ETL GBOMBS October
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HI All,
Glad to see everyone again. It has been so quite on the thread.
Lia: how goes the no sugar? It's a battle for about 6 weeks. Funny, I struggled yesterday with candy cravings but made a fuhrman desert instead. I guess with Halloween near this week will be tought.
Mahini: Congrats on the wieght loss. Glad you are feeling better. Still think you are nuts to work so much. I do not know how you do it.
Sloth: when you are ready you will start. But one day your body will probably tell you to start.
Mada a fantastic meal last night. Sloppy James, steamed green beans and fall salad. Will definitely make this meal again. Work all week tues-sat but having a dinner party on Halloween.
Sloppy James
James Rohrbacher
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
1 cup uncooked green or French lentils, rinsed and drained
3 cups no-salt-added or low-sodium vegetable broth
8 ounces tempeh with flax seeds (see note), steamed for 10 minutes (i have tvp may use that)
1 medium yellow onion, diced small
1 green bell pepper, diced small
8 ounces mushrooms, chopped
8 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons red wine
3 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon ground cumin
pinch of cayenne
2 teaspoons oregano
1 large bunch kale, stems removed and leaves finely chopped
15 ounces no-salt-added tomato sauce in BPA-free packaging
1/2 cup no-salt-added tomato paste in BPA-free packaging
3 tablespoons date paste (dates pureed in water)
2 tablespoons low sodium yellow mustard
6 100% whole grain sesame seed buns (Ezekiel brand)
shredded or whole leaf romaine
Instructions:
Put the lentils in a small sauce pan with the 3 cups of stock. Cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower heat and simmer for about 20 minutes, until lentils are soft. Set aside.
In a large pan, saute the onion, green pepper, mushrooms and garlic in the red wine for about 7-10 minutes, until onions are translucent and slightly browned. Add the spices and saute a minute more. Add the kale, tomato sauce, tomato paste and simmer until the greens are tender, about 10 minutes. Add the cooked lentils, crumble in the tempeh and stir in the date paste and yellow mustard. Cook for another 10 minutes.
Turn the heat off and let sit for about 10 minutes, so that the flavors can mingle. Serve open-faced on toasted or untoasted buns and top with shredded romaine or whole leaf romaine.
Note: Several brands of tempeh have flax seed in them. If you cannot find one, use regular tempeh and add 2 tablespoons ground flax to the Sloppy James mixture.
Per Serving:
CALORIES 395; PROTEIN 23g; CARBOHYDRATES 63g; TOTAL FAT 7.3g; SATURATED FAT 1.2g; CHOLESTEROL 1.4mg; SODIUM 348mg; FIBER 18g; BETA-CAROTENE 4597ug; VITAMIN C 52mg; CALCIUM 187mg; IRON 8mg; FOLATE 204ug; MAGNESIUM 117mg; ZINC 3mg; SELENIUM 16.9ug0 -
I don't have the recipe on me here right now, but it's in the OSG cookbook. It's the peanut sauce version (peanut butter, lime juice, ginger, garlic, etc) and it's got the edamame in the recipe (noodles, edamame, carrots, red pepper, green onions, cucumbers). It's delicious!
Last night I made a chickpea stew - stocked up the freezer a bit more. Tonight I can't cook, but tomorrow I'm going to make some chana masala and something else still TBD...
Today's meals are smoothie bfast, tortilla soup lunch and for supper I'm going to have some salad and some chickpea stew. Yum! I case I haven't shared that recipe already here it is:
Moroccan Stew
2 tsp olive oil
1 cup chopped onions
½ cup diced celery
½ cup chopped green pepper
1 clove garlic, minced
3 cups vegetable broth
3 cups peeled, cubed sweet potato
1 can (19oz) diced tomatoes
1 can (19oz) chickpeas, drained & rinsed (or cook your own)
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp grated ginger root
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp curry
1 tsp coriander
1 tsp chilli powder
½ tsp salt
½ tsp ground black pepper
2 tbsp peanut butter (I used crunchy)
2 tbsp chopped cilantro
Heat olive oil on medium-high. Add onions, celery, green pepper & garlic. Sauté for 3 minutes.
