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Food Stuff: Healthy Desserts
BlazeFire
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I have recently started being more conscious about my eating habits and exercise. The summer is here, I have a job, no homework, and lots of free time on my hands. I've started running. A sticky spot for me at the moment is that even after supper, I am still hungry. For instance, I had a plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce and parmesan cheese. Within an hour I was hungry again, craving something sweet in specific.
This isn't a rare occurrence. It happens almost every night. I try eating some yogurt or dried prunes but some variety would be nice.
What do you guys eat for dessert/after supper snacks that aren't too bad for your health?
This isn't a rare occurrence. It happens almost every night. I try eating some yogurt or dried prunes but some variety would be nice.
What do you guys eat for dessert/after supper snacks that aren't too bad for your health?
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If you are meat-free, eat a handful of nuts about 20-30 minutes before dinner.
If you still crave a sweet thing after dinner, shop for some puddings. There are a wide variety of 100cal puddings with a good variety.
For healthy snacks, I like to keep baby carrots in the fridge. Just the bagged ones. The texture is perfect for snacking, with a satisfying crunch.
In the summertime, I cut up bananas into slices and freeze them. A little while before I want a snack, I get some out to defrost just enough so they separate. Just don't let them thaw. They'll cool you right down, and the texture and flavor is similar to vanilla ice cream as they melt in your mouth.
Tomatoes on the vine are great, too. I just wash 'em off and eat them like apples.
I get tired of yogurt but I may try throwing some grape nuts in and give that a try. It actually sounds really good right now.
Puddings are another thing I hadn't considered. Never ate them as a kid but I tend to like them. I'll check that out.
The fruits thing, I agree with. Grapes and mellons and all that sort of stuff. The problem is I throw them in the crisper so as not to get smooshed by other food and I forget they're in there. I have a cantaloupe and some grapes in there right now and I forgot about it until now.
I'm not sure if I get enough water. I always have a 16oz glass around when I'm at home but I am always thirsty anyways. When I'm at work I have a water bottle with me all the time too. I'd like to think I could tell the difference between being hungry and thirsty though.
Thanks for the ideas so far!
The best method seems to be 5 or 6 small meals throughout the day. You won't ever really feel hungry, you will eat less food because you won't gorge, overall the better way to go. Also, it is a better way to get in all of the different nutrients you need. Simply because you don't have to try to cram 5 servings of grain, fruit, vegetables, protein, or whatever into 3 meals.
Breakfast is usually two or three eggs cooked various ways, usually scrambled. Sometimes with some toast and a glass of milk. Other times it is a bagel with some cream cheese. Or two slices of toast with cheese whiz.
Lunch, now that I have a set work time is usually a sandwich with some tomato, cucumber, cheese, mayo, slice of cheese and some meat. Been taking an apple along with this sandwich.
Then I come home and usually have a muffin. Make supper around 6 or 7. Steak with steamed frozen veggies, spaghetti and sauce like tonight, maybe pizza.
I walk to school where I work so caring a ton of food to eat throughout the day seems hard.
My eating habits have been kind of messed up since I was younger though. My family owns a restaurant so I was never really taught proper eating habits. My family is also greek, so we generally eat a lot of food. Portion sizes are something I can't get behind. I can eat an entire pizza in one sitting and maybe feel full at the end. My stomach is a bottomless pit.
There is delicious out there. And they have a vitamin or two in them as well.
Is your urine usually clear? It should be if you're getting enough water.
It's also possible if you have a lot of sweet stuff and simple carbohydrates like pasta in your diet, that the hunger pangs are your body's response to sharp spikes in blood sugar. Cutting down on sugars, eating wheat instead of white bread, and exercising some portion control when eating pasta, along with maybe adding a bit of olive oil to help slow down the glycemic load, could help here.
I know you have sweet cravings (and I'm most certainly sympathetic), but you might also try supplementing your dinner with a salad beforehand, or other such dishes. If you don't have healthy dressings sitting around, you can always make a decent one with olive oil and different vinegars, such as balsamic and red wine.
Hm, just read your last post. Decreasing your portion size will eventually keep you from needing as much at each sitting. Try breaking your meals up into smaller portions throughout the day. I know that's hard, but you can do stuff like making more sandwhiches, cutting them into smaller sizes, then having midday meals of that and something like a banana and a granola bar. Since you have a busy schedule it's important to bring things that are compact and sturdy.
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Tofu and other soy products contain oestrogen, but I don't think there would be a billion and a half Chinese people if moderate soy consumption in adults posed any real danger to masculinity and reproductive health.
When I have kids, no way am I giving them soy milk to drink. But we could have a whole thread about the way hormones introduced artificially into other foods have affected entire generations.
I changed it a little bit...I'll eat up to a block of tofu in a meal on a regular basis, and I haven't noticed any newfound interests. I guess I shouldn't have gone for humour when most people are so dodgy about tofu already.
I reread that as "I'll eat up to a cock of tofu..." Oh well.
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Anyway, here's a good recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_17135,00.html?rsrc=search
http://www.precisionnutrition.com/desserts.html
Personal Favorite: lemon cheesecake
NUTRITION INFORMATION
(per serving)
Calories 324 kcal
Protein 57 g
Carbohydrate 8 g
Fat 7.1 g
Saturated 2.4 g
Monounsaturated 3.4 g
Polyunsaturated 1.3 g
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