Vegetables/salad

[MACCA]

Lately ive been trying to eat as good as possible skinless chicken/turkey and plenty of tuna its the salad and veg bit i need help with. I love spinich and broccoli and tomatoes, cucumber the usual stuff but what other veg/salad do you eat and what is good or bad ? Is celery and most lettuce just full of water making it crap to eat?

 

[<Cyrus>]

Celery and all greens are full of the best nutrients u can get. the water dosent hurt and there full of fiber. I would recomend Avacados ( lots of good fats), and if ya can eat them Chick Peas and lentals ( again lots of fiber protien and slow carbs)

-cheers

 

[MACCA]

I do eat plenty of green salad and im crunching on a bit of celery right now, must admit never had chick peas read about them, add them to my missus shopping list i think.
cheers Paul.

 

[BruiseKnee]

lettuce is about 95% water, i dont think it has much fiber

 

[<Cyrus>]

Still tho it wont hurt, and spinich i think has the highest antioxedent count going (?) Also for the chick peas try this : One can chick peas (rinsed), add one stalk chopped cellery, two or three small radishes chopped, one can tuna, and about three or four tbs low fat/sodium reduced italian dressing dam tasty!

 

[<Cyrus>]

paul?

 

[MACCA]

sounds and looks good to me ive got everything there just the chick peas missing its on the shopping list.
ps shes shopping tomorrow
thanks <cyrus>
paul

 

[Emma-Leigh]

You don't eat 'vegetables' for the calories - you usually eat them for the vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, fibre, water and phytonutrients they will offer you...

Most vegetables are 'good vegetables' with things like celery, lettuce, cucumber, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, tomato, eggplant, capsicum/peppers, mushroom, spinach, kale, rocket, zucchini, asparagus, leeks, bok choy, chinese choi sum all being great choices...

The only ones you have to be a little careful with are things like green peas (a legume not a vege - so it is more calorie dense), corn (a grain like oats), carrot (more sugar than regular vegetables), beetroot (more sugars than regular vegetables), squash/pumpkin (more calorie dense and less fibre) and parsnips (more calorie dense)...


But other things you can add to salads are legumes (beans, lentils, chick-peas), fruits (strawberries go really well), seeds or nuts (sunflower seeds, walnuts), avocado or olive oil (for the healthy fats) or another carb such as barley, sweet potato, brown rice or even sweet corn.

 

[squanto]

rocket?

 

[MACCA]

thanks Emma-leigh i will make a visit too my local health shop i already eat alot of the greens but i must try the different stuff ie; eggplant bok choy and chinese choi sum.
cheers Paul.

 

[MACCA]

cant stand sweetcorn use it for fishing instead raw broccoli one of my favourites.

 

[DOMS]

Using corn to fish is illegal in nearly every state and is a very bad practice. It causes wasteful, and unnecessary, death.

Basically, if you do it, you're an asshat.

 

[FenderBender]

I love watercress, and arugalla....both kinda aromatic and "peppery" great with a little bit of pear and walnuts.

Fennel is nice to mix it up if you enjoy that "anise"flavor. iit's great to saute with lemon juice and a touch of olive oil as a side dish.

shreded red and green cabbage add alot of crunch to a salad. cooked red cabbage with a shredded green apple,cider vinegar and lots of pepper is very very yummy.

 

[squanto]

Using corn to fish is illegal in nearly every state and is a very bad practice. It causes wasteful, and unnecessary, death.

Basically, if you do it, you're an asshat.

hey can you elaborate on this?

 

[DOMS]

hey can you elaborate on this?

Of all the substances out there, fish find corn to be the most irresistable. The problem is that it's completely inedible and will cause the fish that ate it to die due to a bowel obstruction (the corn). So if the fish swipes the corn without getting caught it will still die.

Just think how often the fish takes the bait and doesn't get caught. You'd end up killing a dozen or more fish for evey one that you caught.

 

[myCATpowerlifts]

Of all the substances out there, fish find corn to be the most irresistable. The problem is that it's completely inedible and will cause the fish that ate it to die due to a bowel obstruction (the corn). So if the fish swipes the corn without getting caught it will still die.

Just think how often the fish takes the bait and doesn't get caught. You'd end up killing a dozen or more fish for evey one that you caught.

I agree...It's wasteful and can actually polute the water...

 

[DOMS]

Just image if someone were to accidentally knock a bag of it into the water.

 

[Emma-Leigh]

rocket?

From FoodSubs:

arugula [uh-REW-guh-la] = arrugola = (in Britain ) rocket (salad) = tira = Italian cress = Mediterranean rocket = rugola = rugula = roquette = rucola With its peppery and slightly bitter flavor, arugula is a terrific green to throw into an otherwise boring salad. It can be gently braised, too. Some supermarkets sell it in small bunches, but you're more likely to find it combined with other greens in a spring salad mix. Equivalents: 1 cup = 1 ounce Substitutes: watercress OR tender spinach leaves plus dash of ground pepper OR Belgian endive OR escarole OR young dandelion greens (more bitter) OR young mustard greens OR chicory OR radicchio

Why do they make everything have so many names??!!

 

[MACCA]

never new that about sweetcorn i do loads of fishing competitions and have never come across that before in england....

 

[MACCA]

I have done some searching on fishing sites for banned baits all let you fish with sweetcorn. Boillies and some seeds like hempseed are banned at many fisheries in the UK, are talking about the same sweetcorn ie; Green giant tinned sweetcorn??
cheers Paul.

 

[boilermaker]

First off, the only thing people use corn for bait to catch are carp and catfish.
Second, any fish that works hard enough to get a kernal of corn off your hook without being caught will probably die of cardiac arrest.

I don't know why fish would find corn irresistable they eat other fish and bugs in real life, not grain crops. So, I don't think that it is because the corn kills 12x the number of fish you put in the boat. Maybe they don't want volunteer corn growing in the lakes. Since it isn't an aquatic plant, I don't think this is the reason. I may be wrong, but need to see some facts here.

Good fishing

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

I agree...It's wasteful and can actually polute the water...

How could it polute the water - fish dies - other fish it's eat, or shell fish, ? or it hits land and an animal eats it.... or it just rots to the bottom and there goes the life cycle all over againnnnnn