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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011

    Day, almost the two year mark for you, congrats!

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  • pickle
    pickle Member Posts: 1,409
    edited August 2011

    Corrine, thanks for the great hot dog tips. Chicago style sounds delicous. No ketchip for me either. I'm afraid to go on the hotdog website in case it encourages me to eat more than my 2 a year



    Kay, i love sauerkraut and onions on a hotdog with some grainy dijon mustard.



    Day, congrats on 21 lbs. That takes discipline! Very inspiring

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011

    Sorry: Elevenses is what you have to sustain you in the long morning between breakfast and lunch ie what you nibble about 11am. Morning coffee, but it could be tea! That's assuming you had breakfast some time around 7am or earlier and planing on lunch some time maybe 1-2pm? So, a mid-morning snack. It's a civilised time to meet your friends if they are working the afternoon, or if you have other things to do the afternoon and don't want it to run over into lunch. My family occasionally celebrates the afternoon equivalent, which for some unknown reason got called High Fourses. (Not quite as much to eat as High Tea which is what you used to feed the children before they went to bed so that you the adults could have proper Dinner at 8, "sans enfants" High Tea used to be nutricious and wholesome with maybe a boiled egg; High Fourses usually involves cake and luxury and maybe progressing to a little more shopping.

    Good food choice: Raisin pancakes for the first of my twelve a day; salad and ham sandwich for lunch, have avoided the deli and cake SO FAR...and walked to town rather than take the bus.

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  • CorinneM1
    CorinneM1 Member Posts: 539
    edited August 2011

    I thought about this thread last night while at Wrigley field with the family for our first Cubs game this year.  

    For the first time in my 39 years of attending ball games at Wrigley Field, I did not have a hot dog.  I had a veggie burger.  1)I can't believe that they even *have* veggie burgers at a ballpark.  2)I was slightly ashamed ordering it.  I practically whispered my order to the clerk.  And I ate it in the corner. 

    Ugh.  Oh well.  What I have given up for cancer.  We should have a thread on this.  :). 

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited August 2011

    But CorinneM1, the real question is did you like it?  I have a box of veggie burgers in the freezer.  Never ate them before.  Hope they are edible.

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  • CorinneM1
    CorinneM1 Member Posts: 539
    edited August 2011

    It was okay.  It was a spicy black bean/rice burger.  I inhaled the smell of the hotdogs around me and pretended it was better than it was.

    At home, I would have thought this was delish.  At Wrigley Field?  Meh.

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011

    But you were involved in sport, right, so that's healthy anyway? I certainly don't get my ration of 70 hotdogs a year! But I guess it's like cinema equals popcorn, or picnic equals wasps, or Christmas equals mince pies plus plus plus. The game without the food just isn't the same.

    Not sure about veggie burgers, but I have had some veggie sausages this summer that were really good. And they don't burn so bad either when you grill or bbq them, i think that's because they are low fat. Not as manly as burnt [but still half-raw] meat though!

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  • CorinneM1
    CorinneM1 Member Posts: 539
    edited August 2011

    Good food choices today included kale, blueberry, carrot, banana and almond milk smoothie.  Asparagus, cous-cous with mint, walnuts and cucumbers for lunch.  Dinner tonight (with a friend) will be simple pasta with EVOO, tomatoes, basil and I will ask them to hold the cheese.  I have lost weight, but notice any time I am bad (like having eggplant parm over the weekend with a few bites of ricotta cheesecake) it comes right back to me.

    I am not fat, but I want to try to keep a healthy diet more so than a healthy weight.  The extra pound or so that is reflected when I am bad, reminds me that I had the diary, flour or sugar that I shouldn't have. 

    Question, how do you gain a few extra pounds when on a healthy, mostly plant based, little diary, little sugar diet?  I would like to have micro fat grafting done for my exchange (on 9.9) and I am slightly concerned that I should be putting on a few pounds (more than 2, less than 5) to get the fat they will need.  More whole grains?  More eggs?  Any ideas out there?

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited August 2011

    Gee Corinne, I don't know.  I think maybe nuts?  Definitely meats unless you're avoiding those too.

