Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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@PAV8888 - unfortunately, it was - tasted metallic! G*d knows why? I didn’t add sugar and was bland despite parmigiana & loads of ‘erbs!
Hate cr*ppy food! Tacos not my thing either! High calories for not very much! ….Though some good recipes on internet for what seems like actual Mexican style tacos ….. so watch this space!
We did street tacos the other day and they were pretty good. I had done up some pork al pastor (sauce is based on a pureed can of chipotles in adobo) and my partners had that in their tacos, while I had some carne asada I'd made and frozen. Warmed them on the griddle, laid a pinch of shredded mozzarella between two, and added warm meat, finely diced fresh onion, and some lightly dried cilantro, with a squeeze of lime, and it was highly tasty.
We're eating a lot of Mexican this summer but my partners like the heat and the flavor profile, and it doesn't sit heavy which is nice in hot weather. I can't even think about pasta.
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Rotisserie style pork loin with corn and green beans and sweet potato casserole for dinner tonight.
I tired a turkey sausage breakfast bowl this morning. Not to bad and I was able to make it until dinner with a light snack.
I am obsessed with smart pop popcorn. The mini bags are only 100 calories and it’s a great size for a night snack with a cappuccino (70 calories).3 -
I tried s new recipe tonight. Spaghetti squash with bacon and spinach and goat cheese. Delicious!4
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Alexandra... are you going to be cooking for son too?!
Connie.... that sounds touching in a very non touching way!
Me and food today.... NOT INSPIRED
--lean cuisine chicken parmigiana 330 (a waste of even the $1.34 [0.89 Euro, or US$1 it ended up costing me after considering all sales ($1.99), and points (30% of price) and credit card points (another 3%)]
--lean cuisine four cheese cannelloni 230
--pc butter chicken 440
--pc butter chicken without the rice 240
--250g cauliflower rice 63
So.... ~1300 Cal "richer" and ~$10 "poorer"... and "quality" challenged! (supplemented with rondnoir, yoplait 0%, oikos 0%, some nature path granola and all bran cereal, and a cliff bar or two to bring it up to ~2700 maintenance) -- need to go find some bunnies!!!
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This thread is my favourite - so many different dinners! We (grandson and I) had a pretty simple dinner "Green" soup, scrambled eggs, grape tomatoes and popcorn. Since I've given up bread - don't have it in the house anymore, and am trying to go light on crackers so we've added popcorn to our soup meals. He hasn't noticed there is no toast anymore! lol And it's fun. Start the popper about the same time as the eggs and he knows when dinner is just about ready!
Nothing even touches in this meal, Connie! Though it is a bit of a oddball combination.2 -
"Green" soup, scrambled eggs, grape tomatoes and popcorn.[/quote]
?!?!? eggs: check; tomatoes: check!; smartpop: check (bags in house).... Vat is dat "green" Zoop? <-- do I have something I might sell Dad... or Connie (since nothing is touching!)1 -
I am betting I won’t like “ green soup”…. And here I am still up when I want to get up early to beat the heat and work in the garage on throwing away junk!3
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lol...I make soup almost every week and have gotten a bit bored - so I tried colour coding it for awhile.
Green soup is all green things with a green pea soup base (split green peas). Spinach, broccoli, edamame beans, green peppers, sometimes brussel sprouts, kale, zuchini ??? whatever green stuff you got! Surprisingly, this has turned into a favourite. Sometimes, for a bit of excitement, I'll top it with a few spoonfuls of finely diced bell peppers. Woohoo!
It is late, I've been chasing around with a 5 year old all day (swimming too, Connie!), I'm must be getting giddy because I'm pretty excited about "dat green zoop"
Night night everyone. 3 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Sometimes, for a bit of excitement, I'll top it with a few spoonfuls of finely diced bell peppers. Woohoo! Night night everyone.
Nigh-night early morning Laurie and Connie! Sleep tight and don't let the bed-bugs bite!
Are the finely diced bell peppers green?!?!? (or are they yellow, orange, red?), just wondering 'cause you also mentioned that the soup contains green peppers!!!
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lauriekallis wrote: »Sometimes, for a bit of excitement, I'll top it with a few spoonfuls of finely diced bell peppers. Woohoo! Night night everyone.
Nigh-night early morning Laurie and Connie! Sleep tight and don't let the bed-bugs bite!
