Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below Pumpkin should be a staple food (well it IS in our household.....we have them growing over every conceivable vertical surface in the garden). Pumpkin and chickpea curry is an all time favourite of mine. It can be easily dehydrated and rehydrates quickly for hiking trips, makes great soups, sauces and pies, keeps well, tastes great, it's cheap.....can't think of a better all-rounder.
How EXACTLY is pumpkin different from rice or potatoes?
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SteelWeaver
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Yeah, JJ - I'm cutting fiber from Monday, thus checking if pumpkin could serve as starchy carb, no/little fiber - YES, baby! My new all-time favourite: PA ..PUM ...PUMP ...PUMPKIN!!!! I'm currently eating the skins too, will cut those and the broccoli out on Mon.
As for the fritters - I'm thinking a mixture of egg whites, pumpkin, oatmeal, maybe some protein powder, cinnamon and sweetener. *Possibly* crumbed with wholemeal bread crumbs.
I had another idea too: the protein pancakes that are all over these boards, but pumpkin flavour:
egg whites
oatmeal
(protein powder, if desired)
pumpkin
cottage cheese
cinnamon
sweetener
Blend it all up, cook like pancake, serve with sf syrup. OR, one cook make the pancakes as usual, then use pumpkin as a FILLING!
I've thought about doing this with yams, too, but then one ends up with so many carbs ... wow, pumpkin fits the bill for everything!
Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin muffins
Pumpkin and oatmeal cookies
And, of course, pumpkin and chick pea curry I've made that before, MS - but the pumpkin all dissolved into mush - I can't imagine that dehydrated 
Do you put it in last, so it stays in chunks? Do you guys have the small round green pumpkins or the huge flat white ones? How about butternut? - heeey! I bet butternut is as good as pumpkin for all this stuff
And on the topic of food - do you make your hummous with olive oil and tahini? I've been wondering about that and the whole no carbs and fats together thing - I tried hummous with yoghurt instead of olive oil, and it was good, but it just wasn't the same.
As for the fritters - I'm thinking a mixture of egg whites, pumpkin, oatmeal, maybe some protein powder, cinnamon and sweetener. *Possibly* crumbed with wholemeal bread crumbs.
I had another idea too: the protein pancakes that are all over these boards, but pumpkin flavour:
egg whites
oatmeal
(protein powder, if desired)
pumpkin
cottage cheese
cinnamon
sweetener
Blend it all up, cook like pancake, serve with sf syrup. OR, one cook make the pancakes as usual, then use pumpkin as a FILLING!
I've thought about doing this with yams, too, but then one ends up with so many carbs ... wow, pumpkin fits the bill for everything!
Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin muffins
Pumpkin and oatmeal cookies
And, of course, pumpkin and chick pea curry
I've made that before, MS - but the pumpkin all dissolved into mush - I can't imagine that dehydrated Do you put it in last, so it stays in chunks? Do you guys have the small round green pumpkins or the huge flat white ones? How about butternut? - heeey! I bet butternut is as good as pumpkin for all this stuff And on the topic of food - do you make your hummous with olive oil and tahini? I've been wondering about that and the whole no carbs and fats together thing - I tried hummous with yoghurt instead of olive oil, and it was good, but it just wasn't the same.
You have to use the right kind of pumpkin to get it to stay in firm chunks. Crown or butternut are best, and you don't throw the pumpkin in until the chickpeas have basically finished cooking (cook chickpeas first, then throw in the pumpkin etc....) When you're in NZ, you should try this dish with some kumera thrown in too!
Tahini all the way for hummus. It's really just the saturated fats that you should avoid combining with HIGH GI carbs. Chickpeas are not high GI, and tahini is low in saturated fat (in fact it is mainly polyunsaturated). So enjoy IN MODERATION.
Keep this in the front of your mind. Post competition, you could eat 1000 cals per day in excess of requirements for a week, and in the VERY UNLIKELY EVENT that your body stored it ALL as fat, you would only gain a kilo of fat. In reality, your body will store very little of this as fat as long as you stay reasonably active. But if you eat 5000 cals per day of excess sugar and saturated fats, your screwed. So go ahead and live a little post comp, but do not develop a binge eating mentality. Stick to 6 meals per day, maybe keep the leptigen on if you have any left, and eat a moderate amount of above maitnenance mostly healthy foods.
