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

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.

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

http://vegantester.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/black-bean-cookies-info.png

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).