Throwing food away

My sister in law gave us 6 dozen eggs from her happy hens when we were in PA! Best eggs ever. : )

I get to feed all my leftovers to the chickens too! It makes me feel.so much better to recycle It! Lol. Love the good eggs I get!

This is a great post. I am really proud of you. This is not always an easy thing to do.

I tell myself I am not a human trash can.

I know I can become a a vacuum when it comes to carbs.

Thanks. An old weigh****chers meeting leader I had alsways used to say "I've never once seen a trash can come in and say I want to join weigh****chers". It always comes to mind when I debate throwing things away.

Even AFTER I posted this I struggled with tossing the leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving. It's absurd how much thought I devoted to that decision on my run this morning. They are now in the trash. I have more potatoes if anyone get a crazy desire for mashed potatoes.

That is a great post. It was hard for me to do a the begining. I learned to cook less at a time. Some items I can use in another dish the next day for my BF (i.e. rice to mix with meat for stuffed peppers or cabbage rolls) but most carby foods either end up in a trash or go bad and I toss it anyway. At the same time I stopped making a lot of carby sites for my BF. And when I make them- there are no more that 2 servings at the most. He is not overweight, and he eats some carbs, but since I stopped making too many carby sides for him a few years ago - he dropped 20 lbs without really trying. I no longer buy or make pancakes, or pasta dishes, or waffles, etc. He gets some them maybe once every 2 -3 weeks. Surprisingly - he really does not miss it. I make sure we have a lot of different veggies at home. Cooked or fresh. Plus plenty of good protein choices.

FYI - we were in Costa Rica for a week. They serve rice and beans with every meal. He ate that every day, not a lot, but enough to gain 3 lbs. It took him 1 month to drop that when we got back. He saw the side effects of eating too many carbs every day.

Cooking less is something I'm getting used to. I grew up in a family of 9, so am used to everything being cooked in large quantities. I have to actively tell myself I'm not my parents family. I think I'll cut the pancakes batter back by a 1/2 cup from now on, it should eliminate the excess.

I really try to cut the starchy sides, but its a huge bone on contention for my husband. He complains to the havens if there is no starch, then never looks at them again. Sometimes I'm crafty and can incorporate them into a second meal- most times I'm not.

When I was learning how to cook less- I took notes. I measured everything, and made food then kept notes - how was it, how much was eaten, how much left over and if I could make another dish from it. It was a hard work for app 6 months. It is easier for me to cook less - and maximize the veggies. It is easy for me since it is only the 2 of us. It probably be more difficult if I had children- specially boys.

Good luck with that. You are going to need that. Fyi- Keith does not care about most leftovers. So I had to learn to cook much less. And learn that it is ok to not have extra for seconds. That was hard for me. I grew up with a mother that believed that if you don't have leftovers- you didn't cook enough for everyone to eat and someone is still hungry.

I hate wasting food. Growing up my son preferred eating leftovers to a sandwich for lunch. Now I am making carbs for my nephew, but trying to make what gd will eat at one meal if maybe one meal and a leftovers...

good for you for throwing the food out right after you served it. Not easy.

Ugh, throwing food away! In the beginning when I was eating so little, it was very hard for me to throw food away, but now at four years out, it's a lot easier. When we go out to restaurants, I'll usually order something that will make good leftovers. I never used to eat leftovers, but it's almost to the point that if there aren't any leftovers in the fridge, I don't know quite what to do!

I find I've also gotten to the point that if I eat something that doesn't taste all that great or makes me feel weird, I'll avoid it. For example, earlier in the week, my husband and I got these little mini pies from Whole Paycheck. They come in a package of two and I used to eat both as dessert after lunch (of a Whole Paycheck salad, of course!). He ate both of his and I ate one of mine and it made me very gassy, so I just kind of left the other one until it got moldy. Before, I would have eaten it anyway because it was there.

I think as you get more used to living with your surgery, it'll become more second nature to you to let food go, but I suspect it'll never be easy.

Jen

I hear you on avoiding foods that don't agree, makes me feel icky or if I quilafy it as "that's not that bad" its off the list. When did "not that bad" become an acceptable qualifier to consume food?

I experienced that will apple pie & ice cream. I can handle either one without issue, but the combination together made me feel icky. It took a second try to confirm it- but now that I know its fact- I stay away from them both.