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Anyone got good meal prep recipes? I'm looking to expand my options. I try to prioritise protein and limit wheat (it is one of my asthma triggers) but I have good alternatives in place for wheat free pasta etc so basically don't have any restrictions. I do prefer to go whole food over Ultra processed as much as possible.
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I do 'batch cooking' once or twice a week - double or triple or more than we eat for the next meal - such as roast a whole chicken, use for 3 meals or big pot of green beans enough for several meals.
I do buy 'individual serving' sized things of yogurt, fruits, cheesesticks, baby carrots, nuts/trailmix.
Personally, I like to have choices available so that is about as nitty gritty as I get.
For Easter, we did a 'serves about 25 multi-meat roast - ham and beef with chicken broth over a bed of (pre-soaked) mixed beans, sauteed onions & bell peppers, sliced sausage. Covered 1/2 pan in chicken broth. Later, added in potatoes and baby carrots - slow cooked in oven. Spanish cuban spices was the flavor pallette.
Also did a turkey breast.
Used the turkey broth (defatted) and broth from the ham/beef roasts for soups and sauces, and had a variety of leftovers we brought home to choose from.
Added fresh salads and fresh cooked vegs to round out dinners.
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Question - what does it mean when things, such as dried fruit have gone to sugar?
I was trying to explain, and for the life of me, could not pull a definition/explanation off 'internet search' - it gave me all sorts of other things like
- Songs with Sugar Sugar word in them
- Removing sugar from diet,
- What amount of research dollars went to sugar
- All sorts of stuff on added sugars, good and bad and fruit sugars...
- And more....
But NOTHING about the cooking term 'gone to sugar'
Lol :D
No old explanatory cookbooks on hand... but have known thos phrase all my life... Like when raisins go to sugar...
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@yakkystuff I only know that expression in relation to honey that has crystallized, or gone to sugar; i.e. "turned into sugar." (Or at least something that seems more like sugar than honey.)
Examples:
It is only the real American who is afraid to buy any but liquid honey for fear "it has gone to sugar" or has been "adulterated" if nature has done its best to improve its appearance and preserve it by fulfilling the function of causing it to granulate.
from The Beekeepers' Item (1922)
I have a jar of honey that about half has gone to sugar. Any solution?
from Appalachian Foods and Recipes Facebook group
A half bag of nuts, crunchy coconut, lumpy brown sugar, gone-to-sugar honey or bottom-of-the-dry cereal box crumbs vanish in the textured construction of a granola.
from GRANOLA: CRUNCHY MIX GOES BEYOND THE BACKPACK, Deseret News (1993)
I'm guessing for fruit it would be the same process. If you've ever left dried fruit (like raisins) too long, you'll notice they get rather crunchy 😁
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It's called 'crystallisation'.
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Oh ty both - the person I was talking with was so skeptical, had not heard the phrase, and I just could not pull it up in search.
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What's on my mind?
My employee came to work with a cold on Monday. I did not know until a few hours in to the day unfortunately. I thought I had escaped but yesterday evening I started to get symptoms and today I am pretty sure I have it. No fever. But it still gets me kind of cranky that he did not mask up or stay home remote …. I thought we had learned something in 2020? 🤬🤬🤬
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Oh rats!! Feel better!
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Sorry @SummerSkier 😣 I hope it's just a cold and that it passes quickly. I agree that it would be more reasonable (and kinder!) if everyone took reasonable precautions to protect others from disease.
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