5th Semi Annual Veggie Challenge!

[Luvmybabies]

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Breakfast -
1/4 cup green pepper 1.7

Lunch -
1 cup spaghetti squash 10.1

Dinner -
1 cup cucumber, chopped 3.1
3/4 cup romaine 1.2

Total carbs from my veggies today 16g - 4.5g fiber = 12.5 net

[OzLover]

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18.1 veggie net carbs today. I had some broccoli, zucchini, summer squash, saurkraut, red pepper, pumpkin & some more cabbage. Big oops at when I started cooking cabbage for dinner & realized I had it at lunch. Luckily it is one of my favorite veggies!

[mitzimarie]

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Greetings, Fellow Veggie Challengers!

Whew! Long day at work today... it's great to sit down and catch up here.

Well, I have my 'new' veggie for the week. I drove to the largest local supermarket to see what I could find, as our local shops don't have a huge range. I ended up with two 'mooli.' I bought one once before years ago, but it languished at the back of the fridge until it could practically slide out by itself... this time I'll actually get round to using it! Anyone have any recipe ideas? I'll probably use some raw with salad, and some cooked ... somehow.

C P, guess what? This is the veggie I want to try, too! I even have the recipe already. I will probably use olive oil in place of the cooking spray, though.

Crispy Baked Radish Chips

10 - 15 large radishes (may use daikon)
nonstick cooking spray
seasoning of choice

-Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
-Slice radishes into very thin chips and spread on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
-Lightly mist radish slices with cooking spray and then sprinkle with salt and pepper. (if using other seasonings, now is the time to add them).
-Bake for 10 minutes, flip, and bake for another 5-10 minutes or until crisp. Time may vary so watch these after flipping.

daikon = white radish = Japanese radish = Chinese radish = icicle radish = lo bak = loh baak = loh buk = mooli = Oriental radish = lo pak Pronuncation: DIE-kon Notes: Daikon is larger and milder than its relative, the red radish. The Japanese like to grate it and serve it with sushi or sashimi, but you can also pickle it, stir-fry it, or slice it into salads. Japanese daikons tend to be longer and skinnier than their Chinese counterparts, but the two varieties can be used interchangeably. Choose specimens that are firm and shiny. They don't store well, so try to use them right away.

LOL You attested to the fact that they don't store well.

[mitzimarie]

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I have no idea how I'm going to get to 12 carbs in veggies with the whole 2 cups of salad veggies, 1 cup other x_x So far I had half a cup of pumpkin and half a cup of cauliflower for like... 6 carbs I guess. I'll have two cups of salad for my dinner tonight and that's... not anywhere close to 12. I bought some jicama to try... not impressed. Tastes sort of like a radish with just a hint of carrot like sweetness XP I want to use my 2 cups for the actual salad leaves.

What high carb veggies am I ignorant of that will get me to the magic number?

Niko, have you checked out this link yet? http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...CARB_COUNT.pdf It will bring you to a nutritional spreadsheet that I really like. It lists the nutrition facts, and which rung the food is in. I've printed it out, and use it all of the time.

About the jicama - yeah, I wasn't impressed the first time either. But I have learned to try new veggies more than once. Just like introducing new foods to toddlers, you really do need to keep trying things over again. Re-training my taste buds is what has kept me in the game. For me, it's all about changing my thinking from living to eat, to eating to live.

Higher carb induction veggies - the ones I eat most are red bellpeppers, jicama, and pumpkin. In the .88 cups of canned pumpkin I ate for breakfast, there are 7 net veggie carbs. It's great to have that many net veggie carbs under my belt after my first meal of the day.

So, my typical Induction veggie carbs usually went something like this: .88 cups pumpkin @ 7g net veggie carbs, 1 cup red bellpepperr @ 6g net veggie carbs, and 1 cup jicama @ 5g net veggie carbs, for a total of 18g net veggie carbs. And as Glenda and Georgiana pointed out, there are a lot of possibilities out there. With a little practice, you will learn which veggies have the most nutritional punch. Your participation here will help you learn.

