[CFrance]

Potato cabbage soup sounds like one of the healthier ways to eat potatoes--no sour cream or butter. Go for it!

[CFrance]

Do you ever make pizza at home? You can load it up with lots of meatless items.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Potato cabbage soup sounds like one of the healthier ways to eat potatoes--no sour cream or butter. Go for it!

Colcannon I throw some ham or bacon in it, there goes the meatless part. You can also put kale and spicy sausage and it's Portugese green soup.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Colcannon I throw some ham or bacon in it, there goes the meatless part. You can also put kale and spicy sausage and it's Portugese green soup.

Colcannon is great, but I make it with bacon. I was thinking more of a soup with cabbage, onions, carrots, celery, broth, chunks of potato.

I have a very good vegetarian lentil soup recipe that my family prefers to the old recipe made with ham hocks.

[Nursebarb1]

rubicon, I totally agree. Never will be vegans, but increasing the meatless meals suits us just fine. We love an omelet with fresh veggies for dinner. Graciegirl, $1.99 for 3 lemons in the citrus state? WTH.

[ConeyIsBabe]

Originally Posted by 2BNTV

I always found that eating healthier is more expensive. IMHO

IMHO eating healthier is less expensive than spending money on cheaper processed food that does little to support optimal health in the long term, and may actually do harm.

Besides, the results of a diet on poor quality "food" leads to lowered immune system, more visits to the doctor, spending money on prescribed drugs, dealing with the side effects of the drugs and feeling poorly! Just my humble opinion

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Schaumburger

Me too - I love rice, potatoes and pasta. I know I was Italian in a previous life. A new Polish restaurant recently opened up near my home in suburban Chicago. I had their cheese and potato pierogies last week; they were to die for. I also had borscht which I had never tried before -- yum, yum.

Schaumburger: My wife is polish and also makes pierogies and an assortment of other polish/german dishes. She learned to cook Italian from my mother and she has my mother's recipes down to a fine sciene.

Life is good

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Do you ever make pizza at home? You can load it up with lots of meatless items.

Cfrance my wife makes pizza from scratch. Love it all meat meatless white with veggies but no chicken and no pineapple my favorite is Neopolitan pizza very simple elegant and tasty

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Nursebarb1

rubicon, I totally agree. Never will be vegans, but increasing the meatless meals suits us just fine. We love an omelet with fresh veggies for dinner. Graciegirl, $1.99 for 3 lemons in the citrus state? WTH.

Nursebarb: I came across an omelet recipe a number of years ago. It is a combination of slice apples and potatoes that you sautee with butter and brown sugar. You add diced ham. Its made with a French omelet vis a vis the American way.....placed in oven to rise

Eggs another of my down falls

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by ConeyIsBabe

IMHO eating healthier is less expensive than spending money on cheaper processed food that does little to support optimal health in the long term, and may actually do harm.

Besides, the results of a diet on poor quality "food" leads to lowered immune system, more visits to the doctor, spending money on prescribed drugs, dealing with the side effects of the drugs and feeling poorly! Just my humble opinion

ConeyIsbabe: I agree. As we age our ability to absorb nutrients lessens. It is important for us to eat less but more often to keep up our energy.

Preparing meals is one of life's joys in our household and we find that there are many 30 minute meals and endless upon endless recipes. God did well by us in letting food fuel our bodies because its all so good

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Castia37 you had me on a roll until you said watch out for too much rice potatoes or pasta. I am a sinner those three food products are essential to me I love rice and suspect in one of my previous lives I was Chinese. I love potatoes anyway every way. I would beg my wife's Polish grandmother to make me potato and cabbage soup. I love pasta figioli pasta with an assortment of vegetables and tomatoes.

Now I have to re-think what my wife and I just re-thought.....I think

Originally Posted by Schaumburger

Me too - I love rice, potatoes and pasta. I know I was Italian in a previous life. A new Polish restaurant recently opened up near my home in suburban Chicago. I had their cheese and potato pierogies last week; they were to die for. I also had borscht which I had never tried before -- yum, yum.

Be careful with too much rice. Did you know that arsenic was in rice?

FDA Data Show Arsenic In Rice, Juice, And Beer | Food Safety - Consumer Reports

Arsenic in rice: how concerned should you be?

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Bonanza

Be careful with too much rice. Did you know that arsenic was in rice?

FDA Data Show Arsenic In Rice, Juice, And Beer | Food Safety - Consumer Reports

Arsenic in rice: how concerned should you be?

Bomanza: Thank you for the info. What a great idea for a detective story. Man kills wife and detective discovered his clever scheme to hide the deadly weapon and cause was feeding her excessive amounts of rice. He almost got away with committing the perfect crime but this detective knew his methods.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Cfrance my wife makes pizza from scratch. Love it all meat meatless white with veggies but no chicken and no pineapple my favorite is Neopolitan pizza very simple elegant and tasty

Easy to have a pot of basil growing out on the lanai too. Not so easy to grow the mozzarella...

[casita37]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Castia37 you had me on a roll until you said watch out for too much rice potatoes or pasta. I am a sinner those three food products are essential to me I love rice and suspect in one of my previous lives I was Chinese. I love potatoes anyway every way. I would beg my wife's Polish grandmother to make me potato and cabbage soup. I love pasta figioli pasta with an assortment of vegetables and tomatoes.

Now I have to re-think what my wife and I just re-thought.....I think

I know, I know....I love my carbs, too. One way to cut down on the "bad" carbs is to switch to brown rice, rice, or some other non-wheat, pasta and sweet potatoes instead of white. If you like mashed potatoes, sub some, or all, of the potatoes with cauliflower....surprisingly good. You could start to ease into the healthier carbs, so maybe not too painful!!

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Easy to have a pot of basil growing out on the lanai too. Not so easy to grow the mozzarella...

CFrance Yep my wife has her little herb garden chives, basil parsley rosemary etc I water them along with her plants and flowers because that is the natural order of things