    I made some ratitouie (spelling?) today to use up some of the veggies we still had on hand from the CSA.  Also, made a great salad with bib lettuce (also thanks to the CSA), tomatoes and walnuts. They were good too!

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  • CorinneM1
    CorinneM1 Member Posts: 539
    edited August 2011

    Good choices today:  2 cups of green tea, and brown rice and stir fried veggies for lunch.  Dinner will be pizza tonight, but purchased non-hormone buffalo mozz from Italy to use instead of American mozz.  Dinner will be margarita pizza with home grown tomatoes (finally!  turned red) and basil from the garden.

    I am starving right now, so I will most likely have a smoothie tonight as a snack as well.  I have to use up kale, apples and cucumbers, so I am thinking this will be my cocktail.

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011

    I could have had a chocolate crepe, but I went for the ham and cheese instead... is that good? I figured that way I would have definitely had dinner, and not go snacking later on. They didn't have a spinach option! And I had a fruit salad for breakfast.

    Corinne, if you need fat, you could have some of mine? Please?

    Kay someone told me it's spelled ratatouille and I am so gullible I believed her. Your way is much better.

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011

    Hey, I forgot about the homemade soup. Vegetable soup, contains real vegetables. Carrot, aubergine, parsnip and onion. And nothing else. Innocent 

    I had my chocolate while it was simmering... and the fresh bread roll, which showed signs of going stale while the parsnips and carrots got their act together.

    For tonight I've got mushroom, leek, potato, peppers and tomatoes, I'm planning a thing like vegetarian stuffed peppers but with falafel-mix instead of mince, surrounded by whatever of the veg won't fit in the pepper shells. It was "going" to be a lasagne thing, but SOMEONE finished my pasta. Grrr. Frown  Will miss her when term starts again!

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  • AmyIsStrong
    AmyIsStrong Member Posts: 1,755
    edited August 2011

    Sauteed up a bunch of veggies and then put in a veggie burger (non soy) and a bit of goat cheese to melt over the top. Sliced some fresh tomatoes from a friend's garden. Delicious. Wish I could eat that way every night.

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011

    Toasted Ezekiel bread with fresh made hot-mint relish on top and also some sweet cold watermelon to cool down the meal. Yum!

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011

    Ooh, I've not had any watermelon this season! That does sound good! My stuffed peppers worked really well and I got falafel-and-cottagecheese-with-potato soup from the leftovers - a bit experimental, never heard of it before, but it was very tasty too :) Going to freeze the rest, possibly adding some chicken korma slice to the mixture. It's low fat, it was veggy up to this point, the cheese was organic... can;t be all bad!

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011

    I love Falafel and have not had it for a while, sounds good

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  • jadeblue
    jadeblue Member Posts: 102
    edited August 2011

    I love this thread!

    CorinneM1: You are the healthy diet queen!  Plenty of raw food recipes are very fattening because they contain a lot of nuts and high-caloric things like coconut milk and avocado. Here is a great raw foods blog: http://thesunnyrawkitchen.blogspot.com/. Try making raw ice cream with fresh fruits and nuts -- there's a pound right there! Or, one of my favorites is nori rolls made with nut pate instead of rice and assorted sliced veggies, including avocado. Good luck with that weight gain, and thanks for all the yummy diet suggestions. 

    One great tip that's worked wonders for me is joining a CSA (farm share). We get pounds and pounds of organic fresh veggies each week at a cost of about $25/week. Each week it's something different. Right now is tons of tomatoes, melons, fresh broccoli and string beans, several leafy greens, gorgeous peppers in colors like purple and yellow, fresh herbs, eggplants, corn on the cob, fresh onions and garlic. Yum, yum and yum!

