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MoRiv1986
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What healthy Korean foods do you eat? If you are a teacher, do you eat the school lunch with the other teachers? Has your weight gone down since living in Korea?
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Hi Monique, School lunches are a good way to go for me. The portions are controlled by the servers, so I won't go overboard because of my eyes being too big. I only eat half of the rice. For a long time I felt guilty about leaving food behind. Recently, they started offering half-full bowls of rice, so I don't have that struggle anymore! Apparently I wasn't the only one wanting to cut down on the rice at lunch. I feel for the rice farmers though. They are already having a tough time surviving against all the white bread that has taken over the national diet.
Most of the "namuls" will be good choices and you could ask for seconds of those with no harm done. That group includes spinach and anything green and leafy...they all look alike to me but the experienced cooks know one from the other. :-) Most of the soups are healthy, so no worries there. It is some of the other side dishes that can be a problem. The lotus root and black beans and burdock get coated with corn syrup so the beneficial effect of the vegetables is rather obliterated by the sauce. :-( And of course, you can always double up on the kimchee- It's good for you. :flowerforyou:
My school has lots of stairs so that is a workout in itself. So do the subways. That enforced exercise helps. So does avoiding the heavy alcohol scene that is so common in Korea.
Keep up the good work. You can do it!
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What healthy Korean foods do you eat? If you are a teacher, do you eat the school lunch with the other teachers? Has your weight gone down since living in Korea?
Most Korean foods are pretty healthy. I skip out on something if I see lots of oil floating on it (bulgogi, some soups) or fried. At my school, the teachers load up their own food from a buffet style area. I've been keeping things as healthy as I can.
These are pics of my daily lunch: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201080691445213.1073741826.1406292706&type=1&l=185d7662ed
If you don't know what you're eating, these are typical Korean foods: http://www.trifood.com/food.asp
These are typical sides: http://www.trifood.com/banchan.asp0 -
My school has lots of stairs so that is a workout in itself. So do the subways. That enforced exercise helps. So does avoiding the heavy alcohol scene that is so common in Korea.
I completely agree. Except my city doesn't have subways so I walk a lot!0 -
What healthy Korean foods do you eat? If you are a teacher, do you eat the school lunch with the other teachers? Has your weight gone down since living in Korea?
Most Korean foods are pretty healthy. I skip out on something if I see lots of oil floating on it (bulgogi, some soups) or fried. At my school, the teachers load up their own food from a buffet style area. I've been keeping things as healthy as I can.
These are pics of my daily lunch: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201080691445213.1073741826.1406292706&type=1&l=185d7662ed
If you don't know what you're eating, these are typical Korean foods: http://www.trifood.com/food.asp
These are typical sides: http://www.trifood.com/banchan.asp
It looks like some days you skip the rice. I just eat a small amount of rice, just a couple of tablespoons full, on most days, except for Wednesdays.0 -
It looks like some days you skip the rice. I just eat a small amount of rice, just a couple of tablespoons full, on most days, except for Wednesdays.
Indeed I do - especially if there is already another starch (rice cake, noodles, potato, soup with potato/noodle) in the meal somewhere.0
