Interesting things you notice…
…when you start monitoring all that goes into your mouth.
I mentioned, the other day, that I had started using My Food Diary to try and track things and see if it’s overeating or under-performing (thyroid) that is causing my weight gain.
Considering I got yelled at by the site, yesterday, for not eating enough – it could be a completely depressed metabolism. But! Something I decided to do, since I’m also being yelled at for way too much sodium – was to check some things out. Like, most of the time, I make stuff almost 100% from scratch. So I decided to do a comparison between what we had for dinner last night in its “from scratch” manifestation vs its “quick and easy” manifestation.
From scratch:
Quick:
Colour me shocked. A difference of over 490mg of sodium. Wow. No wonder I prefer it when I cook from scratch.
As for breakfast cereal? Yeah, I’m pretty much cutting that out and am going back to what I used to eat at Broadwing every morning for breakfast…
Though the fruit changes, the rest stays consistent. Sometimes raisins, sometimes pomegranate, some times nectarines, sometimes peaches…yanno – whatever I felt like that morning. I don’t put anything else in the oats – just the oats and the fruit. The oats are soaked in boiling water and then mixed in with the fruit once they are the way I like them done (ie. not mush, but not bits of sand either).
The results:
A girlfriend of mine doesn’t handle carbs well, so she shuddered when she saw this. For me, carbs have never really been an issue – it’s been fatty foods that I don’t burn well. So, for someone like me – this is a spectacular breakfast…and, much better so far as sodium intake is compared to a breakfast cereal that has 180mg sodium in one serving. I’ve considered trying to get used to drinking coffee without the half and half…but, I’m not rushing into that one if it’s not necessary.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Weird. That is exactly my breakfast most days. I use fat free half and half, though, and “Just Strawberries” because it’s too much effort to keep fresh ones around. I do get the oatmeal from the cafe at Dell most days, but on weekends I make it myself.
February 7th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
We are a huge steel cut oats family. Night before, I just bring 3 cups of water & 1 cup of steel cut oats to a rolling boil. Put the lid on. Remove from heat and let sit overnight. Read to go in the morning. Just quick reheat, add some cream or milk & splenda. Good to go.
Nice to see you blogging, cousin.