Food Before and After Photos

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We got some snow in Germany last evening. Therefore some hot and spicy Soup today.

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Vegan "Currywurstbrötchen" with onions.

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A couple months back a taco stand opened up in the evening on the corner near my house. I had resisted until last night. Now I'm in trouble because it was the best al pastor taco I've had in a minute, and it's just a 3 minute walk 😩

 

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And I do sometimes cook, which these days means throwing things in a crockpot, like beef stew.

Man that after looks so gross!

[Starwarsandcupcakes 1,897]

lunch today-l the calories are for what I ate. A kid ate the leftover tuna cakes.

tuna cakes and a salad of Tomato, cucumber, and garbanzo Beans

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Sunday brunch.

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Pre-cut salad that had to go with extra leftover bell pepper and red onion rings and dressing. Open faced tuna sandwich. Craved it hard so I got a glass of the stuff - but the price has become ridiculous so outside of sales: nope. Some price tags for food really have crossed a border. I mean... more than 4 Euro for a little glass of a plant-based imitation of tuna fish??? Pfft...

 

Edited November 20, 2022 by summerset

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Seriously, I've made a list in my mind with four categories.

1 - gotten more expensive but buying it anyway because basic stuff

2 - was always expensive but buying it anyway because healthy and convenient and therefore helping getting the good stuff in (looking right there at you fruit cups and salad bowls!)

3 - was always expensive, is not necessary or healthy but buying it occasionally because yum! (chocolate covered Elisenlebkuchen anyone?)

4 - crossed the line of "ridiculously expensive" and is a no-go outside of sales

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For all the brits (you know what this is):

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The mister cooked tonight so that means I get some great food. He made Chow mein noodles (as per Joshua Weissmanb with minor changes due to availability) with fresh noodles, 1T Chinese cooking wine, 2T dark soy sauce, 1/2 tsp white pepper, 1.5T oyster sauce, 1/2 tsp sesame oil, 2 tsp corn starch, 2T olive oil, tons of cabbage, onions, and garlic. Made it in a wok.

I weighed out 112g (98.8 cal), I ate it all.

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Panzanella salad with a generous helping of burrata, yum!

i feel like i may have over calculated the cals on this one, but looking at the breakdown the majority of the cals came from the burrata and the olive oil, so i guess that makes sense.

Anyhoo, 402 calories for the bowl, ate it all!

I also had 3 chicken wings i heated up to eat but ended up handing it over the the Kid cuz panzanella salads are effing filling, man.

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5 hours ago, summerset said:

For all the brits (you know what this is):

I’m definitely not a Brit but this totally looks like marmite on toast.

I’ve only ever had Vegemite (which I love but my kids hate) but I would assume it’s similar.

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A disaster of a breakfast- bacon egg and cheese omelette that made me physically sick. 135 calories for what I ate prior to it coming back up.

Then dinner of leftover stuffed pepper casserole topped with garbanzo Beans and fried onions. 396 calories.

In between I’ve been testing crispy cookie recipes for snickerdoodles and chocolate chip. The red velvet Cookies are a cheat using a boxed cake mix (add 2 eggs and 1/2 cup oil) and Hershey’s cream cheese chips.
Annnnnnnd, now I’m onto baking oatmeal scotchies and eventually testing a recipe I’m going to call blueberry cheesecake crumbles (blueberry cream cheese cookies with a blueberry swirled cream cheese frosting then topped with streusel.

I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do with all these cookies (currently 13 dozen) seeing as thanksgiving is this week and everyone will be eating pies and such.

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1 hour ago, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do with all these Cookies (currently 13 dozen)

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6 hours ago, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

I’m definitely not a Brit but this totally looks like marmite on toast.

I’ve only ever had Vegemite (which I love but my kids hate) but I would assume it’s similar.

Yes, it's a Marmite sandwich. Not sure if it's the same as Vegemite. I think it's called like that in Australia? Or is it something different?