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GOOD FOR YOU! I'm so happy for you, and I totally agree - nothing works quite as well than a little shopping for a new life. I am so jealous of your mandolin, I've wanted one for years but always seems to be out of the budget at the time.

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It was 17.95 at target.

The food slicing kind, not the musical instrument kind. Just to be sure we're on the same page.

Though target apparently sells those, too.

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I unfortunatly am without Target. A fact which I lament often, we don't have Target in Canada. But you have us Walmart - boo!

I would rather Target with all their awesome toys.

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glymr

Way to go!

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*dances*

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drake-love.livejournal.com

So, I don’t know if this will work for you or not, but it is one of my favorite recipes. Which I now have to go make, because you have made me hungry. Congratulations and good luck on improving your health.

Zucchini Quiche Recipe

Ingredients:
4 cups thinly sliced zucchini
1 large onion, thinly sliced
3 tablespoons butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon each garlic powder, dried basil and oregano
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 cups (8 ounces) part-skim shredded mozzarella cheese
2 teaspoons prepared mustard (I use Dijon mustard, but any kind will work)

Crust:
1 cup Whole Wheat flour
¼ tsp salt
2 Tbp Oil
3 Tbp milk

Directions (nine inch pan)

For the crust:
In a cup mix together oil and milk, then mix with flour and salt. You may or may not need to add more milk/oil mixture depending how dry your crust comes out as. Then press into pan so that the layer of crust is thin.

For the filling:
In a large skillet, saute the zucchini and onion in butter until tender; drain. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, parsley, salt, garlic powder, basil, oregano and pepper. Stir in cheese and zucchini mixture. Spread mustard over crust; add egg mixture.

Cover and freeze for up to 2 months. Or bake, uncovered, at 400° for 35-40 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean and crust is golden brown (cover loosely with foil after 25 minutes if needed to prevent overbrowning). Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting.

To use frozen quiche: Thaw in the refrigerator. Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 50-55 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean and crust is golden brown (cover loosely with foil after 35 minutes if needed to prevent overbrowning). Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting. Yield: 6-8 servings.

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mmmm quiche. mmm zucchini. I might make a crustless one without the butter and go light on the cheese...

Thanks for sharing! I love recipes *so much*. I joined allrecipes a while back because I like to make up my own things, but I haven't made any of my submissions public yet because I don't have a way to interface between my camera and my computer just yet.

I make spinach quiche a lot. Haven't made a zucchini one yet, though. I'll have to try it!

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That's a great recipe - especially the crust. I didn't know it could be so simple - I always buy mine store-bought for quiche.

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Good for you. Just take small steps and get yourself healthy. Sounds like you're on a good path. Wish I could get my butt going on the diet part. LOL

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I'm trying to do it in a sustainable manner, reducing portion size and focusing more on ratios of things than what I can and can't eat (so many veggies for a carb, etc) and drinking lots of water and tea when I get the snacking urges but know I shouldn't actually be hungry.

Considering you probably weigh about as much as the weight I need to lose, I think I'm going to give that last part a big fat :P, though.

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LOL. Whatever dude. We all have our own challenges and you're doing it the smart way. You should be changing your lifestyle, not going on a diet. I think you'll be successful. You already are doing the vegetarian thing. It's rather hard to give up carbs sometimes though. Almonds are a great food to snack on. Celery too.

*smooch*

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I'm such a weird vegetarian, though. I hate celery, and I really don't like most fruit... I'd rather have lima beans than strawberries.

I've also committed to walking four days a week by taking over morning duties for my roomies' dogs. I hate exercise - I'm one of the 10% or so who just don't get an endorphin boost from it - but that's something I can't skip out on, because the dogs won't let me. And anyway, they would pee on the floor.

I was mostly teasing with the :P, but you definitely get more physical activity than anyone I know, between the martial arts and the outdoor activities. My roomie does Tai Chi classes every two weeks, and I think after I lose enough to be more comfortable doing physical activity in front of other people, I might join her. If I had the room I'd buy an exercise bike...

I weigh so much more right now than I did when I saw you last. Probably about 80 pounds more.

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Wow. YOu are weird. That's gotta make it hard. There's almost no veggie I don't like. I do admit that I'm good on the physical activity. My biggest issue is eating. This thyroid medication I'm taking is NOT helping. It makes my appetite out of control. Tai Chi is awesome. You should definitely do it.

