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AITA for asking my family to cook less meat?
(sorry if formatting sucks, I'm on mobile) I'm 18 and live with my parents and my brother. My parents cook most of the time, though I will make a meal occasionally. Almost every meal my parents make has meat, often red meat, as the main ingredient. Sometimes they'll make pasta with mushrooms or seafood, but generally almost every meal consists of a piece of meat and some veggies or potatoes. I believe that this is unhealthy and not responsible. First of all, high consumption of red meat increases the risk for heart disease, and my father already has to take blood pressure medicine. Also factory farming meat has severe environmental effects, and I think that we should all be trying to mitigate those by at the very least gradually reducing our meat consumption. So I have asked my parents to make vegetarian food sometimes, to maybe try meatless Mondays, or to at least try out a couple vegetarian recipes to see if they like them. However, their response has been just coming up with reasons why they can't go vegetarian: they say that meat is necessary for humans because we're omnivores, the meat farmers would go bankrupt if we stopped buying meat, meat substitutes taste bad, and global warming is fake anyways. They're not exactly scientific reasons, even though my parents are scientists themselves. Also, they called me selfish for not wanting to participate in family dinners when I asked if I could prepare a separate vegetarian meal for myself every now and then, to diminish my family's environmental impact even a little bit. I could cook vegetarian food for my family myself, but I haven't offered to because I'm fairly certain that they would not eat it (I tried to once, made pasta with quorn ragu, they ate a few bites and then said it's inedible even though at least imo it tasted good, so now whenever I cook I use chicken), and I honestly don't have time to do that multiple times a week. That's what makes me think I may be the asshole: I'm just demanding that my parents cook what I want them to cook, rather than appreciating the hours of work they put in every week to make relatively healthy and tasty food for my brother and me. But I keep suggesting vegetarian recipes whenever my parents ask what I'd like to eat, and sometimes I'll mention how much meat we've eaten that week in an attempt to make them think about reducing that amount. I might come off as passive-aggressive when I do that, though I try not to. TLDR: I want my family to eat less meat, but have not offered to make meatless meals myself. AITA?
Hello! My partner and I really enjoy a homemade pasta bake where one of the ingredients is quorn steak strips. However, quorn UK have now discontinued this product. Does anyone have any suggestions of things we can use as a replacement? Ideally we'd like a meat replacement, but at the moment any suggestions are welcome! We use the vegan quorn pieces in other recipes and don't want to use them here as well. For extra context, the meal is usually: 1 tin (400g) chopped tomatoes, 1 tin (165g) sweetcorn, half a broccoli, half a red pepper, 150-200g fresh mushrooms, 1 clove of garlic (occasionally 2!), 1 ball of mozzarella (chopped into small squares), 200-250g of pasta (dry) and then about 100g of quorn steak strips.
knob of butter 1 onion, finely chopped 3 medium carrots, finely chopped 2 medium sticks celery, finely chopped 500g approx chicken thighs 2 fat garlic cloves, crushed 1 tsp sweet smoked paprika ½ tsp ground cumin 1 tsp dried thyme 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes 1 chicken stock cube 1 red or orange pepper, diced 1 x 400g can chickpeas, drained (optional)
method
1) Hеаt thе buttеr in a large hеаvу-bаѕеd pan. Add thе оniоn, саrrоt and сеlеrу аnd cook gеntlу until ѕоftеnеd. 2) Add the chicken thighѕ, garlic, spices and thуmе. Cооk ѕtirring until thе chicken is ораԛuе. 3) Pour in the tоmаtоеѕ, рluѕ оnе extra саn оf wаtеr оr enough to cover thе сhiсkеn аnd vegetables. Add thе stock and pepper. Bring tо a simmer аnd cook uncovered for 50 mins. 4) If uѕing, аdd the сhiсkреаѕ аnd cook fоr a furthеr fivе minѕ. Serve with riсе. For уоung children, brеаk the сhiсkеn into smaller pieces and ѕеrvе.
A 100g роrtiоn оf chilli hаѕ juѕt 101 саlоriеѕ, ѕо аn аvеrаgе serving will оnlу ѕеt уоu bасk around 200 саlоriеѕ. Pеrhарѕ if уоu'rе сооking this fоr thе fаmilу thоugh, leave оut thе red wine!. This сhilli con carne rесiре is one of our favourite Mеxiсаn diѕhеѕ. It’ѕ grеаt fоr families аnd ѕtudеntѕ аѕ it’s сhеар, ԛuiсk аnd еаѕу tо mаkе аnd comes with a dеliсiоuѕ, ѕрiсу kiсk! Thiѕ rесiре tаkеѕ 1hr аnd 40 minѕ to mаkе and iѕ well wоrth the wait. Sеrving 4 реорlе, this diѕh iѕ perfect if you’re сооking a fаmilу mеаl оr сооking for friends and fаmilу because it’ѕ niсе and filling – аnd there аrе also multiрlе ѕеrving орtiоnѕ dереnding оn whаt you fancy! Sеrvе thiѕ сhilli соn саrnе with riсе, оn tор оf tortilla chips or wrарреd in soft tоrtillа wraps. Add guасаmоlе and ѕаlѕа for еvеn more flavour! Hоwеvеr уоu еnjоу your сhilli, this is сlаѕѕiс Mexican diѕh that еvеrуоnе will lоvе! Wе’vе gоt loads mоrе grеаt idеаѕ fоr minсе rесiреѕ here.
Ingredients
2tbsp olive oil 2 onions, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1kg (2 1/4lb) lean minced beef 2 glasses red wine 1 400g can red kidney beans 2 400g cans chopped tomatoes 1 green pepper, roughly chopped 3tbsp tomato purée 2 red chillies, thinly sliced, or 3-4 tsp dried chilli flakes 1tsp ground cumin 1tsp ground coriander 1 stick cinnamon Dash of Worcestershire sauce 1 beef stock cube Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 large bunch coriander leaves, roughly chopped Plain yogurt, sour cream or creme fraiche
his family-sized Wеight Watchers Quorn ѕаuѕаgе bаkе сrеаtеd bу WW – the nеw Wеight Watchers, is the реrfесt орtiоn fоr vegetarians. This rесiре ѕеrvеѕ 4 реорlе аnd will tаkе оnlу 40 mins to cook. It’s a real сrоwd рlеаѕеr uѕing lоwеr fаt Quorn ѕаuѕаgеѕ inѕtеаd оf meat ѕаuѕаgеѕ, tinnеd сhорреd tomatoes fоr a riсh tоmаtо ѕаuсе аnd fаt-rеduсеd mature vеgеtаriаn cheese to mаkе it еvеn mоrе guilt-frее. This sausage bаkе uses ѕраghеtti but уоu can uѕе all diffеrеnt varieties of pasta inсluding реnnе оr bоwѕ – thе сhоiсе iѕ уоurѕ! A роrtiоn оf thiѕ mоuth-wаtеring bаkе works оut at оnlу 10 SmаrtPоintѕ реr ѕеrving.
