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This is just a non-starchy food recommendation. Not really a recipe, so I wasn't sure where to put it.

This has become a quick regular meal for me, since I haven't been able to find a lot of the listed non-starchy food (such as okra) here in Korea.

Seaweed noodle spaghetti

I am able to handle Prego mushroom sauce, no problem. I add ground beef or pork and cheese.

They don't need to be cooked, I just wash them off and throw them in with the sauce to heat them up.

It tastes almost like real spaghetti. Maybe it is the type of seaweed I get, but there is no 'fishy' taste, unless I eat them without sauce. I do which they had more calories though.

http://www.food-pia.co.kr/shopimages/foodpia/0020000000332.jpg
(I tried to find a picture that wasn't an ad, but couldn't)

A healthy meal that takes under 10 minutes to prep and tastes like Italy!!!

Hello there Eric W...
How sensitive are you to starch? I know that you have been on the diet a long time (right?). Do you have the brand name? Does it list the ingredients in English? MMMMM..... I love seaweed... right now I am on sort of an elimination, slowly adding back in diet (and it seems to be working- insert big smile), but seaweed is definitely on my list to try to add back in....

Thanks for the post.
Stacey

That's pretty cool. On a related note, I've been wanting to try kelp/seaweed ever since I saw the following entry on a menu at Cru, a vegan/raw restaurant in LA:

Pad Thai - with kelp noodles, cilantro, lime and cashews

OK, us NSDers will probably have to hold the cashews, but the yelp reviews were really favorable. Next time I'm in LA, I will muster up the courage to eat out and try the dish!

Thanks for the recommendation!

Freddie

The brand is called Hae Mi Won, and I don't know if they ship out of country or not. There is no English on the package, but my wife, who is Korean, read it and said there wasn't anything starchy. I haven't had any problems and I have been eating it about 2 times a week for a few years.

As for my situation, I have been on the diet for about 5 years. Once in a while I will take a chance on something, with mixed results. Kimchi is one thing I cut out, but added back. It can have some starchy ingredients, depending on who makes it, but I seem fine with it. If I have minced garlic I am fine, but a whole clove affects me. I am usually very strict on what I eat, and am maybe to cautious when it comes to adding food back into my diet.

When I stick to what I know, I am fine. I had a real problem with IBS, but, thanks to the diet, no longer. For a long time I was quite lazy when it came to exercising and gained quite a bit of weight (beer and chocolate are two of my demons that helped pack on a few pounds). I was waking up in pain after about 4 or 5 hours of sleep, regardless of what I ate. I have been lifting weights for the last month, and am loving it. The morning pain is disappearing again.

One more quick meal (I had it tonight): Tofu-Kimchi (I guess this could be in the recipe section, but ...)

http://mykoreankitchen.com/2006/12/21/tofu-kimchi-dubu-kimchi-in-korean/

I usually add a can of tuna or a few slices of bacon to the kimchi before I fry it.


What types of food have you been able to add back? I may be more experimental, If I see others have had success.

The seaweed that I am using for my spaghetti isn't kelp. The dictionary translation for kelp is just the phonetic equivalent. On the package it say Mi-yuk (but in Korean), which is a common type here, and translates to "a brown seaweed". Actually, it says it is made from a Mi-yuk paste (99%). I have no idea what the other 1 % is, but as I mentioned in another post, my wife said it is okay and I haven't had any problems.

If you try the kelp and don't like it, don't give up on seaweed. I have had a lot of types here, some were good, some were awful. However, it is really healthy.

I miss cashews.

Hi Eric,

Wow! What a great idea. I will be driving home past a Korean grocery store tomorrow, so I will go and look for some - and thanks for giving me the Korean name, so I can ask for Hae Mi Won if I can't see it...

I visited the recipe site and managed to find a recipe for Tuna pancakes (Chamchijeon) that I think I can modify with coconut flour to make something like the Japanese okonomiyaki which I used to love until I went NSD.

I lived in Japan many years ago, and have visited several times over the ensuing years. I love the 'clean' flavours of their food, and I *love* many different sorts of seaweed, so I will have to get experimental with it now...

Thanks for the lead,

I was thinking to try making okonomiyaki with coconut flour - everything else (Cabbage, eggs,etc) should be fine on the LSD... I too am a fan!