Add remaining ingredients except the last 2 (peanut butter & cilantro), and bring to a boil.
Cover and reduce heat to medium-low; simmer for 20 minutes.
Stir in last 2 ingredients. Mix well and simmer for 5 more minutes. Enjoy!
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Hi Karrie! Is the noodle bowl the OSG? I have never made that one actually. I abandoned my meal plans FOR oh she glows actually! Last week I made 4 recipes from the meal plans and couldn't finish any of them - I reallyyy didn't like them. I was so happy to get back to some oh she glows reliable yummy recipes! lol.
Mihani, that sounds awful! How are you living?! How is your boss living?! I wish we could all chip in and hire you an assistant... Great job on the no cigs though, that is huge!! Woohoo!! Sounds like you're doing well.
I am back on the sugar! What is wrong with me?! I can't stick to anything for longer than 5 days. I keep trying to go back to intuitive eating because I think it might be the only way for me to become a normal eater again. I am making improvements though they are slow. I got back to exercise yesterday for the first time in a longggg time and it felt awesome though!
Hope you guys are having a great Tuesday
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Thanks for all the great recipes! Terri, the sloppy joes sound great. Glad you beat your candy cravings.
Karrie, I’ve had my eye on that noodle bowl, don’t know why I didn’t connect the two. I will be trying that very soon. I’m starting to want those warm spicy comfort dishes with the weather getting cold.
Lia, that sugar is hard to kick! It takes me a full week without sugar and starches to stop craving. Getting through that first week is hard though. Sorry you didn’t like the meal plans. I am not a big fan of HH recipes either. The first cookbook was helpful for me when I first went vegan just to get some ideas for what I could throw together, but so many recipes were meh. OSG has become my go to cookbook, but I also use the ones I have by Dreena Burton, Robin Robertson, Isa, and Nava Atlas quite a bit.
Had a pretty good day today. Didn’t get time for lunch until around 3:00 though so I had some popcorn mid-day while I worked. I feel good though, my energy levels are up and I need all the energy I can get!
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Hi all,
Late start at work today which gave me time to work on all the govenmental regulatory compliance stuff. What a waste of time.
Still going strong I want to have a perfect diet until I see Dr. Benson on December 11. I am not sure how to gage weather this diet is working or not. My blood work was perfect so I cannot use that as a guage. Maybe, it is pain, flare, and swelling. I guess i will find out soon.
Karrie; thanks for the recipe i will give that one a try soon.
Lia: don't beat yourself up about it. It took me a major illness to get myself motivated to quit the sugar. Sugar is so addicting
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Mahini: glad you aer feeling better. Hope you get the weekend off.
One correction to the Sloppy James recipe: i use TVP (texaturized Vegetable Protein instead) I thought that would be more like ground meat. I have never had temeph but I thout TVP would work better and it did.
Off to work this afternoon. working thru Saturday.
tomorrow I have to make few things for the dinner pary on Saturday. Should be fun.0 -
Terri, I really like tempeh. I usually slice it, marinate, then grill or bake. Really good for fajitas.
Good day, left an hour early to get a few things done since our secretary is off the next two days so I'll be stuck answering phones and all that fun stuff. Got my oil changed and ran to the grocery, so I'm all set until the weekend. I am not going to the office on Saturday so I have that to look forward to. I have some things that need attention around here and I need a break.
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OK guys, I need opinions. I've had a headache every day since Oct 18th. Except one day. I had a headache-free day on the 25th... Right now I'm headache-free as well, but I will probably get one by the afternoon, if the last few days have taught me anything...
It may be coincidence, but the day BEFORE my headache-free day, I had a massage working on my neck, shoulders and arms.
OK, now that I'm typing that out, maybe it's not a coincidence. I think I need to book myself another massage...0 -
Self-experiment: I booked another massage tonight for 1 hour. If I'm headache free tomorrow, I'll know it's a tension issue and I'll just keep booking more massages.
