What Are You Eating Today?

My after-work snack tonight was notable, because it was a few slices of ultra yummy Ski Queen cheese. It’s a caramelized blend of cow and goat cheeses, but not a spread. You get this sweet and rich taste -almost like a dessert. The cheese pairs well with crispy apples. I found it in the exports section of my supermarket, and damn, it’s so eatable. I ate that with an oat cracker, and it nicely tided me over til dinner, which was chicken with sweet potatoes and mixed greens.

Fascinating! I would try that.

Last night we did the thing were nobody could decide what to have for dinner. "I don't know, what do you want?" for an hour. We ended up with grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. It was nostalgic and delicious.

Tonight, I think we're doing breakfast for dinner, bacon and eggs. I'll probably have a tuna smushie or quesadilla for lunch with a green smoothie. Breakfast was cereal, nuts, and berries, then a big spoonful of peanut butter.

Dinner today was mentaiko butter pasta. Not sure if it’s common anywhere else, but mentaiko is fish egg sacs marinated in salt and flavoring and red pepper (tarako is the same without the peppers). I was too skeptical and a little grossed out to ever try it before, but my husband wanted to make tarako pasta last week, and it was so surprisingly good I made it again today. Just mentaiko, butter, milk, and soy sauce, topped with nori. Even all the kids liked it. Since this is what we ate “today”, for breakfast I had salad and a cheese sandwich and apple, lunch was homemade chicken and mushroom meatballs, yogurt, rice, and 6 dessert things, and snacked on some of kids’ crackers and chocolate.

https://pinchofyum.com/asiago-white-beans-with-farro-kale-tomatoes This was pretty good. My husband and I agreed it is the best vegetarian meal I’ve made yet. 👍

Pretty!!!

At the store yesterday I found some purple Chinese cabbage? Napa cabbage? I’m actually not sure of the English word. But it made a very colorful stir fry for our lunch! Served with rice.

[@jamielise] I’ve made this One Pan Farro with Tomatoes before and really liked it. https://smittenkitchen.com/2013/07/one-pan-farro-with-tomatoes/ I just made a tasty chicken burrito for lunch. I’m in love with La Tortilla Factory multigrain wraps. I use them for so many of my lunches - wraps, tortilla pizzas, burritos, quesadillas, smushies.

@jamielise , farro is soo good! Much better and satisfying than quinoa. I love cooking farro in a broth, and adding a little chopped onion.

OMG, I’m totally putting chocolate chips on my next peanut butter and banana sandwich. That’s brilliant. Melted peanut butter, sliced banana, and anything chocolate are deluxe on vanilla ice cream, just FYI.

Biscuits and eggs are dynamite together!

I had IKEA hazelnut muesli and fresh blueberries with yogurt for breakfast , and Thanksgiving leftovers for lunch. All were quite yummy.

Oooo, those are great! I think I’m over complicating this. She’s 2. She’s not going to eat 90% of what I make anyway. I have loved PB and banana for years, but I put chocolate chips on mine. I’ve tried quinoa several times, her and my husband both agree that’s a no! We are trying Farro this week for something different. I bet they would eat migas too. We need to try that.

I forgot to mention the tasty meal I ate today. I had two leftover biscuits. I put butter and scrambled eggs on one and butter and cherry jam on the other. It was spectacular.

Ooh, veggie meals. I eat mostly those. A few favorites off the top of my head: - Cheese pizza or veggie pizza. I like frozen but also do homemade thin crust dough and often make tortilla or pita pizzas so I can assemble and heat them quickly. - Bean burritos or tacos with refried beans, brown rice, melted cheese, salsa, sour cream, and guacamole or avocado - Cheese quesadillas. Put grated cheddar and taco seasoning in between two soft tortillas. Put them in a preheated nonstick pan to brown them a little on both sides and melt the cheese. Cut into wedges for dipping in salsa, guac, and sour cream. - Pasta with tomato sauce and “too much” mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. - Veggie lasagna. - Eggs, omelets, and migas with cheese, veggies and toppings. - Peanut butter and banana sandwich (toast, English muffin, wrap). I tend to also crumble bacon (or veggie bacon) on these, but they’re awesome with ground flaxseed and a little honey too. - Lentil, minestrone, broccoli & cheese, potato, or tomato soup. Think tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches or lentil soup with a salad and crusty bread. - Black bean burgers https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/best-black-bean-burgers/ or frozen veggie burgers with lots of toppings, sweet potato fries, that kind of thing. - All combinations of beans and rice. I usually used canned beans and make brown rice in a rice cooker. - Baked potatoes loaded with toppings like broccoli and cheddar. I don’t worry too much about my old idea of what constituted a “balanced” meal. I think about what will cause satisfaction for both my stomach and mind. With vegetarian meals, it helps to have some starch and fat involved. Low-fat or low-carb vegetarian meals = starvation in my mind.

It’s pretty easy to pull off - you can make anything you normally would and add beans, tofu, quinoa or any other plant based protein instead. I love veggie pizzas, quesedillas, egg dishes, and anything With rice and beans, potatoes with the fixins. I’m now craving a veggie meal

sandeiches, salads, veggie burgers, oh my

What are you guys go-to vegetarian meals? My family and I have been decidedly carnivorous for generations, so I have literally no idea how to put together a balanced vegetarian meal. My daughter doesn’t seem to like meat, so I’m trying to learn! 🤷🏻‍♀️

For dinner tonight, I ate two slices of mushroom and onion pizza from a somewhat fancy pizza place . It made me pine for the slices from the less-fancy pizzeria, lol. My pizza was too “extra” - gourmet mushrooms, and onions that were sauteed in a beef broth. I totally prefer canned mushrooms, and plain onions, on my slices. I just didn’t realize it til today, though.

