Hi. My family and I are really traditionally chinese. Which means that up until now all of my meals have had some form of rice, noodles, or flour as the main course. Is it a good idea to be eating so much carbs? I want to change my meals from 3 a day to 5 a day, and I don't think eating so much rice would be a good idea. I would change to something else but i really have trouble thinking up meals without these food items. Does anyone know any way to cut down on rice, noodles and flour while eating 5 meals a day?
Weight-Loss cutting back on rice and noodles?
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theoretically it's not the carbs that are respondible for making you fat -but it's the excess calories... add more vegetables to the dishes and use less starches... and whar are doing about protein?
Ted2
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Although not a solution - d you usebrown rice? It will help out a bit if you change up from white to brown.
Getting rid of rice is easy - you just eat the dish, and skip the rice. Works better with less-saucy dishes, and I find that I need to back off the salt / soy sauce in the preparation, too.
I haven't found a good way of limiting noodles, other than just not eating noodle dishes. Our house is mostly a rice-eating house, though. Shiritaki noodles (the internet says they might be "moyu" or "juruo" in Chinese, but doesn't specify which dialect) are supposed to be a good substitute, but I've never tried them.
the downside to the shiritake noodles, which are yam based I believe, is that when you open the package- ooooh boy do they emit an odor... rinsea few times and the'yre fine with a really fragrant sauce...