If that doesn't work, I'll be booking myself a Dr. appointment tomorrow instead...0 -
Hi all. Finally getting back here. Life has been crazy nuts busy! I have been really happy with myself though I have been keeping things fairly balanced. My Statistics class started on 10/12 and I have to say, despite the fact that I didn't like statistics the first time around and was really worried about the class I am finding myself oddly calm. I haven't been freaking out about engraving every word in the text book to my brain, have been sticking to only doing 12 hours of work for the class each week and have not been over perfecting my homework either. Not entirely sure where all this came from, but, I am just going to sit back and enjoy.
One thing I wanted to be sure I didn't lose track of was the fact that my health is still my top priority. I have really done well at this. I have had to cut my workouts back to 3-4 days a week, but, have really been watching what I have been eating and I am continuing to lose. I even wore smaller pants today and enjoyed zipping my ankle boots up all the way. It has been awesome. I am hoping this trend continues. The biggest success so far has been the fact that each of my workouts involves a 5k jog. Never thought I would get back to being able to do that. It feels so good!
I have been starting to look into the process to get my CPA which has been nerve wracking. A lot of information to cover and a lot of decisions to make regarding the timing of getting through all this. Politics at work haven't helped and leave me feeling like I need to make getting my CPA more of a top priority during the first half of next year. I have been told this is ambitious, but, I am hoping I can make it happen.
I hope everyone is well. I am not even going to try and catch up at this point. Hopefully I am able to get back here a little more frequently.0 -
Karrie, hope you are feeling better! Laura, sounds like you are doing great! Calm under pressure is always good.
Another pretty good day here other than another 11 hour day in the office. I can't wait for Saturday and not going near that place until Sunday!0 -
hi all,
yesterday was my first challenging day. The rest of the weeks meals that I made I did not care for and I could not eat them another time yesterday. So, ending up eating out two times yesterday. Staid on program but not enough vegetables.
L: vegan autumn grilled cheese roll up
black bean and onion salad
D; glutten free vegetable pizza with no cheese
Today I woke up feeling better.
Karrie hope your headaches go away soon no fun
New Me good luck with the CPA studies.
Mahini: enjoy tomorrow off
Only working until 2 pm today then getting ready for my dinner party tomorrow. Making a both vegan and non vegan dishes, since I am the only one who is vegan.
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Hi guys! Nice to hear from everyone! Is anyone doing anything exciting for Halloween? I was really not feeling it this year but my friends are big Halloween buffs, so I'm dressing up as Wednesday Addams and heading out to celebrate with them. It's been an insane work week so I'm happy it's Friday!
Karrie, very scary about your headaches... I really hope it's just a tension issue! Report back and let us know how you're feeling. My sister had the same problem, especially with her neck, and she did some acupuncture too. Hope you're feelig more normal today.
Laura, great to hear from you! Sounds like you're doing really well!
Terri, good luck at your dinner party tomorrow!! Sounds lovely and like you navigated the meals out yesterday pretty well.
Mihani, are you getting some weekend time to yourself (ie. relax, not just housework lol). I hope you enjoy your Saturday too!! How are you feeling?
Thanks for the supportive words about my sugar problem! The halloween candy has been hard this week, but I'm sufficiently sick of it and ready to try sugar free. I'll keep your words in my head, Mihani, and push past the first week. I think you're right - the second week would be easier after surviving the first.
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The massage last night was great - although I did have a few knots on my neck that were really tight - I'm not sure he was able to work them out completely. And he actually triggered the headache while he was working on them, so I think that it is a tension thing. When I stood up I was a little dizzy and my ears were buzzing. But today I'm feeling pretty good, if maybe a little tenderized... I will be booking a few more massages over the next couple of weeks to make sure it's all worked out.
I have to say that I keep forgetting we have Halloween candy in the house. And I bought a lot of my favorites, too! So that's a good thing. I've managed to lose a half pound this week - not as much as I wanted, but I'll take it! I'm still a bit too heavy on the carbs, so I have to get that under control. Gotta say farewell to the bread and pretzels...
