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Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats for breakfast with 2% Milk.
Jim's special omelet-in-pieces. For some reason he fries the peppers and then sprinkles them on top of the cooked omelet (along with feta cheese). I have asked him to pour the raw egg onto the cooked peppers to make things easier to eat with a shaky hand and a spoon. Oatmeal with apricot preserves (from Lebanon). Milk. I have been trying to eat lots of calories and am nearly back to 100 pounds (up from 93 to 99). This is my second time as a 99 pound weakling, first time being when I lost the weight this summer.
I had a grilled chicken sandwich from Wendy's for brunch. That has worn off by now, so I'll be foraging for a snack very shortly.
So far today: From the Big City Small World Bakery, 500 Miller St.
(corner of Spring)
A vegan date raisin Wonder Bar
A sour cream raspberry muffin
A Nantucket cranberry juice.
I'm looking forward to dinner.
Subway's Turkey Breast 6" on Wheat with lettuce, black olives and bell peppers. And vinegar. And some tea.
A slice of bacon.
Toast and peach preserves, bread and butter, a roast beef and provolone sandwich.
Four Nantucket cookies, five doublestuf Oreos, and some milk.
I had a few slices of bacon.
I'm glad this item is back--I can better monitor my eating habits =) Eggs and Jimmy Dean sausage for breakfast with a tall glass of water... A pretzel shaped doughnut for a mid-day snack, and beef curry and veggies (zucchini?) for lunch-- no rice.
I'm currently eating a slice or two of bacon.
Peanuts, Bourbon BBQ Chicken from Old Town, with Iced Tea Pumpkin Cream Tart at Knight's, with Captain Morgan's and ginger ale.
Lunch - organic finger potatoes from a friend's farm with fava beans and tomato and feta cheese salad. Snack - bread and cheese and prune plums. Supper - cauliflower and red-pepper-juice and tofu stew with bread. Snack - bread and cheese. The pepper juice (mild) is an ajvar byproduct. Dessert - Nystatin oral.
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re #14: Were you listening to the Upsetters?
I'm on a diet. I managed not to eat any fattening foods yesterday. hooray!
Yum; I had some bacon for breakfast.
Couple of eggs, scrambled. Bowl of granola. Tea, Earl Gray, hot.
Last night was a heavy dinner of potato-spinach, green beans, with paratha, and some rice and "dal" (Indian lentil soup). This morning, it's a cup of tea
Damn. Now I want tea. <wanders off in search of some>
Another cup of tea, but this time brewed the "English" way. And no sugar.
I had some delicious bacon and as a treat I had for a drink some liquified bacon juices.
Subway turkey breast on wheat
(What is "brewed the'English' way"?)
With the teabag in a cup of hot water, and the creamer added when it's all dark. As opposed to the Indian way, wehere you put the tealeaves (or teabag, more convenient) into the water, add teh milk and then boil the whole concoction till desired strength. Add sugar when the milk and tealeaves are added. (I think it tastes much better)
I'll have to try the Indian way.
Most Indian restaurants will serve it. They add "chai masala" - ground spices that go in the tea. (well the restaurants here will add it) - It's called masala chai. A remedy for colds - before adding anything, boil a piece of ginger in the wter. Then add everything else. I love the flavor. Another variation is to use cardomom seeds instead of ginger.
I made some bacon.
Milk? Creamer? Sugar? Bags? In tea? (Somebody else must brew it the Mountaineer's way - tea (no bag) into boiled water.)
I ate some bacon.
In a few hours you'll probably poop some bacon.
Re 29. The differnce lies more in the way it's brewed rather in the ingredients. One way boils everything, the other uses boiled water. The outcomes is very different.
Boil the ginger, let it cool, and then boil everything together? Or use the gingered water the 'English' way?
Boil the ginger, and while the water is still boiling, add the tea and sugar. When it gets to a dark brown color, add the milk and boil it some more. Boil to the desired strenghth (this takes many many brewings unless you know exactly what you want) Darker the resulting color, stronger the tea. My aunt boils for exact times, but I'm not sure what they are. sine I do everything based on estimates, my tea is usually hit or miss. The fiance makes really good tea.
bowl of oatmeal with oliveoil instead of butter coffee with lowfat milk protein shake
bowl of oatmean with one teaspoon of sugar and some milk one apple beef jerky chicken ramen noodles 2 homemade oatmeal cookies. about 4 cups of tea - dinner will have to be something with veggies I guess since I havent had *any* yet today. Maybe a salad or something.
a bite of the coffee cake, and now a bowl of dal - "spinach-lentil" soup.
How are changing web pages?
I do tea the "Eastern Accents" (a chinese bakery and tea shop in Ann Arbor) way: Loose tea in a coffee press.
No, I don't poop. All I eat is bacon and opium.
Green pepper beef, over at Peking Express in East Lansing.
Breakfast-- eggs and breakfast sausage, Crystal Light small handful of peanuts for a mid-day snack Lunch-- hot 'n sour soup, BBQ pork with hot mustard (clears the sinuses), and sweet and sour chicken. Dinner is yet to be determined. Had a big glass of water early this evening.
Ichiban Sapporo noodles with an egg in it
Yum. I just ate some bacon.
White hominy grits from the Dollar STore with a preserved apricot from Jerusalem Market, and Jim's next attempt at an omelet that won't fall apart but did anyway. I think he should be using less chopped peppers than egg. I am still chasing this around the plate with a spoon (shaky hand) but finally dumped it on top of the cereal. Whole milk. Lunch - salt at the U of M hospital cafeteria, in the form of a vegetable 'chimichanga' which from top down consists of a thick layer of melted cheese, a few fried vegetables, a white flour tortilla and a thin layer of unbelievably salty beans. Jim ate half of it for me after I tried to get it down with two cups of milk and a pear. I see why people are getting 32 oz of soda with their meals. This is in a hospital that leaves salt out of the patient food and substitutes pepper. Jim's pizza was also very salty. No more Nystatin oral antifungal treatment for a while.
Orange juice. My substitue for water
If you dilute the juice with water it has less calories.
But then I don't like the taste :( More orange juice. Or maybe I'll jsut have ice water
A couple of fried-egg sandwiches, with cheddar cheese, mayo and mustard; one on white, the other on whole wheat.
Roasted chicken and home-fried potatoes, and a chocolate chip cookie.
Friday plate lunch at Ogo's: Kalua pig, macaroni salad, two scoop rice. mmm. ono.
Bacon for breakfast.
Post Honey Bunches of Oats for breakfast.
Canteloupe with a linen napkin, at the computer. Linen wrinkles well. Jim is off perfecting the medium-boiled egg. With organic eggs they vary in shape and the rounder ones take a bit longer.
How is a medium boiled egg? (I know soft-boiled and hard-boiled, but medium?) yougurt for breakfast. hot tea. In regards to the boiled tea -- oh my. I use freshly boiled water and loose tea, timed slightly less than recommended, because I don't like my tea at all heavy or strong. (Of course, at work, when I'm rushed, I use the water from the coffee machine and a tea bag, but even then, it's a quick one-minute or so dip, no longer.)
Pancakes & coffee - need to get to the coop for more tea.
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Soft-boiled egg has a soft white, medium boiled a cooked white but soft yolk.
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Ham and cheese sandwich for dinner. Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream snack cake for dessert.
Hot and Sour Soup (which was neither) and Sesame Chicken (marked as hot and spicy on menu, was neither) from Lucky Kitchen on Clark across from EMU. I was very disappointed. The Lucky Kitchen downtown, not far from our house is rather good. I had high hopes of something reasonable on the way between EMU and WCC. The only other thing available is Subway, I don't do Subway, having been spoiled by good subs elsewhere. I wish more Chinese restaurants would drop the belief that Americans can't hand real Chinese food, and quit Americanizing it. I can handle hot, I can handle spicy, I can handle exotic, I can handle meat as a flavoring agent rather than the star of the dish. I like different, I am tired of going to an ethnic restaurant and getting Americanized versions. I want it the way they would cook it at home, damn it.
fresh salad with tomatoes and red and yellow peppers spelt angelhair pasta with spaghetti sauce, no meat.
Organic yellow potatoes and orange carrots, from our friend's farm. Stir-fried Chinese cabbage and red pepper from the market. Milk. Jim had ajvar on slightly moldy sprouted lentil bread.
the usual breakfast I've been telling you about, Crystal Light. Lunch was chicken strips and a Frosty at Wendy's-- a tad early because of a long interview session after work. Dinner shall be porkchops and eggplant in a garlic butter sauce.
Baked salmon steak and orange juice
Mancino's Barbecue Beef grinder and chicken noodle soup, because we didn't want to wait an hour and a half at Zingerman's Roadhouse.
Mmm. I went to Zingerman's roadhouse yesterday. I went for a late lunch at 3p. No wait! It was *really* expensive, but I wasnt paying ;). It was *really* good. I ate two large slices of whole wheat bread. A hamburger with goat cheese. It was so large I couldnt eat it the usual way so I took it off the bread and just ate the meat. It came with a huge number of fries that reminded me of the fries we used to get at the Cloverleaf way back when. They were good but I was too full to eat many of them. Aaron gave me a bite of his pork roast. OH MY GOD. *That* was good. We shared a piece of key lime pie which was heaven. I got a brownie "to go" to sneak into the movie. They charged me $6 for it. When we got to the theater, they were selling Zingerman's bakehouse brownies for $3.75. DOH!
