Something crazy you've started to eat, or at least tried!

boots · 09-11-2010, 05:02 PM

Okay so I became a vegetarian about 8 months ago and then I went on a full health kick to permanently change my lifestyle. I decided I wanted to live longer, healthier and a fuller life.

Consequently, a lot of the things I use to eat have been removed from my diet. I eat a lot of beans, sweet potatoes, quinoa, soymilk, tuna and hummos and taboulle (that I buy premade at Costco :P ) as well as increasing the amount of V8 I drink and fresh apples. I've recently cut gluten almost entirely out of my diet for a variety of reasons.

But, some weird things that I've tried:

I eat the taboulle and hummos in the same spoon with quinoa, the taboulle adds flavor to both of the more bland things and I don't have to eat either with a pita or any other form of less healthy carbs. Success!

Tuna + oatmeal. I was trying a lower carb, gluten-free method of eating Tuna. this was a complete and total FAIL! I don't know what I was thinking when I attempted this.....

My son apparently decided to be inspired and insisted that applesauce was a reasonable substitute for jelly after we ran out of jelly for PB & Jelly sandwiches. He claims its delicious. But he's also only four years old.

Peanutbutter + Oatmeal. Not my idea, but something my nutritionist taught me that sounded weird at the time. Now is one of my most favorite breakfasts. If you do this, MEASURE THE PEANUTBUTTER CAREFULLY!!!

I add chopped onions, boiled eggs and tomatoes to just about everything (except oatmeal, I stopped doing that because they were also in the Tuna-oatmeal fail experiment....)

I've found 1 or 2 boiled eggs added to any meal really fills me up and staves off my hunger.

Anyways, what crazy stuff have you tried successfully or unsuccessfully in your healthy dieting experiences? I'm curious! Tuna + oatmeal has by far been my worst failure!

lilmissPope · 09-11-2010, 05:22 PM

Tuna and oatmeal sounds like the most disgusting thing EVER. wow. I truly cant believe you put yourself through that!!!!!

I have tried the stinky fishy smelling pasta substitute.. i think its made of tofu or something... I forget. it actually wasn't very bad but had a weird texture.

I am not the most adventurous person, so I dont have very many weird combinations to share!

But I did attempt to make healthy oatmeal cookies.. whole wheat flour, oatmeal, applesauce, vanilla extract, baking soda + powder and egg whites.... These cookies were more like big oatmeal blobs... no sugar or butter.. not very tasty, but also not bad.

FreeSpirit · 09-11-2010, 05:33 PM

I love peanut butter in my oatmeal!!

Avocados and tomatoes... I guess it's not crazy, but I used to HATE them.

I guess I don't really eat anything weird.

devadiva · 09-11-2010, 05:34 PM

I put bee pollen wheat germ and ground flax seed with my oatmeal.

Katherine1103 · 09-11-2010, 05:37 PM

i'm ALWAYS looking for ice cream substitutes (because it's my absolute favorite food but i have no control once i start eating it!) and i've found that if you slice up bananas, freeze them, and then put them in the food processor, they have a similar consistency. i should try them with peanut butter...

swtbttrfly23 · 09-11-2010, 05:44 PM

I once mixed some feta and some greek yogurt and tried to eat it with celery sticks. Something with the combo of flavors just made it awful! And maybe I could have seasoned it better, but it was just one big bitter-salty-weirdly creamy disasters. I've had cream cheese and blue cheese on celery before, and that I love, but this never version sucked.

Boots, kudos to you!

Number8 · 09-11-2010, 09:05 PM

this week is feta week. I put it in a tuna sandwich and it was win -on all green things it's win. I also love humus and throw it on everything, Greek salad with humus is great!
I've also started grilling everything- grilled eggplant, and zucchini with humus - ooo maybe I can throw some tuna on that too!
Also squash broth for soups- just boil the guts out of it with some puree red peppers- yum!.

boots · 09-11-2010, 09:41 PM

hmmmmm! I'm excited to try out the banana pretend ice cream!

