food discovery :)

groovy_chic47
groovy_chic47 Posts: 14 Member
edited December 2 in Food and Nutrition
Discovered how much I love fresh green beans and sugar snap peas today :) amazing on a hot day they are so sweet and refreshing and crisp! Not to mention super low calorie and packed with great vitamins :)

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  • GuineaKitty
    GuineaKitty Posts: 97 Member
    I felt the same way discovering eggplant and zucchini. The squash family rocks.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I've always been large on vegetables, but before I started dieting I never had oatmeal. The first time I tried it I became addicted. What a versatile filling and delicious grain!
  • groovy_chic47
    groovy_chic47 Posts: 14 Member
    Yeah oatmeal is amazing perfect morning meal! And @guineakitty I am not huge into those veggies but I also don't know a good way to prepare them....I do love squash and sweet potatoes alot :)
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,235 Member
    I recently had an unusual 'food combo' discovery. Watermelon sprinkled with feta cheese. Sounds so weird, but it's so good. The recipe I found actually has a basalmic reduction drizzled on it, which also tastes amazing with it, but after the first time making it I've just been too lazy to do that part again. Just dicing the watermelon and sprinkling the cheese is so much quicker. lol
  • BigTandthesquatters
    BigTandthesquatters Posts: 151 Member
    FRUITS and VEGETABLES.
    So when I started this whole thing someone gave me this recipe. I make it at least twice a week during the summer. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/trisha-yearwood/watermelon-salsa-recipe.html
  • pebble4321
    pebble4321 Posts: 1,132 Member
    Cherry tomatoes are one of my favourite snacks...they feel like a treat but are full of goodness and are very low in cals for something so yummy.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    Sugar pod peas are amazing right off of the vine. Also good in stir-fry, obviously. Right now I have a ton of them in the garden...should get out some hummus or homemade yogurt ranch and chow down.
  • Hell_Flower
    Hell_Flower Posts: 348 Member
    Flat peaches and Spanish cherries are serving me life on a platter right now
  • Wolfena
    Wolfena Posts: 1,570 Member
    I love sugar snap peas!!!!

    Green beans are ok too :)
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I have discovered that food, real food, just taste MORE, after I stopped eating too much "junk" (which actually just taste "more-ish") and started to aim for variety. I feel crazy sometimes. Milk can taste like ice cream, the first bite of steak has strong hints of caramel, black rye bread tastes like cake, vegetables don't taste bitter anymore, I can taste the ocean when I eat fsih and seafood, and I'm sure some of those melons and plums are "laced".
  • dutchandkiwi
    dutchandkiwi Posts: 1,389 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    I have discovered that food, real food, just taste MORE, after I stopped eating too much "junk" (which actually just taste "more-ish") and started to aim for variety. I feel crazy sometimes. Milk can taste like ice cream, the first bite of steak has strong hints of caramel, black rye bread tastes like cake, vegetables don't taste bitter anymore, I can taste the ocean when I eat fsih and seafood, and I'm sure some of those melons and plums are "laced".

    I agree. I have noticed that things I like and what more-ish is also changes over time. I can still go gaga over a great dark chocolate mousse now and again, as long is it is not too sweet. I have gone off the ones with milk chocolate Just too sickly sweet for me.
    As for any vegetable; they are now totally morish.

    On a side note I used to assemble a meal around the chosen meat/protein source. These days I assemble it around my chosen vegetable.
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