I think most would consider the food I make healthy, but lately I have slacked. I like to make riced cauliflower, grilled salmon, bean soups, and lot's of sandwiches. I try to eat mostly vegetarian, my DD is a vegan, but my son loves chicken and fish so sometimes I sneak bites of his salmon (because it's completely amazing). I never make cake, or cookies but I eat too many bad things like truffles, and chips with salsa.

Chips! Oh, we love potato chips.

I mashed potatoes with cauliflower for dinner last night. We both quite liked it. We like cauliflower (especially sauteed with garlic and red pepper flakes), and this was another way of having it.

I cook healthy meals, don't eat out often, but I bake a lot, so people who don't eat wheat or other excess carbs might not agree. We love green salads and vegetables, I try to make fish once a week (the day before the garbage is picked up), we eat chicken more often than red meat, but sometimes only bacon will do. ;)

Lol, earlier I posted on the holiday foods thread that I love hash brown casserole. I could eat it every day, but fortunately we have it only on special occasions. Sometimes I go months without eating a potato chip, but lately I've been craving them--possibly because I don't cook potatoes often. Last week I made chicken pot pie, and used broccoli instead of potatoes, and it was good!

I cook mostly healthy meals. I cook a lot on Saturday or Sunday so DH & I have food for the week, usually up to Thursday. Then we eat out Thurs & Friday. I cook lots of roasted veggies, chicken & fish but I do love ribs & beef tenderloin. I also love to bake but I don't eat a lot of that. Most unhealthy food I make is Eggs Benedict every Sunday morning. DH & I exercise a fair bit to keep the fat off & heart relatively healthy

Everyone enjoys splurges, the key is to keep them as treats and not regular features of the diet.

Most people eat too many calories and carbs and, regionally, too much fried food. Limiting rice/potatoes/bread/pasta/desserts/fats and having plenty of white meat and healthy ocean fish, fruit, simply prepared or raw veggies and salads can do a lot to help control weight and the diabetes so many develop in later years.

I'm going to be buying a Felts country ham in the next week or two. I know I shouldn't but DH will expect it.

Bacon, I try to never cook it, but once in awhile I have to have some cruncy, crispy bacon..and I only like the fat part cooked crispy....did I mention bacon.

I was chided by my grandson this morning for not having breakfast.

I told him that I had breakfast before he got up.

He asked what I had.

A cup of coffee.

Liver is good for you! Good iron.

The schmaltz, not so much ;-)

I've been trying to eat healthily and well and to maintain a healthy weight. But yesterday, oh my! I had a large dinner and then an overly large piece of Black Forest Cake. I admit it was all delicious and things are back on track today.

I eat whatever I am hungry for at the time. Some things I seldom or never eat....bread, for instance. I like it but I seldom eat it. I try to ask myself what would I really like to eat, and that's what I eat. If you are hungry for barbecue....a poached egg isn't going to make the craving go away. I have good health and all my blood levels are good. I take no prescription drugs. I could stand to lose a few pounds, but I am not obese. I don't diet. I used to, and I could never lose weight. I quit dieting and started eating what I felt like at the time, and I have actually lost weight. I'd probably lose a lot more if I could give up my addiction to RC Cola.

I have given up beef and eat bison instead. It is better tasting, grass fed, no hormones, etc and very low fat. I don't know if I can ever go back to grocery store beef.

Eggs! removed them completely from our diet in 1983, along with butter and all other solid fats when DH at age 43 had heart bypass surgery. That meant I tossed many, many favorite recipes. Well guess what, much of that "sure to kill you" stuff is now "good for you". Moderation in anything is the key, I believe, in eating healthy.

All the banned foods have gradually been allowed back on my table, in moderation of course. And I feel no guilt in enjoying them.

I love liver, but DH doesn't like it. I'm thrilled to find a bit of liver still attached to a chicken breast!

I don't 'fat fry' anything. We don't use a BBQ grill. We broil beef and lamb and eat chicken and fish.Vegetables. Fruit. Very little bread. We seldom eat 'out', and when we do, we often split an entree because the portions are too large for normal size human beings!

We have bacon and eggs every Sunday and eggs once during the week, too. We eat small portions of pie, cake, cookies, candy.

We each lost about 20 excess pounds in middle age and have stayed at good body mass ever since. That was when I started bypassing the Poison Food & Drink Aisles at the grocery. If you don't buy empty calories loaded with sugar and salt you *can't* mindlessly eat the junk. We decided what portions of food were 'enough'. People who aren't doing manual labor do not need huge amounts of 'fuel'.

I guess it depends on what your idea if healthy is, if your chicken livers, eggs and schmaltz are sourced responsibly its very good for you!

Elmer--can you admit to what your "splurge" might be?

