@Curly00 yum!

Maybe. I suppose it depends on the person. @SW-User

@Carissimi true, there are those gifted with fast metabolism. when I eat with gusto, I need to take it easy the next day.

Thank you for BC. 🙏 @SW-User

@Ontheroad So you gained weight in Japan...I cooked the menu on the second pic. The first pic was eaten at a Jap resto.

@SW-User yep, I did... I finally had to start declining the rice at every darn meal! It was hard and even required I start cooking for the both of us, but that turned out as a positive... seems she liked to be pampered a bit.

@Ontheroad good deal!

@acupaday ...and expensive here 😂

@SW-User Well, that’s just rude of them.

@reflectingmonkey why do you avoid pasta? that's my substitute for rice too.

@SW-User I have spent my life studying nutrition and mental health mostly because I have a condition , which might be hypersensitivity to hypoglycemia, and I suspect that the depression I went through during my youth was due to this. when I started controling carefully my carbohydrate consumption my depression disappeared. I suspect that the rising number of people diagnosed with depression in the last 20 years might be due to this. I have observed in me that eating sugar one day will cause that the next 2-3 days I have depression symptoms. I have observed that eating pasta as a meal, not so much when a small amount is added to soup, does the same effect as eating sugar: the next day I feel week and depressed. my interpretation of this is that pasta is a very processed type of carb and when eaten disolves very fast and enters the bloodstream too fast and causes a sudden jolt in blood glucose levels. also, because of this fast absoption, I find pasta, contrary to other carbs, has a similar addictive quality to it where is feel awesome when you eat it but , soon after, you want more, causing a type of cycle of consuming and wanting more similar to such drugs as cocaine or cigarettes.

@reflectingmonkey hmmm...interesting. thanks for the info. I'm a pasta fan though...yeah, sometimes I feel depressed but when I start to cry, I try to gear towards positive thoughts and battle with my mind. points taken, enlightening.

@bijouxbroussard you must be slim....
thanks, I love cooking and rice is an easy recipe. 😊

@nevergiveup looks yummy, what's on the side?

@SW-User Cod in bread crumbs

@nevergiveup not familiar with cod, tried to research 🤭...leaner than salmon.

@SW-User and Vietnamese broken rice 😋

@Ghostinthemachine Oh, haven't tried that yet. I'll check it at my local supermarket. 😊

@SW-User I'm not sure where to get it, tbh, but our local Pho restaurant makes it, for a slight uncharge

Until then, I had never heard of or tasted it before

@hunkalove I tried brown rice but it's kinda rough on my palate.

@SW-User Cook it longer? I do it for 45 minutes.

@hunkalove My sister-in-law cooked. She likes brown rice.

@Justmeraeagain What about brown rice?

@hunkaloveI don't like it really to be honest.
I live the white fluffy stuff.

@Justmeraeagain I eat a lot of short grain brown rice. I think it depends on what you put in with it. I make great vegetarian Spanish rice!

@LunarOrbit delicious!

@SW-User IKR. I thought I was weird

@SW-User substitute it with something which has dietary fibre. I don't know where you are from so can't suggest you properly.

@littlepuppywantanewlife when I eat too much rice, I skip the next day. replace it with bread or noodles

@SW-User that's better. I usually eat home cooked wheat bread. And if rice then only one time a day or sometimes I skip it for couple of days.

@DearAmbellina2113 gotta love sushi

@CrazyMusicLover that's good, I'm trying....

@faithfulhusband I can relate!

@Fluffybull I hope I can do that!

@meggie I so wish....

@SW-User good...sometimes I crave for another serving but the next day, I try not to eat at all.

@SW-User I don't eat it very often ...it's not great for me

@Thevy29 I know, read that too.

@Rilyn I so wish!

I hear you 😘😌@SW-User

@SW-User I'm kinda frugal now that inflation is getting serious. 😏

Smart move 😎@SW-User

@CookieCrumbs I wish I could do that. 😊

@Stereoguy I wish I have less appetite. 😏