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Calories Abroad

pandagirlshonerd
pandagirlshonerd Posts: 50 Member
edited March 4 in Food and Nutrition
I'm really struggling to eat anywhere near enough food here because managing the Chinese dinners is very difficult for me and I don't want to eat the meat. Any ideas? :/

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  • IvyLuci
    IvyLuci Posts: 117 Member
    Where are you exactly? Do you have access to any shops where you could buy some food? Is eating out your only option? is the problem with meat because of ethics, texture, taste?
  • pandagirlshonerd
    pandagirlshonerd Posts: 50 Member
    I'm in China. I can eat meals at the school I work with or I can buy my own food. Fruit needs to be bought every few days (it doesn't keep in the heat) and is expensive just here so it's not always an option to buy as a snack. Especially as the fruit stall is a long walk from here (great exercise I know but I don't wanna be out after dark and I work all day - and it's far from my workplace too). The problem with the meat is they way they treat it - it's left out in the sun and uncovered for a good part of a day. It's also not always bled and I don't want to eat the blood.

    There are shops where I can buy food near my home, but they consist of biscuits and packaged noodles. A packet of crisps if you're lucky. Not proper food. The supermarket is really far from here so I can only do one big shop a week, where I buy rice and veg. The problem is that I eat so much and I am full but the calorie intake is not enough.
  • abadvat
    abadvat Posts: 1,241 Member
    Meal prep ahead of time! During your weekly shop buy enough for all week, cook everything and freeze your portions for the rest of the week.
    Enough meet, fish, vegetables and what not - prep your tupperware for the rest of the week and add rice or pasta on the day?
  • pandagirlshonerd
    pandagirlshonerd Posts: 50 Member
    This is so bad but the freezer in the apartment doesn't work ... otherwise yeah, a big cook once a week would be great. The fridge barely keeps things cool. I should be moving in about two weeks to a much more modern city (basically my emotional needs cannot cope here) which will be easier - so if you can provide planning tips for high calorie meals that are HEALTHY it'd be great...
  • abadvat
    abadvat Posts: 1,241 Member
    Canned occidental food available? Legumes, tuna, PAM + rice and some sort of veg?
  • pandagirlshonerd
    pandagirlshonerd Posts: 50 Member
    None of them have caught my eye to date, but I'll try and look around a lot harder for it.
  • abadvat
    abadvat Posts: 1,241 Member
    Otherwise settle for a 2 weeks of home made rice, broccoli (or other veg) and eggs fried rice kinda thing?
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