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[nibot]

What do you eat?

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[emidala.livejournal.com]

udon noodles with mirin and sesame oil and lots of steamed veggies and cashew nuts. cheap and tasty!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

This actually is the abiding question I have for everyone.

I had a friend who was Italian. (Actually Italian, not one of those 1st or 2nd or 3rd generation Italians.) Every time I asked him what he had had for dinner the night before he answered hamburgers. When he then posed the same question to me, I had always just had spaghetti. go figure.

[cherryspecial.livejournal.com]

garlic, beans, squash, tomatoes with black pepper, beer, spinach

pie

pie

[nibot.livejournal.com]

what kind(s)?

Re: pie

[cherryspecial.livejournal.com]

@nibot - all kinds! mostly different fruit kinds, but vegan cheesecake too

@midendian - yes!

π

[nibot.livejournal.com]

My friend chris_acheson will only eat vegetables if they are in pie form!

Re: π

[chris-acheson.livejournal.com]

Vegetable pie? Such a thing is a crime against nature!

It's fruit that I eat in pie form.

Also, tonight I had cheesecake sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

From watching you post even as I sit here i have just figured out that we in Calif are 17 hours ahead of UTC. Mystery solved. That was so much easier than doing the math.

[grey-ghost.livejournal.com]

tonight?

pan-fried cod (dredged in flour with cumin, salt, and pepper) with a sauce made from caramelised onions and deglazing the pan;

a quick salad of mustard greens, chopped curly parsley, deli olives, and sliced red bell peppers, dressed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar;

(all the chopping was done while the cod was slowly frying)

last night's spaghetti with tomato sauce, reheated from the microwave.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Last night I put cut up pieces of white meat chicken in a glass baking dish and poured fresh lemon juice over it and then olive oil. I refrigerated it until later when it went on the BBQ.

Usually lately, however, I do something to something from the freezer. Trader Joe's is what you need.

[indomitability.livejournal.com]

I just had chicken with rice cooked with chicken broth, plum sauce, and a bit of rice wine vinegar. Yummy stuff.

Regular dietary staples (in order of frequency of consumption):
- dairy: nonfat milk, yogurt, cheese, sour cream
- grains: granola, cereal, pita bread, tortillas, whole grain bread, rice (brown or long-grain white), pasta
- fruits: bananas, apples, blueberries, strawberries
- veggies: sugar snap peas, tomatoes, peas, corn, potatoes, yams, carrots
- meat: tuna, chicken
- other stuff: hummus, won tons (Trader Joe's frozen chicken ones), mac and cheese, crackers (to go with the cheese and tomatoes and sometimes the hummus), peanut butter, jam, almonds, walnuts, veggie corn dogs
- sweets: ice cream, cookies (TJ's animal cookies, TJ's ginger snaps, TJ's brand Oreos), chocolate
- drinks: water, nonfat milk, lemonade

My diet is pretty consistently all of those things. In fact, I made my monthly payday Trader Joe's run yesterday, and I don't think I bought a single thing that's not on the above list.

I'm kind of boring sometimes, I guess.

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

food. :)

Pasta, frequently. I don't pay too much attention, really. Sushi, when we can spare the time out, or Indian food.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

What kind of pasta? What do you have with/on it? Do you eat breakfast?

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

Amy's started her PhD program and so we're spending less time together (she's living down there, and I'm not, by and large). Which means my cycles are much more my own, at the moment (and as such, much more erratic). Especially without a 9-5.

I eat when I'm hungry, sometimes morning, sometimes not. I really like the Puffins (peanut butter) cereal (kind of like captain crunch, but less sickeningly sweet, and larger).

Pasta: most kinds. Generally brown rice pasta (occasionally egg noodles--pure yum). ((spaghetti, angel hair, rotini, farfalle, orzo, ... whichwhatever)) Sauce--often whatever's in a bottle (ragu, or something from trader joes).

Amy's got a cookbook she's going through (well, slowly; and even slower now, I guess. Good stuff, "healthy", and there hasn't really been a bad recipe yet, so we'd been doing those frequently. One's a pseudo-bolognese, with chopped mushrooms + carrots to make the texture. That's pretty yum. :) Also random frozen pasta options from TJ--penne arrabiata, gnocci, ... some mushroom something.

And I've been snacking on a monster thing of peanuts for a few weeks now, from costco.

Oh, and coffee. Lots of coffee. My favorite treat at the moment is two shots of espresso with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. :)

Amy

[nibot.livejournal.com]

She's studying math? (what kind?) Somewhere in LA?

