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I was naughty and had super delicious greasy pizza for dinner, haha.

I actually think the corn chips I had yesterday and then the cornbread I had today is affecting me more than greasy pizza. Wah. I guess back on the limited corn diet for me again.
 
I just ate some gluten and egg free pancakes with apple sauce as an egg replacer. Tasted very meh. Wish I could just eat some Ihop pancakes with some syrup and butter!
 
Miss Spencer said:
Finally:

http://www.mbm.net.au/health/200-290.htm
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Thanks, a Canadian friend also told me she thought the 220 probably referred to that ingredient. I know about sulfur dioxide, but we don't use the numeric designation in the US. I'm not sure what the purpose of substituting numbers for chemical names might be. Whose benefit is it supposed to serve, the consumer, the producer, the regulator??? Seems as though the ambiguity would mainly benefit the producers. As a consumer, I'd prefer the actual names.

Very handy web site, thank you for passing it along.
 
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Badly cooked burgers.
 
realllly good cheddar cheese...granny smith apple ...wheat toast....coffee

Damn...just looked up Thorntons coffee maker..129.95 usd...ouch!

OOPS...meant Tim Horton coffee maker
 
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Breakfast: 3 slices of white toast. 2 with anari cheese and 1 with smooth peanut butter and strawberry marmalade.

Snack: Bread roll with butter

Lunch: 2 x smoked turkey, cheese and cucumber mini baguettes

Snack: 6 morning coffee biscuits, cup of tea

Dinner: Chicken, potato and courgette soup in lemon juice based broth

Eating is such hard work!!!!

Costas
 
Peanut butter crackers
(lol, and she's weird like that. She wants anything I eat.. well... she thinks she does anyways, until she snags it and finds out it isn't to her liking. lol -which is the usual seniario)
 
Can't seem to eat anything lately, so luckily my american food parcel arrived and am now eating saltines today to see what happens tomorrow. Liquid diet not the end of the world but I would much rather it didn't come to that!
 
My famous non-dairy vegan mac and cheese and Shake and Bake chicken. Damn, that stuff tastes just as good as it did 30 years ago.
 
And now I am going to eat some chocolate and peanut butter Bugles. I know I shouldn't, but I'm gonna. I already feel like shit anyway, so what's the diff?
 
just ate a chicken avocado salad and topped it off with a roll with some olivio spread

not feeling too bad, but got a bit of rumbling
 
ameslouise said:
And now I am going to eat some chocolate and peanut butter Bugles. I know I shouldn't, but I'm gonna. I already feel like shit anyway, so what's the diff?
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Hey I gotcha...my tummy is a bit of rumbling and had Rocky road frozen yogurt but didnt eat the nuts.

What are peanut butter bugles? I have had corn bugles but never with peanut butter.:kello:
 
what are you eating now

I am eating quick oats with raisins and walnuts, one of the few nut that I can eat.
 
Hey PSN welcome to the forum, I ate that for breakie too but no nuts, have to avoid them for the time being.

It would be great if you post your own story on a YOUR STORY post so we can all welcome you!!! Glad you are here!
 
Pen said:
What are peanut butter bugles? I have had corn bugles but never with peanut butter.:kello:
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They are the corn bugles but coated in a choco-peanut butter coating. More chocolaty than peanut-buttery. I stopped myself from dipping them in peanut butter... but I really wanted to!
 
ameslouise said:
They are the corn bugles but coated in a choco-peanut butter coating. More chocolaty than peanut-buttery. I stopped myself from dipping them in peanut butter... but I really wanted to!
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Sounds interesting :wink:. I love peanut butter cups but they affect me bad so, coffee crisp is the only chocolate bar I can eat...probably cause is it mostly wafers. :D
 
I'm addicted to toasted spiced fruit bread at the moment, hot buttered toasted fruit bread, mmmmmmmm. I've eaten 4 slices today (so far).
 
chili, but decently made chili if that's possible. greek yogurt and honey. had a throw back coke though. Just had to......Shouldn't hurt anything since I'm pretty locked up from Vikes for a bad tooth problem/root canal.
 
Pen said:
I love peanut butter cups but they affect me bad so, coffee crisp is the only chocolate bar I can eat...probably cause is it mostly wafers. :D
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I LOVE Reese's cups too. In order to satisfy that craving, I take a spoonful of peanut butter and sprinkle some mini-chocolate chips on top. I use vegan-non-dairy-soy free chocolate chips. It hits the spot!

