We did breakfast so it seems natural to now do dinner...LOL!!!

I am making stuffed bell peppers tonight, orange and yellow bell peppers stuffed with rice, ground beef and sausage and topped with a tomato sauce that I added sauteed onions, celery, minced garlic and diced red/green bell peppers and other seasonings to that has been simmering all day in the crockpot. Ill just throw it together and bake when it is closer to time to eat!!

What are you having?

I have had Mine! I had Chips (French Fries in the US I believe) and a Sausage and the Chips (French Fries for you) I had curry on them! It was nice! And from the Chippy (Possibly "Chip Shop" or "French Fries Shop" to you over there, Or I really have no Idea what you call it )

(There's my best at explaining English UK with English US! )

mutchy126 wrote: I have had Mine! I had Chips (French Fries in the US I believe) and a Sausage and the Chips (French Fries for you) I had curry on them! It was nice! And from the Chippy (Possibly "Chip Shop" or "French Fries Shop" to you over there, Or I really have no Idea what you call it )

(There's my best at explaining English UK with English US! )

LOL you did great at explaining. I love fries and almost every place you can eat out here in the US sells fries. McDonalds is one of the biggest but my favorite is a place called Lions Choice their fries are fresh and still have the skins on them...they are SO good.

Heather

H3ATH3R_ wrote:

mutchy126 wrote: I have had Mine! I had Chips (French Fries in the US I believe) and a Sausage and the Chips (French Fries for you) I had curry on them! It was nice! And from the Chippy (Possibly "Chip Shop" or "French Fries Shop" to you over there, Or I really have no Idea what you call it )

(There's my best at explaining English UK with English US! )

LOL you did great at explaining. I love fries and almost every place you can eat out here in the US sells fries. McDonalds is one of the biggest but my favorite is a place called Lions Choice their fries are fresh and still have the skins on them...they are SO good.

Heather

Nice!

Really Why have, English US, English UK, English Australia, English New Zealand. Why can't it all be the same??

Also H3ATH3R_ I can see that you now have 2 Referrals, Congratulations. The Last time I saw your account you had none!

mutchy126 wrote: Also H3ATH3R_ I can see that you now have 2 Referrals, Congratulations. The Last time I saw your account you had none!

Thank you!! I have been trying so hard and was so excited to get them...hahaha! I got them both within minutes of each other. My first one hasn't clicked at all but my second one has clicked each day until today. Hopefully the first will begin to be active and the second will stay that way. =)

Heather

Chicken! Not sure if I'm going to fry or bake it...I'll wait for my sons to come home from school and let them decide.
Serving the chicken with broccoli and sweet potatoes. My sweetie doesn't care much for sweet potatoes, so I'll make him mashed potatoes, along with home-made applesauce.

H3ATH3R -congrats on ref #2!

Thank you ridethewave. Yummy...we love chicken...both baked and fried...lol!

Heather

I make a lot of stir fry for supper meals.

I really don't like to mention this on forums but for the most part, I am a vegetarian.
So I eat a lot of fish and other foods and stay away from most meats. I will in fact
eat meat occasionally. I also do eat eggs.

When I make stir fry, there is no meat in it.

I buy large packages of mixed vegetables and/or cut up fresh veggies. I use some
times white rice and some times brown rice. Mix in the veggies. I'll use soy sauce
some times but I don't like soy sauce for the most part, so I will use very little of it
when I do use it. Some times I will put butter in it and/or other seasonings.

I think people in America especially, rely too much on meat. When I was growing up,
it was like a meal was not a meal unless there was meat included. We'd have pork
chops one night, cube steak another night, beef stew another night, chicken another
night and so on. Even at breakfast there was either bacon or sausage.

I'm not knocking eating meat per se. I just think people in some countries like
America, eat wayyyy too much of it.

I also think it's a leading cause of obesity in America. I really don't think it's the sugar
and soda so much as it is the meat.

I was brought up always eating meat with EVERY meal and as a parent now myself my family eats it with most meals (not always at breakfast) but I do try to keep things healthy most the time (not always...lol). We eats lots of all different meats but we love chicken and fish and eat more of both of those than any thing else. The kids asked for baked chicken literally 8 times out of the past two weeks which is why I switched it up tonight...LOL!!!

