~~~~~nutrition nazis 2012~~~~~

does anyone know if 100% buckwheat soba noodles exist? i was at the chinese store looking at 5 different brands of soba noodles and all of them have the first ingredient "wheat." i don't care too much though.

they do but it's usually a japanese product

I used to be able to recognize the kanji for them but alas I have forgotten

oh yeaaaaah wikipedia

The most famous Japanese soba noodles come from Nagano. Soba from Nagano is called Shinano Soba or Shinshu soba. Ni-hachi (二八, two-eight) soba, consists of two parts of wheat and eight of buckwheat; Juuwari (十割, 100%) soba, the finest (and usually most expensive) variety, consists entirely of buckwheat.

i got a package of them but i'll check h-mart after i use them up. i think soba noodle salad with dry-fried tofu and peanut sauce and vegetables would be a good cold work lunch.

I bought some packages of weird noodles at the asian market - oat, buckwheat, some other kinds. they always end up really clammy. I think I am forgetting to wash them like it says here

http://www.justhungry.com/basics-cold-soba-noodles-dipping-sauce

they had mung bean noodles at the store but a primary ingredient was corn starch

mung beans are a great bean I love mung bean soup

i love those mung bean popsicle things and i have a cookbook called "silk road cooking" that has a mung bean salad in it that is good

i have Roland 100% Oraganic Buckwheat soba noodles sitting around (first ingredient listed is wheat flo_ur)

drinking wine right now so I won't be soba for long

budum tish

So far I have a lot of fruit and veg today, albeit dressed veg. Jesus H that WF raw kale with garlicky dressing is GARLICKY. Good, but whoa not gonna eat that on a work day.

Tonight I will eat tacos with some grilled skirt steak and veg while spouse eats a 64 ounce ribeye. I have seen him eat upwards of 70 oz, he is like a caveman with a fresh kill.

Snax ideas:

Hummus or other bean dip with veg
Gazpacho
Ants on log! Or banana with peanut butter
Some people would say string cheese but fuck that, if I'm gonna eat cheese it is going to be awesome cheese
Edamame
Goddamn yogurt

I will take a small portion of salted almonds and some bell peppers/carrots to work for snax. I'm probably the most crunchingest person in my general cubicle vicinity. Sorry, neighbors!

I used to snack on bell peppers but the acidity was killing my teeth

I should keep the almonds at work to small portions too. I have a huge bag of them in my desk and when. I get really hungry, god knows how many calories I get through.

I had to start putting the almonds in a little cup with a screw-on top like you'd use for a baby's cheerios. Otherwise, seriously.

I like prunes. Not too many prunes.

I tried almonds in the shell in the hope that shelling them would slow me down. Haha, NO.

yeah I've mawed through a ton of trail mix bc I haven't been portioning. Tiny tupperware is a good idea

orange + dark choc sounds yum
love carrots & bell peppers
hate string cheese :(

I'm going to make a seafood and tomato & garlic & pepper sauce that is low-fat and dairy-free AND extremely tasty. Then I'm going to put it over a pile of pasta. :/

I've thought about it and I don't think carbs are *that* bad. you need to get your calorie count up somehow if you're a veg

I mean the answer can't always just be "eat fresh fruit" !

^Yum xxpost

i bought some cheese last week that i thought was sharp cheddar. i didn't read the fine print where it says that it was a processed cheese product. omg was it terrible. i figured i could salvage it by melting on corn chips. IT DIDN'T MELT, just kinda got harder and brown.

DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU

lotta stuff on sale 2day at the grocery store

fresh pasta, salmon, strawberries. i couldn't decide so i bought worcestershire sauce.

mealz:

in school, the chef/instructor brought in some wheat berries and dried cherries and i made a middle-eastern salad with them, including lemon and orange zest, raisins, leeks, and fresh mint. really nice, light, simple. had some wheat berries left over and used them in a a second salad with cucumber and feta.

last night i made a stir-fry with broccoli florets, thinly sliced yams, and diced granny smith apple -- tossed in some "soy vay" brand hoisin garlic sauce. when i'm feeling more ambitious, i'll make my own sauce that's less sweet.

tonight i might do something with collard greens? we have a produce box we're trying to use up.

Instead of Easter baskets in England they do these giant chocolate easter eggs that and then usually filled with lots of little smaller chocs so basically what Thomp is saying is that he's eaten a shitload of chocolate today.

ahem actually i was saying that i have eaten a shitload of chocolate both today and yesterday

earlier i said something like "no, i'm going to go and buy some chips to stop myself eating another easter egg" and then i heard myself and went OH MY GOD I AM A FAT PERSON. and then i ate about a pound of fried potatoes.

and now i am going to eat another easter egg.