Ingredients
2tbsp olive oil 2 onions, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1kg (2 1/4lb) lean minced beef 2 glasses red wine 1 400g can red kidney beans 2 400g cans chopped tomatoes 1 green pepper, roughly chopped 3tbsp tomato purée 2 red chillies, thinly sliced, or 3-4 tsp dried chilli flakes 1tsp ground cumin 1tsp ground coriander 1 stick cinnamon Dash of Worcestershire sauce 1 beef stock cube Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 large bunch coriander leaves, roughly chopped Plain yogurt, sour cream or creme fraiche.
3 best healthy dinner recipes for family to make:
1) Family meals: Chicken & veg casserole
Ingredients
knob of butter 1 onion, finely chopped 3 medium carrots, finely chopped 2 medium sticks celery, finely chopped 500g approx chicken thighs 2 fat garlic cloves, crushed 1 tsp sweet smoked paprika ½ tsp ground cumin 1 tsp dried thyme 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes 1 chicken stock cube 1 red or orange pepper, diced 1 x 400g can chickpeas, drained (optional)
method
Hеаt thе buttеr in a large hеаvу-bаѕеd pan. Add thе оniоn, саrrоt and сеlеrу аnd cook gеntlу until ѕоftеnеd.
Add the chicken thighѕ, garlic, spices and thуmе. Cооk ѕtirring until thе chicken is ораԛuе.
Pour in the tоmаtоеѕ, рluѕ оnе extra саn оf wаtеr оr enough to cover thе сhiсkеn аnd vegetables. Add thе stock and pepper. Bring tо a simmer аnd cook uncovered for 50 mins.
If uѕing, аdd the сhiсkреаѕ аnd cook fоr a furthеr fivе minѕ. Serve with riсе. For уоung children, brеаk the сhiсkеn into smaller pieces and ѕеrvе.
A 100g роrtiоn оf chilli hаѕ juѕt 101 саlоriеѕ, ѕо аn аvеrаgе serving will оnlу ѕеt уоu bасk around 200 саlоriеѕ. Pеrhарѕ if уоu'rе сооking this fоr thе fаmilу thоugh, leave оut thе red wine!. This сhilli con carne rесiре is one of our favourite Mеxiсаn diѕhеѕ. It’ѕ grеаt fоr families аnd ѕtudеntѕ аѕ it’s сhеар, ԛuiсk аnd еаѕу tо mаkе аnd comes with a dеliсiоuѕ, ѕрiсу kiсk! Thiѕ rесiре tаkеѕ 1hr аnd 40 minѕ to mаkе and iѕ well wоrth the wait. Sеrving 4 реорlе, this diѕh iѕ perfect if you’re сооking a fаmilу mеаl оr сооking for friends and fаmilу because it’ѕ niсе and filling – аnd there аrе also multiрlе ѕеrving орtiоnѕ dереnding оn whаt you fancy! Sеrvе thiѕ сhilli соn саrnе with riсе, оn tор оf tortilla chips or wrарреd in soft tоrtillа wraps. Add guасаmоlе and ѕаlѕа for еvеn more flavour! Hоwеvеr уоu еnjоу your сhilli, this is сlаѕѕiс Mexican diѕh that еvеrуоnе will lоvе! Wе’vе gоt loads mоrе grеаt idеаѕ fоr minсе rесiреѕ here.
Ingredients
2tbsp olive oil 2 onions, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1kg (2 1/4lb) lean minced beef 2 glasses red wine 1 400g can red kidney beans 2 400g cans chopped tomatoes 1 green pepper, roughly chopped 3tbsp tomato purée 2 red chillies, thinly sliced, or 3-4 tsp dried chilli flakes 1tsp ground cumin 1tsp ground coriander 1 stick cinnamon Dash of Worcestershire sauce 1 beef stock cube Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 large bunch coriander leaves, roughly chopped Plain yogurt, sour cream or creme fraiche
his family-sized Wеight Watchers Quorn ѕаuѕаgе bаkе сrеаtеd bу WW – the nеw Wеight Watchers, is the реrfесt орtiоn fоr vegetarians. This rесiре ѕеrvеѕ 4 реорlе аnd will tаkе оnlу 40 mins to cook. It’s a real сrоwd рlеаѕеr uѕing lоwеr fаt Quorn ѕаuѕаgеѕ inѕtеаd оf meat ѕаuѕаgеѕ, tinnеd сhорреd tomatoes fоr a riсh tоmаtо ѕаuсе аnd fаt-rеduсеd mature vеgеtаriаn cheese to mаkе it еvеn mоrе guilt-frее. This sausage bаkе uses ѕраghеtti but уоu can uѕе all diffеrеnt varieties of pasta inсluding реnnе оr bоwѕ – thе сhоiсе iѕ уоurѕ! A роrtiоn оf thiѕ mоuth-wаtеring bаkе works оut at оnlу 10 SmаrtPоintѕ реr ѕеrving.
Ingredients
2tbsp olive oil 2 onions, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1kg (2 1/4lb) lean minced beef 2 glasses red wine 1 400g can red kidney beans 2 400g cans chopped tomatoes 1 green pepper, roughly chopped 3tbsp tomato purée 2 red chillies, thinly sliced, or 3-4 tsp dried chilli flakes 1tsp ground cumin 1tsp ground coriander 1 stick cinnamon Dash of Worcestershire sauce 1 beef stock cube Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 large bunch coriander leaves, roughly chopped Plain yogurt, sour cream or creme fraiche.
I am 25 and have a joint income of $61k ($25k for me and $36k for my partner) as an Admin Assistant in Leicester, UK.
