Diet Advice!

[teh_blumchenkinder]

It is of the amazing, yes it is. Slightly tart, slightly sweet, the pine nuts doin' their thing like only they can (you know what I mean if you've ever had pine nuts), and it's my preferred side dish, when I can afford to go there and don't spend my booze money on sushi or books first.

[Whiskey]

I love couscous. The dietitian I saw last spring actually said it was fine as long as I wasn't eating buckets of it. But it is made from the same stuff as pasta.

Pretty much any food is fine so long as you dont eat buckets of it i cup cooked couscous looks to have about 36g of carbs. a bit high, but it isnt crazy high or anything

[AdminAssistant]

don't spend my booze money on sushi or books first.

I'm with ya there.

Actually, that reminds me that I've been wanting to get lunch at my favorite Japanese/sushi joint for a while - they do a lunch bento box that's pretty affordable.

[Seshat]

I hope I'm never allergic to seafood! Also, sorries for the queazies.
Question: do you guys have quinoa over in Aus? It's from South America... if so, have you tried it? I've had it hot, and made salads out of it... It might seem like I'm trying to change the subject-- and maybe I am-- but I want to know about that too; after all, I like to absorb random knowledge like grain variety availability world-wide.

In specialty shops, and no I haven't.

[Mishi]

Quinoa is also available in the health food aisle of grocery stores up here, but I've never tried it. I have 2 fussy eaters that I'm trying to convince to eat more normal foods before I try out 'exotic' ones on them. I'm thinking about growing some Amaranth though, it apparently grows well here, its leaves can be used like silverbeet/spinach and even if my family won't eat the grain from it I'm sure I'll find something to do with it foodwise.

[malmalthekiller]

Quinoa is delicious. My mom had gastric bypass last year, so for a while when she could only eat EXTREMELY tiny (still pretty small, but better obviously) she was eating as much protein rich foods as possible. She would make some quinoa and make a little veggie salad and put some light dressing on it. I usuallly just cook some veggies and mix them together with it.

One bag is like $5 but it lasts a while. You have to drain and rinse it off first, but it's really good and more filling than a white rice or couscous (which I love both, of course).

[AdminAssistant]

Pretty much any food is fine so long as you dont eat buckets of it i cup cooked couscous looks to have about 36g of carbs. a bit high, but it isnt crazy high or anything

I'm a carb fiend. Don't judge me.

[Magpie]

I'm a freak. I'm not actually that fond of quinoa. Although my mom makes a salad with it and sunflower seeds, carrots and mushrooms that's pretty good. Probably almost a complete meal in and of itself, given how high protein quinoa is.

The thing with fish, especially for "women of childbearing age" is that you need to eat fish because it's got good omega-3 content. But you don't want to eat anything with high mercury/other pollutants. Salmon is good. Tuna isn't great.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/pubs/me...oisson-eng.php

(What we use to figure out what I can eat when we go for sushi. Jackdaw follows the "limit this" advice, I just avoid tuna entirely. Which is painful with sashimi, but yeah).

[teh_blumchenkinder]

I take fish-oil pills, that are all measured and balanced and purified and organo-whatsit-et cetera... and for some reason has "natural lime flavor"-- probably 'cuz at least half the people who take fish-oil pills hate fish and fish burps. So instead I get lime sherbet burps. Freaked me out until I looked at the label!
Fatty acids of most (all?) sorts are good for body functioning, like heart health, nerve/brain health, even skin health! But, apparently, most people get omega-6's, which is "autumn" type stuff, and not "spring" omega-3's... I need to hunt up that research so I can post it here. I declare Friday night Research Night.

[AdminAssistant]

Fun fact: Fish oil also helps lower triglycerides, which is why I take it. I don't really get "fish burps" though.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Some pills do that, some don't... and it might or might not have something to do with what you eat it with and such. I am most definitely not a burp-ologist!

[TelephoneAngel]

And now,having been toldofficially by my doctor that I have to start following a low fat diet,I am looking at lowfat recipes on the internet, I think quite a lot of homeblended soups will be in order, also fruit and various salads, also i need to look again at how to flavour food with herbs and spices to aviod using creamy sauces, and what to snack on to avoid chocolate, and..............oh dear. I really have to succeed with it this time. If I dont have lower chloresterol and lost quite a bit of weight in three months time, I will be looking at a not very nice regime of tablet taking which I dont want to get into.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

I hear oatmeal sucks up cholesterol like a sponge. You can do amazing stuff with oats for breakfast, and it's as easy as making spaghetti, I promise.

[TelephoneAngel]

I hear oatmeal sucks up cholesterol like a sponge. You can do amazing stuff with oats for breakfast, and it's as easy as making spaghetti, I promise.

ok I like oatmeal and I haven't thought to cook any for ages, you can also cook with it in various dishes as I recall.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Yay! It's good that you like something that's already good for you. Less for you to nag and fuss and fight with yourself about!
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/CL00002 Mayo Clinc-- very amazing place in the US that's good for all sorts of things ( http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/abo...boutmayoclinic ) and is A Name like Johns Hopkins.
http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-man...tmeal-oat-bran WebMD is kinda like the Wikipedia of medical info, in my understanding.
Also, I need to scrounge up that study (studies?) that show that spicy stuff suppresses appetite. Thai food is amazing for complexity of seasoning and low-fat, iirc.