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Plant-based diet with Acid Reflux/GERD?
Hi, I've been planning on going vegan for like a year now but a recent medical problem has made it much more troublesome. I am certain I suffer from GERD and I have acid reflux everyday, which is quickly worsened by classically FODMAP-y foods. I'm still figuring out the specifics, but I know that veggie staples like onions and garlic are a big no-no, and my favourite foods like tomatoes and lemons also give me problems. This is very frustrating because I'm already a pretty crappy cook. I'm a university student whose meals can be summed up as 'standard British meaty meals with the meat swapped out for Quorn' - spag bol, 'chicken' curry, 'sausages' and mash and so forth. I'm not kitchen smart and I don't know my way around flavours, so the restriction of particular vegetables so common in vegan recipes has made cooking and eating much harder. I rely a lot on carbs like pasta and rice, I'm unfamiliar with the majority of ingredients found in vegan recipes, I've never cooked tofu for example. I don't eat meat or fish, I avoid eggs but I do consume cheese and yoghurt (the latter of which helps my acid reflux). I have yet to speak with a dietitian. I'd like some advice. Is it plausible/easy for me to go 100% vegan? I'm a frugal shopper and I'm already intimidated by the ingredients common to vegan recipes, many of which I don't think I can safely eat. Does anyone else here have experience, and if so perhaps you could share some ideas/recipes? What do you eat?
Advice Wine Pairing for two dishes: (Meat)Balls in Peanut Sauce with Cauliflower Rice (Thai) && Chickpea Carrot Roast on Parsnip Puree
For an upcoming weekend menu, I'm looking to pair some nice wines for two different meals picked by my companion. A different bottle for each is possible. I'm aware we cook relatively non-standard but I'm trying to gain experience and see how wine can fit food. The meals are not necessarily eaten across the evenings in the order listed. Also my companion often makes changes to the recipes, e.g., we might not use an ingredient but we will use the title components. The first is a (Meat)Balls in Peanut Sauce with Cauliflower Rice (Thai). The balls will be either chicken, beef or perhaps quorn. In any case, a (semi-)meat. Recipe: https://tararochfordnutrition.com/thai-peanut-meatballs/ The second is a Chickpea Carrot Roast on Parsnip Puree . Recipe: https://heartofabaker.com/cumin-roasted-carrots-and-chickpeas-with-vegan-parsnip-puree/ What would you recommend or which advice can you give for good pairings? What tastes to focus on, where to look for inspiration. Many and varied suggestions are welcome! The wines at the bottom are part of my cellar that should be drunk sooner than later, where the first wines especially should go soon, so I prefer one of those if possible. I do have a large collection beyond those so feel free to propose any ideas that pop up. My own thoughts were as follows: The Mil Vientos Malbec with the Thai Peanut Meatballs recipe. It sounds like it has a touch of sweetness alongside a good body that might work well with the spices used in the dish (peanut and thai) EIther the Conde De Siruela or Bodegas Olarra with the chickpea dish - Mediterranean inspired, and a dish with a strong earth and roasted focus. Unsure which one would work best though. What do you think? //////////////////////// ~2019 Conde de Siruela Élite 2009 Ribera del Duero Spain Spanish Ribera Del Duero Red Bodegas Olarra Clasico Rioja Reserva 2009 Rioja Spain Spanish Rioja Red Merced del Estero Mil Vientos Malbec 2011 San Juan Argentina Argentinian Malbec Château de la Commanderie Lalande-de-Pomerol 2011 Lalande-de-Pomerol France Bordeaux Pomerol —- ~2020 Feudi di San Gregorio Taurasi 2008 Taurasi Italy Southern Italy Red Château Labégorce Château Labégorce-Zédé Margaux 2008 Margaux France Bordeaux Margaux Le Palaie Bulizio 2009 Toscana Italy Tuscan Red Magaña Barón de Magaña (Finca La Sarda Crianza) 2010 Navarra Spain Spanish Red Château La Haute Borie Monbazillac Blanc 2010 Monbazillac France Antonio & Raimondo Unico Langhe Rosso 2010 Langhe Italy Northern Italy Red Château Vincens Origine Cahors 2011 Cahors France Southwest France Malbec Château La Claymore Château Moulin de Fontmurée Lussac-Saint-Émilion 2011 Lussac-Saint-Émilion France Bordeaux Saint-Émilion Château Goubau Bordeaux 2011 Bordeaux France Bordeaux Red Alta Pavina Pinot Noir - Tempranillo 2011 Castilla y León Spain Spanish Red Villa Maria Cellar Selection Pinot Noir 2012 Marlborough New Zealand New Zealand Pinot Noir Gabriel Meffre Domaine de la Chapelle Gigondas 2012 Gigondas France Southern Rhône Red Minkov Brothers Four Cycle Red Blend 2013 Thracian Valley Bulgaria The Throne Pinot Noir High Altitude 2014 Marlborough New Zealand New Zealand Pinot Noir Kus Van Thérèse Red Blend 2014 Trio Merlot (Carménère - Syrah) 2015 Rapel Valley Chile Chilean Merlot Domaine de Petit Roubié Picpoul de Pinet 2017 Picpoul de Pinet France Languedoc-Roussillon White Frati Bianchi Sparapani Salerna Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico 2013 Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Italy Central Italy White
Hey all! Some of you were asking for some low-fodmap vegetarian recipes and food ideas. The following is what I tend to eat, apologies for the disorganisation and lack of detail with some, I don't really follow many recipes! *PLEASE NOTE: Quantities presented in parentheses are the maximum quantity that is allowed of that food. Quantities presented outside parentheses are my own recipe and amount suggestions. Hope that makes sense! *
Breakfast
Flapjacks with oats (60g), golden syrup (7g), dark chocolate chips (30g) and butter (19g)
Smoothie with strawberries (140g), blueberries (40g), pineapple (140g), unripe banana (100g), orange juice (100ml)
I like to make this really thick, almost like ice cream, and then top it with homemade granola
Homemade granola with low fodmap milk (I can tolerate oat fine, but almond is lower fodmap)
For the granola, simply mix 450g oats, 100g golden syrup and 1/2 tsp olive oil and toast it in the oven
I do gas mark 2 for 15 minutes, give it a mix and put it in for another 15, but it will depend on your oven, your tray and your preferred degree of toastedness
Take it out of the oven, let it cool completely, then add 100g chopped dark chocolate and mix
This lasts weeks in tupperware
Porridge with low fodmap milk
Top with maple syrup (50g), strawberries (140g), blueberries (40g) or unripe banana (100g)
Sourdough toast with brie (40g) and tomatoes (75g) Sourdough toast with low-fodmap chocolate spread/peanut butter (50g) / jam (40g) Pancakes (for 2 people): mix 50g gluten free flour, 1 medium/large egg, pinch of salt, 150ml low fodmap milk
Cook in olive oil
Top with strawberries (140g), blueberries (40g), maple syrup (50g) or low fodmap chocolate spread
Lunch
Rice vermicelli noodles with broccoli (75g) or tenderstem broccoli (45g), carrots, green part of spring onions (16g) or chives, low fodmap stock, (gluten free) soy sauce (42g) Eggs, homemade potato chips with paprika, tomato (75g) and lettuce salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar (21g)
Cut the potato into wedges, sprinkle with smoked paprika and whatever other spices you like, then pop in the oven
Rice with roasted veg (carrot, courgette (65g), leek tops (54g), chives, broccoli (75g), red pepper) Homemade veggie soup (carrots, parsnips, leek tops (54g), chives, potato and red pepper are all great) Sourdough/gluten free sandwich
Spice mix: 3 tsp smoked paprika, 2 tsp oregano (3g), 2 tsp cumin, salt and pepper
Salsa: tinned tomatoes, chives, lemon/lime juice (125/250ml), cumin, chili paste (optional)
Chill your salsa for 30 mins before eating! Makes it 1000 times better
Sourdough margherita pizza (I tend to eat half and save half for the next day - check that the marinara doesn't have garlic!)