I have been given that recommendation and will try it as soon as we see what these food sensitivity tests reveal. Seems likely

The digestive enzymes have certainly helped. But Im investigating some other things that I think brought it to zero pain. The pain, gas and bloating was way better most days with the enzymes, but not gone.

I definitely get it from fruit. I've never been a huge fruit person, and maybe this is why. Berries and bananas don't do it but the other ones seem to. I'm working with a doc on this, cuz it just can't be right. Tests were done so we'll see....I don't even know which ones he did! Ha

Yes I know what you mean about not being able to remember... speaking of stomach pain I had some on Friday and was trying to think about what I had eaten the day before to work out what might have caused it and it took me quite a while to recall.... Really an amazing thing...

I had a yummy and happy day of eating yesterday. I was going out for brunch so I just had a handful of almonds in the car on the way to meet my friend as was starving. Then I had apple caramel pancakes 😍 These kept me full until dinner time and I instinctively wanted something simple and light so I had a piece of fresh fish, some grilled asparagus with shaved parmesan cheese and some caper mayo. Then I had the top off a fresh pint of ice cream - a new gingerbread flavour I wanted to try. I was a little bit hungry before bed so I had a spoon of peanut butter.

[@happyme] That is super exciting about no stomach pain! Do you think it was the digestive enzymes that helped?

I do forget what I had for meals these days. Either that or it's just so boring and usual that I don't feel the need to report.

But yesterday my local farm meat arrived on the doorstep and it was in the crock pot all night so this morning I had meat in a tortilla for breakfast (odd but so good!)

Lunch was rice, veggies and more meat

Dinner was scrambled eggs with cheese and dark chocolate squares with coconut butter. I LOVE coconut butter and it's the only coconut thing I like

Zero stomach pain today :)

Today has been a mishmash. I had maple pecan banana muffins and yogurt for breakfast. Lunch was an herbed chicken breast, salad and fruit salad at work. I had a brownie, a few squares of chocolate and some sliced fruit scattered in for snacks. Dinner was chicken fajitas with rice and beans. We have guacamole casero with it, which literally just means homestyle. It’s extra chunky and delicious.

Anybody else have trouble remembering what they ate? I guess it's casual enough now that it doesn't get seared into my brain the way it once did. Yesterday, I had a big bowl of nutty cereal and a fruity greek yogurt for breakfast. For lunch, I had a quesadilla and some other random stuff. I remember dinner because I came home from work to eat it. That is so nice! But again, I'm just kind of grabbing food that's quick and sounds good with no real plan in place. I had scrambled eggs because my husband was making them when I walked in the door, a cheese stick on the side because he won't melt cheese on eggs, a handful of sriracha cashews, a somewhat crazily thick and cold pink smoothie, and a few pieces of milk chocolate.

I plan to buy chicken at the store today. I'm missing chicken. I'll get some skin-on thighs to roast with potatoes, and some skinless breasts to smother with cheese and sauces.

I had an omelet and oat bran for breakfast. :) My omelet had peppers, onion, mushrooms, vegan bacon, egg whites, cheese and spinach. By oat bran had milk, chia seeds, Splenda and blueberries. And two mugs of coffee, of course, with Splenda and milk! Lunch was roasted veggies with olive oil (brussels sprouts, kabocha squash, green beans, broccoli), and a chicken breast simply seasoned and grilled. Then I had 1/2 a whole wheat tortilla with a 2" nub of leftover banana and peanut butter. And an apple with another tablespoon of peanut butter. Dinner..... hm, I'm thinking pasta with sun dried tomatoes and feta and some green veggie sounds good. And chicken.

Wheeee! love the new site! Life has been crazy caring for elderly sick parents so I haven't been motivated to post for some time (although I was visiting daily and keeping track of all my happy eater friends) I panicked yesterday and this morning when I couldn't access the site and it made me realize how much I miss you all and participating in discussions. So, I'm ready to come out of hibernation and start participating beginning with this thread since this topic has always been one of my favorites.

Breakfast: slice of vanilla oat cake w/cream cheese frosting, deli sliced ham topped w/leftover eggplant bake from last night's dinner. Almond milk, banana, spinach, berries, cottage cheese smoothie (sounds weird but delicious)

Lunch: ground turkey with vegetables, half a bagel with peanut butter, almond milk, pumpkin, chocolate smoothie, piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: not sure yet, it will depend on how hungry I am and what I'm in the mood for. I sautéed some brussels sprouts and mushrooms earlier so maybe that paired with some kind of protein. Or maybe not. I'm thinking I may have overdone lunch 'cause it's been almost 8 hours since and I am not hungry at all.

Breakfast was granola with berries, banana, almond milk and kefir.

Snack was an Epic bar and some grilled tofu with melted swiss

Lunch was spaghetti squash with kite hill cheese, olive oil, and grilled salmon (and olive oil, salt and pepper)

Snack was dark chocolate and coconut butter

Dinner was chicken and frozen grapes.

This morning, I had most of a thin crust veggie pizza and a quarter pint of Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Fudge Core. Later, I had the rest of the pizza and a few Sun Chips. I was too busy and stressed out to drink my green smoothie when I first woke up, but I'm missing it now. I'll have chips and salsa, three beef tacos, and something sweet for dinner, perhaps the smoothie. I load it with banana, pineapple, berries, and mango so it doesn't taste like lawnmower clippings.

I forgot that I drink calories now (call the diet police). I drank a black cherry soda and a ginger berry kombucha.