Had my typical breakfast this morning: Steel cut oats with an added tablespoon of flaxseed, topped with walnuts, slivered almonds, fresh blueberries, banana, and soy milk. Eggbeaters sauteed in olive oil. Coffee.
Bread with peanut butter or salmon cream cheese. Earl Grey tea.
Are steel cut oats oatmeal?
Oatmeal is made from steel-cut oats, but oatmeal is also made from rolled oats.
I've tried steel cut oats for making oatmeal. They take a long time to cook, then taste exactly like any other oatmeal. Why do you prefer them, John?
last night was a cheat.. cottage cheese, garlic & jalapeno stuffed Silican olives breakfast was poached eggs and bacon lunch was cottage cheese again... hmmm
Dinner was a salad, bread & butter, and a chicken-lentil stew in the crock pot.
Re #72: I find the taste and texture of oatmeal made from steel cut oats to be preferable to that made from rolled oats. It's supposed to be healthier too.
Hmmm, throughout the day, samosa, bites of potato chips, a slice of pizza, tea, and now cabbage peas and a paratha.
Domino's pizza.
Wow.
Mulligatawney (sp?) soup, Surprise Dosa, Mango Shake. Vegetarian nachos, Bavarian Bliss.
Vegetarian nachos, with a nice pint of stout.
(Which stout, scott?)
Dinner was a BLTA croissant, 2 canteloupe slices, steak fries, and 2 Mt. Dews.
3 White Russians ,
(Arbor Brewing - they were out of the German Alt, the bastahds)
Kellog's Frosted Mini-Wheats for breakfast. 2% milk. Apple juice and bananna earlier.
(Thanks. :)
STeve has me chained to my desk to study (don't tell him I was here, please). When he becomes fully conscious he is going to make me some scrambled eggs with roasted ancho peppers and onions. He is making chicken/cheese enchillatas for dinner and salsa and chips for snacks. I love it when he gets into a cooking mood.
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How would you see the person ordering? Usually, in drive thrus, that's not possible.
Dollar Store (local) corn grits with whole milk and a microwaved apple picked up from under a tree half a block from here, with cinnamon. Jim says this is not enough calories but I am up over 100 pounds now. He bought me some unsalted potato chips. I suppose to gain weight faster I should be eating the sort of diets listed above - steak, fries, pizza, Mt. Dew, samosas and nachos. My problem is I prefer fruit and vegetables. Last night I agreed to some whole wheat bread with cream cheese and apricot preserves but it was too icky sweet and greasy so I put another piece of bread on top and had it with unsweetened hawthorne tea to cut the sugar. I have gained nearly 10 pounds and for the past week have been able to sleep 2 hours at a time instead of 40 minutes (due to getting sore where my bones hit the mattress). Today I actually went back to sleep from 7:30 to 11:30.
have slynne come over an fix yew a special plate of biscuits with sassidge GRAVY ala bignasty. when i move back to michigan we'll drive you and jim out to the baker rd. truckstop for a good feeding if yew want!
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I know. Sindi and I should trade diets for a while. ;)
Lots of people have offered me 20 pounds. I should eat something for lunch. I am getting tired of eating all the time. Jim is also making me plan the menu. He eats popcorn (with nutritional yeast and lots of olive oil). Lunch will be something with potatoes and tomatoes - ideas anyone?
Eggs and sausage with shredded pepper jack cheese, Crystal Light.
/hits the deck as cy & tod run for mnut
Decadence and badness: Taco Hell-- steak stuffed burrito, mexi- nuggets, nachos and cheese, Code Red.
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Hmmm. All I ate yesterday was most of a box of Cherry Crunch cereal (granola, cornflakes, and dried cherries) with milk and a plain veggie burger on a bun. Just didn't feel like eating anything else. When I got on my scale it said I'd lost about 15-20 pounds in the past week. I'm pretty sure it needs to be recalibrated, but it made me stop and realize how much my eating habits have changed since stopping antidepressants. Hopefully they'll even out here sometime soon.
You lost 15 pls in a week??!!.
You didn't by chance have an amputation, did you?
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Just finished lunch: Tuna sandwich on high-fiber whole-grain bread (no balloon bread for me) with some mayonaisse, assorted raw veggies (carrots, green & yellow sweet peppers, cucumber, tomato). Will top it off with a small apple.
English muffin with turkey and a little "can't Believer it's not butter"
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re resp:99: Since lack of interest in eating, and sudden weight loss, are major warning signs for depression, I wonder if you should consider resuming the antidepressants? When I was eating like you are now, it was definitely because I was depressed.
re 100, 101: I think maybe my scale had some kind of major trauma. Maybe *it* needs to go on antidepressants. :) Anyway, my clothes are slightly looser, but not 15-20 pounds' worth. I might believe 5. I've been eating lightly largely because I was physically ill and mentally stressed last week. I was depressed a year and a half ago; I'm not now and haven't been for some time. But thank you for the concern.
15-20 pounds of 'sudden weight' loss sounds like some of Jim's rescued digital scales. He has not found a good treatment method other than new battery and sometimes that does not work either. What is a crystal light?
A yeros at Kerros (gift certificate) for lunch.
breakfast was 3 apple pancakes - no butter or syrup but made with white flour. I also had 8oz carton of milk. Lunch was lowfat turkey lunch meat and cheddar cheese on whole wheat. No condiments or anything on the sandwich. I also had an apple. Once again...I am short on the veggies. I need to get back in the habit of stopping at the grocery store on my way to work. I used to buy veggie trays with the veggies already cut up...usually brocooli, cauliflower, celery and carrots. I think each tray had about 4-5 servings of veggies. I would eat them all day instead of other snacks.
My fovrite is carrots. I cld eat those all day. Though I read somewhere about this woman who had the all carrot diet and her skin took on this orange tint. I'm not sure I'm ready for that.
A rosemary & olive oil bagel from Bruegger's. These are fast becoming my favorite, displacing the traditional poppy seed, especially for sandwiches.
breakfast - a banana lunch - 4 small fresh mozz balls (about the size of a jumbo marble), a peicpiece of toast, and some pastrami
resp:108 No-sugar Kool-Aid for grown-ups, basically. the usual deal for breakfast; General Tso's Chicken and hot n sour soup for lunch.
Coop organic peanut butter (crunchy) on Dimpflmeier whole-grain bread with a locally windfallen red apple.
Dinner: pork riblets, brownies.
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Last night for dinner I went to subway and got a foot long veggie delite on wheat. I wonder how much whole wheat flour they put on their "wheat" bread. I figure that since they dont call it whole wheat, it is probably made mostly with white flour. But I love those sandwiches. It would have been a healthy day for me too if I didnt have a donut for dessert. :) Today for breakfast, I had another donut for breakfast. mmmm. Then, I had a fruit salad that was very very yummy. I dont know why I often stop eating fruits and veggies this time of year. I mean, in the summer time I always eat a lot of them because I crave them. In the fall and winter, unless I make an effort, I would pretty much stop eating them altogether. Isnt that weird?
mussels, malbec, and dark chocolates from schakolad for dessert
Maybe the hot weather makes you crave fruits and vegetables?
Yesterday: cheese sandwich and fountain Coke for lunch; two big slices of pizza and a Pepsi for dinner. And my scale's yoyo-ed back to former behavior plus some. Yesterday it thought I was 138; this morning it told me 165. I'm amused.
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New Orleans gumbo and North Carolina-style barbecued pulled pork sandwich, with fries, at Zingerman's Roadhouse. Yum. :)
Homemade ajvar (baked and peeled red pepper, onion, garlic, eggplant) on bread machine bread, with olive oil. Not quite like the commercial variety - no salt, sugar, or vinegar added. But they left out the (expensive) olive oil.
usual breakfast, Chinese buffet for lunch
re carrots: When we were on vacation, my son and I ate carrots for snacks in the car. We ate 5 pounds of carrots in 3 days, and had contests about carving grooves in them by turning them against our teeth as well as sculpting them by biting on them.
I'm eating carrots right now. dipped in spinach hommus.
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Yep. Which is why they are eschewed in low-carb diets.
I just figured carrots were better than candy bars and chips and the like. I didn't realize they're high in sugar.
Just eat the carrots, jor.
Sugar or not, I'll bet carrots are better for you than chips or cookies.
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I lost 21 lbs in a week - granted I had to have major surgery to do it. Lunch was about 1/6 of a chicken and black bean quesadilla. I'm trying to eat half of it by the end of the day.
Carrots contain sugar, but I wouldn't call them "high" in sugar. Plus, they've got vitamins and fibre. Definitely better than cookies.
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Onions also have sugar (you can caramelize them). Sweet potatoes have a LOT of sugar. Tomatoes have sugar.
I always eschew my carrots before I eswallow them.
They are all still better than processed food. blech. Pass me that hamburger.
