rolling nutrition nazis 2010

a new year for nutrition fascism

So psyched to get back home and on the nazi wagon!

http://pohdiskeleva.liftari.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/nazi_trash.thumbnail.gif

Is that a freegan taking a gingerbread swastika out of the bin?

also excited to get back home and back to normal. diet at parents' house not so bad right now, but somehow i'm doing a LOT more drinking, which is a very unexpected development.

trader joe's had 0 leafy green vegetables :(
must have missed a shipment bc of holiday?

root vegetables are hot in 2010

There is you'll agree a certain je ne se quoi oh so very special about a firm young carrot

oh, you make me blush, sir!

are you beet red?

you might want to arm yourself with a peeler.

wash that carrot first.

how much exercise should one be doing per day? i'm currently doing 20-30 minutes before the day starts but feel i should up it.

cardio or weights?

cardio

i'd recommend 45 minutes at least

cheers duke

Any NN tips for fighting a cold? Also, is it healthier to stay in or go out when you feel crappy? If I stay in I feel like I'm getting a deficit of fresh air, but if I go out I feel like I may just make myself worse.

Small NN victory yesterday: I stopped in Cold Stone Creamery to get a strawberry milkshake, saw that the smallest version was 900 calories, and walked back out.

sometimes I try to sweat it out but that usually only helps temporarily. I say take vitamins and rest as much as your schedule will allow, get lots of fluids and don't overdo it (or drink milkshakes).

if you do workout regularly, some light cardio can quicken getting rid of a cold

load up on the vitamin C, water, and sleep!

cutty otm

Man, I'm feeling good about myself (and feeling pretty good too) about avoiding any conspicuously processed sugar today. Just needed a place to tell people that. Peace.

my son, this is the place where you confess these feelings to us. go forth without shame.

except that i time i really wanted a kitkat and was made to feel v. shameful

can you explain what conspicuously processed sugar is?

this thread is for shaming too

i've always taken a daily vitamin, centrum...but someone told me that centrum type vitamins don't really do anything for you and are a waste of money...basically said you need to buy really expensive vitamins..

true/false?

yesterday's meals:

sweet potato and zucchini, steamed broccoli, and field roast vegan chili from whole foods. dinner: vegan duck curry at a thai joint.

lunch today:

chickpeas in a very mildly sweet and slightly sour sauce over rice, almond crackers with an herbed cashew and sun dried tomato spread. also: an apple.

no shame when you avoid sugar, shame when kitkat is your only option for a meal

heard this crazy dude dr ted on radio this morning say: drinking caffeine and working out over 45 min at a time both make your brain stress out and produce cortisol, aspartame turns into paint thinner in your body (i always heard it was wood alcohol is that the same thing?), men can drink alcohol, but it gives women breast cancer, etc.

any opinions on vitamin d? seen some paleos rec massive doses and its supposed to prevent colds, heart disease.

just checking in here:

where do the nazis stand on wheat bread? I've been told that ezekiel bread is basically the only kind I should eat, but I hate it.

ezekiel- the only kind of bread I should eat, it's not wheat obv.

on a mountain and the only thing to eat is cheese

ezekiel has wheat in it. it's a sprouted grain bread, which is better than a refined flour but nazis do not approve of wheat/bread at all afaik.

they make a wheat-free one, it's just a brand name

oh i have not seen that!

cheese is fine on a mountain

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i don't know if it's sprouted though if that's what you were talking about, i just think i've seen it

um, that one has wheat! and it is sprouted! i've had it before.
maybe they have a wheat free variety, you are saying?

right, not that one. another one.

i have some rice almond bread in my freezer. it is kinda shit.

yeah i used to eat only sprouted bread, but i can't really afford it right now. its good if you toast it! the ezekiel brand (forget the name) makes wheat free bread, but its not sprouted and prob not as good for you imo. it doesn't taste like bread at all its sweat and sort of cake like?

also manna bread is awesome -> http://fitnessnyc.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/cinnanmon_date_manna_bread_productlarge.gif

meant "sweet" not sweat

i think sprouted bread is really good too. it has a lot more texture.

you can eat wheat bread if youve eaten all your fruits/veges/nuts/proteins and still need calories/carbs for some reason

i used to like the sprouted bread toasted!
but now i don't even really think about bread at all.
cad, it's better to eat something wholer than bread if you're looking for more carbs imo.
like a potato. nom.

