Eating food

[YarPirate]

I've been watching what I eat lately pretty closely after getting bored and looking up preservatives and chemicals and OH YUCKY things they put in food nowadays. I've noticed that eating simpler things like raw fruit / vegetables and red meat with no slathering of cheese and fried onions has made me happier for some reason. I'd like to continue this.

Please suggest to me things that I could easily prepare / buy really cheap that would keep me on this road. I'm pretty much out of ideas after getting a sack of oranges and half a cow.

[BlindSite]

Eggs can be good if you know how to prepare them in dishes that don't require the use of cheese and all that crap for flavoring.

There's a lot of healthy choices out there, use google or something to find "organic recipes" or something like that.

I try pretty much to keep a balance, if I have a shit lunch like McDonalds I'll have a salad with a bit of chicken or something for dinner. I find that works fine.

[kreket]

Fish & carrots & potatoes, in their various forms. Remember slices of cucumber in a citrus mix to go with salmon.

Pan cakes. Chicken and rice. Porridge.

Prefabricated springrolls and dry bag soups any good?

[Tunnel Rat]

well, the more you stay away from particular types of food, especially fats and grease, the more likely they are to become incompatible with your palette.

therefore, if I were you, I'd be looking for things like rices (particularly long grain and brown rice), fresh (read: not frozen at the store) chicken and beef, fresh potatoes and salads, as well as some heartier vegetable mixes prepared fresh if possible.

the best thing to do is learn how to season food without cream, butter, or milk, and use more fresh herbs and spices if possible. additionally, try to avoid saltier foods, as those tend to have higher amounts of artificial preservatives in them.

[Enforcer]

Sushi. Especially vegetable rolls.

I'd recommend it to anyone.

[YarPirate]

Meals are fine for me pretty much, but what I'm looking for is something I can bring to work, something I don't have to put more than 5 minutes of preparation into. I know there's always "a piece of fruit", but I'm honestly getting sick of a single piece of fruit. Any ideas? I like what's been posted so far. Thanks all.

[White Pony]

If you buy anything with a USDA Organic seal it won't have any of the nasty chemicals and shit in it.

[Col. Psycho]

i personally enjoy making the more technical dishes out there from scratch with all natural ingredients. Like a thai green curry, using thai curry powder, coconut milk, either prawns or shrimp or chicken, sliced onions and peppers, all cooked up and served on long grain rice, or if im feeling up to it, egg fried rice made with a bit of olive oil.

but yeah, chicken breasts can be grilled (without oils) and served in salads, or as actual meals. fish is good, so is most red meats.

meh, im tired so i can come up with anything awesome.

[YarPirate]

If you buy anything with a USDA Organic seal it won't have any of the nasty chemicals and shit in it.

Do you have to go to a specialty area for these?

Are they much more expensive?

i personally enjoy making the more technical dishes out there from scratch with all natural ingredients. Like a thai green curry, using thai curry powder, coconut milk, either prawns or shrimp or chicken, sliced onions and peppers, all cooked up and served on long grain rice, or if im feeling up to it, egg fried rice made with a bit of olive oil.

Exact recipe for the curry? pleeez

[White Pony]

Do you have to go to a specialty area for these?

Hmm.... sometimes they have their own area, but other places scatter them throughout the normal grocery store. I suppose it depends on where you go. Health food stores tend to have 'em.


Are they much more expensive?

A little more, but not a whole lot.

[Yiggs]

Get some good foccacia (that's not how it's spelt :\) and make some nice sandwiches. I had a sandwich with ham and turkey, and it was awesome, I thought the turkey was cheese though. :|


hmm, tacos shoulkdn't have any nasty perservatives, maybe you could try homemade tortillas. :0 ooo, yum.

[Teedy]

Organic is good and bad, sometimes the cost outweighs the good. There are plenty of healthy eating cookbooks and recipes etc. around. Personally, I find that if you make 2 helpings of grilled chicken breast the night before, and season it with just spices that you like and perhaps some lemon juice, then you can cut up the second one, throw it in a pita or wrap with some lettuce, banana peppers and make a small bit of BBQ Ranch sauce with some BBQ sauce mixed with Ranch 50/50 that you have one hell of a decently healthy lunch on your hands :D. Fat's etc. are VERY important to your diet if you take the right ones in and never in excess.

[sebastski]

i'm xveganx and i'm morally superior and healthier than you all.


jk


i like to eat 80% veggies, 20% meat. i prefer fish over meat.

[Captain Colon]

Fish is great, it helps a LOT to keep a healthier balance of omega3/omega6 fatty acids (typical american diets have too many 6s and not enough 3s, 3s are supposed to be very beneficial to nerve and brain health).