Re: Amy

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

Statistics; UCLA. :)

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

You're not going to believe this, but tonight I'm cooking fried onions and liver. It's tastier (In my opinion) than taking an iron pill.

[cassiusdio.livejournal.com]

liver FTW!

Anyone???

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Yesterday Kris brought home a strange fruit that a gardener had given him from a park with a lot of fruit trees. (Pitchess Park)He didn't remember the name, said it was something like Zapa--tos or something. It looks like a quince (ie like a misshapen apple) and was a pale green. He was told to wait until it was yellow, then the fruit could be eaten with a spoon.

Tonight the fruit is yellow and indeed soft enough to eat with a spoon. It seems to have three pits inside, a little like a mango. The flesh is very mild and very good.

What is it???

By George I think you've got it!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I think the "White Sapote" most closely resembles it.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

You might be interested in the California Rare Fruit Growers Association (http://www.crfg.org/). Unfortunately you just missed their annual 'festival of fruit*'!

*no, it's not a gay-pride event!

[chris-acheson.livejournal.com]

Hot dogs and microwaveable White Castle burgers.

It's a good thing my roommates cook pretty often, otherwise I'd be severely malnourished.

[janviere.livejournal.com]

Tonight: arugula and tomatoes, crackers and cheese
Lunch: Indian buffet
Breakfast: grape nuts, soy milk
Last night: pasta in vegetable broth (was feeling sick, needed comfort food)
Yesterday afternoon: grapes and apples from the farmer's market
Lunch: vegetarian chili
Breakfast: grape nuts+soy milk, applesauce and cottage cheese
Night before: crepes, cheese, herbs, chocolate, ice cream
Lunch: sushi
Night before that: broccoli and cheese soup, bread, hot chocolate

[limegreensneaks.livejournal.com]

The last thing I ate was some cereal called (I'm not kidding) "Uncle Toby's Nut Feast." Yet another thing to love about Australia.

Aside from nut feast (nom nom!), I usually have a lot of grapefruit and apples with the ocassional pear or nashi (apples I eat with PB, pears and nashi I eat with nutella). The strawberries have also been great lately!! Brian has developed an amine sensitivity so we are eating a lot of winter squashes, chickpeas, brussel sprouts, garlic, eggs, and grains. He can't eat cheese but I like those mini cheese wheels by Babybel. Yum yum!

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I have been at a sort of culinary nadir lately (hence this post!).

Dinner tonight: beef ravioli from a can
Yesterday: three hot dogs and a can of creamed corn (!)

Yes, still feasting on my hurricane supplies. I'm actually craving tofu and leafy greens. This week there's a small uptick in the late-night population at the lab; maybe we'll start cooking there again.

[inertiacrept.livejournal.com]

Crow. Nothing but crow.

[rudybang.livejournal.com]

Make some seitan, it is so versatile.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

But what do you eat? (seitan?)

[rudybang.livejournal.com]

breakfast is usually whole wheat cereals with soy milk and variations of raisins, walnuts, almonds, fresh berries, sometimes granola or a bagel with cream cheese

lunch is often a sandwich with whatever cheese I have at the time, currently Emmental, leafy greens, carrot ribbons, cherry tomatoes, sometimes just pb and j, always on freshly baked whole wheat or multigrain

dinner is where I pull out all the stops, variations on seitan when I have made some, recently a mushroom risotto, lentil loaf, big on roasted vegetables and squash soups!

[rudybang.livejournal.com]

coffee and baked goods supplement my meals

[rudybang.livejournal.com]

Go with what is in season, it is cheapest and best tasting.

I HUNGER!

[caerglas.livejournal.com]

Tonight, I ate a salad (lettuce, spinach, green bell pepper, radishes, celery, cheese, boiled egg) and some cheese cake while watching the Golden Girls.

Why, what do YOU eat?

[pixieza.livejournal.com]

coffee. orange juice. one piece of toast with comte and peppered salami. another with honey from the jura mountains.

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

I picked a pound of rose hips today. I guess technically I'm not going to eat them - too much work to dig out the little hairs, at least for the little ones that grow around here - I'm just going to make stock, and then put that, one ice cube at a time, in stuff that I'll eat. Or maybe make some syrup to have with vodka and sparkling water, or with ice cream.

I had corn bread and lentil stew for dinner. Yesterday I had a roasted beet and goat cheese salad with spinach and arugula, and pasta with kale and beet greens. Breakfast has been two slices of toast with homemade plum jam from neighborhood plums.

