Today my good food choice was...

hymil

Inspired by  Fearless_One's thread about having a terrible diet, how hard it is when you are juggling with too much work and not enough time or money: Let's post One Good Choice a positive thing to inspire and encourage each other.

Today my good food choice was:  I ate the blueberries without waiting to buy a yoghurt to go with them, and I chopped and cooked the whole bag of carrots before they went off: One little tub of it is left out to go in my lunchtime latke later on, the rest is now in five little tubs in my freezer.

hymil

No to a third filter coffee at church, (i went for the second because it was my turn on the techy rota and it doesn't do to fall asleep while driving a camera, dvd and projector) yes to a bottle of water drunk at the gym - and yes, i was exercising at the time, i didn't just go there to drink the water!

Good recipe today: 4 little tomatoes chopped up, one tin of tuna, and a squidge of low fat mayonaise, all mixed up together and poured over a bowl of twisty pasta . Time to cook, less than ten minutes (pasta is the limiting factor here, i use quickcook stuff)  Nb, this is not including three minutes hunting for the tin-opener, which was finally found in the fridge???

changes

I'm getting ready to make spinach pie for supper

pip57

Dh is making leak, onion, celery and sweet potato soup for dinner.  Turmeric will be in there too!

hymil

Mmmmm!

CorinneM1

My good food choices yesterday include:

Breakfast

Organic banana, bowl of blueberries and a handful of walnuts

Lunch

baby carrots and hummas

Dinner 

Whole wheat pasta with brocolli, tomatoes with garlic and olive oil with a side salad with italian dressing.

I think yesterday evened out the score since on Wednesday night I had quite a bit of my daughter's french fries.

hymil

Good choice: I nearly finished the two litre bottle of spring water; the bad news is I was sat in traffic most of the day, got zero exercise but mega stress and got to do it all again tomorrow. Good choice: carrot, parsnip and bean stew with veggie sausages, but then washed down with a whole box of viennese-whirl biscuits. Good plan: I will take cucumber and ham sandwiches and a banana to eat in the car; expected downfall: but when I stop to fill up, they will sell me chocolate. Ah well, no-ones perfect yet. Thanks for all the great ideas.

tracie23

Can I get the spinach pie recipe

CorinneM1

Good choices continue:

Breakfast

2 egg omlette with Omega 3 eggs with fresh basil

Lunch

Mini wheats with almond milk and blueberries

Dinner

Shiitake mushroom, spicy salmon sushi rolls (no soy sauce) and a cucumber and japanese mint salad.

I might be bad tonight.  I promised my son that we would try out a highly recommended Mexican place.  If I am good, I will get veggie fajitas, and really try to stay away from my favorite (and so bad for you) chillis rellanos.

jadeblue

I have a green smoothie for breakfast most days (see: http://www.rawfamily.com/green-smoothie). Usually I blend some combo of organic spinach, lettuce and other green (kale, chard or collards) with fruit such as melon, berries, banana, mango (frozen chunks are best) 1/4 avocado, fresh lime juice, chopped cucumber, 1-2 cups water and a dash of stevia (natural non-calorie sweetner) in a sturdy blender (found out the hard way that you will break a non-sturdy blender this way).

Sounded gross to me at first, but is so delicious once you find a mix you like (tastes like blended fresh fruit smoothie!). Best, I can get 4-6 servings of fruits and vegetables in right at the beginning of the day. (The nutritionist at our cancer center says heck with "strive for 5" -- we should "try for 12!" -- that's my new mantra.) Before you think I'm too virtouous, however, I did have chips, salsa and a large frozen margarita last night. -Jade

CorinneM1

We just purchased a KitchenAid blender..we broke our 10 year old one trying to crush ice for our first kale smoothie. 

I don't have one everyday (I should) but have been having them about 1-2x a week.  We have done combos of kale, blueberries, bananas, pears and apples.  I purchased chia seeds, but haven't opened the package yet and haven't used them yet.  My kids are drinking the kale smoothies too...the berries, pears and/or banana masks the taste.  What we have been doing is freezing the blueberries and we use this to make the smoothie cold.  It works and we haven't had to use as much ice.

