Posts by flamel

jenningermany wins! Her casserole with eggplant and tomato sounds like just the thing. I didn't mention it but I have a spare tomato, an I think it would keep the dish from being bland.

I don't have fresh basil so I think I'll use dried "herbes de Provence" blend.

Thanks everyone!

A healthy body mass index (BMI) is anything from 20 to 25. Over 25 health problems can start.

At 6'5", a BMI of 25 would put you at 210 pounds. That's fairly heavy, but it will work with your very tall frame. 210 pounds would be your maximum healthy weight

EDIT: PS my BMI is 33 so I can sympathise!

Second Edit: You asked how many calories to consume in another thread (please don't ask off-topic questions like that in someone else's threadP. Check out the Tools section of CC. You'll find the Burn Meter can give you some idea how many calories you burn in a day.

I tried it with your stats, assuming you're a total couch potato, and came up with 2740 calories. That's what you burn in a day. For how much to consume in you food, eat 500 to 700 calories less to lose weight. 2000 would work unless you are more active; if you exercise 2500 cal would be a better diet.

I hope this helps.

It doesn't matter when you weigh as long as you're consistent. But first thing in the morning is usually your lightest weight.

If you get upset by the little ups and downs of the scale don't weigh daily. How often to weigh mostly depends on your psychology.

I'm an alcoholic myself. I'm unlike you - I drank nearly every day, but fairly moderately. Certainly not blackouts. But I drank until I ran out of money and had to decide on booze, smokes, or food.

You have to ask yourself if you have any control over when you start drinking. You have 3 months sober time, and that's excellent, but it's not long enough to be able to see if you were alcoholic or just a habitual drunk. I hope that makes sense.

I'm not involved in any group such as AA right now, and I take the attitude that I want to avoid toxic substances even if they're tasty. It took me 10 years to get out of that pit and I'm glad it looks a bit easier for you. I wish you all the best.

Original Post by eidolah:

roasted garlic mashed potatoes. party in my mouth.

just normal mashed potatoes, but you wrap a head of garlic in tinfoil and bake it, then mash the garlic into the potatoes with a bit of skim milk. you could probably also add some onion and herbs.

soooo gooooood.

 Sounds delicious!

 Julia Child has a recipe for garlic mashed potatoes that calls for 2 heads of garlic... and of course loads of butter and heavy cream. Yours sounds more practical:)

I'm really into egg cookery:) One of the first dishes I ever learned to cook was a French omelette. Ironically, I now find I prefer scrambled eggs. I used to hate scrambled eggs until I found out that the good ones were cooked over very gentle heat until they aren't slimy. Overcooked scrambled eggs are horrible!

gi-jane: those are good solutions! especially the first one which is closest to what I had in mind. I didn't know you could reset the number of servings but it's a simple way to find the weight of the whole dish without breaking my poor little kitchen scale.

My serving bowls are around 300 ml when full so 300 grams works too.

Original Post by gi-jane:

Try this easy recipe for a 'Spinach Frittata'.... You can use defrosted frozen spinach rather than fresh spinach and the eggs in it means it contains plenty of protein. 

 GI Jane recommended her spinach frittata to me too and I was amazed, it was such a huge amount of food! It's more than I eat for Christmas dinner, usually. And only 440 calories (mine was more like 600 because I used full fat cheese and more cooking oil). A light snack that will hold you for 5 or 6 hours. It made a good supper for me:)

Oh! Oh! I just remembered the ultimate linguistic no-no! English people who pronounce "bottle" with a glottal stop in the middle: "bo'ul". They sound like they're trying to vomit.

I like sardines on toast for breakfast. Sardines not only have lots of protein but they have plenty of omega 3, calcium, and vitamin D. Very healthy:)

I do have HP sauce. Sounds different! Do you know HP sauce isn't in the CC database?

I was pleasantly surprised to find that an ounce of peanut butter has about 3 grams of fiber. There are a lot of sources for fiber!

Cheerios are fine, they just aren't very filling. For a more substantial breakfast what I do is have cereal (normally oatmeal porridge) followed by an egg or something. Or sardines: I'm a very strange person who loves sardines for breakfast (plenty of iron, calcium, protein, omega 3, and vitamin D).

Actually, I get up around noon. But breakfast, for me, is the first meal of the day, whenever. I like to have breakfasty foods, nearly always starting with oatmeal porridge.

I live in an apartment with one houseplant. I think that would be too much coffee for one little plant...