Posts by katydid_007

this has been stuck in my ead for the past half hour:

"i feel like a hero and you are my heroine...."

i think we love foods surveys because....

a) they pass the time when we're bored

b) reading other people's gives us food ideas

c) we get to talk about ourselves

so here i go....

1) last thing you ate: some candy corn last night

2) last thing you drank: water.

3) the next thing you're going to eat: when my mom gets back i'm making waffles for breakfast and i'm going to eat them with raspberries and powdered sugar.... she just walked in the door!

4) the next thing you're going to drink: water

5) are you craving anything right now?: waffles! and water because i'm sick and unbelievably dehydrated

6) what's your favorite pie flavour?: that's hard.... i love pumpkin pie, berry pie, banana creme pie, and chocolate pecan pie (possibly the naughtiest of all pies...)

7) name a food you're tired of: soup

8) name a food you hate: there are very few and i can't think of any at the moment.

9) what's your favorite meal of the day?: i like breakfast and cooking dinner

10) what's your favorite vegetable?: broccoli! and sweetpotato....

a more accurate way to measure your sweet potato without a digital scale would be to cut it up into chunks and toss it in a measuring cup.

they also say that only 10% of your daily calories should come from fat. that makes me seriously question the credibility of this article...

yeah... the reason i posted here is because i'm really not interested in gaining weight. at all. i thought i would be mentally okay with it, but it scares me. i don't want to lose weight, but i want to maintain.

because of this, i've been trying to eat only what i'm burning off, not more. obviously i'm failing at this... which doesn't make sense to me, seeing as i'm really not eating that much. *sigh*

i love spicy and sweet (not necessarily together, though.) I love spicy foods - one of my favorites is to eat jalapenos raw or (even better) soaked in lime juice and salt. but i always like to have something sweet at the end of a meal - usually a piece of fruit or some yogurt.

yesterday- though i don't think i ate enough, because i swam four hours and probably only ate 2000-ish (not counting calories right now)

breakfast: peanut butter granola, banana, 2% milk

snack: powerbar pria

snack: baby carrots

snack: string cheese

lunch: peanut butter, honey, and apple sandwich on soy bread; plain yogurt mixed with rest of apple and cinnamon, collard greens

snack: handful of almonds/craisins

dinner: chicken breast, barley primavera, asparagus, broccoli, spinach

dessert: dark chocolate

snack: nectarine

my lunches always end up between 400 and 500 calories. I always eat something from every food group at lunch. so for instance, i'll have a grain (bread, english muffin, half a bagel, crackers), a protein (usually deli slices or nut butter), a serving of fruit, a low fat dairy product, and assorted veggies (often with hummus for dipping.) and i always find myself, as i said, between 400 and 500 calories.

i also eat it when i make sandwiches / wraps / pitas

i love it with dippy vegetables (carrots, celery, sugar snap peas - things like that) and on whole wheat crackers.

i took a required semester of health as a freshman, and we did a week or two of nutrition. we had to write down everything we ate for three days, put it all into fitday along with all of our activity, and then look at our diets according to the food pyramid standards. we also had to go to mypyramid.gov and create a plan for ourselves. this was the first i had REALLY looked at health and my dietary needs - i didn't even know what a calorie was until seventh grade, when i began counting them and trying to lose weight unhealthily. that only lasted a year, but i didn't know much about what i needed diet wise, besides the basic 6-11 servings of grain, 2-3 servings of dairy, etc. i don't ever remember learning about the food pyramid in elementary school, and i remember grade school really well. i do remember that it posted in the gynasium, though.

also, i suspect that everyone had significantly low intakes compared to what they really were. i've looked at my log now that i know more about nutrition, and i realize that the two glasses of milk that i used to drink a day weren't 8 oz. i probably drank 2 1/2-3 cups of milk a day between those two glasses. and i logged an ounce of doritos that was probably 2 or 3. i used to take big plates of doritos (or whatever other chips were around the house) and snack on them. plus, i remember that one of the nights i was supposed to be loggin my intake, i went to a concert where there were refreshments by donation, and i ate 5 or 6 cookies. hehe..... needless to say, those didn't show up on my log. so though we learned about nutrition, we weren't really taught portion sizes.

last time i ate nutella, two friends of mine and I bought a jar of nutella and a box of nilla wafers. we polished it off in about half an hour.

that stuff is delicious

i have a friend who eats nutella sandwiches instead of peanut butter

really really really cheesy quesadillas

yeah, i haven't eaten one of those in a LONG time

i'm with you, ericainrecovery, about the melted cheese thing. i know it sounds disgusting, but osmetimes i used to melt cheese on a plate and eat it with a fork.

i wonder if it would deplete some of the calories if you blotted off the cheese-grease with a napkin.... hmm.....

Original Post by carmenxox:

Original Post by irishmum:

Original Post by marjael:

 Taking a tomato or pickle off a sandwich isn't like taking a off a piece of lettuce. They are juicy, and the juice seeps into the bread, and if you don't like tomatoes or pickles, you certainly don't want to eat a sandwich with tomato juiced bread. If it's cherry tomatoes, I'm more than willing to pick them out of my salad (like I do at Chick-Fil-A) but I'm more than a little annoyed if I order a salad with no tomoatoes at a restaurant and then have to pick tomato seeds and wipe tomato juice off my lettuce.

 Okay, fair enough! I never thought of the juice- I was referring to when someone doesn't say to leave off the tomato/pickle etc. then throws a wobbly when it arrives! I'd be pi**ed off if I specifically asked for something to be left off and it still came on the item- and yes, the tip would suffer! LOL!

 ouch... usually it is not the server's fault though, but a misread bill in the kitchen... aka the cooks fault! lol, so before assuming someone is a bad server pay attention at how they react to your complaint.. was it their error? or someone elses? 

well, at least in the reastauraunt i work in, the servers tip the kitchen. so less money for the servers i guess means less money for the cooks. just sayin. 

i buy plain yogurt, and a suggestion on the back of the tub is to mix equal parts plain yogurt and mayonnaise - supposedly you can't tell the difference? i haven't tried it because i don't like mayonnaise, but maybe it would be worth a shot.

mrs. dagle: i'm so sorry you feel attacked about the canola oil thing! i didn't mean to draw attention to it: it was just something i had never heard before and was curious as to why you would avoid it (and if i should, because we use it for our cooking oil....) also, i had heard that it was a good source of omega-3's, so that made me more curious. but yeah, you're right, it's definitely not hurting anyone, and i'm sorry if i drew negative attention to it.