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	SD! : Web boards : Service : "food preperation" 1 2 food preperation (14) Thu 27 Mar 08, 3:01 PM Outlaws_manxie 17 mths Master and I are working on trying to do the whole weight loss thing and to eat healthier. We have started the whole portion control thing and buy meats that are healthier instead of buying what ever is on sale. I'm wanting to know if anyone has any ideas on how to prepare foods such as recipes that will possibly please Master. We eat a lot of veggies. Thank you in advance. manxie kitty 27 Mar 08, 3:11 PM DarkSado 12 mths Outlaws_manxie wrote: food preperation Master and I are working on trying to do the whole weight loss thing and to eat healthier. We have started the whole portion control thing and buy meats that are healthier instead of buying what ever is on sale. I'm wanting to know if anyone has any ideas on how to prepare foods such as recipes that will possibly please Master. We eat a lot of veggies. Thank you in advance. manxie kitty manxie: Yes, try this link: www.wholefoodsmarket.com. They have a large assortment of healthier meats, dairy, fruits, vegetables, nuts, & grains to choose from. you & your Master can buy online, or go to their stores. There's a large selection of organic foods that are of higher quality than the typical food market. DarkSado 27 Mar 08, 3:19 PM DarkSado 12 mths DarkSado wrote: Outlaws_manxie wrote: food preperation Master and I are working on trying to do the whole weight loss thing and to eat healthier. We have started the whole portion control thing and buy meats that are healthier instead of buying what ever is on sale. I'm wanting to know if anyone has any ideas on how to prepare foods such as recipes that will possibly please Master. We eat a lot of veggies. Thank you in advance. manxie kitty manxie: Yes, try this link: www.wholefoodsmarket.com. They have a large assortment of healthier meats, dairy, fruits, vegetables, nuts, & grains to choose from. you & your Master can buy online, or go to their stores. There's a large selection of organic foods that are of higher quality than the typical food market. manxie: I forgot to mention that the website has a dropdown recipe menu for the foods that they sell. DarkSado 27 Mar 08, 4:49 PM tangie US(MI), 6 yrs I think this thread is worth keeping "up front," and may help you. http://www.slaveregister.com/boards/service/1267... Learning is not childs play; there can be no growth without pain~ Aristotle 27 Mar 08, 5:24 PM 139-715-032 US(MA), 3 yrs One thing that I have found works well with dominants is having lots of healthy food easily available, and the negative food choices available in small quantities but not so convenient. Promote positive choices, and only gently discourage negative choices. Having small quantities of high-quality favorite "bad" foods can help reduce the feeling of deprivation. I remember a macrobiotic nutritionist saying that part of the diet he gives people is a mandatory small serving of "anything you want" every day. It has to be what you really want, not what you think you ought to want, and it is absolutely mandatory. You can't skip it. One method of creating positive change is to figure out what dietary areas are most important to modify, and be very lenient on the other areas. For my master this means a whole-foods diet with plenty of organic vegetables and very few additives/preservatives, but there is very little emphasis on reducing fat and calories. That way you can make food that is still "indulgent" but you are making positive change. Once they get accustomed to the change and it feels "normal" rather than restrictive, you can add another positive change. Another method is to allow yourself only a certain number of "bad" food choices per day or week. This works if you enjoy bargaining with yourself. Tally up how many "bad" food choices you make now, and aim to reduce that by half or a third. Be honest when assessing how many "units of badness" a particular meal is, and cut or reduce the bad things that aren't really worth it to you. This can help you to think, "Yes I'd like that greasy burger, but wouldn't it be better to have a turkey sandwich now and a piece of cheesecake this evening?" or "Okay, I'll have either the greasy burger with a healthy salad, or the healthy sandwich with cheese fries, but not both the cheese fries and the burger." (You do have to be honest about how much bad food you usually eat and what your goal is, otherwise you'll just lie to yourself and justify even worse food choices than you'd been making already.) Another method is to gradually gradually change things across the board, but keep everything familiar. Some people are very resistant to change. Look at the meals you normally prepare, and make the healthy ones more often. Make the less healthy ones infrequently. Have a healthy salad or soup before the meal so you won't be as hungry. Make small changes to meals: A little less gravy on this, not so much butter on that. A little more veggies and a little less meat. Another method is to add healthy dishes that are new and exciting. For some people, a healthy version of an old favorite is frustrating because it isn't as good and just reminds you of what you aren't having. Some people really love new and exotic foods. So don't make a low fat version of the usual things - make something entirely different that is naturally low fat or that they've never had the fatty version to compare it to. Making the presentation of the food really nice helps a lot, especially if the unwise food choices come from eating out too often. (This usually works even for folks who think it is stupid and ought not make a difference what the food looks like.) Do not put tiny servings on a great big plate. They look sad and lonely. Have an attractive mix of colors in each meal. Arrange the food nicely and artfully drizzle some colorful sauce on it. Put food in a nice bowl instead of serving it from the saucepan. Make fancy little appetizers for no special reason. Buy a nice wine. Use the good china. Use a tablecloth. Use plenty of herbs and seasonings and sauces - you don't get bonus martyrdom points for eating bland food. Besides, if you are not interested in the food, your