I need a healthy alternative to egg and bacon(nitrates) sandwiches. whats your daily lunch?
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The eggs are fine. You could replace the bacon with a veggie burger patty, or 96% lean burger patty, occasionally tuna salad. Or chicken salad.
I would also consider turkey (not charcuterie) or smoked salmon.
Also adding fermented pickles (unless you're avoiding salt) might help making your tofu and turkey a bit more savory.
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tryna stay healthy and move away from processed meats, whilst also spending as little time prepping food as possible.
Is the issue time spent prepping food, or being bored while you're prepping food? I prep my lunches on Sunday night. Sunday night, I sit in front of the tv, with one of those folding tray tables in front of me, and I make 10 salads, one for lunch and one for dinner for the next five days. I'm very heavy on the veggies and moderately light on the lettuce, so they're pretty filling.
I vary things among the salads so it doesn't get boring: I'll toss bits of apple or some raisins, off maybe split one of those single-serve fruit cups among a few; toss different cheeses or hard-boiled eggs or bits of meat in others, etc. The veggies and stuff go in the bottom, lettuce on top so it doesn't get crushed during the week. Salad dressing goes in an old pill bottle on the side. Anything I was too keep crunchy - croutons, tortilla bits, etc - goes in a Ziploc on the side. Takes me less than half an hour to make 10 salads.
If there's leftover veggies, I'll make snack bags: veggies in a Ziploc, sometimes plain, sometimes with a pill or other bottle of dip-able flavoring: dressing or dip or peanut butter.
You could do the same kind of in-front-of-tv prep for homemade soup mixes (add hot water and let sit) or overnight oats (do the dry ingredients into your eating container, cut up any fruit into a separate bowl, then add the fruit and dairy the night before), etc.
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The eggs are healthy, not sure what style eggs you're used to but if you just want a different variation on that try something like scrambled eggs with kale/spinach + salad on whole wheat bread or tortilla or similar. I'd also toss in some tomato and red onion. Now that I'm thinking about it avocado would probably go well with that combo too.
A lot of people like hard boiled eggs for lunch, it's not really my thing but you could do those and slice them up into a salad, wouldn't take too long once you do it every day.
eggs are fine. its the bacon which im concerned about.
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theoretically you could try a vegan version of egg and bacon sandwiches - Just Egg frozen patties aren't half bad, and seitan bacons sometimes are OK
not sure if the idea is that you're trying to reduce fats?
im fine with fats. just looking to cut nitrates from processed meats like bacon/deli slices
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I wouldn't say it's "healthy," but for something "healthier," you could try huevos rancheros. Eggs in whatever style you prefer, then just eat in a tortilla with any combination/ratio of avocado, pico de gallo, and/or beans as desired.
im leaning this way thank you
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Lol, I live in Seattle, we might have better crops of it. You can do many small potatoes too.
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tryna stay healthy and move away from processed meats, whilst also spending as little time prepping food as possible.
egg whites?
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Lots of beans have lard or pork in them.
Is this a joke I'm not American enough to understand?
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tryna stay healthy and move away from processed meats, whilst also spending as little time prepping food as possible.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Just get some vegan bacon, at least where I live there are several options by now and they're all pretty good.
If you want it a bit healthier but maybe a bit less tasty as well, try smoked tofu and cut it into thin slices.
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Lol, I live in Seattle, we might have better crops of it. You can do many small potatoes too.
I also live in Seattle.
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tryna stay healthy and move away from processed meats, whilst also spending as little time prepping food as possible.
Most often we will eat either:
- One or two slice of fresh (whole or even black) bread. Not the industrial type of bread, real handmade bread (we get it from the artisan bakery down our street). Toasted or not, with a tad of jam, and a cup of tea. Some fruit, depending the season. It takes mere instants to prepare.
- An egg. Boiled, omelette, scrambled, whatever. With my omelette, I like to add some fresh tomato, mushrooms and a tad of parsley. No bacon or things like that. This too takes mere instants to cook. Followed by a tea or a coffee.
- A croissant (it helps to live in France, as we get ours handmade from the same small bakery at the corner of our street we get our baguettes and bread from ;)) and a coffee.
For lunch and/or diner both my spouse and I like to prepare a few meals in advance (mostly vegetables even though we're not vegan, we just want to eat less meat), using fresh non-industrially processed condiments. To save time, we will make 2 or even 3 meals worth in advance and store it in the fridge.
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- 150g greek yogurt
- 120g blueberries
- 40g quick cooking oats
- 2 tsp maple syrup
- dash salt
- dash cinnamon
Mix all that together before work and then by lunch the oats will have softened. If I'm trying to gain weight I'll throw in 30g hemp hearts as well. You can also switch up the berries/fruit, sweetener, and spices however you like, this combo is just what I like.
overnight oats could be fun. never done that before. thanks for the inspo
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Just get some vegan bacon, at least where I live there are several options by now and they're all pretty good.
If you want it a bit healthier but maybe a bit less tasty as well, try smoked tofu and cut it into thin slices.
oooooh veggie bacon interesting! ill look for it
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tryna stay healthy and move away from processed meats, whilst also spending as little time prepping food as possible.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Buy a pork belly. Make your own bacon. It's pretty easy and very delicious. That said, nitrates are in lots of things like celery.
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Just ditch the bacon - it doesn't really add any value here.
Well, it adds taste, depending on the person.
And specifically if you're a pregnant woman, it's a very rich source of folic acid.
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im fine with fats. just looking to cut nitrates from processed meats like bacon/deli slices
If you live here in the Nordics, Snellman and sometimes HK has bacon with no phosphates.
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Is this a joke I'm not American enough to understand?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I don't think it's a US American thing per se. Refried beans are a common staple of Mexican dishes and may incorporate lard (as will more authentic flour tortillas). They're mashed, not whole beans.
And while I wouldn't use them in tacos, canned baked beans like those you'd find in the UK may also not be vegetarian.
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tryna stay healthy and move away from processed meats, whilst also spending as little time prepping food as possible.
Assuming the rest of your diet isn't stuffed with red meat I wouldn't worry too much about eating bacon. Replacing meat with vegan meat-substitutes doesn't automatically make the meal healthier - just free of meat.
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im fine with fats. just looking to cut nitrates from processed meats like bacon/deli slices
you could look at local CSAs (community supported agriculture) and get a local, unprocessed source of meat that way if you're committed to meat
but in general meat is shown to be unhealthy, associated with higher risks of colon cancer, etc. (I need to fact check this, but I think the big picture advice is aligned with most medical associations' suggestions that a plant based diet is much healthier and reduces health risks).
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Buy a pork belly. Make your own bacon. It's pretty easy and very delicious. That said, nitrates are in lots of things like celery.
Can you describe the process in general, or point to a good recipe?