Section One: Assets and Debt I have converted everything from GBP to USD, so some amounts might be rounded here or there, but they are very close! Retirement Balance (and how you got there): LOL basically none. I currently contribute 6% of my salary (my company will match up to 8%), although I upped that this month, it was 4% previously. Essentially I just let the pension company do whatever they do with it, although I probably should be a little more proactive. I currently have £2331.82/$2956.76 in there, and I couldn’t find my partner’s most recent statement to see what she has in hers. Savings account balance: My partner and I previously had a lot of debt, it’s literally only been the past few months we’ve finally gotten our joint accounts sorted and can finally start saving properly. We have £715/$912 in our savings account, it’s not a special high yield one or anything, just regular easy access savings. Once we have enough saved up in there for emergencies, we’ll open up a Lifetime ISA (LISA) to save up for a house deposit. Checking account balance: We try to keep a £500 (~$630) buffer in the bottom of our joint account, although projected expenses this month will mean by the time we get paid in July (we get paid on the 15th of every month) we will probably be right at the bottom of our account. Basically we have a joint current account for nearly all expenses, then we pay ourselves a small amount into personal accounts each for us to do whatever we want with. Usually for me it’s clothes! The way we use it, personal accounts are for personal, unnecessary spending. So things like work clothes or haircuts come out of the joint account, even though they technically only benefit one person, they are still a necessary expense. Credit card debt (and how you accumulated it): No joint credit card debt. I have around £390/$500 on my personal credit card that I am very slowly paying off out of my personal allowance, that was to pay for 3 months with an online personal trainer I have wanted to work with for a long time. Student loan debt (for what degree): So student loan works slightly differently in the UK, I basically think of it as a graduate tax. It doesn’t affect my credit score, and will be automatically taken from my pay cheque once I start earning roughly $31k per year. It will be written off 30 years after I graduated, which will be 2045 for me. I haven’t paid a penny of it off yet, and doubt I will ever pay the full amount. I have roughly £45k/$57k to pay off, and my partner has roughly £60k/$76k. That amount covered our tuition and living expenses while at uni, plus the interest we have accrued since graduating. My degree is a BSc in Counselling and Psychology, and hers is an MEng in Aeronautical Engineering. Section Two: Income My job monthly take home pay: £1362, which is roughly $1714 Partner’s job monthly take home pay: £1880, which is roughly $2366 We don’t have any other forms of income right now. Section Three: Expenses (these all come from our joint account) Rent: £725/$910 for a small 3 bedroom semi-detached house a few miles out from the city centre. Rent has not been raised in the 2 1/2 years we’ve lived here, so our goal is to stay in this house until we buy property up north, where we’re from and where houses are cheaper. Electric + Gas: £100/$127.56 (this is dependent on the weather, now that it’s finally started to warm up this should go down as we won’t be using the heating) Water: £25/$31.89 Savings: Our goal is to put around £600/$755 into savings per month, although we haven’t managed that this month. Usually when we get paid, we see what expenses are coming up in the time between then and our next pay cheque, and figure out how much we can afford to put away, and how much we can afford to put into our personal accounts. Personal money: Our goal is £150/$189 per month, but the last few months we haven’t had that much spare. Phone: Mine is £60/$75 per month (I wanted an iPhone X, which happened to come out around when my previous contract ended. This is for the phone, plus 8GB of data per month, and unlimited calls and texts). My partner’s is £37/$47.20 per month, she’s not as bothered about the latest phones so she has an iPhone 8. Her bill covers the phone, plus 30GB of data per month (jealous!) and unlimited calls and texts. Spotify: £14.99/$19.12 for a family account used by me and my partner iCloud: £1.58/$1.98 Netflix: £7.99/$11 Amazon Prime: £79/$99 annually TV and internet: £33.99/$43.36 (this mainly for internet, we’re not big TV watchers so we don’t pay for any additional channels like sport). TV licence: £154.50/$197.08 annually, this is paid by everyone (with a few exceptions) in the UK who owns a TV, and is very hotly debated! Car insurance: £41/$53 for our one car that we share. Car payment: £135/$172.21 Car tax: £20/$25.51 annually Gym: £19.99/$25.50, this used to be more expensive, I just recently got a new membership that is through my work so it’s a discounted rate. I can go to lots of different gyms in the area and it’s all covered under this. Personal training course: £110/$140.32, I am retraining as a personal trainer, this amount covers the combined online course with some in person elements. This will be paid off in May 2020. Council tax: £144/$183.69, I think this is equivalent to property tax in the US? It’s basically the amount we pay to our local councils, the amount varies depending on a few factors like house size and how many people live there. It’s to cover services like bin collection and whatever else the council does! Cat insurance: £21.86/$27.88 for our two 11-year-old cats. We didn’t previously have this, but then one cat had a seizure completely out of the blue a few months ago so we panic bought it! She’s completely fine, the vet couldn’t find a cause for it, and if you saw her you wouldn’t even know she’d had it. Donations: We don’t currently have any regular charity payments. If we see someone has a Gofundme or a fundraiser we’d like to donate to we’ll do that, as well as regularly giving cash to the homeless people we see in the city. I also volunteer semi-regularly with a small charity that helped me a lot as a child, as a way to give back. Note: all purchases in the diary will be from the joint account unless I specifically state they are from my personal account. Day One: Monday 7:10am: Ew. I did not sleep well, so I snooze my alarm for 15 minutes. 7:25am: Ok ok, I force myself out of bed. I was smart and got everything ready last night, so I just need to get dressed, grab everything from the fridge, and go. I dress very simply for work, just a black skirt and tights, and a rust coloured blouse with cute foxes on! I put on a tiny bit of make-up, just foundation, mascara, eyebrow pencil, and blush. 8:05am: We’re out the door! My partner (L) and I actually work at the same company, so it makes commuting very easy, and I get a chauffeur. Within 10 minutes of leaving the house, I’m sat at my desk. I drink a protein shake I brought from home as my breakfast. 12:30pm: Lunch time! I got bored of meal prepping a few weeks ago, so now I just bring in a tin of tomato soup. It’s very dull to eat, but at least I don’t have to cook tons of portions at the weekend, and it saves some money. 