Pesach and nutrition

[cellio]

Notes to self for next year:

• Use fish, a lot, to make up the protein deficit (waa! no soy!) without driving calories through the roof. That much meat, cheese, and egg is bad for you.
• But not tuna salad. I mean real fish, several times during the week. Fresh fish freezes.
• Eat more fruit. Fruit doesn't have to come in cans, you know; there's this place called the produce aisle.
• Eat more veggies too. Buy a microwave-safe casserole for this.
• There's a vitamin-balance problem, but I don't know how to fix it when the balanced breakfast drink is off limits.
• Baby carrots are not the only convenient raw veggie -- just the most convenient one. 400% RDA on Vitamin A is probably bad for you, even if it's only a week.
• Maybe you shouldn't eat matzah after the seders. It's not required, and there are other delivery systems for cheese and jam. Ok, maybe not jam, but you shouldn't be eating much of that anyway.

Comments

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm eating a lot of eggs. To make it a bit more healthy, I use 2 or 3 whites to every yolk when making omlettes. Still tastes yummy!

[gingicat]

Unless you're allergic to milk protein, yogurt is good for protein too.

Whole wheat matzah helps digestive issues, as do bananas.

Multivitamins, fruit juice, and dairy will help the vitamin deficit.

So saith the pregnant woman. ;)

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

Pardon me if the answer is obvious, but why "no soy"?

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

You'll be happy to hear that the nearby bakery obviously got tipped off that there was some major jewish festival thingy happening about now, so they baked lots and lots of extra loaves of challah. The staff were looking sufficiently bemused and depressed when I went past there this evening that I didn't feel justified in wandering in and hitting them with a clue stick.

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

My post-workout evening snack, which is also good for pesach includes:

* 1 x 95g tin salmon (John West, a local brand, not sure if you have it there, makes it in various "flavours" including smoked, lemon & thyme, etc).
* 1 x boiled egg.
* 1 x handful sprouts (OK, so my rabbi told me that alfalfa sprouts were kosher for passover, not sure about mung bean, check with yours).
* 1 x splodge kosher vegetable oil mayo or similar.
* 1 x tomato, sliced over the top.

The aim is for high-protein and low-carb rather than specifically kosher for passover, but it works as a protein boost, and has fibre, vitamins, and omega-3's as well. Put it on some matzah for added carbs. It's surprisingly filling for a relatively small serve.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

You may not need to be that worried about the calories. JAMA has come out with a report (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/293/15/1861) from the CDC that they'd overcounted the deaths from obesity by a factor of 14. (Costs $12--it was free when it first came out.) Briefly, being somewhat above the recommended weight increases longevity. Being moderately fatter than that makes little difference. Being very fat is still considered dangerous.

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You may not need to be that worried about the calories. JAMA has come out with <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/293/15/1861">a report</a> from the CDC that they'd overcounted the deaths from obesity by a factor of 14. (Costs $12--it was free when it first came out.) Briefly, being somewhat above the recommended weight increases longevity. Being moderately fatter than that makes little difference. Being very fat is still considered dangerous.

<a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3142605"Here's</a> the newspaper version.

[cortejo.livejournal.com]

My husband has a lot of food issues bu how we handle it I think could apply to you too.

We have all his food that he can eat, in this case no sugar and no dairy not no fat, on one shelf in the pantry. We have no food in the fridge that isn't going to be eaten by one of the three of us. No expired food, no condiments that one on likes, etc. We do not load up the fridge so you can't find stuff anymore.

Oatmeal is a wonderful low fat source of iron and protien and now comes in sugar free instant packets.

Wheat germ and sugar free apple sauce make a wonderful snack. It tastes like apple crips.

Small tomatoes are just as convient as baby carrots. So are grapes.

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about Pesach food this year, although I was smart enough to buy a package of frozen sole fillets. Also we got a lot of seder leftovers (which complicated things a bit because we were exclusively dairy at home, we ate out of styrofoam bowls and I had to do clean up in the bathroom sink!).

I think we would've eaten better this week if we had more than one pot.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I pretty much LIVE on fruits and veggies during pesach. And, like Jeanne, I tend to cut back on the egg yolks whenever feasible. I do this much of the year anyway, as Seth's cholesterol doesn't need any help inching up.

Convenient veggies: grape tomatoes. Grapes (not a veggie, but healthy and convenient) Also, if you cut up celery into snack sized portions before Pesach and keep them soaking in water, they'll last all through pesach. That's what I love about celery. Another nice snacky food is cucumbers. Slice 'em, or cut them into spears. It only takes a few minutes to peel and cut up a cucumber. And it's a tasty snack with next to no calories.

Convenient fruits too: (grapes of course), strawberries. Just rinse them off when you buy them and then you can snack on them whenever. Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. Apples. Bananas. Oranges.

I make a fruit salad virtually every day during Pesach. Pineapple, honeydew, strawberries, mango, and assorted berries. It's sweet, it's filling, it's healthy. You've probably noticed, also, that I don't believe in canned fruit.

I eat little matzoh during the week. I make few things with matzoh, even. I made farfel stuffing this year, but that can be eaten sparingly and still enjoyed.

Most of the money that I spent on food this year, believe it or not, went to the produce aisle at Whole Foods. I spent a lot of time browsing, finding interesting things and getting inspired. It worked out well, I think.