Green Bliss
Hello Again!
Today was a great day for me. I am feeling great - except my neck was bothering me today - but then I went for a massage and now everything feels much better and I am feeling great now!
This morning I had my granola with blueberries and soy milk.
I was at a meeting during the lunch hour at which quiche was served, and I actually didn't have any, but instead went back to my workplace afterwards and had the vegetarian chili that I had brought with me. Strangely, by the time I got home (about 5:45 or so) I was feeling like I had low blood sugar for some reason. I was always under the impression that beans really helped you hold your blood sugar levels constant. The only variation on the chili was that it has pearl barley and red lentils in it. I wonder if any of these can cause blood sugar fluctuations.
I actually didn't snack at all during the day today which was a good thing because when I got home I had some cashews to tide me over while I was making dinner (rice, tofu and veggies stirfry). The stir fry turned out pretty well - the one thing I am really learning is that tofu tastes much better if you cut it into thin strips and pre-stir fry it first to give it some crispiness.
I sprinkled almonds in the stir fry.
Then I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things, including more eggplant, I also needed soy milk, bananas and canned tomatoes. One thing I am often disappointed that the Price Chopper grocery store near us often runs out of stock of SOY NICE Vanilla - which is my favorite soy milk. Today again they didn't have any on the shelf and so I took a look at the SO GOOD label and got a real shock at how many chemicals they put into their product including fructose - which we are really supposed to avoid at all costs. The other thing is that I have tried SO GOOD before, and the taste is just not as good as SOY NICE. So bizarre - you'd think with them pumping it full of stuff it would taste better. The other thing I noticed is that even the store brand of soy milk has less chemicals and sugar in it than SO GOOD. So I bought the store brand original for cooking, and for the first time picked up SOY NICE chocolate flavor. It is really lovely actually - it has such a mild flavor, just like the vanilla.
Then I went to the Bulk Food Store (my new best friend) and picked up some nuts, raisins, granola, brown rice flour and potato flour (looking for recipes to use these right now) and made myself a bowl of granola mixed with nuts, pumpkin seeds and raisins. It upped my calorie intake for the day big time (I'm surprised at how many calories there are in a 1/2 cup of pumpkin seeds!) - so I don't plan to be doing that much.
I also opened up my green goddess dressing (see recipe in previous entries) and it looked like it was on its last legs, so I decided to try my hand at vegan scalloped potatoes for tomorrow night's supper:
Annette's Vegan Scalloped Potatoes
Grease a small baking dish with canola or olive oil.
4 potatoes sliced thin
1/4 onion finely chopped
1 cup green goddess dressing (see recipe below)
2 tbsp spelt flour
salt and pepper
Put a thin layer of potatoes on the bottom of the dish, top with a few chopped onions, salt, pepper and a sprinkle of flour. Spread some green goddess dressing over the layer.
Repeat until all ingredients are gone. Pour rice milk over the whole thing to wet down the flour.
Top with 2 slices veggie mozza. Bake in 300 degree oven for at least an hour and a half, or until
potatoes are soft.
We'll see how it turns out!
See you tomorrow! (weigh in is only 3 days away!)
Today was a great day for me. I am feeling great - except my neck was bothering me today - but then I went for a massage and now everything feels much better and I am feeling great now!
This morning I had my granola with blueberries and soy milk.
I was at a meeting during the lunch hour at which quiche was served, and I actually didn't have any, but instead went back to my workplace afterwards and had the vegetarian chili that I had brought with me. Strangely, by the time I got home (about 5:45 or so) I was feeling like I had low blood sugar for some reason. I was always under the impression that beans really helped you hold your blood sugar levels constant. The only variation on the chili was that it has pearl barley and red lentils in it. I wonder if any of these can cause blood sugar fluctuations.
I actually didn't snack at all during the day today which was a good thing because when I got home I had some cashews to tide me over while I was making dinner (rice, tofu and veggies stirfry). The stir fry turned out pretty well - the one thing I am really learning is that tofu tastes much better if you cut it into thin strips and pre-stir fry it first to give it some crispiness.
I sprinkled almonds in the stir fry.
Then I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things, including more eggplant, I also needed soy milk, bananas and canned tomatoes. One thing I am often disappointed that the Price Chopper grocery store near us often runs out of stock of SOY NICE Vanilla - which is my favorite soy milk. Today again they didn't have any on the shelf and so I took a look at the SO GOOD label and got a real shock at how many chemicals they put into their product including fructose - which we are really supposed to avoid at all costs. The other thing is that I have tried SO GOOD before, and the taste is just not as good as SOY NICE. So bizarre - you'd think with them pumping it full of stuff it would taste better. The other thing I noticed is that even the store brand of soy milk has less chemicals and sugar in it than SO GOOD. So I bought the store brand original for cooking, and for the first time picked up SOY NICE chocolate flavor. It is really lovely actually - it has such a mild flavor, just like the vanilla.
Then I went to the Bulk Food Store (my new best friend) and picked up some nuts, raisins, granola, brown rice flour and potato flour (looking for recipes to use these right now) and made myself a bowl of granola mixed with nuts, pumpkin seeds and raisins. It upped my calorie intake for the day big time (I'm surprised at how many calories there are in a 1/2 cup of pumpkin seeds!) - so I don't plan to be doing that much.
I also opened up my green goddess dressing (see recipe in previous entries) and it looked like it was on its last legs, so I decided to try my hand at vegan scalloped potatoes for tomorrow night's supper:
Annette's Vegan Scalloped Potatoes
Grease a small baking dish with canola or olive oil.
4 potatoes sliced thin
1/4 onion finely chopped
1 cup green goddess dressing (see recipe below)
2 tbsp spelt flour
salt and pepper
Put a thin layer of potatoes on the bottom of the dish, top with a few chopped onions, salt, pepper and a sprinkle of flour. Spread some green goddess dressing over the layer.
Repeat until all ingredients are gone. Pour rice milk over the whole thing to wet down the flour.
Top with 2 slices veggie mozza. Bake in 300 degree oven for at least an hour and a half, or until
potatoes are soft.
We'll see how it turns out!
See you tomorrow! (weigh in is only 3 days away!)
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9:06 p.m.
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