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| Recipes | Quiet/Night Before Prep Breakfasts? | Sep 16 2008 10:01 (UTC) |
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| I have some ideas!! I dont have quiet roomies (I have MASSIVLy noisy ones!!!) but I do like to prepare and I dont like the beeps of the mwave. Did you say toaster was out? It does go pop but you can press the cancel button and slide the slider up sometimes. You can stick in waffles (defrost the night before for fast cooking) pre-cooked pancakes, EVEN HASH BROWN PATTIES (not suggesting cos they are unhealthy) Anyway, my ideas are... Buy muesli or oats and sultanas/bran and make your own beforehand. Put a scoop in with some water and yogurt so its a a bit of a sloppy mess the night before, cover and stick in the frige. It soaks it up and tastes YUMMY in the morning. I add psyllium husk for fibre and fruits like frozen cherries in summer - its soooooooo good. Pre cut up a cantelope half (get rid of seeds) and in the morning top with cottage cheese and berries. You can have a HUGE one and there's no crunch when you chew :) Bread pudding made before, cooked in mwave and eaten cold (as in a slive of bread, cubed, tip over mix of skim milk, egg white, vanilla, cinnamon, splenda and soak. Microwave until more solid and keep in fridge) You dont HAVE to have breakfast food for breakfast - you can hhave salads or cold pizza (haha) or cold noodles, as long as you dont let it warm up to room temp. I think just have what you like and vary it Eg. fruit with yogurt and muesli Try bananas, with natural yogurt, and sesame seeds in the granola. Or try exoitcs fruits like mangoes oatmeal get the quick cooking stuff, and put in boiling water and let it sit. And add fruit/yogrut/cottage cheese/PB Snadwhiches Salads (with breakfast foods like eggs, tomatoes etc) |
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| Motivation | Does anyone else get accused of being *too* thin? | Sep 16 2008 09:51 (UTC) |
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Yep, but if i put on a few more kgs I'd be overweight! For me its cos my weigh hides on my thighes and tummy, so i disguise it, whilst my arms and decolletage area is quite bony. Even when i WAS overweight the bones were there. But I had MASSIVE thighs. I really hate when people say I dont eat (I have a huge appetite) or stuff like that. Sometimes I dont eat out with friends as its unhealthy but i go for the social, after a healthy dinner and they say I'm starving myself./ Well I'd HAPPILY invite them over for dinner (and i do) but they refuse to eat "that healthy stuff" like brown rice and chicken, healven forbid without skin or not stuffed with butter and garlic |
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| Recipes | Your favorite healthy recipe? | Sep 02 2008 21:38 (UTC) |
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| Yummy sandwhich 2 slices bread On a grill put slices of mushroom, egg plant and peppers (can put on oil) and grill until warm. Spread hummus on one slice of bread and fill 'er up! Chicken Baked Coat a half breast in egg white then dip in a mix of panko (or bread crumbs, some people use cornflakes, crushed) with mixed herbs, sprinkle of parmesan cheese (optional) and garlic powder (or i marinate the chicken breast in garlic before) and bake until chicken is cooked - mm crispy coated chicken. Try some tofu? To jazz up boring recipes i sprinkle on toasted sesame seeds |
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| Foods | dream sundae :p | Sep 02 2008 05:50 (UTC) |
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| Warm brownie pieces, peanut butter, caramel fudge, vanilla ice-cream with chunks of toffee in it (like hockey pokey) and white chocolate. :) Size isnt too much of an issue (huge would be gross) and I hate cream. | |||
| Foods | cutting-out artificial sweeteners, who's with me? | Sep 02 2008 05:49 (UTC) |
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| I wish I could but 1. I dont find they make me any hungrier than sugar and 2. there's this stupid mentality stuck in my head that too much sugar = bad, but replacing it with sweetener when you can gives you variety,. Weird, I know :( Also gum is like that cos if it had sugar it would rot your teeth, right? |
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| Health & Support | bdd...and self image issues | Sep 01 2008 04:28 (UTC) |
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| Dont want to sound mean but you need to get help And i dont mean a loony bin, I mean acutally meet with someone who has had it or dealt with it. Its a common thing in people with ED< just know that you can get help and support. In the mean time, try to let go about caring too much about how you look and focus on the things you are good at. Write a list of things that make you happy (not things that you THINK make you happy, like exercise, i mean REALLY make you happy, like friends, outdoors etc) and try and incorporate them into your daily life as much as possible. Think about all your good sides and when a negative thought comes up SERIOUSLY challenge it. Is its REALLY true? Probably not, its just eh ED talking. ANd if it is, WHO CARES, its your life, make it what you want Congrats for getting along so far!! Stay strong |
