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Healthy foods you crave
I think I eat more olives than any person should in the run of a day. I eat them daily or just about. I think whoever it was that started stuffing olives with almonds deserves a gold star.
Free Calorie Count Apps for Smartphones- MyFitnessPal, Fatsecret or another app?
I think Fitday has a free app. I haven't yet downloaded it, but I use Fitday online and find it pretty good.
Don't ever wash raspberries - Good Advice??
I thought the "do not wash" when it comes to berries was mostly for freezing. If you wash them pre-freezing, they'll stick together more.
How do you pronounce "OYSTER"?
I have often heard something that sounds like a cross between Oys-ter and Eye-ster in accents (Nfld)
Proper way to eat french fries ... etiquette question
I think nudging it over with your nose as a nod to Lady and the Tramp is clearly the way to go here.
Watching an adjacent diner's meal in disbelief and envy
That reminds me of a thread we had on here a while back about a dinner guest who had scooped up a big portion of caviar or something for their young child at a party, who in turn spat it out.
Which in turn reminded me of Tom Hanks in one of his movies with Meg Ryan in which he takes a big scoop of the caviar surrounding some dish, and Meg goes off on him for eating all the garnish. I think he then in turn scooped the remainder of what was left around the dish to spite her.
What sort of diet makes *you* feel your best?
Isn't Guinness already a multivitamin? ;)
What sort of diet makes *you* feel your best?
I tend to feel my best with a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet with proteins (beans, eggs, nuts etc) , vegetables (and lots of them), fruit and only whole grains like barley, bulgur, wheatberries, quinoa etc. A bread/pasta diet, while I love the stuff, makes me feel bloaty and what we call loagy where I come from. Sugary things tend to make me feel kind of crappy but I rarely crave them anyway.
I try to eat whole foods, and few low-fat/sugar-free concoction thingies (diet drinks aside, my weakness). I use sesame and olive oil on a regular basis
Yes I go off the rails occasionally and eat chips, french fries and chocolate and ice cream, and even treat myself to some seafood if I'm on holiday. I drink wine. So it's not to say that I don't deviate from my "feel best" diet.
Energy enhancing foods to avoid afternoon lunch crash & fatigue?
Actually I found the biggest difference when I avoided carbs for breakfast like toast or what not. I'd read about eating this way a few years ago when I too was looking for a way to stop nearly face-planting on my desk mid-afternoon. So I chose a breakfast of eggs, or fruit and yogurt, an apple and peanut butter etc for breakfast and I felt a little perkier.
Feeling "out of place" at a restaurant
Oh I don't think they were trying to freeze us out of there or anything, like I said some of it was probably down to us just feeling self-conscious for no reason. We had however, taken the last seats on the patio and there were at least two servers out there. There was barely anyone in the dining room.
98-year-old needs to gain weight, doesn't eat enough: Food suggestions
In addition to many others here, if she likes scrambled eggs, try making them with some whole fat mayo in there before cooking. Its actually quite tasty anyway (we sometimes had this at indulgent brunches say at xmas or what not), even though it sounds a bit ugh.
I ate scrambled eggs almost every morning as I went through chemo, and I often added a little bit of lower fat mayo into the mix (because I wasn't trying to gain weight), and I found it tasted much more appealing to me, and the bonus being that it also softened the eggs.
98-year-old needs to gain weight, doesn't eat enough: Food suggestions
There are also lots of recipes out there with booze based cream sauces for pasta or what not. Here is one I have http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Smoked-Salmon-Pasta-with-Scotch/Detail.aspx
I also have recipes for scallops in pernod cream and shrimp in cognac sauce, dublin lawyer, that kind of stuff.
Feeling "out of place" at a restaurant
I figured the reason for self-seating was because we sat at the patio area. For a while we were also wondering if it was self-serve as well. To me it seemed like the kind of place that would have a menu in front of you the moment your butt hits the seat.
And its funny you say that, because we shared a good laugh for that very reason. I really don't think that's what they thought , but we shrugged it off saying that maybe they thought we were "of a certain profession" while having a good chuckle over it. We had a pretty good meal elsewhere.
Why do people often not tip for Chinese take-out?
I have tipped at drive-through places lots of times. Usually just leaving the change from the dollar or what not, nothing to jaw-drop over. I was one of those chain restaurant workers once, so I empathize.
Proper way to eat french fries ... etiquette question
Unless they are short or smaller and chunky like hash browns, I usually start by eating with my hands, although at some point (smaller fries?) I switch to a fork. Even if there is gravy, I'll start by pulling out the uncovered ended ones first as long as they're long enough.
Proper way to eat french fries ... etiquette question
Your stroon has already been designed, I have some at home ! Came with a set of latte glasses or something I think.
