Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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remainder of Brocoli chicken noodle soup and yogurt with light cherry pie filling... and then we'll see where we go from there2
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Have you been holding out on us, PAV? How can you have the remainder of broccoli chicken noodle soup if you haven't yet "had" the beginning of said soup??????3
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well I did eat something more than just bread and butter pickles (and onions) yesterday! I don't see a post detailing things though! I did split a broccoli and chicken soup with chinese noodles and container of greek yogurt with light cherry pie filling between the two days. Both in terms of logging and actual eating. Actually eating the soup now. And planning on the yogurt later!3
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Tonight we had baked ravioli. I have nice little individual casserole dishes so everyone gets what they want. Son doesn't like alfredo. I don't like seafood much. Boyfriend adores seafood. Girlfriend likes alfredo and won't eat marinara due to the tomatoes.
But since I have the little casserole dishes, Boyfriend and Girlfriend can have crab ravioli in alfredo sauce. And Son and I had beef ravioli in marinara sauce. The dishes only hold about six ravioli, so it really is a rational portion. I should take a picture, but every time we have it we all fall on it like starving wolves or something and there's nothing left but a little burnt cheese on the edges of the casserole dishes and the occasional smear of sauce.
This is, by the way, entirely jarred sauce with premade ravioli and preshredded mozzarella. Don't be thinking I spent all day making ravioli. (grin)5 -
Certainly sounds amazing, Alexandra! Any word on surgery???3
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Missed you Alexandra!3
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Last night I finished off the egg fried rice and the chicken/mushroom/zucchini/cashew stir fry.
Tonight I am making kielbasa, fried potatos and onions, and a vegetable of some sort but I don't remember what and my planner is too far away at the moment for me to check.4 -
I'm trying a Tahini Chicken salad with Napa cabbage tonight. The recipe is in a South Beach cookbook I have. Though I don't have plain greek yogurt, so I'm subbing in sour cream and a little cream cheese for the dressing base. I'll add some roasted carrot sticks in to go with.4
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The last of the leftover Christmas turkey, defrosted and made into a curry with yellow peppers, peas, onions, dried apricots and cherry tomatoes, with saffron rice on the side. Yum.
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I have been out shopping most of the day….I had a horrible Egg McMuffin early this morning, some almonds and that’s it….baked beans and a couple of deli chicken legs for dinner….I bought some cherry pie filling but couldn’t find the lighter kind….this has 90 calories in 1/3 c. So I won’t get very much!….3
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Oh nooooooo Connie! Egg McMuffins are supposed to be most eggxcellent NOT horrible! What went wrong???
And.... well... an alternative to light cherry pie filling would be just frozen cherries or frozen wild blueberries (because they's small and thaw fast!) The calories on the regular pie filling are... horrible!!!
Oh no. I am now feeling guilty for prompting you to get it!
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Alexandra, it may have been "ready made"; but you did make it all special!
@Athijade and @bmeadows380 these do sound like special meals! I admit to being sometimes "afraid" to play with more calorically dense items because my "eyes" are almost never full. But, then again, after eating something calorically dense and giving it some time to settle, it often does work out for me in spite of the smaller visual quantity!
Garfield this looked beautiful enough that I want some!
I started the day with a piece of "toast" (32g white bread) and 19g old cheddar slice and 32g of sweet pickled onions... all adding up to just under 200 Cal!
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Oh yes, sign me up for pickled onions for breakfast!….NOT!….
I don’t like Egg McMuffins but it was the lowest item in calories I could find….I was in a rush and knew I better eat something before I went shopping…I knew I wasn’t going to like it before I ate it and then it was mushy!….turned out that the store was out of so many things I had on my list….I can’t find my Fiber one cookies any place…we ate dinner early because I hadn’t had much to eat all day…..the chicken I was so looking forward to was the size of a fat Bluejay….I swear these were the tiniest chicken pieces I ever saw….and one piece had a feather attached to it!…..Good Lord, I need a Hershey bar lol3 -
alcohol and fire gets rids of feathers
I had (sweet) pickled onions for breakfast... at noon! I usually drink black coffee (loads) first. And only then either eat something for "breakfast" or not and leave the calories for later. Actually a pattern where I have a big breakfast and then nothing or just snacks till late at night, or one where I have multiple snacks and then a larger meal late at night is probably my preference.
at this stage it is just past 17:30 and I had a good 550 Cal worth of mini meal that should keep me going for a few hours.... (a repeat of "breakfast"; but with the addition of Connies favourite: a stinky boiled egg 
And a clif bar for the quick extra calories!)
