Greens for Dinner Bangkok Thailand dailyfoodphotography
This assortment of lovely greens is always on the table when I go to eat dinner at my Thai friends’s house in Bangkok, Thailand.
You use these greens to wrap your food in as you eat it. This is a whole new way for me to eat.
Before I lost "half my size" I never ate greens, but now I love them and eat them daily. I normally chop greens and add them to salad, soup, or stew. But now I am learning to grab some greens, add some food on top of them, wrap everything up into a ball and pop it into my mouth. I’m pretty happy with this new idea.
And look at how beautiful the greens are! And how much variety. I’m sure my friends must get them daily, because no matter when I arrive, there is always a plate of greens just like this – fresh and clean as can be - and ready to envelop some food.
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Losing weight was the best thing that ever happened to me. Anyone can get over obesity and live their dreams if I did.
I've seen people always wrap their foods in greens like this even here :).
I think salad rolls were kind of a trendy thing, but I rarely at them until I got here.
Nice post and I agree. If you set your mind and worn hard towards your wishes everyone can do it. I love greens and all kind of vegetables actually. I must say that I've eaten a cauliflower plate a few months ago and enjoyed it so much that I still think about it from time to time. 😉
I love cauliflower! That was something else I did not eat when I was obese, and now I crave it :)
In Bangkok we had to get these greens from the markets, but when we go to my in-laws my mother-in-law actually goes foraging each morning and comes home with all kinds of tasty greens to go with the day's meals.
Nice! That's the best way to do it. @haphazard-hstead has a lot of foraging information here and posts that can make you very hungry!
Yeah, when we finally retire there that will be me doddering through fields and jungles picking greens LOL.
I'll have to check out @hapharard-hstead because I like anything that will make my mouth water.
That will be a wonderful retirement. I wish I was in a village right now - as long as they have good wifi :)
Watercress, parsley, arugula, what else? :)
I never make a meal without eat vegetables. Looks like there's something missing when there isn't any on my plate, hahaha.
I can see cilantro and Thai holy basil too. I am glad I have started to feel like you and look for the greens before I eat now :)
There are people who never eat meat. They always rely on veg food. Mostly indian priests
I'm not vegetarian, but my son @bxlphabet is. I have tried it but I feel healthier when I eat meat.
I also like to eat greens with a lot of different foods. I really like arugula
That's a strong one. Now that I'm here, I often don't know what I'm eating, so I try everything. So far all the greens have been awesome and delicious.
Green as i know are one of healthiest nature has bestowed on mankind. Its a pity, majority of us in this age go after fast foods which are mostly made up of chemicals as preservatives which in turn harm us.
Am amazed by your positive transformation physically, please keep it up.
There is a lot of fast food here in Thailand. I'm not tempted and the smell really bothers me. Thank you for the compliment!
You are welcome dear.
Using lettuce as a wrap is amazing! And the best thing is that you can stuff it with more greens! But usually we add some sort of protein (meat or soya).
Luckily, there's a lot of fruit and veg in Thailand, but equally lots of chemicals too.
I feel pretty good with the food I eat here. Most of what I eat is not processed, so I hope that helps. Meat, fish and veggies is pretty much all I eat now.
What would you say is your ratio of eating out and cooking at home? Obviously as you know, it's quite inexpensive to eat out and can sometimes be more cost and time efficient to do so.
We should reduce our carb intake, but it's so yummy and filling. Don't think we would ever be able to stop it fully. Being brought up in Mediterranean countries, it's just apart of who we are.
Meat, fish and veggies...no fruit? Or were you counting that as veggies? We know about fructose and high amounts of it can be counter-productive to a diet.
Most of my food comes from street vendors here and is very reasonable. I do not eat in restaurants at all. I buy veggies and roots at a local market and usually lots of limes that I squeeze on just about everything I eat. The meat or fish is usually bbq'd, plain, and cheap. I'm heavy on the organ meat if I can find it.
I don't eat many carbs at all but if I do it is barley I get cheap, or rice that is sold everywhere here. but that is not very much of my food.
I usually eat one banana a day and sometimes coconut which is sold whole. I also eat seeds such as sunflower and Thai Holy Basil seeds.
I chop up veggies and leave them to sit in the fridge and add what ever I have for soup or salad. I chop a few things at a time and that is what I eat. The only way I can cook now is to pour boiling water on something from my kettle, so I eat a lot of cold food. I use coconut oil if I need oil.
After a lifetime of obesity (since I was a young child in the 1960's) and now having auto-immune disease, food is not something I really care about anymore - except to get the maximum nutrition when I'm hungry and with the least side effects. Most of my life was spent having my hand slapped away from food, or having people look down on me for eating at all. I'm pretty much a weird eater from the get-go.
When I eat something that reacts with my illness - I am in horrible pain and get full body cramping so I just don't eat it. I don't really crave anything. I'm just glad to no longer be obese and this is how I keep it that way.
I have done live-in weight loss coaching and fed others since I lost weight. I don't expect anyone to eat like me. For example - eggplant - which I love, now burns my lips and mouth to even try a small bite. But I know several healthy recipes for it that are very good and I would cook it for anyone else if I had a kitchen.
Wow, what a response Sharon. Very detailed. It does seem that you managed to pass and defeat temptation in terms of food. Food for fuel. Food for thought.
Some interesting items you have as a snack like Thai Holy Basil seeds. We have used the Holy Basil leaves in Prak Kah Peow, but never knew about the use of the seeds.
Lime is a good shout to put in your food as it helps and cuts down the food, right? As well as it's other benefits.
We guess you have to work around your illness as well as knowing where you were and the journey you have been (and still going on). It must have been tough, but it seems like you have managed it well and have a grip on things.
Thanks for sharing details of your incredible journey so far and hopefully we'll meet in person soon. :)
That would be awesome to meetup. Be sure to connect with @maverickfoo. I'm just talking to him now about trying to get something set up in Bangkok soon.
The seeds are great. They are like chia seeds and swell in water, but much quicker. They soak up my lime juice :)
I'm glad for anyone to be interested in my health information. We all have different journeys and issues, but we can all be healthier with the right nutrition and habits.
I call my old way of eating "stuffed yet starving." I was eating a lot of food, but none of it had any nutrition. Therefore no matter how much I ate, my body still needed more.
Hahaha funny, we were actually looking at his page as he was mentioned in @aaronleang's recent blog post and we did follow him. We will be sure to connect with him :)
Wow, didn't know that as we love chia puddings with our smoothies. It's amazing the difference between chia seeds and chia seeds soaked in water/milk.
We see your point with the "stuffed yet starving" and people do generally over-eat and not the right stuff too.
We don't know if you have been in Thailand for a long time to notice, but Sam has been back and forth countless of times and thinks he sees a difference in the amount of obesity in Thailand. It's not a major problem (yet). Though, he believes it's down to the change in diet and availability of chains/fast foods. It's just an observation, he might be wrong and maybe wasn't noticing this before.
Yes, I most definitely see obesity here. It's something always on my mind. The fast food is doing it and some people has this propensity like me anyway.
Maybe soon we will have all the Thai steemers together. I hope so :)
That is great Sharon. But what was up with just "never" eating leafy greens before? So happy that you changed for the better! Keep up the great work! -Dan
I never did eat them - I did not and still don't like lettuce and carried that forward to all greens. I'm on a better path now :)
Interesting. You certainly are on a better path now. Keep up the great work!
I love to eat greens & eat them daily.
That's the healthiest path. I know it helps me and I'm glad I got over my prejudice :)