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

Yes tupperware is great and I'd never pre-dress. seriously I just have a backpack that barely fits my work clothes and shoes and spare tube etc. panniers would help!

This post written on elliptical machine lol!

made split peas soup Wednesday and ate it for three nights. except for one lunch of chicken been sticking to vegetarian this week. that will end in ribs 2nite. asparagus is 1.99 a lb, bought two pounds

ah man the asparagus I bought a week ago had started drying out, that's what I'm worried about, I will be having asparagus tonight as well

also like half of my onions sprouted :(

it just made me sad because I keep my onions in the dark so the sprouts were sickly yellow, I would feel better if they were a healthy robust green, grow strong you little warriors

haha, leaving things like onions and potatoes alone in a cupboard, forgotten, can get scary

an alternate salad-transport idea:

http://wellvegan.com/salad/salad-in-a-jar

(haven't tried it tho)

ah man the asparagus I bought a week ago had started drying out, that's what I'm worried about, I will be having asparagus tonight as well

If you store them like flowers, upright in a dish of water, w/a plastic bag over it, it lasts much longer!

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20110525-food-lab-asparagus-09.jpg

i had an onion that sprouted and i've just been leaving it on the shelf to see how much it will grow. it's like 14 inches now. i'm gross.

I am going to put the onions out by where it can feel some sun

if I am feeling mischievous I will even put them in my neighbor's yard!

that is a pro tip, abbbottt!

Do you want another pro tip about making onions sprout on purpose? If you cut up green onions/scallions, save the little rooty bulbs. If you put them in a glass of water they will resurrect (takes over a week) and you have a second round of green onions FOR FREE.

http://moneysavingmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/DSCN51081.jpg

oh man I bought an overabundance of green onions last week. I first bought a bunch from the normal supermarket for .50 because they looked good. then when I went to the chinese market they were selling them 3 for a dollar.

I was pleased to see that my last bunch of green onions, they would grow in the fridge after I had chopped them. it was, indeed, like you said, two for the price of one!

I don't know what to do with all my green onions though. I added some to the guac I made today.

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.

whoa do Americans not have easter eggs? this is blowing my mind

yes, an Easter egg is a hollow chocolate egg I guess 5"-7" tall and usually containing/bundled with bags of smaller chocolates, chocolate bars, etc

will def be trying the spring onion trick, I always get grumpy buying them because the shop sells them in bundles of like 10 and I only want maybe 2 or 3 (and even that will involve putting a great excess of onion into something and having horrible oniony sweat for the next 2 days </tmi>) and then they'll go off, and then I'll buy another 10 in two weeks

Yeah I don't use green onions all that often; regrow time is abut the time I want to use them again.

do you completely submerge the bulbs or leave the top in the air or does it not matter? do you need to change the water ever?

(sorry if i am being overthinking cat)

whoa do Americans not have easter eggs? this is blowing my mind

yes, an Easter egg is a hollow chocolate egg I guess 5"-7" tall and usually containing/bundled with bags of smaller chocolates, chocolate bars, etc

Nope, not in the way that you guys do. We get baskets filled with jelly beans and small chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies and stuff but we don't get the big eggs in a box like you do. TBH I think our baskets are better than your eggs cause we usually get more stuff but we don't get Good Friday or Easter Monday off so you guys probably win Easter in the end. ;) One time I wanted to make Spiralli and Easter basket so went all over looking for one and couldn't find anything even close so I bought a bucket and was going to make him and Easter bucket but then I left it all on the tube. :(

Also, I would like a big Crunchie egg now.

w/the onions I let their little decapitated necks stick out of the water, and I add more water as it evaps/gets used, works for me
I have them in a stemless wine glass

This is the sort of thing we get as kids. Mostly chocolates and treats but sometimes they have small toys and stuff in them too.

http://praisecleveland.com/files/2011/04/easter-baskets-for-children-girls.jpg

Abbott otm re asaparagus storage. It should be stored like that in the supermarket too tbh and if it isn't and the bottoms are all dried out that's a bad thing.

asparagus, rather

I always get grumpy buying them because the shop sells them in bundles of like 10 and I only want maybe 2 or 3

SO TRUE

It's kind of like Christmas on a smaller scale and with more chocolate.

Easter, that is.

Pretty much, yeah.

Oh and the baskets are hidden by the bunny so you to go looking for them when you get up. That was always my favorite part.

Humpty Dumpty chocolate egg filled with smarties = Easter

I can't really get down with the baskets and weird colored eggs. Also hunting for eggs that aren't chocolate seems somehow wrong, lol.

Anyhow NNs I have been struggling with snacks. I have Lara bars, raw trail mix of raisins/almonds/seeds/etc, whatever fruit is in season but my problem is I get BORED eating the same things! Suggestions? Meals I'm okay with. It's the between times where I get a little crazy.

