Posts by nickiebabie

Original Post by melmellon:

I live in the Philadelphia area, and Cheesesteaks are my weakness. With a whopping 1000 calories per steak... add a beer or two and a large cheese fries and... ugh. Oh, and of course right next to the local watering hole there was a cheesesteak place that was open for an hour after the bar closes... a night of drinking washed down with a huge greasy cheesesteak - I cant even think about that now without being grossed out.

Now, If I must have one, I order a small and immediatly wrap up half of it and put it aside, or try to share it with someone.  And definitely not on nights that I have been drinking.

 i heart philly cheesesteak!!!!!

Original Post by slappy:

mw- you can tag threads so that would be away to keep a "recipe box"

Original Post by carleyrapp:

Mayo is egg & oil, so you could make your own (or aioli w/ garlic) or try just using oil and an egg or egg white. I don't think plain yogurt would coat & stick well like oil or egg does.

I don't like Mayo, I use Grapeseed oil Veganaise

http://www.followyourheart.com/vegenaise.php

It's oil based but sans egg.

Good luck! Crunchy potato sounds yummy, let us know what works!

Original Post by clairelaine:

All the cake mixes here have sugar and the diet cola makes the mixture really sweet.  Most people seem to like this.  Personally, I find the finished product just too sweet.  If you want less sweetness, just use plain club soda instead of the diet cola.  The fizz makes the cake light.

Original Post by tjc1414:

this recipe was great! but we subsituted the meat for chilli from wendys because saved time and was already cooked!

Original Post by stewmama:

I did a diet in the fall and lost about 15 lbs the whole time feeling VERY full.  It had a great "detox" phase where you stopped eating certain foods high in sugars and fat and stuck to fruits veggies, whole grains (no bread or pastas at that point though), some low fat diary and lots of BEANS.  Let me tell you, the more fiber-full your diet, the more full you will feel.

The only problem I have with the high fiber diet is that I tend to look and feel bloated, but I'm going to try out some Beano as advised by someone else on another thread I posted.  It definitely helps me with my desire to snack, though.  After eating a bowl of my 5 bean chili or my minestrone without pasta, I feel absolutely very well sated.

Original Post by sroscoe:

I needed a quick lunch on the go last week so I went to a salad bar at my local grocery store. The girl in front of me was SO SLOW and so I got to overhear her talking to her friend about everything she put in her 'salad'.

Girl 1: what's the difference between these lettuces?

(there were iceberg, spinach and spring mix trays)

Girl 2: (pointing to the iceberg) that one has less calories

Girl 1: (getting 1/2 cup of iceberg) good, I'm on a really strict diet

Girl 2: oh, good for you. What are you doing?

Girl 1: mostly just trying to eat low cal and exercise a bit

(I thought, oh good, she's being healthy! she's in pretty good shape, but maybe she wants to tone up. I then watched Girl 1 load up her salad with a few veggies, but not much, and then hit the dangerous end of the salad bar, the part that has nothing to do with salad. She got at least a 1/2 cup each of potato salad, macaroni salad, tuna salad and pasta salad. Each of these are almost pure mayo/oil. Then she covered the small green part of her salad in bacon bits, croutons, and tortilla chip strips. She she reached the dressing. Now I go to this salad bar quite a bit so I've gotten the nutritional info on all of their products and her 'salad' must be over 1200 calories so far)

Girl 1: what dressing is best (picks up the lite oregano vinaigrette at 50 cal per 2 Tbsp, my favorite)

Girl 2: Oh don't do that, vinaigrettes are almost 100% oil!, here try this one (hands her the 'country herb' a kicked up version of ranch) This is better (190cal per 2 Tbsp)

- May I never have such an 'informed' friend.

Original Post by kae03:

It had it coming

Original Post by amberrr:

what about blue cheese! .. maybe that's why it's so unappealing

Original Post by amberrr:

wow almond butter is expensive.. at least where i'm from anyways. that would have been like $12. I wanna go buy some now it's so tasty lol.

Almond butter isn't unhealthy.. you just need to think of other ways to eat it.. on celery or carrot sticks, apples, spread on a brown rice cake. very delicious.. and if your spreading it rather then eating it off a spoon it won't go as fast. think of  it as a condiment, like ketchup.. not a food group 

I think not buying it for a while may be a good idea. I do the same thing with cashews, i'll buy a tin and they'll be gone in 3 or 4 days.. so I've stopped buying them. Everyonce in a while try it by buying a small jar, and seeing what you do with it.. if you can't space it out, don't buy it again for another month or so.

On the positive side of your day, at least your fibre intake will be good!

and it was healthy fat. so it's better than eating 1500calories of doghnuts lol.

Original Post by goffenhiemer:

I read on here that someone puts hot sauce in fat free cottage cheese to dip vegetables in and it gave me an idea.  I could mix hidden valley ranch fat free dip powder mix with 16oz fat free cottage cheese and mix it in a blender until it is smooth as sour cream.  It turned out awesome and according to my calculations it only had 8.75 calories per tablespoon.

I really want to run with this fat free cottage cheese thing.  I could water the dip down and make a really low calorie ranch dressing or I could make different dips or even a low cal creamy Italian dressing.  I’m even going blend fat free cottage cheese to make a sour cream substitute.

There is a warning though.  This stuff was so good that my wife and I ate all of it in a weekend.  We dipped carrots, celery, cucumbers and even chicken in it.  This stuff is high in sodium so I ended up gaining 3 lbs of water that weekend.  So I’m going to save it for special occasions from now on.

What do you think?

i have a question...does it taste like cottage cheese though or does the ranch seasoning mask that yuckie taste of the cottage cheese? lol i hateeee cottage cheese...but if it doesnt taste like it im all over this recipe!