Now I have to go get tilapia for the puppy. I am thinking of stealing her food again... though I sincerely question the nutritional theory that purports that plain pasta, tilapia and squash with a tiny bit of corn oil makes sense as an "ibs friendly" diet. Why tilapia (cultivated: so higher fat and antibiotics etc) and not pollock or whitefish equally low on fat (pollock especially) and wild caught? If tilapia is OK why not basa or any other whitefish? Why enriched pasta and nothing else? since when is semolina "good for the tummy" ?
Anyway. I don't know if I want PASTA with my tilapia... but last time tilapia and fries wasn't too bad!
And looking at the numbers I expect to have a good 1300-1500 Cal available which means fries are do-able unless I blow the calories on skittles before then!2 -
Pickled onions for brekkie - PAV I'm proud to call you my friend.
After my most productive physio this morning - I had a fully artsy fartsy afternoon. A poet friend stopped by and we had soup for lunch (from that bottomless giving freezer) and then we spent the next 4 hours drinking tea and bourbon and waxing poetic (lol) about life and art and it was just so lovely. Something I haven't done since I was ???? probably never actually. Not sure what the calories added up to at the end....because nothing was particularly measured....hopefully the alcohol will dehydrate me enough to make the scale smile tomorrow.1 -
uh-oh. playing with water weight you are! sounds... lovely?!!?
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Wasted a "few" of those calories on store bought sushi (380 Cal) and... candy coated chocolate eggs
Dog kept her tilapia and I ended up making squash and chicken bouillon soup with some newfangled never tried before noodle I got at the local Waly-mart.
They're super thin (major selling point 2 min cook time in boiling water) and "advertised" as 320 Cal per 92g double nest. Ingredients include dried egg white and an, adequate for pasta I felt, protein count of about 14g. Of course the first double nest I pulled was 99g. Sautao thin egg noodles.
I will say that they filled the bowl quite nicely and they survived adequately and fairly al-dente the totally inappropriate cooking/nuking/eating much later ordeal they were subjected to.
So provisionally a win. But I need better "flavouring". The chicken bouillon is way too much sodium and way too little taste and by the time I added a sodium free cube too the whole bouillon thing was up to 70 Cal 1 -
You guys seem to be so "concerned" about my almost noon time pickled onions! Remember that these guys are in a bread and butter pickle jar... they taste like bread and butter pickles--sweet like me! 3
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The boy and I watched a video about how to make your own egg noodles last time he was over. They don't seem that tricky... And I wonder if I could play with that a little bit and bump up the protein even more by using those liquid egg whites...hhhmmmm2
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How’s the pickled onion experiment going PAV? Will you do it again? You can toss in other veggies like peppers, cauliflower, carrots like Italian giardiniera. I’d parboil the harder veggies first.
Today I’m having chopped roast chicken with a no flour gravy on top of zoodles. Not the most inspired meal but it does the job. Light salad and crackers later. Maybe a frozen Christmas cookie or two for dessert.3 -
I’d eat pickled onions for breakfast...vindaloo...kedgeree...
I have iron guts and my stomach doesn’t differentiate between what it’ll find palatable at 6am and 6pm.3 -
Dinner tonight is lean ground beef burgers baked, baked fries and huge salads with homemade 3 bean salad….I am starving!3
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Yooly I sometimes bake bell peppers and then put them in a glasslock container with vinegar. No salt or sugar actually. Has many pickle attributes!3
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Turned some pickle juice into salad dressing yesterday. Pickle juice, sesame oil, harissa and a dab of sugar. I doubt I could replicate it exactly again because measurements were loose except for oil.
I’m also playing around with powders for flavor. Buttermilk powder is useful for ranch dressing and baking. Also found a mushroom powder and a cheese powder at Trader Joe’s.
Sometimes it’s good, other times it’s a chemistry experiment!4 -
I often realize how much easier I have it not having to consider anyone else when I'm preparing meals (except the boy a few times a week - and that is an easy one).