Lunch was Chinese buffet again (bad I know) dinner was a chicken caesar salad and a caramel apple Blizzard DQ treat.
had some more glorp the recipe is on line around here somewhere. but i found out that it tastes better when served with/on mashed potatoes, not too many, but some. also, made this batch with (i'm sorry to say) veal & ground sirloin. the veal was in the freezer (mom's) from a while ago. i eschew veal in all forms - but - this was already purchased. /sigh total meal, totally filling and nutritious.
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where you get the pinkie at?
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bone mush!
breakfast: fried egg, bacon. lunch: salad with cherry tomatoes, boiled egg, bacon.
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Stir-fried onion, pepper, eggplant, tomato and cauliflower on leftover brown rice with some high-calorie cheddar cheese grated on top. Two small bowls. Two cups of milk for extra calories. A pear.
Breakfast: Tea, a couple of pancakes, and a banana. Lunch: A burrito, some chocolate. Dinner: A turkey rollup from Our Town Deli.
can of sardines - mustard sauce.
carrots, gherkins, rice milk
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Breakfast out at Cafe' Marie this morning: Two eggs over easy with bacon, whole wheat flapjacks, coffee.
Is sarmale stuffed cabbage in Romanian?
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A Banquet feast of turkey, gravy dressing, peas and mashed potatos.
Bacon.
A pepperoni and olive (green and black) pizza with coffee, at the marina after we got the boat back and tied up.
Peach lowfat yogurt.
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oatmeal, buncha coffee, some pasta with turkeystore italian sassidge... tonite: PIZZA. PIZZA AND BEERS.
breakfast: bacon, hard boiled egg. Lunch was a battle of willpower-- began as a bacon, tomato, hard boiled egg salad, and finished off in Chinese buffet again. I think I was feeding stress again. I think dinner will be albacore tuna stirfry... not sure.
You should make yourself a ham and cum sandwich.
A bit of swiss cheese, a few crackers, and a glass of wine. And a small amount of bread dipped in olive oil...yum! Need to do that more often.
That's old school
Split-pea soup (Campbell's) and a chicken-salsa sandwich
Avocado mashed on Zingerman's rye bread. Avocado is high calorie but low in saturated fat.
resp:164 only when yours is roadkill on asswipe bread.
resp:168 - That doesnt make any sense.
Breakfast at the Flim Flam this morning - oatmeal with low fat milk, "eggslim" (3 egg whites, 1 egg yolk, scrambled), OJ, coffee.
(#168 is probably a reply to #163, not #164.)
Oh thanks gelinas. I was very confused about that. Ok, this morning for breakfast I had a leftover grilled chicken breast on whole wheat bread wtih some mozzarella cheese. and an apple. I have a veggie tray for lunch and some chicken soup because I have a cold. I guess the cold has cut my appetite though because I am not hungry yet and I ate breakfast hours ago. I am not too worried about it though. In fact, I kind of wish this loss of appetite were permanent.
resp:171 hmmm, lessee if the bug-a-boo notices. Probably. *BOOT* breakfast: hard boiled egg lunch: garden salad, blueberry yogurt dinner: turkey roast (kind of like a loaf thing?), mashed potatoes, salad, cranberries, fruit salad
I had 3 chocolate chip cookies for breakfast this morning.
Almost all of a piece of toast.
Currently eating lunch: Threw together a salad featuring turkey meat, green yellow & red peppers, cucumber, carrots, tomato, olive oil & wine vinegar. Mmmm good. Cup of lentil soup on the side.
So far today: two slices of Honey Whole Wheat bread and Barry's Bagel with cream cheese.
BerryBash Stonyfield Farms Fat Free yogurt
A very old and tired Asiago Parmesan bagel, somewhat perked up with a wet paper towel in the microwave.
I ate a hamburger today which was a dumb choice because I couldnt taste it. I mean, if a cold causes you to lose your taste, there is no point in eating bad for you foods. I was really sad when a co-worker brought in a homemade chocolate cheesecake. I knew I wouldnt be able to taste it so I didnt even try. right now, I am craving pizza but I know that I wont be able to taste it so I guess I'll just have a salad for dinner.
breakfast: scrambled eggs and bacon lunch: Chinese buffet (guess I need to re-strategize lunch, hehe) dinner (so far): egg plant
Crab cakes and lobster roll at Zingerman's Roadhouse. Son-chan had BBQ Beef Brisket with mashed potatoes and greens. (He'd decided on the lobster but changed his mind when it turned out not to be what he expected. He thought it would be something hot, but it's cold lobster salad in the center of a large slice of bread. So we switched.) Most of the beef, etc, came home. Good Stuff. Son-chan saw the grills and asked whether they were charcoal or gas-fired. He was impressed when I answered, "Wood."
mac-n-cheeze with raw tomato pieces, brocolli, small piece of ribeye, milk.
yesterday: corn muffin, large Coke, Chinese takeout, Powerade, and a small bag of white cheddar popcorn.
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oat bran cereal, skim milk coffee, noodles with tofu & cabbbage, turkey reubens (2), bowl of lofat popcorn. the reubens did me in.
Barbecued "chicken" patty from gardenburger. Pretty yummy. Like I'd never know it wasn't chicken.
My usual sickness cure: Hot & spicy & garlicy noodle soup, from Kai Garden. A glass of Bell's Two Hearted IPA, for the massive dose of hops.
breakfast and lunch are more or less the usual deal.
B.D.'s Mongolian Barbecue: Sante Fe Tomato Soup (nicely spicy), lamb, snow pea pods, water chestnuts, bean sprouts, baby corn, edema (sp?) peas, black bean sauce, garlic, cayenne pepper, and somthing else, maybe ginger. They have changed the setup: no oils, a separate cup for sauces. The grillers spray the grill down with an oil before starting to cook. They also use a shaker, but I didn't find out what the powder in it was. Bell's Best Brown to dirnk. Dessert was apple pie with vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce and a cup of coffee.
I had a lot of chicken broth and chicken soup yesterday. Also some crackers and popsicles (but the kind made with fruit juice). I havent had anything to eat yet today.
A slice of Sedona Nut bread, and now a savory cheddar cheese scone from Great Harvest.
Yesterday: a power bar, large Coke, and 10" pizza (lunch and dinner).
Leftover lentil soup for lunch with hawthorne tea, hot milk (i choke on cold liquids), and bread and brie (for extra calories). Half a very small yellow watermelon for extra fluid and potassium. For some reason I don't seem to be getting the constipation predicted from chemotherapy drugs. Breakfast was the usual 2 cups or so of oatmeal with apples and black walnuts from our tree (for extra calories). Avoiding salt this week so little cheese.
I've always wondered - what's "brie"?
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Brie is a soft, french cheese. It can be somewhat strong in flavor.
Is camembert a kind of brie, or are they different but similar cheeses?
Yum, cheese! Thanks Brooke
I think they're different but similar. They're also extremely high in fat, as I recall.
breakfast: omelette with tomato and feta cheese lunch- german sausage on a stick, Diet Dew
tossed salad palm sized piece of steak 1/2 cup of peaches
dinner: 5 alarm burger, fries, and Dew at the Red Robin with my girls :)
slumgullion soup .. raves from family yet again.
How old is the younger girl now? Brie is definitely high in fat. This week I am trying to eat cream cheese instead as the latter has less salt. The brie is softened by the white coating of mold that grows on the outer skin if you leave it in a warm place so the mold will be happy, but we are not bothering to wait. Breakfast so far - one prilosec capsule opened up and the time-release contents mixed with applesauce made from Rane's last year's windfalls, followed by lukewarm hawthorne tea, and in one hour oatmeal and then a nasty tasting prednisone (two mashed pills).
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oatmeal & fat free milk in my coffee.
The second half of the Banquet noodles, gravy and beef for lunch.
Oatmeal (not in coffee) with apples we found in Vet's Park. Cauliflower soup with bread and cheese. Lentil soup with bread and cheese. Watermelon.
Had dinner at the Golden Wall Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant on Cross Street in Ypsilanti. It carries the concept of "family restaurant" to a new level. (Details on request.) What I ate was a nice curry vegetable & tofu stir-fry.
breakfast: fried eggs, bacon lunch: chicken strips, Frosty
(insufficient fiber)
Jim made jor and me supper while he ate leftovers. Organic purple potatoes and (orange) carrots. Organic eggs and green pepper omelet. Organic breadmaker bread. Last meal before surgery - you need to have an empty stomach for the anesthetic (which is probably not organic). The leftovers were also organic (squash and collard greens).
steak with sauted onions and mushrooms with horseradish... salad with olives and feta cheese, chocolate Hostess pie, jelly doughnut, chocolate milk.
(I don't mean to be rude jaklumen, but I did understand from other posts that you were trying to lose weight. Somehow, the diet doesn't show the commitment. I was just wondering if I was mistaken)
It's the Ralph Cramden Diet (tm).
London broil, rare, with a (reheated) baked potato.
