For people that want to record what they are eating (to help be strict!)

[swish]

I think that's a good idea, zani, or we could combine it with the new chit chat one. Mocha, it was so good to eat proper food, my mil cooked home made pizza and onion and goats cheese tarts, it was delicious!! I also had flap jacks on ds's birthday, they are my favourite and I enjoyed every bite!! So sorry about bfns, mocha, but you're not out yet! Been a bit better today
No breakfast
Lunch pasta, green beans, balsamic glaze, little Parmesan. Strawberries and meringue, sweets
Dinner leek risotto with parmesan- this was lovely as used quite a bit of White wine.
I am so over boring food and still feel so negative, I feel 'm out before I've even started this month, I don't knw why!!

[zanacal]

Continue here ladies:

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...Diaries-August

I'll unsticky this one. If the new food thread doesn't get much usage I'll combine it with the chit-chat thread in future months.

That's enough organising for me for today, got to think of my T-levels

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes, the T levels must come first!!!! Thanks so much for helping out Zanacal!! (but don't get TOO helpful!!)

[Mum23boys]

Hi guys just scanning this and looks this a great thread some fab meal ideas here for me to think about but where do i find the calorie sodium protein contents ? I could check all the packets everytime i buy or eat something i guess but is there a quicker way ?

[suregena]

Try using myfitnesspal... there's a phone ap, too. It's fantastic... Helps a lot! Just make sure the entries you use put the sodium on correctly! The uk lists things on labels differently so, 0.2mg sodium is 200... etc.

[Mochagirl]

Ah - a blast from the past! I think this was our first food thread. Yes, I used FitDay to track my food, and I opted to enter everything manually as 'custom foods' using the information on labels simply because at least on that site there seemed to be a lot of discrepancies in the totals they had for certain foods. For example, for plain pasta and most cooked vegetables, it seemed to assume you were adding salt to the water, so the sodium for those items was really high. Since I cooked all these things with no salt whatsoever, I made new entries that reflected the way I ate those things. Once you add a custom food, it's saved for next time you use it. After being on the diet for a while, all my regular meals were saved there, so it took me minutes at the end of each day to add up my totals.

Another great resource I found while on the diet was this:

Calorie Count :: New Recipe

You can enter the ingredients and amounts from a recipe and get the full nutritional info per serving. This works great when you're doing your own baking!

[Lilpumpkin06]

My Fitness Pal has tons of foods in their database & they are accurate. Saves a lot of time! It even let's you enter your recipes & serving sizes too to figure nutrients.

[Mum23boys]

ha ha ha that would figure why i only had 1.01 of sodium by yesterday lunch time !!! so what would 0.50 of sodium be in real quantity ? How can i work out the conversion as my sandwich contained 0.50 sodium, the bread was 0.32 and my crisps were 0.19 - im not on the diet yet was just writing it down to get a rough idea of what my limits are now and how i will cut them down. Thanks

[elle82]

This is a great thread, only found it now Mochagirl, can I ask how much balsamic, olive oil, oregano did you use to marinate the mushroom in for the mushroom burger that you posted about earlier in the thread? If you can remember I know it's a long time ago but said I'd ask on the off chance that you still had the recipe. I'm definetely making that burger!!

[Mochagirl]

I haven't a clue! I doubt I measured anything - I probably just poured a good, generous amount of balsamic, used a teeny glug of oil and sprinkled in some oregano. I think when I made them later I left the olive oil out altogether.