December's pink food thread!

[Mochagirl]

Sounds heavenly!!!

It wasn't that tasty, but it was ok - and had way less sodium and protein than my usual pasta that I drown in Parmesan trying to give it taste - since the sauce of this pasta was tasty on its own, it didn't need the extra parm. I think it would have been better if I'd thrown in a few tomatoes too. I was actually making it for my kids and dh - theirs also had shrimp in it. Before I added their shrimp I stole some of the sauce and had it myself.

[rainbowflower]

proper cheat day today, but I knew it would be!

it was my office Christmas Party so couldn't avoid it, so it was a Thai meal and I ate the meat option and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Won't be having anything else for the rest of the day and ate nothing else before it.

[suregena]

Hey, Suregena...How are you doing? Hope all is well!

Doing good! Today was a good day at work! I didn't feel like I was suffering AND everyone brought goodies/cakes/cupcakes/cookies in and I didn't HAVE ONE. That's crazy for me, but I thought if I caved in, there would be no stopping me. So it was my first proper day on the diet at work.

6am - got up, dressed, left for work. Got filter coffee at the train station and put a splash of soy milk in it.

1.30pm - hummus and skinless cucumber sandwich on weight watchers bread and one of those cupcake thingies that have like 0.9 protein (the fat is 8g but oh well!)

6.30pm - 1 tablespoon of semi-dark chocolate chips... wanted to make dinner but my son wanted to nurse, so...

7.30pm - leftover pasta (2 cups worth, but that was it already cooked with veggies in it) with reduced fat cream cheese, a little grilled veggies like zuchini and eggplant, a tiny smidge of tomato that was barely noticeable, a little soy spread so it wasn't dry on reheating it over the stove, I added some baby button mushrooms to it as it is day 3 leftovers in the fridge and needed a little bit of pep...

8pm (now!) - some skittles and going to have a cup of Yorkshire tea with some soy milk to end my night on.

As you guys mentioned about the sodium, that makes sense to me completely. It's an easy thing to goof up. I'm sure I'm still within range on sodium, though. I must be! I don't salt anything! But I'll pay attention to those numbers and try to add them in manually, though... that'd get really, very tedious...

Calories: 1,362
Fat: 35
Protein: 45
Sodium: 383 (questionable.....)

[Mochagirl]

Suregena - I agree that you're fine for sodium, though I'm sure your numbers are slightly off. I think WW bread has something close to 200mg of sodium for 2 slices (though I haven't had that for a while, so I may be remembering incorrectly). The Hummus I have has 140mg of sodium per TBSP, and the cream cheese has 105mg of sodium per TBSP. How about your cupcakes - they must have had some sodium, right? And there'd also be small amounts in some of the other stuff you had. Regardless, you're doing fine - you probably had something like 500-600mg of sodium, which is well within limits. As I said before, I manually enter all of my regular foods into FitDay - it saves them as 'custom foods' so I only have to enter them once. And yes, I do realise I am letting my testosterone-filled Type A personality shine by admitting this .

[zanacal]

That's more like it Suregena! Can you eat low fat creme fraiche? I found that worked well for pasta on the LE diet.

[suregena]

That's more like it Suregena! Can you eat low fat creme fraiche? I found that worked well for pasta on the LE diet.

Ah, yes! THat might be an easier option... cream cheese is a little dry when adding to things like pasta, rice, couscous.

I think Mocha is right that maybe I should preset stuff so I KNOW the amounts are right!

Here's the nutritional stuff for the weight watchers, per slice:

Nutritional Data
Nutrition
Per average slice (20.6g)

Energy 49kcal
Protein 2.2g
Carbohydrate 9.4g
of which sugars 0.5g
Fat 0.2g
of which saturates Trace
Fibre 0.5g
Sodium 0.09g



Sooo... what does 0.09 equate to? (this will all be in grams... fairly certain, being in the UK.) (Edit to add: just looked it up, think it's 90mg per slice.)

I'll be switching to corn tortillas though once out of the bread. Just got my shipment from mexgrocer.co.uk (my favorite website, being an American in the UK!)

[Mochagirl]

I second the creme fraiche recommendation. I got the idea from Z initially, and now it's one of my staples!

[suregena]

Also, while I know the cupcake thingies (they were on offer so not like they'll be a staple in my diet, heh) are high in fat at 8.0g, the rest of the nutrition is this:



137 calories
0.9g protein
8.0g fat
0.06g sodium

[suregena]

I second the creme fraiche recommendation. I got the idea from Z initially, and now it's one of my staples!

I've never bought it before--I don't know why! I'll definitely pick some up!

[Mochagirl]

Also, while I know the cupcake thingies (they were on offer so not like they'll be a staple in my diet, heh) are high in fat at 8.0g, the rest of the nutrition is this:



137 calories
0.9g protein
8.0g fat
0.06g sodium

Oh yes, I remember now that in the UK they often list sodium in g. That must get so confusing! What is that - 60mg of sodium?