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08:32 AM 03/04/2012
So me and a couple of friends went to the Mitsuwa Marketplace which is a Japanese mall about an hour or so away from us.
And it was awesome as expected. ^_^
Picked up some snacks at the grocery store there and with one exception were things that didn't affect my glucose levels.
I got in no particular order:
Dorayaki (Baked Red Bean Cakes) - very sweet but also very very good. Not something I can eat every day because they are basically light pancakes filled with sweet red bean paste. Way too much sugar.
Instant Miso Soup - Yu-Ge (white) and Asage (mixed). I got these because they look simple and quick to cook when I'm hungry, don't have hardly any carbs in them, and might be fun to try. I could in theory cook this at work even though it says it's four servings. I didn't really look at the salt on the package just assumed that part would be bad for me. But salt is okay for me right now even though I'm shooting for a good balance of things.
The aforementioned dried squid. I discarded the package so I don't have the name handy. Honestly it was salty and chewy and actually quite good. Tentacles get stuck in my teeth though. It was mostly tentacles. There were some of the flat dried full squids there but I chose the slightly smaller package in case I didn't like it.
Nori Maki Arare - basically seaweed wrapped around a cracker. I haven't tasted these yet but the numbers on the back look good for me.
Sen Cha - some loose green tea that I'm going to try in the Kuerig machine at work now that I have my individual filter.
Hoji Cha - roasted green tea. We'll see what the flavor difference is there.
Milk Coffee - this was darn good. I also don't have the brand but it was a small square plastic bottle with a white label and grey/black lettering on it. It didn't have a lot of sugar in it but wasn't as bitter as you'd expect. I like it.
Other than that there were a ton of things to try and frankly since things weren't too expensive comparatively I'll definitely go back there. Honestly I found more snacks that were healthy for me to eat there than in most regular US grocery stores. (Even found a gum that my wife can chew that has regular sugar in it and no Apartame.) And if these are things that are healthy for me to eat while I'm sitting in the chair at the office then so much the better. :-)
As far as Japanese food goes though there's two goals. The first is to reclaim my taste buds from bad fast food. That's taking time. The second is to discover what tastes I like that I can eat. Removing almost all the sugar from my diet is helping a lot. I've always likes savory food but recently it's become much more appealing to me. (I wonder if you can put cinnamon in curry...)
( In other gnooze )
Getting it together...
So me and a couple of friends went to the Mitsuwa Marketplace which is a Japanese mall about an hour or so away from us.
And it was awesome as expected. ^_^
Picked up some snacks at the grocery store there and with one exception were things that didn't affect my glucose levels.
I got in no particular order:
Dorayaki (Baked Red Bean Cakes) - very sweet but also very very good. Not something I can eat every day because they are basically light pancakes filled with sweet red bean paste. Way too much sugar.
Instant Miso Soup - Yu-Ge (white) and Asage (mixed). I got these because they look simple and quick to cook when I'm hungry, don't have hardly any carbs in them, and might be fun to try. I could in theory cook this at work even though it says it's four servings. I didn't really look at the salt on the package just assumed that part would be bad for me. But salt is okay for me right now even though I'm shooting for a good balance of things.
The aforementioned dried squid. I discarded the package so I don't have the name handy. Honestly it was salty and chewy and actually quite good. Tentacles get stuck in my teeth though. It was mostly tentacles. There were some of the flat dried full squids there but I chose the slightly smaller package in case I didn't like it.
Nori Maki Arare - basically seaweed wrapped around a cracker. I haven't tasted these yet but the numbers on the back look good for me.
Sen Cha - some loose green tea that I'm going to try in the Kuerig machine at work now that I have my individual filter.
Hoji Cha - roasted green tea. We'll see what the flavor difference is there.
Milk Coffee - this was darn good. I also don't have the brand but it was a small square plastic bottle with a white label and grey/black lettering on it. It didn't have a lot of sugar in it but wasn't as bitter as you'd expect. I like it.
Other than that there were a ton of things to try and frankly since things weren't too expensive comparatively I'll definitely go back there. Honestly I found more snacks that were healthy for me to eat there than in most regular US grocery stores. (Even found a gum that my wife can chew that has regular sugar in it and no Apartame.) And if these are things that are healthy for me to eat while I'm sitting in the chair at the office then so much the better. :-)
As far as Japanese food goes though there's two goals. The first is to reclaim my taste buds from bad fast food. That's taking time. The second is to discover what tastes I like that I can eat. Removing almost all the sugar from my diet is helping a lot. I've always likes savory food but recently it's become much more appealing to me. (I wonder if you can put cinnamon in curry...)
( In other gnooze )
Getting it together...