[momtomany1]

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crossing my fingers there is a daikon at the store tomorrow...

[mitzimarie]

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Georgiana, Luvmybabies, imagood1, momtomany1, C P, OzLover, GHB, planetclaire, and Slapshot - thank you for posting your totals. Very well done!

Now, my turn:

Breakfast: .88 cups pumpkin @ 7g net carbs
Mini-meals (it's how I eat at the boutique): 1 cup jicama @ 5g net carbs
1 serving raw sugar snap peas @ 5g net carbs
Another cup of jicama @ 5g net carbs
Dinner: big salad (with grilled shrimp, yum!), including 4 cups lettuce, 1/4 of a cucumber, and 3/4 of a tomato, @ 7g net carbs
FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 29g NET VEGGIE CARBS FOR MONDAY, 5/4

[ldyj]

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Here's my veggie carbs for today

34 minus fiber for 23 net

I've had, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, green pepper, mushrooms, onion, red bell pepper, celery and salad greens.

[mitzimarie]

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crossing my fingers there is a daikon at the store tomorrow...

Yeah, I haven't gotten mine yet, either. I've got a Whole Foods I can try, if my local market doesn't have it. I think I've seen it at my local one before, though, so it shouldn't be a problem.

for you!

[Niko]

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The PDF file is nice and all but it doesn't break down what's a salad veggy or an "other". I've got lots of "other" veggies I enjoy but not so much the salad which is what I'm suposed to be eating most of all.

I had about 1/2 cup pumpkin, 1/2 cup cauliflower and a huge slab of jicama as my new veggy. I didn't actually measure any of it because it would have either been messy or a hassle. Either way, it's around 12 carbs in veggies, probably more given the jicama x_x

Now to go back to writing all these papers. Uhg, finals week ~_~

[boonie stomper]

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Food Name…Amount…Unit…Cals…Fat (g)…Carbs (g). …Prot (g)…
Cabbage, Chinese, cooked…1 cup..67 5.3 3.9 2.4
Squash, summer, cooked…1 medium..131 8.1 14.9 3.1
Tomato and onion, cooked…..1 oz…..11 0.5 1.5 0.3
Peppers, green, cooked…1.4 cup…..18 1.0 2.3 0.3
Peppers, hot, cooked…1/4 Tbsp…..1 0.0 0.2 0.0
Carrots, cooked…1 medium…..32 1.4 4.6 0.4
Cauliflower, raw…1/4 cup…..6 0.0 1.3 0.5
Ginger root, raw… 6 slices 1” dia…..11 0.1 2.3 0.2
Bean sprouts, cooked…1/5 cup…..47 3.3 3.2 3.0

This was easy - yesterday I cut up lots of veggies and prepared several meals to prepare for the coming week. I had chicken, fish and beef and divvied up the veggies into different combos with the meats, oils seasonings and in a couple dishes some cheese.
I did'nt count dry seasonings or soy in veggies, the above is just the veggie portions eaten today. I had some raw veggie left over too, so I can add them to the lettuce when I want a salad instead of stir fry. Today's veggy totals are:

Grams…Calories%-Cals…Calories
323...
Fat...19.7...173...54
Saturated…3.7...32...10...
Polyunsaturated...6.3...55...17...
Monounsaturated...8.4...74...23...
Carbohydrate...34.3...125...39...
Dietary Fiber...10.3...
Protein...10.3...26...8...%
Alcohol...0.0...0...0...%

[boonie stomper]

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Oh, if this is wrong - bok choy is same as chinese cabbage,
and cooked ginger (did not find at Fitday) is same carbs as raw, let me know, please?

[mitzimarie]

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The PDF file is nice and all but it doesn't break down what's a salad veggy or an "other". I've got lots of "other" veggies I enjoy but not so much the salad which is what I'm suposed to be eating most of all.