For me, an "unhealthy food" is anything I eat too much of. This week, I splurged on heavy cream...what a treat!

Currently I eat bacon, eggs, butter and meats. I eat veggies, some fresh fruits, no added sweeteners (sugars) and very limited starchy carbs (less than 1/2 cup a day). I have lost 30 lbs. in the last 3 months. Splurging on cream won't hurt at all!

junco, I struggle with weight as so many do but I try to restrict what I eat to healthy foods. For me, the problem is portion size, I consume little that could be consider empty calories. My diet is mostly what I suggested above (I rarely eat any of the white carbs I listed) but with the addition of toast at breakfast.

Splurges are occasional and usually eaten at a restaurant or someone else's house, it's stuff we rarely have in the house. Examples - a baked potato, maybe tortilla chips once in awhile, a cookie. Bread at dinner. Rarely, dessert. I love cake, rarely have it, though I did split a piece of cheesecake with my wife two weeks ago on a trip to NYC.

Thomas Keller, the famous chef behind the French Laundry and other restaurants, has a casual restaurant just down the street from the FL called Ad Hoc. It considers fried chicken to be its most notable dish. It's available daily from a counter in the back, but we had it in the restaurant one night when it was on the menu. (The daily menu is one selection of a three course meal, take it or leave it.) It was heavenly. That was a bit over a year ago, I haven't had fried chicken since.

That all depends on what you consider healthy food. Turns out, anything processed is not healthy. That means bread too! And foods high in sugar, which also includes vegetables. Believe it or not: bacon is good for you. :)

This past month, we have eaten whatever we want. We normally eat a decently strict Ketogenic diet. But my husband had major surgery a little over a month ago, and it's important for him to eat. Anything. Tomorrow I am having my son over for veal cutlets and mashed potatoes and Sunday we are back to Keto: High fat, moderate protein and low carb. Many say "moderation is key". Not in my family. We do all or nothing. It's why we got fat. And unhealthy. ;)

So to me, while many of you may say we were still eating healthy, I can tell you that new studies show we certainly did not. ;) And I am feeling it. :(

An important factor can be simply cooking from scratch rather than buying frozen dinners or packaged foods in the inside aisles of the grocery store.

I sometimes make casseroles and add lots of extra vegetables to them but trying to find recipes that don't involve adding a can of soup to them is really difficult.

Stir fry is a real favourite of ours as well.

I am right there with you debby. Healthy and enjoyable (at least up front!), aren't always the same thing.

blfenton, I save all the water off canned or steamed vegetables, and add it to a plastic container in the fridge. Also save all meat drippings and liquid from deglazing baking dishes, if I'm not using it immediately for a sauce. Depending on the casserole I'm preparing, I'll add cornstarch or other thickener to the thawed stock, and use that in place of canned soup. I recook the bones from all meats which have been roasted or broiled (but not those left on someone's plate, lol), save the broth, and give the appropriate bones to my dog.

I used both chicken and veg stock for the pot pie.

Blfenton, I shudder when I see so many recipes either online, or in those little church cookbooks etc that rely on canned soup and dried onion in casseroles etc.

I came across this site for quick mixes, spices etc. Basically the cream of whatever soup is just looking for a sauce in the casserole, so a regular white bechamel sauce would do.

But check out this for some ideas, if you like.

cream soup substitutions etc

i changed my diet back in Feb., and not planning on going back to what i was eating. stopped all processed foods, white foods & sugar. switched to sweet leaf or truvia for sweetener. sprouted bread, sweet potatoes, old fashioned oat meal for healthy carbs. lots of protein and healthy fats., e.g.. coconut oil, nuts, olive oil, avocados, butter etc., lost 18 lbs., weighing what i did in H.S.., high energy level and actually eating more fat now than i have in the past 15yrs., its been great for me!!

following THM diet lifestyle...

I eat whatever I want. I should cut back on some stuff though...only because I'm about 10 lbs overweight.

Sugar is pretty consistently something that should be minimized.

We eat what we want, but we do eat fairly healthy. I don't eat meat, and don't cook it at home. DH eats out at lunch every day, which isn't great. We both have physical jobs (he has a home repair business, I work in lawn care.) I am a runner and he practices karate. I cook most dinners from scratch, very few cans other than tomato products and beans. Sometimes I cook dried beans, but I do rely on cans. Rarely sweet stuff around, some ice cream in the summer.

Our downfall is snacks. DH will always reach for crunchy/salty. I found out this week that I sometimes eat for emotional reasons. The goldfish bag is draining in a hurry!

I think that I was on the edge of being overweight a year ago now, but during and for a while after the radiation I lost weight and it was suggested that I gain some ... so I'm working on it.

ole joyful

I bought cake doughnuts today. I'm guesssing it's been a year since we last ate them. :0) I think I eat too much tuna....