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

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.

i made a chocolate cake yesterday with zucchini, is that nn?? probably not bc it was loaded with flour/sugar/oil but at least it contained veggies. and it was a really good cake! i don't usually like cake.

you both need to come over to my house and make me chocolate zucchini bread and ricotta pancakes.

yesterday's nutritious eating tempered by moderate amounts of bacon and cream cheese. consumed much olive oil, which I guess is NN--but not in the amounts in which I consumed it!

also realized that I do not need to join a gym, I just have to work in the garden every day until it becomes too hot to deal.

i think the potential plus of bonus-spring-onions maybe trumps the additional flavourgain of using the most potent parts, for me; my palette is not so great, maybe i should switch

I made a lasagna yesterday with zucchini in place of pasta. Ground turkey, spinach, mushrooms, onions, shredded carrots and a 1/3 of a cabbage. It's yummy! Can't wait for lunch.

One great green onion discovery of late in my house is the addition of a handful of chopped green onion to my breadmaker. Makes every bread better, mmmm.

Oh I make a really good noodleless lasagne using zucchini too!

So good! I'm addicted. Also made a curried bulgur, cous cous and ourzo salad earlier this week.. I need some wheat berries in my life. Munching on seedless grapes and a few pieces of cheddar at the moment, dreaming of lunch.. I enjoy green smoothies for breakfast but it doesn't fill me up enough.

Oops just ate a bacon cheese burger and fries how the hell did that happen idgi

update: sprouted onions I placed on windsill have turned a nice and healthy green

Low carb intentions undermined by massive bar of Hotel Chocolat chocolate brought by visitors

I guess I am a nutrition nazi again, because of my diet. Every day I need to eat

~ 1300 calories
< 41 grams fat
~ 160 grams carbs
~ 25 fiber
~ 26 grams grams protein

I am really good at getting fiber and protein nice and high, and keeping carbs and bad fats low but ... then ... I end the day with an extra 250 calories I need to eat and what else is there? more fiber makes me constipated (yes, it's a thing), more protein usually just means an egg and a lot of dietary cholesterol, and more yogurt is too many carbs. So what do I eat? NNers, pls to help me.

why did i not know this about green onions until now

eat some nuts! if you are not allergic to nuts! or nut butter. or just butter.

almond butter ftw

sometimes i mix a tbsp or two of almond butter with (organic, non-sulfite, unsweetened) shredded coconut and a bit of agave syrup. it is good.

i made some really delicious mung dahl tonight! with brown basmati rice. not super NN as far as carbs go, but i'm always amazed at how mung beans don't bother my digestive system like all other lentils/beans do. it's great.

Is there a green onIon shortage I'm not aware of? You are all quite ingenious!

Eating: bulghur, chick peas, and feta salad with green onions. Chopped the whole bunch so I cannot resprout.

xp remy may i suggest you make these chocolate-cherry-chili-walnut-sea salt-black bean cookies? sure, they have sugar and oil, but they also have BEANS

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rrrobyn do you have a recipe for mung dahl? lentils give me awful bowel probs, would love an alternative.

rrobyn, i should buy some good peanut butter. i have pb2 (defatted peanut butter – http://bellplantation.com/ ) but i do not have REAL PEANUTS and they sound so, so good.
justine, those look delic. i crave cookies lately, and i've been staving off w/ dried apricots but... i might make an exception for those. i wonder if they will be very beany?

Ooh Justine I want to make those! They look gooood.

so this is probably tmi and maybe not a nn question but lately whatever i eat for lunch (usually salad with lots of dark greens and veg and some chicken) or dinner (wide range of foods) makes my stomach extremely noisy. however, today i had sushi for lunch, and there was no noise. what does it mean!?

teh, i have been w/ a similar issue lately. i am wondering about two culprits: sugar free gum, and seltzer water. perhaps?

i drink a ton of seltzer. but not at work/during the day, so i don't know how it'd connect to lunchtime (i can't see this being a problem that would occur when not consuming the bubbles).

remy, the thing is that YOU TOTALLY CAN'T TASTE THE BEANS!!! ikr it's totally crazy and i had to make them to believe it, and if there was even a mere whiff of a hint of microscopic taste of bean, i would know bc i am super fussy and complainy about food. but these are so good, my fav cookie actually. they aren't sweet really, they are very fudgey, and they benefit from a night in the fridge before eating. i don't think the original recipe mentions walnuts but DON'T skip them, they are so good.

they taste v v rich and decadent but while they are fairly calorie dense at around 250, they are also reasonably nutritious bc of the beans and cocoa and coconut. oh and def only used unrefined coconut oil, they don't taste right with the refined stuff.

i made a 'tangled thai salad' for dinner that was mostly nn. pretty tasty.

You guys know about black bean brownies, right?

the cookie recipe is basically a brownie recipe, just made into cookies imo - you practically have to eat them with a fork bc they fall apart so easily.

the mung dahl i make is pretty basic - i use 1 cup of whole mung beans rinsed and soaked for several hours (or the quick way, simmer them for an hour or so), then fry some onion with garlic and ginger and curry powder, cumin, tumeric, cayenne maybe - then add beans plus 2-4 cups of water (depends on how well soaked/boiled the beans are already from the pre-soaking/boiling), bring to boil, then lower and let simmer until dahl-like goodness ensues. add salt. serve on top of basmati rice, with chutney of choice or not! this makes a lot of dahl btw.

the bonus of those cookies is the lack of flour. lots of trendy black bean baked goods still have lots of flour and stuff which kind of negates the healthy-ish aspect.

The black bean brownie thing is that if you're feeling lazy but want something warm and chocolaty and maybe not horrendously bad for you, you can just mix a box of any kind of brownie mix (reg, no pudge, natural - whatever) with a can of black beans and forget all the other stuff it tells you to add like eggs or oil. Just one can of black beans. Bake as per the directions and you get gooey delicious brownies that taste nothing like beans.

a friend makes black bean brownies. i can taste the beans... but they are good anyway, in their way - but yeah, they have flour in them anyway and sugar, so i'm like, why not just make regular brownies? anyway, my NN way doesn't include beans (except mung) - and that includes peanuts and peanut butter. exception being certain burritos found in california! because the super long soaking/cooking of burrito black beans does something magically digestive to them!

I have only made the bean brownies 2x but they were good although I think I'm sort of with you on the why not just make brownies thing. After I while I sort of thought I could taste the beans a little bit but then figured that's because I was thinking about it too hard maybe.