Today I am on clear liquids only to prep for tomorrow's scope. My stomach is growling so loudly right now!!!
 
Not now, but I had a cheeseburger for the first time in like 2 months. Went down very nicely. I was pleased!
 
scrambled eggs and sausage for breakfast. Thinking about chicken soup and applesauce for lunch. Maybe a couple hard boiled eggs as well.

I wish I posted every meal here. This would be a good food log.
 
Salmon, rice and pureed lima beans.

Even pureed lima beans taste good if you put enough butter and salt on them.
 
Leek and potato soup. I tried leeks for the first time today! Do I get a sticker? :)
 
a late late breakfast after a long friday night...

Potato pancake:

1 small potato grated
1 small onion grated
1 egg
1 hand full of oatmeal, ground
1 pinch of salt
mixed together and cooked on medium heat in olive oil until golden

Sides:

Saurkraut, natural
Dill pickle, natural
6% balkan style yogurt, natural
Fresh dill cut up

Oatmeal:

Lightly cooked whole oat oatmeal
1 tbspn coconut cream added after cooked
1 tbspn unpasturized honey added after cooked

Fresh Made Juice:

Carrot, celery, spinach & tomato
 
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Lucy said:
penut butter and apple sandwich, but that potato pancake sounds really good.
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It was an awesome breakfast (all of it)! All from scratch, took about 10 minutes - but I'm pretty proficient after making almost all my own stuff from scratch for years.

Part of the key in what I ate - it was all natural yogurt, ingredients were milk, bacteria culture, not the fake yogurt. Saurkraut and pickle was vegetable, salt (and some dill and garlic in the pickles). It was all fresh, didn't cut any skins off anything, included live food, cultured food, whole grains, veg and no bad stuff.

A comparable dinner of that in a restaurant would have included likely all kinds of crap in the potato pancake, fake pickles, fake saurkraut, fake yogurt, flavoured with crap oatmeal, and pasteurized honey and pasteurized fruit juice - ie all the great stuff killed off to preserve shelf life. It would have been a meal, made to taste like what I made (but not as tasty) and with a fraction of the really good benificial stuff. That's really the key. We THINK we are eating healthy, but we're eating imitations of real food when we buy most stuff that we consume.

I love cultured foods - great stuff is added to preserve shelf life, go figure! The opposite of the trans fat, pasteurized, processed dead food many people typically eat.

I've read people complain about the cost of eating healthy, that couldn't have cost more than $1 to make, probably less. And I got I got close to 10 servings of veg & fruit, and it was only breakfast. I would wager to say that the all the containers of food I bought combined, that will last for many meals, cost a much as 1 takeaway pizza dinner - the bag of oatmeal, bottle of honey, can of coconut cream, dozen eggs, basket of potato, bag of onion, kraut, bag of carrots, bag celery stalk, bunch of spinach pickle and yogurt the bunch of dill.
 
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Juiceit, you hit the nail on the head about healthy cooking being cost-effective if you are smart about it! I remember a time when some of my psych students complained about the high cost of eating healthy (I'm a health psychologist, so it comes up regularly in our lectures, no matter the "actual" topic). I asked if any of them had priced the cost of spring greens at the organic store literally across the street from our building. Well, no they hadn't. At that time (about 4 years ago), an entire bowlful of greens cost maybe 50 cents. At the farmer's market recently, I scored a large acorn squash for $1. I'm having kohlrabi tonight, $4 for 4 medium sized veg (local and organic).

My friends say healthy eating is too expensive and then they blow $4 on one of those frozen dinners. Look at YOUR fabulous meal and then look at theirs (am I the Old Spice guy now?). Thanks for bringing this up.
 
Kelly said:
Juiceit, you hit the nail on the head about healthy cooking being cost-effective if you are smart about it! I remember a time when some of my psych students complained about the high cost of eating healthy (I'm a health psychologist, so it comes up regularly in our lectures, no matter the "actual" topic). I asked if any of them had priced the cost of spring greens at the organic store literally across the street from our building. Well, no they hadn't. At that time (about 4 years ago), an entire bowlful of greens cost maybe 50 cents. At the farmer's market recently, I scored a large acorn squash for $1. I'm having kohlrabi tonight, $4 for 4 medium sized veg (local and organic).