digestive system doesn't kick into full gear and you don't get as much nutritional value out of it. If you don't actually need to be on a low salt diet, don't cut salt just because it is "bad". Some dominants have set the rule that the sub is not allowed to facilitate their unwise food choices. The sub may only buy and prepare healthy food, and if the dom wants unhealthy food they have to get it themselves. (My master would hate this, but some find it helpful.) -- Joshua Raven's Boy, Joshua, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raven Kaldera. You may contact Joshua directly with any questions or comments at josh@cauldronfarm.com, or contact Raven at cauldronfarm@hotmail.com. 27 Mar 08, 6:23 PM Devils_concubine UK, 17 mths I don't think I can sensibly add more than Joshua has on this topic - his advice is top-notch! You could try this website: www.recipezaar.com You can select recipes either based on their main constituents (ie, what you have in the fridge) or from lists of recipes under headers such as: vegetarian, healthy, diabetic etc... Most of the recipes have lists attached which include calorie count per potion and other nutritional facts like those you'd find on the back of a "readymeal" box. xx "Property of The Devil Himself" 27 Mar 08, 6:58 PM SlaveWiki 10 mths http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cooking/ mabe this will help. Master & i are also trying to lose weight as well 28 Mar 08, 12:10 PM slave_of_George US(AR), 15 mths i work for a diabetic specialist and for her patients she recommends the South Beach Diet plan. i've also noticed in the records that the Weight Watchers plan seems to work fairly well also. if these don't fit your particular tastes, why not pick up a good diabetic cookbook? they usually list all the calorie/carb/protein/fiber/etc counts for each serving for each recipe. Good Luck!! -slave of George 28 Mar 08, 1:55 PM Rogers_Deb0rah UK, 7 yrs Joshua has great advice, especially on the colour front. For some reason, the mixture of colour often means it is healthy anyway. Steam veg as its fresher and healthier and retains more goodness. The other main reminder that is a simple one, is plate division. A quarter for your meat/protein area, a quarter for the potato/starchy/bread content and a half for the vegetables and or salad. Another simple thing I have introduced to the family recently is a huge jug of water on the table at each meal. The rule is fill your glass with water then you may have a fruit juice etc but more often then not as the water is on the table, it is used to refill. I have noticed a huge drop in the amount of other drinks we consume and while juices are healthy they are acidic and sugary. Another one is sit at the table together and certainly don't sit in the lounge in front of the TV. Take time to eat and chew and let it fill you up, often we rush foods and don't let the chewing mechanism trigger the fact that we are getting full as we stuff food in as life is busy. Sadly as much as intake can make a difference, so does output, so exercise matters too! As has been mentioned, don't try to make drastic changes, take baby steps and the improvements will last! All diets are much of a muchness anyway if you have a basic knowledge of food and they appear,disappear then reappear as fads. Just stick to the basics and you'll be fine. Debs xx "Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man." John Knox 28 Mar 08, 2:55 PM Outlaws_manxie 17 mths Thank you all for your helpful advice and I'll be sure to use this next time that I go to the market to buy groceries. So far we have cut out all can foods and have begun to buy frozen veggies instead of the can stuff that has a lot of salt and other things in it to preserve it. We've started buying meats that do look better for us. I've cut my meat intake back to six oz throughout the day. Each serving about the size of my palm. And a helping of steamed veggies and a large glass of water. We are unable to eat at the kitchen table so for us that is out. We have gotten to where we are baking or grilling more of the meat instead of just eatting it fried. We use to eat out a lot more than we do. 28 Mar 08, 5:43 PM paul81255 NZ, 10 mths Looking through peoples profiles i am fascinated by the BMI reading. Typically there are some amazingly high levels while typically and well organised person has a BMI of around 25 or less depending on facts such as bone size and weight and breast size (breasts being very heavy and needing good posture to carry) Eating well is simply a life and death issue. In the past century a lot of bad things happened in respect of food and that -20th Century stuff- still continues. the future in many ways will be for some like the good and the bad of the 14th century. Already food prices world wide are on the rise and as a percentage of income for food is going to be a very significant thing; therefore putting in some thought to these issues is extremely wise. One family mmember is a wine maker and another family mmemeber has parked wine barrels all around the place where lettece plants and other things like Spinach is growing; so even people living in a high rise can have the freshest food. Ofocourse home grown is the most expensive and the results are not commercial but that's the point if you have good soil the food is packed full of goodness. Meat- well another family memeber saves exploited animals and so we have some happy liberated chickens and a few ducks happily doing their thing... but they couldn't possibly kill them... so some family mmebers don't eat meat and the rest of us eat much less. What I am saying is this- you are a valuable slave or mistress/master. You need to value therefore the lives for which you are responsible, and that means eating good food. The food industry even now as wheat prices are way higher than supply demand has shown it cannot be trusted. Therefore a key to this century is building a dependable supply of healthy food (putting cans away and waiting for dooms day is dumb) All this requires a total rethink of life....but hey it's a new century and a new era so lets make a few adjustments (we have already which is why you are here reading this) and see where we go. love paul Next page