And where and how do I do this broth thing? The stupid V8 squash soups are like 3 bucks for a stupid little box! But that sounds SO YUMMY Number8, how do you do this at home????

60lbstogo · 09-11-2010, 09:54 PM

Ok, this isn't very crazy... but I just made myself some flaxseed crackers.

And they have 100% whole wheat flour and wheat bran. It's nothing crazy... but I just improvised the recipe. Much to my surprise, they turned out amazing and I am LOVING THEM!

(I only ate two today, though... I don't want to load up on carbs).

Number8 · 09-12-2010, 06:23 PM

I'm lazy so I only cook easy things. I cut a squash in half put it in half an inch of water in an oven pot and bake it until it's soft.
In the meantime I'll chop up some red pepper, onion, and mushrooms fry it in some chicken stock or water (I avoid oil)
When it's all done I'll throw it all in the blender with a bit of cinnamon,ginger, salt and pepper,
Sometimes I throw yams in it. I just bake them with the squash. If it's too thick I just add more water or chicken stock.

rainbowstripe · 09-12-2010, 06:46 PM

Not crazy for other people, but for me, it's huge! I've never been much of a fruit eater - if my mum made blueberry muffins I wouldn't eat them because of the colour and the taste of the blueberries that infiltrated the muffins. Name a fruit, I probably don't eat it. But that is slowly changing! I have started including frozen blueberries in my banana smoothies! I've been eating canned peaches almost every second day (the not-in-syrup ones). I'm making it my goal for the coming summer (southern hemisphere) to start enjoying strawberries!

Aclai4067 · 09-12-2010, 07:07 PM

Some of these aren't so crazy, but they were all 100% new to me
Tried: Okra, Lemon Cucumber, Quince, some obscure type of eggplant (forgot the name), Pomegrante (sure I'd had pom flavored things and pom juice, but I had to try the actual fruit), Jicama, Spaghetti Squash

Eat: Ostrich, Agave Nectar, Kale, Broccollini (also goes by brocollette and aspiration), Zuccini

oodlesofnoodles · 09-12-2010, 07:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aclai4067

Some of these aren't so crazy, but they were all 100% new to me
Tried: Okra, Lemon Cucumber, Quince, some obscure type of eggplant (forgot the name), Pomegrante (sure I'd had pom flavored things and pom juice, but I had to try the actual fruit), Jicama, Spaghetti Squash

Eat: Ostrich, Agave Nectar, Kale, Broccollini (also goes by brocollette and aspiration), Zuccini

you eat ostriches? But they're so cute....

Hmmm well I used to never eat veggies, and now I love them. One weird thing I eat all the time is boiled cabbage with mustard on it. My boyfriend and his family think I'm a freak but it's really goooood.

I've tried some weird stuff too, including making my own buffalo dipping sauce out of light sour cream and buffalo sauce. I guess I'm not extremely dangerous when it comes to food because I HATE wasting food but I hate eating crappy creations too lol.

junebug41 · 09-12-2010, 07:30 PM

Spinach in my smoothies is something that always makes people's mouths drop. I'm always happy to convert someone

Juices. I make a lot of juices and use a lot of different combos that a few years ago would've made me gag. They are delicious (to me).

Aclai4067 · 09-12-2010, 08:12 PM

Oh, I forgot Blood Oranges (they have another name too, which I forgot. Starts with an M). Sure I'd had navel oranges, clemintines, tangerines, etc. But I tried blood oranges for the first time last winter and they're better than candy (and this girl likes her candy)!

I've also tried the green smoothies, I used a spring mix instead of just spinach. As far as the ostrich, yes, they are cute. So are cows, but I'm not going vegetarian anytime soon (or probably ever). But ostrich (when prepared well*) tastes like beef and has fewer calories/less fat than chicken.
*When overcooked tastes like rubber! Best served medium-rare.