I'm going to do some more meal prep on Sunday, but this time I'm going to focus on breakfasts, lunches and snacks. I'm going to make my smoothies in advance and store them in the freezer. Take them out and put them in the fridge the night before I need them. And have lunch-ready veggies washed and cut, with some homemade hummus already portioned out. And then for snacks, I want to make some date-balls, and some trail mix and things like that. Basically all the things my nutritionist has been telling me to do all along.... :P
I made a lovely tomato soup the other day, using fresh garden tomatoes -- soooo tasty!!
Tomato Soup
4 lbs tomatoes, quartered
4 sweet onions, quartered
garlic cloves, to taste
- Put all the above in a roasting pan, drizzle with olive oil (I measured out 2 tbsp so I didn't go overboard), and then add pepper, to taste.
- Cover, and roast at 400ºF for 45 minutes.
Then,
- Pour contents of your roasting pan (including the juices) into a large pot.
- Add fresh basil, to taste.
- Use an immersion blender to purée.
- Add 2 cups vegetable broth.
- Add more pepper, if desired
- Simmer on the stove for 20 minutes to allow the basil flavour to come out.
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It's been awhile since I was here, so much to catch up with. We were traveling for awhile there and then a lot of work getting the acreage ready for winter. And of course now I am busy sewing and quilting and knitting Christmas gifts. Eeek -- It's almost November!
Great reading what everyone's been up to. Busy bunch of posters! I'm going to try a few of the recipes, too. The onion salad and Sloppy James are especially interesting. Thanks!
We may hang at the grandkids' house for Halloween, although we usually don't do much on this holiday. Just bought a wee bag of candy in case we get trick-or-treaters. Then it goes into the freezer. Interestingly, sugary candy has been easy-peasy to pass up. It's the breads that call to me. I'm still up 5 pounds so I need to watch myself.
We'll be hosting Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house this year so I've dragged out the Vegetarian Times Thanksgiving cookbook to pick a few things to make so I will have something to eat. Hubby does the critter. Yay!
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Karrie - So, you figure the massages will fix the headaches? As long as he doesn't keep triggering them....
Lia - When you crack the magical answer to sugar addiction, please let me know right away!
I'm pondering what my next really futile and stupid gesture will be.... I sorta feel like, a really sweet cinnamon bun, might be something I could eat to satisfy my craving, but maybe... just maybe I could stop at that? So, I thought of the Cinnabon maintenance plan, but with 879 calories in one classic Cinnabon... that's not gonna work. So, I'm thinking.... maybe make a batch of Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls @ 300 calories each, and see if I can get one a day to satisfy me. But, I think this will be after I completely kick the nicorette spray, and then the DDP. :huh:
And freakin' Halloween.... Zoe goes batsh*t crazy at the first sound of a firework.... tries to dig her way through the basement floor.... she is inconsolable. We tried to drug her last year, and it just made her groggy, and scared and added angry.... so, I just took her out on the road this year, looking for quiet spots to spend the night in the vehicle. Finally found one spot pulled off at the side of the highway, which afforded us about an hour's peace, when fireworks near enough, unsettled her again. So, drove around some more. Put a good 100 miles on last night... came home around midnight, which was too early, and spent the first couple hours back, trying to keep her calm. Next year, I'll just plan to take her out from about 6 PM to 2 AM....
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Hi all! Well, it was not a very successful few days in the food department. Way too much eating out. While I did do good watching my portions and did not over indulge in candy (I did eat a few fun size pieces, which, is pretty good considering!) but the big indulgence was the glass of red wine I had Saturday night to unwind after the craziness and the beer I immensely enjoyed yesterday during a huge football game. Not anything crazy, but, by last night my body was definitely telling me that a) I had not drank nearly enough water and b) I needed some real food. So, I drowned myself in water last night and rather than eating any more candy I enjoyed some beautiful grapes I got at the store. Amazing how quickly enjoying the wrong foods can make you feel like crap when you haven't eaten them in a while! Overall, once I got through the overdue studying I had to catch up on it was a pretty decent weekend.
Gotta run! Work is already crazy!