Tahini all the way for hummus. It's really just the saturated fats that you should avoid combining with HIGH GI carbs. Chickpeas are not high GI, and tahini is low in saturated fat (in fact it is mainly polyunsaturated). So enjoy IN MODERATION.
Keep this in the front of your mind. Post competition, you could eat 1000 cals per day in excess of requirements for a week, and in the VERY UNLIKELY EVENT that your body stored it ALL as fat, you would only gain a kilo of fat. In reality, your body will store very little of this as fat as long as you stay reasonably active. But if you eat 5000 cals per day of excess sugar and saturated fats, your screwed. So go ahead and live a little post comp, but do not develop a binge eating mentality. Stick to 6 meals per day, maybe keep the leptigen on if you have any left, and eat a moderate amount of above maitnenance mostly healthy foods.
SteelWeaver
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Well, JJ - it's funny - I've never really been a big fan of pumpkin. I mean, I liked it well enough, but didn't do a WHOLE lot of cooking with it. It's just this week, after my trainer suggested it, and I tried it, that I discovered all its wonderful bonus properties, for both dieting and bulking. Of course, it also helps that I'm constantly ravenous, and am at a point where pretty much ANYTHING would probably taste good to me, but this pumpkin has been really good - so sweet and filling.
I haven't had a chance to do much *real* bulking cooking experimentation - not in proper bodybuilding style, so I'm looking forward to getting really creative in the kitchen when I get home. I will definitely post up any breakthroughs I have I'm quite a good cook when I take the trouble.
Good luck with whatever you try this w/e - let us know if any of it turns out well
MS - here, for you:
I appreciate your advice SO much. That puts my mind much at rest, although I'm feeling pretty paranoid that my body has ground down to a 500 cal/day maintenance level
I really have no idea where my maintenance level is now. I really really want to eat pizza for one meal post-comp., but after that I think I could be happy with good hearty wholesome food, if there's enough of it. And make sure there's some sf ff pudding around - I got my hands on some of that once or twice - wow, it's almost as good as chocolate mousse And they have lots of fat free products in Oz and NZ, don't they? Cheese and stuff? I could have wholemeal bread and ff cheese and cottage cheese - yum!
Why do you suggest keeping the leptigen in? Do you mean in this final week, as well? I was gonna drop it with everything else from Sunday. I think it has actually helped a bit, you know - my energy levels have been pretty reasonable, my heart rate hasn't dropped like it did last time (although I'm taking a lot more yohimbine and Nor than before, too), and strength has stayed fairly good. Who knows ...
What's kumera?
I haven't had a chance to do much *real* bulking cooking experimentation - not in proper bodybuilding style, so I'm looking forward to getting really creative in the kitchen when I get home. I will definitely post up any breakthroughs I have
I'm quite a good cook when I take the trouble.Good luck with whatever you try this w/e - let us know if any of it turns out well
MS - here, for you:
I appreciate your advice SO much. That puts my mind much at rest, although I'm feeling pretty paranoid that my body has ground down to a 500 cal/day maintenance level
I really have no idea where my maintenance level is now. I really really want to eat pizza for one meal post-comp., but after that I think I could be happy with good hearty wholesome food, if there's enough of it. And make sure there's some sf ff pudding around - I got my hands on some of that once or twice - wow, it's almost as good as chocolate mousse And they have lots of fat free products in Oz and NZ, don't they? Cheese and stuff? I could have wholemeal bread and ff cheese and cottage cheese - yum!Why do you suggest keeping the leptigen in? Do you mean in this final week, as well? I was gonna drop it with everything else from Sunday. I think it has actually helped a bit, you know - my energy levels have been pretty reasonable, my heart rate hasn't dropped like it did last time (although I'm taking a lot more yohimbine and Nor than before, too), and strength has stayed fairly good. Who knows ...
What's kumera?
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