Thursday, April 28, 2011

Important breakfast, snickers macarons and the meal snap

Spaghetti with cauliflower and bacon
Today's Food Diary
Breakfast: Missed
Lunch: Spaghetti with cauliflower and bacon
Dinner: Rolled oats with toasted coconut, banana and flaxseeds
Baking/sweets: various

Today was an upside down day, I missed breakfast and had breakfast for dinner. Its usually said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I missed breakfast today and my day was far better than yesterday. The positive aspects were unrelated to food and it made me feel better even though I had no breakfast. I neither agree nor disagree that breakfast is the most important deal of the day, I think it is one of 3 most important meals of the day. All 3 meals (or 6 in the case of Singaporeans!) fuel different parts of the day and all parts of the day are important. I think so anyway.

Today's Favourite Photo
Snickers Macarons



Today’s Favourite Blog
You camera can help you manage your weight. With the Meal Snap application you can calculate the number of calories by taking a photo of the food. Wall Street Journal tested this and unfortunately only 7 of 17 meals photographed were on the mark.Still 7 out of 17 ain't bad. 

The article quotes the applications founder as saying that “dietary research suggests that the very process of photographing a meal can serve to bolster discipline and control, regardless of whether that process produces an accurate calorie count.” I think this may be true of food bloggers. Blogging perhaps makes us more conscious of what we eat and influences our eating habits, perhaps in both positive and negative ways. Looking at the photo above may have a slight negative impact, especially if we walk past a shop selling macarons or something resembling it.

7 comments:

  1. Those Snickers macaroons look tasty. I never thought to make that flavor.

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  2. Now this spaghetti with cauliflower and bacon sounds very interesting!

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  3. This dish is just amazing..awesome click..!
    visiting your space for the first time..lovely blog you have with innovative recipe collections..
    happy to follow u..:)
    do stop by mine sometime..
    Tasty Appetite

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  4. Celebrate all meals! I like the way you think. And that spaghetti looks delicious!

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  5. Those macarons look so delicious, I'd like to grab one from the plate. Your choices are excellent, as usual. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...Mary

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  6. Yeah I agree breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day that why I try not to miss them. I also remember before I usually dont eat breakfast but when I met my wife she told me that I should, I even lost a lot of weight after having regular breakfasts.

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