2:00pm: I send some messages on a group chat I have for a hen (bachelorette) party I’m planning that’s happening in a couple of weeks. Nobody has paid me yet for the activities, and we haven’t decided where we’re going to eat afterwards. Honestly I’ve hated the entire experience of planning this, and I just can’t wait for it to be over. I’m not even attending the ceremony because it’s in another country and we can’t afford to go. 4:00pm: I eat a ham sandwich I brought from home. It’s on a protein thin, it’s pretty gross but it fits my macros a little better than normal bread so I deal. 4:35pm: We had to stay slightly late due to L being in a meeting, but it’s finally home time! I know I didn’t mention any details about my work, but honestly I don’t do a lot! If there aren’t any emails to answer, I basically don’t have any work to do. I spend a lot of time browsing the internet and doing my personal training course. 5:00pm: I’m hungry, so I eat a banana, then get started cooking right away. L mows the lawn, because it’s gotten super long due to the extreme rain we’ve had recently, and today has been the first day without rain in weeks. Tonight we have beef burgers with homemade chips (fries), I have my burger without the bun because I figure if I avoid the bread, I can have more chips, right? 8:30pm: Time for the gym! While we ate, we finally started season 2 of She-Ra on Netflix, then played Borderlands 2 (we have played this through a bajillion times but we still love it) on the PS4 for a while with one of the cats on my lap, so I have a lot of walking to do to reach my 10k step goal. I walk to the gym, and do my weights workout. I love to lift heavy-ass weights! No circuit routines for this gal. 10:00pm: I stay until the gym closes, then walk home. It’s pretty creepy because I have to walk through a very secluded path and I don’t like it in the dark. After I get home, I eat a homemade brownie that I baked yesterday (my speciality), and a quark yoghurt, then I take my make-up off and have a quick body shower, and am in bed by 11pm. L very kindly makes my sandwich for tomorrow and shuts down the house before she comes to bed around midnight. Daily total: $0 Day Two: Tuesday 7:10am: Feel very sleepy as usual, but force myself out of bed. My usual routine is that I get out of bed first, get my make up on, then come back in and wake L up. She’s a very deep sleeper so she can be quite difficult to turf out of bed! I go downstairs while she gets ready, and pack our bags for work, including making my protein shake for later. 8:05am: Arrived at work, I like to get in around this time because it means we can leave earlier, so I have more free evening time. I spend my morning reading internet forums, and slowly getting on with some work. 11:00am: I drink my protein shake. I genuinely enjoy these, I use Gold Standard vanilla protein mixed with soy milk, it tastes like a milkshake to me! I get a notification that I’ve been outbid on a pinafore dress I was interested in on eBay, but the price has gone higher than I wanted to pay, so I don’t increase my bid. 12:30pm: We go down and eat lunch, it’s the same tomato soup for me. L made some stir fry at the weekend for her lunches this week. 3:00pm: I eat my ham sandwich on a protein thin. Can you tell I eat the same stuff every goddamn day?! 4:20pm: Home time! As soon as I get home I eat a banana, get changed, and am instantly back out of the door to walk to my haircut appointment for 5pm. 5:30pm: Hair cut is done, only needed a quick dry trim. It started to rain on the way there, I’m gutted because I was really hoping this rain would be over by now. I get L to pick me up because the rain has really started to come down, and start cooking my tea. We are having different meals tonight, L has a frozen pizza and I make pasta with quorn chicken pieces and a simple cheese sauce. There ends up being too much pasta in the packet for one portion, but not enough to bother putting it back in the cupboard, so I make extra quorn, and pack it all up for lunch tomorrow. $19 6:30pm: Asda is here! We always arrange to have our weekly shopping delivered on a Tuesday, so I usually order it on Sundays. Today our shopping consisted of; pot noodles, chicken kievs, quark yoghurts, soya milk, celery, asparagus, soft cheese, broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, salmon, cheese, chicken breast, sliced chorizo, quorn chicken, bread, protein thins, coke zero (for L), Lindt chocolate (for me), pasta, potatoes, two bottles of cider (for L), apple & blackcurrant squash (for me), naan bread, and cheese sauce mix. $75.05 8:30pm: After lounging around watching more She-Ra and cuddling the cats, I drag myself to the gym. Not really feeling it tonight, and nearly talk myself out of it. During the walk, I text with a friend and arrange to go see Rocketman next week. I wanted to go see Booksmart, but this was our compromise. Plus, I’m happy to watch Taron Egerton and Richard Madden make out, so I’m not too upset. 10:00pm: I head home after doing my weights, eat a brownie (I have so many left, I’ll need to fob some off on friends I think) and have a shower. Afterwards, I try to do the dishwasher, but L knows it’s past my bedtime and shoos me upstairs. After drying my hair, I am in bed for 11:30pm. Daily total: $94.05 Day Three: Wednesday 7:10am: Nope. 7:35am: After many snoozes, I get out of bed. Quickly get ready, same routine as always. Simple make up, chuck on a black dress and tights, make a protein shake, brush teeth, then we leave. I get to my desk by 8:20, and drink my protein shake around 11am as usual. 12:30pm: Lunch time, I didn’t realise quite how much pasta I made, so I’m quite stuffed. Or maybe I’m not used to eating bigger meals during the day? 4:35pm: Time to go home! We’re going out later for tea with L’s family, as it’s one sister’s birthday, and the other had her last exam today. We’ll be eating later than I’m used to, so I have a quark yoghurt to tide me over. I also add a bunch of extra make up, including Barry M Liquid Chrome highlighter, my favourite. I change into a cute tie-front blouse and black skinny jeans, and put on a little jewellery as well. 5:50pm: We estimate it will take 45 minutes to get to the restaurant, but we set off with plenty of time just in case we hit traffic. Before we leave, we grab an extra gift we got a while ago for L’s sister. We already posted her main gift, but as a gag gift we also bought her a giant pencil and a tiny notebook. It seemed funny in the shop, but writing it down it sounds lame! On the drive, we listen to some old episodes of The Adventure Zone podcast, our favourite. 7:00pm: We’re here, but the family isn’t unfortunately, we get a text to say they’re running half an hour late. We park up, and since it’s after 6pm it’s only $1.50 to stay until midnight. L and I both really need a wee, so we spot a cute bar in a canal boat and head in for a drink and to use the loos. I get a vodka lemonade, and she gets half a cider since she’ll be driving later ($8.20). We sit outside to enjoy our drinks, since it’s not too cold. $9.70 7:30pm: They’re finally here, so we go to the restaurant to be seated. I order another vodka lemonade, and chorizo spaghetti carbonara as my main course. It’s DELICIOUS! L has pork belly with vegetables and a diet coke, but I can tell she wishes she’d ordered pizza like everyone else. For dessert I have a melt in the middle chocolate pudding with a scoop of vanilla gelato, and again it’s completely delicious. L has a salted caramel sundae, and she gives me the white chocolate curls, since she doesn’t like chocolate. 