My friends say healthy eating is too expensive and then they blow $4 on one of those frozen dinners. Look at YOUR fabulous meal and then look at theirs (am I the Old Spice guy now?). Thanks for bringing this up.
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Yeah you are right. I think a lot has sadly been lost when it comes to food. From shopping to preparation, to variety, to the healthfullness of it all. There's something magical about starting with a pile of real stuff and ending with a meal.

The things our grandparents used to do - communal seasonal cooking, pickling, growing your own - it's lost.

If you haven't seen Jamie Oliver's shows about trying to get people to eat and cook I highly recommend them. I have much respect for the guy and what he's trying to do.
 
Lucy said:
Driving to and from work 600 miles a week makes me wish I didn't have a kitchen at all.
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Well, if cooking all your own food did greatly help your health and spending the extra time preparing etc made a world of difference, would your priority be to keep your job or get something closer if it meant making less but being in better health?
 
Lucy, are there any meal prep companies close to you? Some (certainly not all) offer fresh, healthy meals for pretty much the same price as cooking from scratch at home. You might find this could be a compromise between not wanting a kitchen at all and investing the time to prepare everything from scratch (although you do get more efficient with practice, honest!). Anyway, meal prep companies buy fresh ingredients, chop the veggies, etc., and you put it all together and then cook the meal at home. I started using a meal prep service when I was working 90+ hour weeks, and still use it sometimes today (I refuse to do a job that regularly requires 90 hour weeks Ever Again, but I like some of the meal prep company's offerings + the owners and I share many philosophies about local, fresh foods, so I've stuck with them even as I've cut down on my work hours). You could consider looking into alternative options that are quick to prepare; for example, my favourite muesli doesn't involve cooking at all: just mix oats, any variety of seeds (if your system can handle them -- I can't eat seeds when my symptoms are at their worst), dried fruits, and you're good to go.
 
juiceit, I live in a small town where there are no jobs. I have to drive an hour in every direction to shop. I drive 600 miles a week so I have health insurance. I moved to this little town to help take care of my parents. My dad died in 2008 from icy roads. No my priority is not ever going to be on cooking. You mean well and you have great ideas to help, but not all of us are in the same situation as you. Sometimes our priority has to be elsewhere.
 
Thanks Kelly but I would have to check on the meal prep co. Maybe in the city where I work, but nothing around here. I hate living in a small town, but somtimes we just don't have a choice. I do appreciate the suggestions.
 
juiceit said:
The things our grandparents used to do - communal seasonal cooking, pickling, growing your own - it's lost.

If you haven't seen Jamie Oliver's shows about trying to get people to eat and cook I highly recommend them. I have much respect for the guy and what he's trying to do.
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Thanks for the potato cake recipe:) I think Jamie Oliver is fab, I never miss his programs and always buy his cookbooks. It's a dream of mine to one day grow all my own veg! :ycool:
 
Lucy said:
juiceit, I live in a small town where there are no jobs. I have to drive an hour in every direction to shop. I drive 600 miles a week so I have health insurance. I moved to this little town to help take care of my parents. My dad died in 2008 from icy roads. No my priority is not ever going to be on cooking. You mean well and you have great ideas to help, but not all of us are in the same situation as you. Sometimes our priority has to be elsewhere.
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Well you have your answer there I suppose. Personally I chose my health over all else, and I can tell you being medication free, pain free, in good health with a world of options - when that realization first kicked I found it was a better feeling than any gratification I got from anything I felt I had to give up to achieve it. It still is and if you offered me a billion dollars to go back to how i used to be, I would pass.
 
Sometimes life calls for us to make sacrifices and to put other's well being before out own.

I commend you Lucy for taking care of your parents. I, too, moved in with my parents to better offer them my daily assistance. My mother died a year ago after a long suffering illness. I do not for one second regret my decision to put them before anything else in my life. I would not be here if it were not for them. Over the course of my life, they too made many sacrifices for me and my brother, and many others. I still live with my father, who is disabled. I will until he too passes. It fulfills me.
 
Julie thank you so much for understanding. I would trade my Humira and take the pain to have my dad back. My mom suffered a fx neck in the accident, but thank God she lived. You are great for this forum and I appreciate your kind words.
 
reeses peanut butter cups...um two or three or four of em...lol havent had one in over a year...kind of a tradition around Halloween time. HEHE. they are damned yummy!
 

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