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What's for dinner?

crimmy said:
ok zoodles are new to me - don't they get watery when cooking?
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They only take about 2 minutes. You only want them to get hot instead of actually 'cooking' them, so they still have texture. If you cook them too long then they release the water & go a bit mushy.
 
I need to try these zoodle things, very appealing having vegies that way.
What is your go-to too slack to cook dinner?

I now have reliable Chinese take-away, and it is healthy, no msg, and heaps of very fresh vegies.
Summertime quickie - supermarket everything, cooked chook, salads, and some garlic bread.
Winter - have you discovered all the lazy vegies you can get now?Frozen chopped onions!
Scalloped potatoes, cauliflower cheese, and those bags of mixed vegies you can steam - just add some kind of meat
 
shaydee said:
I too am trying to cut down on my carbs but it's just sooooo hard (that's what she said.....)



I use ear plug style headphones. Not because I particular want to. I find the sound quality a lot better with over the ear ones, but as I wear glasses I end up with a massively sore head because the headphones crush the side of my glasses into the side of my head. Yay for being a Magoo!
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I wear glasses at work as I'm long sighted, and have no problems with the over the head headset, apart from ruining any sort of hair style I may be going for, lol. With the headset with the around the ear bit I had to put that on first, then put my glasses on. From time to time it gave that ear at the top great pain.
 
I'm a big fan of grabbing a cooked chook & salad. I'm a sucker for toast & eggs too so i'll usually do poached eggs on toasted turkish bread with avo on with lashings of cracked pepper & salt. Cutting down on carbs is gonna kill me! :nailbiting:
 
Khun Khun said:
I wear glasses at work as I'm long sighted, and have no problems with the over the head headset, apart from ruining any sort of hair style I may be going for, lol. With the headset with the around the ear bit I had to put that on first, then put my glasses on. From time to time it gave that ear at the top great pain.
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I think my over the top headphones might be too tight. My partner got them for me 2 Christmases ago and the sound is great but the pain isn't worth it. If I slacken them any, they are too loose. I prob could get a half decent pair of in ear headphones.... ooo maybe Santa will bring me some!
 
shaydee said:
I'm a big fan of grabbing a cooked chook & salad. I'm a sucker for toast & eggs too so i'll usually do poached eggs on toasted turkish bread with avo on with lashings of cracked pepper & salt. Cutting down on carbs is gonna kill me! :nailbiting:
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I started yesterday so it's all a bit new. I'm doing night shift as well so my eating is somewhat all over the shop too. I'll be researching tonight. Not that I am going to follow the Atkins diet but I found a list of foods and the amount of carbs in them. I am cutting down, not eliminating. A beginning is better than nothing.
 
Khun Khun said:
I started yesterday so it's all a bit new. I'm doing night shift as well so my eating is somewhat all over the shop too. I'll be researching tonight. Not that I am going to follow the Atkins diet but I found a list of foods and the amount of carbs in them. I am cutting down, not eliminating. A beginning is better than nothing.
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That's the best way to do it. I eliminated carbs once and then I just went on a massive bender, crisps, bread, pizza, hot chips, anything that was carb was shoved in my face!!! Plus I was a right bitch lol. So really... it's for everyone else's benefit I eat carbs. Right? I eat far too many so cutting down is what I 'should' do... i'm gonna try anyway! Good luck with yours!
 
shaydee said:
That's the best way to do it. I eliminated carbs once and then I just went on a massive bender, crisps, bread, pizza, hot chips, anything that was carb was shoved in my face!!! Plus I was a right bitch lol. So really... it's for everyone else's benefit I eat carbs. Right? I eat far too many so cutting down is what I 'should' do... i'm gonna try anyway! Good luck with yours!
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Thankyou, and you with yours. I refuse to give up my weekly pizza fix so that will be my reward, so to speak. Interesting to see how many carbs in foods there are. I've only really ever looked at fat on the nutrition panels. Now it's everything.
 
My daughter's new boyfriend was coming around for dinner. They are both vegetarian. I cooked a quinoa and black bean mexican casserole (with avocado, sour cream and coriander topping), a warm pumpkin, spinach and freekeh salad with cashew and roast capsicum pesto, and a beetroot and goat's cheese salad. It was yummy, but the beetroot made me pee pink for days!
 
Jam said:
My daughter's new boyfriend was coming around for dinner. They are both vegetarian. I cooked a quinoa and black bean mexican casserole (with avocado, sour cream and coriander topping), a warm pumpkin, spinach and freekeh salad with cashew and roast capsicum pesto, and a beetroot and goat's cheese salad. It was yummy, but the beetroot made me pee pink for days!
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Omg I had the same thing happen to me re beetroot pee and I was like WTF:wtf:

I thought I was a goner :(

Your salad and casserole sound divine btw.
 
GROOVER said:
It happens with fresh beetroot as far as I know (never had it with tinned beetroot).
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I eat the tinned stuff these days. My dad used to cook up beetroot when we grew them in the garden, thankfully I don't recall any beetroot pee back then either.
 
Meglos said:
I eat the tinned stuff these days. My dad used to cook up beetroot when we grew them in the garden, thankfully I don't recall any beetroot pee back then either.
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Pmsl @ not recalling beetroot pee.

Bloody scared the bejeezus out of me when I saw it.
 
Asparagus pee is not for the faint hearted either apparantly.
I love beetroot. Mum swears by the Aldi brand.
 
I LOVE beetroot! I'll have to watch for the pink pee next time I eat it.

Last night we had Johnny's Burgers. I read about them on facebook & was like OMG we gotta do this. OH had the chilli beef burger with chilli sauce & hot hot jalepenos... he likes it hot & he said it was HOT! I had a regular burger.. it was ok but the bun took over. It was too bready. We also had chilli cheese fries. So yeah.. my cutting down on carbs is going reaaallllly well. :woot:

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GROOVER said:
I ended up going to The Reject Shop yesterday to look for the Zoodle contraption.

None left....argh:arghh:
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Awwww boo! Do you have Red Dot stores where you are or other discount type shops... they might sell them.
 
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