Laura that recipe looks delicious!!! I can't wait to try it .

I love miso too...but I have a real problem with sodium and water retention so I have to limit myself when it comes to those kinds of things. I'm a big fan of "big food" too. I love all you can eat salad bars...there is something so satisfying about loading up my plate and knowing that that it is all low calorie and sooo healthy. Lately I've been eating a lot of spaghetti squash with lots of low cal tomato sauce and parmesan cheese. I've been getting into all the winter squashes actually. Acorn/ butternut squash with splenda, cinnamon, and spray butter is a filling meal and satisfies my sweets craving...which I've been struggling with a lot lately! I also do lots and lots of soups. I usually make at least 1 huge pot of veggie soup over the weekend to have on hand during the week for emergency food. This week I made a bean soup which was of course higher in calories then my usual veggie soups but it was much more filling.

Yum ... I may have discovered the king of Big Food today . I made a big pot of chili with 95% lean ground beef, beans and tons of veggies and ate a cup of it over two cups of broccoli slaw. Huge and filling, which IS the name of the game!

You can make it even bigger with ground turkey breast

Oh yes, chili over anything like that is yummy!! I like to use a mix of lettuce and chopped cabbage.

I love this topic. I'm a big food person (aren't we all), but not a salad person. I've never enjoyed salad, unless heaped with creamy, cheesy dressings. I like grilled eggplant with peppers, onions & mushrooms, topped with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegrette.

My other favorite is something I learned from Meg a long time ago, although I think my version is different. I mix 1/2 c cooked brown rice with 1/2 c egg beaters, add splenda & cinnamon to taste plus about 2 T raisins or chopped apples. Then bake for 1/2 hour in a small baking dish (if I make a big batch, I eat it ALL at once). It's a yummy treat, like a sweet quiche -- sort of.

I also always mix my yogurt with cottage cheese and frozen blueberries. Yum!

Lately, I've been eating 3 or 4 of the small clementines. They seems to fill me up & satisfy my sweet tooth.

Less

I bought a box of clementines Sat - they are yummy! Yesterday and today I peeled two (one each for me and DH) at breakfast and we just enjoyed them section by section! Oh, and Less, your recipe sounds more like a rice pudding. I'm going to try it.

I add tomatoes to a lot of things to increase the volume. I'm lazy so prepackaged figures into my lunches a lot so with fat free canned chili I add 1 can of diced tomatoes for volume. Jenny Craig, Lean Cuisine or WW frozen pasta dished + a can of diced tomatoes really makes the meal feel like so much more.

Now I’m going to gross out a bunch of people on this one but please think Taco
Salad before you say yuck BUT I like to take my spaghetti or goulash and service it on a bed of salad greens. It really is a pleasant combination and makes your serving seem and feel much larger.

I made ratatouille tonight for supper. A small amount of olive oil, onion, green pepper, garlic, eggplant, zuchinni, fresh (or canned tomatoes) and italian herbs makes a big wok full of low cal veggies that is still thick and stewy and filling. I like it with a bit of whole wheat pasta and some grated parmesan on top, but it's still really good without either.

Evangeline -- I do that ALL the time throwing hot food on lettuce... NOT gross at all...

Yes it is the season for clementines, I love them.... Last night I had a sweet craving like you wouldn't believe... and there was chocolate bar callling my name in the fridge... INSTEAD I ate 5 clementines, I was stuffed, and the craving went away

I love love love ratatouille too! - here's a recipe for an oven-roasted version: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...&postcount=117

I don't think it's weird at all to put spaghetti sauce on a salad - actually, I don't think any food combination is weird any more! Another goodie is marinara sauce on baked spaghetti squash with a little real Parmesan.

Thanks to this thread, I put my bowl of veggie chili on a bed of lettuce for supper this evening. I was happily suprised at how well it works. And it's much more satisfying that a bowl of chili on its own. I think I'll be doing this with other thick, stewy lentil/bean soups.

I've gone to Wendy's and ordered a salad with chicken breast and a baked potato... Chopped up the potato and dumped it on the salad with a little dressing...

lol-we eat weird! My substitute for pasta under spaghetti sauce and ground meat is...shredded cabbage LOTS of it!

Weird? WEIRD? What's weird about that?

Oh that's a great idea Mel! Like Meg says, whatever works!!