A community of support for healthy eating

hello again, healthy eating dreamwidth

2020-01-12T03:09:43Z

Posted by: 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?

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Daily check-in for Saturday, July 20

2013-07-21T00:49:48Z

Posted by: limestone

How's the eating? As usual, warn for triggers & be respectful.

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Daily check-in for Friday, July 19

2013-07-19T07:00:12Z

Posted by: limestone

I really need to start tracking what I eat. I hope no one minds if I try this.

How's the eating? As usual, warn for triggers & be respectful.

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check in for Saturday, May 5, 2012

2012-05-05T13:59:08Z

Posted by: panda

Oops I said I would do these too, didn't I.

So, how's the eating today you guys? As usual, warn for triggers & be respectful.

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3 weeks for dreamwidth!

2012-04-27T22:19:39Z

Posted by: panda

It's time to focus on creating content on dreamwidth, which seems like a good time to try to give this comm a re-boot.

Since me doing the check-in posts every day doesn't seem to work so well (sorry guys) does anyone want to offer to do check-ins? If we get enough people, we could get each person to claim one day per week.

Comment with what days(s) you would be willing to do, if you want! Alternately, give some suggestions of food-related topics you'd like to talk about here in the next 3 weeks.

ETA: I'm watching the American documentary Forks Over Knives (2011) (ETA2: sorry, I just realized this trailer needs a TW* for fat shaming, health fear-mongering ("diabetus!!"), weight loss before and after photos and also a brief shot of a surgery in progress where you can see blood trailer, imdb page) which, the official summary says, "[e]xamines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods."

Would anyone be interested in reading a review?

*I apologize if anyone clicked the trailer before I put up the warning and was triggered.

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check in for Wednesday, April 4, 2012

2012-04-04T15:35:59Z

Posted by: panda

How's the eating been?

/sheepish mod

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check in for Monday-Thursday

2012-03-29T17:51:11Z

Posted by: panda

Oops! I've been a bad mod. I've been very busy, but I have been eating ... just not posting check ins.

So how's the week going for you all so far?

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check in for Sunday, March 25, 2012

2012-03-25T17:17:37Z

Posted by: panda

How's the eating today? As usual, warn for triggers & be respectful.

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check in for Saturday, March 24, 2012

2012-03-24T20:56:58Z

Posted by: panda

How's the eating? As usual, warn for triggers & be respectful.

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check in for Friday, March 23, 2012

2012-03-23T16:39:32Z

Posted by: panda

How's the eating? As usual, warn for triggers & be respectful

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check in for Thursday, March 22, 2012

2012-03-22T16:52:05Z

Posted by: panda

How's the eating? As usual, warn for triggers and be respectful.

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check in for Tuesday & Wednesday

2012-03-21T17:42:06Z

Posted by: panda

Sorry, I haven't been braining well for the past couple days, so I forgot to post again. If any of you come to check in and see I haven't put up a post yet, please, feel free to put one up yourself.

So, how's the food? As usual, warn for triggers & be respectful <3

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check in for Sunday & Monday

2012-03-19T22:05:22Z

Posted by: panda

Sorry, I forgot yesterday's post. How's the eating!

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check in for Saturday, March 17, 2012

2012-03-17T16:58:38Z

Posted by: panda

Happy St. Paddy's day, to those who celebrate. How's the eating going today?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

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check in for Friday, March 16, 2012

2012-03-16T14:10:20Z

Posted by: panda

Hey everyone! How's the eating going?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

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check in for Thursday, March 15, 2012

2012-03-15T15:50:52Z

Posted by: panda

Hey everyone! How's the eating going?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

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hey everybody! let's get things going again, shall we?

2012-03-15T02:19:32Z

Posted by: panda

Life has been crazy for me for the past 3 months, and I obviously haven't been paying attention to this comm. But I'm realizing more and more that if I want to be healthy and successful in school, a good diet is a necessary foundation. I'm on spring break right now, so I'm using the extra time to give my diet a little jump start. Doing daily posts to this comm again will help, I think.

I wanted to get us started back up again in a fun way, so how about in the comments people recommend something tasty they've eaten recently? Give a recipe, if you want, or just wax poetic about some really delicious food ;)

Also thank you very much to those of you who did check in posts over the past couple months. I really appreciate it ♥

As always, please warn for triggers and be respectful of your fellow community members!

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Check In

2012-03-06T02:13:25Z

Posted by: tassosss

How did the eating go today?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

I'd also like to thank caffeinatedandawake for starting these posts up again. It's been a good kick in the pants for me!

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Check in

2012-03-04T23:25:32Z

Posted by: caffeinatedandawake

Hey everyone! How's the eating going?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

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Saturday's Check in

2012-03-03T14:54:06Z

Posted by: caffeinatedandawake

Hey everyone! How's the eating going?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

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Check in

2012-03-02T15:29:40Z

Posted by: caffeinatedandawake

Hey everyone! How's the eating going?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

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Check in

2012-03-01T14:53:23Z

Posted by: caffeinatedandawake

Hey everyone! How's the eating going?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

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Check in

2012-02-29T23:42:18Z

Posted by: caffeinatedandawake

Hey everyone! How's the eating going?

As usual, please warn for triggers & be respectful of your fellow community members.

Cut and pasted to try and get something started.

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Check in for Saturday, February 25!

2012-02-25T16:48:58Z

Posted by: claire_chan

Hello, fellow healthy diners.

How has it been going over there? Have you been keeping up with making sure to eat?
Life has gotten very busy, but we all still need to ensure life is coming along acceptably.

I recently found that eating regularly really does help me with energy and health, coupled with sleeping.

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Check In for Sunday, December 18!

2011-12-18T13:58:32Z

Posted by: claire_chan

*stir from sepulchre*

Is everyone still here?

Have you managed to eat decently despite the dearth of regular reminders?

Comment here and let me know what is going on. I'm not interested in how much, just that you did.

I personally just came out of Finals.
Socrates: What is your definition of "just"?
This millenium, the Anno Domini one!

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