With regards to diet.
I seem to eat mainly either wholemeal pasta or brown rice with most of my meals, don't tend to eat potatoes for some reason.
I'm just wondering if there are any alternative 'fillers' to have with main meals, or have I covered them all?
To accompany the pasta/rice I eat plenty of vegetables and meat wise it's either chicken, turkey or salmon, so pretty balanced really.
Just wondering as I was on the phone to my missus (I work away from home) and she said all you ever seem to eat is pasta or rice 😆
Cous cous
Bread
Chips
Lentils
Noodles
Sweet potato
Gnocchi (sp?) - unless there is a specific reason you don't eat spuds?
Cous cous.
No specific reason I don't eat potatoes, just don't seem to.
Can't get on with cous cous either, it's a texture thing
Quinoa (warning, the Tesco stuff has grit in it...)
Plantain
Cassava
Pumpkin
Cous cous is ace provided you flavour it with something, or have a yummy sauce. Giant cous cous is fun.
Pearl barley risotto is a nice variation on classic arborio rice.
Tried Quinola, couldn't figure it out. Seemed to make either a gritty mush, or a mush. Any pointers?
Flat (unlevened) breads, chappati etc.
Beans?
Lentils?
As above - butter beans, chickpeas, lentils, cous cous etc
Quinoa (or however you spell it) is the spawn of Satan
Mashed carrot and swede
Jerusalem artichoke
Yams
Celeriac
BEEF
Giant cous cous is fun.
Lol, I think you are stretching things there!
😳 Yeah, OK. Guilty. A novelty in our house might be more accurate, given we usually plough through tonnes of el cheapo cous cous.
Quinoa is great as long as you dont over cook it. I tend to do it for a couple of minutes less than advertised as it it cooks as it cools.[list]
Dahl.
Have a read through a few decent veggie books or online. There's a lot of interesting grains that you can use to replace the usual carb fillers in dishes.
Quinoa is a great grain. It's worth mastering how to cook it right. Get a decent one from a reputable wholefood shop, not a supermarket. (The same could be said for anything like this actually).
Millet.
Bulgar wheat
Polenta
Buckwheat
Noodles
Try different types of rice, they don't all cook up the same.
noodles - i like the wholewheat ones from sainsbob's. super quick too.
Dahl.
Sophie?
A company called pedon sell bags of different mixes of grains and pulses. There are about 4 or 5 versions, they've been cooked before they were dried so they don't need to be soaked and boiled for yonks, as quick as pasta to prepare. More satisfying than pasta or rice, but not as heavy or worthy as plain pulses or grains. Havent bought pasta since I started eating them a year or so ago. I've only ever found them in tesco and they can be tricky to find, not usually displayed with the wholefoodie pulsey stuff, but sometimes near couscous and risotto packs.
Brown / wholemeal bread ?, wholemeal pasta ?.
Shudders
After listening to Radio 4 farming today, one day.
Its now white alllllllll the way babe 😉
Whats the problem Solo?
If you can find it, try farro (sometimes called Italian farro), one of those older grains like spelt. It's delicious, sort of sweet and nutty. Good for salads (add herbs, broad beans, whatever) or hot as a risotto or in soup. Pedon, mentioned above, do it but you can also buy online easily. I'm also really into puy lentils - you can do some really great dishes especially with spicy lamb, or as a salad with salty bits of meat (chorizo, ham, roasted pepper etc), tomatoes, herbs etc. Cous cous I find a little insubstantial, though great for soaking up meaty juices. I also add chickpeas or cannellini beans to stews so no other carbs are required.
Now I'm hungry!
