Why is my tummy craving more food after this lentils soup dinner?

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Bealer wrote: »

Thanks for the response. I will try to add more vegetables and salad to the dish.

I will definitely try Chana dal instead of split mung dal now. I mainly use split yellow mung dal and red lentils (in other dal dishes) because of their quick cooking process (I dont have a pressure cooker! . However, can I soak the chana dal for 12-15 hours before cooking (for example soak them the evening before, and change water in the morning for another 8 hours of soaking?), and then be able to cook them for about 25 mins, like mung dal?

I am looking with great interest at your Indian recipes.

Maybe a bit longer boiling for chana dal - but I've always cooked mine in a pressure cooker (flippin useful things for dals - maybe try to get one from freecycle or ask around friends/relatives?)

PasturesNew

Why is my tummy craving more food after this lentils soup dinner?

Because you know ... the same as everybody else ..... that if your plate isn't piled high with a big, fat juicy pie and chips ... it's not a proper meal

VfM4meplse

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why is my tummy craving more food after this lentils soup dinner?

Because you know ... the same as everybody else ..... that if your plate isn't piled high with a big, fat juicy pie and chips ... it's not a proper meal

Lol what I'd give for a sense of humour :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

There's nothing I like to eat more for my main meal than a big bowl of curried lentils / beans / chickpeas. I'm happy w/o any sides, but I can guarantee you'd be full if you served your dhal with coarse bulgar wheat. IME there's nowt quite as satisfying.

Bealer

valk_scot wrote: »

I'm wondering about this desire to feel "stuffed" after a meal? Perhaps what you're thinking is hunger is just the stuffed feeling going away? Sometimes people mistake the slightest feeling of being empty for actual hunger because they get used to the distended feeling of eating a big meal and belive that's the only time they're not hungry?

Might be worth trying to cut your portion sizes at the meal down a bit so you only eat till you're comfortably full rather than stuffed. But eat more often. So if you're having four meals totalling say 2,200 calories over the day (average intake for a moderately active woman of average size) then split the calories over six meals instead, so you even out the peaks and troughs. Obviously if you're a six foot bloke who does a lot of hard manual labour you'll need more calories but it's easy to look up a ball park figure for what you should be eating.

Thats an excellent point. Its something I've thought about. I will definitely try to eat at least another meal a day as I have a hunch that my abdomen is too used to the idea of feeling stuffed.

Bealer

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Lol what I'd give for a sense of humour :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

There's nothing I like to eat more for my main meal than a big bowl of curried lentils / beans / chickpeas. I'm happy w/o any sides, but I can guarantee you'd be full if you served your dhal with coarse bulgar wheat. IME there's nowt quite as satisfying.

Do you eat your dal with coarse bulgar wheat? How do u serve it?

sonastin

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why is my tummy craving more food after this lentils soup dinner?

Because you know ... the same as everybody else ..... that if your plate isn't piled high with a big, fat juicy pie and chips ... it's not a proper meal

In one of the houseshares I lived in at uni, there was a rule that you couldn't eat a food unless it could be fried. You didn't have to fry it, but that had to be a viable cooking method.
When the summer came around, we had quite a lot of debate about whether salad could be fried!


I find the "little & often" works but I don't always have time to fit extra meals into the schedule. I do it when I can. There is something so very satisfying about being able to enjoy a large meal in one leisurely sitting though.

zippychick

As this isn't Old Style related, I've moved it to Health and Beauty board as there is plenty of diet/calorie discussion over here

Good luck

Zip

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Fire_Fox

Cooking technique and time massively affects the GI, basically making soup/ daal is like partially digesting food. Try adding protein or fat - I particularly like creamed coconut in lentil curries and soups for fat and fibre. Low far soft cheese is an alternative if you want protein but not fat. Basmati rice is lower GI than regular rice but it is not low GI. Lastly soups are very high in water/ low in calories so you might simply not be eating enough food.

Lentils and beans DO count towards your nine a day, but only once however much or many types you eat so your soup/ daal is only one or two portions. Canned tomatoes are lovely in daal, coconut also counts. You won't get enough herbs or spices to make any difference, a portion is 80g!