hello again, healthy eating dreamwidth

[tei]

Because my NYR is to use dreamwidth more, and I want to post more to comms... here's a healthy eating story/recipe!

My mom gave me a bottle of folic acid supplements this Christmas. She did this because I told her that I'm trying to conceive, and making sure you get enough folate, which is required to copy DNA and RNA, is recommended during periods of higher cell division-- like, y'know, making a person.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those people who gets extremely anxious about swallowing pills. I can do it if I absolutely have to; but in the past I've taken medications to a compounding pharmacy and paid to get them as a liquid suspension because, y'know, not much point in taking a drug for anxiety if the thought of taking it gives you a panic attack.

So instead of taking the supplement, I looked up the list of foods highest in folate, intending to make sure I get enough in my diet. The highest by a significant margin is liver of all kinds, and I happen to have acquired a significant surplus of offal recipes for fannish reasons recently, so I decided to make liver pâté.

The basic recipe is to sauté onions and then the liver in lots of butter (the recipe called for calf liver as well as chicken, but I could only find chicken, so that's what I used), then toss with sage, salt and pepper and blend with basically an equal portion to the liver of butter and cream cheese. The liver smelled awful while it was cooking, but it worked out in the final recipe.

So, not exactly conventional health-food ingredients, but today for me healthy eating looks like eating pâté on crackers for snacks :D

How is everyone doing? Tried any new foods lately?

Comments

[sereg_dragon]

that sounds pretty good. I can't find any other health/food related comms on here that have updated in the past year.

[tei]

Ahh, we should for sure resurrect this one!

[sereg_dragon]

I've been getting into some reddit communities (just reading, I don't have a login) and it's triggered some pretty unhealthy thought patterns around food. there's a full blown war on between the people with eating disorders on one side, and the people who absolutely loathe anyone with an ounce of fat on the other side. Which sends me into a perfect spiral of self-hatred.
I just want somewhere to talk about healthy food in a positive light.

and to complain about all the allergies I'm apparently developing, which is starting to include every single fresh vegetable recommended for weight loss.

[tei]

Oh man, yeah— years ago I started going to r/xxfitness, and it convinced me to start counting calories on that grounds that counting and restricting calories for the rest of your life is a totally normal and sustainable thing to do. Spoiler: it was not, though it took years to unfuck that particular habit.

[sereg_dragon]

I've been reading the fasting community (very bad idea - people are on there not eating for days or weeks at a time) and sometimes I run across posts with more sane perspectives but it doesn't help enough.

I'm trying to figure out how to make a pumpkin curry that I have in mind. Using canned ingredients will make it a little simpler because that sort of precooks it, but I'd rather make the fresh version while they are in season. I don't really have a recipe, I'm just trying to start with some spices and pumpkin and onion and maybe tomato (uncertain on that, but the video I'm using as inspiration says to use it) and then I want to also have walnuts and coconut milk in it, and chicken. But I don't know the timing, or exactly how to get the fresh pumpkin cooked, or when to put the chicken in, or anything like that. I don't even know if "curry" is the right word. A pumpkin thing.

[tei]

Oh god, the "intermittent fasting" thing. *cups hands around mouth* THIS IS CALLED HAVING AN EATING DISORDER, FRIENDS.

That pumpkin thing sounds great!