check in for Saturday, August 28, 2011

[panda]

How is everyone doing? How's the eating going today? Eaten anything new and interesting (for whatever value of "interesting")?

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Commenting and encouraging people is always welcome (unless someone states otherwise, of course).

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Fry sausage or bacon. Fry chopped potatoes in the meat grease. (Or omit the meat grease and use olive or canola oil, which is healthier.) Add shredded cheddar and two eggs per potato; stir until eggs are all cooked. Wrap up in a whole-grain tortilla. Surprisingly good.

[panda]

That sounds really tasty!

If I were making it, I might add some diced sweet bell peppers for an extra bit of color & flavor. It also seems like it would be good with some avocado and salsa added after it's cooked for a bit of southwestern flavor (if you like avocado, that is, I know not everyone does) :)

ETA: haha and now I've gone and made myself really hungry thinking about it, which is a Good Thing. Thank you for the inspiration to cook! :)

[alexseanchai]

I will have to suggest the bell peppers. Enough of the family likes them. (The rest of the family regards them as poison.) Salsa would be good too. Avocado is yecht, though, except to Mom, who likes guacamole.

[panda]

For me personally, I have trouble getting enough veggies each day, so I'm always looking for ways to squeeze extra veggies into my cooking. It seems to me diced tomatoes or zuchini (cooked with the potatoes) might also be tasty additions.

[alexseanchai]

To that described above I add a calzone (pizza dough, mozzarella, ricotta, tomato puree) and a rice–cheddar–salad dressing concoction with marinated cucumber on the side. No idea what's in the cucumber stuff other than cucumber, onion, and vinegar. Also a packet of M&Ms.

[panda]

So far today, for breakfast I have had honey nut rice chex (GF!) with coconut milk, plus peppermint tea. Yum.

My healthy eating goal for today is more veggies; I haven't been getting enough fruits & veg for the past couple days.

[tassosss]

Ooh, peppermint tea!

Do you have fruit you can snack on during the day? That and baby carrots are one of my tricks for eating more veggies, though I get tired of the carrots pretty quickly.

[panda]

I can usually manage a banana at some point, but I'd like to eat things other than bananas as well. The problem is I'm picky and can't eat things like apples on the core; I have to cut them into slices. And cutting things into slices feels like Work, so I have a mental block against doing it. Some days I can say 'self, it isn't that hard, just cut up the apple,' and some days I can't.

[tassosss]

I get that. I don't slice fruit either for the same reason - that's one reason I like the bags of baby carrots.

[tassosss]

Honey bunches of oats cereal for breakfast, and I made a basic homemade mac and cheese. Elbow macaroni, butter, grated cheese, milk, eggs, and frozen peas - that's how I get my vegetables in. It's not the best I've ever made but it'll keep for a few days. I also made a bunch more pasta in case the power goes out.

[panda]

I love homemade mac'n'cheese! And I definitely add frozen peas to my mac'n'cheese as well. I was going to suggest adding tuna too, but then I realized from your cookbook selection you're probably vegetarian, so I won't suggest it X3 When I'm making homemade mac'n'cheese, the kind where I bake it in the oven to give that nice melty & crispy on top texture, I find that adding tomatoes works well too (I also like to add olives, but I know not everyone likes olives)

Extra pasta is always good to have on hand; you can do so many things with it. *g*

[tassosss]

I'm pseudo-veggie in that I'll eat meat at other people's houses. It's part a budget thing part a force myself to eat more veggies thing.

Oven baked is the best way, and I really like your suggestion of tomatoes and olives.

[panda]

oven-baked is the best. now I'm hungry for mac'n'cheese, sigh (I'm currently on a dairy-free diet, sadface)

I like olives on my pizza, so tomatoes/olives + starch and cheese makes sense to me, flavor-wise *g*

[killing_rose]

~psst~ The mac and uncheese recipe i linked over in the other post is quite good and fills the need nicely.

[royalfireworks]

I've kind of gotten off track with eating--and this community--recently, but today was okay: banana and blueberry bagel for breakfast, banana and almond butter & strawberry preserve sandwich* for lunch, and raw carrots and a sandwich with shrimp and avocado and many other tasty things in it. I may eat a little ice cream later?

*This is my grownup PB&J. It's comfort food. *g*

Day 2

[ex_daily276]

Breakfast: Special K w/2% milk
Lunch: Subway Cold Cuts sub
Dinner: Other half of Subway Cold Cuts sub
Snack: Chex Mix-Turtle(Mmmm chocolate), Baked fries