Snacks
Carrot sticks Corn tortilla chips with salsa (see salsa recipe above) Gluten free crisps (just check the flavouring!) Popcorn (I make mine at home but store-bought is fine unless it has some kind of weird flavouring) Olives Low fodmap bars (gluten free nut bars are generally good) Low fodmap fruit Rice cakes Dark chocolate Low-fodmap cookies (my favourite recipe is https://bakerbettie.com/easy-chocolate-chip-cookies/ with gluten free flour instead of normal flour and vegan dark chocolate chips) _________________________________________________________ Hope this helps some of you, let me know if you have any questions! :)
I am 25 and have a joint income of $61k ($25k for me and $36k for my partner) as an Admin Assistant in Leicester, UK.
Section One: Assets and Debt I have converted everything from GBP to USD, so some amounts might be rounded here or there, but they are very close! Retirement Balance (and how you got there): LOL basically none. I currently contribute 6% of my salary (my company will match up to 8%), although I upped that this month, it was 4% previously. Essentially I just let the pension company do whatever they do with it, although I probably should be a little more proactive. I currently have £2331.82/$2956.76 in there, and I couldn’t find my partner’s most recent statement to see what she has in hers. Savings account balance: My partner and I previously had a lot of debt, it’s literally only been the past few months we’ve finally gotten our joint accounts sorted and can finally start saving properly. We have £715/$912 in our savings account, it’s not a special high yield one or anything, just regular easy access savings. Once we have enough saved up in there for emergencies, we’ll open up a Lifetime ISA (LISA) to save up for a house deposit. Checking account balance: We try to keep a £500 (~$630) buffer in the bottom of our joint account, although projected expenses this month will mean by the time we get paid in July (we get paid on the 15th of every month) we will probably be right at the bottom of our account. Basically we have a joint current account for nearly all expenses, then we pay ourselves a small amount into personal accounts each for us to do whatever we want with. Usually for me it’s clothes! The way we use it, personal accounts are for personal, unnecessary spending. So things like work clothes or haircuts come out of the joint account, even though they technically only benefit one person, they are still a necessary expense. Credit card debt (and how you accumulated it): No joint credit card debt. I have around £390/$500 on my personal credit card that I am very slowly paying off out of my personal allowance, that was to pay for 3 months with an online personal trainer I have wanted to work with for a long time. Student loan debt (for what degree): So student loan works slightly differently in the UK, I basically think of it as a graduate tax. It doesn’t affect my credit score, and will be automatically taken from my pay cheque once I start earning roughly $31k per year. It will be written off 30 years after I graduated, which will be 2045 for me. I haven’t paid a penny of it off yet, and doubt I will ever pay the full amount. I have roughly £45k/$57k to pay off, and my partner has roughly £60k/$76k. That amount covered our tuition and living expenses while at uni, plus the interest we have accrued since graduating. My degree is a BSc in Counselling and Psychology, and hers is an MEng in Aeronautical Engineering. Section Two: Income My job monthly take home pay: £1362, which is roughly $1714 Partner’s job monthly take home pay: £1880, which is roughly $2366 We don’t have any other forms of income right now. Section Three: Expenses (these all come from our joint account) Rent: £725/$910 for a small 3 bedroom semi-detached house a few miles out from the city centre. Rent has not been raised in the 2 1/2 years we’ve lived here, so our goal is to stay in this house until we buy property up north, where we’re from and where houses are cheaper. Electric + Gas: £100/$127.56 (this is dependent on the weather, now that it’s finally started to warm up this should go down as we won’t be using the heating) Water: £25/$31.89 Savings: Our goal is to put around £600/$755 into savings per month, although we haven’t managed that this month. Usually when we get paid, we see what expenses are coming up in the time between then and our next pay cheque, and figure out how much we can afford to put away, and how much we can afford to put into our personal accounts. Personal money: Our goal is £150/$189 per month, but the last few months we haven’t had that much spare. Phone: Mine is £60/$75 per month (I wanted an iPhone X, which happened to come out around when my previous contract ended. This is for the phone, plus 8GB of data per month, and unlimited calls and texts). My partner’s is £37/$47.20 per month, she’s not as bothered about the latest phones so she has an iPhone 8. Her bill covers the phone, plus 30GB of data per month (jealous!) and unlimited calls and texts. Spotify: £14.99/$19.12 for a family account used by me and my partner iCloud: £1.58/$1.98 Netflix: £7.99/$11 Amazon Prime: £79/$99 annually TV and internet: £33.99/$43.36 (this mainly for internet, we’re not big TV watchers so we don’t pay for any additional channels like sport). TV licence: £154.50/$197.08 annually, this is paid by everyone (with a few exceptions) in the UK who owns a TV, and is very hotly debated! Car insurance: £41/$53 for our one car that we share. Car payment: £135/$172.21 Car tax: £20/$25.51 annually Gym: £19.99/$25.50, this used to be more expensive, I just recently got a new membership that is through my work so it’s a discounted rate. I can go to lots of different gyms in the area and it’s all covered under this. Personal training course: £110/$140.32, I am retraining as a personal trainer, this amount covers the combined online course with some in person elements. This will be paid off in May 2020. Council tax: £144/$183.69, I think this is equivalent to property tax in the US? It’s basically the amount we pay to our local councils, the amount varies depending on a few factors like house size and how many people live there. It’s to cover services like bin collection and whatever else the council does! Cat insurance: £21.86/$27.88 for our two 11-year-old cats. We didn’t previously have this, but then one cat had a seizure completely out of the blue a few months ago so we panic bought it! She’s completely fine, the vet couldn’t find a cause for it, and if you saw her you wouldn’t even know she’d had it. Donations: We don’t currently have any regular charity payments. If we see someone has a Gofundme or a fundraiser we’d like to donate to we’ll do that, as well as regularly giving cash to the homeless people we see in the city. I also volunteer semi-regularly with a small charity that helped me a lot as a child, as a way to give back. Note: all purchases in the diary will be from the joint account unless I specifically state they are from my personal account. Day One: Monday 7:10am: Ew. I did not sleep well, so I snooze my alarm for 15 minutes. 