What did you eat today?

B: chicken salad made from 1 chicken thigh with a boiled egg and a few veggies
1-hour group session (quite different today!)
L: scrambled eggs with baby kale, 1 slice fresh side-pork, coffee with cream
S: a couple of meatballs - just testing them as I cooked them ;)
D: chili over spaghetti squash

I am headed to a friends house to watch at least the first half of the Super Bowl. I am taking Czech meatballs (from Well Fed), and I KNOW there will be things there that I don't eat. It seemed good to eat first.

For those who just bought the Well Fed cookbook, I made both the Czech meatballs and the Citrus Carnitas and both are AWESOME!

Catrin, I have to ask: If you need a neutral-flavored cooking oil, what do you use? Canola or peanut are the only two that I can think of, and peanut is probably out, and apparently canola is too (too processed? wrong mix of fats? sticking it to the big-agribusiness man? ;) ). Coconut oil certainly isn't neutral-flavored, and I can taste ghee.

I'll have to head over to TJ's sometime, then, since we don't have a Whole Foods in Dayton...and never mind the delicious snack food that TJ's has.

Baking my Czech meatballs right now, in preparation for recovery after this: http://trainright.com/2013-cts-super...ainer-workout/

:D

Coconut oil IS neutral tasting. Really. I use it for all cooking now.

I ended up kind of cheating at dinner tonight, but I'm right back on the bandwagon.
B:endive, stuffed with light veggie cream cheese and pesto, 2 turkey sausages, an orange, coffee,half a cup of almond milk
45 minute minute yoga-spin DVD, included 5X3 increasing endurance intervals
L: low salt turkey breast over sliced tomatoes, sprinkle of cheddar, cup of low salt butternut squash soup, bowl of blueberries
D: went out with DS and DIL and we went to a real neighborhood Italian restaurant in his town. I started with a few olives to avoid the bread. I ordered veal piazziola, which had just the right amount of veal in marina, with pasta. I did have one forkful of the pasta and left the rest. My downfall was ordering vanilla gelato.

For cooking I use coconut oil (both refined and un-refined. Cold pressed refined coconut oil is fine, and if I don't want any hint of coconut flavor then I will use refined coconut oil. Trader Joe's sells unrefined coconut oil at a lower price than Whole Foods - still not cheap but well worth it. It also has a kind of fat that is good for you (middle-chain triglycederides - MCT) and is hard to get.

Canola is highly refined/processed - probably the most processed out there. Here is a brief summary on Mark's Daily Apple that discusses some of the problems with it.

I'm starting to feel like a minority in here. Guess what? I eat bread, butter, sugar and canola oil. I don't think coconut oil is a miracle substance. And I damn well enjoy my food and cooking it.

Also, I'm poor. I'll see if I can find some around here. If nothing else, I can cook some more Goan food. Only place that coconut oil makes sense to me. ;) I love coconut, but that flavor doesn't belong in many things.

Anyway:
B: 3 slices bacon, small piece of sourdough toast with butter, tea with half-and-half and sugar
S1 (at work): 4 gummy worms, 2 pretzels. (You'd think that we'd have slightly healthier options at a bike shop...)
S2 (on way to lab): Bag of "potato skin"-flavored chips. Apparently my memory of how these things taste is significantly at odds with how they actually taste.
D: Pasta with a whole can of olive oil-packed tuna, spinach, grape tomatoes and Parmesan. (Also lemon juice, S&P and red pepper flakes.)
Dessert: 2 small cookies (trying to get rid of them!) and a blood orange.

B: 1 bowl shredded wheat, coffee
Played 2 1/2 hours of tennis from 12-2:30
got home around 3: had a handful of walnuts
Wow, no wonder I was so hungry when I ate dinner!
D: Fajitas grilled sirloin steak slices, sauteed red onions, red and yellow bell peppers, gaucomole, salsa, cheese with beans on the side on a flour tortilla, 1 glass of wine
1/3 slice of tirimisu

Ditto Catrin - refined (cold pressed) coconut oil is flavorless (and odorless). The unrefined stuff tastes like coconut and I really only like that flavor in sweet things, so I don't use it much.

