Nearly a thousand calories in a dinner largely 'just' from vegetables
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nooboots
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My tea tonight is a microwaved pot of cabbage 280g, 400g of pre prepared roasting vegetables, 80g of feta and olive mix, 100g of pickled beetroot and a handful of cherry tomatoes. I put 25g of grated cheese over the roasted veg.
Years ago I wouldnt have even considered the calories in that because its 'healthy'.
It will fill me up physically but I know that I will remain feeling 'empty' through the night. Im dreading it.
And Im dreading the resultant wind!
Years ago I wouldnt have even considered the calories in that because its 'healthy'.
It will fill me up physically but I know that I will remain feeling 'empty' through the night. Im dreading it.
And Im dreading the resultant wind!
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Why eat it then if you're dreading it?
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Why eat it then if you're dreading it?
Because my plan was to eat one of the veggie sides with a burger or some chicken. But then i realised they both need using up, so thought I would have them both with a burger but then realised I cant 'afford' a piece of protein with them.
Never mind.
Anyway Im halfway through it now.3 -
Well, I hate to waste food too, but I hate overeating more, and that's what happens when I don't get enough protein.
I try to plan well so as to not waste food.
This doesn't apply to you, but just did a food pantry donation today so it's on my mind: when I have excess produce in the garden, I give it away on a facebook group, on freecycle, or to the food pantry.
When I'm testing new recipes, my neighbors help me eat the excess. I also bring leftovers to my brother on the weekends.
When all else fails, I have my composter. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B077972KCR/9 -
My tea tonight is a microwaved pot of cabbage 280g, 400g of pre prepared roasting vegetables, 80g of feta and olive mix, 100g of pickled beetroot and a handful of cherry tomatoes. I put 25g of grated cheese over the roasted veg.
Years ago I wouldnt have even considered the calories in that because its 'healthy'.
It will fill me up physically but I know that I will remain feeling 'empty' through the night. Im dreading it.
And Im dreading the resultant wind!
I am curious as to what the breakdown of calories is in this to equal almost 1000? do the preprepared vegetables have a lot of butter or oil in them?9 -
If you're dreading it, I'm sure the leftovers will be fine overnight??3
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I suppose they must have. The cabbage says it has butter in the ingredients but I couldnt really discern any.
The roasted veg didnt appear very oily but did have oil in the ingredients.
My point was really about the fact that its easy to assume that because they are non starchy veg (cabbage, courgette, peppers, onion) they hardly count. Years ago I wouldnt have considered the intake from them but now I do. Obviously olives and feta are slightly more substantial but they didnt make up the most of the calories.2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »If you're dreading it, I'm sure the leftovers will be fine overnight??
What leftovers?0 -
Since when does cabbage have butter? 😑4
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pancakerunner wrote: »If you're dreading it, I'm sure the leftovers will be fine overnight??
What leftovers?
I guess I don't understand what you are looking for with this post.4 -
Oh, well that's the difference. If you use fresh veg and oil and season yourself then it's not nearly as caloric. I think that's what confused me about your post but it makes sense now.7 -
Oh, well that's the difference. If you use fresh veg and oil and season yourself then it's not nearly as caloric. I think that's what confused me about your post but it makes sense now.
Yes, i was surprised myself at them as to look at them, they're not drenched in fats or oils to the eye. My point was just about how you must count everything and not assume that just because they are fairly watery veg that there wont be a lot of calories in them.1 -
That's a lot of veggies, over a pound and a half. And what, maybe $3? I certainly wouldn't overeat and run the risk of GI discomfort over a couple of bucks. But hey, to each his own.1
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The idea of eating a food you’re dreading, that will not satiate you, and that will cause you digestive upset is really puzzling to me. I generally don’t advocate throwing out food, but I can’t see why you’d eat it and make yourself miserable. Life is too short for that.11
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It is a waste to throw away good food, I know.
But it is also a waste to eat food you don't want or like, especially if that then results in going over calories or not being able to eat foods that fit your needs better.5 -
Shows us that anything, even veggies, can be high calorie depending on how it’s prepared, and what’s on top of it. Preparing it ourselves, we can really control calorie count.4
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OP Says she is dreading the resulting wind, not the pile of veg which on reading I thought sounded like a fab dinner ! I do love roast veg !
To your point OP, I would say the biggest change in eating for me from being right lardy to being 40lb less so is my use of of olive oil and butter. I have gone froms sploshing it around / slapping it on toast as I fancy to measuring / weighing it. I know fat is fat but somewhere along the line, I think I thought EVOO was somehow better but that stuff is just as calorific despite being all sorts of yummy !!
Finally, when faced with a pile of veg, I eat as much as poss and then keep the leftovers for bubble and squeak the next day - any veg will do ! Or it goes into a blender with veg or chicken stock to become soup (probably the better option).
Thanks for sharing OP - I think its a good reminder to be mindful about pre-prepared food.3 -
Prepackaged foods are just not worth it, in my opinion. Even the most novice of cooks can roast veggies successfully.3
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I think I see OP's POV in that I just don't think it's that big a deal to force oneself to eat leftovers you aren't super excited about to avoid waste. Often I can find ways to get myself more excited about them, however. If OP feels like he/she will be hungry all evening or feel bad, that's different, but for me eating a slightly less filling dinner on one night is not going to be a big thing -- last night I had a leftover homemade cold vegetable soup (which I was excited about) and since I didn't have anything obvious to go with it and thought it wouldn't be that filling on its own (it was low cal), but I didn't feel like shopping or significant cooking, I just had some roasted potatoes. Not an ideal dinner in terms of protein, but satisfying enough (I think it ended up being less than 400 cal in this case, however). (I also agree that it can be common for people not used to calorie counting to just assume a "healthy" meal, like a salad or something veg-based, can't be high cal.)
(I also found that an easy way to cut cals in my own cooking was just using less olive oil or other added fats (not none), so in agreement with OoohToast on that one.)3
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