CorinneM1

Kinda bad choices this weekend

Breakfast

Overly large fritatta with roasted potatoes, goat cheese and veggies.  Sounds like a good choice right?  Sure if I would have had 1/4 of it.  It was at a restaurant, and this was enough to feed 4 people.  I ate it all.

Dinner

Again, eating out (mistake number 2) and had arroz with octopus.  Soooooo good.  And I don't know how they got the octopus to be buttery soft.  Can only now guess that they sauteed it in butter, or lard.  And ate 1/2 of it.  Same with the arroz.  Really good. Rice never tastes this good.  Unless of course it was made in an unhealthy manner.

Back to all veggies today and will try to be better this week.  I figure, in a week, if I can have 6 good days and 1 badish day...that's not all bad right?  I am staying away from alcohol, red meat, pork, sweets and cut out a lot of dairy (cream in coffee and the goat cheese on the breakfast this morning was the only dairy this week).

Merilee

I like this thread. This morning I had strawberries, some green goodness smoothie,  some Kefir, and a hand full of almonds.

I have also noticed since I decreased dairy I don't have the goobers in the back of my throat I used to have. I had read that dairy can cause low grade inflammation.

I don't drink, and I don't eat processed sugar of any kind anymore.

hymil

Corinne, only one baddy in a week is very good! You have to live a little not just keep on avoiding death. I had an apple for elevenses, it was trapped inside some sticky pastry stuff so naturally I rescued it..   And I had my bread roll with nothing on.  I mean no butter or jam, I was fully dressed.

I'm sure if you save up the cream for once a week instead of having high fat milk every day, your body probably absorbs less anyway. And it's a proper treat, with friends, and you don't turn into a food bore whose only line at a party is "Oh, I can't eat that". I try and control the food that comes home with me, but if I eat out with my mates, I eat what they eat and keep it fun. Fundamentally food is a blessing, so let's enjoy it!

pickle

My good food choice for breakfast was whole grain toast (1slice) with almond butter. Smoothie with fresh raspberries from my daughter's garden blended with yogurt and pineapple. Delicious. I'll have to have a healthy lunch because supper will be nasty. My Son & DIL are coming over and they requested gourmet hotdogs...i'll do a side salad with it. I have 1 or 2 hotdogs a year. I read today that the average person has 70 hotdogs a year. Wow! I guess it keeps the street vendors in business. I don't know anyone who would eat that many!

Cheers

Beth

Merilee

70? Wow!

pickle

Yes...70. Crazy! I read it and then saw this on the Today show today.



http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/44057806#44057806



I don't know how to get this to link. I hit return after but it didn't make it a hyper link. Does anyone know how to do it.

AmyIsStrong

I watched the link. That is unbelivable.  I eat ZERO hot dogs. Always thought they were gross.) So does that mean somebody else  is eating 140 to balance it out? Lol.

I like this thread.  For dinner we are having grilled portobellos over a big healthy salad. Some crumbled blue cheese and a balsamic dressing. Perfect summer meal. Hmmm, maybe even some corn on the cob from the farmstand neaby.

Oh - also a healthy light lunch or snack I came up with - I bought a loaf of Ezekiel (sprouted wheat) bread and keep it in the freezer. It is expensive and will not hold up without freezing. So anyway, I take out a slice, toast it and spread it with a very thin layer of all natural (no sugar) apple butter. It really keeps you satisfied for a long time b/c the bread has a very low glycemic index and digests slowly.  The apple butter I have is homemade (not by me) and was a Christmas gift. When that is gone, i will be sure to get a healthy no-sugar replacement.  And I only use a very little.

I'd love other good ideas for healthy lunch/snacks. I find that when I let myself get too hungry, that is when I reach for stuff I shouldn't.

AmyIsStrong

Hymil - I love your posts. But what is elevenses? You need to include a glossary for the Americans!

Pickle - almond butter sounds delicious. I HATE peanut butter, but I like almonds so that might work. Do you make it or buy it?

