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

but only if you buy the variety 'evergreen onions'

make your green onions sprout forever using this one weird trick

the green onionhood forever

down with deciduous onions

it's like basil plants, right. they tell you it can't re-spawn but you can keep it going on a kinda lower-energy cycle for a while, growing smaller leaves.

I planted green onions from seed yesterday, but will also try the sprouting thing with some stuff I have in the fridge.

Currently on the stove: soup with homemade chicken stock along with onion, carrot, celery, orange pepper, tomato, cabbage, and kale. Oh and just a tiny bit (one slice) of bacon. Also garbanzo beans, gonna chuck some macaroni in there as well.

NN question: are corn tortillas considered wholep-grain? Also, is pho NN? 'Cause if pho is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Just don't drink the broth like a crazy westerner. Pho is high calorie, but pretty not bad

Just don't drink the best part? Have you met me?

the broth is crazy sodium-y, no?

drink more water

instead of drinking eight glasses of pho broth a day? whatevs.

lol

my sprouted green onions have grown a lot! who knew they had it in them? they are champs. I feel like a proud parent.

I'm afraid to strip away the onion skin to see what my sprouted onions look like. feels like a dorian gray situation.

I'm sucking at NNing, but hey the garden is on its way so better times ahead I think. Planted green onions from seed, they have sprouted!

Went to a Vegan diner/bakery for brunch. Cookies are find for you if they're vegan, right? RIGHT?!

:/

Absolutely! Just like you can eat as much guacamole as you can possibly put down because avocados=sooooo good for you!

OK, good. I'm glad we're on the same page about this.

It was so good though and except for the cookies and fries (whoops) sort of NN. I had scrambled eggs and homemade seitan chorizo. It was amazing.

sugars about the only bad thing I can think of

How do you prounounce seitan? I always say "say-tan" (think spray tan) but have never been sure if that's correct.

Obv I had eggs so the diner part was veg not vegan but the bakery was all vegan, I think. This place was SO GOOD.

I also do the spray tan pronunciation, based on vegan friends who say it that way!

that is correct i think

:)

In non-NN, non-vegan news, I am dining frenchie tonight and will probably have bone marrow if on the menu

My dad loves marrow. I've never had it. Hope your meal is yummy :)

sweet potato fries count, right? I ate a LOT of them :/

i've been going meatless during the week. on the weekends i've been meat crazy but yesterday was only bbq chicken and tonight cooking with pork necks. my plan now is one meat dinner per week, oh god that rib eye with Szechuan sauce at the local Japanese place here i come next Wednesday.

lol @ "Szechuan sauce at the local Japanese place"

its' actually an ~Asian fusion~ restaurant

it's pretty heavy on japanese cuisine

i just hate the word fusion tho

also, i'm culturally ignorant

haha I was just teasing the restaurant

I am amused by pan-asian restaurants in general

i need my rib eye with sauce so any Port Arthur in a storm

there's a place around here that does pho, bibimbap, sushi, lo mein

you get a free bubble tea if you spend $10 or more

You can use steamed cabbage for ssam. My mother serves it with miso instead of red pepper paste. I prefer it with pickled vegetables. I bought a head of red cabbage this past week. I think red cabbage might also work for ssam (with pickled vegetables). I had it steamed hot, steamed cold, raw shredded with carrots, and raw pieces from the head. It stains your fingers! If my brother ever opens or works in a fusion restaurant, I hope there will be more to the fusion than dipping sauces ... But I don't think he will.

Costco has Wild Plant Sardines in olive oil 6 for 9.99, sorry if this is old news, haven't been in a while.

I've been doing Abb's spring onions in water re-grow thing, it worked! but, after only growing about 3 inches of new green, the bulb/root end turned into a mushy pulp and it died?

Also, it smells VERY oniony :/

on this again

my bf has joined in a weight loss study through a local hospital, 2 years long, with a cognitive-behavioral emphasis. he's been at for like 5 or 6 weeks and has already dropped 15 lbs. i started preparing healthy meals for us at the outset and i'm just getting on board now with the calorie counting, which is both challenging & illuminating.

i'm on the 4th day of restricting my intake to 1600 cal per day, with some allowance for more on days i exercise. i'm really hungry right now.

i got an app to see how my calorie intake is (and protein, carbs etc), and its kinda much lower than i thought

breakfast: 461 calories (muesli, yoghurt, strawberries)
lunch: 254 calories (canned tuna, a yam, baby leaf salad)
dinner: 920 calories (butternut squash, mackerel, onion, tomato, avocado, asparagus, okra)

other: 300 carrot/celery/spinach (juiced), banana

only comes to 1930 - didnt feel hungry

over on saturated fat and sodium, thats the mackerel - should have got tinned not smoked

I got a Fitbit! And god help me, I'm going to Zumba tonight (first and possibly last time).

Oh sorry that is not nutrition. Better seasonal produce availability = easier NNing for me. Picking radishes, sugar snaps, snow peas, lettuces from the garden now.

canned tuna, a yam
the mental image of someone eating tuna out of a can while gnawing on a yam is cracking me up.

a yam, a plan, a can of tuna

haha i totally laughed when i read that too!

i think it's also because, like ham, yam is a comedy word

and both are delicious

anyone have any thoughts on chia seeds?

Not as healthy as flax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hSBkaZ-aUA

more expensive too iirc