Päiväkirja - FarmerJeannine, 07 huhti 18

Cooking weekend!

I have some veggies from my garden last fall that I need to use up...

I grew some sweet potatoes on the deck last summer - a very enthusiastic volunteer from the supermarket begged for a chance to grow (it started sprouting), so I planted it... very beautiful plant, it even bloomed!! I took the last of the roots (minus some for replanting) and turned them into sweet potato oatmeal muffins to go with my breakfast smoothies... and I've gotten used to the taste of spirulina! :)

For lunches, I plan to use up more of my year+ old 25 cent a package whole wheat matzo crackers for a recipe I found called "Matzah Lasagna," swapping out the beef the recipe wants for veggie burger crumbles and upping the veggies in it. Now that Passover has come and gone, I've got to keep my eye open at the grocery for more whole wheat matzo on sale! :)

I still have some parsnips that I grew in the garden last year, so they'll be going into a root vegetable gratin, another recipe I found on line - I just need to do a little subbing with the fat-containing ingredients (cut out the heavy cream and gruere cheese and butter, replace them with almond milk, non-fat mozzarella, and a smaller amount of olive oil) to make it AHA friendly.

To go with the gratin, I plan to make barley risotto (barley has more fiber than rice!). This recipe is from the AHA cookbook, so I didn't have to monkey around with it much - it calls for water instead of the traditional wine, but I figure the wine would taste better, and won't hurt me much once the alcohol's cooked out. :) It's got a pound of mushrooms and a pound of asparagus in it, so it should be yummy! I ended up buying canned no-salt-added asparagus because it's not asparagus season in New Hampshire yet, and the fresh offerings at the grocery store looked skinny and anemic... I'll just put it in at the end of the cooking time instead of when it's supposed to go in.

I'm waiting impatiently for Mother Nature to remember that it's spring - there's a couple inches of snow out there right now! My asparagus bed has been maturing for three years, and this year I'll be able to eat asparagus for lunch and supper every day for a couple of weeks (hubby doesn't like the way it smells on the way out, so he doesn't eat it) - I'll share some out with the neighbors, too. I really like asparagus!! :) After a few weeks, I'll need to stop harvesting and allow the spears to grow up the way they're intended, so the plants can start bulking up for the next winter - grown up asparagus is beautiful, it looks like giant ferns (but you can't eat it)...

Have a great day, everyone!
64,9 kg Tähän mennessä pudotettu: 1,8 kg.    Vielä jäljellä: 4,1 kg.    Dieetin noudattaminen: Kohtuullisen hyvin.

Näytä dieettikalenteri, 07 huhtikuuta 2018:
1743 kcal Rasva: 47,98g | Prot: 83,62g | Hh: 270,17g.   Aamiainen: Coffee, Splenda No Calorie Sweetener Packets, Silk Pure Almond Milk - Unsweetened Original, Water, Strawberry Breakfast Smoothie, Sweet Potato Fiber Bomb Muffins. Lounas: Spicy Spinach Matzo Ball Soup with Roast Tofu, Water, healthy blueberry cheesecake. Päivällinen: Matzah Lasagna (http://matkonation.com/en/mat..., Chinese Style Hot & Spicy Green Beans, Water, Royal Chocolates Belgian Chocolate Thins - Dark. Välipalat/Muut: Trader Joe's Fancy Medjool Dates, Bananas, Water, Silk Pure Almond Milk - Unsweetened Original, Splenda No Calorie Sweetener Packets, Coffee, Cauliflower Cheese Sticks (lettygaylor's FS recipe, sub non-fat mozzarella for full-fat; add onions), Water. lisää...
2039 kcal Harjoitus: Ruokaostokset - 1 tunti, Kävely (kohtalainen) - 5 km/h - 45 minuuttia, Kotityöt - 2 tuntia, Lepo - 12 tuntia ja 15 minuuttia, Nukkuminen - 8 tuntia. lisää...
Painonpudotus 0,6 kg viikossa

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I'll stick to oatmeal and oat bran for now - I can get those at the grocery store! :) I'll save the oat fiber for the possible event of needing to bring out some "big guns" on the cholesterol... 
10 huhti 18 jäseneltä: FarmerJeannine
We're on page 2 of the comments for this Journal Entry! First time I see such an occurrence since I joined FS. 
10 huhti 18 jäseneltä: fleur_de_lune
My impression is that the 2 founding sisters (blood sisters, not nuns!) of Trim Healthy Mama are fundamentalist Christians. They created their own diet, wrote one book each on the diet, and now have a lot of satisfied customers. They have created their own line of supplements, food ingredients and beauty products, which seems very successful. You mention that $5.99 for a pound of oat fiber is good, but I notice that the regular price is in fact $11.99; I'm not sure under what conditions you can pay the lower price; I notice that there is a membership that has a monthly fee attached (e.g., $70 for 12-month membership or $25 for 3 months). 
13 huhti 18 jäseneltä: fleur_de_lune
I noticed that as well - I don't plan on shelling out for any memberships, but I might consider buying oat fiber from them if it proves to be necessary for me to bring out "big guns" to control the cholesterol levels... UNLESS the stuff costs $5.99 for members and $11.99 for everyone else - then I'll most likely be shopping at Amazon or EBay. 
13 huhti 18 jäseneltä: FarmerJeannine

     
 

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