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crafter, wrt using ground turkey or chicken as a replacement for beef, all I do is replace it. Even in lasagna (made with zucchini sheets using a peeler or finely cut) while I'm dieting, it's exceptional; I don't know what it is, but even frying ground beef, I can't stand the smell! I have to toss in some garlic just to kill it! I don't have the same problem with ground chicken, turkey or pork.
If you're asking about diet-y recipes using those, I just made turkey chili...we also enjoy spaghetti squash with turkey meatballs and salsa (fewer calories than pasta sauces which usually contain sugar)...To be honest, we're not adventurous cooks although we do try new recipes quite often, so we mostly adjust what we've been doing for 53 years, lol, and go with that. Most diet sites like WW-recipe ones have that "0 points" foods...well, they DO have points and they DO have calories! Keto recipes are swimming in cheese, so no to those, too, unfortunately, since we love good cheese.
If you're looking for anything specific, let me know...today I have a chubby pork tenderloin in the crockpot sitting on top of carrots and celery, all seasoned, Hubby will boil up a couple potatoes for himself (since I don't eat them often), and that's dinner, all wrapped up. I do weigh anything that needs weighing, I measure and I post it into my food log on NOOM every day.
And here's the big story:
NOOM has us weighing every single morning!!
I never believed that was a good thing, but they explain it this way...so you weigh yourself on Monday. Then you wait until Friday, or next Monday to weigh yourself again, and whoa! You gained a pound!! Tragedy! Right?
Well, this way, as they explained it....to gain a pound of fat, I'd have had to eat over 3500 calories the day before!
I can't imagine that! That's three 800 calorie meals, plus two 500 calorie snacks! :yikes:Who does that?!
So I know, one day later, that something is affecting that number...I feel better in my clothes, so why? Could be many things: the humidity in the house, I overdid the salt (likely hidden), I didn't drink the water I usually do.
Now had I waited a week, I really might have thought that I was gaining all week, all that work that week for nothing?! No....had you followed your weight each day, you'd see those fluctuations and like I did this morning, just think, "meh"...something happened. No big deal. And I'm doing my darndest to keep to the plan, and to TRUST IT.
Okay...sorry for that speech, hahaha....but it was like a bolt of lighting to me because I have had weeks like that and thought 'what the heck DO I have to do to lose?" when it may just have been a glitch that one day.
If you need help with recipes, ideas, we're all here for each other!!!!!!
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temu, leave me alone with your pop-ups! I go on there and inevitably go down a rabbit hole! hahaha!)