As part of an assignment, I have to collect a 3-day weighed dietary intake and today was the first day. It basically involves weighing every single thing that you eat/drink, detailed to the point of indicating the weight of the raw item, the weight of the amount consumed, the weight of the leftovers, the methods of preparation, and the brand/description of the foods (if it's a packaged food). If it is a composite dish, the weight and details of all the raw ingredients have to be recorded down.
It's such a hassle I barely even got through the first day. The worse thing is, the hubby and I had planned to make japchae (Korean glass noodles) for dinner and japchae has like 20 ingredients in it >.< We only realized this belatedly and seriously thought about changing our plans and just making something simple so documentation wouldn't be such an arduous process. But we were both craving Korean food (we even bought kimchee so we could have it with the japchae!) so we decided to just go ahead and cook it.
Big mistake. Lol.
Japchae itself is a difficult dish that takes quite a bit of preparation and having to weigh all the raw ingredients individually before and after cooking just made it so much more difficult. We spent 3 hours making the japchae in the end. It was quite an experience though, somehow we were so amused about weighing each of the raw ingredients that we had random laughter bursts during the food prep. And the japchae tasted so much better at the end because we had slogged to get to eat it. Plus, I'm proud to say that it tastes very close to authentic Korean japchae! It was a success!
But I think I would make something really simple for the next 2 days, lol. As I'm a rather lazy person, at times I was thinking perhaps I shouldn't eat anymore so I wouldn't have to weigh it and do all the documentation. I guess this 3-day weighed dietary intake can be an awesome weight-loss tool for those who are lazy like me.
It's such a hassle I barely even got through the first day. The worse thing is, the hubby and I had planned to make japchae (Korean glass noodles) for dinner and japchae has like 20 ingredients in it >.< We only realized this belatedly and seriously thought about changing our plans and just making something simple so documentation wouldn't be such an arduous process. But we were both craving Korean food (we even bought kimchee so we could have it with the japchae!) so we decided to just go ahead and cook it.
Big mistake. Lol.
Japchae itself is a difficult dish that takes quite a bit of preparation and having to weigh all the raw ingredients individually before and after cooking just made it so much more difficult. We spent 3 hours making the japchae in the end. It was quite an experience though, somehow we were so amused about weighing each of the raw ingredients that we had random laughter bursts during the food prep. And the japchae tasted so much better at the end because we had slogged to get to eat it. Plus, I'm proud to say that it tastes very close to authentic Korean japchae! It was a success!
But I think I would make something really simple for the next 2 days, lol. As I'm a rather lazy person, at times I was thinking perhaps I shouldn't eat anymore so I wouldn't have to weigh it and do all the documentation. I guess this 3-day weighed dietary intake can be an awesome weight-loss tool for those who are lazy like me.
1 comment:
So what did you note down about kimchi? With all of the ingredients in kimchi?
Yes You will eat lesser! COme on and loss weight!@!
and next week, we ll be talking about what was the cost that we gained weight at last.
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