7:25am: Ok ok, I force myself out of bed. I was smart and got everything ready last night, so I just need to get dressed, grab everything from the fridge, and go. I dress very simply for work, just a black skirt and tights, and a rust coloured blouse with cute foxes on! I put on a tiny bit of make-up, just foundation, mascara, eyebrow pencil, and blush. 8:05am: We’re out the door! My partner (L) and I actually work at the same company, so it makes commuting very easy, and I get a chauffeur. Within 10 minutes of leaving the house, I’m sat at my desk. I drink a protein shake I brought from home as my breakfast. 12:30pm: Lunch time! I got bored of meal prepping a few weeks ago, so now I just bring in a tin of tomato soup. It’s very dull to eat, but at least I don’t have to cook tons of portions at the weekend, and it saves some money. 2:00pm: I send some messages on a group chat I have for a hen (bachelorette) party I’m planning that’s happening in a couple of weeks. Nobody has paid me yet for the activities, and we haven’t decided where we’re going to eat afterwards. Honestly I’ve hated the entire experience of planning this, and I just can’t wait for it to be over. I’m not even attending the ceremony because it’s in another country and we can’t afford to go. 4:00pm: I eat a ham sandwich I brought from home. It’s on a protein thin, it’s pretty gross but it fits my macros a little better than normal bread so I deal. 4:35pm: We had to stay slightly late due to L being in a meeting, but it’s finally home time! I know I didn’t mention any details about my work, but honestly I don’t do a lot! If there aren’t any emails to answer, I basically don’t have any work to do. I spend a lot of time browsing the internet and doing my personal training course. 5:00pm: I’m hungry, so I eat a banana, then get started cooking right away. L mows the lawn, because it’s gotten super long due to the extreme rain we’ve had recently, and today has been the first day without rain in weeks. Tonight we have beef burgers with homemade chips (fries), I have my burger without the bun because I figure if I avoid the bread, I can have more chips, right? 8:30pm: Time for the gym! While we ate, we finally started season 2 of She-Ra on Netflix, then played Borderlands 2 (we have played this through a bajillion times but we still love it) on the PS4 for a while with one of the cats on my lap, so I have a lot of walking to do to reach my 10k step goal. I walk to the gym, and do my weights workout. I love to lift heavy-ass weights! No circuit routines for this gal. 10:00pm: I stay until the gym closes, then walk home. It’s pretty creepy because I have to walk through a very secluded path and I don’t like it in the dark. After I get home, I eat a homemade brownie that I baked yesterday (my speciality), and a quark yoghurt, then I take my make-up off and have a quick body shower, and am in bed by 11pm. L very kindly makes my sandwich for tomorrow and shuts down the house before she comes to bed around midnight. Daily total: $0 Day Two: Tuesday 7:10am: Feel very sleepy as usual, but force myself out of bed. My usual routine is that I get out of bed first, get my make up on, then come back in and wake L up. She’s a very deep sleeper so she can be quite difficult to turf out of bed! I go downstairs while she gets ready, and pack our bags for work, including making my protein shake for later. 8:05am: Arrived at work, I like to get in around this time because it means we can leave earlier, so I have more free evening time. I spend my morning reading internet forums, and slowly getting on with some work. 11:00am: I drink my protein shake. I genuinely enjoy these, I use Gold Standard vanilla protein mixed with soy milk, it tastes like a milkshake to me! I get a notification that I’ve been outbid on a pinafore dress I was interested in on eBay, but the price has gone higher than I wanted to pay, so I don’t increase my bid. 12:30pm: We go down and eat lunch, it’s the same tomato soup for me. L made some stir fry at the weekend for her lunches this week. 3:00pm: I eat my ham sandwich on a protein thin. Can you tell I eat the same stuff every goddamn day?! 4:20pm: Home time! As soon as I get home I eat a banana, get changed, and am instantly back out of the door to walk to my haircut appointment for 5pm. 5:30pm: Hair cut is done, only needed a quick dry trim. It started to rain on the way there, I’m gutted because I was really hoping this rain would be over by now. I get L to pick me up because the rain has really started to come down, and start cooking my tea. We are having different meals tonight, L has a frozen pizza and I make pasta with quorn chicken pieces and a simple cheese sauce. There ends up being too much pasta in the packet for one portion, but not enough to bother putting it back in the cupboard, so I make extra quorn, and pack it all up for lunch tomorrow. $19 6:30pm: Asda is here! We always arrange to have our weekly shopping delivered on a Tuesday, so I usually order it on Sundays. Today our shopping consisted of; pot noodles, chicken kievs, quark yoghurts, soya milk, celery, asparagus, soft cheese, broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, salmon, cheese, chicken breast, sliced chorizo, quorn chicken, bread, protein thins, coke zero (for L), Lindt chocolate (for me), pasta, potatoes, two bottles of cider (for L), apple & blackcurrant squash (for me), naan bread, and cheese sauce mix. $75.05 8:30pm: After lounging around watching more She-Ra and cuddling the cats, I drag myself to the gym. Not really feeling it tonight, and nearly talk myself out of it. During the walk, I text with a friend and arrange to go see Rocketman next week. I wanted to go see Booksmart, but this was our compromise. Plus, I’m happy to watch Taron Egerton and Richard Madden make out, so I’m not too upset. 10:00pm: I head home after doing my weights, eat a brownie (I have so many left, I’ll need to fob some off on friends I think) and have a shower. Afterwards, I try to do the dishwasher, but L knows it’s past my bedtime and shoos me upstairs. After drying my hair, I am in bed for 11:30pm. Daily total: $94.05 Day Three: Wednesday 7:10am: Nope. 7:35am: After many snoozes, I get out of bed. Quickly get ready, same routine as always. Simple make up, chuck on a black dress and tights, make a protein shake, brush teeth, then we leave. I get to my desk by 8:20, and drink my protein shake around 11am as usual. 