I've been avoiding the nightshades per previous thread, sore knees much improved, but came home to find stewed tomatoes and beans per chili. Heard the tomatoes are OK if cooked, just bad for inflammation if raw. Opinions?

Ps thanks harbl for the bread info will check this thing out. WF has the Ezekiel. I get their Berlin Bakery sprouted spelt bread, ingredients spelt, water, honey (ugh), yeast. sea salt. No wheat. From WF for those who must have bread. Doesn't keep though, no preservatives. Cutty I only eat two thin slices every 3 days or so, jeez.

spelt is wheat!

If you have too much kale after making your kale recipes- you can blanch it. You know- boil a big pot of water,submerge chopped kale in veggie steamer basket for 2 minutes, take kale and basket and put in bowl of ice water, squeeze. You can freeze it then or put in saver-ware with some A+ vietnamese fish sauce and heat up later. Great base for other great food. A lot of kale cooks down to a very small amount this way and you can eat it all.

I have to get back into Mustard Greens. Been hitting the Baby Spinach pretty hard lately because of the ease of making a salad with it. I've had homemade soup every night for the last week so tonight it's off the wagon with a steak.

So here's an easy soup (most soups are ridic easy)

one lb of frozen fish (I used Tilpia- on sale for $4)
8 redskin potatoes
chopped onion
chopped celery
"matchstick" carrots
peas
lemon
one bunch of parsley
bottle of clam juice

cook onion and celery in stock (I use premade stock or boullion for ease) for like 20 minutes
throw in diced potatoes and clam juice and cook for 15 minutes
add the rest (slice fish into chunks) and cook for another 15 minutes

xp yeah that loose-leaf baby spinach is just so easy. and delicious.

they have 100% quinoa bread near me, it costs $$$ and weighs even more. still sortof want to try it.

I prefer the more flavorful adult spinach, but not raw. I rip the ribs out and cook it down in a pan with sliced garlic and (gasp) a little butter. Salt, pepper, lemon. Could eat five days a week. The only problem is that an entire bag of spinach barely serves two adults for one meal.

baby spinach is so expensive here :(

discovered today that whole foods sells those giant things of baby spinach $2 cheaper than the other grocery stores. starting to think i need to shop at wf more often bc a few weeks ago i discovered their kale is also cheaper!

i make these smoothies that are basically just a ton of kale w/bananas, almond milk, OJ, organic frozen blueberries, organic frozen strawberries, and a little bit of almond butter. pretty epic.

that sounds like ultimate smoothie

had to drop out of the lunch co-op. as much as i maintained my commitment to cooking healthy dishes to share, there were too many pastas, cheese, and wheat items from others. i felt so bloated. back to spinach salads. i feel better already! but i'm kind of annoyed with myself that i fell so far off the wagon O_o did not gain any weight, but i just felt gross.

yeah i've been creeping back onto secret cheese and pasta lately and it doesn't leave one feeling particularly good afterwards..

i was ready to bail, but i think the tipping point was when i asked a coworker what was in the enchiladas he brought and he revealed he didn't know because he hadn't actually made them. this week, he brought pizza.

Just joined an organic fruit/veg delivery service thing. Excited!

OK I fell off after inheriting panini-maker but that now firmly past. Steamed then iced yellow beets, kale, zucchini (in that order of time steaming). Squoze in strainer til it looked like a flower when opened. Viet fish sauce and the A+ BELA portguese sardines now available at local WF and on sale 3 for $5, highly recommended. A+ and thanx for the inspiration.

picked up some of those sardines on your rec. curious to try them. they were 2/$4 here and they only had lemon or marinara ones left, no plain, but i figure lemon will be ok. and my wf finally has wild planet sardines!