Also sugar and soda adds tons of calories. Once I cut out sugar and soda from my diet I lost 30lbs in less than a month. I drink tons of tea and was using 2 cups of sugar in a gallon of tea that one gallon of tea added an extra 1500 calories a day and that didnt even include the food I ate. I now do not use any sugar at all in my tea....lol!

Edit: Started to think about it after posting this the first time with us getting on the topic of obesity in the US. My kids schools in our district completely cut out salt BUT added funnel cake to the breakfast menu and coffee machines (highschool) in after taking away salt. I was like what the heck are they thinking...LOL!!!

Heather

I've become way too much of a meat and grain eater and I have to cut this type of eating lifestyle out. It's horrible. Just imagine having rice and meat for supper for like 5/7 times out the week and most of the time that meat is chicken. I swear I'm going to go on a meat hiatus for awhile and eat greens, fish and pasta and other things I can try besides rice and roasted chicken or rice and curry chicken or rice and BBQ chicken, which one of those 3 menus will likely be dinner tonight once again.

Losing 30 pounds in one month is bad for your body. I don't think 10 or 15 pounds would be too much
in a first month because the first 5 pounds or more, can easily be water weight.

Once you get started learning to cook without meat, you really don't miss it.

I eat most of what everyone else eats, I just leave out the meat. I make chili without meat.
I make casseroles without meat. For example a lot of people make broccoli casserole and put
cut up chicken in it...you really don't need the chicken at all in it...it's just as good without it.

Plus, if you think about the high costs of meat and not to mention meat is going up another 5%
or so, you really will save money.

I make tea about once every two days. In the summer time, every day. I put 2/3 cup of sugar
to a pitcher. I don't think the pitcher's I use is a full gallon. Probably half gallon. I probably drink
two big glasses of tea a day, more some times like in the summer.

With food, I think it's a lot about acquiring tastes. Once you start eating the same things, you
tend to acquire a taste for it, then you get use to eating it, then your taste and body desires it.
So what ya got to do is acquire the tastes for something else. At first some things may not taste
as good without meat. But it really doesn't take long before you have acquired the taste without
the meat...and you don't even miss it.

I drink diet coke and I eat sweets at times and ice cream. Not saying sugar is good for you but
I really don't think sugar puts on the fat like fat meat does.

It's a good idea to drink a lot of water each day. That's probably the number one thing in America
that leads to so many health problems....not drinking water. It's the water that is going to make
you feel more energetic, going to cleanse out toxins, keep your system running clean, keep your
skin looking fresh, keep your colon cleansed.

I laugh some times at all the skin creams and stay young potions people buy and pay high price for.
Your skin will stay far more youthful if you drink water. I started the water thing when I was in 8th
grade. My face had started breaking out and none of the potions for teenagers worked, I'd still get
breakouts. I had an aunt that was into all sorts of natural health things and she told me to drink
water. I started drinking 8 full glasses of water a day and it was not but a couple of weeks and my
skin cleared and I never had another break out. I never stopped drinking lots of water after that.
I won't say I look like a teenager because I don't. But for almost 56 years old, I can easily pass for
age 45. No one believes me when I tell them my age. I have to attribute it to water because there
is no other reason I can see for it. My sister is 5 years older than I, she never drinks water, and
she has looked 60 years old since she was 50. I also think water helps rid the body of excess fats.
I mean to me, it just makes common sense. If you eat a fattening meal, and you don't drink water,
that is going to have a not so nice time passing thru your system.

People buy a lot of colon cleansing products too. Now this is truly a big waste of money. The best
thing you can do to cleanse your colon is drink water. Eat roughage, drink water, and you'll have
a pretty colon.

I didnt actually try to lose that weight...although it was needed to be at a healthy weight but I was just changing my diet and cutting out sugar because there was just way too much in my diet. Once the sugar was gone it just fell off...lol! I do still eat chocolate every now and then I have not completely cut out sugar just the tons of it that was in my tea!
My mom tells me water water water all the time. She says that is the key to staying young...and lots of lotion...moisturize, moisturize, moisturize...hahahaha!!!

Heather

I think your mom is correct!

pork chop and garlic bread for dinner here ...

iambutterfly wrote: pork chop and garlic bread for dinner here ...

Mmmm have to admit. That sounds good