when I get home instead.
That's my day planned out until bedtime...3 -
Inspiring planning and jelly at the quality!
I'm, for some strange reason, having my life choices questioned because I admitted to adding a couple of single bread slice sandwiches to my 453.8g (yes .2 more than a lb) of yellow and orange carrots and green beans with 103.3g of bratwurst which was the good kid base for the day
The culprits were constructed using two slices of bread that came in at 61g. One got 24.5g of hand crushed salt+vinegar potato chips (crisps) and the other got 32g of sour patch kids: sour then sweet! Place in one side of bread cut remainder and place on top.🤷♂️
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What happened to my breakfast post?!?!?!
"veggies made great" egg white frittatas from our good friends at Costco... 70 Cal per puck! I may have had more than one. Maybe even three. With a couple of hundred Cal of "wrapping" (thin on wrapping, thick on filling)... about 400 Cal breakfast! TAKE THAT ANTI SOUR PATCH KID MEANIES!2 -
Sour patch kids sandwich! 🥪 No will ever accuse PAV of having a sophisticated palate. Geez 🙄1
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Well the potato chips and the Sour patch kids were on different slices of bread you know! And they never touched! So I'm sure Connie would find them acceptable!!!!🤪🙉🫣
In other news the 24 g bags of chips are temporarily out of stock in my pantry, so no such single slice sandwiches are contemplated today!1 -
But - the potato chips touched the bread, and the Sour Patch kids touched the bread That is Connie comment worthy for sure. If you are reading these posts, Connie - I hope you are smiling
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No way Mr. PAV!1 -
You're saying I *SHOULD* get potato chips? And there I was being "a good kid" and using egg white frittata on my "single slice" sandwich-like today!
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Oh, Yooly! Your response is pretty perfect also.
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I've been pretty good about following my breakfast plan. Slight changes - as you suggested, Yooly, I'm opting for jam!!!!! on my toast beneath the cottage cheese. This is honestly starting to feel like cheesecake
A sprinkle of chopped walnuts on tops and clementines on the side with a cup of tea with milk. Pretty good. Don't always want it. Usually have to go beyond the "I'm not ready for all that" initial response. But most days it seems to be helping on stable eating.
Still have not - not once! - managed the planned evening snack of greek yogurt with berries and pumpkin seeds. Something in me is just such a "I'm not going to do anything I'm supposed to" brat.
Baby steps 2 -
For breakfast I had porridge made with jumbo oats, whole milk and water, with some defrosted blackberries and a teaspoon of sugar. Not exactly low-calorie, but delicious.
Lunch will be the last of the homemade vegetable soup....not yet decided on dinner.2 -
You're saying I *SHOULD* get potato chips? And there I was being "a good kid" and using egg white frittata on my "single slice" sandwich-like today!
There is just no winning with us, PAV Just imagine - Salt & Vinegar potato chip crumbs on an egg white frittata???? (can't even 
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My cousin likes to add broken up matza crackers to his scrambled eggs?
Maybe I'm just not with it????
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For breakfast:
Tea with milk, 2 clementines, 1 slice of organic pumpernickel with a layer of organic raspberry jam topped with 75 g of cottage cheese.
Getting all fancy this week with organic. Just so I could show it off to my mostly organic food eating younger son. Made him very happy
Has anyone noticed ... food prices have gone way up here - but not so much the organic food? They are getting much closer in price. A bottle of cheap-o ED Smith Triple fruit jam (spread) that I used to buy was 6.99 at the grocers a few weeks ago. Last weekend I was able to buy 2 smaller jars of organic (together probably very close in quanity to the larger jar of Triple Fruit) for $7.00
Surprising. All of it actually. The last time I bought the ED Smith Triple Fruit it was on sale for $2.99 ... it was a while back but not THAT long!2 -
I used to buy the PC blue menu meals in early 2020 at $2.99, less on sale. I saw the first $6.99 shelf price for them yesterday.
I also noticed that pop went up 10% yesterday too (+$0.7 per six pack.)
Wait for April 1 and all the tax increases!1 -
What's wrong with you Laurie? Why would you not put jalapeno crumbled crackers or chips on egg white frittatas?????? Salt and vinegar I personally would do for lunch or later but not breakfast! We have standards here you know!!!!!😎😝1
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Groceries have increased by about 25% across all categories here in the UK too since the pandemic.2
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What's wrong with you Laurie? Why would you not put jalapeno crumbled crackers or chips on egg white frittatas?????? Salt and vinegar I personally would do for lunch or later but not breakfast! We have standards here you know!!!!!😎😝
Maybe try easy chilaquiles? Scrambled eggs with crumbled tortilla chips, salsa ( preferably green) and a bit of cojita cheese.2
