Like weight loss before and after photos but of your new diet !

I'm especially interested in before and after meal photos (take a pic at the point you feel restriction) but it can be of recipe substitutions, your refrigerator/pantry/shopping cart/etc

VSG2017 HW 249 SW 238 CW 167

Vegan "Currywurstbrötchen" with onions.

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 ?

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

Man that after looks so gross!

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

Sunday brunch.

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, 20223 yr by summerset

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

1 hour ago, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

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

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?

5 hours ago, summerset said:

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?

i've never tried marmite, but have had vegemite (and really, really, really, tried hard to like it!, i swear') when we spent time in brisbane.

if marmite is anything like vegemite, its gonna be a hard pass from me.

though i feel like i could like it if used in like stews or gravies or marinades or something.

anyone try that?