Cooking Mishaps

caitlynd5
caitlynd5 Posts: 11 Member
edited November 29 in Food and Nutrition
Hi all

I'm back logging more accurately again after everything got me down a little. However, in an attempt to prevent food waste I have been kind of throwing meals together a bit more than I usually would, just to make sure I'm using everything. I'm the only vegan in the house and portion sizes are ridiculous so I either have to spend like a week eating the same thing to get through it, go way over calories by eating more in one or two meals, or letting it waste. Frustrating, so I'm trying to get a handle on that. For the past week or so that's worked really well. I write down the Best Before dates of any new food and pre-log to plan my meals using whatever I can.

Anyway - that blurb and background over with - tonight I've had a bit of a disaster with my evening meal in that it was too disgusting to eat properly (I take total responsibility for my lack of cooking expertise on this one haha) and so I only ate a small amount. So, I wanted to ask people here that if they make themselves a meal that they then can't eat - what do you do? Do you unlog what you didn't eat so you free up calories to make something else, or do you just treat it as extra calories to be used another time and not have another meal?

Thanks!

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  • Ruatine
    Ruatine Posts: 3,424 Member
    ^^ 100% this.

    It doesn't make sense to have things in my food diary that I didn't actually eat. Then when I'm looking back at my data, it won't be accurate. Plus, if I don't eat a meal when I was supposed to eat one, I'm more than likely going to be super hungry, which is counter-productive for me.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    I'd unlog for the reasons kimny said.

    Sometimes when I eat only half of something and save the rest for the next day I don't bother, but if I was just starting out and wanted to see patterns I'd probably adjust even that.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    I adjust my serving size to reflect what I've eaten and use the leftover calories on something else; either that day or another during the week.
  • caitlynd5
    caitlynd5 Posts: 11 Member
    Thanks all - what you're saying makes a lot of sense. I might still be slightly conservative with what I unlog (it had quinoa in a sauce, so difficult to address exact amounts eaten - I probably should start weighing the full bowl before I eat in case of further problems) and see if I fancy anything a bit more decent later on.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I agree with everyone else. I would expect my food diary to represent what I actually ate.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    I would not skip eating anything and keep food in my log that was not eaten.
    I would delete it, eat something else and log that unless the new food had almost exactly the same calories, protein, etc.

    If I were you I would look at having foods you could cook and freeze in individual portions so you don't have to eat the same thing every day or worry about it going bad so fast.
    Soup can be pretty easy to make, freeze and reheat. My family likes minestrone, tomato, lentil, fassolatha soups.
  • caitlynd5
    caitlynd5 Posts: 11 Member
    Cooking and freezing is a very good idea. I need to work on some tried and tested recipes that I can then 'scale up'. I'd hate to make a batch of something and then realise it wasn't very nice and be stuck with multiple portions of it afterwards.

    In the end, I wasn't super hungry afterwards, but did feel like a treat, so I used the calories for some ice cream and still kept my deficit without feeling like I'd lost out.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    I would not skip eating anything and keep food in my log that was not eaten.
    I would delete it, eat something else and log that unless the new food had almost exactly the same calories, protein, etc.

    If I were you I would look at having foods you could cook and freeze in individual portions so you don't have to eat the same thing every day or worry about it going bad so fast.
    Soup can be pretty easy to make, freeze and reheat. My family likes minestrone, tomato, lentil, fassolatha soups.

    This was going to be my suggestion too. Cook whatever you want and then single serving freeze things (I actually make the recipes larger than called for to be able to do this). It can be such a time saver to have grab and go meals that are already in the tracker, and you don't have to keep eating the same thing for days on end.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Another vote for freezing. And always getting the total weight of the cooked dish :)

    I'm curious - what made your quinoa inedible?
  • Cbean08
    Cbean08 Posts: 1,092 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Another vote for freezing. And always getting the total weight of the cooked dish :)

    I'm curious - what made your quinoa inedible?

    Probably the fact that it was quinoa...
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Cbean08 wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Another vote for freezing. And always getting the total weight of the cooked dish :)

    I'm curious - what made your quinoa inedible?

    Probably the fact that it was quinoa...

    That was my thought, but I held back.
  • caitlynd5
    caitlynd5 Posts: 11 Member
    I'm not sure what happened to it as it is usually pretty nice but it was very, very gritty and within the sauce just gave it the strangest texture. It had been cooked for the right amount of time, but yeah, don't know what went on with it.
  • missysippy930
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    Log everything I eat and don’t eat things I don’t like. If I take a bite and don’t like it, I throw it. Too few calories to waste on something I don’t like. Lesson learned and never make it again. That actually happened the first time I had quinoa. Sorry, taste, texture, and appearance all bad to me.
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