12:30pm: Lunch time, I didn’t realise quite how much pasta I made, so I’m quite stuffed. Or maybe I’m not used to eating bigger meals during the day? 4:35pm: Time to go home! We’re going out later for tea with L’s family, as it’s one sister’s birthday, and the other had her last exam today. We’ll be eating later than I’m used to, so I have a quark yoghurt to tide me over. I also add a bunch of extra make up, including Barry M Liquid Chrome highlighter, my favourite. I change into a cute tie-front blouse and black skinny jeans, and put on a little jewellery as well. 5:50pm: We estimate it will take 45 minutes to get to the restaurant, but we set off with plenty of time just in case we hit traffic. Before we leave, we grab an extra gift we got a while ago for L’s sister. We already posted her main gift, but as a gag gift we also bought her a giant pencil and a tiny notebook. It seemed funny in the shop, but writing it down it sounds lame! On the drive, we listen to some old episodes of The Adventure Zone podcast, our favourite. 7:00pm: We’re here, but the family isn’t unfortunately, we get a text to say they’re running half an hour late. We park up, and since it’s after 6pm it’s only $1.50 to stay until midnight. L and I both really need a wee, so we spot a cute bar in a canal boat and head in for a drink and to use the loos. I get a vodka lemonade, and she gets half a cider since she’ll be driving later ($8.20). We sit outside to enjoy our drinks, since it’s not too cold. $9.70 7:30pm: They’re finally here, so we go to the restaurant to be seated. I order another vodka lemonade, and chorizo spaghetti carbonara as my main course. It’s DELICIOUS! L has pork belly with vegetables and a diet coke, but I can tell she wishes she’d ordered pizza like everyone else. For dessert I have a melt in the middle chocolate pudding with a scoop of vanilla gelato, and again it’s completely delicious. L has a salted caramel sundae, and she gives me the white chocolate curls, since she doesn’t like chocolate. 10:00pm: I can’t believe we stayed so long! L’s dad generously covers the bill, which he tells us came to around $203 for the seven of us. We spend a long time debating how much tip to leave, I don’t think he wants to leave much because he was already paying so much for the meal, so he ends up only leaving a tenner ($12). Controversial! I personally would have left more, but he’s older and quite conservative, I don’t think he’d have left a tip at all if we hadn’t all convinced him. L and I literally never carry cash, so we can’t help out either. 11:05pm: Finally home, and exhausted. L very kindly makes my sandwich for tomorrow without me even asking, while I take off my make-up, brush my teeth, and am out like a light. Daily total: $9.70 Day Four: Thursday 7:10am: I don’t want to, but I force myself out of bed. Go through the usual morning routine of make-up, brush my hair, and put on deodorant (I’m just realising I never mentioned that any other days, I promise I wear it every day!). I wake L up and make her take my weekly progress photos to send to my PT, since it’s check-in day. As we leave the house, I notice the sky is glorious blue! I hope all this rain is finally over, and we can actually start summer. 8:15am: I’m at my desk! L has a doctor’s appointment at 9am so we had to make sure to get here nice and early, so she can get some work done before she has to leave again. 10:00am: I check my eBay app and see I’ve been outbid AGAIN on something, and I can’t decide what to do. I don’t have any summer clothes because my weight and body shape is very different from last year, but I also don’t have a lot of money to spend. I increase my bid to $5 on some denim high-waist shorts and am still not the highest bidder, so I tap out. I only have around $60 in my personal account to last me the entire month, including the cinema next week, so I don’t want to spend it all on clothes. 12:30pm: Lunchtime is here, and I go down to eat my boring soup. When I get back, my co-worker offers me a doughnut! I told him yesterday that the jam doughnuts from the Co-op are vegan, which he didn’t know, so today he bought some for us all to share. Definitely improves my mood! 1:30pm: You know that comment I made about the glorious blue sky? Guess what! It’s goddamn raining. 3:00pm: I eat my ham sandwich, cry a little inside about the fact that I wish it was another doughnut instead. 4:25pm: I successfully resisted eating a second doughnut, and it’s home time! We stop by the Co-op as is our Thursday tradition. We used to go to a local sandwich shop on Fridays as a treat, but now to save money we just buy some nice bread from the co-op and make our own. I also grab a light Ribena and some fridge raiders to bring tomorrow as a snack. $4.50 5:00pm: Not long after we get in, the cat that had a seizure recently starts limping! I panic, but after a few seconds she’s fine, it must have just been a dead leg. The cats are 11 now so I wouldn’t be surprised if they were starting to have some joint issues. We discuss it, and I go on amazon to buy some salmon oil to add to their food, because that’s supposed to help ($15.20). That also reminds me we’re nearly out of cat food, so I go on Fetch and order a 4kg bag of James Wellbeloved dry food, and a jumbo pack of Felix wet food pouches ($42), they’ll all be delivered tomorrow evening. $57.20 7:30pm: After eating cheesy pasta bake with celery and a bell pepper for tea (my absolute favourite) and lounging around listening to more Adventure Zone and playing Pokemon X, I decide to go for a walk since I’ve not moved a lot today. L doesn’t come with me because she’s tired and her hayfever is really acting up today. I only end up going out for about half an hour before I really need a wee and have to come home, so I don’t manage to hit my 10k step goal. 10:30pm: I spend some time browsing Depop for the first time ever, and I love it! I buy a black pinafore dress for $8.25 including postage. I again try and sort the kitchen and make sandwiches for tomorrow but L shoos me upstairs and says she’ll do it, so I head up to bed and am asleep pretty quickly. $8.25 from my personal account Daily total: $69.95 Day Five: Friday 7:20am: I snooze once, debate going back to sleep and just getting into work later, but manage to get up. Technically we can arrive any time we want as long as it’s before 9am, but I do prefer getting in early when we can, so we can leave earlier. 7:50am: I get downstairs after getting dressed and putting on make-up and some Lush No Drought dry shampoo, to discover the kitchen is still a mess and sandwiches aren’t made. I’m annoyed because L specifically told me not to do it, and now we’ll be running late. She comes down and makes the sandwiches while I pack our bags and make my protein shake. We brush our teeth and manage to leave by 8:15 somehow. 11:00am: I drink my protein shake for breakfast as per usual. 12:30pm: Time to head for lunch, ham sandwiches on the nice bread today as a Friday treat, plus my Ribena. L has the same bread, but she has chorizo, cheese, gherkins, and mayo on hers, and a sugar free energy drink. 