Posts by skwinkle

Taco-esque salad with soy chicken strips, black beans, veggies, cheese and lots of salsa.

You should be aware that this stuff does still have fat and calories. The serving size is just so small that there isn't enough to "count" for the labeling purposes.

That is adorable! I love how kids can put things into perspective sometimes.

I made some falafel with mine a while back and it turned out really well. I used this recipe http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Vegan-Friendly-F alafel/Detail.aspx with parsley instead of cilantro. I bake/broil mine instead of frying. Using a whole pound of beans makes a LOT though, so especially if you haven't tried it before I would make half what it calls for.

Amusing (to me, at least) soup story: A week or so ago I got to thinking, "Hey, if black bean soup is really good, and split pea soup is really good, then black bean split pea soup would be REALLY good." So I made some. I diced a whole onion and some carrot, softened that in some olive oil and added about a cup and a half of soaked dried black beans and probably about a cup and a half of dry split peas. I added water to cover and cooked until the beans were soft and the peas had disintegrated, adding a vegetable boullion cube just before. I then seasoned with some cumin, salt, garlic and a dash of cayenne.

It tasted amazing. But it looked ... well, kind of like poop, to be quite honest. I think next time I'll have to try cooking the split peas and black beans separately, then rinsing the beans and hoping that gets rid of the blackness of the liquid. I was too embarrassed to let my co-workers see it when I brought it in for lunch

But man, it tasted so good ...

The best answer is get a food scale. But in the meantime, do you not have measuring cups/spoons? You should get in the habit of measuring everything instead of eyeballing if you are looking for accuracy. That way you would know you used, say, 3/4 cup of peas, or a teaspoon of oil. Although obviously you can't measure things like slices of turkey in a measuring cup.

I used to get that feeling when I was a kid if I ate too much Cap'n Crunch. I have no clue why, but you aren't crazy.

Because I am a vegetarian ...

Also, the Jack-O-Lantern type pumpkins aren't the same kind that are usually eaten. Though the taste/texture wouldn't be radically different than normal with those ... if you did use the stringy parts, though, that definitely explains it.

Once when I was at a hockey game I was in a stall, and I heard a man's voice saying, "I think you're in the wrong restroom" to someone else. I had a moment where I was thinking OH CRAP, but then I heard a woman say, "No, you are in the wrong restroom, you idiot! Get out of here!" I wish she hadn't been so mean, because the men's and women's restrooms at this place look just alike, but it was still funny.

Original Post by medveditsa:

My current peeve is people who don't understand the difference between every day and everyday.

YES!

You may have thought of this already, but you can combine a small amount of something high fat with a larger volume of something with very few calories so as a whole your calories from the snack/food would still come mostly from the fat part. Like celery sticks with a little bit of peanut butter, or hummus (with a drizzle of olive oil to get extra good fats). Or guacamole with something low-cal to dip in it ... I can't think of anything that would be particularly good at the moment that would be very low in calories, but I feel sure there is something. Or make a salad with lots of chopped super low-cal veggies like tomato, cucumber, etc. and dress it with olive oil and whatever else you want in it to flavor it.

I use garlic-flavored hot sauce or soy sauce almost every day with lunch and/or dinner.  Barbecue sauce I love, but don't use it quite as much. And I use lots of different varieties or mustard all the time.

I don't think I have had the lean mac & cheese. I like a new one I found recently - tortellini alfredo. It wasn't "lean" but still isn't too bad. I mixed it with some spinach, and it was good that way. But my overall favorite is the lasagna alfredo. Yummy yummy. I am not a huge frozen food person, but I keep a few in the freezer at work in case I need a quick lunch and couldn't bring one with me.

That does sound really good. Do you have a recipe for the lentil quiche?