Are the finely diced bell peppers green?!?!? (or are they yellow, orange, red?), just wondering 'cause you also mentioned that the soup contains green peppers!!!
The finely diced are whatever colour you like - just had to break the rules. Fresh crispy diced pepper is a entirely different animal - so they could be just green...and maybe some chives? or green onion and be a green purist? Red for Christmas? orange for Halloween?!! Yellow for Sunshine day?????2 -
Nope, I would not like it!1
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lauriekallis wrote: »finely diced are whatever colour you like - just had to break the rules. Fresh crispy diced pepper is a entirely different animal - so they could be just green...and maybe some chives? or green onion and be a green purist? Red for Christmas? orange for Halloween?!! Yellow for Sunshine day?????
Well it is a green canvas! Can't you make these anything you want?!?!?
And CONNIE: there is no DISLIKE available when it comes to "dat green zoop"
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I make soup…..NORMAL soup like chili with kidney beans,ground beef and tomato sauce….I make bean soup with plain navy beans or 15 bean soup mix,ham, and water or broth in it!…I have made vegetable soup with mixed vegetables, cabbage and tomatoe juice…I make chicken noodle soup with chicken and noodles and broth in it!….kale, spinach and unidentified green objects do not belong in soup ....I also use bottled water if I put water in it….and I don’t make my own broth or stock….Swansons does that for me!…do you all use a cauldron for these brews and mysterious concoctions?……lol….oh well, I love you both anyway!1
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Alexandra... are you going to be cooking for son too?
At this point, only dinners. He will pack a cold lunch, though I may help with that, and will probably get breakfast during his commute from a fast-food place.
I sent him the menu for the next five weeks and he said he only disliked Friday and Saturday nights. But he'll be making good enough money that if what he wants Friday night is to just stop and pick something up on the way home, he can, or order a pizza when he gets here. And weekends he plans to go up and help Mom with her yard and such since her back is bad, and so he'll probably be eating Saturday dinner at her house anyway. Otherwise, he said he was up for it.
Tonight is grilled fish for Boyfriend and pizza for me and Girlfriend.
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My son had a big fall today and cracked his head. We are on concussion watch. So he got to pick dinner tonight. He wanted stacked enchiladas (some weird meal my best friend makes when he is at her house). I was able to reduce the amount of stuff on it and stay well without my calories. In fact it wasn’t that bad at all.
Corn tortillas
Layered with retried beans. Taco meat, enchilada sauce, shredded cheese and topped with a fried egg.3 -
HoMy son had a big fall today and cracked his head. We are on concussion watch. So he got to pick dinner tonight. He wanted stacked enchiladas (some weird meal my best friend makes when he is at her house). I was able to reduce the amount of stuff on it and stay well without my calories. In fact it wasn’t that bad at all.
Corn tortillas
Layered with retried beans. Taco meat, enchilada sauce, shredded cheese and topped with a fried egg.
Hope your son is ok….your dinner sounds great except for that egg on top!…1 -
You kids are quiet today!
I declare that COSTCO is EVIL.
There.
I said it.
But they did supply me with my newest bag of candy: dried strawberries!!!
40g = 130 Cal.
87g down, within 3 hours.
Since dried fruit counts double... that's a full TWO BUNNIES
So well on my way towards my 5 a day minimum while aiming for 10 bunnies soft goal!
Dinner 52.2% to me:
249g (so just about 600 Cal) of farmer sausages!
102g eggs
22g cooked rice from yesterday's third frozen Indian entrée
400g cooked cauli rice. I'll have to check if the bags are 1lb or 500g ones frozen
247g carrots
164g red peppers
68g green onions
7g freeze dried garlic
109g Sera Red Pepper paste
2g oil
Still have to run the numbers!2 -
You kids are quiet today!
I declare that COSTCO is EVIL.
There.
I said it.
But they did supply me with my newest bag of candy: dried strawberries!!!
40g = 130 Cal.
87g down, within 3 hours.
Since dried fruit counts double... that's a full TWO BUNNIES
So well on my way towards my 5 a day minimum while aiming for 10 bunnies soft goal!
Dinner 52.2% to me:
249g (so just about 600 Cal) of farmer sausages!
102g eggs
22g cooked rice from yesterday's third frozen Indian entrée
400g cooked cauli rice. I'll have to check if the bags are 1lb or 500g ones frozen
247g carrots
164g red peppers
68g green onions
7g freeze dried garlic
109g Sera Red Pepper paste
2g oil
Still have to run the numbers!