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| Foods | DescribeYour Dream Days Menu | Aug 26 2008 01:40 (UTC) |
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| B: Sourdough french toast, with slices bananas, butterscotch sauce and walnut maple ice-cream. And a chai latte on the side S: Cashews - salted and roasted, and slice of mud torte L: Meat pie with mashed potato, salad S: I'd prolly be soooo full by now... cake... and another chai. Ooo giant blueberry muffin D: Chinese feast - plenty of stir fries, no fried, white rice S: Super moist-super datey Sticky date pud with lots of hot caramel and ice-cream. |
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| Foods | One Food | Aug 26 2008 01:37 (UTC) |
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| Deffo choc chunk cookies :D | |||
| Foods | Anyone else eating ALOT of sandwiches? | Aug 26 2008 01:37 (UTC) |
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| Hummus and tomato Cream cheese and lite sweet chilii toasted Bannana and PB of course Tuna with cheese, on baby spinach and tomato, toasted Ps. Nutella isnt the same nutritionally as PB... there's a LOT more nuts which are the healthy bits in PB, I'd suggest making your own Nutella - more nuts than sugar. Su good eats has a thing on it |
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| Recipes | Anyone tried the 35-calorie-per-slice cheesecake recipe? | Aug 24 2008 23:17 (UTC) |
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| I liked it but not as cheesecake. As a dessert. I called it raspberry mousee pie as it was quite light and fluffy, not like real cheesecake | |||
| Foods | Food Survey | Aug 22 2008 00:11 (UTC) |
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| I will TRY to limit to just one but I have so many favs sometimes
Breakfast food: Oats - so versatile, but I rarely have them plain Italian dish: Lasagna. I found a low fat/cal frozen one I love, but making your own is best Mexican dish: We dont have much here in Australia but I like chicken fajitas Drink: Green tea OR white hot chocolate Dessert: Sticky Date pudding. Dont care how high cal as long as its goeey with big date pieces, with ice-cream and warm butterscotch sauce Chinese dish: Lol, asking a chinese chick here. Prolly cashew chicken with steamed rice Appetizer: Turkish bread and hummus Diet food/product: Winter comfort food: mac cheese. FInally found a low cal/fat frozen one in asutralia that tastes soooo nice, Summer comfort food: Mangoes, eating them like an apple with the juice running everywhere Birthday treat: Fast food item: Blerk, hate fast food... Does sushi count? Frozen food: Hazelnut gelato Food to bake: Choc CHUNK cookies Food to cook: Salmon Type of Pizza: pumpkin with fetta and spinach but if I'm being bad CHEESEY GARLIC (cold too!) Canned food item: ... does baby corn count? Type of chocolate: :D EVERYTHING. I used to hate white, but I love it all now. Anything with a truffle centre Fruit: mmm so many... strawberries Veggie: once again too many, but if cooked properly chinese guy lan |
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| Foods | Luna Bars | Aug 22 2008 00:04 (UTC) |
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| We dont have them here, but I make my own. Of the plain ones anyway. |
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| Foods | a fridge, a kettle, a microwave, and a toaster?! | Aug 21 2008 23:58 (UTC) |
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I LIVE in accomodation with only that I did buy a jaffle iron and eventually a toaster oven but for a year I ate every meal with those appliences. Lucky me, tho I had a dining hall to smuggle food from. breakfast: Summer - *Yogurt with toasted muesli (low fat, low sugar) and fruit. I like strawberries with natural low fat and a sprinkle of muesli. * The night before stick plain muesli or your oatmeal (not cooked) with added raisins or fruit like strawberries or cooked apple in a bowl with enough water to just wet it all and stir in yogurt. You may need to practice to get the right consistancy. THe night before it'll be runny but in the morning nice and soft. I usually dip in apple slices. * Half a rockmelon, scoop out seeds, chops into pieces and return to its "shell", topped with cottage cheese and raspberries Winter * As said above, other grains. Also try katheats.com for different oatmeal ideas. Try brown rice creamed, or cous-cous sweetened with cranberries. Ther's recipes ont he net * Microwaved baked oatmeal * Bread pudding - tear up two light pieces of bread, mix an egg white with milk, vanilla, splenda and cinnamon and soak bread. Add rasisons or cooked apple if you wish. Microwave until solid and cooked. * WArm up low fat custard and dip in raisin toast * Toast with eggs - you can poach in the microwave. You can also cook mushrooms in there too. * Micorwave egg white omlette with spinach and laughing cow