No, the jelly donut diet. Jaklumen, is this diet actually helping you to lose weight? Maybe you are eating smaller portions than you used to, but I agree with mynxcat that the types of foods you have been posting are not the sort I would expect of a weight loss diet. (But then again, I would not expect to lose weight on what mynxcat is eating either, which seems rather short on fiber and low-calorie fillers.) I will have a Prilosec for breakfast in apple sauce in an hour and I guess just be hungry for two hours after that. Prednisone makes me hungry. Last one for a while luckily. Maybe I will cheat and eat something first but the Prilosec I think gets absorbed faster on an empty stomach. Mine feels empty. I can wait 1/2 hour to wake Jim to mash my pills for me.
In defense of Jaklumen's diet, the first part of recognizing what to eat to lose weight it so look at what you are currently eating and when. If he is a big time snacker, which I am, and cuts back on that, it may help a lot.
mom wanted to try ohmaha steaks' offerings .. tehy have arrived. at least she gets a neat, *thick* cooler out fo teh deal. anyone have taste experience with omaha steaks foods?
re #220 - I've heard that the quality is decent, but not great, and if you want good meat, you're probably better off going to your local butcher.
Re 218 - Though I do agree that my diet is low-cal and may be low on fiber, apart from posting a couple of times here (I think Subway sandwiches both times), and maybe about some substitutes I've made that I posted in item 20, I've not really discussed what I've been eating. So I'm not sure from where you made that inference
What you (mynxcat) have posted eating seems rather high on calorie-dense things (meat including fish and fowl) and low on bulk, at least compared to how we eat, as listed mostly in item 20. The bulk (fiber) fills you up and keeps you from eating at much. Today I ate a whole bunch of high-fiber and liquid and low-salt stuff that Jim keeps cooking for me, most recently microwaved bitter apples from Vet's Park. Last day of this sort of diet.
Well, I *seem* to be doing alright, from today's weigh-in. I think lunch is probably my problem area, especially when I'm on the run. I hope you're looking at lunch and dinner... breakfast *is* low-carb. Dinner is, too, I just am maybe indulgent with dessert. Last night was an especially bad example. BUT I don't think anyone was reading the other item Sapna started. I have to limit dinner to an hour, period. I have a balanced low-carb dinner that allows some dessert, but I cannot eat more than an hour. The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet is *not* Atkins, and I have to keep reminding people of that. I had bad cravings at dinner when I tried to do Atkins, so I don't skip a dessert. resp:219 I don't snack.. not out of habit. As far as lunch, yes, I know I cheat terribly. What's hard sometimes, too, is I sometimes get a mid-morning hunger. What's even worse is low-carb isn't terribly portable, so if I have to go run somewhere after work, sometimes it's easier to go somewhere to eat... and most places just don't do low-carb well. I've done salads and such for a long, long time. I'm hoping to increase exercise, actually. Hopefully *that* will be easier after next week's sleep study and getting the C-PAP machine.
re #221 - ea - thaankxx - that's about what i would expect even if i expect mroe. so far (hmmmm, maybe a refrendum on omaha happens herein) i can attest to the quality of the hot dogs - far above average and much better than expected. more later.
saying you got a good hotdog is like sayign you ate a *superior* 1/4 lb of dogturd.
That is NOT true, happyboy. The last time I checked, they still dont make Kowalski natural casing dogturds!
For dinner I cooked up some Dixie Burgers - a patty made of grated sweet potato, minced collard greens, pureed black-eyed pea, with red bell pepper, onion, garlic and celery, served with cheese on a whole wheat bun. Pretty colors and pretty tasty, but I don't think they eat this in Dixie.
Actually, you know, they make natural casings from intestines. Sounds like shit, you know?
#229: <chuckle>
It's nutty!
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What did I have? Oh, yeah, bacon and tea steeped with baconic remnants fatty gristles etcs.
"baconic" may be the funniest thing uttered by dah ever....
Mancino's pizza.
bacon. last night dinner was a Sourdough chicken club, small caramel shake, a little soda, and some fries.
Jim reinvented macaroni and cheese, with whole wheat noodles and whole wheat white sauce. The frying pan was a mess. First he tried just stirring in cheese and it stuck to the spoon. Swiss chard (varicolored). Jim does not eat cheese. He also does not eat white flour or sugar but had a Kellogg Eye Center muffin anyway.
Skipper's platter, some soda. Someone had a birthday with our gaming group, so there was some cake.
re 225/6/7 ... ammendment .. for NOT being kosher hot dogs they were beter than expectd. no hotdog is better than a kosher hotdog, ever.
the above doesn';t parse well enough ... kosher htodogs are beter than al other hotdogs - there isn't a hotdog better than kosher.
kosher dogturds.
Breakfast was oatmeal, oj, and an order of eggslims at our friendly neighborhood Flim Flam.
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turkey sassidge and some frenchtoast with my wife's AMAZING COFFEE.
It sure is a good thing that I cant read happyboy's responses anymore or else I might be jealous of his breakfast. Whew.
Ripe canteloupe. It hurts to chew anything harder than this. Bean stew.
Some red wine and smoked mozarella [sp?] cheese.
carrots and jalapeno hommus.
onion bagel with cream cheese and tomato, peach drinkable yogurt thingy then BK veggie (no mayo) and a side salad for dinner.
248: hommo.
250: If it matters to you that much, you must want to put your carrot up my hommass...
Corn meal mush with milk added - my jaws hurt if I chew. A pear.
Alcohol.
Bacon for a late breakfast, grilled steak stuffed burrito, nachos, Code Red for dinner.
Piece of toast. I've also discovered the joys of healthy choice sugar free chocoalate chip mint ice cream. It's nice when I'm craving something sweet.
What is Code Red? Nothing for breakfast. Jim did laundry instead. Oatmeal soon with tropical fruit (bananas from the neighbor).
Code Red is a form of Mountain Dw (soda) - it's like regular Mountain Dew with grenadine added. It's incredibly sweet and horrid.
Bacon.
Lunch was turkey meat on colon-blow bread with some fresh raw veggies and lentil soup.
Had late breakfast of egg-beaters, toast with margarine and glass of orange juice
Strawberry yogurt, hard roll, a pear, and water.
Bacon.
Half of a piece of BBQ chicken pizza - that for somre reason, came back up.
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salad and steak
Breakfast: Bacon and poached eggs, water. Mid-meal: diet 7up, pistachios. Lunch: hot 'n sour soup, LOTS of water, BBQ pork with hot mustard, sweet 'n sour chicken.
Subway sandwich on it's way, for lunch
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What's Happy Bombay?
Tod, do you work in a restaurant?
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Chickpea flour pancakes with salad from the neighbor. Mix chickpea flour from the Indian food store with water, mash out the lumps, get a consistency that is like pancake batter and can barely be poured, cook briefly on each side. Sort of dry - what might we be supposed to eat them with?
Bombay Sapphire is my favorite gin.
Lean Cuisine lasagna, honey cake and orange juice
lunch: salad with tuna, marizani olives, sunflower seeds. dinner: Mongolian grill... meat and veggies... can't remember it all.
I have been having oatmeal for breakfast here at work all week. Their oatmeal tastes much better than the instant oatmeal I had been eating. This morning though, they were also serving french toast. I didnt get the french toast but I thought it might be nice to put some syrup into my oatmeal. Bad idea. I forgot that just because I have real maple syrup at home, here at the work cafeteria, they use that fake maple syrup which I suspect is corn syrup with artificial maple flavoring. It wasnt too good.
Toast. And I'm realizing that meat is bothering me. It just seems to kinda "stick".
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subway sanswich
A bit of 3 onion soup and a bit of salad.
I had a couple of slices of pizza plus an apple for lunch.
for breakfast: mellon, pineapple, strawberries, a blueberry muffin, and a Coca Cola for lunch: A couple kinds of pastas, chicken primavera, caesars salad, a cannoli and a Dr. Pepper.
Jim is making eggplant and tofu on rice.
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lunch: salad with tuna, olives, cheese, sunflower seeds dinner: Bacon Cheddar Big 'N Tasty, fries, arctic orange milkshake.
Half of a piece of toast, half of a boiled egg.
dinner last night: Weight Watchers roasted garlic chicken pocket. snack last night: milk chocolate candy bar and two apples then about 8 or 9 dried apricots. My "snack" had about twice as many calories as my dinner. Ooops. :) breakfast this morning: oatmeal, 2 sausage patties and an apple.
Small salad with hard boiled egg and some chicken chili that will be consumed later.
Some reheated pizza from yesterday, carrots, green tea.
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Fresh figs from Jerusalem Market. Pawpaw.
breakfast: eggs and sausage, Crystal Light lunch: Chinese buffet (splurge day and crunch time) dinner probably will be eggplant, steak with sauteed onions, mushrooms, hot horseradish
Do you get your vitamins from pills? I don't see any green vegetables listed in 292, or fruits. Onions have a small amount of vitamin C.
I wouldn't be surprised if he ate some veggies at the Chinese buffet.
porterhouse and scolloped potatoes w/ string beans. lunch (befoer that) was my famous chicken stew/soup.
I notice a lot of people at Chinese buffets with nothing but meat on their plates.
