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Recipes, Food Tips, Healthy Eating & More
Some of the members of the Gratitude Discussion Group were interested in having a place to share recipes and food ideas. I’m hoping that we can use this thread as a place to have that kind of discussion. I’d love to hear your ideas for quick meals, comfort food, healthy snacks, and more.
Personally, I’ve just been through a bad reaction to one of my medications that left me with a very queasy stomach. I would love to hear ideas – or recipes – that might be used when you need to get something on your stomach, but don’t want to overdo it.
Hopefully, this thread will even be a place where we can share recipes for special treats and yummy rewards. It doesn’t always have to be healthy!
I’d love to hear from members who have been part of other discussions AND from new members who have good ideas, recipes and food tips to share. I’m excited to see who might start us off here with an awesome food suggestion!
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Merry @merpreb - if you are working up your courage for tofu, try it at a nice restaurant with a creative chef first. Read reviews. I had a tofu dish at Zambra's in Asheville, NC that was one of the best tapas I've ever had. I think it was called crispy tofu with harissa, honey and hummus. OMG. Of course, that set the bar pretty high and I've never been able to do that at home! But at least I know I can enjoy tofu.
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2 Reactions@Erinmfs I love cherries too, and the season is way too short. I have been buying the rainier cherries, the red ones here haven't looked really ripe yet.
I have read that they are a good snack before bed. Something in them helps with falling asleep. I haven't tested that because I take a pill at night that I need to not eat for 3 or 4 hours before taking it.
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1 Reaction@lioness I have never had perch and also will not purchase tilapia. It's all farmed and that's not very healthy. YUCK.
@paulalina @merpreb I made a stew once that had firm tofu cubes in it. As soon as we took out those cubes it was delicious.
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2 Reactions@imallears Now that you mention it, I did know that putting vinegar on fish and chips was an English thing. I am of Irish heritage but even my grandparents were born in this country -- they must have been on the first ships over here! My mother did like Welsh Rarebit, and corned beef and cabbage but I don't even know what bubble and squeak is, and we only had chicken livers, which I do like.
We also had lots of butter and eggs but in my family, most people did not make it into their 70s.
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@imallears I've never heard of Mt. Prospect, where is that?
I was in a ski lodge (a bunch of single people rented a house at Killington) for four years and learned to ski there. My son is always perplexed that we skied so many areas when he was young but never to Killington! I think it was simply a "been there, done that". We did most of the other major ski areas in VT, Maine, and NH with the kids during their February vacations.
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@imallears I eat filet mignon (tenderloin steak) and my husband eats sirloin. I eat it because it has much less fat than sirloin, and rib eye is very fatty, lots of marbling, which of course is what makes it so tasty. I can't afford to eat all of that fat though and I rarely even buy it for my husband. I'm afraid if I did he would always want it but I do worry about the fat.
@debbraw I thought just about all of the shrimp in this country came in frozen, except if you are near the gulf and then they may actually be fresh. Most of the shrimp in the supermarkets is from Asia. I try to buy wild American shrimp when it is available, but I have only seen that frozen.
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@contentandwell So some salmon so if its cheap in price it is usually farmed raised
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2 Reactions@imallears, @lioness- You probably won't see perch again. First you can only kill fish once and secondly we have global warming and lakes, rivers and oceans have all changed in temperature, mineral content and food. (for other fish). Sad, but true.
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1 ReactionJK- A small amount of perch are farmed. You do have to be careful
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Hi,
It’s Prospect Mountain, not Mt Prospect ..my error and not far from Bennington. We rented a large house with other skiers and I remember sleeping in a dorm style room in the girls section and having to share one bathroom. We all ate at an amazing bed and breakfast type place where they just heaped on the food and the owners came out to our tables to make sure we were all eating enough.
I use to cut classes to ski when we were in college but sometimes we got caught in a snowstorm and couldn’t get back on time.
Still a small resort even after the college years so I think it was fairly new back then. It was less crowded than Killington which is why we liked it.
Wish it was snowing now......FL Mary
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