What did you eat today?

B: whole wheat bagel, 2 slices low salt ham and sprinkle of low fat cheddar, with yogurt/butter, toasted. a few grapes. oj, coffee
(I need to buy more fruit. not local anymore, though)
snack: medium coffee and a low fat string cheese
L: salad with lettuce and about half a cup of chicken salad, grape tomatoes, a green apple, water
snack: handful of almonds and dried cranberries at 3 and a Luna Bar at 5:30 when I was in class
D: 2 very small/thin boneless pork chops, with a sauce of shallots, butter, basalmic vinegar. salad with lettuce, avocado, mushrooms, sprinkle of dressing, and 2 baby sized sweet potatoes. water
2 squares of dark chocolate

I am still hungry...

Two days ago I had pancakes with maple syrup and bacon for breakfast and then nothing else until dinner where I had 1/3 of a place of Pad See Ew. Talk about an unhealthy day! :eek:

Today was/is better:
B: whole grain english muffin, 1 egg w/ green peppers & onions, 1 slice of canadian bacon and a small glass of apple cider.
S: coffee w/ goat's milk
L: low cal fruit smoothie with a tiny scoop of protein powder (eaten on the run...not good but better than fast food!)
S: homemade zucchini nut muffin & an apple
D: (haven't eaten this yet) grilled chicken, apple/acorn squash dish, salad and grilled zucchini (all from the yard except the chicken).

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Originally Posted by OakLeaf

ETA: am I the only one who doesn't post to this thread on days when I eat a bunch of cr*p? ;)

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No. :D

I'll fess up on yesterday.

B: oatmeal with raisins, sunflower seeds & coconut on top (my new favorite way to eat oatmeal!). 1/4 of a cantaloupe.
Snack: 2/3 of an everything bagel with peanut butter & jelly. (I simply can not resist peanut butter, even when I'm not hungry. :o)
Lunch: This is why the day *really* went awry. Jeff & I went to Papa Haydn's, a great restaurant in town, after a morning meeting. After working our way through 2 breadbaskets :eek: of the yummiest french bread with this fabulous pepper butter, I then ate a sandwich comprised of focaccia, smoked turkey, applewood bacon, avocado, gorgonzola, lettuce, tomato & mustard. With a side of cucumber salad. And a pop. At least the pop was a diet. (Like that helps...)

I was soooooo full that I couldn't even think about food until late in the evening, when I had a small green salad with balsamic vinaigrette. Then, Jeff whipped out the chocolate/peanut butter dessert he took home from Papa Haydn's and I somehow managed to limit myself to just 3 bites. Then I had some grapes. I don't know why. I wasn't hungry.

So, Oak, there you have it. A food disaster post. :o

Susan

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Originally Posted by GLC1968

apple/acorn squash dish

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Did you make the apple/acorn dish from allrecipes? I brought the leftovers for lunch today.

No, unfortunately. I didn't bring my laptop home and it didn't occur to me that I could just look it up on facebook again from Rick's computer! Duh! I'll make it tomorrow, I think.

I still have piles of veggies I need to eat that don't keep as well as the acorn squash keeps...so I made a HUGE saute of assorted stuff (last of the green beans, almost the last of the zucchini, onions, tomatoes, broccoli and store bought cauliflower) - YUM!

muesli and milk for breakfast

a banana

whole wheat bread with goat cheese and home made soup.

an apple

Stuffed tomatoes with quinoa, feta, herbs... and a salad.

Toast with peanut butter and coffee.

Slice of swiss, 4 whole grain crackers.

Red pepper quesadilla and salsa.

Snack will be a banana.

Dinner is gnocchi over a bed of spinach.

I wanna eat cr*p, but I have none in the house! Working from home eliminates the temptation to go out for lunch. And I'm one of those people who doesn't go grocery shopping until my cupboard is bare, which it is right now.

This morning I treated myself to a latte, even though it isn't Sunday (my usual coffee day). I also had a whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and a slice of tomato.

A late lunch (it's 2pm and I'm just eating lunch) is MORE black beans and brown rice. I've been eating this for days. I made a big pot of spicy black beans in my slow cooker. I prefer white rice, and I usually mix the two, but I need to go to the grocery store!!

Tonight I'm having chicken biryani with more brown rice, and a green salad. I'll also get some ice cream at the store, since I haven't had ice cream in at least a month, maybe more. It's time! I'm thinking Dove vanilla with that dark chocolate shell swirled through. mmmm.

So Far today:

Breakfast: English muffin with peanut butter; cup of coffee
a couple hours of tennis
Lunch: Bowl of my homemade ham and split pea soup

But, I'm really hungry today; so I'm not sure how good I'm going to be the rest of the day?

I'm cooking up a big piece of london broil to make into burritos tonight. Hope I can make it with just a small snack till dinner; I have 2 more hours of tennis to play this evening.

Oh and I'm having this one to unwind after a looooooooooooong day. (it's 9 pm here).

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e.../lachouffe.jpg

Enjoy, Papaver!! La Chouffe looks...uh...tres grande!!

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Originally Posted by pfunk12

Enjoy, Papaver!! La Chouffe looks...uh...tres grande!!

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I took the smaller version. :D but thanx!

B: whole wheat bagel, with soynut butter, cup of low fat cottage cheese, with sliced almonds and dried cranberries, coffee, little bit of OJ
L: Half a chicken sandwich on whole wheat, honey dijon mustard, coleslaw, and mango squash soup
snack: half a Luna bar before a very short 11 mile ride and half afterwards, bottle of H20 with Nuun
dinner,a t restaurant: club soda with lime, salad with lettuce, tomato, croutons, raisins, carrots, a little baslamic vinegrette
blackened tilapia, salsa, sweet potato, and a mix of summer squash/zucchini
herbal tea

snack: 2 squares of dark chocolate

time for bed...

B- 2 eggs and a whole wheat English muffin.

rode 15 miles to work

B2- another English muffin with cream cheese

L- Frozen broccoli and cheddar pot pie (on days I drive, I stock the freezer with stuff like this for lunch on the days I ride).

snack-a banana

rode 15 miles from work

D-Home made cabbage soup, a slice of rye bread with butter, half a potato pancake with sour cream, an orange, and chocolate pudding for dessert.

Ice cream for supper!

B: slice of bread with cheese. banana. Tea with milk
S. apple danish and coffee. OK bad. And didn't even cycle today.
snack: small slice of brie cheese.
Tangerine
Supper: sauteed red pepper, beet greens and gai lan. (below is only beet greens, pic from another day.) over pasta. With steamed salmon fillet on side with fresh ginger root, green onion and garlic. There's only 1/2 tsp. of soy sauce and 1/8 tsp. of oil, but steam condensing into water, makes it look like alot of soy sauce....but it's watered down abit.

The fish you place in a pot of water about 1 inch deep or more. Boil water and bring down heat to medium. Steam cooks fish. This piece took about 15 min. or less.

Finished meal with grapes and tea with milk.

B: bowl of cereal with 1% milk
L: Half a PB&J and an apple. I should had more...
Between-class caffeine boost: peppermint latte from Starbucks
D: spaghetti tossed with a quarter of an onion (sliced!), two chopped roma tomatoes, Italian sausage, spinach, garlic and parsley. And there are leftovers!
A small bowl of cereal and a mint Milano cookie for dessert.
And there is likely to be a cup of tea or coffee tonight. (DBF is studying for an exam...)

B: Cereal
L: missed it.
S: pumpkin spice latte...which sadly tasted like someone had cleaned out a still in a chem lab and mixed the resulting goo with some water and sugar. Most of a Pay Day.
D: Grab bag night ("what can I make with what I have in the fridge?"): It ended up being a sort of chicken curry with basmati rice and wilted spinach. Served with a large glass of cold water with a squirt of lime juice. Mint milanos for dessert.

-peanut butter toast and coffee
-pizza for lunch
-pre-ride (20 mile) snack was 6 crackers with cheese and red pepper
-dinner was a fabulous brown rice, cabbage, onion, quorn "chicken" stiry fry made by the hubby
-I am currently enjoying a giant glass of shiraz :cool:

Yesterday -

B: Kashi hot cereal and coffee
S: coffee and a cinnamon chip scone :eek:
L: sliced chicken breast on whole grain bread with a couple of leaves of spinach
S: none
D: 3/4ths of a thin crust large veggie pizza & 1/2 of a cinnapie (Papa Johns)! :eek:

I was moaning in pain in bed last night and today I'm eating NOTHING but fruits and veggies. I don't know why I did that, but boy, am I paying for it. :(

I had tea for breakfast and that's all. I just wasn't feeling like eating this morning. I had a black bean and rice burrito for lunch with some beef, tomatoes, green salsa, and guacamole. I also had a Coke. I'm not proud, but it did taste mighty fine.

At 3pm I'm scheduled to have an apple.

Tonight I'll have some leftover chicken with potatoes and carrots that I cooked up last night. I think I'll have a salad, too. And since there's still ice cream in the freezer, I'll likely have a bit of that as well.

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Originally Posted by spokewench

So Far today:

Breakfast: English muffin with peanut butter; cup of coffee
a couple hours of tennis
Lunch: Bowl of my homemade ham and split pea soup

But, I'm really hungry today; so I'm not sure how good I'm going to be the rest of the day?

I'm cooking up a big piece of london broil to make into burritos tonight. Hope I can make it with just a small snack till dinner; I have 2 more hours of tennis to play this evening.

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I managed to hold myself to two handfuls of walnuts day before yesterday for a SNACK and had my quite large taco (beef, cheese, salsa, tomatoes, lettuce) for dinner with rice and whole pinto beans

YESTERDAY:
Breakfast: carrot cake muffin with cream cheese frosting; coffee and orange juice
LUNCH - 3/4s of a large chicken burrito with enchilada sauce; water
DINNER - Two hours of tennis; two glasses of wine and some rice chips/pretzels (yes, I was very very bad!) But the socalization was really fun.

a croissant and a coffee

some grapes


a rye sandwich with homemade jam

liquorice (the salty kind)

stir fry with chicken.

too much coffee during the day.

Really do have not-so-good meals. Anyway:

B- oatmeal with milk, tea with milk, tangerine
Snack/Lunch -coffee with milk, a..apricot danish
Snack- sourdough bread slice with small slice of brie

Supper- Chinese restaurant large seafood soup with light noodles, mushroom and wood ear fungus. (This is just part of the tree mushroom/fungus family. To me, there's not much taste. It's a textural thing which we had back in childhood also.)
Premium jasimine dragon well tea..this is expensive stuff @ $90.00 /lb. I only have it in teapot @$4.00. smells like a flowering jasmine bush. Soooooo soooothing.
Green tea ice cream.

Cycled homeward...like a happy, bloated fishbowl rolling out into the night sea. But 3 hrs. later ..just fine.:)

Tomorrow must amp up on veggie.

Breakfast: Toast with peanut butter and black coffee
Snack: Banana
Lunch: Cabbage and Quorn "chicken"
Snack: Crackers and cheese
Dinner: (2) Salmon tacos on small corn tortillas with cabbage and sauce made from salsa and vegenaise, rice, corn, and a delicious microbrewed mocha porter.

Not a great day!

Breakfast: Shredded wheat and strawberries
Snack: Goldfish
Lunch Hamburger and French fries
Dinner Salad with olive oil and parmesan toast

b: frosted mini wheats

s:Fig Newton during my mtn bike ride

L: Tokyo Joes: Rice Bowl with chicken and veggies

D: Cooking some chicken right now.

Friday -

B: coffee with goats milk, glass of apple cider
L: apple
D: snacked on tortilla chips, hummus, crackers and cut veggies while drinking an espresso martini & half a margarita.

Today -
B: coffee w goats milk, whole grain english muffin with PB
L: a few sweet potato fries
D: chicken tortilla soup and some chips with queso
S: low fat oatmeal choc chip cookies

Man, I've had three fantabulous days in a row now, huh? :eek:

B: half a cinnamon raisin bagel and plain black coffee
L: fried rice (brown rice, salmon, corn, green beans)
S: chocolate ice cream w peanuts... 1/2 cup
S: white fungus dessert (a sweet chinese dessert soup i cooked over a charcoal fire, it does not sound as gross as u imagine, the white fungus is just a mushroom variety thats white and crunchy, like wood ear fungus, its cooked with barley, red dates and honey dates, dried longans, some rock sugar)
D: rice with bittergourd, spinach, fried liver, and chinese herbal soup...

Today's Sunday so i get to cook all day!! :)

i look at what some of you eat... so little!!! how??!!!

edit: I just ate the other half of that bagel. I have yet to have that dinner but i want to go for a run first...and i'm hungry, so bagel, and then run and then come back for dinner. I have a weight loss goal to attain!! (but i didn't sign up for the weight loss challenge coz i never keep to it... sigh...)

Deeiamond: One day will try the white fungus dessert. Presumably there is considerable sugar or honey in it since the fungus is pretty neutral by itself.

Fu gwa (bittergourd) I had 2 yrs. ago or so. Tastes good if properly stir-fried with beef or chicken, shitake mushrooms. Very high in a particular nutrient that some medical researchers are looking into extracting/examining possible use for drug therapy. My mother prepared it several times annually.
http://food.oregonstate.edu/glossary/b/bittermelon.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum (Article on veg having properties to lower blood suggar. Just type in "bitter melon" in this db to get list of references.)


What is your version of the herbal soup for supper?

Yesterday:
B- oatmeal with milk, tea, tangerine
Snack - coffee with milk, biscotti
Snack/Lunch (?)- slice of sourdough bread with brie cheese slice
Snack- shrimp dim sum (har gow), tea with milk

Supper- mixed salad with carrots, lettuce, brocoli, etc. with homemade vineagrette dressing. With roasted red beets on side sprinkled with small amount of feta and..raclette cheese. We were trying it out...
Tea with milk

Today:
B-oatmeal with milk, 2 fresh prune plums, tea with milk
I don't what else, but supper must be shrimp with stir-fried veggies and buckwheat noodles since fresh shrimp must be prepared today.

hi shootingstar,

i make the dessert myself, so I don't add as much sugar as the outside versions. If it were just for myself i'll use even less, probably skip the rock sugar, but for the whole family i need to do it normally. I seldom make it coz it can be pretty sweet.

here we fry the bittergourd with egg. and its very good. its good to drink raw bittergourd juice.

for herbal soup, I just boil a piece of pork with the chinese herbs, it was... a packaged box of herbs from the medicall hall... I dunno what they are called individually but this combination was for the liu wei qing bu tang - or the six flavour cooling tonic soup... then i add some chinese wolfberries at the end.

but to cut a long story short, i got side-tracked on my run and met some friends at a eating place and had some mutton satays instead. so i didn't have my dinner as stated.. hehhe...

bad bad eating out here in Singapore..

Egg sandwich
1/2 granola bar
Slice of cheese
1/2 turkey club and cup of soup
handful (or two) of candy corn . . . .

I think I need to get my veggies in yet.

Saturday:
Breakfast: Cereal and banana
Lunch: burrito with beef, rice, beans, salsa
Dinner: Pasta (egg noodles) with chicken stroganoff; glass of wine
Dessert: Small bit of ice cream

Sunday:
Breakfast: Toast and peanut butter
Lunch: Leftover pasta and chicken stroganoff
Snack: 1 Beer
Dinner: Piece of ham steak, roasted sweet potatoes, green peas, glass of wine
Dessert : Large bowl of ice cream!

I pigged out this weekend; need to tone it down a bit!

spoke

A more balanced day on tap -

B: Bob's Red Mill Muesli & coffee w/ goat's milk
S: more coffee
L: a huge container of mixed steamed veggies and an apple
S: baby carrots & a homemade lowfat oatmeal cc cookie
D: psuedo chicken pot pie with either a salad or sauteed zucchini on the side
S: possibly another one of those cookies ;)

B: Cereal
S: Fiber one bar
L: Small serving of pork and rice
S: Apple and almonds
D: Chicken and a salad

Boy looking at this I really need to eat more veggies. I did have some celery but I don't count that. Maybe I will have some red peppers too.

