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Healthy Eating and Recipes

ThornPixie

Hi

I am trying to lose weight, but I struggle with it because of my sensory issues when it comes to food. A lot of recipes I find need a lot of ingredients, which I don't have the patience to work with, or I don't want to eat them. I don't like onions, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms... anything that can be considered slimy. I can eat chicken but I'm really fussy with it. Sometimes I can just look at a piece of chicken and be sick in my mouth at the thought of eating it, which is super helpful when trying to lose weight! But other times I will be fine. I tend to prefer a whole cooked chicken where I can pick the whitest pieces off, as opposed to prepped chicken breast.

ANYWAY does anyone have any meals they can recommend? Minus all the gross stuff. If there are too many steps to the recipe, my husband will make it, but I definitely prefer the simpler ones.

Thanks in advance :) 

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  • One person in our household doesn't like slimy or too soft vegetables or foods - with a range of things avoided including: onions, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, sweet potato, aubergine and courgette.

    However, if I make soup with equal quantities (225 g) of chopped carrot and courgette, chicken stock cube and water, 50 g butter, 2 tablespoons of tomato puree, 1 level tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 tsp dried mixed herbs and a pince of ground white pepper - then use a stick blender at the end to make a smooth soup - that is popular (and it freezes well too - which is handy if you are a small household).

    I have also found if a dish needs the savoury taste of onion (without the slimy texture of it) - I can substitute "1 onion, chopped" with 1 rounded tablespoon of dried onion flakes - and everyone is happy.

    If there are "borderline softer textured" vegetables like butternut squash and swede - if I peel them, plus carrots and chop them all into large pieces, put them on an oven tray, toss them in 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, then roast them at 160 Deg. C in a fan oven for 45 minutes - those vegetables prove popular served with previously cooked chicken as you had described.

    Here is a chicken soup recipe to consider (it has a short video too):

    Soothing chicken and pearl barley soup"

    By Dr Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/turmeric_chicken_soup_36075

    Hope those things give you some ideas.

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  • One person in our household doesn't like slimy or too soft vegetables or foods - with a range of things avoided including: onions, tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, sweet potato, aubergine and courgette.

    However, if I make soup with equal quantities (225 g) of chopped carrot and courgette, chicken stock cube and water, 50 g butter, 2 tablespoons of tomato puree, 1 level tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 tsp dried mixed herbs and a pince of ground white pepper - then use a stick blender at the end to make a smooth soup - that is popular (and it freezes well too - which is handy if you are a small household).

    I have also found if a dish needs the savoury taste of onion (without the slimy texture of it) - I can substitute "1 onion, chopped" with 1 rounded tablespoon of dried onion flakes - and everyone is happy.

    If there are "borderline softer textured" vegetables like butternut squash and swede - if I peel them, plus carrots and chop them all into large pieces, put them on an oven tray, toss them in 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, then roast them at 160 Deg. C in a fan oven for 45 minutes - those vegetables prove popular served with previously cooked chicken as you had described.

    Here is a chicken soup recipe to consider (it has a short video too):

    Soothing chicken and pearl barley soup"

    By Dr Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/turmeric_chicken_soup_36075

    Hope those things give you some ideas.

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