10:00pm: I can’t believe we stayed so long! L’s dad generously covers the bill, which he tells us came to around $203 for the seven of us. We spend a long time debating how much tip to leave, I don’t think he wants to leave much because he was already paying so much for the meal, so he ends up only leaving a tenner ($12). Controversial! I personally would have left more, but he’s older and quite conservative, I don’t think he’d have left a tip at all if we hadn’t all convinced him. L and I literally never carry cash, so we can’t help out either. 11:05pm: Finally home, and exhausted. L very kindly makes my sandwich for tomorrow without me even asking, while I take off my make-up, brush my teeth, and am out like a light. Daily total: $9.70 Day Four: Thursday 7:10am: I don’t want to, but I force myself out of bed. Go through the usual morning routine of make-up, brush my hair, and put on deodorant (I’m just realising I never mentioned that any other days, I promise I wear it every day!). I wake L up and make her take my weekly progress photos to send to my PT, since it’s check-in day. As we leave the house, I notice the sky is glorious blue! I hope all this rain is finally over, and we can actually start summer. 8:15am: I’m at my desk! L has a doctor’s appointment at 9am so we had to make sure to get here nice and early, so she can get some work done before she has to leave again. 10:00am: I check my eBay app and see I’ve been outbid AGAIN on something, and I can’t decide what to do. I don’t have any summer clothes because my weight and body shape is very different from last year, but I also don’t have a lot of money to spend. I increase my bid to $5 on some denim high-waist shorts and am still not the highest bidder, so I tap out. I only have around $60 in my personal account to last me the entire month, including the cinema next week, so I don’t want to spend it all on clothes. 12:30pm: Lunchtime is here, and I go down to eat my boring soup. When I get back, my co-worker offers me a doughnut! I told him yesterday that the jam doughnuts from the Co-op are vegan, which he didn’t know, so today he bought some for us all to share. Definitely improves my mood! 1:30pm: You know that comment I made about the glorious blue sky? Guess what! It’s goddamn raining. 3:00pm: I eat my ham sandwich, cry a little inside about the fact that I wish it was another doughnut instead. 4:25pm: I successfully resisted eating a second doughnut, and it’s home time! We stop by the Co-op as is our Thursday tradition. We used to go to a local sandwich shop on Fridays as a treat, but now to save money we just buy some nice bread from the co-op and make our own. I also grab a light Ribena and some fridge raiders to bring tomorrow as a snack. $4.50 5:00pm: Not long after we get in, the cat that had a seizure recently starts limping! I panic, but after a few seconds she’s fine, it must have just been a dead leg. The cats are 11 now so I wouldn’t be surprised if they were starting to have some joint issues. We discuss it, and I go on amazon to buy some salmon oil to add to their food, because that’s supposed to help ($15.20). That also reminds me we’re nearly out of cat food, so I go on Fetch and order a 4kg bag of James Wellbeloved dry food, and a jumbo pack of Felix wet food pouches ($42), they’ll all be delivered tomorrow evening. $57.20 7:30pm: After eating cheesy pasta bake with celery and a bell pepper for tea (my absolute favourite) and lounging around listening to more Adventure Zone and playing Pokemon X, I decide to go for a walk since I’ve not moved a lot today. L doesn’t come with me because she’s tired and her hayfever is really acting up today. I only end up going out for about half an hour before I really need a wee and have to come home, so I don’t manage to hit my 10k step goal. 10:30pm: I spend some time browsing Depop for the first time ever, and I love it! I buy a black pinafore dress for $8.25 including postage. I again try and sort the kitchen and make sandwiches for tomorrow but L shoos me upstairs and says she’ll do it, so I head up to bed and am asleep pretty quickly. $8.25 from my personal account Daily total: $69.95 Day Five: Friday 7:20am: I snooze once, debate going back to sleep and just getting into work later, but manage to get up. Technically we can arrive any time we want as long as it’s before 9am, but I do prefer getting in early when we can, so we can leave earlier. 7:50am: I get downstairs after getting dressed and putting on make-up and some Lush No Drought dry shampoo, to discover the kitchen is still a mess and sandwiches aren’t made. I’m annoyed because L specifically told me not to do it, and now we’ll be running late. She comes down and makes the sandwiches while I pack our bags and make my protein shake. We brush our teeth and manage to leave by 8:15 somehow. 11:00am: I drink my protein shake for breakfast as per usual. 12:30pm: Time to head for lunch, ham sandwiches on the nice bread today as a Friday treat, plus my Ribena. L has the same bread, but she has chorizo, cheese, gherkins, and mayo on hers, and a sugar free energy drink. 3:30pm: I eat my fridge raiders. Not a particularly exciting snack, but it keeps me going. Plus, it’s nearly home time! 3:55pm: Time to go! We can leave half an hour early on Fridays, and we count that down to the minute. Once we get home, I eat a banana, drink a pre-workout shake, get changed into gym clothes, put some laundry on, and head back out in the car. I’m going to a different gym that my friend works at today so I can give her the rest of the brownies I baked, so I need to drive. I only passed my test just over a year ago, and I’m still a very nervous driver. I typically only drive short distances, and I’ve never driven on the motorway. Luckily L doesn’t mind driving me around! 7:45pm: Can’t believe how long I stayed at the gym! I spent ages chatting to my friend, and had to do 30 minutes of cardio after my weightlifting, so my workout ran really long. I don’t mind though, because I hit some PBs and I feel amazing! Get home to find L ran the dishwasher, so the kitchen is lovely and sparkling clean. My tummy is rumbling LOUD, so I quickly run for a shower, then come downstairs to make my salmon, rice, broccoli and cauliflower. L always spends Friday evenings gaming on the PC and chatting to friends on Skype, so I get to do whatever I want. 9:30pm: I finish eating, and decide to lounge around and watch Hearts Beat Loud on Netflix. It’s a cute film, although it does make me cry. I try to coax the cats into eating the food with salmon oil added, but they don’t like it. The cat with the bad leg outright refuses to eat even a bite, which is extra frustrating since we bought it for her specifically. 11:00pm: I go to bed in a weird mood after the film, not sure why. I have a bit of a cry, and can’t fall asleep for hours, not helped by the fact that L is still chatting to her friends in the next room and is being quite loud. Usually I’d shut the bedroom door, but the cats are in here with me and I feel bad kicking them out. Daily total: $0 Day Six: Saturday 3:30am: I wake up briefly as L comes to bed and moves the cats out of the room, but fall back asleep instantly. 9:00am: I wake up for real! I’m visiting family in Manchester today for my nana’s 80th birthday party, so I have to get on the train, I’ve already paid for my tickets. It’s a long journey, I just hope I can find seats. I clean the kitchen, put more laundry on, then make myself poached eggs on toast for breakfast. 10:20am: L drops me at the train station, I could definitely have driven myself but I pretend like she might need the car, so I don’t have to drive. The weather keeps alternating between hot and cloudy, and I brought my big winter coat for some reason. I just carry it around, wishing I had a cool jacket to wear instead. On the train I start reading a book I’ve been meaning to get into for ages, The Last Mrs Parrish by Liv Constantine. 