3:30pm: I eat my fridge raiders. Not a particularly exciting snack, but it keeps me going. Plus, it’s nearly home time! 3:55pm: Time to go! We can leave half an hour early on Fridays, and we count that down to the minute. Once we get home, I eat a banana, drink a pre-workout shake, get changed into gym clothes, put some laundry on, and head back out in the car. I’m going to a different gym that my friend works at today so I can give her the rest of the brownies I baked, so I need to drive. I only passed my test just over a year ago, and I’m still a very nervous driver. I typically only drive short distances, and I’ve never driven on the motorway. Luckily L doesn’t mind driving me around! 7:45pm: Can’t believe how long I stayed at the gym! I spent ages chatting to my friend, and had to do 30 minutes of cardio after my weightlifting, so my workout ran really long. I don’t mind though, because I hit some PBs and I feel amazing! Get home to find L ran the dishwasher, so the kitchen is lovely and sparkling clean. My tummy is rumbling LOUD, so I quickly run for a shower, then come downstairs to make my salmon, rice, broccoli and cauliflower. L always spends Friday evenings gaming on the PC and chatting to friends on Skype, so I get to do whatever I want. 9:30pm: I finish eating, and decide to lounge around and watch Hearts Beat Loud on Netflix. It’s a cute film, although it does make me cry. I try to coax the cats into eating the food with salmon oil added, but they don’t like it. The cat with the bad leg outright refuses to eat even a bite, which is extra frustrating since we bought it for her specifically. 11:00pm: I go to bed in a weird mood after the film, not sure why. I have a bit of a cry, and can’t fall asleep for hours, not helped by the fact that L is still chatting to her friends in the next room and is being quite loud. Usually I’d shut the bedroom door, but the cats are in here with me and I feel bad kicking them out. Daily total: $0 Day Six: Saturday 3:30am: I wake up briefly as L comes to bed and moves the cats out of the room, but fall back asleep instantly. 9:00am: I wake up for real! I’m visiting family in Manchester today for my nana’s 80th birthday party, so I have to get on the train, I’ve already paid for my tickets. It’s a long journey, I just hope I can find seats. I clean the kitchen, put more laundry on, then make myself poached eggs on toast for breakfast. 10:20am: L drops me at the train station, I could definitely have driven myself but I pretend like she might need the car, so I don’t have to drive. The weather keeps alternating between hot and cloudy, and I brought my big winter coat for some reason. I just carry it around, wishing I had a cool jacket to wear instead. On the train I start reading a book I’ve been meaning to get into for ages, The Last Mrs Parrish by Liv Constantine. 1:20pm: Finally arrive in Manchester! It’s a long journey but not a difficult one, only one change. My family let me know they are running a little late to pick me up from the station, but I assumed they would be anyway, so I had planned to get some food while I waited. I go to a healthy fast food place just outside the station, and get chicken nuggets and baked waffle fries. $8.70 2:00pm: We get to the party fashionably late. I eat my food in the car, although I don’t enjoy the fries so I give them to my little brother. 16 year old boys will eat literally anything! I wasn’t expecting everyone to be dressed so nicely, I stick out like a sore thumb in my jeans and t-shirt, while everyone else is in nice dresses and shirts. Nana seems pleased to see me though, and that’s what counts! 4:30pm: We couldn’t stay for very long, because I had to get back to the station. I think I’ll have spent more time on a train today than actually visiting family! The party was pretty uneventful, I basically spent the entire time corralling my little brother and sister while my mum cuddled a cousin’s six week old baby. There was a buffet, but I don’t eat any of it, and my mum pays for our drinks, so I have a couple of J20s. I go to WH Smiths in the station because I’m getting hungry and won’t be home for hours. I get a ham sandwich, bottle of Ribena and packet of Skips as part of a meal deal, and grab a dairy milk chocolate bar as well. $6.90 6:15pm: I finish my book during the first train journey (loved it, very Gone Girl vibes), and get a notification that I’m very low on data. I top up 1GB for £5/$6.38, which will be added to my next bill. All I can really do now is just eat my food, and listen to an episode of the Dear Prudence podcast I had already downloaded. $6.38 7:40pm: Finally back at the home station! I had to stand for the last 45 minute journey, so my back is aching. L picks me up and we head home. I decide I’m in the mood to play Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch, so I start myself a new playthrough on that. L sits on the sofa with me and gives me pointers. 10:30pm: After a nice relaxing evening, I head to bed early. I quickly take off my make up, brush my teeth, and fall asleep in no time. Daily total: $21.98 Day Seven: Sunday 10:00am: Finally, I get a lie in! I swear, we’ve been busy every single Saturday for weeks, I needed this extra sleep. I lounge around in bed for a while on social media before getting up at around 11. I clean the kitchen while L gets ready, and I have an internal discussion about whether I should go to the shop before I eat, so I can buy a ready meal for lunch. 11:30am: I don’t buy the ready meal! We make poached eggs on toast for us both, and manage to get them lovely and runny inside for the second day in a row. While that’s cooking, we look through some recipes for what to make for L’s lunches, she decides on a healthy looking Mexican casserole. 12:30pm: After watching some TV, we head out to Asda to buy the meal prep ingredients. We get brown rice, chicken, corn, and black beans. I also pick up some new tights for work, some pasta, and L spies a new Nando’s sauce she enjoys but hasn’t seen in shops before ($19.07). We had just started to get in the red on our petrol gauge, so we also stop and completely fill up the car on the way home ($51.03). $70.10 1:30pm: Pretty much as soon as we get in, I start making lunch. I want to get to the gym quite soon, and since I’m doing deadlifts today, I need more food in me, even though I’m not hungry yet from eating breakfast so late. We have pasta with quorn chicken, celery, red bell peppers, and cheese sauce. I’m STUFFED because I made too much, and end up extremely sleepy. I do put on some more laundry, there’s a growing pile of clean laundry in the bedroom that hasn’t been put away yet. 3:00pm: After wandering around the house in a fog for a while, I finally feel awake enough to walk to the gym. Get in an ok workout, although I don’t stay behind to do cardio because I want to get home to watch the Women’s World Cup football (soccer) game, England v Cameroon. L does her meal prep while I’m gone, and tidies the kitchen after she’s finished. 6:30pm: What a crazy game! So glad I tuned in, it was truly wild to watch. After that finishes, I head for a shower, then we cook chicken kievs and homemade chips for tea. For dessert, I have a few squares of my Lindt chocolate, and a protein shake. 