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Eating out question
OK, so what do you do when you are going out somewhere and having
something to eat that you have no idea of its weight, calorie content or saturated fat content? I spent the day at my friend Carolyn's yesterday, (dyeing loads of fabric!) and for lunch her mum made fresh baked wholemeal rolls, a scrape of spread and then turkey ham with low fat coleslaw... fine 'cos thats what I eat at lunch at work, so no probs there... But supper was a different story - Carolyns Special Fried Rice - she basically looks in the fridge and throws it into the wok - hell I was stir-frying it so I saw exactly what went in... small pack pancetta ham, 5 inches of chorizo sausage, 1 red pepper, 1 courgette, garlic, small bowl of prawns, 1 chicken breast and white rice - fried in un-named oil with 5-spice paste for flavour... now as a rough guide the UK WW Eating Out Guide says chinese special fried rice is 10 points, so do I go for that? And what about when you have no idea what is in things? Any advice here? Suzie B (hell - you said ask questions - so I'm gonna!) -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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I guess . Or use something similar from the books like you did.
"Paul & Suzie Beckwith" wrote in message ... OK, so what do you do when you are going out somewhere and having something to eat that you have no idea of its weight, calorie content or saturated fat content? I spent the day at my friend Carolyn's yesterday, (dyeing loads of fabric!) and for lunch her mum made fresh baked wholemeal rolls, a scrape of spread and then turkey ham with low fat coleslaw... fine 'cos thats what I eat at lunch at work, so no probs there... But supper was a different story - Carolyns Special Fried Rice - she basically looks in the fridge and throws it into the wok - hell I was stir-frying it so I saw exactly what went in... small pack pancetta ham, 5 inches of chorizo sausage, 1 red pepper, 1 courgette, garlic, small bowl of prawns, 1 chicken breast and white rice - fried in un-named oil with 5-spice paste for flavour... now as a rough guide the UK WW Eating Out Guide says chinese special fried rice is 10 points, so do I go for that? And what about when you have no idea what is in things? Any advice here? Suzie B (hell - you said ask questions - so I'm gonna!) -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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Suzie,
What I do is figure that I ate all my points allowed that day -- whatever they were -- and start fresh the next day. So long as you don't do that often (like maybe once every other month or so?) it really does no long lasting damage at the scale. So, estimate based on your knowledge of what is in the dish then, as Dottie (http://www.dwlz.com/) says, "One day at a time, no guilt & move on." -- Anne in CA "Don't miss the diamonds along the way; every road has led us here today." -- Sheryl Crow http://home.covad.net/~arudolph/annes.htm Paul & Suzie Beckwith wrote: OK, so what do you do when you are going out somewhere and having something to eat that you have no idea of its weight, calorie content or saturated fat content? I spent the day at my friend Carolyn's yesterday, (dyeing loads of fabric!) and for lunch her mum made fresh baked wholemeal rolls, a scrape of spread and then turkey ham with low fat coleslaw... fine 'cos thats what I eat at lunch at work, so no probs there... But supper was a different story - Carolyns Special Fried Rice - she basically looks in the fridge and throws it into the wok - hell I was stir-frying it so I saw exactly what went in... small pack pancetta ham, 5 inches of chorizo sausage, 1 red pepper, 1 courgette, garlic, small bowl of prawns, 1 chicken breast and white rice - fried in un-named oil with 5-spice paste for flavour... now as a rough guide the UK WW Eating Out Guide says chinese special fried rice is 10 points, so do I go for that? And what about when you have no idea what is in things? Any advice here? Suzie B (hell - you said ask questions - so I'm gonna!) -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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But supper was a different story - Carolyns Special Fried Rice - she
basically looks in the fridge and throws it into the wok - hell I was stir-frying it so I saw exactly what went in... small pack pancetta ham, 5 inches of chorizo sausage, 1 red pepper, 1 courgette, garlic, small bowl of prawns, 1 chicken breast and white rice - fried in un-named oil with 5-spice paste for flavour... now as a rough guide the UK WW Eating Out Guide says chinese special fried rice is 10 points, so do I go for that? And what about when you have no idea what is in things? Any advice here? Suzie B If you joined weight watchers online they have a recipe converter you could use. Enter the same info you had above and put in how many servings the dish made and it will give you total. If you aren't an online member but go to meetings see if your director won't log on and convert it for you. Otherwise the only accurate option is to go item by item through all the materials add up all the points and divide it by the number of servings it made. From there you can figure out your portion. It takes time but the longer you do it the better you get at it. Michele |
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I take the coward's way out and just forget it all and start fresh the next
day. If I think it was really bad I don't use my flex points or APs the rest of that week. -- SuzyQ Weight 124 WW Lifetime Membership Feb 03 "Paul & Suzie Beckwith" wrote in message ... OK, so what do you do when you are going out somewhere and having something to eat that you have no idea of its weight, calorie content or saturated fat content? I spent the day at my friend Carolyn's yesterday, (dyeing loads of fabric!) and for lunch her mum made fresh baked wholemeal rolls, a scrape of spread and then turkey ham with low fat coleslaw... fine 'cos thats what I eat at lunch at work, so no probs there... But supper was a different story - Carolyns Special Fried Rice - she basically looks in the fridge and throws it into the wok - hell I was stir-frying it so I saw exactly what went in... small pack pancetta ham, 5 inches of chorizo sausage, 1 red pepper, 1 courgette, garlic, small bowl of prawns, 1 chicken breast and white rice - fried in un-named oil with 5-spice paste for flavour... now as a rough guide the UK WW Eating Out Guide says chinese special fried rice is 10 points, so do I go for that? And what about when you have no idea what is in things? Any advice here? Suzie B (hell - you said ask questions - so I'm gonna!) -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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I would just pick something that sounds "about right" and go with it. If in
doubt, always tack on a couple points because it's better to over-estimate than under-estimate. -- ~Kristin O~ 272/237.4/172 Here's our FAQ: http://www.didian.com/asdww/ and welcome notice: http://www.geocities.com/welcomenotice/index.html "Paul & Suzie Beckwith" wrote in message ... OK, so what do you do when you are going out somewhere and having something to eat that you have no idea of its weight, calorie content or saturated fat content? I spent the day at my friend Carolyn's yesterday, (dyeing loads of fabric!) and for lunch her mum made fresh baked wholemeal rolls, a scrape of spread and then turkey ham with low fat coleslaw... fine 'cos thats what I eat at lunch at work, so no probs there... But supper was a different story - Carolyns Special Fried Rice - she basically looks in the fridge and throws it into the wok - hell I was stir-frying it so I saw exactly what went in... small pack pancetta ham, 5 inches of chorizo sausage, 1 red pepper, 1 courgette, garlic, small bowl of prawns, 1 chicken breast and white rice - fried in un-named oil with 5-spice paste for flavour... now as a rough guide the UK WW Eating Out Guide says chinese special fried rice is 10 points, so do I go for that? And what about when you have no idea what is in things? Any advice here? Suzie B (hell - you said ask questions - so I'm gonna!) -- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK http://community.webshots.com/user/suziekga |
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