On my lunch break at work- and for lunch had left-over chili that the roomie made, mmmm good stuff. :)
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lunch -- two large mushrooms with cheese (goat/sheep's milk) and several shrimp.
resp: 293 Yes. Multivitamin was ordered by the doctor regardless. Zinc and something else. I don't do many fruits because of the low- carb diet. When I lose enough, they may be folded in again. resp: 294 Of course. Always kim chi, usually some cole slaw if it is there, fried pineapple. This week was different-- I'm doing salads for lunch, see... breakfast: omelette with tomatoes, sausage, and cheese lunch: salad with olives, tuna resp: 296 that may be true, but that does not mean I eat *no* veggies. Again, it's salads this week. Money is tight for a little while, too, so it's just as well.
Tamales (one of each kind) and chili rellenos, at La Fiesta Mexicana. Dessert was a couple of sweet tamales stuffed with pineapple.
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re301: how are michelle and guierrmo these days? they ever get a likker liscence?
lessee... yesterday... lunch I think was still a salad... dinner... fried chicken, crab salad, potato wedges nothing yet today
I didn't see beer on the menu, so I guess not. They seem to be doing well.
dinner, home mde chili
chicken fried steak, buttermilk biscuits-- all in country gravy-- poached eggs, lots of water.
<insert eye roll here> Piece of toast, water. Going for a salad in a few minutes.
why are you rolling your eyes?
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I had oatmeal, 3 link sausages, an apple and a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. I had a muffin for a midmorning snack. I had a BumbleBee brand chicken and BBQ sauce thing that comes in a can with some crackers. It has 110 calories but I think that is because of small portion size rather than being good or healthy. I brought it for my lunch which was a mistake because I am still hungry. Luckily I have some tomato soup in my desk which I can microwave. I will probably end up getting some candy from the vending machine but I am going to eat an apple first and hope I forget that I want candy ;)
Haha. the oatmeal was so good I listed it twice. /doh
Banquet Chicken and Dumplings. Vegatable pill.
Item 309 You have to ask?
Yesterday's lunch - 24+ oz barium sulfate drink, fruit flavored.
Spaghetti with grilled hot italian sausage in the sauce for lunch today. It was leftover from last night's dinner.
Mushroom/soy burger (no bun), sauteed mushrooms and some roasted potatoes.
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Vegan date-raisin wonder bar, lemonade shrimp "sushi" and yummy sheep/cow/goat milk cheese
Breakfast: coffee, maple & brown sugar mini-wheats, banana Lunch: boysinberry yogurt, 2 small french hard rolls, apple (golden ginger) Dinner: Delamix tosquitos, southwestern chicken water throughout the day and another coffee during my Calc II class at 5:30, have to stay awake somehow.
Sharon's Ham I Am at Zingerman's. (Arkansas peppered bacon, muenster cheese, chilis and dried tomatos.)
breakfast: omelette with cheese, tomatoes, onions? lunch: salad with olives, cheese, bacon, hard boiled egg, sunflower seeds dinner is bacon, pancakes, eggs I think... sugar-free syrup too (Atkins)
Beef stew with carrots, onions and potatoes
Tess: Breakfast, Science Diet, water Lunch, Science Diet, water Dinner, Science Diet, water Bagheera: Breakfast, water Lunch, large chipmunk, water Dinner, small chipmunk, Science Diet, water
That's pretty funny. Dinner last night was Peking Tofu, that promptly decided to not stay down. Too much, too fast.
The Science Diet plus water is what Sidney and Molly get too. Except that they don't have scheduled meals.
re314: yeah, i do.
Bagheera is the new boy. Same as Tess 14 years ago just came to back door and refused to go away. Looks like namesake, has doglike affection for humans, insatiable appetite for chipmunk meat. He and Tess loathe and despise each other.
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At our house the furry people get Iams plus water. About once a week we give them all a treat of canned food. We have two that split a can every night (one has trouble gaining weight, the other has deformed teeth and has problems eating enough dry food to get the nuitrition she needs)
MynxieCat gets half a can of wet food every morning and a quarter to half cup of dry food every day. She's not big on those cat treats, which I find weird. She does love those Butterball honey-roasted turkey breats slices though
re 327 yeah, I know you don't have to ask. ;-)
Whenever I open a can of tuna for myself, the cats demand (and get) a share.
Scott M. Evil gets to enjoy Iams Cat food, Whiska's Crab Treats (a huge fav for him), he will attempt to take over your yoghurt (to the point that he is on your lap, and attempting to get his nose near that container), and due to my father treating him like a dog, he loves steak, turkey, chicken, salmon, and any meat in general except for bacon, and sausages.
Could sure do with a falafel from JG right about now.
Mynxie also loves to share my salmon. She seems to love sour cream and chicken also. I try to limit her eating people food, but who can resist the puppy-dog eyes she makes. It's gotten to a point that if she sees me eating something, she will sit and stare, till I give her a bit to sniff at. If she's not interested she'll walk away. No matter what the food is, she has to sniff it to see if she wants it
breakfast: eggs and sausage, Crystal Light lunch: salad with sunflower seeds, albacore tuna, cheese, olives
charcat is enjoying some fresh late fall catnip >^*.*^=
Late night snack - microwaved Gerald Ford Library apples with tahini and mulberry jam to cut the tartness. These are enormous apples from a tree on north campus, all with rotten cores (they were windfalls).
Sort of a metaphor for the Republican Party, eh? :)
Currently eating one of my recipes of homemade chili for lunch. Yum!
breakfast: bacon, fried eggs, Crystal Light dinner: chicken, Stove Top stuffing, coleslaw with sunflower seeds
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Tired of oatmeal so Jim made barley flour pancakes (he has a flour grinder for exercise) with mulberry jam (bought, Turkish).
Lots of Indian sweets in honor of the Hindu festival Diwali
My son and I bought some goat milk out of curiosity. It was "ultra pasteurized", but non-homogenized. We have decided it tastes pretty much like milk. I don't think I'll be buying much more at $3.89 per quart.
Non-homogenized just means you should shake it up a bit before pouring.
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It was barley flour with some milk and eggs mixed in, I think. Same recipe as for crepes made with wheat flour, no leavening. You could also just use flour and water.
A burrito with some "bruised garlic chili" sauce from the Japanese grocery. Kinda salty, though.
A tiny bit of pot roast, some veggies and a skosh of mashed potatoes.
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breakfast: bacon, poached eggs, Crystal Light mid-day: doughnuts lunch: coleslaw with sunflower seeds, Chinese buffet (Friday treat)
went shopping last night for some pork and gindara then took a detour on the way back through a nearby farmers field. fall harvest is nearly over now but lots of fields still have kalo (called sato-imo here) growing. availed myself of few leaves, headed home and made some homestyle laulau. very easy to make...dice the fish, pork, mix into a bowl with shoyu, spice to taste and throw in some sea salt. wrap in a kalo leaf, wrap again with ki (ti) leaf if you have one and tie it up with string or you can also use a stick or bamboo spear to keep the wrapping closed. steam for two, three hours then eat. mmmm...
Hey, jaklumen, did you know they're making fun of your diet on M-Net?
I couldn't give a flying fuck.
breakfast: bacon, hard boiled egg. dinner: salad, albacore tuna, olives
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We rustled up three Rachael Ray "30-minute Meal" items for company last night. Rachael's recipes are always popular. http://tinyurl.com/seq7 http://tinyurl.com/seqi We put this out for starters: http://tinyurl.com/seqb There was some chardonnay left over after the green risotto but I didn't like it so I had some Cynar & soda.
rachel ray reminds my wife and i of slynne
She's a bad cook too? ;)
nope! she just sort of reminds us of you, it's hard to say why. anyway when we really are sad that you're not visiting us the 5 of us all watch rachel ray. some of her recipies look fine as well.
breakfast was... biscuits. No breakfast meat in the house. There was no eggs made today-- I must be out of it. Maybe I should have had a salad :P
Breakfast at the Flim Flam, our friendly neighborhood fambly restaurant. I had eggs, oatmeal, OJ, and coffee.
Today we had some Scottish meat pies (round pastry shells with minced beef inside, possibly mixed with oatmeal) and I had a butter tart. Yes, we were in Canada for the weekend. :-) We stopped at "Uncle Jimmy's Scottish Bakery".
Jim stir-fried what was in the refrigerator, which today was red cabbage, onions, daikon, and frozen peppers. On rice, with tofu.
You guys brought meat pies with beef in them back from Canada?
Unless their bodies process food extraordinarily quickly, the answer is almost certainly yes :-)
Doh. I guess that's probably how they did it.
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See? On M-NEt! He signed up just to see M-Netters making fun of him! But apparently he didn't find the item, agora 5.
I had a butter tart today too, and I didn't have to leave Ann Arbor to get it. (Big City bakery has really wicked good ones.)
resp:371 very astute of you, oh Phillie boy. But you still fail to grasp that I still had great fun along the way. Sorry, you still lose. Dinner was a bacon cheeseburger and fries with beer-battered mushrooms... yes, oh, so decadent. Go ahead and make fun of me, you M- Netters. I really don't give a motherflying fuck.
Yep. Still don't. Or maybe I should say I do. Should have realized it would be in the parody of the conference. Pretty fucking funny. Thanks, dah. I should buy you a pizza, man.
