Puertorican cuisine

elsikas
elsikas Posts: 1 Member
edited March 2023 in Getting Started
Hey 👋, I am new to this app and I am having hard time trying to work on my macros. I am puertorican and its been hard to find information on how to for my type of food. HELP!

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  • Lynden74
    Lynden74 Posts: 7 Member
    Is it because the food you eat isn't searchable or because you have your own recipes?

    You can import recipes from online that can help with macro breakdown or manually enter your own recipes ingredients yourself.

    Not sure if this helps or if I've answered your question...
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    edited March 2023
    Yeah, what do you mean by "working on my macros?"

    Eat mostly whole foods, keep grains to 2-3 servings a day. Lots of whole fruit, vegetables, and legumes. It's recommended 5-8 servings per day.
    Two or three servings of fat or oil, or sub one serving of cheese or nuts for one serving of oil.
    Two to three servings of a lean protein including dairy, eggs, fish or poultry, pork or beef.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,683 Member
    edited March 2023
    Think of it another way.

    We all come from cultures with ingrained foods. I’m southern. For me, it’s fried chicken, pork chops, bbq, mac and cheese, cornbread, crackling, mashed potatoes with cream, fruitcake, cakes with wildly heavy flour frostings (don’t laugh til you try one), and so on.

    What changes can you make to your recipes to make them more healthy?

    I mash my potatoes with a little lite sour cream now. I’ve replaced cake with something lighter. Mac and cheese I use skim milk products instead of whole and cut the butter (now margarine at half the calories) in half and prep my roux a different way now to still get thick results. Cornbread…..sadly, smaller portions, made with skim and egg whites. BBQ is made with Stubbs Original now, much lower calorie than my old homemade sauce and perfectly acceptable. Instead of stewing my meats in sauce, I cook or grill them lightly seasoned and add the sauce right before eating it. That alone cuts literally hundreds of calories versus basting them for hours.

    I found a pan I can “dry fry” and brown meats, dry sauté onions, garlic etc. We don’t even miss oils now. Granted, fried chicken is off the menu (haven’t had it in years and last time I went specifically to get some, I was so nauseated by the smell of the fryer, I left without getting any.)

    I’ve got a Mr Mister sprayer for olive oil for the few times I need an oil (air fryer fries this weekend were great with as four grams oil on 33oz of potatoes. I head no complaints at the dinner table lol.)

    How can you honor your culture - and your tastebuds- while still cutting calories?

    Get creative.

    If Claxton would come out with a “light” fruitcake, my husband would be in hog heaven. That’s the next holiday experiment. A homemade attempt at “light”.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    Do you just mean you can't find entries in the database for things that you eat? If they're whole foods (veggies, fruits, cuts of meat, etc.), they really should be there. If they're packaged/processed foods, you can create database entries for anything you can't find, using the package label. If they're homemade dishes, you can use the recipe function to create recipes for them.

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