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loki8481 · 10-29-2009, 10:27 PM

I don't know wtf is wrong with me, but I think I've got this subconscious desire to make everyone else around me fat now that I'm losing weight.

ever since I started losing, I find that I absolutely love cooking disgustingly bad-for-you food for other people.

my friends are having a pot luck halloween party tomorrow. I baked a cheesecake... I plugged said cheesecake into a recipe analyzer and it has 13,000 calories

poet_kelly · 10-29-2009, 11:15 PM

Well, since my surgery, I have discovered that I like to cook. I never knew that before. I mostly ate out all the time. But I cook healthy stuff. Stuff I can eat. And I enjoy surprising other people with how good stuff can taste and still be really healthy.

Here's something funny. I've started cooking dinner for my mother and stepfather one night whenever I go to visit them. One night I made vegetarian chili. I used Morning Star soy crumbles. My mother told me not to tell my stepfather what I was putting in the chili, because she didn't think he'd want to eat it if he knew it was soy. So I didn't tell him. He was almost finished with his first bowl when he suddenly looked up at me and said, "Hey! I thought you didn't eat meat." I said, "I don't." He said, "But what's in this, then?" So then I told him. He said, "Huh," and ate two more bowls. Apparently it tasted just like ground beef to him.

Kelly

Hychap2009 · 10-30-2009, 05:02 AM

I'm a foodie and love to cook for other people - mind you I have to feel like doing it. I love to create new dishes and experiment with ingredients. Sometimes a smell brings back a memory of when I was young; it places me back into another place and time and I remember a dish that I can remember loving it but had fogotton all about it for years, then I've just got to make it. Mostly, these are comfort foods. I'll give you an example:-

Plum Cobbler
Spotty Dick and Custard
Minced Stew with Green peas and Creamy Mash.

I could go on, but i'm starting to trigger. lol

Every Xmas I cook for my family of 13 - this is a big ordeal, my sister helps too, but when its all over (in the kitchen), I get so much pleasure from watching everyone enjoying their meal with little mutters of uummmm and "how did you make this'', yeah, very satifying.

This was one of my first panic (fears) when the surgery was explained to me and I thought I'd never be able to eat a proper meal with friends and family again. Obviously I've learnt alot since then lol. I'm still pre-op. and I now cook dishes that will be suitable for me at post-op stage and they are just as delicious.

loki8481 · 10-30-2009, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by dswofford

Where? What?

I use the one at Nutrition facts, calories in food, labels, nutritional information and analysis – NutritionData.com

you just input the quantities and ingredients and number of servings that the recipe makes.

magnufique · 10-30-2009, 11:38 AM

yes I like to cook and i seem to make the not good for you stuff for my family. I think it is because I am not eating real food yet. When that happens they are in for a world of hurt...I will be cooking healthy for all of us!

Hychap2009 · 10-30-2009, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by magnufique

yes I like to cook and i seem to make the not good for you stuff for my family. I think it is because I am not eating real food yet. When that happens they are in for a world of hurt...I will be cooking healthy for all of us!

lol, I like this.

mommabri · 10-30-2009, 10:06 PM

13,000 omg thats a lot of calories. Whats in that cheesecake.....lol

loki8481 · 10-31-2009, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by mommabri

13,000 omg thats a lot of calories. Whats in that cheesecake.....lol

2 packages of cream cheese, a pound of ricotta, a pound of sour cream, 5 eggs, and half a cup of sugar

Josephine · 10-31-2009, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by loki8481

2 packages of cream cheese, a pound of ricotta, a pound of sour cream, 5 eggs, and half a cup of sugar

You're naughty. Try to not kill your friends

Highlandlass · 10-31-2009, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Hychap2009

Plum Cobbler
Spotty Dick and Custard
Minced Stew with Green peas and Creamy Mash.
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Spotty Dick and Custard sounds pornographic (oh my, get my mind out of the gutter). What is Spotty Dick and Custard if you please?

This past summer I had the kids and their spouses at the cottage. My husband usually does the cooking, but I had this crazy notion that I would do all the nibblies and snacks and made some really nice trays to put out before dinner. One of my daughters in law was so amazed because I never cook - she thought I didn't know how. She and I had quite a laugh, especially because I couldn't eat much of what I put out. I used to just dig into a bag of cookies or a frozen cake/pie and that would be the extent of my offerings at the table (if I left any for anyone else, that is). My own kids were even more amazed that Mom even knew her way around in the kitchen. They forgot that when dad was working 2 jobs when they were little I did all the cooking - guess they were too little then. Its funny how we end up wanting to feed everyone else and live vicariously through their enjoying our favourites - and thinking "Its on their hips, not mine!!!"