11:00pm: I had a very chilled evening again, just played more Zelda, and chatted to friends on Whatsapp. We discuss the upcoming hen do, and I end up feeling more positive about it. Fingers crossed it goes well! I brush my teeth and get into bed, but again I don’t fall asleep for hours. I’m frustrated, because it’s work tomorrow and I know I’ll be exhausted. L once again makes my sandwich and cleans the kitchen, then after her shower comes to bed around 1am. Daily total: $70.01 Total spend: $265.78 ($8.25 of that from my personal account) Food + Drink: $122.42 Fun/Entertainment:$0 Home + Health: $0 Clothes + Beauty: $27.25 Transport: $52.53 Other: $63.58 Lastly, reflect on your diary! This was a higher spend week for us than usual (doesn’t everyone say that), which is actually why I chose it for this diary, so it would be more interesting to read! I like to think we’re pretty frugal in general, so I was quite surprised by the total at the end. Just shows how small expenses really add up! It’s something we’re working on. Usually we don’t get up to this much in one week, we have a lot more no spend days.
Hi guys! I was just wondering if anybody could suggest an interesting recipe for me to cook? It’s my boyfriend’s birthday today - he didn’t book it off work so he’s had a bit of a shit day, and I’m looking to cook something a little different to cheer him up :) We recently did the ‘big shop’ so I have plenty of stuff in! I was thinking of doing something with fish - we have vegetables, rice, noodles, etc., plus plenty of sauces, too. I’m open to anything as long as it isn’t chicken! Our local supermarket has stopped selling Quorn chicken pieces so I don’t have any of those in. Thanks in advance!
Trying to move to Veganism but I lack the most basic cooking skills!
I'm currently somewhere between vegetarianism and veganism - I don't eat anything with meat or gelatin in it, no leather products, I buy oat milk instead of dairy milk, and the eggs I buy come from the local vegan/health food shop or from my neighbours who keep a few chickens in their garden and don't charge us for the eggs. Cheese is my main weak spot, mainly because vegan cheese is so damn expensive. But I want to move towards veganism, the trouble is that I'm such a bad cook I genuinely worry I would become quite severely malnourished if I could no longer eat anything with cheese or eggs in. Things I can cook:
Scrambled eggs
Pancakes
Combinations of pasta/rice, pre-made sauces and Quorn products
Spaghetti bolognaise (Quorn mince)
Potato and (Quorn) frankfurter soup
I'm a terrible cook. I only learned how to do scrambled eggs a few months ago (I'm 20 in May) and I had to have someone physically help me because I was so nervous about getting it wrong. The rest of the time it's often ready meals, restaurants, or vegetarian takeaway. So you can see the problem if I now have to eliminate dairy and eggs - I no longer have anything to cook! Aside from that I'm basically totally inexperienced in the kitchen - growing up my parents, particularly my mum, would do all the cooking, and basically wouldn't trust anyone else to do it for her, so vague cooking instructions like 'fry x for a bit' aren't good enough for me as I don't have the intuitive cooking knowledge to know when enough is enough. I'd really appreciate some super basic, staple vegan recipes. Something healthy/tasty I can make for dinner tonight with a few ingredients I can pick up on the walk home. Frankly anything with more than 5 or 6 ingredients is confusing for me, and probably quite an expensive shop if I don't already have them in stock. Would anyone be able to help me? I live in the UK as well if that helps, because obviously a lot of US products are not going to be available here.
Do you like or miss wings? Well I just made an amazing discovery!
The other day I was on here and I saw that someone posted a recipe for hot wings made with cauliflower in place of chicken. Now I love cauliflower, but I can't imagine it ever being an adequate substitute for chicken. On top of that, someone else in the thread mentioned that they tried following this recipe before and it didn't work out. They said they were a big fan of hotwings and missed eating them. Well buddy, read on - this post is for you. So Gardein has this product called Mandarin Orange Crispy Chick’n, and if you're lucky you can find it in the frozen vegetarian foods section of your grocery store (near the Morning Star, Quorn, etc) I've prepared this product before with varying success, usually pan-frying with oil and garlic to serve alongside steamed rice and broccoli. If you do it right, it turns out pretty good. The problem is, to do it right you have to use a LOT of oil and a huge pan while being super-attentive to make sure it's being cooked evenly. Even then, there's no real guarantee it's going to work out. HOWEVER, when you get it right, it ends up PERFECT in terms of flavor and consistency; you get these crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside nuggets of deliciousness that are high in protein. Well today I found out how to cook it perfectly using even less oil to reach the same effect. Here's what to do:
Preheat your oven to around 400 degrees
Coat a cooking tray with a small amount of oil, just enough to cover it
Take your Gardein "chicken" pieces and lay them out evenly over the tray
Use a spoon to drizzle a very small amount of oil over each piece
Stick in the oven, set a timer for about 8 minutes
After 8 minutes, flip each piece
Return to oven for another 8 minutes
If everything worked right, what should come out of the oven next will be these really crispy, slightly puffed-up pieces of soy chicken. What you do next is put them all in a bowl and toss them in ANY SAUCE YOU WANT. I always used their included orange sauce, which was a tangy blend of ginger and citrus, which isn't bad, but today I decided to toss on some Tapatio, and you know what? It tasted amazing. One thing I really missed as a vegetarian was hot wings, BBQ wings, garlic & parmesan wings, you name it. Wings were awesome, which is why I was shocked to discover something with the flavor and consistency of some of the best, most crispy wings I've ever eaten. I'm not even kidding. I think that even non-veggies could enjoy these as a healthier alternative to eating wings. Or if you love wings but hate the gross stuff like the veins or bones. Anyways, I hope you enjoy and maybe this was a bit long to just tell you something that's probably really obvious, so here it is: TL;DR - Bake Gardein Mandarin Orange Crispy Chick'n* pieces in the oven until they turn crispy and then toss them with hot wing sauce for the most accurate vegetarian hot wing option you'll probably ever taste. *ThispostisnotaffiliatedorendorsedbyGardein.I'mamnotanemployeeofGardeinnorhaveIbeenpaidtoadvertisetheirproduct.