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

i like larabars, i also like to eat an orange and a square of dark chocolate for snax or a nonfat yogurt

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. :/

advice: spread bread with tomato paste or passata, arrange fish on top, grate some cheese, grind pepper, grill

Damn need to try this!

lol, every time I walk past sardines in the grocery store I think about how ilx would want me to eat those.

oh, gave me another idea what to do w/harissa. ty, MatthewK! i don't eat 'em that often but when i do i usu get smoked sardines. dang, part of the reason i like them is bc i thought they were a sustainable seafood option. just looked on montereybayseafoodwatch and it seems they are not
https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/groups/sardine?q=Sardine

I love sardines with grey poupon.

Bitter greens: Sautee, add minced garlic, lemon juice. Voila, now they tasted like sauteed garlic and lemon!

I think Pacific sardines are considered a sustainable fish, Atlantic are not. I usually buy the Wild Planet brand, no sure how widely available it is.

is any fish sustainable anymore

A few fisheries are managed to maximize tonnage caught while theoretically not decreasing future stocks. And by a few, I mean just the ones listed as "best choices" in Monterrey Bay Aquarium's consumer guides.

Even the catch of Peruvian sardines has declined. Fish oil plants lay fallow, and the price is high enough that sardine meal is no longer a major component of cat food and farmed salmon feed.

i would buy arctic char but have never seen it in stores in Calif. i used to purchase a lot of it when my job was purchaser though. it's a v nice alt. to salmon/trout (not really crazy about trout tbh). would be happy to live on scallops, oysters and sand dabs

I have objections to some of these in the "good choices" category. Gulf shrimp, for example, requires dragging nets over the seabed, and that destroys habitat for juveniles of finfish.

Re: nutrition, I delved into the seafood components most likely to provide direct benefit (not just by displacing red/processed meat). Its likely just long chain omega-3s (EPA/DHA) and taurine. There are vegan supplement alternatives.

I still viscerally loathe this thread title.

We can request a mod to change it, yeah?

I did a couple of weight loss bets where I did intermittent fasting and it worked pretty well. IDK about the supposed health benefits (besides eating less overall) but I will say after a week or so you get used to it

I was doing 24-48 hour fasting every week to other weekish, depending on how I felt or my plans, for about two years. It was fine. I usually tried to do it mon-tues or thurs-fri while I was at work so I would be busy and have a routine.

It sucked at first but I eventually got so used to it I could still work out the morning of the third day before having my first real meal to eat. Hmmm, this all sounds very crazy.

yeah 48 hours sounds tough but 24 is really no problem, I skip breakfast most days anyway so it's just a matter of skipping lunch really. it doesn't really affect you as much as you'd think.

wtf 48 hours??? working out the morning of the third day before finally eating?

why u do this?

i mean "food restriction thread" is accurate -- there is nothing in here specifically about nutrition and personally i am opposed to " _____ nazi" anything

doesn't matter what i think, it's just inaccurate and also (imo) offensive

I know it sounds nutty but this is when I was in really really good shape and eating basically the Tom Brady diet. If I fasted on thurs and fri I had a saturday morning kickboxing class that I really liked so I would go to that first before eating my breakfast. Technically I was consuming 200-300 calories on those fasting days spread throughout (like small amounts of green juice) so it was soothing and I never really felt lightheaded or sick or whatever. I was just looking up my bloodwork from those years and things like my cholesterol were insanely good.

I used to have one meal a day. Just worked out easier. I was never lightheaded. Now w a family, it wld be anti-social (?) to do that really.

not sure where to put this. i think it's interesting. but then got to the end and, uggh:

Companies such as Nestlé are investing heavily in functional food ingredients, dietary supplements, and medical nutrition products in order to be able to provide foodservice operators with more options when it comes to the ingredients and products they can supply.

https://www.restaurant.org/Articles/News/The-restaurant-of-the-future?fbclid=IwAR3mgUvolkgihzf57S5z2q2AepUMxL17dgeo7jZY8GU2uBRBjsW60Ak7iDM

lads... sardines

lol, every time I walk past sardines in the grocery store I think about how ilx would want me to eat those.

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After buying several tins of sardines over the years, which would inevitably waste away in the back of the cabinet, I finally cracked a tin this morning and am eating them with lemon juice. This is not bad at all. Can definitely include these in my healthy food options.

When I gave up vegetarianism several years ago, I was sick and fucking tired of beans, and have avoided them to a large extent since then. However, last year my daughter was diagnosed with some food issues, so she has been eating black beans every single night. So recently, I started throwing a can of beans a day into the mix somewhere for myself. As a guy who struggles with excessive snacking, they're remarkably satiating.

You guys, I've recently taken up swimming in addition to the sardines and on those days when I happen to combine those two activities, I feel like a motherfucking PENGUIN.

Yes! Best sardines I’ve had so far are the Bella brand. Also Trader Joe’s has some good ones imo - although a bit salty tasting.

Bela! Not Bella.

Yes! I've had a few cans of theirs. I like the piri-piri ones best. I buy them as treats though, because they are the most expensive in my supermarket ($4 vs $3 for King Oscar, I think, which isn't that much, but whatever). I had a ridiculous time trying to open a can of Brunswick sardines, so I don't think I'll try them again.

thinking about this thread today

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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.