cheese. lunch: I hate butter too. Have last night's leftovers. (see below for ideas) as said above, in wraps or rolls *I love soup in winter, with a bread roll. I add a dollop of natural fat free yogurt *Salads. And I dont mean boring ones. Look up women's health - they have heaps of ideas. Pasta salads, tuna salads etc Dinner: I do so many things. I get packet sauces and just 1/4 and tip[ over the cooked meats. You can buy a BBQ chicken and use that stuff if you really dont wantt to cook it, but I just cook it in the microwave. I use half a packet of wholewheat noodles, frozen veggies, chicken and oyster sauce,diluted with water then add cornflour at the end to thicken it and its a microwave "stir-fry" * If i have soup one night, I'll save the rest for lunch the next day * Quick pasta throw in a can of tuna and 1/4 c cream of celery soup * On weekends, cook up a MASSIVE bake/roast and use that for leftovers - freeze them. When you take them to work defrost them in the freezer. Do a beef roast and use thin slices in your sandwhiches. A chicken chilli and use it plain, or wrap in burritos. Other ideas include low fat beef strog (or mushroom strog if you dont like beef) macarooni bakes, even PIZZA. They make great brekkie too :) snacks: try cottage cheese with apple dipped in, ricotta sweetened with canilla and splenda and chopped strawberries (my fav dessert) |
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| Foods | Peach Pancakes? | Aug 21 2008 22:19 (UTC) |
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| You can go wrong with fruit in pancakes/oatmeal Kiwi's and grapes BUT you cant go wrong with fruit ON pancakes. I would have stewed the peaches in their own juice/microwaved and used sugar free maple syrup and natural yogurt on top, or cinnamon :) But good try too :) I want to make apple swirl pancakes one day |
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| Foods | What did YOU have for breakfast today? | Aug 21 2008 22:15 (UTC) |
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| Thick piece of fruit and nut bread, toasted, LF fresh ricotta mixed with splenda and vanilla, spread thickly, topped with blueberries and starberries until they fell off. And soy milk on the side. My new love | |||
| Foods | Egg Whites, Oatmeal and a Recipe Suggestion! =) | Aug 21 2008 22:14 (UTC) |
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| Yeah, if you want them just for the protein then you can add them like so: Cook your oatmeal - i do it in the micorwave Have your egg whites in another bowl Add a bit of cooked oatmeal to the eggwhites. Like 2 tsps and mix well - its like tempring the eggs. If you just heat them they will solidify Keep adding in the oatmeal one spoonful at a time until you cant really tell the difference between the two Then add the egg to the rest of the oatmeal and stir well. If you stove cook oatmeal, make sure you take it off the heat So the eggs are essentially mostly raw, so make sure your eggs are safe. If you add them hot your eggs will scramble and its feral. Usually I cannot have oats plain like this. I need fruit otherwise its too eggy for me. If i want protein i usually dump cottage cheese on top Body buid,ers like it this way - try their forums maybe? |
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| Recipes | Favorite Hungry-Girl.com Recipe? | Aug 21 2008 22:11 (UTC) |
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| Also canada, they are not some magic nw invention - they originally were asisn, so check out asian grocery stores for konyaku noodles Thats the only way I can get them. THey're not as cool as they dont come in cool shapes, but still.. |
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| Recipes | Muffin in a Mug??? | Aug 21 2008 22:09 (UTC) |
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| Star crossed, in theory but its very hard to measure 1/32ths of a table spoon of muffin I have read where you put the same mount of cake mix as diet sodz in a mug (like a big table spoon) and microwave it. I think it was on these forums |
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| Foods | scary muffins | Aug 18 2008 07:00 (UTC) |
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| Recipe?? How big were they if you dont mind me asking - i only have a small muffin tray? |
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| Recipes | Ideas for cleanse | Aug 16 2008 10:58 (UTC) |
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| Portobello mushroom pizzettes - use a giant lid of a mushromm, spread with tomato past and top with pizza toppings like onions, pineapple, peppersetc No cheese of course. Puree steamed cauliflower and mix with herbs and garlic = fake mashed potatoes. Look up faux fried rice - they use a cauliflower instead of rice. And you can steam bean sprouts instead of noodles. How about looking up vegan recipes? Omlettes (egg white_ with spinach and mushroom. Roasted sweet potato fries egglplant lasagna (no cheese) |
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| Recipes | those tricky low-cal recipes | Aug 14 2008 12:03 (UTC) |