Nuts.com also sells dried strawberries, and lots of other dried fruits.
(They also sell dark chocolate covered candied ginger to which I am shamefully addicted. I love ginger anyway.)4 -
I have been inside a Costco 3 times in my entire life!….never in a Sams Club……I am missing a lot of stuff in my life!….the dried strawberries and the chocolate ginger sound great….I wonder if you could air fry strawberries?…..1
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Introducing the words "chocolate covered" would be counter to the reason behind the otherwise asinine purchase of NON chocolate covered items!!! Of course everything is better with chocolate, especially candied ginger... and orange peel... and nuts.... and sugary almond paste... and.... sorry, where were we again?!
113g of dried strawberries.. they now equal the calories of my share of the farmer's sausage!1 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »I make soup…..NORMAL soup like chili with kidney beans,ground beef and tomato sauce….I make bean soup with plain navy beans or 15 bean soup mix,ham, and water or broth in it!…I have made vegetable soup with mixed vegetables, cabbage and tomatoe juice…I make chicken noodle soup with chicken and noodles and broth in it!….kale, spinach and unidentified green objects do not belong in soup ....I also use bottled water if I put water in it….and I don’t make my own broth or stock….Swansons does that for me!…do you all use a cauldron for these brews and mysterious concoctions?……lol….oh well, I love you both anyway!
OMG Connie! Chili is like, a STEW, not a SOUP!!! Chunky guy: eat with fork! Nothing NORMAL about chili SOUP!
On the other hand... 
is perfectly normal! Built in MFP forum software too! 1 -
I think I am going to make chili tomorrow night for dinner….should be great on a 90 degree + day!….I might make cornbread with it because I am going to have a lot of extra calories tomorrow….getting up early to work in the garage again and then bike day at the pool and long swim session if the rain holds off!….
Have you all tried the chocolate hummus yet?….walnuts mixed in it tastes like fudge!….
I wish I knew how to post pictures on here with from my I- pad…..I don’t have a cell phone…can you believe that?…I have had them but I never used it so I got rid of it!….2 -
Tonight I am making fish tacos. First time making them actually. Going to serve them with a sour cream based sauce, cabbage and corn slaw, and avocado on corn tortillas. Excited to try them.
Now I have to go peeve off the cat by giving him his meds (he has been ill). If you never see me again, it's because he defeated me. Have a healthy dinner in my memory LMAO.5 -
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Last night was chicken tikka Marsala from scratch OH’s speciality! Tonight Is our crop of home grown spuds! Not many as I didn’t pull up the grow bags or add more soil 🙄😬 …. Going to make a cheese sauce & onion kind of thing with ‘erbs! Might be good, might be a Jan disaster!4
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Today's lunch was pulled pork sandwiches which is very fast to fix after I get done hunting and gathering at the grocery store. (smile) Tonight is General Tso's Pork with rice and mixed Asian vegetables from a frozen packet. We like pork better than chicken in this dish. And I make it with sucralose so it's easier on all of us.4
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@conniewilkins56 for adding photos find the camera icon on the post & search for photo that you took with iPad, can add multiple photos. There are other ways but this is the easiest.
Chocolate hummus with walnuts = fudge, now I'm over the edge & need to get / make some, recipe seemed pretty straight forward with food processor.
Costco meat, seafood & cheese are excellent quality + lower gas prices are worth cost of membership in my opinion.
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Just buy Sabra chocolate hummus already made and put walnuts in it!…..so good!….@conniewilkins56 for adding photos find the camera icon on the post & search for photo that you took with iPad, can add multiple photos. There are other ways but this is the easiest.
Chocolate hummus with walnuts = fudge, now I'm over the edge & need to get / make some, recipe seemed pretty straight forward with food processor.
Costco meat, seafood & cheese are excellent quality + lower gas prices are worth cost of membership in my opinion.
I will try the photo thingy….thank you!
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My chili and cornbread are going to be delicious and I deserve and earned every bite today!….over 1000 calories burned in exercise riding bike at the gym, shopping, and swimming for over an hour!3
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I'm alive! Though I am about to have to do it all over again for his second dose.
Also, I now have 2 sick cats. So I am taking tomorrow off so I can stay home with them. Fridays are my in office day and they won't let me work from home. Really pisses me off. Luckily I have the time.
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