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I'm happy to report that I have been headache free since that second massage. OK, well the day AFTER that second massage. I'm so glad I figured it out!!! I think I have a bit of repetitive stress tension in my neck and shoulders - both sitting at work on the computer all day, and then there's all the knitting I've been doing at home. So in all, my arms never seem to get a break. But I love my knitting, so I'll just have to make sure I go for an occassional massage. Hmm.. I think that's the best compromise EVER!!!
I went a little bit potato chip crazy this weekend. Grr... Why must the starchy carbs call to me so strongly!?!?!
Today I'm having the 13-bean chili for lunch and I think just a giant green smoothie for supper. I need a bit of a reset. I had some bread this morning, unfortunately - toast and peanut butter for breakfast... And I have a banana and some peas for my snack this afternoon when I usually tend to head to the pretzels... Hopefully that works, because I really need to get back on track.0 -
Swooping by at lunch. It feels so much better to be eating really good foods today. Such a difference already!
Karrie - glad to hear the massages are helping the headaches. Definitely a good compromise in order to keep knitting! I haven't ever had a massage before. I have always been so self conscious of my body I have never had the confidence to go in. It is top on my list for when I finally get to my first goal weight. Hopefully that will be by next summer. We will see.
Just looked at our family calendar and realized we have a night full of parent teacher conferences tonight. Looks like it will be a night of leftovers for dinner. I have to say, having leftovers in the fridge or freezer that folks can just grab and eat has been a lifesaver with school and work. Win-win for everyone!
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Hi all,
My party was a success. Everyone stayed really late and we had lots of fun. I did find one thing out. chocolate makes me flare up and have a lot of pain. I made the Oh She glows peanutbutter balls and after eating them it caused so much hand and knee pain.. It brought up memories of when I was a child. I do not remember the specifics but I was allergic to chocolate as a small child. Somehow I grew out of it but it is back.
My husband is off to tokyo and then the phillipanes so I wil be home alone for the week. So quiet. Has been a while since he has been away for this long. Gonna be a quiet week.
Karrie: glad the massages help your headache. I might go get one this week. Sounds heavenly. Also, thanks for the tomoato soup recipe will have to make that one.
Scott: your Halloween sounds scary. Hopefully, your kid will get over her phobias by next year.0 -
Lia, feeling good! Hope you are feeling good, and you’re well on your way to a sugar free week.
Karrie, glad you’re feeling better. That tomato soup sounds tasty.
Lisa, totally with you on the temptation front. I love my breads and pasta and such. Sweets don’t call to me too much.
Scott, maybe your cinnamon bun idea is just crazy enough to work!
Laura, sounds like you handled the social stuff pretty well.
Terri, glad your party went well. Sorry you had pain after eating chocolate though.
I ended up not going to the office at all this past weekend, which was really nice, although I’m paying a price for it and am more behind than ever. Got a little bit of housework done, and mostly worked on bookkeeping for the company I do that for on the side (in my spare time hahaha! I crack myself up) because I was behind on that too. It's all caught up now yay!
I haven’t eaten lunch the past two days. Yesterday I snacked on some baby carrots and grape tomatoes, and today I just had a handful of pumpkin seeds. I don’t know that skipping lunch is the best idea, but Dr. F says eat 2 or 3 times a day whatever works. It kind of feels like lunch is something I eat because I’m supposed to or because I feel like I’m hungry even when I’m not really. So having a good breakfast (cereal or oatmeal or toast and fruit), a little snack during the day, and then a good dinner, seems to be working really well for me. I’m going to keep it up for the rest of the week and see how I feel and how the scale responds.
I got an email from my gym they are having an 8 week holiday weight loss challenge. I’m not really a joiner type, but I am seriously considering it. If I want to do it I need to stop in there this week to sign up and work with one of the trainers to set up a plan for the 8 weeks and weigh in. I should do it, I think it might help me break out of this slump I’ve been in on the working out.
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Nobody has started "Nutritarian November" yet? If I can figure out how, I will do it. Uh. Maybe. Let's see.0
