Anyone eat like this?
Ruby11222
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Does anyone else find they don't really eat meals or even home cooked things often? I realised yesterday that most days I eat all cans and tubs and packets. Mostly do this to be accurate about calories plus it is easier! Cooking for one isn't great, so much wastage.
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Left overs are great0
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Yea left overs are great :] not a fan of packaged/processed food for the most part0
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ok! so for your sweet tooth....and other teeth too
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/
give this a read...lots of great from scratch recipes ideas ......... for ONE!!!!!
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It's easier to count calories that way, but much worse on your body and overall health. Food that comes in cans, tubs, and packets tends to be highly processed and full of bad stuff.0
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Not here.. I love fresh fruits and veggies.. I use a food scale to be accurate about what I eat. . I use canned items and such as little as possible. . If I use them. . I get no salt added varieties~0
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Actually I am the opposite of you. Before MFP, I was eating out of cans and other prepared meals. Since joining MFP, I actually have started cooking again and actually like it. I do have to freeze a lot of stuff or eat the same thing a couple of days a week but it is still good.0
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I hated cooking for a long time, but since my husband and I decided to get healthy, cooking together has become a nice relaxing and kinda romantic thing we do every evening. If you learn how to cook for just one or two, you can eliminate wasteful cooking. We waste almost nothing when we cook now, and we've gotten good enough to make a lot of more ornate meals that you'd spend a fortune on at a gourmet restaurant at home for 1/4 the price.0
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Since I joined MFP I have started coking and love it ! It's harder to count yes, but a lot healthier!0
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I used to eat microwave dinners frequently and it helped me lose weight. Yes it has more carbs and sodium in it but it does the trick.0
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No I don't eat like this, I cook for a family. Everytime is prepared from fresh raw produce mainly, I aim for four serves of vegetables each and every day. I've actually deleted some American contacts because they ate nothing but pre packaged heavily processed foods and nothing fresh. I couldn't eat like that, how do you go to the toilet?0
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most of the time i am cooking for myself and i almost never use packaged stuff. either i make enough just for me, or yeah, have leftovers! love em for lunch0
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Does anyone else find they don't really eat meals or even home cooked things often? I realised yesterday that most days I eat all cans and tubs and packets. Mostly do this to be accurate about calories plus it is easier! Cooking for one isn't great, so much wastage.
Yes, but I have just started using my slow cooker again.....Just chuck in the ingredients and wait a few hours and a beautiful meal......I divide it into containers and freeze......I use the recipe creator here and it gives you how many cals per serve....0 -
There are really great creative ways to use leftovers. One of my current faves is to do turkey burgers for dinner. Now granted, I'm cooking for four but this can easily adapted to just one. Anyway, my kids won't eat burgers, so I make one for me, one for my wife, and the rest get cut up for salads at lunchtime. A half turkey burger with some shredded Swiss cheese, possibly sunflower seeds, and some diced tomato, cucumber, and avocado over a mix of baby Romaine and spinach...no dressing needed! Thus, one meal starting with a lb. of ground turkey becomes 3 - 5 meals easily. I know the whole cooking for one thing...but if you're willing to be creative you can really use leftovers as a means of breaking free from the packets and cans. Is it a challenge? To be sure it is, but it can be done and is worth the effort!0
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No, I cook all the time. I have an occasional organic bar or open a can of organic chicken to use in my recipe but for the most part I cook all the time and love it.0
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Does anyone else find they don't really eat meals or even home cooked things often? I realised yesterday that most days I eat all cans and tubs and packets. Mostly do this to be accurate about calories plus it is easier! Cooking for one isn't great, so much wastage.
Yes, but I have just started using my slow cooker again.....Just chuck in the ingredients and wait a few hours and a beautiful meal......I divide it into containers and freeze......I use the recipe creator here and it gives you how many cals per serve....
Crock pots are amazing. This is a really good cookbook for slow cookers: http://www.amazon.com/Crockpot-Original-Slow-Cooker-Books/dp/1412729734/ref=pd_sim_b3
We got it as a wedding gift, and it's been wonderful.0 -
75% of my meals are all home cooked, unless I go to Fresh N Easy to buy a prepared meal like a sandwich or something small.0
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I cook everyday! I try not to eat too much prepackaged food. You can even freeze leftovers to reheat on busier days or for work lunches, etc. I usually eat salads for lunch...they're quick, easy and healthy if you don't load them up with junk.0
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The freezer can be your best friend! Just cook and whatever you have left over..freeze it and that is one day you don't have to worry about cooking0
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I'm the same way. I'm getting better about cooking something for dinner, but mostly eat pre-packaged things for lunch at work. I also am only cooking for one. I simply don't like leftovers- I don't know I've always been that way. Food just doesn't taste good once it's been re-heated, refrigerated, sitting out, etc. I don't want to waste my calories on eating something I don't want too, but I don't want to waste as you said. I search for either really small recipes or things I can just make one serving of by cutting down the recipe. Devin Alekksander has some great low-calorie recipes that only make 1 or 2 servings, and they're very easy if you're not much of a cook. I make a lot of stuff from her books regularly.0
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Thanks for the replies. I know how unhealthy this is and how many additives and chemicals I'm eating, I hate that.
I do cook, just not often enough because I find it more expensive and plans change and I end up going out for 3 days straight and the food goes to waste, etc. Most of what I cook is not great to freeze.
When I cook, I eat the same thing at least 4 times I have no problem eating left overs except the whole being out for meals thing.
Does anyone have any quick, healthy recipes for one they want to share??0
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