Pancakes with homemade pear butter, Earl Grey tea.
Yes, we ate them in Canada. I would have liked to have brought some haggis back, but Bruce said we couldn't.
Oatmeal with fresh-picked apples from our favorite tree. Lunch will start with two tylenol and one benadryl and progress to three more pills for nausea and may include a hospital blueberry bagel during infusion. Last time Jim found half a chocolate cupcake in the patient kitchen.
Re 373 and 374, people that go out of their way to say they don't care, really do care. Duh.
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lol
Jim ate the bottom half of the cupcake. Someone else probably pulled off the top half. Today he found two entire ones. Lunch was all those pills, and bread and cream cheese, and half a blueberry bagel and three juices and two apples. Things I could eat left handed.
okay. Today our larder was a little bare, so I had my father come over with a little food to tide us over until we could find some foodstuffs elsewhere. He brought a half a head of Napa cabbage, some apples, and some Asian pears. Julie made the cabbage into coleslaw, added some sunflower seeds, which I had for lunch with one of the Asian pears. Right now, I'm having some steak with cucumbers and rice... we're trying to use the rice in our storage. Oh yeah, I *am* heavily lampooned in the M-net parody of this cf, of this very item... well, quite a few items aren't altered much. Apparently not many believe in low-carb. *shrug* It's an experiment. I know I've lost some inches-- that's what matters. Breakfast is pretty damn funny when it's pretty much the same thing over and over again.
If what you are doing is working for you, never mind what people think about it.
Ogo's again today: laulau, ahi poke in a mayo and chili oil sauce, fruitcup with coconut pudding, pine apple and mandarin orange, ice kona coffee. Promised myself to take a break on laulau - already made it twice at home recently, but when Ryoji mentioned he had taken delivery of fresh kalo leaves today...
I admit, I'm pretty sceptical about low-carb diets, especially when they're substituted by high-fat diets. I understand that you should decrease your carb-intake, and protein is good, but when you have a lot of food that has high fat in it, I begin to wonder if that's really effective. It seems it's a heart-attack just waiting to happen. But, as slynne says, if it works for you, that's what really matters. As long as no long-term damage is done, it's all good.
I personally believe that the word "buffet" is not part of any healthy eating plan.
Well, you could go to a buffet and pick out the less greasy stuff. And less of everything. Though, when it comes to me, I don't seem to work that way.
Restaurant food in general is not healthy - it is usually full of fat and salt and meat and not enough vegetables. But a buffet at least lets you eat more of the (salty fatty) vegetables. High protein diets are bad for the kidneys and liver, which have to filter out lots of protein breakdown products. If you are eating a high-fat diet and burning as many calories as you eat, it might not hurt you. I read a magazine article yesterday which seemed to say that 1/4 of Americans have insulin problems and cannot eat large amounts of carbohydrates that put glucose into their bodies too fast (refined carbohydrates). Whole grains digest much more slowly. If jaklumen is in this group, I would suggest brown rice, 100% whole wheat bread, rather than biscuits or jelly donuts, also a lot more vegetables and fruits, which are not refined (whole fruits, not sugary juices). Cooking vegetables releases more vitamins (but don't boil them and throw out the water -steam or microwave or stir fry).
The only reason that there is even a shred of truth in the first statement of #388 is that, on balance, most restaurants are fast food places, or barely distinguishable therefrom. If one makes a habit of avoiding those types of establishments, one may have an extremely well-balanced and healthy diet eating exclusively restaurant food.
True, but the trick then is to avoid bankruptcy.
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oatmeal and coffee
oatmeal and tea
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Oatmeal with thawed milk from some dairy farmer friends with locally picked apples. All the restaurants I have eaten at make food that is greasy and usually salty. Dinersty will leave out the salt on request. Chinese restaurants will often steam food instead of frying it. We cook without salt. Tios food is to us inedible. It takes me three days to recover form eating in a restaurant and have the salt come back out of me. At least the hospital food was mostly not salty (just peppery).
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Lunch was a tuna sandwich - 6 oz. of Starkist light tuna between two slices of high-fiber bread, mayonaisse added - and a fresh veggie salad with homebrewed oil and vinegar dressing. Apple for dessert. As usual, the cats demanded their share as soon as I had opened the tuna can.
resp:383 indeed, but read on... still, I'm supposedly geeked about bacon pancakes at M-Net! resp:385 note, I'm watching fat, too. lots of salad at lunch. resp:386 no, it's not going to be a habit... really. resp:387 me too. resp:388 true. And when the hell did I say I was eating a lot of biscuits and jelly donuts, hmmm? Brown rice doesn't keep too well, but I can consider it for dinner. Right now I need to eat the white rice in storage. resp:389 in general, that's why I'm learning to avoid them altogether... and I think my wallet will thank me for it. I'm not even going to bother mentioning lunch... because I don't need the grief today. I was going to have just coleslaw again (even though it's not terribly filling) but Julie put banana peppers in it (oh damn, I can't wait for the M-Net parody on this one) which put a bite in it. Dinner is steak over rice again-- using what we have in our storage. Two things, folks. First of all, I gained a lot of friggin' weight because of that lovely drug, Depakote. Yeah, I'm bipolar (You can kiss my ass making jokes about that). Second, most low-carb diets are not meant to be long-term things. I would like to return to maybe eating groats or something like that for breakfast because I'm sick of eating eggs every single day. Dinners are good, but eggs... man, I hope somebody is parodying that, not to mention the endless lunches of salads or my silly gorges of Chinese buffet. Preach on.
I think you'll find that brown rice keeps at least as long as white in the refrigerator. And I've never had a problem with letting it sit in a covered pan most of the day to eat from as a snack.
I'm about to eat...correction have just started eating Yumi's tasty fried chicken.
resp:400 - Impossible...oj's still looking for the real orange juice...
oops...that was actually meant for resp:394
Jak, whatever works for you is good. I agree about low-carb diets, I've been skeptical, and besides, don't think I could live with one. I love my carbs too much. And I don't thinkg you need to apologise to anyone about your diet, or explain it. It's your food. I was just curious, because it seemed to me that a lot of it was not conventional "diet" food. (I haven't kept up with the new diets and theories out there. I'm a believer of eat less, eat healthy and exercise. But then I do realise that I'm lucky that I have the time to spend at the gym everyday. I know it's not a good solution for everybody)
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Are you talking about Brown vs. White in how long it stores on a shelf, or once it's been cooked?
Hahahahahah!!!! I had half an english muffin with half an egg and a bit of cheese.
Lunch: Leftover chicken and an apple.
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We buy brown rice 50 pounds at a time and store it unrefrigerated. Even though it contains more oil than white rice it keeps longer because the rice is live seeds. Brown rice flour would probably go rancid if left unrefrigeratored for a long time, as does whole wheat flour in sores in small towns where it does not sell well. Any diet based primarily on meat is going to be high fat.
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Sweet potato steamed in teh microwave.
Great Harvest Savory Cheddar Scone.
I'm currently working through a small piece of pork loin stuffed with wild mushrooms, some mashed potatoes and a bit of steamed broccoli.
[this spot graciously and rampantly parodied by the folks at M-Net] ...and sometimes the jester has much to say. You know, Sindi, for a skinny woman, you've got a lot of nerve preaching to a fat boy. I understand you're probably thinking you're helping, as you live a great lifestyle... but I'm not sure you've struggled. No, I've had some meds do funky things to my weight up and down, so it's not just the eating. And you're not listening at all. You hear "low-carb" and assume "mostly meat." Not necessarily. It's been lots of breakfasts of eggs, eggs, eggs. Lunches have been endless salads, and when I failed to get creative, sometimes my willpower failed me and I made a poor eating choice. Other days, it was "gee, that coleslaw wasn't very filling." Dinner is pretty balanced, though. I get a chance to eat plenty of vegetables and full-fiber grain... because dinner isn't supposed to be low-carb, per se. I explained all of this in the "mynxcat wants to be svelte" item. Now people may think I am probably unnecessarily justifying myself. But... I think I've said my peace.
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YOu know. There is a reason that Sindi is so skinny. While I dont think I would be happy living and eating as she does, I have no doubt that if I did, it would make me very thin.
coffee, oatmeal, nanner, water, AND MEDS.
A ways back there - we get brown rice through a buying coop and it is Lundberg. The Arkansa grower seems to have gone out of business so no more choice if we want organic brown rice. I consider eggs in the same category as meat - no fiber, lots of fat and protein, and too much protein means you are breaking it down for energy (instead of carbohydrates being used for energy) which creates breakdown products which are hard on the kidneys and liver. Also meat/fish/milk/eggs are a lot less bulky than vegetables and whole grains, and you will not fill as full after eating them. I fully understand that it is more difficult for some people to achieve a healthy weight, and that drugs can make it harder to do so.
Wait a minute - did you just say that it is easier to feel full after eating vegetables than meat/fish/eggs? Because I've found that to be just hte opposite.
Exactly, meat/fish/eggs have fat, which make you feel fuller. At least, they do me. The fat seems to be somewhat necessary to the sensation of fullness.
Hehe. Certain veggies have a way of making me feel full but still hungry. It is annoying.