The "flavour" aspect of my food preparation is much easier when it is fully tempered by an awareness of calories/ease. Salad dressing for me has dropped down to a little balsamic - or in the case of coleslaw - nothing at all (just a layer of slaw beneath other food). That might not fly if I was serving these meals to anyone else.
And - I don't know how any of you manage to lose weight when others require a fridge/pantry full of "danger" foods. That is perhaps way more work than I can even consider. Again - my only worry is The Boy, and he is still at the stage where watermelon or some special fruit wins him over.2 -
I'm going to try again to get a long fast in, or at least not eat anything until dinner time. This week hasn't been all that good, though it hasn't been as bad as it could have been. I've been in a deficit on all days except yesterday, when Hubby and I had Chinese to celebrate his finally getting a job!
Considering hormones and the round of steroids I was on until yesterday for inflammation in my hand, the fact I wasn't gnawing on the dinning room table and eating everything in sight was actually something of a victory.
I'm still not happy with myself. I can't seem to get back to losing weight at all! At best, I've stopped the gain, but it just seems like I'll do so good for 5 days, then blow it for 2. Grrrr! It is SO frustrating! ESPECIALLY when I had it off and regained it!5 -
First - congratulations on the Hubby finding a job! That will ease some of those life stressors a bit!
You must be feeling very frustrated - but - you are here, and you are getting yourself back into that weight loss mind set. That is no small feat @bmeadows380.
Progress not perfection is maybe the most sustainable option?
At the turning point after a 33 pound weight gain myself (in 3 months), this morning I too was considering the 5 days good / 2 days so so I've been finding myself in. And, maybe that is okay? Maybe that is the way it is going to be? And maybe I can live with that for the rest of my life. Maybe I can get even better on those 5 good days????3 -
@lauriekallis, my long term maintenance plan is based on a weekly 3:2:2 (low : medium : high) calorie intake
I think my maintenance calories will be just above 1815 cals/day (so rounding down to 12,600 per week).
I plan to apportion them as follows:
Mon: 1,500 (bank 300)
Tue: 1,500 (bank 300, cumulative bank = 600)
Wed: 1,500 (bank 300, cumulative bank = 900)
Thu: 1,750 (bank 50, cumulative bank = 950)
Fri: 1,750 (bank 50, cumulative bank = 1000)
Sat: 2,300 (splurge 500, remaining bank = 500)
Sun: 2,300 (splurge remaining 500).
Rinse and repeat....
I figure that I've lived to this point on 1500 cals/day for 45 weeks and managed to enjoy a good menu, so continuing that indefinitely should be fine...and I'll have 2 intermediate days and 2 splurge days to counterbalance them.
And I'm hoping that scheduling the 3 low days directly after the 2 splurge days will help me remain disciplined, rather than just continuing to splurge for days on end.
You know me and my planning! I hope I have the discipline to pull this off...I guess I'll find out soon enough!4 -
Hubby has a hollow leg and no weight problems. He’s working on a one pound chocolate bar this week added to chips, French fries, cookies and ice cream. This stash is in addition to his regular meals. So yes - living with a human snack bar isn’t easy!
I’m not a long term planner food wise. I take it day by day. Make what substitutes I can, cut portions, measure. There really are no good days or bad days. Each day is its own challenge and I’ve accepted that any further weight I lose will come very slowly. The goal is to not stress continuously. The stressing just makes me want to eat more.3 -
Oh I love it here. Write a post - wander off, do some work - and come back to find new posts that leave me feeling supported and enlightened enough to move further along this path.
I like the 3:2:2 idea, Bella. I might not have it organized enough to map it out ahead of time - because those medium and higher days will come based on other people in my life. The days it is just me and the pup will be my low days - the medium/high days will be when I socialize or have the grandson over.
This could be a successful life-long plan. Because those "social" days are tough ones and if I can find a way to enjoy them and not feel terribly stressed out over not meeting my "low" day criteria it will take a hundred pounds off my shoulders metaphorically at least! And those treats that I sometimes crave can just be scheduled during the social days! I know there are many complications there...lol...but at least ths presents some possibilities.
So, as you mention the importance of, Yooly, this will reduce my stress. Lower stress + being able to feel successful rather than a failure even if I'm not achieving 7 "low" days a week. I really need that boost to keep me going when I'm not getting the boost of a lower scale number every day.
Hey, Connie, hot momma? I can't help but think this sort of thing might be good for you too?1
