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In the midwest there's a chain called Pizza Ranch that is *only* a buffet; they have exactly the same sort of dessert pizza at PH once did, in cherry, blueberry, apple, and peach. Plus soft-serve. Pizza is at best OK though, and it's spendy for the quality...very popular with the <10 crowd though. I've also seen similar…
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You can make a great sandwhich for about $1. If you need more calories, homemade soup is perhaps $.25-50 a bowl depending on what you use...I can make Miso soup for pennies, add extra tofu for more protein if you need it and it's still quite cheap. Most days I make a 200 cal sandwhich (2 slices of 45 cal bread, 3 oz of…
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I'm a bread guy, always have been, and would live on bread/cheese/wine if that were feasible. So it's *really* hard for me to not eat bread, but when I'm looking at calorie counts I always end up realizing that a bagel or two slices of toast or some pizza crust just ain't worth 300 calories. For me one solution has been…
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While I'd like to have a $400 VitaMix sometimes, I've been perfectly happy with a $50 Oster for the last decade or more. It gets used a lot and still looks/runs like the day we took it out of the box. The closest current model to what we have is this one…
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Back in high school we sometimes took an entire family sized pizza into the movies...we'd order it, pack it into foil, and slip it into the pockets of our winter parkas. Haven't done that in ages but we still stop for candy before we go to the movies today.
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Over the last 25 years I drank about a gallon of skim milk a week, sometimes more. I stopped cold turkey two months ago, after realizing I was drinking 400-600 calories a day in milk, sometimes twice that as I'd have two 16 oz glasses at dinner.
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Without question, it was about a year ago on a very small island off the coast of Okinawa. A colleague and I were "honored guests" of the local mayor (who didn't really care about our visit near as I could tell) and were invited to a dinner in the back room of a local bar. Over the course of four hours we were treated to…
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Skip the rolls entirely. Have sashimi instead-- raw tuna, salmon, smoked eel, etc. It's delicious, high in protein, and most of the calories come from good fats. You're eating a lot of rice in a typical roll ("maki") and many of the Western varieties are packed with cream cheese, avocado, and other high-calorie items.…
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The best I've ever felt (from food) was during two weeks when I was staying on a small island off of Okinawa and eating only local food the entire time. No maki sushi ("rolls") but lots of nigiri (fish on rice), soup at least twice a day (miso, fish head, etc.) and tons of sashimi (plan raw fish/shellfish). Since I don't…
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If you can wean yourself off the artificial sweeteners you can keep the bubbles with seltzer. There are lots of flavored commercial ones, mostly citrus or raspberry, that are pretty good. A few years ago I started making my own though, so now drink 1-2 liters per day made at home, just water and a splash of lemon or lime…
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Egg whites, cheese, meat, bread: either an omlette with a piece of whole grain toast, or a whole wheat English muffin with egg/cheese/meat. Cheese is usually Finlandia light swiss, the meat is either 1 tsp bacon crumbles (costco) or two slices uncured Canadian bacon (also Costco). Nets out at 300 calories (more or less)…
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I've spent some time in rural Okinawa-- think "small island with 900 people" --and ate the local diet the entire time. While I was served rice at meals more often than not it was not very much...perhaps a cup per meal. A much greater proportion of the meals was soy (tofu) and fish (in every form imaginable). For example, a…
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Homemade seltzer. Usually lemon or lime, but all sorts of flavors are possible. Don't mess around with a "Soda Stream" or any of that $$$ stuff that barely works though. Get a real CO2 cylinder, regulator, and something called a "carbonator cap." It'll cost you about $100 to set it up, but from that point on you can…
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Mine are similar to the others posted, except I don't use any powders and do include tofu. The soft tofu I use gives the smoothie a really creamy texture and adds 20cal and 3g protein per ounce (I use perhaps 4 oz in a large smoothie). Add banana, pineapple, berries, Greek yoghurt, and ice to fill.
