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Eat the bug, more protein!

My big thing is fitness. I've lost a lot of weight but now I want to get fit while I lose the rest. I've got another five weeks of holidays and I'd really like to get up and moving rather than lying around watching old episodes of abfab and rereading all the Harry Potter books. And to be able to work food around stress! My…

I'll go ahead and say lentils. I just think they're really neat. http://dorothymcnett.com/recipes/divulge/2108/lentils_ala_microwave_recipe.html here's a recipe for microwave lentils. You should be able to find them quite cheaply for a big bag. Get a cheap container of curry powder to season. You can cook rice in the…

God it's depressing. Everything has to be clean and chemical free and all that rot. Just eat as you please as long as you don't go over your calories and get adequate nutrition, even if that nutrition has to come from a multivitamin somedays. Some days I feel like worm fish for breakfast, so I eat the worm fish.

I have nothing much to do until uni starts again so I'm loving the boards (: lots of interesting stuff here and plenty of useful tips. I've been going through the success stories board like mad looking for inspiration. What really bothers me is the anti-science bent here and all this talk about 'clean' eating. Are people…

Eat it every morning! I lost 30kg eating porridge or homemade muesli for breakfast each day. As long as you stay under your calories feel free to enjoy your porridge.

Just think, when you go swimming every single pore in your body is absorbing chlorine. You might even swallow a little. Accidents, mistakes and chance have brought us a lot of interesting and useful things, some great, some not so great.

There's nothing wrong with wheat unless you're gluten intolerant. And not the sort of gluten intolerant that's diagnosed via a ridiculously priced home test sold over the internet. Oats are a great source of fibre, vitamins and minerals and are cheap. Not everyone afford a kilogram of organic, grass fed steak for…

I eat a few pieces of 85% dark almost every day. Sometimes more than a few. Perhaps you could try eating it on its own just to get a taste for the bitterness? I know bitter generally means bad, but I suppose it's like certain greens and coffee - an acquired taste.

I love sashimi so I must be full of worms. My theory is that if it's done Japan a world of good then it's a bandwagon I want to be on. Plus I love the taste, especially the salmon, so smooth and buttery and good. I'd worry more about parasites in pork. Google trichinosis and you won't sleep for a week. Or you'll just…

It's not a diet I'd recommend. I try and eat a grain free diet to manage eczema as every other therapy we've tried has failed. Words cannot express how much I miss grains. My diet isn't really low carb (I am a big fan of fruit and starchy veg and dark chocolate) but it's still really frustrating. I've had two binge days in…

Almonds and/or sunflower seeds, fish oil and maybe some fruit during the week, or fruit and cheese. Every now and then I'll have sashimi or raw oysters depending on how motivated I am to go and get them. On the weekend I like fruit salad and bacon. Yummy!

I can get a kg of red lentils for $3.50 at the local Indian grocer. According to Woolworths online shopping it would cost me $4.72 there. I'd invest in a few basic spices (turmeric and cumin, mustard seeds if I could afford them), over the instant noodles. Lentils have protein, tons of vitamins and nutrients and fibre,…

I make my own gravy with homemade beef stock (low sodium!), whatever dried herbs take my fantasy, garlic, onions, mushrooms and a touch of olive oil. I add flavour with a little balsamic and worcestershire sauce (again, sodium) and then thicken with cornflour. True, it's not the pan dripping gravy I grew up with, but it's…

Blackberries, cherries, passion fruit, kiwi fruit, blueberries, nashi pears and pineapple. I love fruit so much!

Blanch and freeze them. When I chop up my vegetables I put the peelings (the good stuff; it's not a compost heap) into a little container in the freezer for stock making. If I have vegetables left over at the end of the week I either make a soup or I freeze. I hate waste.

Mine is one of those "don't eat this, seriously, it's not good for you" diet plans to manage a dermatological condition. Experimental, early days and all. I aim for 1250 calories a day and refuse to track my saturated fat; I'd have to cry a little if I saw how much I was actually eating.

Legumes. Curry the heck out of them. One pot of dhal gives me four filling servings, is quite low in calories and in AU$ costs me approximately $3. I noticed when I went veg for a while that my grocery bill fell by quite a lot. Grocery prices are loads higher here in Australia (darn supermarket monopoly), but I definitely…

I've found the same thing. I was shocked at how reliant I became on processed food at one point in my life. Unless you buy a really lovely jar of pesto (I admit, I do keep one on hand just in case) the stuff you buy from the supermarket is usually full off canola oil, peanuts, flavours and funny preservatives. It takes…

I'm going to go to Alaska and shoot stuff. Rewarding myself for partially reaching my goal by going to Russia this July where I will not shoot stuff.

Yes! In my continual quest for enlightenment (and ways to fritter away my money) I did at one point attempt living a macrobiotic lifestyle. If you enjoy pickled plums and sea vegetables you will enjoy eating macrobiotic food. It's very carb heavy and relies on a hint of the exotic to market the recipes. As I have…

Wait, don't tell me you actually went out and spent money to learn this rot. I bet you have a whole library of science hating rubbish books that make baby scientists cry. No drug or vaccination is 100% side effect free or effective. You'll be pleased to know that in a country with socialised medicine (hey, our government…

For me it's calories, obviously, but one that I'm finding super useful is calcium. A week of tracking has shown me that my calcium intake is woefully inadequate. I think all women should take note of their calcium consumption so they can adjust their diet/supplement as needed.

Are you serious? You don't expect a scientist to understand the incredibly obscure education you've acquired via Google U.? Vaccines are not a conspiracy and they're now all fetus-free, which should reduce the calorie count.

A huge bowl of basmati rice doused with mushroom soy sauce. So good, but so wrong.

I can't be the only Australian who watched the film and thought "my god, what a bogan". It all seems a bit silly to me. Another in a long list of useless fad diets, except this one comes with extra vitamin k.

I love almonds (: Bananas are portable and come with a fetching travel outfit. Sunflower seeds are loaded with vitamin e and super dark chocolate (my default super market brand is the Lindt 85%) has iron, always handy. Cheese survives quite well without refrigeration and 100 calories worth of cheddar would pair well with a…

The ingredients weird me out. It's like the only difference between a Big Mac and a WW meal is the number of calories. Both seem to be equally full of rubbish, it's just that the rubbish in one has fewer calories.

I've done a cleanse. It involved a trip abroad, drinks the consistency of wet concrete and enemas several times a day. In hindsight my 10 days of cleansing was pretty funny. Also really expensive. You don't need to pay for sludge drinks and herbs and supplements to cleanse. If you're hellbent on being silly, just starve…