Fruit and Veggie Diet

decides2dream

chime wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

(hate that you can't search yours, or othr member's, thread titles anymore).

Sorry to butt into this thread ... but I have this bookmarked search.php

Hope it helps

you don't want to talk fruit?
thanks!
i know more advanced search function exists here, i just miss the one where you could click on a member's name (even your own) and there was a choice to 'search threads created by this user' as well as the other choice we still have, to search a user's posts. i found it infinitely helpful b/c oftentimes i would remember who started a thread, but not the exact title. it was so quick and easy....and accurate. but i may bookmark that too, so much appreciated.


on topic: i just ate my last clementine of the day and it was delish.

Lizardjam

decides2dream wrote:

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Amazingly, people eat broccoli without being forced. That still boggles my mind. Broccoli is a reason why the uber-juicer was created. I'm not good at eating veggies (except tomato sauce ) Hey I bet the USDA counts it as a veggie.

the trick with broccoli for me anyway is this: it must be cut into small pieces, it must be fresh and firm, it must be mixed with other veggies and it must be SPICY. then, it is awesome. in almost all other forms i find it repulsive. i cannot eat cauliflower b/c in no form whatsoever do i find it tolerable. i find many, many veggies...the only way i find them at all tolerable or enjoyable, is in similar circumstance to broccoli.

as far as tomato sauce - YUMMM! and do ya know? one of the HEALTHIEST ways to consume a tomato?! it is actually BETTER than eating it raw, which is very rare since cooking usually destroys/lowers nutrients, but in the case of the tomato, cooking releases more lycopen. win-win! and the only way i eat tomatoes is as above like broccoli...and i LOVE it in the form of sauce, or salsa.


btw - juiced broccoli?! = YUCK! :x

I know it's weird but I love any marinara or tomato sauce(but not soup ick!)!

It's so goooooooooooood! I will vomit if I taste a raw tomato, however. Yuck

decides2dream

Lizardjam wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Amazingly, people eat broccoli without being forced. That still boggles my mind. Broccoli is a reason why the uber-juicer was created. I'm not good at eating veggies (except tomato sauce ) Hey I bet the USDA counts it as a veggie.

the trick with broccoli for me anyway is this: it must be cut into small pieces, it must be fresh and firm, it must be mixed with other veggies and it must be SPICY. then, it is awesome. in almost all other forms i find it repulsive. i cannot eat cauliflower b/c in no form whatsoever do i find it tolerable. i find many, many veggies...the only way i find them at all tolerable or enjoyable, is in similar circumstance to broccoli.

as far as tomato sauce - YUMMM! and do ya know? one of the HEALTHIEST ways to consume a tomato?! it is actually BETTER than eating it raw, which is very rare since cooking usually destroys/lowers nutrients, but in the case of the tomato, cooking releases more lycopen. win-win! and the only way i eat tomatoes is as above like broccoli...and i LOVE it in the form of sauce, or salsa.


btw - juiced broccoli?! = YUCK! :x

I know it's weird but I love any marinara or tomato sauce(but not soup ick!)!

It's so goooooooooooood! I will vomit if I taste a raw tomato, however. Yuck

i thnk we might be related. i despise tomato soup. i 'try' to like it, but.....YUCK.
i can handle raw tomatoes, under the conditions i list for broccoli above - cut up small and mixed with something else. and i have learned to really like tomato, basil and fresh mozzarella, tho i LOVE that combo more sans tomato, add in proscuitto.


anyhoo, tomatoes are awesome for you! so enjoy your sauce - just check for added sugar! - and yes, technically, tomatoes are a fruit.

Lizardjam

decides2dream wrote:

i thnk we might be related. i despise tomato soup. i 'try' to like it, but.....YUCK.
i can handle raw tomatoes, under the conditions i list for broccoli above - cut up small and mixed with something else. and i have learned to really like tomato, basil and fresh mozzarella, tho i LOVE that combo more sans tomato, add in proscuitto.


anyhoo, tomatoes are awesome for you! so enjoy your sauce - just check for added sugar! - and yes, technically, tomatoes are a fruit.

My old roommate used to make the best pasta sauce ever and I think the only ingredients were tomato sauce, sugar, garlic, and olive oil. Maybe salt. I LOVED it. But I can't replicate it. So I'm stuck with prego. I tend toward the sweet sauces.

Oh! And I can eat cut up tomato...only in my grandma's turkey chili! But that's off topic....

I watched Chopped last night on the food channel and all I could think about was FOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!