recipes?

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:39:09 -0600, Alex
wrote:

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:59:44 -0400, "cooper" wrote:

Hey all,

I've been adapting a better lifestyle and have slowly been changing over the
foods I eat at work, but I have a problem- when I get home and I'm cooking
for my BF and me, I can't seem to break out of our 'usuals'. I cook the
stuff I know how to because it's fast and easy- I get home around 5:30 so
there isn't alot of prep work and such I can do.

Anyone have any good sites for recipes?

coop


Hi coop --

I LOVE www.recipezaar.com "where the recipes are" lol. You can search
by anything you can think of -- special diets, course, ingredients,
whatever. All the recipes I have used from there have been very good,
but I'll admit I'm picky. This is the best place for asian recipes I
have found so far. YMMV of course.

Ally
212/196/160



That is a great website. Thanks for posting it!!

Hark! I heard "cooper" say:
J.J.:

I can't help you there, but I'll tell you how I handle the same
situation, which is one of two ways:

1. Break down your current recipes by ingredient and figure out
the calorie count. (DietPower and FitDay PC are good for this.)
From there you can use alternative ingredients or eat smaller
portions of the original version. You can get advice from this
group and/or rec.food.cooking on slimming down your current
recipes.

We eat too much pasta right now, so instead of cutting down the portions I
want to try to integrate new meals.

Oh, I see -- I don't like pasta that much so that didn't occur to me.
The only thing I really miss is my fettucini with cream and parmesaen
cheese; I haven't been brave enough to check the ingredients with
DietPower and see how bad it is, I just quit making it. :-)

And Fitday is great! I've only been
using it for 4 days but it's been so helpful and motivating.

Isn't having software assistance amazing?! I remember trying to track
calories before PCs, yeesh...


--
J.J. in WA State - 251/232/150
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Hark! I heard jmk say:
On 4/29/2004 5:10 PM, J.J. Marie wrote:
Hark! I heard "cooper" say:


I've been adapting a better lifestyle and have slowly been changing over the
foods I eat at work, but I have a problem- when I get home and I'm cooking
for my BF and me, I can't seem to break out of our 'usuals'. I cook the
stuff I know how to because it's fast and easy- I get home around 5:30 so
there isn't alot of prep work and such I can do.

Anyone have any good sites for recipes?


I can't help you there, but I'll tell you how I handle the same
situation, which is one of two ways:

1. Break down your current recipes by ingredient and figure out
the calorie count. (DietPower and FitDay PC are good for this.)
From there you can use alternative ingredients or eat smaller
portions of the original version. You can get advice from this
group and/or rec.food.cooking on slimming down your current
recipes.

I use a recipe organizer called Living Cookbook (bad name, I know!).
You can download a free trial from livingcookbook.com and see if it does
what you want.

I'll have to check that out too, thanks... :-)


--
J.J. in WA State - 251/232/150
(Change COLD to HOT for e-mail)

Hark! I heard "Patricia Heil" say:

snip

or use bok choy greens instead of lettuce.

In what way is bok choy superior to, say, green leaf lettuce?
I'm not being argumentative, I'm honestly curious...


--
J.J. in WA State - 251/232/150
(Change COLD to HOT for e-mail)

On 4/30/2004 1:06 PM, J.J. Marie wrote:
Hark! I heard "Patricia Heil" say:

snip

or use bok choy greens instead of lettuce.


In what way is bok choy superior to, say, green leaf lettuce?
I'm not being argumentative, I'm honestly curious...


Ah, you must have missed last week's bok choy discussion ;-)

Someone (Beverly?) posted this link
http://www.wholehealthmd.com/refshel...23,148,00.html

I hope that it to answer your question! Have a great weekend!
--
jmk in NC

cooper wrote:
Hey all,

I've been adapting a better lifestyle and have slowly been changing over the
foods I eat at work, but I have a problem- when I get home and I'm cooking
for my BF and me, I can't seem to break out of our 'usuals'. I cook the
stuff I know how to because it's fast and easy- I get home around 5:30 so
there isn't alot of prep work and such I can do.

Anyone have any good sites for recipes?

You might try going to http://www.savingdinner.com
and clicking on the links for Menu Mailer. Leanne has an email
program with weekly menu and shopping lists, in regular (low fat)
and low-carb versions.

I don't use it myself as I have plenty of menus of my own,
but a lot of people like it (although it's recently become a
paid subscription). You might get some ideas from the sample
weekly menus/shopping lists on the site, though, if you don't
care to subscribe.

--
jamie )

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