1:20pm: Finally arrive in Manchester! It’s a long journey but not a difficult one, only one change. My family let me know they are running a little late to pick me up from the station, but I assumed they would be anyway, so I had planned to get some food while I waited. I go to a healthy fast food place just outside the station, and get chicken nuggets and baked waffle fries. $8.70 2:00pm: We get to the party fashionably late. I eat my food in the car, although I don’t enjoy the fries so I give them to my little brother. 16 year old boys will eat literally anything! I wasn’t expecting everyone to be dressed so nicely, I stick out like a sore thumb in my jeans and t-shirt, while everyone else is in nice dresses and shirts. Nana seems pleased to see me though, and that’s what counts! 4:30pm: We couldn’t stay for very long, because I had to get back to the station. I think I’ll have spent more time on a train today than actually visiting family! The party was pretty uneventful, I basically spent the entire time corralling my little brother and sister while my mum cuddled a cousin’s six week old baby. There was a buffet, but I don’t eat any of it, and my mum pays for our drinks, so I have a couple of J20s. I go to WH Smiths in the station because I’m getting hungry and won’t be home for hours. I get a ham sandwich, bottle of Ribena and packet of Skips as part of a meal deal, and grab a dairy milk chocolate bar as well. $6.90 6:15pm: I finish my book during the first train journey (loved it, very Gone Girl vibes), and get a notification that I’m very low on data. I top up 1GB for £5/$6.38, which will be added to my next bill. All I can really do now is just eat my food, and listen to an episode of the Dear Prudence podcast I had already downloaded. $6.38 7:40pm: Finally back at the home station! I had to stand for the last 45 minute journey, so my back is aching. L picks me up and we head home. I decide I’m in the mood to play Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch, so I start myself a new playthrough on that. L sits on the sofa with me and gives me pointers. 10:30pm: After a nice relaxing evening, I head to bed early. I quickly take off my make up, brush my teeth, and fall asleep in no time. Daily total: $21.98 Day Seven: Sunday 10:00am: Finally, I get a lie in! I swear, we’ve been busy every single Saturday for weeks, I needed this extra sleep. I lounge around in bed for a while on social media before getting up at around 11. I clean the kitchen while L gets ready, and I have an internal discussion about whether I should go to the shop before I eat, so I can buy a ready meal for lunch. 11:30am: I don’t buy the ready meal! We make poached eggs on toast for us both, and manage to get them lovely and runny inside for the second day in a row. While that’s cooking, we look through some recipes for what to make for L’s lunches, she decides on a healthy looking Mexican casserole. 12:30pm: After watching some TV, we head out to Asda to buy the meal prep ingredients. We get brown rice, chicken, corn, and black beans. I also pick up some new tights for work, some pasta, and L spies a new Nando’s sauce she enjoys but hasn’t seen in shops before ($19.07). We had just started to get in the red on our petrol gauge, so we also stop and completely fill up the car on the way home ($51.03). $70.10 1:30pm: Pretty much as soon as we get in, I start making lunch. I want to get to the gym quite soon, and since I’m doing deadlifts today, I need more food in me, even though I’m not hungry yet from eating breakfast so late. We have pasta with quorn chicken, celery, red bell peppers, and cheese sauce. I’m STUFFED because I made too much, and end up extremely sleepy. I do put on some more laundry, there’s a growing pile of clean laundry in the bedroom that hasn’t been put away yet. 3:00pm: After wandering around the house in a fog for a while, I finally feel awake enough to walk to the gym. Get in an ok workout, although I don’t stay behind to do cardio because I want to get home to watch the Women’s World Cup football (soccer) game, England v Cameroon. L does her meal prep while I’m gone, and tidies the kitchen after she’s finished. 6:30pm: What a crazy game! So glad I tuned in, it was truly wild to watch. After that finishes, I head for a shower, then we cook chicken kievs and homemade chips for tea. For dessert, I have a few squares of my Lindt chocolate, and a protein shake. 11:00pm: I had a very chilled evening again, just played more Zelda, and chatted to friends on Whatsapp. We discuss the upcoming hen do, and I end up feeling more positive about it. Fingers crossed it goes well! I brush my teeth and get into bed, but again I don’t fall asleep for hours. I’m frustrated, because it’s work tomorrow and I know I’ll be exhausted. L once again makes my sandwich and cleans the kitchen, then after her shower comes to bed around 1am. Daily total: $70.01 Total spend: $265.78 ($8.25 of that from my personal account) Food + Drink: $122.42 Fun/Entertainment:$0 Home + Health: $0 Clothes + Beauty: $27.25 Transport: $52.53 Other: $63.58 Lastly, reflect on your diary! This was a higher spend week for us than usual (doesn’t everyone say that), which is actually why I chose it for this diary, so it would be more interesting to read! I like to think we’re pretty frugal in general, so I was quite surprised by the total at the end. Just shows how small expenses really add up! It’s something we’re working on. Usually we don’t get up to this much in one week, we have a lot more no spend days.
Here it is, the unofficial "tell me what to eat" post with dozens of easy to make things for first-time ketoers!
Continued from the following thread: http://www.reddit.com/keto/comments/o4j91/lets_put_together_an_official_tell_me_what_to_eat/ I omitted some of the suggestions involving things like flax seed muffins to avoid scaring off beginning keto dieters with what they might see as outlandish recipes since it's not easy to find those ingredients depending on where you live. If anyone has any more simple ideas not listed here please reply, otherwise I'll see if there's a good place to tuck this into the FAQ! Breakfast:
Bacon
Fried eggs with butter, salt, and pepper
Coffee with heavy whipping cream and no-carb sweeteners
Breakfast sausage links (be sure it isn't too sweet by checking carb count on package)
Smoked salmon and cream cheese
Bacon and cheese omelette
Scrambled eggs (melt butter in pan, add 2-3 eggs mixed with a dash of cream)
Lengthwise halved cucumber filled with cream cheese and topped with ham, salami, smoked salmon or similar
Scrambled eggs with spinach (and meat) - throw some fat in a pan, (heat or fry meat), sauté fresh spinach, add eggs
Breakfast burger; cook eggs and bacon, roll into a beef patty with cheese, then cook until yummy
Slice of roast beef, tomato, lettuce, melted provolone, and mayo wrapped into the shape of a taquito.
Keto sandwich: Take a few slices of a leafy green lettuce head and wrap a sandwich into it. Safe options include most meats, mayo, salt, pepper, cheese, and small amounts of tomato or onions.
Sauteed chicken or fish over mixed green salad with side of creamy dressing
Taco salad: Crunchy lettuce, green peppers, avocado, salsa, sour cream, and choice of meat (add spice if you like, don't use taco seasoning packets!)
