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Hi all - just popped my head into the group to say hello. I'm conscious my tracking has stalled recently, life seems too busy to spend time entering what I'm eating but still will pop a diary entry in occasionally to ensure my macros and portion sizes are within limits. As I cook from scratch it can be time consuming (esp…

Thanks all for your thoughts. I do agree, I'm sceptical of the information I've read so far, there's not enough information about the individuals age/diet/health/hereditary conditions and we can all only do our best and make choices we feel fit with our own wellbeing and lifestyle.

Excellent tracking @chelseynikole9618 its great when you're in the right headspace & make time to commit to this. I look back on my years on mfp and know I make better choices when I'm focusing on trying. I track 'off' days too, its helpful to remind me why I might not be where I thought I should be!! @Maya440 hope the…

Oh @Maya440 sending you a hug!! That's a lot to deal with and your body is obviously still in recovery. Be gentle with yourself, don't worry about having the odd day off the nutritional plan...You have great direction from the nutritionist and a strong reason to train, so as soon as your leg has healed, I'm sure you will…

Thanks for your input @Maya440 and @enlightenme3 - I've not really any experience to go by yet with IF but liked the idea on IG @fiftysister account (shes also vegan) stopping eating at 2pm. There are a number of reasons it should work better in my lifestyle. Day 2 and all is good, no hunger pangs and am conscious of…

Hi all! Sorry I've been MIA - unfortunately we had a family bereavement and with organising funeral, grieving and probate, its taken a few months to focus on myself again - but now there's some catching up to do! To get kick-started I'm going to try IF and see if that works for me, I'm going to try a 7am - 2pm eating…

I take a vegan menopause multivitamin which covers pretty much all bases, plus a vegan collagen. I haven't been to the Dr's for a check up in a long time, certainly not since going vegan a year ago. It would be interesting to find out if they could do a blood test showing levels, but pretty sure that would be a private…

Thank you @mtaratoot for all the info, I will try to find alfalfa seeds in my healthfood store next. Today I had some of the mustard & mizuna microgreens on a salad tonight and was surprised how tasty they were! For little tiny things they were surprising full of flavour! Tonight's dinner was: lettuce, Cucumber, tomato,…

Loads of lovely inspiring food posts recently! My latest adventure is sprouting. I bought a little tiered sprouter from Amazon and trying Oriental Mustard and Mizuna microgreens first. Has anyone else had experience with this kind of sprouter? No soil, just just Rinse with water a couple of times a day till ready to…

@SparkSpringtime69 just wanted to ask if everything is going OK? It can feel like a big life changing event & be more worrying than you actually admit to yourself. We built an annex for my MIL &FIL 6yrs ago to cope with elder care. This last month we've been on rota as FIL has been stuck in hospital and 3x daily trips…

Interesting! I'm not a tempeh lover either, but haven't tried crumbling/mixing with other ingredients so this could help! Worth another try, thanks for sharing!

This is on the UK NHS website re vegan calcium sources: Calcium is needed to maintain healthy bones and teeth. Non-vegans get most of their calcium from dairy foods (milk, cheese and yoghurt), but vegans can get it from other foods. Good sources of calcium for vegans include: green, leafy vegetables such as broccoli,…

This is on the UK NHS website re vegan calcium sources: Calcium is needed to maintain healthy bones and teeth. Non-vegans get most of their calcium from dairy foods (milk, cheese and yoghurt), but vegans can get it from other foods. Good sources of calcium for vegans include: green, leafy vegetables such as broccoli,…

Nourishing Soup Soak: 1 cup red lentils, 1 cup puy lentils & 1 cup chana dal/yellow split peas in cold water. Fry: 1 finely diced onion 2 finely diced celery stalks 3 finely diced carrots 3 crushed garlic cloves Season: Paprika Garlic granules Celery salt Turmeric Rinse: Rinse pulses till water runs clear & add to the pan.…

@Maya440 My favourite was always Galaxy or Reeces - I would always eat too much! 😋

@Maya440 what type of chocolate do you like? Before I became dairy free 10 years ago I enjoyed milk chocolate. I don't really enjoy oat milk chocolate too much & it is harder to find & more expensive! So I only have very dark chocolate occasionally now and it's hard to eat a lot of it because it's more bitter than sweet. I…

I've been addicted to poached pear salads recently. I've had them in restaurants (like this pic) and made them at home, eg my Xmas day starter. Toasted nuts and a light dressing - bliss!

Happy New Year my lovely herbivores!! Hope you all had a fantastic Festive season and excited for the new beginnings this year. Sorry I've been MIA - December is a busy old month for me at work...coupled with extra home/life issues and it was pretty full on. Something had to give and inevitably it was food logging & MFP. I…

Yummy! I'm a huge cabbage fan & savoy is my go-to, though a hispi (pointy) is often in my fridge too

Hi everyone! I've not been on mfp for a bit, life has become very busy & logging sometimes takes too much time (especially when cooking 2-3 separate dinners for the family!) I have been good though, not snacking, watching my portion sizes, taking my supplements, etc. The scale has gone down, so that is brilliant! I find…

Hi all! Sharing tonight's dinner with you because it was delicious! If you're on Instagram, it's @natsnourishments I used kale & cavolo nero from the garden and I added some roasted root veg

@Maya440 It's DELICIOUS! 😋👌 Thank you for posting! Definitely one for keeps.

That sounds delicious @Maya440 - I've screenshot your recipe & added to my recipe album! Thank you for sharing! @MKWXIII for adding pics on my phone, I have to make sure I choose from 'gallery' rather than the thumbnails under 'recent pics'. Hope this works for you too.

I've not made cashew cream yet @henridw2095 - I made cashew nut butter though which was delicious. I really need to buy another bulk bag of cashews, the small packs in supermarkets are so expensive right now. Dinner tonight, which I didn't finish, I just wasn't that hungry and overloaded my plate as I'd…

Hi Maya, it can be so frustrating waiting to see the number on the scale go down! I am so impatient for it too!! You are really active though, so keep it up + maybe focus on some NSVs as well? Do you measure yourself & take progress photos? I try to do this every Monday morning and keeping a log of it is really good to…

Omg @AnnPT77 :o you are practically superwoman! What an inspiration! Like @henridw2095 it's the busyness thats holding me back currently. I'm so desk tied at the moment, then school runs, housework & cooking that some days I feel the only time I have for exercise is bedtime 😄 To be fair, when I lost weight and exercised…

Such interesting responses! I loved reading such varied experiences. My eating choices all started as health related. I'd been dairy free for almost 9 years because of digestive issues after my gallbladder was removed. Sometimes I still had butter but I almost instantly went off the taste of milk completely. Then my mum…

@Red_B1rd ooh yum! I do love soup 😋 I am trying to increase my protein intake this week, last week could have been better. Started off with a chickpea flour omelette and veg, 15g/29% protein. One thing this app is good for is checking where I stand with nutrients, you think you've had a good day & then the stats say you…

Lovely length Maya & nice to see you! How many of you are in a mixed dietary family? My family are not vegan and I continue to make their regular meals alongside my own. I've been vegan for 285 days today 🙂 I thought I'd struggle with this because I still like the scent of the meals I make them, but have surprised myself…

Nice shiny new scale @henridw2095 😉 your Indian cuisine sounds delish! I'm a huge fan of currys and probably even more so since I've cut out animal products. The green bean side looks so good, definitely one to try!