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Mmmm... Wasabi peas. They're like freebased sushi.
Oh man. I love those.
I think we are using different definitions of full. When I feel full, it hurts to put more into my stomach.
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/passes t-d a sack of whitey's
resp#425 - that is what I mean by full. It hurts to put more into my stomach. And yet, sometimes when I just eat veggies, I feel full but still feel hungry. It is a weird sensation and quite annoying because even though I am still hungry, I cant eat anything so I have to just be hungry.
I think I kn ow that feelin g - like when you feel bloated and couldn't possibly eat a bite, but your stomach's still growling. I hate that. Stupid over-active digestive system. I'm having dry corn-flakes this morning. Good snack. Also, yesterday, had the soft tacos at Chipotle. Then read an article about how the burrito at Chipotle was about 1300 calories!! Chipotle hasn't published it's nutritional information either on the site, or any of the calorie counter books I checked out at B&N. The article did mention that Chipotle had not made the nutritional content of it's meals avaialbe, but I thought it was mandatory that all restaurants could produce the nutritional content of it's meals if the public wanted it? Isn't this true. Anyways, no more Chipotle for me for a long time. (Maybe this post should have gone in item 20 :P sorry)
I've e-mailed Chipotle - no, they don't have the nutritional values. Which I find annoying. But, everyone's food varies, with their choices and the generosity of the people making it. I currently get the vegetarian burrito bowl and eat about 1/3 of it, saving the rest for later.
The Vegetarian Burrito apparently had as many calories as a burger and fries, or something similar. It seemed outrageously high. You can save some calories, by getting the bowl instead of the tortilla wrap (340 calories), substituting rice with lettuce and skipping the guacomole. That would be 430 calories and 4.5 gms of fat. I'm happier with a Subway sandwich at 280 calories and 4 gms of fat for the Turkey.
I would be worried if I ate it all at once (which I used to do - WOW!), but now it's many meals for me.
Yeah, I guess that's ok. I wish I had known *before* I had all three of my soft tacos, though. :( (Not to mention have to worry about how to pack really wet, messy soft tacos to have for later)
That's what's nice about the bowl. it just wraps up - they'll give you the foil.
Haha! There's something for agora! "pack really wet, messy soft wet tacos"! AShaha. j/k.
meatloaf sammich w/ slice 'o-swiss, mustard, mayo, lettuce, on wholewheat
scrambled egg.
For breakfast: A homemade breakfast shake. I always really liked the idea of slimfast because it is a quick and easy way to get some breakfast when one is in a hurry. But it gets most of it's calories from sugar which wasnt working for me. I would get hungry again too fast. So I bought some soy protein powder and I mix it with some metamucil and soy milk and that keeps me from feeling hungry until lunch. Lunch today was a chicken ceasar salad.
Fried fava beans. First soak for at least 24 hours then fry slowly in a little oil. An attempt to add calories and protein. You can also buy them prefried at the Chinese food stores but they are somewhat stale and salty. Odd that there is sugar in both weight-loss and weight-gain liquid preparations.
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resp:438 re: homemade shake... let me know if that works for you.
I awoke at 4:30 and after listening to the silence for 20 minutes or so I got up and made a batch of cinnamon apple bread pudding. I then went back to bed only to awaken a little later to the aroma of baking cinnamon. It tastes wonderful. My scruffy (morning mode) husband then appeared and I gave his scratchy unshaved cheek a kiss. All in all it's only 8:30 and I've exercised all five senses. ;-)
French toast, with various toppings. Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
resp:441 - I am not drinking that shake in any attempt to lose weight. It just need something somedays that is quick and can hold me until lunch time. So in that sense, this works for me :)
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Half a calzone, stuffed with peppers and ricotta.
I do the oatmeal thing quite a lot but it isnt always an option.
Asparagus, tater tots, fried rice, broccoli, strawberries, ice cream, fried potatoes, mushrooms, canned peaches and mandarin oranges, watermelon, green beans, more ice cream, mussels, sushi.
You ate all that stuff at one sitting?
Yes, a little of each, at Gourmet Garden. They don't have much of a vegetable selection so you have to pick out the vegetables from the meat, which is where the asparagus and broccoli came from. I am trying to gain weight so should probably not have eaten mostly vegetables and fruit.
resp:444 ok, quite clear now. Sometimes I'm in a rush mornings, was wondering if you thought it beneficial towards weight loss/maintenance.
broiled pickeral ... linguine & meat sauce .. host made it deductable for mom's and my lunch. gotta luv it ...
Toast with a piece of cheese on it.
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I got tired of planning meals. Jim decided to make stir-fried frozen zucchini and brocolli with tofu and peanuts on quinoa. The textures were interesting. Everything is tending to taste the same now except for preserved eggs. But I am going to hit 110 this year no matter what it takes.
I don't know where I'd find quinoa in my area, exactly, but that meal sounds interesting.
We get ours from either the food coop, or a food buying club that orders from Blooming Prairie, a cooperative food supplying company in Indiana. Quinoa has a very mild taste a bit like corn (maize).
But nuttier. Definitely a more subte flavor than corn, though.
Hmm... might have to see if our food coop has it here.
You can also try amaranth, which the North Americans grew. Quinoa was Peruvian. Or millet (birdseed to some), which is much cheaper.
My loyalty to steel cut oats is steadfast and unswerving.
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huh?
Time for Banquet lunch with chicken patties, potatoes, corn and brownie.
Tsulatamen today. Yum.
1/3 kmart cooked chicken ... not bad!
Bruce, you're in Japan, right. Do they sell rice and curry on the streets as a form of fast food?
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japanese curry-rice joints definitely set the bar for speed-of-service. at my "local", Curry King, we start complaining about the slack service if a steaming plate of katsu curry rice isn't set by the time our jackets are off. in the same tradition, hokka hokka bento generally have you out the door bento-in-hand within seconds of ordering (and paying).
Club sandwich at Arbor Brewing, followed by tea and a cookie at Eastern Accents.
eggamoobymuffins.
Mashed turnip with sliced rutabaga on cold rice with pickled lime. Still trying to eat fresh local produce. Other options were black radish, green radish, or white radish (daikon) or purple cabbage, onions, potatoes, squash. Or a very large pumpkin.
ira-kamo tsukune, gyoza, atsu age, hotate batta furai, pitcher of beer.
rice beer? / /
nah, nah. da odda kine.
Pancakes with salmon-flavored cream cheese, Earl Grey tea.
experimental paella. unanimously lauded by all. what a wonderful birthday gift. :)
Ham and cheese sandwhich.
For lunch, a garden salad slapped together by yours truly. Spinach, red yellow and orange peppers, carrots, tomato, avacodo, cucumber, olive oil, wine vinegar, and a bit of turkey meat to provide protein. For dessert, a small apple.
Local organic produce for supper consisting of boiled/mashed Jerusalem artichokes from when Jim weeded the front yard (they were flowering profusely about 10 feet high) and brussels sprouts fresh from the stalk that we bought at market. Most years we freeze lots of vegetables and fruits for winter but this year since I don't have the energy we are planning to empty our freezer of things from the last two years. Especially since they started to thaw during the August blackout.
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Subway sandwich and tea
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had a company dinner last night at a place called nobu's near roppongi. mmmm. sashimi, sushi, maguro steak with a tamanegi pepper shoyu sauze, filet mignon with pan seared pate of some sort, miso soup, dessert.
...lipitor,d-fibz.
Six premedication pills in pear sauce, bread, cheese, and apples all eaten with my right hand since my left had was hooked up. A raw carrot. This week I should eat lots of fiber and drink lots of liquids.
Spelt spagetti with tomato and mushroom sauce, meatballs, and a mixed greens salad.
Jambalaya and seafood gumbo. Cornbread muffins. Ceasar salad. Apple pie with cheddar cheese.
took mom to the bar .. chicken soup and 1/2 lb burger - luved it
Prilosec on homemade pear sauce, to be followed in an hour by breakfast with more pear sauce (prednisone). The menu through Friday also includes food with no salt but lots of fiber. We have plenty of Jerusalem artichoke, for which the coop is asking $6.50 a pound. Once you plant one, you have a jungle of them that is hard to remove. They need no weeding, fertilizer, or much sun.
Dessert tonight was more of Sunday's homemade applesauce (a little too heavy on the clove, I'm afraid but ah well).
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Nothing like good scotch to chase anabuse. :)
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Tea.
finger: chunks: no such user.
Ham and Turkey Grinder, Cole Slaw, Chocolate Chip cookie and Orange Juice
yumi-chan's homemade kabocha soup.
Small salad with beans and eggs on it, small soup.
Turkey sandwiches on low-fat multi-grain bread. Fruit at the Bottom Dannon's yogurt.
I'm gonna eat a POUTINE tommorow.
Brownie, goldfish and carrots with dip. We're "celebrating" in advance the Buckeyes kicking the Wolverines' ass tomorrow. (We as in the office)
How many goldfish did you swallow?
heh. It's those little crackers. Maybe have been about 20. Japanese curry (the kind I suspect are treated as fast food in Japan, remember bhoward, I asked?) with tilapia fish, rice, fruit at the bottom (peach) yogurt, and maybe some grapes later
Friday fish fry at Olden Days restaurant in Fowlerville. Alas, way below their usual high quality today.
