We eat tons of carrot soup. I sometimes add cream and sometimes I don't. The carrots are so thick that the soup is naturally creamy. I like to toast pita and dip it in the soup. Yum! Now I know what I want for dinner! :)
I eat the "low-carb" Western Bagels. They are a decent size and only about 100 calories or so. They don't have any weird ingredients in them and they satisfy my every bagel craving!
Casual or Expensive? Dinner or Lunch?
A few of my favorites:
Amber India (Mountain View -- best Indian around)
Joanie's Cafe on California Ave.
Zibbibo in downtown PA
Evvia in downtown PA
Pasta? in downtown PA and downtown MV
Enjoy!!
I mix half a cup of coffee with half a package of hot chocolate mix for my own, "heathier" mocha. :)
Elizabeth (from yummydietfood.com)
"It is all about calories in vs. calories out." I've tried many ways to approach my dieting by using this formula, but it is so much more complicated in that. How many times, for instance, have I gone to the gym 5 days a week, only to come home starving, and see the scale not move an inch. Dieting and being healthy is really about finding a lifestyle that works for you. When I say lifestyle, I mean one where you don't feel the need to overeat (you aren't stressed, you don't rely on food for anything beyond fuel), you love exercise, and you nourish yourself with foods that make you feel good and full.
Elizabeth (from yummydietfood.com)
My three favorite things to eat in/on pita are: #1: cheese, #2: hummus, and #3: pizza (on top of the pita instead of high-calorie pizza dough). I've also substituted it instead of Naan sometimes when I've eaten Indian at home.
Enjoy!
Elizabeth (yummydietfood.com)
You are so lucky! Please let us know how good the food is and how much you enjoyed it (and whether you think it was worth the trouble/money).
Great question. I usually eat out for Indian and for Sushi -- both types of food that I know I can make very well on my own at home. I tend to make my own pizza and my own pasta, since the difference between what I can make and what I can pay for isn't that big. I'm not a big meat eater, so I rarely find myself in a hamburger joint or a steakhouse. Basically, I've turned eating out into something I do once a week (and look forward to), and then I accept the food I make at home during the week as not being as good, but likely being more healthy and good for me. Hope that helps!
I tried to post this link earlier but it looks like it got taken down.
It is my blog on low calorie food. All of the foods I blog about are healthy -- no high fructose corn syrup, no hydrogenated ingredients. And, most have all natural/organic ingredients. So, low calorie, healthy, food ideas. I've featured fage yogurt, kashi cereal, frozen cherries, and all natural/organic frozen meals. Please let me know if you find the site helpful.
i agree with sloppy -- i don't have a problem with people trying to be calorie conscious, it just seems a little wasteful to me to order a bagel and have the clerk scoop all of the inside from it, leaving just the crust. if you're using the pizza analogy, it's like ordering a slice of pizza and having the clerk throw away all of it EXCEPT the crust.
but on the other hand, hey, if some places offer it, that's their prerogative. just because you buy a bagel doesn't mean you should be forced to eat all of it! who am i to tell anyone how or how not to eat the bagel they purchased?
Of course!!! That way you have more room to load it up with cream cheese and/or tons of lox!
Please post on here after you eat there. I eat there in mid-September and am in a daze. Also, I think it is great that they have the new policy that if you have less than 4 people it is $100 for each person. I know that sounds stiff, but I heard in the past if you showed up with less than 4 you were flatly turned away, so if my friends fall through my wife and I are going nonetheless! So please, do post! Thanks, Dave R
I scoop bagels.
...because I like to eat the soft, fluffy innards first.
Seems like this is something the consumer could easily do for him/herself. What if the kid behind the counter scoops too much? Ask for another bagel with less scoopage because the current one is ruined? Or keep returning it for more scoopage because enough hasn't been removed yet?
Personally, I don't care how much or little of a particular food a person wants to eat, or how picky they want to be about trimming the food. But really, at some point, you just need to do the trimming yourself. I mean, people who don't eat pizza crusts don't ask for their crusts to be removed for them, do they?
Bisbee - that's *exactly* what my problem is - these women are having the clerks hollow their own bagels out for them. It's like the epitome of laziness - no wonder you need to cut the calories if you're too lazy to shuck your own bagel fluff.
Interestingly I noticed that no-one commented on
"women are asking to have their bagels hollowed out to cut calories"
I guess my problem is being at the counter and holding up the line so someone can do that for you.
- just a thought here- instead of asking someone else to do your hollowing out of the bagel- do it yourself and burn those 3 calories.
Wow, I never realized people would get so passionate about this--I still don't see how scooping a bagel is less caloric than eating half, though, and it is harder to estimate how much you've lost.
As for puffy white things that people have been inveighing against, though--those things are not bagels, and I do not eat them at all--they are inner tubes! Bagels are small and dense!
I have never thought of scooping a bagel, but if that is how some people like it then what's the big deal? We all have our food quirks, right?
@Tokyorosa--LOL, I thought exactly the same thing about the pizza crust issue!
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