How do you guys eat in general?

I was talking to these two women here on campus, and after five minutes in the conversation I realized how strict their diet was. They had a pretty rigorous nutritional regiment like no red meat, no pasta because supposedly it sticks to your colon(I don't know how true that is, but oh well), no skin or flour around chicken, etc, etc...
I personally do not follow the same 'rules' as those chicks do, I do not pig out, but I do eat whatever I want(pork excluded for religious reasons).

I can understand people going on a diet or trying to look out for what they should eat or what they should not eat in order to stay relatively healthy, but some things just borderline obsession as I witnessed earlier today.

I eat like a generally healthy person who isn't obsessed.


Average breakfast choices:

Eggs (omelet, breakfast buritto, or egg sandwich)
Multigrain cereal
Leftovers

Average lunch choices:

Meat&Cheese Sandwich
Tuna
Leftovers
Fruit&Cheese
Nuts&Raisins

Average Dinner Choices:

Chicken Salad
Homemade Pizza (dough is homemade as well)
Meat & Herbed potato
Meat (Beef, Chicken, or Fish) & Veggie (prepared in a multitude of ways)
Sausage, Veggie, and Pasta (small amount) with Feta
Burrito or quesadilla
Clam Chowder
Soup or Stew with homemade bread (usually herbed)

Snack choices:

Only nuts and fruit (dried or fresh).

Dessert choices (occassional):

Dates
Baked Fruit
Occassional yogurt ice cream
Berries + whipped cream
Homemade buns or something like that

Homemade bread, pizza dough? I see you have plenty of time

I'm currently on the Glycemic Index diet. It basically involves eating things that are low-GI, which means that they don't cause a spike in your blood sugar, but a shallower, longer-lasting elevation, and thus you go longer without getting hungry.

Basically, high-fibre is good, with fruits and vegetables replacing grains as the "basis" of the diet, as well as avoidance of "bad" fat and overly caloric foods.

The biggest sacrifice has been giving up potatoes (except for boiled new potatoes) and peanut butter.

Homemade bread, pizza dough? I see you have plenty of time

Yeah, I do. Breads are usually winter foods though. Chicken salads in the summer, stews and bread in the winter.

Homemade bread is the best.

I eat a lot of sushi and Chinese food. When I cook for myself it is usually a pasta dish, soup, something Hungarian, or fish. I don't eat McDonalds/Burger King/etc. I prefer these local family-owned diners we have here for a Hebrew National chili dog and also local franchise pita sandwich places. I avoid the flesh of the swine. I drink a lot of Bosnian tea, Egyptian fruit juice and chocolate milk. My meals are usually somewhat healthy but I eat a lot of potato chips. :)

Holy crap, I eat like a Jew. :p

I eat like a generally healthy person who isn't obsessed.


Average breakfast choices:

Eggs (omelet, breakfast buritto, or egg sandwich)
Multigrain cereal
Leftovers

Average lunch choices:

Meat&Cheese Sandwich
Tuna
Leftovers
Fruit&Cheese
Nuts&Raisins

Average Dinner Choices:

Chicken Salad
Homemade Pizza (dough is homemade as well)
Meat & Herbed potato
Meat (Beef, Chicken, or Fish) & Veggie (prepared in a multitude of ways)
Sausage, Veggie, and Pasta (small amount) with Feta
Burrito or quesadilla
Clam Chowder
Soup or Stew with homemade bread (usually herbed)

Snack choices:

Only nuts and fruit (dried or fresh).

Dessert choices (occassional):

Dates
Baked Fruit
Occassional yogurt ice cream
Berries + whipped cream
Homemade buns or something like that

I am jealous, I barely have the time to even heat some water for pasta, you're talking about homemade bread :(

Something else I noticed is the dates as occasional dessert, good choice.

Holy crap, I eat like a Jew.

Someone could say the same thing about me, there's just something about Kosher food.

Someone could say the same thing about me, there's just something about Kosher food.

I just finnished eating a ham-sandwich.

