Is calorie counting hard?

I love making soups in crock pot.

Here is my vegie soup recipe - cut up aprox even amounts of carrot, leek, celery, potato into small pieces, enough to 3/4 fill crock pot - cook in slow cooker in vegie stock or chicken stock (I just use stock cubes, about 3 or 4) when cooked add 2 tins of creamed corn, mash with hand held mixer.

Too easy!

Some one mentioned bacon

I have a potato and bacon one too.

Cut up potato, onion and leek - aprox double potato to onion/leek ratio, also about 1 cup of diced bacon pieces. Cook in stock until soft enough to mash, mash with hand held mixer, then add one container of light sour cream.

While I'm at it, I'll add my pumpkin soup one.

Cut up butternut pumpkin and potato aprox 3:2 pumpkin to potato ratio, also 2 large onions and one large carrot - cook in stock until soft enough to mash, mash with hand held mixer, then add 2 tins of creamed corn and one container of light sour cream also turmeric and paprika to taste.

My one "can't control myself food" is milanos. You knowm those cookies Peppridge Farm makes. I have a huge sweet tooth, and I keep a variety of sweets around so I don't go crazy and eat a whole cake; when they're always available I can portion them out. But milanos simply cannot be in my possession without eating all of them. Sometimes I buy those tiny packs of three of them, but that's it.

If we're sharing crockpot recpies, here are some of my favorites, although not all of them are particularly healthy.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/campbells-golden-chicken-with-noodles/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-dump-and-go-cheesy-chicken/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-taco-filling/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-beef-and-potato-curry/detail.aspx

I also know a macaroni and cheese recipe I can make in a slow cooker, and it's divine, but I have no link to it.

My one "can't control myself food" is milanos. You knowm those cookies Peppridge Farm makes. I have a huge sweet tooth, and I keep a variety of sweets around so I don't go crazy and eat a whole cake; when they're always available I can portion them out. But milanos simply cannot be in my possession without eating all of them. Sometimes I buy those tiny packs of three of them, but that's it.

If we're sharing crockpot recpies, here are some of my favorites, although not all of them are particularly healthy.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/campbells-golden-chicken-with-noodles/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-dump-and-go-cheesy-chicken/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-taco-filling/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-beef-and-potato-curry/detail.aspx

I also know a macaroni and cheese recipe I can make in a slow cooker, and it's divine, but I have no link to it.

OMG, do I love milanos too. They are the bestest ever cookies, ever, and I don’t even like cookies that much. TO DIE FOR.

Moar kitteh massages, while I wait for that crockpot sweet and sour chicken to cook and calculate the recipe. Nom.

:sad: :brokenheart:

I have to call vet in the AM for my sweet kitty. Last night when I was petting him I felt a lump on his side. I'll be stressing out like crazy until she can see him.

My little schmoobear

Awe, I hope it is nothing. I bet it will be nothing.

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

Once you let HLB into your heart, she never truly leaves.

So sad the original topic was closed. I was really hoping for a 5th roll.

I think I'm having thread roll over withdrawal symptoms. :sad:

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

Once you let HLB into your heart, she never truly leaves.

Wow skimming through this one, completely missed she wandered over to this one.

So seriously, orgies are a bad topic, and that is what took down an epic thread. If dirty pictures were not posted, what is the issue. We are all adults and have the ability to not read a thread if we don't want to. I had a few on my FL that kept seeming upset that the thread was still going.....didn't get it because you can ignore it, just like If something you don't like is on tv you can choose not to watch it.

So, seriously... I was joking about the orgy references. Yes, somebody said something about orgies, but the comments were very, very tame. I'm sure the thread was axed for some other reason... perhaps for public posting of private contact information, which is against the Community Guidelines. There were references to OP's accounts on other sites, which count as private contact information according to the CGs... and aside from that, OP was very free with personal details of who she was, where she worked, who her friend was, and so on... I think that with a moderate amount of digging, it would have been possible to locate her physically at a given time. And that's just not a good thing for her, and the MFP community is right to be concerned over that. Is she still so exposed now -- maybe so, on other sites, but not so much here.

Your friends may have been some of those with more experience on the MFP boards who remember a thread not unlike this one. A young MFP user was caught in multiple untruths and distortions, along with a great deal of oversharing... and in the process of debunking the insanity, her identity was exposed. The thread had many hilarious turns... and many warnings from individuals saying Hey, this is going in a direction that could be unsafe for the user in question. And eventually the thread was nuked. None of the usual lock with explanation from mods... just nuked. Like this one was.

So that's my best guess. And if the mods nuked the thread in an effort to protect someone's identity, I say cheers to the mods. :drinker: Even the wildest, most disagreeable MFP users are still real people on the other end... even if they're not the people they say they are.

Goodnight, Sunshines!

So naturally, the only logical thing to do was come to this thread, the OP of which has expressly requested the cat gifs be posted... and complain about people posting cat gifs.

While I considered the irony before posting, I would say this is an over simplification of what I did. I mean, come on. Your post theorizing on why the thread was shut down was three times as long as mine. I'm not allowed to do the same?

I'll read your links, hopefully they explain something I hadn't considered about bandwidth. I still maintain that the gifs took the thread way off topic (deliberately) and made it seem like it had run its course. But of course, the mods offered no explanation for their nuke so we'll likely never know

That just made me smile in the one place where smiling is hard: at work when the general system is acting up!!

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

this just had me crying laughing at my desk here at work lol