[CAT] Scratching Post

[Wunderschlung]

Wunder, I need some tips man. I'm trying to eat (A LOT) more healthily with an eye on losing some excess fat but I really struggle in the supermarket. I end up wandering round thinking "what the fuck am I gonna eat?!". In the end I end up eating shit loads of pasta, rice and potatoes which while might be low in fat ends up loading up on the carbs which, as I understand it, isn't too good unless you're training full time.

Now I know the drill - Veggies and fish but I need to translate that into tasty, simple and quick meals.

I figured id post them as they came to me in real life, rather than dreaming them up....
Please contribute, been wanting a food thread for time. Trying to focus on the healthy and less on the gourmet mainly.

Bean salad. Made this the other day, very cheap, very quick, very easy, very healthy.

Several tins of various beans, make sure to rinse the beans as there will be shit loads of salt and crap in all those tins.

Butter beans.
Soya beans.
Kidney beans.
Chick peas.
Go nuts with any kind of beans, chuck some sweetcorn in.

Rinse and drain those bad boys.
Make a basic vinaigrette dressing.
Bit of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, i put in garlic and chopped mint, chilli would work in there too.
Mix that up, toss it with the beans.
Done.
Made a big bowlful that lasted a few days, cost around 2 pounds i reckon. Works well as a straightforward light meal or snack, or a great as a side with something else.
Beans should be a primary food source, we are hunter gatherers, who would gather (beans) more than they would hunt (meat).
Its good shit compared to pasta, potatoes etc, as its got plenty of fibre and protein, not just energy.

Already troughed it so no photo, looked a lot like this though:



Made me fart for days, bonus!

[Spandex]

I hate beans.

I might have to start forcing stuff like this down me though cos there's little really healthy stuff I do like.

Satay chicken kebabs and rice tonight.

[DickSchittlippz]

Chicken Tikka Masala tonight.

Oh, that's not helping, is it?

[Wunderschlung]

I dont understand the curry thing. When you buy a proper one in a restaurant or take away, its hugely calorific. I thinkits the clarified butter (ghee) that it swims in.
If i make one at home, its pretty healthy food. I use a curry paste or some powders for the main flavour, tomatoes to bulk out the sauce and dont pour in litres of ghee.

So id call home made curry pretty decent food, but a bought one is rammed with energy.
Guess you could say the same with home made burgers etc, grilled piece of meat is kinda healthy. Grilled piece of meat from Mcdonalds.....quite the opposite.

[DickSchittlippz]

Any time you eat restaurant food, you are piling on extra food energy. Unless you're at some faggot vegan place my rabbit might like.

Eating as little prepared or prepackaged food as possible is key. Making time to cook can be hard sometimes, though.

[Vadar]

Turkish hot spicy rural sausages with reich, T'night.

I avoid beans whenever possible..

[Spandex]

Yeah curry isn't too bad. Avoid the coconut ones too.

Oh and naan bread. Apparently that's REALLY bad.

[DickSchittlippz]

I wonder if it's the naan that's bad, or if that's the fault of the garlic butter it usually comes bathed in. Mmmm, and I love vegetable korma, but I think korma is a coconut sauce.

I loved that platter we got at that fancy curry place with the big heaping piles of naan and various sauces and chutneys to dip them in. Mmmm. None of the local places have anything like that. There's an Ethiopian restaurant in Vancouver that does a similar thing. you get a big pile of a naan-like bread and all kinds of vegetable curries and chutneys to dip in. Kind of funny eating at an Ethiopian restaurant, though. It's hard to lose the irony of eating the cuisine of a nation that can't feed itself.

[Spandex]

That one we went to is still easily my fave Indian in Manchester and we have 100's maybe 1000's of them. I'm gonna have to go again soon, that lamb and chicken thing is fuckin magic.

[DickSchittlippz]

We'll have to go there again on my next visit. I had only recently started eating Indian cuisine the first time we went there. I didn't really know more than one or two "safe" dishes. I'm more experienced now, and I'd like to try some more adventurous stuff at such a kickass restaurant.

[Spandex]

Fo shizzle

[DickSchittlippz]

Right, so we've made plans for a big curry pigout in Wunder's healthy food thread. What's next, dessert? I know a place where you can get 47 types of cheesecake.

[Spandex]

Yeah, still need healthy recipies here!

[Wunderschlung]

I better be invited to the curry fest in Mancland.
You'd be best served coming down South though, as a reformed Northerner, there is more stuff in a smaller radius down South.

Ive not been to Bath yet (bout an hour away, may go before xmas for a day or so), and as a Cestrian it seems like sacrilege.
Is described as an open air museum.

[Spandex]

I've spent a lot of time in Bath. Tis a lovely city. Real sense of history combined with a good student population (one of the things that makes Manchester great). Not really eaten out in Bath though. We'd have somewhere to stay in Bath so it'd be a good place for a meet.

I've eaten out in dozens and dozens of places in Manchester and still have barely scraped the surface.