[FaKToR]

Fish is great, it helps a LOT to keep a healthier balance of omega3/omega6 fatty acids (typical american diets have too many 6s and not enough 3s, 3s are supposed to be very beneficial to nerve and brain health).

Red tide poisoning.

[YarPirate]

Fresh salmon is fucking ridiculously expensive. The stuff that looks like it's been in the freezer for a year is, while affordable, completely disgusting in appearance. I'd really like to try this stuff but it's not exactly "eat weekly" kind of affordable.

[maggie]

Trout is just as good for you, less expensive, and tends to have less mercury.

[Teedy]

Personally, I'm all about Basa, but it's damned impossible to find. :(


Shrimp and scallops turn out almost as good frozen as fresh if thrown into a stirfry and are equally as good as fish, but cheaper in some places.

[YarPirate]

Trout is just as good for you, less expensive, and tends to have less mercury.

They're generally not big enough to make steaks with though, and I love the idea of steak. Oh well, I guess I should get a trout stamp and start fishing.

[Captain Colon]

You can get big frozen packs of swordfish steaks, those are fucking delicious if you make em up right.

[Enforcer]

You can get big frozen packs of swordfish steaks, those are fucking delicious if you make em up right.

QFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[maggie]

Shrimp and scallops turn out almost as good frozen as fresh if thrown into a stirfry and are equally as good as fish, but cheaper in some places.

They're both lower fat than salmon or trout, but you don't get the good oils from them. Definitely a good food choice, provided you don't deep fry the little bastards.

[Captain Colon]

Don't forget there's always supplements. Really, you can eat whatever you want as long as you take supplements for nutrients that your diet may not have. I usually eat one or two meals a day, so I take a multivitamin [when I remember] and some supplements for the stuff that the multivitamin doesn't have a lot of (calcium, for example).

[Teedy]

Careful not to overload on vitamins either though, too much stuff is just as bad for you.

[BattleWhack]

Don't forget there's always supplements. Really, you can eat whatever you want as long as you take supplements for nutrients that your diet may not have. I usually eat one or two meals a day, so I take a multivitamin [when I remember] and some supplements for the stuff that the multivitamin doesn't have a lot of (calcium, for example).

/signed.

A good multivitamin once a day never hurt anyone, and can cover any gaps in your intake.

[GrosPoisson]

Fresh salmon is fucking ridiculously expensive. The stuff that looks like it's been in the freezer for a year is, while affordable, completely disgusting in appearance. I'd really like to try this stuff but it's not exactly "eat weekly" kind of affordable.

If you know anyone with a Costco card, now is the time to whore that thing. At least here, the Costco branches sell massive bags of individually-wrapped frozen cuts of deboned salmon under the Kirkland Signature brand that are delicious and affordable enough for a brokeass college student like myself..

[Roadkill]

http://www.annies.com/

Mac and cheese, bitches! :lincoln:

[BS87]

Careful not to overload on vitamins either though, too much stuff is just as bad for you.

Most of the time, if it's working right, you're body will filter out and dispose of what it's not using or doesnt need. Now, i'm not saying taking 10 multivitamins a day is ok, but if 1 or two vitamins over lap (not like 5g over lap =x) you'll be ok.

[Teedy]

Yes, of course, but if your body is trying to filter a billion things at once you can stress it. Just follow the instructions on the bottles and you're always fine that way. :p

[Captain Colon]

Not to mention that different vitamins are filtered via different pathways, and some are filtered much much slower than others so your organs will fail well before levels get back down to a safe amount :p

http://www.annies.com/

Mac and cheese, bitches! :lincoln:
That stuff is probably the most kick-ass powder-cheese-type macaroni and cheese in existence. A winnar iz yuo!!1!!

[YarPirate]

No costco within 100 miles of me :(

I got some weird frozen-solid crapsteaks of salmon that I'm going to try to grill once the weather allows. I hope it's not too bad.

[Captain Colon]

Most of the fish that you can find in bulk in the freezer section can usually be found there because it's a type of fish where how you cook it is a much bigger factor in the flavor than the type/quality of the meat itself. I can't really tell the difference in flavor between freezer swordfish steaks and fresh ones, although the fresh ones ARE a lot juicier. The freezer ones are great for quick deliciousness though, it's as simple as thawing some out in the microwave, marinating them in lemon juice for 30mins-1hr, then broiling. For salmon, try a cajun marinade that's got a bit of caribbean jerk type seasoning in it, quite sextacular. A lone jerk seasoning might work too, but those are usually made for chicken or pork. I'll try it sometime and let you know.

[Teedy]

Chili-Lime Mahi Mahi is the fish of the gods.