Put DOWN the Nutella!

Guys I had to post again because I've actually found a decent subsitute for pasta, that tastes like pasta, looks like pasta, and doesn't smell like sea slime (ew = SlimPasta. Vomit.) Only difference is they're a bit softer when cooked- but I didn't feel bad AT ALL about sitting down to a whole plate of it!!!





Nutrition breakdown for 1 serve (quarter of the packet)- 185 cals, 4.5g fat, 17.5g carb, 20.5g protein <-- wow! Ingredients are just organic green mung beans and water. And the serves are HUGE- I divided it amongst 4 plastic containers before I ate any so I was eating a correct portion.





I ate mine with a variety of seasoned roasted veg- roasted broccoli, mushrooms and tomatoes in a flat casserole dish with salt n pepper, chilli powder, onion powder and garlic powder, then poured around 1/2 a cup of beef stock over it. Divided the veg between the 4 containers, then the flavoured stock that was in the bottom, and when I ate my serve I cracked open a tin of tuna on it. WAS SO GOOD!


Just thought I'd share!


Haha was actually planning to cook quinoa for dinner but it was out of date! Found this to bulk up my meal instead!
 
Hi Luz,

...tasty pasta alternative - bring it on ! ...( I tried those glucoman noodles last yr - yuck ...)


... looks like "Asian" food from label - where did you get it?... regular grocery store? produce section? Asian foods section?

...I'm in Canada...so not sure where I could hunt for mung-bean pasta here?...

(the serving size does look great for 185 cals. ) :p


Maryann C.
 
I've heard people use spaghetti squash, but then that really doesn't taste like pasta (doesn't taste like anything in my opinion) it just looks like it.


May have a look for this at Whole Foods. I can eat pasta without much problems, but it would be nice to make a pasta dish and get that kind of protein without having to add meat.
 
I think you would have to look for these in a health food store, it's been a few months since I bought them and I'm pretty sure I got mine from an online gluten free store. Definitely worth it!! Maybe even try trusty old Google to see if somewhere close to you sells them, they aren't an Aussie product so you probably won't have problems hunting them down.
 
Whole foods is sort of a health food store meets supermarket sort of thing. Overpriced but generally good for picking up such things as the above.


My guess is that if I can't get it there, I could probably find out where to get it there.
 
Ah ok! My tiny little town doesn't have a health food store, the nearest one is 6 hours away. I buy most things off the internet, I know I buy a lot when I rock up at the post office and the chick recognises me and knows where she's put my parcels! Haha!!


Good start to the day, had a super yummy breakfast and morning tea, and did a really hard workout. My husband let me box him, I think it scared him a little haha. Was fun! I'm about to get up and do the dishes and marinate the fish for dinner tonight. Nom nom nom.


Food Plan for Tomorrow- Day 4 of 112


B- Cheesy pumpkin quinoa pancakes

S- Homemade raspberry ice-cream

L- Leftover mung bean fettucine with vegetables and a tin of tuna

S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1 tsp nut butter

D- Leftover homemade fish and chips with salad


Exercise: NONE! Ash is fixing the pool so having a forced day off.


2 coffees with approx 1 cup homemade almond milk, 2 cups of tea (either green or spearmint)


Total calories-[/b] 1476 Total deficit for the day-[/b] 771

Total deficit for the week-[/b] 2982
 
Oirishprincess


I posted this in my thread, but I suppose I'll post it here. The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human services has a tool online that (at least according to them) represents the most of what they know about the effects of caloric intake on body weight as of earlier this year. This has less effect on Luz since she's losing a smaller amount of weight than you and I are, but the main thing this calculator does differently is account for the effects reduced caloric intake has on one's metabolism over time. For example, if I was just starting my diet now at 324.5, I'd probably be burning about 400 calories more than I actually am right now having dropped 50 pounds by reducing my caloric intake. At least if this model is to be believed.


It is one of the famous tricky things about dieting that your body adjusts so that you don't starve and burns less calories. The model attempts to adjust for this. I am not going to vouch for this thing in any way, but I thought I'd post the link anyway and see what you think. Basically what you're supposed to do is pick out a weight goal and how long you want to take to reach it, enter in all your pertinent info (height, weight, gender, age and activity level) and it will tell you how many calories you should eat a day to get to that level in that amount of time. Also, on one of the tabs in the lower part where the graph is, it has a bunch of info, one of which will tell you how many calories you're burning now and also estimates how many you'll burn day by day as you lose weight.


http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/


There may be some sort of applet or plugin you'd need to use it. I don't think it is country restricted, I think anyone can use it. But I may be wrong.


Ultimately, as I've mentioned before, we unfortunately don't know as much about diet and nutrition as we might like (and will eventually know a couple hundred years from now) and so as with most everything you read on the web about nutrition, you have to have some level of skepticism about everything.


Luz,


I hope you don't mind my cluttering your thread with this, but I thought I'd post this info here since it deals with her question. If you want I can edit this out to a smaller thing. This is your place, not mine. :)
 
Hi Guys & Gals ( Luz, Mr.V , IrishP ) - some great info -


~ I'll check out the health-food sections in our larger groc.stores & if no luck-then when try health-food or on-line...but a lower-cal/ non-processed starch/larger serving "pasta" really sounds win-win !


~ I'll check out your link for the tool on calorie intake Mr.V ( Lancet is a well respected medical journal - so I'm thinking this would be a fairly good quality source).