Fuck. I bought a poutine, but was sold a cheese'n'gravy fries.
ah, the poutine, canada's answer to chicken fried staek.
re #502 - would you like a side of crow for that "celebration"? ;)
resp:506 I've heard of gravy on fries, but never tried 'em.
Time for a sunday Chicken Dinner
It should be done in the microwave....right about...now...ding!
A large panful of peeled, sliced, oiled, baked, organic red potatoes and some organic carrots. They are supposed to taste sort of fried.
I tried chocolate filled crepes for the first time Sunday. Sounded good but left me a bit queezy.
Eggs, corned beef hash and hashbrowns, in Fowlerville.
I ate a whore. (AHAHA).
Subway sandwich
Sticky rice pudding with dried chestnuts and jujubes. Peanuts boiled with anise. Ginger and daikon soup.
Baked meatloaf, with whipped potatoes and corn. Figured after working most of last night and giving blood this afternoon I should get some extra calories into my system.
Thanks for giving blood. I used three units in August and Jim is putting off giving until January. Meatloaf has lots of iron. How many calories in a unit of blood?
Dunno how many calories, none of the grocery stores I've been to sell human blood so I've never seen the nutrition label.
home made beef stew
pizza
Mac & cheese and, for desert, homemade banana-nut cookies.
Soybeans with slivered kelp on rice, delivered to our door.
Cup of corn chowder and some crackers.
(Re #523: Delivered by a vegan mermaid, no doubt.)
/Corn/ chowder? B-p
Re 523/525 - soy beans (and black beans, lots of them) were delivered by a carnivore trying to be nice to us. I told her to cook anything she found in my apartment.
Peach/Almond Italian Soda served with pleasant conversation by a lovely young Portuguese woman in Farmington Hills.
tossed salad, rice with ground beef, tapioca pudding
turkey, swiss on whole wheat, crab cakes from the amish farmer's market.
Franks & beans...Heaven help my co-workers.
McDonald's steak, egg & cheese bagel.
Was this sbreakfast? Didn't know McDonald's served bagels after breakfast.
It was breakfast, I'm just late in reporting. Grilled cheese sandwich, chocolate chip cookies.
I drank some coffee. whore
willcome, did you ever think you might be more comfortable on m-net?
Had grits at the Zingerman's Roadhouse lastnight for dinner, which while it was good, I don't think was quite worth the money they charged. Just ate a 'strawberry' fruit leather as a snack. (It's got more than just strawberries in it, which is why I quoted it.)
r536: he's already there, stink-0
Soup made from frozen chestnuts, fresh sweet potatoes, fresh yams (a totally different plant from sweet potato) and dried pitted jujubes Soy duck made from tofu skins with flavoring Two vegetable dishes - chives with scrambled eggs, bok choy with wood ear Nuts - peanuts boiled with anise I wonder if you can also get Chinese soy turkey? Brought over for later use: chrysanthemum tea, dried lily flowers, preserved black beans, some little black rice-like things from water lily seeds to be cooked with beans, soy milk powder, preserved vegetable with chili (looks like a knobby kohlrabi), preserved daikon (pickled in salt). The yam is medicinal. I wonder if it cures hot flashes. Most fruits and vegetables appear to cure something in China.
Turkey breast, mashed taters, spelt bread stuffing, salad, pumpkin pie, whipped topping, bacardi rum cake
Turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry thingie. Though it is from Banquet, I am pretending it is Thanksgiving leftovers.
Thanksgiving leftovers - chestnut/jujube soup, etc. Plus some onions stir fried with preserved black beans and pickled Chinese kohlrabi.
re resp:541: I went to KFC today. We went out to dinner yesterday, so we didn't have any leftovers, either. I miss having hot turkey sandwiches.
Way too much food at Holiday's restaurant in Ann Arbor, which we had not been to in several years. Decent fish & chips and potato skins.
I love their food. I had Lasagna with salad
by family tradition, thanksgiving dinner was on friday. we had a colleague of my parents', a graduate student of my mother's, his wife and son, and snowth and orinoco. Turkey, mashed potatos, stuffing, cranberry sauce, corn, peas, gravy, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, and chocolate bourbon pecan pie. afterward, snowth & orinoco & i joined another friend of theirs and discovered the new fleetwood diner east, attached to the Marathon station at Michigan & Carpenter, across from Sam's Club, and had most of a plate of chili cheese fries.
Why don't you, a purveyor of fine literature, know how to write English? "of my parents'". Pfgffs. I scoff at you (and your face).
FOAD
Err soory if this come wrong or something, but like thow do you use this bbs thingie? Liketo now.
Mostly in stomach: Dogfish Head "90 Minute IPA", scored while in Chicago for Thanksgiving. Salad, mostly spinach and broccoli. Currently cooking: Red potatoes, top round steak.
Brown rice with tamari sauce, and an apple, and some Earl Grey iced tea.
Chicken and noodle soup, turkey sandwiches and a Kalamazoo Stout.
hamburger, no bun tossed salad tapioca pudding
Leftovers from Holiday's restaurant: parts of a club sandwich, and potato skins.
Skinned potatoes with cheese, soybean and tomato juice and zucchini soup, breadmaker bread.
Liver, mashed spuds, green beans and choclate pudding for desert
Wow!! I haven't had liver in ages!! I love the stuff.
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Re #554, 555: Nice that you guys are sharing your potatoes like that.
Brown rice and soy sauce.
Pork, chicken briefly marinated in a kiawe (mesquite) sauce wrapped in kalo leaves and steamed. Yep, it was another laulau night. Yum!
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Two out of three small microwaved potatoes, a little sweet potato and chestnut soup, and a preserved egg. Things are tasting peculiar again.
steak and salad followed by ice cream
hot chocolate
Yum! Another Banquest Turkey Dinner for lunch.
Friday's Fowlerville Fish Fry, at Olden Days. Finest fried fish in the area. They brought us way too much on the second plate so I had to smuggle the last piece out for later.
/stands by with the alkaseltzer and shock paddles
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Home fried fava beans. Soak them first, then peel if desired.
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Potato tater barrels and cream puff at a Chinese buffet, and the usual vegetables and fruits. I now need to regain 2 pounds.
steak, tossed salad, and butter pecan ice cream.
Salad and some sort of leftover chicken and noodles dish.
Two cups of expensive orange juice. Jim is convinced that I lost 2 pounds due to drinking water, which has no calories. I would only have to drink about 35 cups (maybe only 20) of orange juice to gain a pound. Apart from the added expense (water is free), it can't hurt and maybe will make my cold go away faster. The cheap orange juice tastes bitter because they squeeze the skins with it and the oil from them gets into the juice.
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Well, I've just starting making the kalua pig, turkey starts in another hour and reenforcements with sashimi, ebi chilli, veggies, salads and all kine snacks, munchies and desserts apparently land any time now. Oops, almost forgot the cranberry and spuds. Yep, it's the annual Christmas dinner, Japanese Lu'au stylee at the Howard's! Held, as tradition demands, on the 23rd which is the nearest national holiday to Christmas we have handy in these parts.
What's the holiday for? How common is Christianity over there? How diffiucult is it to get in the Xmas spirit witfew people celebrating it?
Raisin Bran Crunch this morning, however a tad of the eggnog
was mixed in with the milk to give it a richer taste.
Picked up a Fox's Pasty in Dearborn last night for dinner
as I was in the area.
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Do they really put in an ox's tail in oxtail soup?
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From the tail?
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Ew
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Re#578: The holiday is to celebrate Emperor Akihito's birthday (Tenno
no tanjobi no hi).
According to our friends at the CIA:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ja.html#People,
Japanese that "observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including
Christian 0.7%)". But don't let statistics like that distract you.
Christmas is alive and well, if not transplanted entirely unscathed into
the Japanese milieu.
Keep in mind that the Japanese I've probably met personally are a small
slice of 127 million at large across the archipelago and most of those are
cityfolk living in Tokyo or Kyoto. Having said that, my own experience
is that folks quite enjoy the Christmas spirit, at least in terms of
the lights, traditional music and the occasional Santa running around.
For many younger folks, Christmas is more like valentines day and they see
it as an occasion to go out on a "hot-o date-o" in some romantic locale.
Some of the stores treat it more like a sporting event with posters
touting "Christmas 2003!" (for our American readers, imagine this
being said by a Japanese announcer with a voice like the fellow who used
to do the "World of Wheels! Wheels! Wheels!" adverts for the super car
shows).
Personally, we find that if you are not too fussed about the details and
willing to celebrate approximately around the 25th rather than necessarily
on the exact date it's quite easy to get into the holiday spirit. The
25th may not a business holiday but the emperors birthday just before is.
Wait a few days and you may avail yourself of new years, a national three
day event in indurance drinking. And if you are on social terms with
your neighbors as we are, it's never a challenge to scare up a crowd to
share in some seasonal cheer...or as the case may be, "kompai!" :-)
That sounds really nice, Bruce. :) Merry Christmas!
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