BLT salad (bacon, grated cheese, spring onion, a couple of cherry tomatoes, lettuce and guacamole)
Mini crustless quiches
Half a chicken breast panfried in butter topped with avocado slices and cheese
Flaxseed wrap with whatever cold meat and salad you like
Portabello mushroom tuna melt
Vegetables, avocado, and fish wrapped in Nori sheets
Tuna or chicken salad; Tuna, Mayo, Celery, Onion (small amount), pickle, tomato (small amount) wrapped in lettuce
Dinner:
Steak seasoned with salt and pepper
Chicken broiled after seasoning with salt, pepper, or most chicken rubs (check the label for potential carbs, nothing sweet)
Asian stir-fry with beef, pork, or chicken and non-starchy vegetables (with shirataki noodles, if you like)
Rotisserie chicken with side of vegetable
Sauteed mushrooms and onions with a splash of cream and chicken stock, served over chicken (or other)
Crustless bacon and cheddar quiche
Baked tilapia with vegetables
Baked (or pan fried salmon)
Tacos using microwaved cheese shells or large leaves of lettuce
Stuffed mushrooms
Home made Pho with shirataki noodles (avoid restaurants, they add rock sugar to their recipes)
Coconut-Ginger Soup
Quorn burger with veggies and cheese on lettuce
Baked or Fried Salmon with asparagus, green beans, or brussel sprouts
Caesar's salad with chicken, pork, beef or shrimps
Broccoli in hollandaise sauce or bernaise with any kind of meat or salmon
Leaf spinach sautéed in olive oil with lemon zest and juice with any kind of fish or chicken and mashed cauliflower (puréed with cream cheese, butter and nutmeg)
Green asparagus tossed in olive oil and garlic baked in the oven till browned with any kind of fish or meat and mashed cauliflower
Let's put together an official "tell me what to eat" post and get all the entries into the FAQ
Let's put together a giant list of appropriate meal items so first-time ketoers can take a look and decide what they want to eat from the list and plan their meals accordingly. This is the hardest part of starting the diet and it would be awesome to just have a big list. It might also encourage people on the fence how awesome this lifestyle is by seeing all the yummy things they can eat. Please use the following format and feel free to add as many items as you want under each meal category. Breakfast:
Bacon
Fried eggs with butter, salt, and pepper
Coffee with heavy whipping cream and no-carb sweeteners
Breakfast sausage links (be sure it isn't too sweet by checking carb count on package)
Smoked salmon and cream cheese
Bacon and cheese omelette
Scrambled eggs (melt butter in pan, add 2-3 eggs mixed with a dash of cream)
Lengthwise halved cucumber filled with cream cheese and topped with ham, salami, smoked salmon or similar
Scrambled eggs with spinach (and meat) - throw some fat in a pan, (heat or fry meat), sauté fresh spinach, add eggs
Lunch:
Slice of roast beef, tomato, lettuce, melted provolone, and mayo wrapped into the shape of a taquito.
Keto sandwich: Take a few slices of a leafy green lettuce head and wrap a sandwich into it. Safe options include most meats, mayo, salt, pepper, cheese, and small amounts of tomato or onions.
Sauteed chicken or fish over mixed green salad with side of creamy dressing
Taco salad: Crunchy lettuce, green peppers, avocado, salsa, sour cream, and choice of meat (add spice if you like, don't use taco seasoning packets!)
BLT salad (bacon, grated cheese, spring onion, a couple of cherry tomatoes, lettuce and guacamole)
Mini crustless quiches
Half a chicken breast panfried in butter topped with avocado slices and cheese
Caesar's salad with chicken, pork, beef or shrimps
Broccoli in hollandaise sauce or bernaise with any kind of meat or salmon
Leaf spinach sautéed in olive oil with lemon zest and juice with any kind of fish or chicken and mashed cauliflower (puréed with cream cheese, butter and nutmeg)
Green asparagus tossed in olive oil and garlic baked in the oven till browned with any kind of fish or meat and mashed cauliflower
Shepard's pie with mashed cauliflower
Snacks:
Blue Diamond roasted and salted almonds
Buffalo style chicken wings with small amount of ranch or blue cheese dressing
1-2 oz of your favorite cheese, with pickles and olives if you like
Cup of tea with cream
Cheese sticks
Salami slices
Fried mushrooms in butter
Macadamias, walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts
Laughing cow cheese wedges
Beef jerky
Hard boiled eggs
Devilled eggs
Pork rinds
Flavored Seaweed
Toasted Flax Seeds
Eggplant Hummus on cheese or cucumber slices
Desserts:
Frozen berries with whipped heavy cream
Small piece of 85% dark chocolate
Whipping cream blended with peanut butter and cocoa powder
Sugar free jello with whipped cream
Miscellaneous Tips:
Thin courgette (zucchini) strips (ideally using a julienne peeler) quickly fried in butter are a great pasta-replacement
Oopsy rolls make a decent replacement for bread for your sandwich needs
Onions in small amounts are fine for cooking, but avoid piling them on your meals
Common foods to avoid: Cookies, bread, chips, buns on hamburgers (ask burger joints to wrap them in lettuce for you), dough of any kind, etc. (please edit this if you have common foods worth adding)
EDIT: I'll try and keep the main post updated with all the entries.
Report from a new successful chef of the house - a week of recipes
Hello fellow veg*ns! My boyfriend and I just moved to our first apartment. Before that, we lived on campus and while I did cook there too, it was mostly low-effort meals (think mac and cheese, pizza and simple stir fries). Last week my boyfriend worked late every day, and I had the apartment to myself all day as my exams have just finished and I'm enjoying two weeks of vacation. I only had two things to do: unpack and have dinner on the table by 9pm. So I took advantage of the extra time and new kitchen equipment to experiment with some recipes I had bookmarked over the past year or so. My sweet boyfriend is quite picky with food and painfully honest about my cooking, if he doesn't like it, he starts suggesting right away how I should add this or substitute that. Tough but loving crowd. As the whole week was quite a success, I thought I'd link you guys to these tried and very much approved recipes. Some might look familiar as I've taken a bunch of them off this very subreddit. So here they are:
This is actually a recipe I've made several times, though this time I changed it up by adding half a cup of left over cream to the risotto. Made it a bit unhealthier, but also even tastier than the original. Obviously I substituted the chicken broth for veggie broth. I also used soy butter instead of regular. For the lentil burgers I used green instead of red lentils, but only because I couldn't find red lentils anywhere in the local supermarkets. Recently I did find some in a Russian store, and next time I make a batch of burger dough (it freezes very well and I always make enough for about 20 burgers) I will try red lentils. The green beans came from a jar and I simply heated them up with a bit of salt. This one is very calorie-rich and filling btw, not exactly a light meal.
According to my boyfriend, the best dish I ever made. And it only took about 20 minutes plus oven time for the fries. I didn't save the recipe for the fries, but it was very simple: cut the potatoes into fries, cover with canola oil and salt, oven-spray a baking dish, and put it all in the oven for 20-30 minutes on 350F. I do not consider my fries to be a success. I attribute the failure to a lack of cooking spray. I couldn't find any in the store and arrogantly thought "Hey, how important can it be, right?". Very important, apparently. Unless you enjoy scraping the fries off your baking dish, you need the spray.