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| FOr a whole cup, think of all teh bulk you'd miss out. You're best bet is to buy it unless the sugar is just for flavour and not for caramelizing or structure | |||
| Recipes | Natural Sugar Substitute in Baking | Aug 14 2008 12:02 (UTC) |
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| You can use honey, just google it - it will effect as its a liquid sweetener. | |||
| Foods | do YOU drink any of your calories? | Aug 14 2008 12:00 (UTC) |
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How do you get calcium, if you dont mind me asking. Its just milk can have so much. I guess yogurt.. I have about 1 glass of miolk a day - i cut out soda and juice as they were practically empty calories, but I have milk (soy) and sometimes light cranberry juice as there is some cranberry. Oh and yeah, white hot chocolate at 60cal cos its stops me having real white choc. |
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| Foods | if you had only one day left to live.. | Aug 12 2008 06:30 (UTC) |
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| Pfft, I woudlnt spend my day pigging out! I only have one day left! Having said that, if I had a doggy bag with me, I'd deffo have some form of chocolate, prolly for dessert and scallops for dinner (havent had them in AGES) with white rice. And dates to snack on during the day for energy with roasted salted cashews |
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| Foods | If you're in Australia and love chocolate.... | Aug 10 2008 03:03 (UTC) |
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| Well its good to know it tastes good - I was wondering about that, butyou mean 42 cals PER SERVE. its not 42 cal for the whole thing. Its 253 cal for the block. Plus it has more fat. But its GREAT for diabetics I hear Believe me, Australia wouldnt be the fattest nation if that were true :) But I might pick some up. Have you tried the other flavours? |
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| Foods | What do YOU do with bean sprouts? | Aug 10 2008 02:57 (UTC) |
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| Both of the above If i have leftover sauces, I steam them until they are wilted and chewy, not crunchy and use them like pasta (need lots of tomato based sauce) We dont have those low cal noodles in Australia, so I use bean sprouts instead |
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| Young Calorie Counters | MAJOR slip up! | Aug 05 2008 02:01 (UTC) |
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| I used to have massive trouble with eating. I'd eat clean until the afternoon then binge. And this went on for years, on and off. Finally I had two good days in a row. But that weekend I went home and it was terrible! I didnt even have one healthy meal and cake fro breakfast. Its funny tho, I felt terrible, physically after that weekend and decided to really start listening to my body. When i crave chocolate do I really want it? Or am i looking for comfort. Finally, I am now CHOOSING to eat healthy. I dont want that ham and cheese corissant. I dont want those cookies all the time like before. Because I decided to stop forcing myself to eat good, but to listen to my body. I came to accept what I did and only through that did I finally break years of bad habits. Now I may binge again one day. But I feel so much stronger. So use the feelings now to motivate you. Next time you feel and urge to binge, remember how silly it really was - you didnt need that food, just like you dont need it now. Goodluck! One day never ruins anything. And even if you binged once a week, at least its 6/7 days of being good rather than bingeing all the time (like me, but even then i still ate a good breakfast, and moved towards where I am now)( |
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| Foods | 100% calcium and vitamin D............................... SO HARD (HATE milk) | Aug 04 2008 07:12 (UTC) |
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| I found a soy milk that i liked and tasted different too. Nice in fact! Try some lactose free milk and bake with it or make a milkshake with low cal ingredients or a smoothie. Special K has calcium as do many cereals and kids snacks - check the packs. Also try orange juice. Vitamin D comes from the sun. |
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| Foods | I suspect that my extra lean ground beef wasn't extra lean =/ | Jul 31 2008 21:30 (UTC) |
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| THe rinsing thing really works. Check out hillbillyhousewife - no need to buy extra lean mince if you can "make" it extra lean yourself! (or better) | |||
| Foods | What did YOU have for breakfast today? | Jul 28 2008 22:32 (UTC) |
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| I'm so jealous! I want almond milk! We dont have it here in Australia I had fresh strawberries sliced, topped with natural low fat yogurt and sprinkled with low fat toasted muesli with sesame seeds and a little cup of soy milk. |
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