..& I agree , also, that any calculator is JUST a Starting point - everyone's body is so different ( genetics, degree of muscle mass , age, fittness level) - that any calculator is just somewhere to start & then you need to adjust food-intake & exercise to how your own body reacts/responds - and even for 1 person-that "reaction" can shift & change at times.


- I've found similar "take" on using/applying calculators in the Fat2Fit podcasts, (ie. they state it is a "start" but to adjust to your own response).

- & also in this article referenced by moderators on this site.

("bit long- but worthwhile read http://body-improvements.com/resources/eat/ ( once at this site - select Resources tab/then the drop-down- Eat ) ..... can be really useful for putting a lot of "pieces of the puzzle" together" )- ...is long- I had to read it twice before I really understood some of it - but gives you a good idea of how complicated the way our body uses calories really is....


cheers all, Maryann C.

PS- peeked at your site Luz - luv it !.... am looking forward to trying some of your recipes. :hurray:( you make "healthy" eats so appealing ....)
 
Hey MrVee- Of course I don't mind you sharing info on here! I think it's great that we share whatever tools we have, it's a diary but still a forum! I definitely agree that calorie counting can be pretty skewed depending on the individual, I actually don't mind turning to it again at the moment though as I'm still following the plan from a nutritionist, just doing it to make sure I'm definitely eating enough.


Maryann- I was totally impressed with that pasta!! Haha when I tip the container on a plate with all my toppings I actually AM sitting down to a whole plate of pasta, it's awesome! Thanks for saying so about my site too!, I think a lot of people have it in their heads that healthy food is boring or too hard when it so isn't!!


Ended up eating too much last night, after dinner hubby and I got the munchies and he grabbed a huge bag of nuts and started eating those, I was all aaargh... I ended up eating a couple pieces of wheat free toast, a heap of nut butter and some leftover homemade chips (they were just thinly sliced potato seasoned with chilli and salt, no oil etc). Estimated amounts I ate, I think I finished the day around 500 ish calories over maintenance. Oops. Could've been a lot worse, my husband had to go out and get pool salt and I was SO TEMPTED to ask him to grab me some cookies (there's a GF vegan brand of cookies we sell called Leda, they do a mint slice and tim tams... discovered that last year, they're also pretty good!) I DIDN'T though, so still haven't had any sugar or anything really nasty. Just too much! It'll still be easy as to get my goal deficit for the week, only need roughly 4000 cals to lose half a kg. So not worried! Have lightened my food up a lot today though, I'm not exercising and after eating a lot last night I'm not that hungry... Just got rid of a few extras, took out an egg with breakfast and made pumpkin and quinoa pancakes instead, taking out tuna with lunch... So will be eating 1261 cals today with a deficit of 986. Haha loving the food line up for today, I sound like a junk-food junkie! Breakfast was pancakes, morning tea is ice-cream, lunch is pasta, afternoon tea is crackers with nut butter, and dinner is leftover fish n chips. Go me!
 
Uhm how funny is it that my little binge was on wheat free organic sourdough kamut bread and organic 100% almond spread? :smilielol5:
 
Originally Posted by luzdafuzz


Uhm how funny is it that my little binge was on wheat free organic sourdough kamut bread and organic 100% almond spread? :smilielol5:
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Yeah not exactly a deep dish pizza or an Animal style 4X4 from the In-N-Out Burger, is it?
 
Food Plan For Tomorrow- Day 5 of 112


B- Oat pumpkin scones experiment, topped with nut butter (eating cashew butter at the moment, it's really good! Hubby accidentally picked it up instead of almond)

S- 2 hardboiled eggs

L- Baked quinoa casserole with broccoli, cauliflower, chicken and topped with uncheese

S- 2 wheat free crackers with 1/3 avocado

D- Sweet potatoes stuffed with chicken, spinach, peas and green beans


Exercise- 30 minutes strength training


2 coffees with approx 1 cup homemade almond milk, 2 cups of tea (either green or spearmint)


Total calories-[/b] 1405 Total deficit for the day-[/b] 993

Total deficit for the week-[/b] 2665
 
Originally Posted by MrVee


Yeah not exactly a deep dish pizza or an Animal style 4X4 from the In-N-Out Burger, is it?
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:eek2: at that burger pic you sent!??? Holy crap, I don't think I've ever seen anything like it!!
 
Oh YAY, just got off the phone with the trainer that is helping me out, he says my program will be completed in the next few days which is exciting!


Uhm also not so exciting, Wade had chemo the other day and there were abnormalities in a few tests, so he has to fly down to the city sometime before Christmas for 4 days to get more testing done as they don't have equipment up here. No idea if it was good/bad, Wade was out and txted me so no idea what kind of abnormalities, don't even know if he knows. Argh.


EDIT: Just spoke to Wade, his testing COULD be good news! His Doc said there were some surprising results and sounded really positive when he said it but wouldn't tell Wade anything else as he said he didn't want to speculate. He reckons he'll go down for testing late Nov/ early Dec.
 
Thanks again Lucy you're a star:):):)


Also thats great to hear that your programe will be ready soon, HOW EXCITING:):)


Fingers crossed Wade will be okay:) Sending loads of hugs and positive vibes:):) xxxxxxx
 
I visited your food page...I am jealous of your culinary skills....I think we eat the same 20 things over and over again at my house.
 
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