Wednesday: Burritos! [d] but can be just as easily [v] with potato salad
I now found myself with some leftover sour cream and parsley and I had a can of tomatoes and kidney beans, so I made yummy burritos. This is another recipe I've made often before. Also made home-made tortillas, since they taste a hundred times better than store-bought. For the tortillas: Take two cups of flour and add two or three tablespoons of canola oil. Add a pinch of salt and half a teaspoon of baking powder. Also some taco seasoning if you feel like it. Add water until you get a firm but still sticky dough. Form balls (about 10) and let the dough rest for a while, 15 minutes to a half hour. Roll out the balls into a very thin tortilla, using lots of flour on your surface and rolling pin. Then throw them into a pancake pan, medium heat, no oil. Turn after you start to see bubbles, about a minute. Fill them while they're still hot or they won't fold well. Put them upside down on a plate so they'll close better. For the filling: this is so easy, you can just throw pretty much whatever in there. I used a large onion, a can of tomatoes, a can of kidney beans, a small can of sweet corn, two red bell peppers, one yellow bell pepper and a sweet potato. Added some 'mexican seasoning'. I put a tablespoon of sour cream and a tablespoon of grated cheese on the tortilla too. For the potato salad that's so lazy it's almost embarrassing: I cut the potatoes into cubes, cooked them, added a bit of salt and pepper, mixed in garlic sauce from a jar and threw copious amounts of parsley on top. Alas, I still wasn't able to use all of it.
Found a way to use all that leftover parsley. Or so I thought. It turns out the small bunch I bought is actually infinite. I made two layers of filling: first the quinoa, then on top of that the spinach-feta one that's in the link above. I added loads of parsley. For layer one I simply cooked the quinoa in veggie broth with onions and garlic. I served this dish with mixed salad on the side.
This one was not as well-recieved. Turns out my boyfriend doesn't like gratin, and I had no idea. He did say it was very well-made, just not 'his thing'. If you have some sauce left over, you can add some more garlic and use it as hummus. Saturday we went out to eat, and Sunday we had a simple store-bought pasta with pesto. But I'll add the recipes for this week's Monday's and Tuesday's dinner too, seeing how I'm definitely on a roll.
This recipe looked really great, but it seemed to scream for red lentils so I added like two cups of those. For 'greens' I added the spinach I had left over from the mushrooms caps. I loved this stew, but the boyfriend thought it was too chickpea-y. I personally can't get enough of them; I like to eat them right from the jar. But something about the texture turns him off. Unfortunately I was not able to find coconut oil, but this tasted great with olive oil too. Served with long-grain rice as I had run out of brown rice.
The roasted potatoes were amazing. I cut them into smaller chunks than what the recipe suggests though, and for the last ten minutes in the oven I turned it to 'grill' to get that awesome crust. I'm not sure how familiar the rest of the world is with vol-au-vent. It's very popular here in Europe, the original is basically a stew of chicken and pork, I simply used quorn instead. This is the kind of thing you could serve a real carnivore. I didn't find this one online, I kind of tried to replicate my dad's recipe. I cooked up some broth and added some milk and flour. Then added about 4 cups of sliced button mushrooms, 3 cups of quorn 'chicken' pieces and a cup of quorn 'mince meat'. Threw in the little bit of parsley that was left, and left it all to stew for about 15 minutes. Served it with the roasted potatoes and some cherry tomatoes on the side. P.S.: I didn't include any [gf] tags as I'm not quite certain about what has gluten and what doesn't. The recipes with flour or pasta in them are a no-no I guess, but I think the moroccan stew is gluten-free? P.P.S.: Yes, we are crazy about mushrooms.
Anyone got advice on phasing meat out from your diet plus that of a picky loved one?
My SO and I both come from meat eating families and are used to eating a lot of it, both in evening meals and sandwiches but I'm trying to cut down on that for a variety of reasons (health and environmental being big factors). The first problem is that I don't have a great repertoire of vegetarian recipes, though I'm trying to expand on that through online research. I also usually get home late from work so most of the things I cook have to be something I can make within 30 minutes or leave in a slow cooker while I'm at work. The second problem is that here in West-flanders (Belgium) it seems to be difficult to get certain ingredients like tofu, tempeh, quorn and tahini (maybe I just don't know where to look?) The biggest problem is that my SO is massively into meat and is sometimes very resistant to attempts to introduce meals without it. I cook the vast majority of the time so I have managed to find some meals he likes through passing it off as experimentation or through the "at least one vegetarian meal per week" rule. Often he will eat something if I put it in front of him and he will say it's nice but he just prefers meat, which is a shame because I personally think vegetarian lasagne is way better than a meat one. I'm also a bit of a mediocre cook to be honest so I worry that I may not be doing some of the meals justice. He's also very picky - he cannot eat anything with mushroom unless it's minced into tiny pieces because he can't stand the texture and although he will eat a lot of vegetables if he's hungry enough he will often separate out things and leave them or give them to me to eat. (Aubergine, any kind of cooked brassica, larger chunks of peppeonion). Things that seem to be acceptable so far: pasta dishes (though he always says it would be better with meat), spicy foods like curry or chilli, quiche, butternut squash risotto, a vegetarian nut roast, soup
I'm taking part in a diet and have been doing exceptionally well aside from now... I've moved up to Step 3 in my diet and am now allowed solid food again. Problem is: I can't cook and I am not creative when it comes to recipes; I'm also on a budget. I've compiled a list of my allowed foods and am hoping someone out there can provide a list of meals I can make (400 Calorie) over the next few weeks, and probably for the rest of my life. Allowed Foods Salads -asparagus -broccoli -cabbage (even pickled) -cauliflower -celery -celeriac -cucumber -Chinese leafy greens (including pak choi & Chinese cabbage) -courgette -fennel -green peppers -leeks -green salad lettuce, lambs lettuce, little gem, rocket, Romaine, -radicchio -kale -marrow -mushrooms -red radishes -spring onions -watercress -spinach Allowable Evening Meal Carbohydrate Options
40g brown or basmati rice, couscous or wholemeal pasta
150g sweet potatoe
180g baked potatoe
200g new potatoes
Allowable Evening Meal Protein Options -70g soya beans, dried weight -80g red lentils, dried weight -80g chickpeas, dried weight -80g black eye beans, dried weight -96g aduki beans, dried weight -190 tuna steak, fresh -225g chickpeas, canned, drained -245g chicken or turkey breast without skin/fat -250g pre-cooked prawns -260g cottage cheese, plain (less than 5% fat) -330g cottage cheese, plain (less than 2% fat) -260g tinned tuna (in watebrine) -330g white fish fillett, e.g cod, haddock -275g quorn mince,pieces -2 large eggs
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