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Post by bbbearsmom on Jan 6, 2017 0:44:44 GMT
Friday, 01/05
At KY-Carol's suggestion we are going to review the Good Health Guidelines (GHG).
1. Fruits & Veggies: 5 servings per day. To be sure you get enough fiber and all the other vitamins and minerals found in plants.
How do you get this one in and anything else you would like to say?
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Post by jamescat1 on Jan 6, 2017 1:48:05 GMT
I have always eaten fruit and vegetables. I have fresh fruit with breakfast and as an afternoon snack. I may have an extra if I am hungry. I always have a salad and 1/2 vegetables with dinner. If there is no salad vegetables are incorporated with the main course. At lunch I eat salads but if I don't I'll put vegetables on my plate like chicken with carrots and celery.
I went to a meeting for LT members and was given the new books. Everyone told the leader to tell Oprah to bring back the GHGs even if just a page in one of the booklets.
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Post by linda72 on Jan 6, 2017 13:08:17 GMT
I live by the GHGs and I'm glad I was at WW when they talked about them. I always get my fruits and veggies. Fruit at breakfast and snack in the afternoon. Veggies (usually a salad) at lunch and dinner includes a veggie salad and I always have at least 1 other veggie at dinner. Learning to roast veggies has allowed me to include tasty vegetables that I used to avoid. I love hearing from others of great ways to cook vegetables.
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Post by decolady on Jan 6, 2017 16:06:38 GMT
Good morning everyone
I kinda forgot about the guidelines. I do not eat enough fruit and vegetables. Thanks for reminder.
Linda- thank you for your opinion on the big rectangular "mosaic picture" on back wall of shower. I have not seen it in any of my friends homes. Glad to know it looks good. Kinda scary when trying new things. Definitely challenging myself.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Jan 6, 2017 16:55:30 GMT
I also am grateful that I joined WW when they had the Good Health Guidelines. They are the basis of my eating. Sometimes I read posts of what others are eating and realize that some people have no idea how to choose their food to eat. Although now a days there are so many different views on what to eat and what not to eat. I'm sticking with the GHG for now and with what works for my body and my health.
I have frozen berries or cherries with my non-fat Greek yogurt and a piece of fruit later in the day. My veggies are all in my salad at night. It is a big one. Sometimes when we have dinner dinner I will make up a frozen veggie.
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Post by surfgirl on Jan 6, 2017 20:09:39 GMT
Thanks for bringing this up because just yesterday I was thinking that I've gotten a bit slack on my fruit intake the last month and I need to get back on track. I love fruits of all kinds, and if there are no seeds to spit out, all the better! I eat a LOT of watermelon in the summer/fall, and berries and stone fruits in summer. I've gotten back into citrus this year, as long as they're seedless. The mini tangerines are amazing right now. When I was losing consistently, I found I was eating about 4 pieces of fruit a day - maybe a cup of blueberries, a peach, a pear, some watermelon - that sort of thing daily. I throw in a banana here and there but I only really like bananas if they're slightly under ripe, once they go very yellow I cant eat them.
As for veggies, we normally have a salad and/or steamed veg with dinner daily. We fell off that wagon too over the holidays because mr. surfgirl got ill for about 24 hours, and the last thing he'd eaten was salad, so lost his appetite for it altogether. I think he's now over that so I can bring back salad into our dinner rotation. Since we're mainly lacto-veg (eat dairy products), we don't have an issue with this part of the GHGs. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 21:22:07 GMT
As far as fruit I always have a small container of raspberries at lunch.I also have a large tossed salad with lunch and dinner with the protein I am having for each meal.I am also glad I joined WW when they had the GHG's.I don't get in all my dairy b/c of my IBS-C but do manage to get in 1 real dairy a day.I also use the 2 tsp healthy oil with 1 of my salads.I did roast cauliflower in my new convection toaster oven last night and we both liked it.DH doesn't eat salads but likes green onions and we have never been big on the cooked veggies so I'm looking forward to any ideas people have for roasting or stir frying different veggies.We will probably put a pork tenderloin in the slow cooker Sunday and I had him bring carrots home to put in there.I never knew I liked cooked carrots(although I always add raw baby carrots in my salads)before last week when I tried them in a pot roast when we ate at a buffet.
My mom didn't like many veggies so she never tried to get me to eat them so this a brand new experience for me and I'm learning to like some of them.
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Post by linda72 on Jan 6, 2017 22:13:03 GMT
@beckyw2016 If you liked the roasted cauliflower, try other vegetables fixed the same way. Butternut squash is great. They have bags of them in the produce department of many grocery stores that are peeled and cubed if you don't want to prepare them yourself. All of the bell peppers do well roasting as does asparagus, onions, mushrooms and brussels sprouts (cut in half) I cut the vegetable in smaller pieces, add a little oil, salt, and pepper (or use any other spice you like) and cook them. Some squashes work well but they have a lot of water in them so you sometimes need to drain off the water during cooking. I cook them on foil so the clean up is easier.
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Post by surfgirl on Jan 7, 2017 0:03:08 GMT
I've been using TJ's riced cauliflower and riced broccoli to get in some extra veggies and fiber in lieu of starches/added carbs...I don't really care for them though, I prefer both of those veggies either steamed in pieces or roasted. Has anyone else been using those riced veggies and do you like them?
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Post by ladymajky on Jan 7, 2017 0:21:12 GMT
I miss those check boxes that helped me be sure I was getting what I needed.
A couple of days ago I made roast veggies for the first time in a long time. I used the pre-prepared butternut squash cubes, cut small Yukon gold potatoes, red bell pepper, cut baby carrots, cut red onion. Tossed the veggies with a tablespoon of olive oil and garam masala from Trader Joe's. Spread on a baking sheet lined with non-stick aluminum foil (no clean up!). In a 450 degree oven for 20 minutes. Stir after 10 minutes in the oven, being sure that everything turns over to roast on the other side. It was very colorful, and so good!
I usually get some form of Progresso vegetable soup every day, a fruit at lunch and another for afternoon snack, and a veg for dinner. One or two nights a week I'll have a big salad. I probably don't get FIVE servings. I need to focus on hitting that number! Since fruits and veg are 0 points, there is really no excuse for not getting the full quota.
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Post by ladymajky on Jan 7, 2017 0:24:52 GMT
I've been using TJ's riced cauliflower and riced broccoli to get in some extra veggies and fiber in lieu of starches/added carbs...I don't really care for them though, I prefer both of those veggies either steamed in pieces or roasted. Has anyone else been using those riced veggies and do you like them? Last week I found Birdseye riced cauliflower in the frozen food department at Walmart. It's a new product. They had plain cauliflower, and also several other riced products. I haven't tried it yet. |
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Post by linda72 on Jan 7, 2017 0:45:12 GMT
surfgirl I tried both riced cauliflower and broccoli but we didn't care for either one. They were very convenient but the flavor or texture bothered me. I do better to just steam them and eat them that way. I like the cauliflower roasted but DH didn't so I don't roast those. 
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