guys i feel like hitler but don't post about easter candy on this thread or i will have you transported to a camp

― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Saturday, March 10, 2012 2:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

– my CSA share for the spring starts back up tomorrow; stoked
– I tried going full on China Study no anything last week and had an emotional breakdown and then reunited myself with cheese and wine

Jesus H that WF raw kale with garlicky dressing is GARLICKY. Good, but whoa not gonna eat that on a work day.
v true! i have learned to only eat this at home, which is why i was so excited when my wf started putting out plain, undressed raw kale. previously the only kale avail was the garlicky kind.

bent, i love wheat berries! i make salads like that all the time.

do you have to cook wheat berries?

yes

http://i.imgur.com/9FcPA.jpg

lol I was thinking the same thing, dayo

I am making collard greens tonight. Braised w/ red onions & cider vinegar, sans bacon.

(I will not talk abt the spareribs or cornbread :/)

My dietician said I shouldn't eat yoghurt as a meal. The sugar spike (???) is high but goes down quickly. ARGH! I am addicted to it. I can't just give it up!

I'm not sure about yogurt glycemic spikes but if you want less sugar in your yogurt a lot of the greek ones have fewer grams than other styles.

just to dial it back a little to the spring onion discussion, maybe i can consult you onion pros for advice; other than the very tip of the bulb, which you cut off, i always use the white end, up the stem until it loses structural integrity/no longer produces round spring-onion-segments. do you guys work from the top? i heard it was a flavour thing, and it's one of those received wisdom things i've never challenged (cf don't put all the stock into the risotto at once, &c)

I work from the top!

i always do what you do, schlump! if i am doing a stir fry i will throw in more of the green end because that part is great wilted in hot dishes. i generally stop using it where it goes lame but if the green parts are still firm/thick, i throw em in.

I also use the schlump/tehresa technique, but will try the Abbott trick!

Ate pretty nutritiously yesterday, albeit too much. Also snuck in bites of mac&cheese, mashed potatoes, and juicy ribeye--but did not make a meal of these, so yay me.

Failed to get exercise or visit that gym I am thinking about joining. Today, these will happen!

Oh and I ordered a new bike saddle so I will no longer use ass pain as an excuse not to bike. Now I will just use fear of dying as an excuse not to bike.

that reminds me i need to buy add'l bike shorts/pants.

i am considering joining gym near me when it gets hot so i can't use heat as an excuse not to exercise like i did last summer. last summer was really hot!

I've fallen far from the Nazi bandwagon . . . been trying to get back on slowly by just cooking my own meals . . . they don't have to be healthy . . . I just have to make them myself. Soon I will transition into making healthy food.

Last night I ate baby octopus for the first time at a Korean restaurant (it was chewy!). My culinary goal for the next month is to eat more octopus.

was it the live kind?

vp you should go to uncle nick's over in hell's kitchen/west side and have their grilled baby octopus because it is SO SO SO good.

It wasn't the live kind . . . I asked the waitress if she recommended the sashimi or the stir-fry and she recommended the stir-fry. I'm not sure about Sik Gaek--the restaurant is so cute and fun but I'm not sold on their food.

I've never tried Uncle Nick's--thanks for the rec. I'm going to Spain at the end of the month so I am looking forward to eating more pulpo.

this is not really nn bc dairy, flour, etc. but this morning i am making a modified version of a ricotta pancake recipe using nonfat ricotta. i calculated the nutrition and it ends up being a 15g protein serving of pancakes, for 211 calories, which i think is not so bad.

thinking about this thread today

PEOPLE IT IS TIME TO START WRITING ABOUT YOGURT h/t @RonCharles pic.twitter.com/y4AVKClMXG

— Lisa Lucas (@likaluca) September 6, 2023

I was just thinking yesterday how funny it is that our generation has started a business for expensive superfoods, when people are otherwise incited to make such poor choices. The stats for average added sugar consumption always fascinate me. They're probably not the same people buying açai berries or chia seeds, but still.

Although now the news is all about people reducing their number of meals and going for worse options to survive the inflation. And I'm like, worse than what ? The town was already discounters, kebap and burger places.

Oh, and seeing the discussion above, at the last baby shower / bbq I attended, someone came with fifty fresh sardines on a tray. For a party of 20 people already overloaded with things to eat. Some people take their food seriously.

I'm trying to think of the healthiest things we're eating regularly:
- Rucola salads with grated feta, cucumber, diced watermelon, roasted pumpkin seeds
- Homemade tofu summer rolls (cucumber, carrot, rice noodles, non-salted peanuts, sesame seeds, mint, secret peanut butter sauce)
- Chole masala (also chickpea couscous salad, bean stew in wraps)
- Avo toasts / sandwiches obv (avo, cucumber, boiled egg preferred combination)
- Greek yoghurt muesli with cereals, fruit, linseed oil (my default lunch when there's no time)

And undercooked salmon which is why I have now had diarrhea for three days.