Weighed in at 158.5 – will try to weigh in each Monday.
First up breakfast. Usually have porridge - 1/2 cup of regular oatmeal with cup of milk and some extra water, topped off with splenda sugar substitute and sometimes fruit. So I replaced the milk with all water and had 1/2 a cup of blue berries ontop. Quite tasty, did not miss the milk, That wasn't hard at all.
Went for an 11 mile bike ride with my partner and came back rather hungry for lunch. There were leftover black beans that I squished and mixed in hot chilli from the garden. Made 2 patties, to one I added a tbsp of bread crumbs I had frozen. I think the burger with the bread crumbs tasted a smidge better but the difference was slight. I fried the patties in non stick pan with that cooking spray stuff. Picked a cup of arugula and some cherry tomatoes from the garden and allowed myself 1 tbsp of low fat ranch dressing. i know that knife over forks book says no oily dressings, so I will be replacing the ranch with whatever they suggest. Have not got the book out of the library yet..
I should have had an extra 2 cups of arugula and a bunch more tomatoes because I was still hungry. But it sure was tasty and easy to prep.
I am used to cooking properly, which means creating a mess of dishes to clean up, so that is no great new hardship. I would normally grate an ounce of sharp cheddar to sprinkle on salad, but I really did not miss it.
Snack time was home made hummus on Wasa crackers. The hummus recipe had no oil or tahini which is sesame paste – and it tastes a bit watery. Next time will put some cherry toms or cucumber on it for flavor. Need to get a better hummus recipe. The wasa crackers are very thick dry and crunchy. Normally I would pile a load of cottage cheese or cream cheese or oily hummus on them and it would be super tasty. But with the water hummus it was just OK.
Dinner was oil free french fries with a bocca soy burger (on sale at Aldi). Got fries recipe from forks over knives website but it is basically just cut up potato with skin to 1/4 thick and bake on parchment at 400 for 15 mins, then flip for another 15. The fries were OK dunked in bbq sauce but when sprinkled with salt the salt doesn't stick. Might toss then in a tiny dribble of EVOO next time just so the salt sticks
I cooked my sweetie her 4oz ribeye steak, cut super thin. Gave it 1 min per side in a hot cast iron fry pan. That was too much and will try 30 secs next time. It was liked well enough though.
We went to Bloomington Meats yesterday to get her some slabs of animal flesh. She typically gets 8oz steaks but cannot really eat more than half, and the remainder only sometimes gets eaten during the next few days. So we decided to get the 4 oz ribeyes that are cut thin, for a little over $2.50 each. We got 5 and will freeze 4 of them. This meat place on the edge of town is the best quality place around, they butcher it on site from local producers and it looks properly aged. It is cheaper than Walmart (actually I have never bought food in Walmart but I will bet you it is cheaper). It is highly unlikely to have pink slime or other chemicals to make it look fresh. 4 years ago I asked if they had grass fed beef. They said yes but it is all mixed in and could not tell which was which. Apparently they did not know they could charge twice the price for grass fed. Now they have Funks Grove farm grass fed, but mostly they are out of stock. I am betting that some is humanely raised and some isn't, but its got be be better than the supermarket crap. Apparently there is only 1 slaughterhouse in the region and the organic people use it. It is probably cruel but I don;t know for sure. That is partly why I am becoming a vegan.
so this is my intake for the day - a few sugar/fat naughties like ranch dressing and BBQ sauce, but otherwise it is all vegan and non processed. It is too low in calories at 800, I give myself an A for fiber (31g) and A- for protein (41g). I think protein should be 45 for me.
| Monday labour day 09/03/2012 | calories | fat | fiber | protein | calcium (mg) |
| oats ½ cup | 154 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 21 |
| blueberries ½ cup 2.5 oz | 40 | 0.25 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 4.4 |
| black beans 4.5 oz ¾ cup | 176 | 0.7 | 11 | 11 | 36 |
| Arugula 1 cup | 5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 32 |
| cherry tomatoes ¼ cup | 8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 5 |
| low fat ranch 1 tbsp | 40 | 3 | |||
| bread crumbs white 1 tbsp | 10 | ||||
| wasa crackers 15 | 67 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Hummus 1.5 oz | 50 | 0.45 | 1.8 | 2 | 14 |
| bbq sauce 2 tbsp | 70 | ||||
| boca burger | 70 | 4 | 13 | ||
| potato 5oz | 110 | 5 | 5 | ||
| total | 800 | 7.3 | 31.5 | 40.7 | 112.4 |
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