Do you have a regular bike? That is always a good idea.

I've gained quite a lot too. I'm still fit as a fiddle, but a rather jiggly fiddle. gotta lose weight by June, so I had better lay off the carbs and fast.

Good luck. Find an exercise that you can tolerate. Maybe get some home workout videos. *hugs*

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I do have a bike, which is hanging upside down from the ceiling of my parents' storage room. Unfortunately, when it's not raining here, it's about a hundred degrees.

I like most vegetables, and love quite a few of them, but the ones that turn me off are the ones that tend to be in *everything*. Bell pepper, celery... Cilantro makes me physically ill, too.

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I love Cilantro, but I have found that people who don't like it, don't like it because for them the taste is overpowering. I think it's actually a genetic/tastebud sensitivity thing. My friend is like that.

Salad and protein is always good. At least then you can pick the ingredients. I absolutely love to snack on yellow and red peppers.

Okay yeah the weather here is quite nice for bikers. Probably why we have the best bike trails in the country. ^__^

Home videos are great though. I really like the Jillian Michaels video. There are all sorts of things you can do at home if you can just set up a routine

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It is a genetic thing, but it's more than just sensitivity - there are bitter alkaloids in cilantro that some people can taste and some people can't. I'm in the 25% who can. It doesn't just taste *strong* to me - it tastes like *poison*. And to me, bell pepper smell and taste like the odor a person has when they are very sick. I used to leave the house when mom was cooking them.

I'm not much for salad, either. I don't dislike it, per se, but it's not something I enjoy eating. I've never thought "wow, what a delicious salad!" I'm also not huge on soup. If I eat soup, it's almost always the pureed kind, with no chunks of anything in it.

See where the problems come in? Again, it isn't that I don't like vegetables, because I do. I just don't like a lot of the most common ones, and I don't care for some of the most common or easiest preparations. Luckily, I like cooking, so...

Pasta salad (mostly vegetables, some whole wheat pasta, already made up) and roasted radishes for supper tonight, I think, unless I get really caught up in writing and end up not taking the time to roast and just eat something else instead.

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I had never heard of that before! I always wondered why I couldn't stand cilantro, its more than a "I don't like it" thing - for me it seems like someone is trying to put hemlock in my food.

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*exactly*

Ugh.

I can't be in the kitchen if someone is cutting it. I used to flee up the stairs when my dad would make pico de gallo.

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faile-neume.livejournal.com

*high five*

You are awesome!

I really need to get my diet into order, but it's hard when I don't actually get a choice about what I eat for dinner. But I've been cutting down on bread/cereal/pasta because those are my biggest indulgences. CAARRRBBSSS I love them but they are bad for me in high doses.

But mostly I need to be exercising because I am unfit. But luckily the hockey season has started again which is good, because team sports motivate me so much more than being at the gym does (unless I imagine Cass telling me to man up and work harder, which I do sometimes)

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CAAAAARBS.

They are my weakness, too.

Yay , you are awake! If you can, come talk to me. I need your opinion!

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I would choose carbs over chocolate. Carbs are the greatest>

I wasn't going to come online BUT I WILL. FOR YOU

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I also LOVE carbs - in the last few weeks of trying to get more fit I've discovered that filling the carb spaces with whole grain products satisfies my carb needs and apparently is really good for you.

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The problem with that is I already was eating almost entirely whole grain anyway. I just eat way too much of it. ^_^;

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kasra-c.livejournal.com

It takes small steps and commitment, but it sounds like you're well on the path. :)

Measuring things out is a great start. I don't diet but I do measure a lot of food portions out very carefully, to the point where I wince when I see people just pour cereal all the way up to the top of a bowl. That's like 2.5 servings! Another trick is to invest in smaller plates/bowls/serving utensils to trick your brain into thinking that because you cleared your plate you got lots of food in the process, even when the plate is half the size of your usual portion. (Baby spoons are nice if you're going to indulge in a treat; they're that much smaller, so you're less likely to bother continuing to eat -- this is an old pregnant woman trick.)

I love you the way you are but you need to love you the way you are. *hugs* Take care and I wish you the best of luck! &hearts

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