I just finnished eating a ham-sandwich.

Yuck!!! I try to stay as far away from the pig and his immediate family tree.

The biggest sacrifice has been giving up potatoes (except for boiled new potatoes) and peanut butter.

Yam is lower on the GI, and tastes better. The only reason I haven't basically abandoned the potato in favor of yam is because yam doesn't taste as good baked with rosemary, sage, and thyme. :p

I am jealous, I barely have the time to even heat some water for pasta, you're talking about homemade bread :(

Why not? Does everyone here work on weekends? The time spent posting on the Phora could be time spend kneeding dough - get to it!

Why not? Does everyone here work on weekends? The time spent posting on the Phora could be time spend kneeding dough - get to it!

That homemade bread, is it as good as Subway's bread?!? ...cause if not then there is no incentive in making some. And on the subject of bread, I have yet to taste bread as good as French bread.

I also wanted to ask for people that live by themselves if it was more expensive to dine out, or just to cook for themselves?.. Thanks!!!

Well, I don't live *alone*, but it's definitely more expensive to dine out.

I'm an omnivore. I'll eat almost everything, at least once. With the exception of very few extremely weird specialties (genitals of assorted animals and rumen, for example).

That homemade bread, is it as good as Subway's bread?!? ...cause if not then there is no incentive in making some. And on the subject of bread, I have yet to taste bread as good as French bread.


For me the best bread is the "Chapata" bread which I´m sure there is also a Italian version of it. French bread fresh made tastes good but is not as nutritious as the Chapata...Then I love those wholegrain breads German style and generally all those breads with grin in it and of a darker color.

While living in the US I was very frustrated about the miserable bread choices to buy there. Everything was factory made softy mold type of bread. I could just not find these crunchy breads that would actually hurt your gum. Bread is something that has to be chewed IMHO, not those sliced softy US bread styles. I mean...back in the days when you got condemend to prison to "Water & bread" you could actually live on that bread...Try surviving just on white french bread or, good forgive, US soft bread.
In Spain we also use plenty of french style baggette type of bread just on a much bigger size (wider and longer) which like the french style is also crunchy. The funny part of this is that Cubans in Cuba tend to make just this same style of bread (I guess out of cultural afinity of the late 1800´) but the version of "Cuban bread" (As it is known in Miami) is the same size and form BUT of a soft version (not crunchy). Yes, the US makes a very sh1tty bread.

Well Edana, you obviously have plenty of time at your hands when you can make your own bread, pizza doughts, etc..and on the same time be aleading poster on this forum ;)

For me the best bread is the "Chapata" bread which I´m sure there is also a Italian version of it. You don't mean Ciabatta, do you? ;)

But you're right, bread has to crunch and has to be dark. Bread like this:

http://www.kamps-ag.de/ps/D.brotkorb/sortiment/brote/1_brote001.htm
http://www.kamps-ag.de/ps/D.brotkorb/sortiment/broetchen/broetchen001.htm

Hey, they even have a page in English :

http://www.kamps.de/englisch/menu/frame3.html?0

Fortunately I live in Germany and don't have to deal with the polystyrene crap they call "bread" in the U.S.

Now envy us! ;)

Yes...its Cibatta in Italian..Its also widely consumed in Spain and its delicious alternative to the French bagette.

http://www.fornonoceraumbra.com/prodotti/foto/ciabatta.jpg

Those breads you have shown are awesome too...mhhhh

Well Edana, you obviously have plenty of time at your hands when you can make your own bread, pizza doughts, etc..and on the same time be aleading poster on this forum

LoL, anyone could do it even if they don't have a lot of time. It really doesn't take long at all to make pizza dough, and bread is just an occassional occurance, such as in the winter when you need something with your stew (and only needs to be made a couple times a month at most - if one doesn't work 7 days a week, one has time to make bread). It doesn't even take a long time to make basic breads. What takes the longest is letting the dough rise, and you don't have to do anything while that's happening.

Ramen :|