Merilee

LOL  Someone is eating 210 hotdogs because I don't eat them either LOL

Hymil-you crack me up!

pickle

Amy, i buy the almond butter. It's all natural 100% almonds. I love peanut butter but only all natural. I don't like anything sweet and the processed PB is so sugary.

pickle

Merilee, someome is eating my other 68 hotdogs because I only eat 2 a year! My husband and son love hotdogs but I keep my DH on a tight leash when it comes to food. He has a major sweet tooth so he gets ice cream occasionally. My son is married so his wife keeps him on a tight leash with food....lol

CorinneM1

70 a year?!!!?  Hell, I live in Chicago and we have some of the best dogs in the world (no ketchup!  ketchup is for rookies and toddlers!), but I honestly don't think I have had 70 a year! 

Since you are making gourmet dogs tonight, should you want to make a Chicago-style hotdog, you will need the following:

Poppyseed bun
diced white onions
dill pickle or cucumber slice
green sweet pickle relish
tomato, cut into wedges
yellow mustard
celery salt
sport peppers (optional--I love 'em, but a lot of people don't)
MUST MUST HAVE:  All-beef hotdog.  Nothing else will do.

If you really want to try some funky toppings--check out a local Chicago favorites toppings at hotdougs.com and check out the "today's specials" link.

Kay_G

70 a year is over one a week!  I know I don't come any where near that number, but I do enjoy one once in a while.  It has to be all beef, and I think the kosher ones are best.  Definitely no ketchup, must have mustard onions and saurkraut.  It's not a hot dog without saurkraut.  I've got myself on a tight leash now though.  I didn't eat them much before, but it will be even less now.

Kay_G

Oh, to stay on topic, my good food choice today was gazpacho which I just made.  Not a hard sell at all, it was delicious!

Merilee

Ok ok we will stop with the weiner stats lol

Speaking of almond butter & and a  sweet tooth:

1/2 cup almond butter

1/2 cup cocoa powder

a few tablespoons of Agave

Stir to make a dough, make into bite size balls and stick in the frig.

Voila! Organic healthy truffles. You can add coconut or nuts or anything you like.

3monstmama

For lunch I ate 1/2 of my lentil curry instead of the whole thing and immediately pushed the rest over to my oldest who is a bottomless pit. . . .

Merilee

Portibella ravioli, cranberry apple sauce, and a mini cucumber from the garden for dinner

Shrek4

Ok ladies, I started dieting more "severely" in the beginning of May. I have lost since then 21 lbs. Quite hard when you've been pushed in menopause by chemo and are taking AI's lol.

 anyway, this is my diet:

bananas in the morning.

2-3 snacks during the day of either: a) 2 tbsp of ricotta, skim, one medium tomato, fresh basil finely chopped and 1 tsp of olive oil, with 1 slice of whole wheat bread or 2)  1 slice of whole wheat bread with a slice of lean turkey and a tomato or cucumber or 3) 1 cup of skim plain yogurt or 4) one cone of Slim Cow ice-cream (100 calories) I know, that's my only "gorging" but this heat wave is awful.

1 chicken breast (tenderloin) with stir-fried veggies (bell pepper, broccoli, cucumber, things like this) for dinner. I stir-fry the veggies in their own juices, same for the chicken, and sprinkle over them a tbsp of olive oil in the plate after they are done.

1/2 a honeydew or yellow mellon or cantaloupe (medium size) every evening or 3-4 cups of cubed watermelon

I do eat more "normally" one day a week (and in this is nothing deep-fried, breaded, or exceptionally fattening), as in maybe some grilled lean pork, oven fries made with PAM things like this.

I also use this website that has been a lot of help for calculating my daily calory intake:

http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/menuplanner/menu.cgi 

Merilee

Day, 21 lbs awesome!

Shrek4

Yes, I can barely believe it when I look in the mirror! aiming to go back to my 125 lbs I was before all this nightmare started, so 45 lbs more to go lol

also, on the side - especially in the last two months I did NOT to a lot of physical activity - except for workign my garden and housecleaning. It was way too hot for me to walk, and the workout I did in May made me have awful pains along the ribs, which scared my onc - and it was all from the workout, apparently my serratus muscles (the ones that lay on the ribs) that cover 1/3 of the implants weren't very happy about being worked out after being stretched so much.

So yes, it can be done, even without spending hours at the gym.