Need a cheap recipe for 4. High fibre and protein. No seafood, beef or lamb.
So my mum and her partner are visiting in a few days and we agreed that Id cook dinner on Friday. My mum is on a diet thats high fibre and protein with low saturated fats and fairly low carbs. But if its a meal where everything is cooked separately then she can have a lot of meat and veg and not much potato/rice etc and the rest of us can have more rice etc. Also, for various reasons, please no beef, lamb or seafood recipes. Also, where i live, chicken breast is expensive but leg meat is cheap. If a recipe does use mince then turkey/quorn might work. My mum eats a lot of British/europe food. But we already have two other meals planned for the weekend which are Italian and Spanish. None of us like anything too spicy and my mum doesn't like curry and I'm not sure if she would eat Mexican food. Any ideas?
Report from a new successful chef of the house - a week of recipes
Hello fellow veg*ns! My boyfriend and I just moved to our first apartment. Before that, we lived on campus and while I did cook there too, it was mostly low-effort meals (think mac and cheese, pizza and simple stir fries). Last week my boyfriend worked late every day, and I had the apartment to myself all day as my exams have just finished and I'm enjoying two weeks of vacation. I only had two things to do: unpack and have dinner on the table by 9pm. So I took advantage of the extra time and new kitchen equipment to experiment with some recipes I had bookmarked over the past year or so. My sweet boyfriend is quite picky with food and painfully honest about my cooking, if he doesn't like it, he starts suggesting right away how I should add this or substitute that. Tough but loving crowd. As the whole week was quite a success, I thought I'd link you guys to these tried and very much approved recipes. Some might look familiar as I've taken a bunch of them off this very subreddit. So here they are:
This is actually a recipe I've made several times, though this time I changed it up by adding half a cup of left over cream to the risotto. Made it a bit unhealthier, but also even tastier than the original. Obviously I substituted the chicken broth for veggie broth. I also used soy butter instead of regular. For the lentil burgers I used green instead of red lentils, but only because I couldn't find red lentils anywhere in the local supermarkets. Recently I did find some in a Russian store, and next time I make a batch of burger dough (it freezes very well and I always make enough for about 20 burgers) I will try red lentils. The green beans came from a jar and I simply heated them up with a bit of salt. This one is very calorie-rich and filling btw, not exactly a light meal.
According to my boyfriend, the best dish I ever made. And it only took about 20 minutes plus oven time for the fries. I didn't save the recipe for the fries, but it was very simple: cut the potatoes into fries, cover with canola oil and salt, oven-spray a baking dish, and put it all in the oven for 20-30 minutes on 350F. I do not consider my fries to be a success. I attribute the failure to a lack of cooking spray. I couldn't find any in the store and arrogantly thought "Hey, how important can it be, right?". Very important, apparently. Unless you enjoy scraping the fries off your baking dish, you need the spray.
Wednesday: Burritos! [d] but can be just as easily [v] with potato salad
I now found myself with some leftover sour cream and parsley and I had a can of tomatoes and kidney beans, so I made yummy burritos. This is another recipe I've made often before. Also made home-made tortillas, since they taste a hundred times better than store-bought. For the tortillas: Take two cups of flour and add two or three tablespoons of canola oil. Add a pinch of salt and half a teaspoon of baking powder. Also some taco seasoning if you feel like it. Add water until you get a firm but still sticky dough. Form balls (about 10) and let the dough rest for a while, 15 minutes to a half hour. Roll out the balls into a very thin tortilla, using lots of flour on your surface and rolling pin. Then throw them into a pancake pan, medium heat, no oil. Turn after you start to see bubbles, about a minute. Fill them while they're still hot or they won't fold well. Put them upside down on a plate so they'll close better. For the filling: this is so easy, you can just throw pretty much whatever in there. I used a large onion, a can of tomatoes, a can of kidney beans, a small can of sweet corn, two red bell peppers, one yellow bell pepper and a sweet potato. Added some 'mexican seasoning'. I put a tablespoon of sour cream and a tablespoon of grated cheese on the tortilla too. For the potato salad that's so lazy it's almost embarrassing: I cut the potatoes into cubes, cooked them, added a bit of salt and pepper, mixed in garlic sauce from a jar and threw copious amounts of parsley on top. Alas, I still wasn't able to use all of it.
Found a way to use all that leftover parsley. Or so I thought. It turns out the small bunch I bought is actually infinite. I made two layers of filling: first the quinoa, then on top of that the spinach-feta one that's in the link above. I added loads of parsley. For layer one I simply cooked the quinoa in veggie broth with onions and garlic. I served this dish with mixed salad on the side.
This one was not as well-recieved. Turns out my boyfriend doesn't like gratin, and I had no idea. He did say it was very well-made, just not 'his thing'. If you have some sauce left over, you can add some more garlic and use it as hummus. Saturday we went out to eat, and Sunday we had a simple store-bought pasta with pesto. But I'll add the recipes for this week's Monday's and Tuesday's dinner too, seeing how I'm definitely on a roll.
This recipe looked really great, but it seemed to scream for red lentils so I added like two cups of those. For 'greens' I added the spinach I had left over from the mushrooms caps. I loved this stew, but the boyfriend thought it was too chickpea-y. I personally can't get enough of them; I like to eat them right from the jar. But something about the texture turns him off. Unfortunately I was not able to find coconut oil, but this tasted great with olive oil too. Served with long-grain rice as I had run out of brown rice.
