d**t food inspiration please

dezz99

I've never eaten meat in my life, not once

I just dont get it......

Screw the taste it all looks bland....if it wasnt ....why you do coat chicken in so much batter?!

Also do not tell me that thing that goes round and round in a chip shop tastes good.......it look gross!

Anything that you need a hedge trimmer to cut and eat......is just plain wrong lol

I also heard it takes 6 weeks for chicken to digest and pass through your systems?! !!!!!!

Seriously that is just wrong.....

And dont get me started on people who have pets, they love them, yet eat them aswell lol

I always feel like i have a clean and healthy system inside me, vegetarians dont get stomach aches and eat dodigly cooked pink meat.

In fact when we order the food has to be made fresh cus its not that often food places need to cook it.

Walk into any take away and you guys get meat that has been cooked and sititng there for ages sometimes

Your in a rat race

Eat a rat?

lol

heartbreak_star

Omnivore diet ftw here!

Pink meat? No way! I'll have my steak red and bloody, ta v much.

I know plenty vegetarians who get stomach aches and most of the ones I know are also anaemic and lacking in protein. Chicken digests and processes in exactly the same fashion as anything else you eat does - the pH of stomach acid will break down anything. I also don't coat it in batter, in fact I don't generally eat takeaway food.

I think the only thing I agree on with the last post is that doner kebab meat looks awful. It is. Dezz, I'll have your share of the world's beef, pork and chicken

HBS x

thehappybutterfly

Katiehound wrote: »

Good luck with your weight loss....it's hard work.

You had a question about fruit teas. I think you would like the red ones- there are various berries, also sanguino orange.
I note you can get to Asda- their own fruit teas are nice and are cheaper than Twinings (only 74pence.) I particularly like their blackcurrant and strawberry & forest fruit. They've also got Cranberry & orange, pomegranate.

I was going to say a jacket potato is probably better than smash as it has the skin (roughage)
Hope the pasta & rice is the unprocessed kind ie brown.

As said before 0% fat usually means loads more sugar, so beware. The sweetener Truvia (or any other sweetener made from the Stevia plant) is healthier than other sweeteners but it is expensive.

Even if you don't swim, exercising at the pool such as aquacise would be good. I don't mean classes if you can't get to them but some exercise in the water. have a look at You tube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkYn62TNGPk
there are more clips to watch not just this one.

Truvia - yes it's more expensive but it's better for you and, because you only need a third of a tsp instead of a whole tsp, it will last longer. Asda also do their own label version of this (stevia leaf).

It smells amazing - like burnt sugar!

the_cat

In some ways, you've been given a bit of a hard time here! Of course, it is entirely up to you what you eat.

However you've asked for advice and no one could legitimately give that without pointing out the holes in your diet! Would you prefer they just don't tell you the truth?

Unfortunately you have a large amount of weight to lose. Enough to need chemical help and professional intervention. I don't mean that to sound judgemental....it's simply a fact. Long term you need to change completely and permenantly what you eat in order to get your weight down and keep it off. Plus make exercise an every week occurrence for the rest of your life

Perhaps you need to adjust your mindset a little and accept that certain foods need to make their way into your life in some form. look for a way to make them less unpalatable (hide them blitzed up in sauces or soup maybe if its the texture you cant abide) and you will eventually get used to them. ditto exercise.....concentrate on the positives and find things you can tolerate until it becomes second nature. If you have been inactive for some time and are carrying extra weight, your joints will hurt to start with but it WILL get better, so long as you stick to it!

If not it will be next to impossible to permanently lose the weight and improve your health. i hope you manage to find a plan which works for you.

thehappybutterfly

I've fluctuated between vegetarianism and meat eating - I usually stop eating meat when I see a program/read an article about what goes on on farms/slaughter houses etc. That lasts for a little while then I get a craving for a steak - a nice juicy medium-rare steak! I'd love to follow a strictly vege diet but my family wouldn't so I end up cooking meat for them. I may as well join them. And I hate the vege versions of meat - apart from soya mince.

But given the choice between a chicken curry and a chickpea and spinach curry? The chickpea wins every time!

It's not that I don't like meat - I just don't agree with the fact that we raise animals just to slaughter them for us to eat. And the cruelty recorded at some farms...... Oh dear, I'm talking myself into entering Vegeville again.

thehappybutterfly

the_cat wrote: »

In some ways, you've been given a bit of a hard time here! Of course, it is entirely up to you what you eat.

However you've asked for advice and no one could legitimately give that without pointing out the holes in your diet! Would you prefer they just don't tell you the truth?

Unfortunately you have a large amount of weight to lose. Enough to need chemical help and professional intervention. I don't mean that to sound judgemental....it's simply a fact. Long term you need to change completely and permenantly what you eat in order to get your weight down and keep it off. Plus make exercise an every week occurrence for the rest of your life

Perhaps you need to adjust your mindset a little and accept that certain foods need to make their way into your life in some form. look for a way to make them less unpalatable (hide them blitzed up in sauces or soup maybe if its the texture you cant abide) and you will eventually get used to them. ditto exercise.....concentrate on the positives and find things you can tolerate until it becomes second nature. If you have been inactive for some time and are carrying extra weight, your joints will hurt to start with but it WILL get better, so long as you stick to it!