I eat a lot of mac'n'cheez, and milk, and pasta, and whatever the farmer gives me in my box, and stuff I can find in alleys when I go out for walks.

[erinmack.livejournal.com]

I usually have cold cereal with soymilk for breakfast. Lately lunch has been miso soup, but yesterday I had some toast with yeast pate and a quinoa-pesto pilaf. Dinner was Thai basil tofu with green peppers and onions served atop brown rice, and some jordgubb saft diluted and made fizzy with Ramlösa. Snacks: licorice, chocolate, halvah, and some grissini crackers. I've also been eating a lot of apple crisp as of late.

[reverend-kate.livejournal.com]

Beer, parmesean cheese, lettuce, turkey, tofu, pears, tofutti cuties, coffee, milk, yogurt, mangoes, oil, butter, bacon, scotch, pumpkin, ezekiel bread, regular bread, wine, nut butters, half-and-half, olives, salami, chicken breasts, garlic, spices, eggs galore.

[reverend-kate.livejournal.com]

Oh, and CHARD. And RICE. And RICE FLAKES. omg omg omg. Soy sauce. Salsa. Guacamole. Celery.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Tonight it will be Sarah Palin.

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

fattiest most disgusting substances possible. garbage plates anyone?

the other day: super greasy fried rice with spare ribs, char siu, broccoli beef noodles

the day before yesterday: malasadas (read: fried dough covered in sugar, often filled with custard)

yesterday: double bacon cheeseburger cibatta from jack in the box. medium movie theater popcorn drenched in coconut/partially hydrogenated soybean oil. spicy tuna (raw tuna in hot mayonnaise sauce). yes, just the filling of the sushi without the outside parts. about 1/4 lb of it. (=

today: possibly half a large bacon/chicken pizza from papa john's

hey. at least i don't eat spam musubi's... yet.. muahahaha

[maria-sputnik.livejournal.com]

cabbage and donuts

[feralbirdgirl.livejournal.com]

breakfast = organic popcorn from the weekend en route to class
lunch = sandwich of spinach, avocado slices, tomato... on potato bread
dinner = chips at the audubon meeting, followed by some animal crackers on the way home and a little container of pudding

fascinating query, i'm liking the responses!

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

A lot of soup lately. Cheese and toast. I like pasta, but have the canned stuff most often. Snacking vegetables. Oranges. Too much meat.

[metamouse.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of vegetarians posting here.


Almost everything I eat contains cashews, red bell pepper, tofu, and/or soymilk. (Thank god for soybeans.)

Tonight was: Fried rice containing the above, plus carrots, broccoli, squash, a cinnamon stick, cardamom, ginger. Serve with plain Greek-style yogurt.

Mango & sticky rice with coconut sauce.
Pasta salad with miso-orange juice sauce.
Soba noodles or stir-fry with tofu, cashews, bell pepper, and the Five Magic Flavors: mirin, miso, soy sauce, white rice vinegar, sesame oil.
Miso soup with tofu and nori.
Sushi (vegan) with avocado.
Beer-battered tofu with lemon juice.
Frittata with oregano and red bell pepper.
Tortilla soup with avocado and pinto beans
Homemade pizza with, um, red bell pepper.
Pasta with pesto and roasted pine nuts.
Granola with plain yogurt, blueberries, and flax. (Hippie alert!)
Homemade plum jam.
Strawberry shortcake.
Peaches, pears, nectarines.
Hummus.
Delicious Indian mushes of various sorts.
Quesadillas on corn tortillas with Monterey Jack and (yeah) red bell peppers.
Peanut butter toast as a snack. Good, smooth, oily peanut butter.
Spinach, raw, when I'm craving it. If younger me knew I was doing this, he'd throw a fit.

Frozen honey-roasted almonds, right out of the freezer. Try it.


Local & organic ingredients whenever possible.

I'd prefer to be vegan, but I have a hard time maintaining my weight without eggs and cheese. Also, after years of living in the Berkeley co-ops, I had forgotten how amazing butter is compared to margarine.

I stopped eating sugar about a year ago after I discovered that I had a hard time concentrating after too much of it. This means I eat my cookies right before bed.

typical berkeley, siding with the reds

[nibot.livejournal.com]

did my anti-(red bell pepper) post spur you to action?

Re: typical berkeley, siding with the reds

[metamouse.livejournal.com]

I didn't see it until after I posted.

I always wondered why they pick perfectly good peppers early. People like them? Who knew? :)