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mondurvic
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Post by mondurvic » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:18 am

Following Mindless Eating suggestions, I decided to use baby carrots as scoopers with my third-meal baba ganoug tonight, instead of the usual rice crackers. To my astonishment, it was BETTER, much better. When I ran out of carrots (I wasn't too excited about eating vegetables, so had bought only a small handful), I switched to fresh tomato, which was also good.

In this one step, I avoided hundreds of calories (you can get a lot of those little crackers on a plate!), had a couple of healthy vegetable servings, AND enjoyed my food more.

I am thrilled!

Judy

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Post by Jammin' Jan » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:38 am

I've done this with strips of green peppers to scoop up salsa at Mexican restaurants. Much better than fried corn chips!

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JustAnnie
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Post by JustAnnie » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:57 am

OK, so I'm ignorant, but I have no idea what baba ganoug is??
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Post by florafloraflora » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:25 am

JustAnnie wrote:OK, so I'm ignorant, but I have no idea what baba ganoug is??
It's a Middle-Eastern spread made with roasted eggplant and olive oil, the same kind of thing as hummus, that is usually eaten with pita bread. Also spelled baba ganouj or baba ganoush.

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Post by JustAnnie » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:52 pm

Thanks for the information. It sounds good. I love eggplant and try to get some olive oil into my diet when I can.
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Post by Jaxhil » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:26 pm

I am reading that book now- lots of great suggestions, right?!

Hilary

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