Niko, here is the list of Salad and Other veggies that are listed on pages 125 and 126 in the book:


Salad Vegetables
You can have two to three cups per day of:

alfalfa sprouts
daikon
mushrooms
arugula
endive
parsley
bok choy
escarole
peppers
celery
fennel
radicchio
chicory
jicama
radishes
chives
lettuce
romaine lettuce
cucumber
moche
sorrel
These salad vegetables are high in phytonutrients and provide a good source of fiber.

Other Vegetables
You can have one cup per day of these veggies if salad does not exceed two cups. The following vegetables are slightly higher in carbohydrate content than the salad vegetables:

artichoke
celery root
pumpkin
artichoke hearts
rhubarb
asparagus
chard
sauerkraut
bamboo shoots
collard greens
scallions
dandelion
snow peas
bean sprouts
dandelion greens
spaghetti squash
beet greens
eggplant
spinach
broccoli
hearts of palm
string or wax beans
broccoli rabe
kale
summer squash
brussels
kohlrabi
tomato
bean sprouts
leeks
turnips
cabbage
okra
water chestnuts
cauliflower
onion
zucchini
If a vegetable, such as spinach or tomato, cooks down significantly, it must be measured raw so as not to underestimate its carb count.

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I had about 1/2 cup pumpkin, 1/2 cup cauliflower and a huge slab of jicama as my new veggy. I didn't actually measure any of it because it would have either been messy or a hassle. Either way, it's around 12 carbs in veggies, probably more given the jicama x_x

Niko, it is in your best interest to measure your portions. That's why I love the spreadsheet... it tells how much a cup of each food is in weight. For example, 1 cup of jicama = 130g. I use a very inexpensive food scale from Walmart (about $5) to measure the food, because it can sometimes be awkward to determine how much of an irregular-shaped veggie is really a cup.

Yeah, I know that it sounds like a pain in the butt... and it is, at first. But the only way to be able to "eyeball" what a cup or half cup of something is, is to accurately measure it a few times so you will know. A lot of people think that they're getting more net veggie carbs than they really are. For example, 1/2 cup of cauliflower only has 1.4 net carbs.

I've got you down for 12 today.

[jimmie 48]

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Oh, if this is wrong - bok choy is same as chinese cabbage,
and cooked ginger (did not find at Fitday) is same carbs as raw, let me know, please?

bok choy is chinese cabbage. i had some of that too!


my total for the day...
4 may
22 net veggie carbs.

actually it was probably more like 24 because of the tomato sauce i used on the whole wheat pasta tonight. but 22 for sure.

[Sherri]

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What a great group of challengers to share this challenge with.
Okay, here's my day of OWL veggies-
1 cup cauliflower
1.5 cup brocolli
1 medium mushroom
1.5 oz bell pepper
small(3"long) green onion
1 tsp. fresh ginger
1.5 cups lettuce
7 slices cucumber
Yields: 30.1 carbs~17.1 Net carbs

I'm still thinking about the new veggie to introduce. I'm going shopping Wednesday. I'll see what they have and make my choice(s) then.
Thanks Mitzi, Great Challenge dear.

[mitzimarie]

Re: 5th Semi Annual Veggie Challenge!

Oh, if this is wrong - bok choy is same as chinese cabbage,
and cooked ginger (did not find at Fitday) is same carbs as raw, let me know, please?

Yep, as Jo said, bok choy is the same as chinese cabbage:

bok choy = Chinese chard = Chinese white cabbage = Chinese cabbage = Chinese mustard cabbage = pak choy = pak choi = baak choi = white mustard cabbage = white celery mustard = taisai = bai cai Pronunciation: BAHK-choy Notes: Bok choy has crunchy stems and crinkled, spinach-like leaves. It's usually stir-fried with other ingredients, but it can also be steamed or sautéed and served as a side dish. Small heads of bok choy are called baby bok choy (left), and they're more tender than the larger variety. Of the baby bok choys, bok choy sum = Canton bok choy has small yellow flowers (sum is the Chinese word for flower), while Shanghai bok choy is a uniform light green, doesn't have flowers, and isn't as sweet.

Now, about that ginger. I have no idea! But since you're way over your minimum, you're good!