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I weigh and log salad ingredients because:* It's become a good habit and habits don't require much thought or discipline to maintain. * Once you get used to a routine that suits your style, weighing ingredients doesn't really take much time or effort. * Ingredients like avocado, nuts, boiled eggs, and fruit make a salad…

Breakfast this morning:

Beans and Rice Andouille sausage, poblano pepper, tomatoes, and black beans over brown rice.

I guess this is a hamburger helper type of meal but a couple things might make it worth the post. * Those are about two ounces of radish greens sautéed with the rest of the dish. First time I've cooked with them. They are surprisingly nutritious, taste good in this kind of preparation, and in a sense they're free; I've…

My new calorie day starts at midnight and the first "meal section" in the food diary is named After Midnight Snacks.

Are you open to savory oats? Pick a polenta recipe that appeals to you and substitute oats for the corn.

Lately, my porridge is made with equal parts steel cut oats and whole buckwheat groats and I'm losing eating that three or four times a week. If not porridge then I'll usually have grits with something; yesterday was a pork chop and egg. But grits are just corn porridge and no porridge is going to satisfy me by itself. Too…

Sweet Tooth - Zero calories.

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For a good while, I've been making creamy dressings with yogurt. A New Years resolution was to learn more about plant-based dairy alternatives. So yesterday made a dressing with lemon juice & zest, honey, herbs, E.V. olive oil and silken tofu. First time using silken tofu. Texture is like sour cream or middle eastern…

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Bought my first one at the grocery store. After several years replaced it with this one through Amazon. That was in 2015 and am well satisfied. I appreciate the 15 lb capacity, large stainless steel platform, and common batteries.

I live in the American South. The only context in which I've heard the word in a decade or two has been "coon dog" or "coon hound" or "coon hunting." Those references are common.

Wrote a snarky attempt at humor alluding to politics, hair, and complexion tones. Googled orange theory before clicking send. Apparently, they opened some franchise gyms nearby in the last 20 minutes or so. Doesn't look like I'm the target demographic.

Spiraled sweet potatoes, shiitake mushroom sauce and parmesan. 196 kcal

As a breakfast side dish:* 1/4 cup uncooked Grits, this kind. * 1 ounce each chopped onion and jalapeño sautéed together. * ½ ounce chopped sun-dried tomatoes, about 3 halves. * 2 ounces cooked and drained sausage (optional). * 1 cup stock or water. Stir it all up in a double boiler then go take your shower, read the…

If you don't want to cook, my advice is to abandon the recipe search.* Learn to bake, roast, or pan sear single servings of chicken, pork, and beef. * Learn to roast single servings of vegetables. * Learn to boil single servings of vegetables in a pot with a little water and fat and one dried herb of your choice. I guess…

I've tried to nail this down a few different times and I just don't think there is any way to calculate fat and protein in stocks and broths with precision. You describe cooking chicken skin in water for an hour then removing it. Clearly some, but not all, of the fat from the skin will be will be rendered into the water.…

I don't buy sweets. Not hard for me to resist temptation in the grocery store but if I bring home a bag of cookies or those "fun size" candy bars, one serving is gonna be the whole bag. I have a teaspoon of brown sugar when porridge is on the breakfast menu. Sometimes in the evening I'll bake a sliced apple with a little…

I think alcohol is a little like shellfish. Some love it, some hate it, some abstain for religious reasons, and some die from anaphylactic shock. For some reason, folks aren't as compelled to proselytize their shellfish position though.

Normally I think the best way is to log meat uncooked...but: My experience is that pork shoulder loses about 50% of its weight in a long slow braize. It's not just the skin and bone but a tremendous amount of the mass in a pork shoulder is connective tissue that breaks down into collagen and ends up in the bottom of the…

I weigh myself once per day, the second thing every morning. I know those daily weight variances don't mean much by themselves, but none the less I enjoy seeing the occasional progress and recording it in a spreadsheet. So I usually refrain from eating or drinking after dinner. It does nothing for my health and fitness…

Doc told me mine was 6.5 last August. 6.5 is the threshold for T2D diagnosis. Down to 6.2 in November. Next test is 2½ weeks and expect it to be below 6.0. Read about this yesterday. Don't remember exactly where but the gist was that although A1C tests cover 90 days the more recent history is more heavily weighted. Reason…

Lunch - Butter Beans and Cornbread

It's under settings/Account settings/Diary settings. On my monitor, I have to scroll down a little to see the diary sharing options. On a phone - I don't know.

Cornbread French Toast Cornbread, left-over from last night, was made with three parts stone ground cornmeal and one part whole wheat flour from hard white winter wheat with brown sugar and sautéed onion and jalapeño added to the batter. The cornbread was dipped in egg, almond milk, and cinnamon then fried in butter and…

Boy, I'm out of touch. I thought we were talking about the old air popcorn popper gadgets. Folks I knew used to roast coffee beans with those. Had to bypass or disable a filter somehow though.

I don't keep it on hand but if I did I would likely buy it from a good ethnic grocery catering to Indian or Middle Eastern customers, for whom it is a staple. The big grocery chains tend to have pretty high markups on items they consider "exotic." Mediterranian Grocery is a good one near me. If you don't know of one you…

That caloric transaction you talk about isn't just a feeling. It's the real cost/benefit relationship between food and health in my life, whether I'm paying attention to it or not. Yeah, I think it is sustainable in the long term for me anyway. At first, I complained that logging took longer than cooking, eating, and…

Mostly Vegetable Stew, Brown Rice, Corn Bread