Aibu to think that serving potatoes at all with salmon en croute is just unnecessary carbohydrates

[halvedfees]

Further to the thread on boiled potatoes, from what I could glean not one person pointed out that you are serving carbohydrates with what should be already an ample portion of carbohydrates in the pastry. We have salmon en croute with extra green veg to fill everyone up. Is it just me or do people not get what a healthy portion (especially carbohydrates) actually is? Don't get me started on garlic bread being served with pasta.......🤬

"On the odd ocassion, no"? Bloody hell, OP. 🤦

However what do you think burger and chips every day does?

Where is anyone advocating for eating burger and chips every day?

@PurpleDaisies

However what do you think burger and chips every day does?

Where is anyone advocating for eating burger and chips every day?

Nowhere.😁 I find it actually quite funny that someone who thinks dinner containing most of your daily recommended saturated fat amount is fine is going on about double carb and how we should eat better😂

@Douchebaggette

All that mn threads about food do, is show what a deeply ingrained toxic relationship (mostly) women have with food. In both directions.

Christ, it's depressing. It's just food.

Thankyou.i needed to see someone else say this today.thankyou

I have to say that I’ve yet to come across a real person who has strict portion control and eats miserably, only here on MN do you see the ‘I live on air and 1 green bean a week’ what a joyless existence.

If we change carbs to veg - sometimes I have 1 vegetable, sometime double veg or triple veg.
If having double or triple veg, I reduce the size of each veg portion.
So same with carbs- if I had pasta and garlic bread, I’d just serve up less pasta.
Is this not common sense?

My DP is half-Indian and she struggles with the concept of rice and chapati. It is one or the other

Most of India would be confused with her struggles, since double carbing is ingrained in Indian food.

@ElizaLaLa

You can also double or triple carb and be underweight. I had 100g of chips last night because I'm watching my carbs/cals but I could have had those in a sandwich thin and been way under the daily recommended calorie intake.

I had a salad with a 52g tin of tuna and a teaspoon of mayo, and later I had 100g of chips. But that's all I ate all day 🤷‍♀️

Is that how you eat every day? That's a really tiny amount of food even for a single meal, never mind a whole day?

Pasta Genovese. Delicious. Pasta with pesto (good fresh pesto not the jar stuff) AND cubes of potato cooked with the pasta. DOUBLE CARBS.

lemonyfuckit

Triple with garlic bread...
Do it do it do it!!!!

OP's mind is going to blow when she realises every recipe for salmon en croute to be found says serve with some form of potatoes. Delia, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Mary Berry..even french chefs as well!

And when she hears about salmon coulibac, which is like salmon en croute but has RICE INSIDE it....well, (BOOM)

I might draw the line at triple carbs....ah, but fuckit, that sounds tasty.

Also (and I'm really not suggesting this is a healthy meal that should be eaten regularly), but the Aberdeenshire delicacy that is a macaroni pie. Macaroni cheese, in a pie. They are quite small mind but I do slightly shudder to think of the calorie content. But also a delicious filthy delicacy.

@praecantator

Agree, food is one of the greatest pleasures in life, hence creating an environment, where people are constantly anxious about what they can or can not eat and counting calories (crazy, I could never do that) is royally fucked up. Said environment is primarily created at home whilst growing up. As a child, you eat what your parents serve, hence installing healthy eating habits is A GOOD THING.

That's not necessarily true. Growing up my mum cooked proper dinners, shepherds pie, liver & bacon and mash 🤮, stews and casseroles and curries etc.

Once I hit my teenage years I put weight on, despite being a skinny child and am overweight now. I would live on takeaways if I could, I don't, but I would, quite happily. My mum never fed us like that, we rarely had a takeaway, only on birthdays etc.

Ah but you can go normal macaroni with that other Aberdeenshire delicacy - the buttery. Or rowie. Or ‘roll’. Depending on your patch.

I’ve made Mac and cheese puff pastries. Pure filth.

A buttery with lardo. (Mix of my roots)

Be still my beating heart.

I eat properly a lot. I have my folks to care for and nutrition is important.

But sometimes lemony you have to say fuckit and succumb. High days and holidays.

And wallow in carby bliss.

I'm supposed to be on a vlcd meal replacement diet but substituted with food yesterday, hence the small amount. My salad was huge though, of course.

@ElizaLaLa

I'm supposed to be on a vlcd meal replacement diet but substituted with food yesterday, hence the small amount. My salad was huge though, of course.

I was replying to PickAChew.

@ElizaLaLa

I'm supposed to be on a vlcd meal replacement diet but substituted with food yesterday, hence the small amount. My salad was huge though, of course.

Sorry but as a salad fan. What's in your "huge salad"? Because I am on a diet and even I do whole can of tuna....

I'm in spain and the tuna tins are tiny.

I had a little gem lettuce, cucumber, komato? Cherry tomatoes (greeny black ones), radishes, red onion, sweetcorn, guinadillas (little kebab chilli's). A tin of tuna and a teaspoon of mayo.

Dressed with salt, pepper, lemon and a tiny drizzle of olive oil.

I just checked and they are 56g.

That's tiny😱
The tomatoes sound intreaguing. I had just black Russians, not komato yet🤔 Must resist urge to buy seeds👀

However, as it stands it really all sounds like VERY little food for a day.

It is. It's a vlcd. 600 calorie a day.

Sorry but that aimply doesn't sound healthy unless it's something like once a week "fast"😱

It's very healthy for diabetes and to get weight off quickly to improve blood glucose readings. Its prescribed by doctors.

Oh yeah, if you are watched by a doctor then it's safer than if you are not.

@SheldonesqueIsUnwell

Ah but you can go normal macaroni with that other Aberdeenshire delicacy - the buttery. Or rowie. Or ‘roll’. Depending on your patch.

I’ve made Mac and cheese puff pastries. Pure filth.

A buttery with lardo. (Mix of my roots)

Be still my beating heart.

I eat properly a lot. I have my folks to care for and nutrition is important.

But sometimes lemony you have to say fuckit and succumb. High days and holidays.

And wallow in carby bliss.

To be fair, with a buttery it's not the carbs you would be worried by, it's the fat oozing out of every delicious greasy bite. They were originally meant to be long lasting, high calorie food to take out on fishing boats, the lard preserved them. You used to be able to get cheese butteries if plain ones were not fatty enough.