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Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 00:30
by Popodoki
"you'll eat what you're served!" only this time you decide that and its oh so easy to serve only things that you like to eat :'D
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 00:32
by Chrizine
You could also grate some veggies into the sauce? Like carrots and/or zucchini? I've successfully created low-calory käsespätzle (a german noodles & cheese dish) that way.
But then again, don't give up on the salad, try different kinds and different sauces - my bf generally hates it as well, but in the process of counting calories to lose weight he realised how useful it would be to eat it just for the feeling full thing sometimes and by now has actually found some he deems tolerable, I think.
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 00:45
by Popodoki
I quite like salads, depends a lot on the dressing and contents/ingredients though!
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 13:44
by jacobgrey
Believe me, I've tried
We went through several long phases of forcing ourselves to eat them. The only time I can enjoy a salad is when you add stuff that basically negates the health value of the rest of it. I just can't stand any type of leaf. I can vaguely tolerate iceberg, spinach, and rocket, but only in small amounts and when slathered with sauce or combined with another food so that I can't tell the flavour. By the time you've done that, it's less healthy than just eating a burger. Like seriously, the topped salads in restaurants are usually one of the unhealthiest and highest-calorie options on there. And you also have the issue that most salad dressings that taste nice contain milk, which I'm trying to stay away from. We get vegan mayo but it's super expensive so I don't want to have to rely on eating it regularly.
Also after forcing myself to eat rocket etc, I get so unsatisfied that I end up going and eating a cake or something. A large part of wanting to eat is about flavour for me, not necessarily hunger. I'm hungry pretty much all the time anyway so in some ways I can ignore that, but I find it very hard to ignore a craving for taste.
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 13:52
by Popodoki
when I went to America for the first time I was at first amazed that every restaurant seemed to offer a big salad the moment you sat down, like wow that's nice ~ until I actually looked at the salad and it was dripping with the oily kind of dressing c':
its the same with mcdonalds, don't bother thinking of going with a salad to stay healthy, a mcdo salad is still just as calory-rich as a burger menu haha
I can stomach a salad if it has different flavours in it, not just a mix of leaf vegetables, that's not a salad at all imo.
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 23:01
by Chrizine
Oh yes, a proper salad needs at least some tomatoes and cucumber or something like that for me, not just leaves.
Not sure about the full size salads at McDonald's, but at least taking the side salad instead of fries does cut down calories a lot. Especially since you don't really need to put the whole packet of dressing on it, it's usually way more than necessary.
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 23:06
by Popodoki
cucumber, peas, carrot, corn, croutons and pasta in moderation. And a homemade dressing made with spinach and light sour cream with a smidge of ceasar sauce. yum yum ~
all store/bought salads have way too much dressing imo if you use up the whole packet they provide. no use ordering or buying a salad if its going to be swimming in the sauce haha
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 1st, '19, 23:08
by Akili Li
My favorite "salad" is just in the spring when you're thinning the peas and you just eat all the new pea shoots you take out... I know it should go into a larger salad but I always eat them before they even make it inside, except for what I have to make myself purposefully save for the Elders.
It's just so good....
I wish our farmer's market sold pea sprouts as a vegetable, but of course I understand why everyone eats them too fast to have any to sell. >.<
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 2nd, '19, 00:03
by Chrizine
Yeah, I never end up using the whole package. But as long as the dressing comes in a separate little package, that's perfectly viable :)
I don't think I've ever tried pea shoots... We've never grown peas at home, so I never had a chance to. I don't think I've seen them in the market either. Sounds like they're really good!
Re: [Doki's Shop] invo sale ~
Posted: Feb 2nd, '19, 00:12
by Akili Li
Oh they definitely are!
If you're ever at a garden store and they have a sale on peas, try it. You can do it indoors since you're not going to let them grow all the way through the season. I try to let them get at least six-seven centimeters high but you can eat them all the way up through to about twenty-five, if you have the self-discipline to wait that long.
Possibly higher, but at some point they'll start getting fibrous-y and tough.