Feeling "out of place" at a restaurant
Am I just socially awkward, or has anyone else felt this way upon trying out some new place? Be it the way you're dressed, your age, your choice of dish or what not?
I can't say it has ever happened to me more than once or twice really (the other times perhaps in bars where I felt ancient), but recently a girl friend and I got a great deal on a top of the line luxury hotel for a getaway weekend, and one evening decided to dine at the restaurant/patio downstairs. We dressed up of course, and we were told to seat ourselves. And we sat there, and sat there, feeling more uncomfortable for no completely obvious reason (i.e. no one said anything to us or anything). There was a lot of designer clothing around and a general feeling of uber-rich. No one stopped by to take drink orders or drop off a menu, so after some time, we eventually got up and left and went elsewhere for a meal. It was a place that realistically should have pristine service, so all round it felt a little weird. It wasn't until afterward that we both talked about the vibe of the place, and how we both felt like we missed the boat somewhere / didn't get a copy of the manual or something.
Yes maybe that was us feeling more self-conscious for some reason, but it was definitely uncomfortable there.
Anyone else with similar experiences?
Dissapointing Dinner at Friends House
That's just wow....unless your friends perceived that they were giving you an easy out by saying that about the home-cooked meal, that is just amazing to me that someone would look at a person in poor health and say they're disappointed by what they offered. I hope at least these friends kept the balance by reciprocating in non-culinary ways.
Are there frozen veg that you do not like?
I think one of the problems of some frozen vegetables is that all of the ones that were sub-standard to begin with, often end up in the bags. Or you'll buy something like broccoli, and the bag contains nothing but stumps etc.
Carrots and green beans I think are my major ones. I'll eat them, but i'll pick them out of a mix first just to get rid of them.
I actually like things like frozen brussel sprouts, corn, spinach (for soups), and I have a bag of roasted peppers in the freezer right now and often a stir-fry mix.
Are there frozen veg that you do not like?
Frozen green beans are one of mine as well. And what bugs me most of all is that they seem to pick the woodiest of them to put in frozen stir-fry vegetables, which I occasionally use. The bags seem to be half green beans sometimes. Another peeve of mine is in general, monster sized vegetables in "ready to serve" packages.
ChemoHounding
Yeah, I let some of my usual habits with recycling etc slide a bit during that time and in general probably kept a few things around that I normally wouldn't.
I did post the recipe for that strata over on my tumblr blog, address is up thread if you wanted to check it out.
Medical Issues - part of our experiences in eating
I think perhaps the moment anyone starts discussing "the anti-cancer diet" etc, the same thing would happen to the chemo thread. There's kind of no one really even discussing cancer in there at all in the sense of avoiding or managing the disease itself.
I agree that "how to eat wonderfully around a restriction" type threads are very inline with CH.
Charged For Things In Restaurants That Other Restaurants Give You Gratis
Was at a restaurant yesterday with a friend who ordered the seafood chowder main. Now, maybe I haven't eaten in enough places but I've never seen anyone order chowder and not get bread, a biscuit or something with it, especially when the dish is listed as a main. Bread was requested and she was told that they don't serve bread at all there, just a house made cracker for a charge. Thought it a bit odd, but whatever.
"Chef-is-always-right" restaurants [moved from Los Angeles board]
Given how much food I've seen Ramsay spit back out onto a plate on his various shows, he doesn't appear to be the utmost in accommodation himself, even though I do get the difference.
His entire "but she's pregnant!!!" (aka special) rant kind of grates on me. There are any number of people who shouldn't eat suspect seafood, and a number more who shouldn't eat many other foods. .
"Only in Canada" food items: add to the list
They used to sell cretons at the New Brunswick locations.
ChemoHounding
I know that feeling Disneyfreak. I usually was able to enjoy a good meal that evening before the ickies kicked in. It was typically my only good meal that day, after eating what passed for a vegetarian meal in the chemo unit (I may never be able to enjoy tomato soup ever again).
Your co-workers sound awesome ! I had oodles of people who told me "let me know if you need anything" but I never wanted to ask, unless it was stuff I needed from the drugstore or a couple of times when I ran out of groceries and needed a couple of things I asked close friends.
I used to use my "good week" to do some cooking and freezing because there's only me here, even some breakfast items like a strata I could freeze and pop squares of into the microwave on days I couldn't manage even cooking eggs (which I ate almost every morning during chemo). I also once made a large spanakopita and found that great to freeze and eat for meals (incl breakfast). Cooking also passed the time when I wasn't quite into the safe zone for being out in crowds and such (past day ten for me) and was still housebound.
Props to you for continuing to work, it was not something I was able to do where I work.
I'm getting sick of these "I don't get [insert food/restaurant]" threads!
Yes its annoying when people don't search for old threads, but I think there is a way though, to provide old information without being crusty about it. Simply regurgitating a list without any other comment to the thread is kind of crusty imho.