The roasted potatoes were amazing. I cut them into smaller chunks than what the recipe suggests though, and for the last ten minutes in the oven I turned it to 'grill' to get that awesome crust. I'm not sure how familiar the rest of the world is with vol-au-vent. It's very popular here in Europe, the original is basically a stew of chicken and pork, I simply used quorn instead. This is the kind of thing you could serve a real carnivore. I didn't find this one online, I kind of tried to replicate my dad's recipe. I cooked up some broth and added some milk and flour. Then added about 4 cups of sliced button mushrooms, 3 cups of quorn 'chicken' pieces and a cup of quorn 'mince meat'. Threw in the little bit of parsley that was left, and left it all to stew for about 15 minutes. Served it with the roasted potatoes and some cherry tomatoes on the side. P.S.: I didn't include any [gf] tags as I'm not quite certain about what has gluten and what doesn't. The recipes with flour or pasta in them are a no-no I guess, but I think the moroccan stew is gluten-free? P.P.S.: Yes, we are crazy about mushrooms.
Hi, I've had a few people ask me about this topic. So thought I would make a post, hopefully it helps somebody! This is a post I've been wanting to do for a while now. It's something that a lot of people don't find very easy, and that's eating healthy, or healthier at least! I want to talk a bit about the mindset that I have when shopping for food and certain things that you should look out for before you put something in your basket. I never used to eat healthy, in fact, I was the complete opposite end of the spectrum. When I realized the effect that poor nutrition was having on my body (I was getting chubbby, slow, tired easily), I decided to just make a complete u-turn. No more sugar, no more pizza (I had at least one a day!) and began to learn more about food, and the effect it has on the body. I think this is the best way to do it. it was for me. I just created rules in my mind. More like laws actually, so basically sweets were forbidden. I can't remember the last sweet I've had. It's hard at first, but get through the first month and you'll be ok! What do I typically have in my shopping basket? Well it's actually quite simple, and I think that is key with most things, keep it simple. So I break it down into a few different groups, which are for me... Carbs, fats, protein, vegetables and fruit. That's just how I like to think of my food, I find it easiest. The following are some of the options I use for each of these groups. Carbs
Rice
Oats
Bread (Though this is rare, I typically stick to rice and oats)
Sweet potato
Fats
Eggs
Avocado
Cheese
Lean red meat (rare as it is expensive!)
Coconut oil
Olive oil
Nuts (various kinds, I'm not that fussy!)
Butter and Nut butter
Protein
Chicken (typically frozen breasts, with no added salt or water)
Eggs (again)
Red meat
Quorn (veggie option)
Nuts (again)
Fish (i.e.Salmon, canned Tuna or white fish, bit pricey again, sometimes I have the breaded version)
Beans (a good cheap option, but a bit higher in carbs)
Nut butter
Vegetables
Broccoli (My fave! I normally get a big bag of frozen florets)
Peas
Any mixed salad stuff
Spinach
Carrot
Sweetcorn
Fruit
Banana
Apple
Oranges
Lemon
Grapes
Pear
Now, obviously I don't buy every single one of these things when I go food shopping, normally one item from the "protein list" and a couple from each of the others, but these are my go to staple foods. There's also things like seasoning's that I will use to flavour my food, salt, mixed herbs, pepper etc. So how do you make the transition to eating healthy? I think what's one of the most important things here is to make sure you know what's in the food your buying. Don't be scared to look at the ingredients, it's important to know what you are putting into your body! When I first started trying to eat healthy I would look at the nutrition/ingredients of everything, and now I've learnt what's good and what's bad. Often I don't even have to look at the label to know if it's full of sugar or preservatives. Personally, I'd say one of the main things, if not the main thing to look out for, is sugar. It is often hidden in foods, particularly foods that aren't fresh, frozen or dried. Things like sauces, (pasta sauce, ketchup etc) I'd say avoid those completely. It's easy to pour ketchup on to your plate and eat it all, then pour more on, without realizing the amount of sugar you are eating (about a tsp of sugar per tbsp in ketchup). The same goes for fruit juices and fizzy drinks, just avoid these completely. Other names for sugar to look out for
corn sweetener
corn syrup
dextrose
fructose
fruit juice concentrates
glucose
high-fructose corn syrup
invert sugar
lactose
maltose
malt syrup
raw sugar
sucrose
sugar syrup
cane crystals
cane sugar
crystalline fructose
evaporated cane juice
corn syrup solids
malt syrup
Another helpful technique to practice while food shopping is to remember a simple thought process. What I do, particularly if I am looking for a snack rather than doing a full shop, is ask myself "Do I need this?" and "What are my goals?". For example, if you are out, and need a bite to eat and you're trying to lose weight, or cut down on calories. Before buying anything, ask yourself if you can wait until you get home to eat. Because the likely hood is that you can, easily, and you will eat when you get home any way. You'll end up just eating more calories on top of your usual meals! Through practicing this myself I have noticed that I very rarely by snacks while out and about, saving money and rarely over eating by mistake. Typically if I do have to snack, I'll go for something like nuts, fruit, or a simple little salad or rice cake. Some places even sell small pots of spinach and boiled eggs which are great. Just avoid the packaged "health bars" and things like that, they're often full of sugars. Get some real food! preperation For me, preparation is key to eating healthy. If you're not prepared you fall into the trap of having to go out and buy potentially bad food. I work full time so can't make meals as and when I need them, so I do it in advance. Don't be intimidated by this either, it's actually very simple! I generally make a large batch of rice, chicken and vegetables. This can then go into the fridge and then I simply put a portion into my Tupperware each night to take to work the next day, that simple. Moreover I need to mention that you shouldn't over-think this. Sometimes people can get quite intimidated by the change, thinking that it is overwhelming, or that there isn't enough variety. There's an 80% to 20% rule in my opinion, meaning that if you're eating healthy at least 80% of the time then the occasional treat meal isn't going to turn you into Jabba the Hut. Just know that you are going back to being healthy afterward. It just provides a bit of balance and keeps you sane. So to wrap up, I'd say that there are few key points to remember..
Try to eat whole, unprocessed food
Have your meals prepared
Before buying snacks, ask yourself "Do I need this food? Can I wait?" and be honest!
If snacking, choose natural unprocessed foods
Balance, don't go 100% or you run the risk of burning out and binging. Have 1 or 2 cheat meals a week, then go back to normal.
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