If not it will be next to impossible to permanently lose the weight and improve your health. i hope you manage to find a plan which works for you.

Excellent post cat!

I think I remember reading/hearing ages ago that it takes your body and mind three weeks for something to become a habit/to un-become a habit (if you know what I mean).

Give it time Carrie. Exercise will be a chore to start with but stick with it and find something that you enjoy doing - if it feels like a chore, you won't keep it up. Same with introducing new foods into your diet - make it a resolution to try one new food every week. If you hate it, don't have it again but at least give it a try.

Same with the skimmed milk and sweetener - you'll get used to the taste eventually. I can't use normal milk or sugar in my coffee now. After a while, when you've established a routine of home cooking etc, you'll look back and wonder how you could bring yourself to eat some of the crap you did in the past. When I first had kids, home cooking to me meant shoving a tray of oven chips and turkey twizzlers :eek: in the oven! When I look back, I can't believe I actually put that muck on a plate to my kids. Don't get me wrong, I'm no Nigella, and oven chips do still make it to my freezer but it's balanced out with healthy home-cooked food. Preferably something that can be cooked in one pot.

Remember that most veg tastes better raw than cooked - if you've only ever eaten boiled-to-death veg, no wonder you hate it! Raw carrots - yum! Steamed broccoli - mega-yum! Boiled cabbage - yuck. Mashed swede - no thanks.

But tinned sweetcorn and frozen peas are my favourite!

RockPaperScissors

I've had similar issues.

I am buying the Morissons NU ME meals and the Tesco Light Choices meals. They do breads, biscuits, pizza, bolognaises, cheese etc. Everything you would normally eat but in a lower calorie form. This was the best way for me to make a really good start and am already shifting weight without having to compromise!

I also am a little self conscious and pretty unfit so I google short cardio work outs (there are loads of ten or twenty minute ones on YouTube such as this or this which is harder) and I just slot them in (one or two a day) to build up my stamina and fitness. It means you can eat a reasonable amount because you're burning at the same time, and you have the added benefit of just doing it when you have time in the privacy of your own home!

I also track with My Fitness Pal (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/) what I'm having and try to stick to it - also adding my exercise

good luck!

dezz99

thehappybutterfly wrote: »

I've fluctuated between vegetarianism and meat eating - I usually stop eating meat when I see a program/read an article about what goes on on farms/slaughter houses etc. That lasts for a little while then I get a craving for a steak - a nice juicy medium-rare steak! I'd love to follow a strictly vege diet but my family wouldn't so I end up cooking meat for them. I may as well join them. And I hate the vege versions of meat - apart from soya mince.

But given the choice between a chicken curry and a chickpea and spinach curry? The chickpea wins every time!

It's not that I don't like meat - I just don't agree with the fact that we raise animals just to slaughter them for us to eat. And the cruelty recorded at some farms...... Oh dear, I'm talking myself into entering Vegeville again.

Ive never eaten meat subsitute...its just wrong!

Stay away from all of that processed crap

If you like indian food, you should know that 90% of indians eat vegetarian at home.....there is no "chicken curry" thats just been created by takeaways to feed the masses

Authentic indian cuisine is all veggie and the options are huge. you like chickpea's well try sholay

try mutter paneer (the best dish going!)

chilli paneer

try saag

aloo gobi

musar dahl (thurka dahl)



non indian: pasta, pizza, salads, veggie burders, veggie pies, cheese & onion pasties

humous

falafels, with greek salad, ranch sauce and feta cheese (you will thank me for that recipe!)

the list is endless for veggies and the food tastes so good

dead animal on a plate with abit of blood?

or some of the above minus the stomach ache?

i know which one i'd choose

lol

thehappybutterfly

RockPaperScissors wrote: »

I've had similar issues.

I am buying the Morissons NU ME meals and the Tesco Light Choices meals. They do breads, biscuits, pizza, bolognaises, cheese etc. Everything you would normally eat but in a lower calorie form. This was the best way for me to make a really good start and am already shifting weight without having to compromise!

These still aren't great but they are a good start. Once you get more confident in the kitchen, you'll look at these meals, and the ingredients in them, and think "hmmm, I could easily make this for less money" - and they would taste better.

Personally, I hate the Light Choices - everything tastes strangely sweet?

RockPaperScissors

the_cat wrote: »

Perhaps you need to adjust your mindset a little and accept that certain foods need to make their way into your life in some form. look for a way to make them less unpalatable (hide them blitzed up in sauces or soup maybe if its the texture you cant abide) and you will eventually get used to them.

Just to echo this, you like pizza so why not do what a friend of mine did. Start adding certain veg to your (lower calorie pizza)

Use low cal mozzarella and then add things like peppers, spinach, sweetcorn. They will be far more palatable on a pizza and will help you to start adding them into your regular diet.

My friend went from that, to adding chunky veg into sauces, and then gave salads a go. There are no quick fixes but adding the things you need to start eating in very slowly should help