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011
    Mmmm! Smile
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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011

    Home made curried zucchini soup with fresh baked rosemary scones

    Then, I enjoyed  a no guilt organic almond/chocolate truffle and a cup of  Sencha green tea

    I love good food Smile

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  • SAB
    SAB Member Posts: 1,498
    edited August 2011
    Love this thread, except it makes me hungry! Tongue out
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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011
    EAT! Eat Well!
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  • zumbagirl
    zumbagirl Member Posts: 308
    edited August 2011

    Last night I made cabbage lasagna for dinner. You just steam cabbage leaves, and instead of noodles, layer in the cabbage on your favorite lasagna recipie. I use low fat cottage cheese, ground turkey, 2% shredded cheese , and jar sauce.

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011

    Oh, good one Zumbagirl!

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011

    That's tomorrow supper sorted then, Thank you. I even have the cottage cheese already and going to used some dried lemtils.

    This thread makes me hungry too but the way I look at it we need to eat, when you come here you get ideas how to eat better. And if I had to post "Gave in to Chocolate temptation" three days on a row I know you would all help bolster my will power with a gentle team thrash! Surprised (I didnt I didnt I stopped at two...) 

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011

    Or ask you for the recipe for the chocolate temptation LOL

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  • hymil
    hymil Member Posts: 826
    edited August 2011

    No, I was good! Actually recently the price of chocs seems to have rocketed, it's helpful when I see the price and remember I might not have a job this time next year. I had a roll but no butter and a jacket potato with salad and water instead of fizz and walked instead of taking the bus  Innocent  then I got home and found this bar of rocky road in my bag and figured I had earnt it.

    Rocky road, for anyone who doesn't know it by that name, (Recipe time) is a yummy sweet concoction allowable no more than once a week; it has lumps of marshmallow and lumps of biscuity bits and sometimes lumps of honeycomb toffee too, all squidged up together with raisins and melted chocolate, shaped as a bar, (well, poured into a tray about 1-2 cm deep and then cut when cool) a reasonable ration would be about 4 inch by 1 inch by half inch. Without the marshmallows it would be called Tiffin. Comfort eating doesn't get much better!

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  • CorinneM1
    CorinneM1 Member Posts: 539
    edited August 2011

    I so want to join a CSA.  Told the hubs that we are doing this next season.  Oh, and not exactly the healthy diet queen.  I have had my moments recently.  Still no red meat or pork, but I have had fried fish and fried green tomatoes for dinner last week.  Started out healthy, but fried nevertheless.

    Also, had a few bites of key lime pie, and didn't have any veggies yesterday.  Not a one.  Banana/strawberry smoothie...but no veggies.  I tried to make up for it today with stir fried veggies and brown rice for lunch.

    But tonight is another bad night.  Having turkey, cranberry sauce, acorn squash and pumpkin pie.  Granted the turkey is no hormones no, antibotics and the pumpkin pie is organic (from the crust to the whipped topping) but the cranberry sauce has sugar and the acorn squash will have brown sugar and butter).

    So, that weigh loss?  Not really an issue any more.  When I am even a little bad, it comes right back.

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  • CorinneM1
    CorinneM1 Member Posts: 539
    edited August 2011

    Merilee

    Can you post the recipe or PM the recipe for the soup and scones.  I would like to make this soon.  That sounds wonderful.

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited August 2011

    Here is the link for the soup recipe

     http://southernfood.about.com/od/soupandstew/r/bl60804c.htm

    I replaced the chicken stock with veggie.

    The scones:

    Preheat oven to 450

    2cup self rising flour

    1/2 tsp salt

    1tsp baking powder

    2 tbs chopped fresh Rosemary

    1/4 c butter

    2/3 c milk

    Mix dry ingredients, including Rosemary

    Chop butter into  dry mix until crumbly

    slowly mix in milk until a dough ball forms when pressed together between your hands

    Kneed a few times

    flatten to one inch thick

    cut with a glass or other form and place on baking sheet

    Bake 8-10  minutes depending on size. They should be golden around the edges.

    Enjoy :)

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  • CorinneM1
    CorinneM1 Member Posts: 539
    edited August 2011

    Oh thank you!  I will be making this over the weekend.  I have never made scones, but was just telling the husband that I wanted to make these.  I was thinking sweet, but these savory ones are ringing my bell. :)  Plus I can use fresh rosemary from the garden, and this sounds perfect with sliced homegrown tomatoes. Thanks again.

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