Chris

Diet like "things I eat", not diet like "I'm on a".  I don't go on diets.

1) Baking

I made granola bars yesterday, with rosefox helping.  There were one or two things that I literally could not do (or couldn't do enough of), as one with arms that're sore due to work and stupidity.  Apart from that, baking was enough of a success to where I actually emailed R to see if we could try doing it more often.  With simple things, not like restaurant-grade professional stuff.

That started out largely because I realised at some point that I need to eat better/more, and one thing that helps are the Luna Toasted Nuts 'n' Cranberry bars.  So, I figured I'd try making some myself, to see what it was like.

Alas, I didn't bring one to work, because I totally spaced.  Maybe I'll try one tonight.

2) Cooking

I made steamed broccoli the other day with use of a steamer.  How the hell long have I lived with a steamer on the premises, and never realised that I, myself, I could use it to make food?  And then I found other things I could steam, like Brussels sprouts, baby corn, spinach, potatoes, and so forth.  Make a mixed thing of that, make jasmine rice at the same time, et voila: actual food!

I can't stress this enough: Brussels sprouts all the time.

3) Diet

I've been considering converting to a vegetarian* diet more frequently recently.  This is largely because meat has become really boring lately.  Specifically, if I eat chicken even once more, I'm going to die.  I can have really flavourful rice'n'beans with green beans, or... chicken?  Fie.

* Or "lacto-ovo-vegetarian", I think the full phrasing is.

Note: I didn't ask for ways to make chicken more fun, but thank you.

The things that have stopped me from converting to veggie-cat before: sheer laziness, and health concerns.  (There's also convenience, in that I don't care for spicy foods or certain veggies, which will limit me more, but I mean I don't go outside.  So whatever.)  Steaming takes care of the convenience; if quick-dinner means jasmine rice and baby corn, well, gosh.

For health, there's iron and there's protein.  The whole protein and veg*ns issue isn't that much of an issue, apparently.  So long as I eat more than crap each day, I should be fine.  For iron, I mostly worry because it's not uncommon for me to have to do two rounds of anemia-validating for blood donation, or to have to come back later anyhow.  So long as I meat a variety of things, again, I should be fine.

So, let's see how this-all works out.

Two things.

(1) Food-things are annoying and difficult in two ways.

(a) I dislike food and having to eat and cooking.  Thankfully, most of my friends and folk are not pressury about this; unthankfully, a whole lot of foodies can be.  "Have you tried a crockpot?"

It's not the advice that necessarily gets to me, it's the idea these people seem to have that I have clearly just not [tried/done/used] $thing; if I did, I would totally like cooking.

I don't like to cook, I don't like to eat, and I don't like a lot of foods.  Leave me be.  And if you pity me, which if you're a foodie you probably do, do it in your head.

(b) ...except sometimes, I totally have a craving to cook some particular dish, and subsequently eat it.  Like slightly al dente pasta, olive oil, pesto, and peas.  I read that yesterday, and that abruptly sounds yummy.

Clearly, I should find some sort of recipes holder DB, and put "things I've ever liked" in it, so I can flip through when I'm in one of my quarterly cooking moods.

(2) I forgot.  I did have something, but I forget.

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I can't remember if one should ease into this elimination diet thing, or if one should leap into it.  Regardless, I'm torn between doing an e-diet straight, or stealing recipes in order to form better eating habits.

Regardless, this weekend, I'm going to try my hand at making a big batch of smoothies and this one kind of banana bread, for breakfast.

I have no idea why this interests me, given how little I like food.

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I think what I'll do is continue to put [topic] in the subject line, for my most common groupings of topics I plan to lj-cut (geekstuff, knitstuff, gymstuff, &c), just because it's easier for me to find.

I just gave myself a project, it seems.  *amused*  But, I'm pleased - less filter management for me means more time doing other things.

( Gymliness. )

I cooked.  I made burritos.  Chicken, and refried beans, and fried rice, and peas.  Enough for four burritos.

Things I learned:

a) Make sure the tortilla container is all the way closed next time.  (They were 1/3 stale.)
b) I don't know how on earth people make good-looking burritos.
c) That only took about 30 minutes, and that's entirely because I didn't time things right.

I am not defensive about their blandness or non-perfectness, because they are mine, and they are for going in my belly.

Clearly, this calls for beer.

Next time, I am going to try to make a stir-fry, with thankees to moominmolly for suggesting yummy things that I find yummy.

And next time for burritos, maybe put in crunchy bright things, too.

Today has turned out to be a day, much like days tend to be, that being, units of time.

I've had a bad headache for most of it, because I fell into the trap of weekend sleep == sleeping in.  This is objectively incorrect.

But, I followed my list, and I am feeling better.  (Caffeine, water, food, shower, no music, painkiller, and sleep if I must.)  I like lists, sometimes.

Today, I'll be trying out cooking sausage and sprouts together.  I may make something on the side, but doubtful.  Fried in butter, because mmm.  Further input welcome, but I think I should do fine.

I'm making soup for myself, and I'm frying up boneless skinless chicken breasts before dunking them in the soup.  I'm frying them in olive oil, with some black pepper and salt.

It totally, entirely, 100%ically smells like baking cookies.

I am so confused.