The lemon BELA sardines work good on some sauteed or blanched greens with a bit of the lemony oil drizzled + pepper. No additional dressing for the greenz needed. I got every kind b/c I didn't want to empty the shelves of the basic in case some other sardinian came shopping.

Supposedly those sardines are tinned within 8 hours, not flash-frozen so less fishy. I usually like brislings,these are big and minus heads/tails but A+ IMO.

i've been pretty bad lately but it's been a weird couple of months

football tailgates killin me here

yeah football season means nervous wing eating

also brats, god I love them

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html?_r=1&hp

smdh

i put a raw beet in my kale smoothie because i wanted it to be purple :)

<3

How did it taste? Did it come out more brown than purple?

i have been such a bad nazi lately

like srsly the worst

I am still NN-ing it up, but due to some crazy vacationing and being in weddings and stuff I feel as though I have become more lax. Also, it's fucking cold out and having a smoothie in the morning no longer sounds appealing. It may be oatmeal time!

the beet smoothie was definitely purple. beets seem to overpower whatever other gross color is in anything. it tasted ok, a little too much earthy beet taste but i would do it again. it also had strawberries, blueberries, and half an apple in addition to the kale.

this is good to know! i made a spinach and berry one once that was definitely more greenish brown than purple.

i have also been bad. better now that i'm not doing lunch co-op anymore, but still not back to my strict old ways :(

jesus i have been eating poorly lately.

tonight, tho:

-tempeh, shiitake, and broccoli sauteed in toasted sesame oil (strong!) and soy sauce, splashed with stock, few shots of sriracha, dusting of black sesame seeds, and served over braised and shocked kale

yum!

beets seem to overpower whatever other gross color is in anything.

including feces, themoreyouknow.gif

i love them

let's ramp up the nazi-ism! RESIST HOLIDAY EATING EVERYONE

I went my NN kick slightly for two months and gained four pounds, but after two weeks of nazi-ism THEY ARE GONE. THE POWER OF NUTRITION!

I went OFF my NN kick, I meant to say.

Not completely, but I indulged in some truffle aioli fries one too many times :(

Tonight I am preparing my first meal in the OMG VITA-MIX.

Dunno if it fully qualifies for NN but it involves roasted butternut squash and sweet potato, half an orange, some coconut milk, and red curry paste. Oh and I can chuck in some cilantro, too.

But hey VITA-MIX!

sounds pretty NN to me!

how much did that V-Mix set you back?
Arent they like 400 bucks? I sooooo want one but I am settling for a new Kitchenaid for x-mas.

Russian kale for dinner last night -nomnomnom

Quincie, I too am cooking with butternut squash and sweet potato tonight! But no Vitamix. Still, nice that DC will be fragrant with squash-like cookery.

OK so I didn't really thin out my mixture to soup consistency so what I ate was pretty much butternut squash sweet potato curry baby food but it was damn good!

Mandy the VM was like o_O expensive even when scored at discount on ebay, but I had really mulled over it for a while and decided to go for it. I do not spend much on music or clothes or going out, etc., but splurge on big-ticket cooking items. Love my Kitchenaid, and I'm sure you will, too!

Tomorrow a.m. I am going to chuck some celery and carrot and pineapple and ice in the machine and see what happens. That's pretty damn NN iirc.

any thoughts on oat milk instead of almond?

super sugary iirc

went full nazi for nov to dec and combined it w/gym, just so I could ~indulge~ a bit over the holibags

fully intend to get back on the bike and go full nazi again in '11 tho

La lechera was asking many posts back about nutritional label makers:

http://www.shopncook.com/nutritionFactsLabel.html

Ugh wrong thread

i saw it!
it looks like it makes a label if you have and input all of the nutritional info
what i would like is a label generator into which i can plug a homemade recipe and it will tell me what the breakdown of nutrients is. could such a thing exist?

Yes! It's a program you buy from that site for 200 bucks

It has a free 45 day trial

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp