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melaniesuzanneI love eating salads and steamed veggies, but man do those foods get caught up in my braces.
And speaking of salads and steamed veggies, I've been reading Edith Blum's
Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous: A Nutritionist's Guide to Living Well While Living it Up. The constant references to "gorgeous"-ness, as if the reader were Carrie Bradshaw, have been grating but I'm mostly able to mentally skip over those and enjoy the author's underlying message which is essentially that you can eat anything you want, anytime you want, but go for quality and use moderation for the less healthy items. If you want chocolate, get the most expensive, rich chocolate you can find and savor the ever-loving heck out of that chocolate. I like that message. :)
She does provide information about healthier food choices and methods of cooking those items as well as recipes and meal planning ideas. This is what I love most. I mean, I'm pretty happy with my daily lunch of salad and Lean Cuisine, but I'd like to mix it up a bit and eat fewer processed foods. I've made some small changes such as swapping out shredded cheddar cheese for crumbled feta on my salads (increased protein, whoo!) and eating more organic fruits and veggies. I'm looking forward to replacing my instant oatmeal with steel-cut oats and my "light" fruity yogurts with Greek yogurt and fresh berries, honey, and flaxseed.
That said, last night's dinner consisted of a Vanilla Coke Zero, tortilla chips, and Pancho's cheese dip. I logged every bit of that in my food tracker and did not ruin yesterday with the splurge. Sometimes you've just got to throw caution to the wind and have a gooey crunchy cheat/treat. And then you go back to the nutritious foods and feel so much better. :)
And speaking of salads and steamed veggies, I've been reading Edith Blum's
Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous: A Nutritionist's Guide to Living Well While Living it Up. The constant references to "gorgeous"-ness, as if the reader were Carrie Bradshaw, have been grating but I'm mostly able to mentally skip over those and enjoy the author's underlying message which is essentially that you can eat anything you want, anytime you want, but go for quality and use moderation for the less healthy items. If you want chocolate, get the most expensive, rich chocolate you can find and savor the ever-loving heck out of that chocolate. I like that message. :)
She does provide information about healthier food choices and methods of cooking those items as well as recipes and meal planning ideas. This is what I love most. I mean, I'm pretty happy with my daily lunch of salad and Lean Cuisine, but I'd like to mix it up a bit and eat fewer processed foods. I've made some small changes such as swapping out shredded cheddar cheese for crumbled feta on my salads (increased protein, whoo!) and eating more organic fruits and veggies. I'm looking forward to replacing my instant oatmeal with steel-cut oats and my "light" fruity yogurts with Greek yogurt and fresh berries, honey, and flaxseed.
That said, last night's dinner consisted of a Vanilla Coke Zero, tortilla chips, and Pancho's cheese dip. I logged every bit of that in my food tracker and did not ruin yesterday with the splurge. Sometimes you've just got to throw caution to the wind and have a gooey crunchy cheat/treat. And then you go back to the nutritious foods and feel so much better. :)
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Date: 2011-07-12 06:55 pm (UTC)My stepmother taught me "is it worth the calories?"* a long while ago. I try to use it, but then people (including I) have candy dishes at work.
*the mousse at the restaurant quite likely is, and the Honey Bun in the vending machine quite likely is not.
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Date: 2011-07-12 07:05 pm (UTC)Oh yeah, I'm a complete sugar junkie and am trying to channel that into more complex sugars as well as more rich and satisfying treats.
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Date: 2011-07-12 07:04 pm (UTC)How do you plan to cook it? For a long time, I kept with instant oatmeal during the week due to longer cooking times, but our new rice cooker has a porridge setting and a timer, so we can wake up to freshly cooked steelcut oatmeal or rice porridge (if we remember to make it the night before, etc). I've also heard of folks doing it in a slow cooker, but I'm not familiar with that.
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Date: 2011-07-12 07:13 pm (UTC)I should get a rice cooker. I think it would be useful for all the quinoa I want to start making. I'll look for one with a timer and porridge setting.
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Date: 2011-07-12 07:34 pm (UTC)and then we get these locally....
http://www.umpquaoats.com/
:)
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Date: 2011-07-12 07:40 pm (UTC)I like the "preparation" tab on the McCanns site. That's informative!
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Date: 2011-07-12 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-07-12 09:02 pm (UTC)If you can find a WaterPik, I highly recommend it.
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Date: 2011-07-13 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-12 11:59 pm (UTC)That's the watchword Chez Nous :-)
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Date: 2011-07-13 03:53 pm (UTC)(Ack! My Montgomery Burns icon has gone on walkabout.)
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