Food inspiration, or what's for supper?
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No penance here but garlic mash with mix vegetables to at least try to stay within calories today1
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Today I held back at breakfast. Fruit, scrambled eggs, 1 raisin bread and yogurt. Lunch was a turkey burger with small Cole slaw. It’s still more than usual calories and I can’t calculate the numbers because I didn’t see what was happening in the kitchen. BUT I made an effort today.1
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I discovered I had "beyond burgers" in the freezer! Had a couple for lunch! On a couple of 30g slices of bread I stole from the dog!!!!
With 7g mustard and 21g white onion 
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I like the taste of Beyond Burgers. Nutritionally pretty similar to beef BUT Beyond burgers have 5x the sodium.1
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But but I still have 4!🤯🤔1
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But but I still have 4!🤯🤔
Eat ‘em if you got ‘em! It’s what happens when trying to get umami flavor into bean products.
I can’t kvetch about salt and swelling after the past week of restaurant food in New Orleans. Delicious but salty. Not to count air altitude swelling. Much water drinking and peeing ahead!1 -
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But - what is it? Obviously a soup and good calories but what’s in it. How much is a serving?0
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What's a serving?🤯 I have trouble eating more than half (so about 750g) of one of the glass locks in one go.
So probably 500g (each glass lock in 3) would make sense for you Yooly.
I just tend to log one of them (~1525g) for the day and make it the "main meal" 🤷♂️ I did "cheat"! since the label and added a pouch of konjac sticky rice in 3 of the containers. So just under 100g or 60 Cal added to 3 out of the 4 containers. The sticky rice is a mix of konjac and actual rice so it does have SOME calories.... jst a lot fewer. And it is ready to eat, no cooking needed.
Soup was simple. Half an onion (from memory about 125g) about 13g of oil spray for browning everything added incrementally, 700g "all natural fully cooked honey ham, 18%," --which probably means traces of ham in the ham but whatevs-- two bags of frozen "vegetables for soup", so just over 1500g, 60g of potato starch for thickening in the end, and an assortment of no salt broth ready made and powdered plus water🤔🤷♂️ the ham is salty enough for the whole thing 😂😂😂
so ham and veggies! Would have done chicken but ham faster to slice uniformly-ish. Plus bought two on a buy one get one free 😉🤣🤣🤣 (Sobeys/Safeway compliments have a bag of veggies for soup and one for veggies for spaghetti. Used the soup ones)1 -
Looks like maybe perhaps if we’re lucky it might be soup weather next week. It was 86 yesterday 🥵. Only 75ish today. But might fall into the sixties with rain by Monday. 🎉
The AC is still pumping nonstop since late March. It’s tired and so am I.0 -
Definitely no AC going on here! 🤣 It's a bit too wet for that! 🤯1
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Lunch was some Wasa crackers with thin sliced ham & grainy mustard. Crunchy and satisfying. Tonight it’s a big salad - greens, tomatoes 🍅, green onions, low cal dressing topped with surimi for protein.2
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Nice hot summer food!🤣2
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I had egg white noodles with sweet and spicy pork, fire roasted peppers and onions (from a freezer bag) and soy sauce and scallions.1
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I've not heard of egg white noodles, Nic. Going to look those babies up!1
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Not gonna lie, they're expensive. But since I had to focus so hard on protein, they're a great noodle substitute.2
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Today's food:
In the morning (midnight to 8am,at work): 2 spiced apple Chai (brewed tea), 1 chicken broth, 1 beef broth, 1 big cup decaf coffee with fairlife 2% milk and sugar-free hazelnut syrup.
After sleep, but before work (5pm-7pm): 1 egg, some egg whites, scrambled with diced red peppers and diced lean ham, plus 1/2 slice 2% American cheese. 1 chocolate protein shake mixed with cold coffee in a big drink cup.
At work (7:30pm - midnightish): thermos of Chai with milk and sugar-free salted caramel syrup, repeat bowl from last night with the sweet and spicy pork and peppers and onions, a kiwi, peeled and sliced, half a serving of raspberries and a treat size lower-sugar chocolate.1 -
That chai sounds good 😎1
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Mindless crappy eating lately. I’m trying to get a grip but anxiety makes me stupid.2
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And lack of sleep for me1
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Treading water here and hoping to control November December January season2
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Gotta prep some Thanksgiving dishes tomorrow (I am scheduled to work Wednesday night but hoping we close).
Stuffing (bread, onions, celery, sage, butter, bone broth, loads of sage, black pepper)
Sauteed green beans (just French green beans, steamed in bag less time than called for, then dumped in a hot pan with bacon fat and garlic)
Rutabaga and carrot mash (literally what it sounds like, roughly equal amounts of peeled rutabaga and carrot boiled until fork tender, then mashed with copious amounts of black pepper and some salt and just a bit of butter)
Stuffed mushrooms (I pop the stems out of baby bellas, mince them very very fine, sautee with butter, thyme and garlic, then add some blended cottage cheese, shredded sharp white Cheddar and parmesan. Stuff the ensuing gloop into the mushroom tops. Bake on day of until cooked through and golden brown and delicious. This is the first year I'm trying the cottage cheese vs cream cheese for the filling)
I'll save the mashed potatoes for later, but that's just Yukon golds, peeled and boiled until fork tender, then hand mashed with butter and however much milk it takes to get the desired consistency. Fluffy and slightly lumpy, never smooth, or loose or pureed. Salt and pepper, garlic if I'm feeling fancy.
I got a free turkey, so I'll brine and spatchcock it before roasting, and then we also have a small ham (not sweet).
Will serve all of the above with dinner rolls, pickled beets, bread and butter cornichons and baby dills.
Dessert will be a chocolate satin pie for my family and I'll make another batch of crustless pumpkin pie things for me.
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How MANY people???!?!?!?!?!?!?0
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rutabaga (swede) mash is awesome -- as long as you don't thrown in Ekholm or Broberg into the pot!1
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Are the Oilers going to Nic’s for Thanksgiving? That would be feastsome!
Never heard of mashing carrots and rutabaga. Sounds tasty and I’ll definitely try that soon. If I can find a decent rutabaga in these parts.
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Only 5 people Pav. We will happily eat leftovers all weekend though. The stuffing and the mash and the mushrooms each occupy a 9*12 aluminum pan. The green beans only take up an 8*8 pan. The turkey is only 11lbs (taking out the giblets and backbone for spatchcocking will take it down to 9.5 or 10) and the ham is about 3.2
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That's still.... a bit! 😎
Hmmm.... I've got a ham in the fridge 🤔🤔🤔🤔1 -
this carrot/rutabaga combo made me think of the cauliflower/potato mash combo....hmmm....2
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Hmmmm 🤔1
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today I made a yellow version of our green soup
Yellow split peas and carrots and red kidney beans and a wrinkled apples and two wrinkled tomatoes. It was really more of a dal, but quite delicious and filling. Just when I thought it was done, I discovered a jar of red chili paste in the fridge from back in June. It was still fine and warmed everything up a bit
Its nice to be cooking again!
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