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New dinner recipes to try, kid friendly?

Cheese Man — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:06:17 +0000

I am a gourmet cook. All my meals are very appealing to adults, because ya know, the spices, the steamed veggies, the flaming hot fish with sauces glaore, ect. ect.
My husbamd also loves it to. But unfortunantley kids arent as out going with meals as adults are. They don’t like anything I cook, and I have never made just plain spaghetti, or plain mac & cheese. It’s just not me. But thats what my 4 and 6 year old seem to want. I’ve been doing it now for a while, but it just feels weird, cooking somthing not by me, that boring and plain. I don’t want to continue to cook like this forever for my kids,because i’ve heard when kids get older they want new food, and if we have kind of a schedule of always eating plain stuff, I might not want to get home from work and then cook somthing gormet again. So what can I make thats creative and kid friendley? And for all meals:

Dinner
Lunch
Breakfast
Dessert ( occasioanlly)

Food for a newly vegetarian teenage athlete… who can’t cook?

Cheese Man — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:12:37 +0000

WARNING: The info below may contain elements that sound like complaining, but i promise it’s not. It’s moreso a feeble attempt at humor and it’s all true.

I’ve tried to go vegetarian before, but i quit b/c i didn’t know what to eat. This time i’ve done my research, and though i’ve only been a vegetarian for a little over a week i’ve discovered and tried some recipes for vegetarian meals that i actually like using morningstar farms products. (thanks to some of my more experienced vegetarian friends).

I love animals, but that’s not the reason i decided to go vegetarian. It’s moreso because im getting tired of every food being declared dangerous. Elevated levels of mercury in salmon, eat beef (which i wasn’t particularly fond of anyway) and get mad cow etc. Being vegetarian seems healthier and i’ve always wanted to grow my own food!

My problems are:

1) Lunch- my school has no vegetarian and definitely no vegan friendly FOOD. No lie and no exaggeration, if you go into the sub line and ask for a vegetarian sub, you get this huge sub roll with lettuce, and cheese. Or you can have a salad made of lettuce, pickles and more lettuce. They have cheese pizza but run out of every day leaving me to get my pickle salad. -_-. This wouldn’t be as bad if they at least let us use a microwave, but they won’t. So instead of simply heating up some of my leftover stir fry from last night, i sit down every day to home made gormet pb&j or pickle salad… I’ve been considering offering to donate a microwave to the school, but i doubt they’ll allow it. What are some easy non-needing-to-be-heated things i could bring for lunch?

2) I run track. I would just not eat lunch and wait until i get home, but we have practice everyday so i need to eat. Last time, i made a salad from home (which didn’t include pickles thank God), but my metabolism is really fast and I made the bad mistake of bringing nothing else. I figured salad with “chik’n strips” would be enough. Well, by the time we were like 10 minutes into our 30 minute WARM UP- meaning we hadn’t even gotten to the workout, i was burned out. Are there any nutrients should i be focusing on getting so that i’m not ready to pass out by the time i get to practice?

3) As i’ve stated, i am a teenager so i’ve never really had to spend money on food before, but now that i am im realizing why i’m always hearing complaints about food prices. It’s expensive! Like i said i’d like to start a garden but it’s freezing out right now. What foods would you suggest buying that are nutritious and not super expensive? Should i buy more raw foods and produce and just mix them wit rice and pasta to “stretch” them or stick with frozen stuff?
Wow Chris C, ur post was rly helpful. And my mom just told me she’d rather me not be a vegetarian until i go to my doctor just to make sure i’m getting the right nutrients. I’ve been thinking about being a pescatarian b/c sometimes i feel like i kind of entered this whole vegetarian thing way too quickly. You’ve helped my decision a lot. I think i’ll be a pescatarian at least until i visit the doctor and see where it goes from there!

Need to make it up 2 him: My boyfriend and i have a longish distance relationship,-he lives about two hours?

Cheese Man — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:05:05 +0000

i went back last weekend (it was a big plan) and he took me out for a surprise meal to my favourite restaurant, it was lovely but as luck would have it my body chose that day to be horribly ill. I could ahrdly look at my food let alone eat it. I felt awful and still do and was really dissapointed

He has managed to get a day offwork next week and has said he’ll pop up for the night, i’ve decided to cook a full three course meal, my main question is can anyone give me any food presentation tips, to make it look really posh and gormet…

for my starter im making goats cheese rarebit. i was wodering what type of salad dressing would go well with this and any type of dressing that will look pretty and taste good.

Any herb garnishes etc….i like the effect of dusting etc, but cnt think of any herbs etc that go with savoury things…

Any tips on making our night in extra special would be welcomed as well.

thanks in advance

Need to make it up 2 him: My boyfriend and i have a longish distance relationship,-he lives bout 2 hours away?

Cheese Man — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:07:08 +0000

i went back last weekend (it was a big plan) and he took me out for a surprise meal to my favourite restaurant to celebrate my dissertation proposal, it was lovely but as luck would have it my body chose that day to be horribly ill. I could ahrdly look at my food let alone eat it. I felt awful and still do and was really dissapointed

for my starter im making goats cheese rarebit. i was wodering what type of salad dressing would go well with this and any type of dressing that will look pretty and taste good.

Any herb garnishes etc….i like the effect of dusting etc, but cnt think of any herbs etc that go with savoury things…

Any tips on making our night in extra special would be welcomed as well.

thanks in advance

Ohh man…Food Question =/?

Cheese Man — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:10:58 +0000

I just read a question that says that its not ok to eat some types of cheeses during pregnancy.. I work in a Market & we have alllll kinds of exotic gormet cheeses that i had never even heard of before. There is so much cheeses like 32 different kinds.. Is there a list somewhere that i can check??

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