PB toast and coffee
Banana
Swiss cheese and pesto sandwich with Sun Chips
Lentils, rice, cabbage, and onions with bread on the side
Waiting to dive into a Beverly Hills chocolate cake after my kids go to sleep :cool:

Yesterday:
B: peanut m&ms and orange juice
L: herbal soup and leftover salmon fried rice
D: Instant noodles w/ bittergourd and shrimp
Dessert: oatmeal waffle with chocolate ice-cream

Today:
B: Oatmeal waffle and coffee
L: coconut rice w beansprouts, egg, some fried peanuts and anchovies
S: prawn noodles in broth
D: Sweet Sour pork and rice, tofu bittergourd soup

I need to buy some apples... I ran out..

Are apples in Singapore expensive?
A Filipino woman told me they were in her country because the Philippines does not grow apples. We forget what is ordinary fruit to us, is more "extraordinary" naturally/locally elsewhere in the world. I had a Malaysian roommate who once tried to sneak past Customs, 6-lbs. of fresh cherries at the aiport from Canada when she went back to Malyasia to visit. No, her cherries were confiscated.
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Yesterday was haywire eating, due to all-day planning session/meeting at hotel plus another lecture elsewhere in evening: both meetings on cycling. Thankfully did bike 36 kms. in total for 2 different meeting places! :) :

Yesterday
B (at home): oatmeal with skim milk, tea with skim milk, 1/2 of fresh dragonfruit
B (at meeting after arriving by bike): 1 grapefruit juice, 2 slices of sweet coffee bread, 4 small slices of pineapple, melon and coffee
lunch: multi-grain roll, tossed green and tomato salad, abit of bean salad, small slice of chicken breast with gravy, steamed baby veggies, slice of baked macroni, cheese and rice. 3 little desserts. Coffee. (Yea, tried nearly everything. Lunch was catered with cyclists in mind...somewhat.)
Supper: very small square from dearie's thin-crusted fresh tomato, spinach & mozarella cheese pizza.

at least 3 more cups of coffee and tea with milk, I didn't include in above list.


Today:
14 kms. morning bike ride
B- oatmeal with skim milk, tea, fresh prune plums
Snacks - 1 freshly baked pretzel and coffee
banana, tea with milk
small slice of cheese & rye cracker
a pear
Supper- linguine with clams, tomatoes, onions, abit of pepper, onions and garlic. Kohlrabi dish was postponed until later this wk.
tea with milk

We import all our food, so prices in general are similar to the US. But we get food from EVERYWHERE. I get apples from the US, China, South Africa, Australia. Not a locavore obviously. But we don't grow food. Good apples are still more affordable and easy to find because of the quantities brought in. All fruit actually, similar to prices in the US these days. In Singapore at least.

B: wanton noodle in broth, black coffee
S: chinese pear, rice kueh
L: noodles in prawn broth, with 1 and half cups of blanched cauliflower and green beans
S: rice kueh, coffee
post-run snack: apple
D: rice vermicelli in fish head soup

I think many of you TErs must be wondering about all these strange things I eat, its local stuff, and if anyone is ever interested I'll explain any of these items to everyone. :D We have great food here!

this week I'm involved in a marking exercise for a national exam, so no time for breakfast at home. I'll go back to more 'normal' food when i return to my regular schedule. ;)

Today:
B: half a glass of oj, 2 cups of coffee, low salt ham sandwich, with low fat cheddar slice on a whole wheat bagel. strawberries
snack: Luna Bar, 20 oz. bottle of Accelerade, water on a fairly hilly 35 mile ride
L: about a cup and a half of left over whole grain angel hair pasta with marinara sauce, half a grapefruit.
Dinner will be very thin pork chops with a spicy rub and mango-mint salsa.