I also cook with clarified butter (less flavor than ghee - it tastes like butter), good bacon fat (only from known-source, ethically raised, sugar and nitrate free bacon) and olive oil. Olive oil is fine if you aren't frying in it (ie, not super high heat).

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Originally Posted by GLC1968

Ditto Catrin - refined (cold pressed) coconut oil is flavorless (and odorless). The unrefined stuff tastes like coconut and I really only like that flavor in sweet things, so I don't use it much.

I also cook with clarified butter (less flavor than ghee - it tastes like butter), good bacon fat (only from known-source, ethically raised, sugar and nitrate free bacon) and olive oil. Olive oil is fine if you aren't frying in it (ie, not super high heat).

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I do use unrefined coconut oil for eggs if I am not using butter or bacon fat (same source as yours) as I like the flavor. I make ghee for myself from grass-fed butter - it is less expensive than the store-bought version and I KNOW what kind of butter was used ;) These days I reserve olive and avocado oil for salads - and I generally use walnut oil for making mayo with. For me olive oil is too strong to make mayonnaise with - at least for me it is. Walnut oil works great in mayo, milder flavor than olive oil, and it is less expensive than avocado oil.

[QUOTE=Owlie;668563]I'm starting to feel like a minority in here. Guess what? I eat bread, butter, sugar and canola oil. I don't think coconut oil is a miracle substance. And I damn well enjoy my food and cooking it.

Don't fee alone Owlie - there do seem to be quite a few paleo eaters here right now; and of course, gluten free diets as well.

But, I'm not one of them either. I try to eat lots of veges and lean meats, but each sugar and other "bad" things. and, of course, I drink wine and beer and an occasional margarita. I cook most of my own food and dont eat too much in the way of processed foods.

I eat breads (mostly WG), I eat pasta, white rice when I don't have time to cook the brown, etc. I feel healthy, have no adverse effects from wheat so I'm lucky I guess and try to get my nutrients from my food. Of course, I fail some days and then realize I better get some more veges in and fruit.

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Originally Posted by Catrin

These days I reserve olive and avocado oil for salads - and I generally use walnut oil for making may with. For me olive oil is too strong to make mayonnaise with - at least for me it is. Walnut oil works great in mayo, milder flavor than olive oil, and it is less expensive than avocado oil.

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Have you tried extra light olive oil for mayo? I don't notice the olive taste with it like I do with extra virgin or blended olive oil and it's cheap! I'll have to try walnut oil sometime...that sounds delicious!

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Originally Posted by Becky

Have you tried extra light olive oil for mayo? I don't notice the olive taste with it like I do with extra virgin or blended olive oil and it's cheap! I'll have to try walnut oil sometime...that sounds delicious!

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Yes, but I just don't care for the flavor. Walnut oil is really good for mayo - though I DO add between 1/8-1/4 cup of extra-virgin olive oil - my recipe calls for 1 1/4 cups oil in total. That little touch of the stronger olive oil appears to strike a good balance without the mayo tasting TOO much like walnuts. Avocado oil is nice, but I really prefer walnut oil.

Today:

B: scrambled eggs with watercress and citrus carnitas :) coffee with cream
1 hour group training session
L: blue-cheese burger (lettuce wrapped), sliced fruit (staff going-away lunch for a co-worker)
S: couple pieces carnitas and a few slices cucumber
D: sauteed watercress, snow peas, 1 boiled egg and two yummy Czech meatballs

ate a few almonds before boot camp...
B: 4 oz. almond milk, coffee, egg whites, kale, avocado, 2 slices ham, an orange
L: left over chicken fajitas (chicken, peppers, onions marinated with lemon, cumin, other spices), an apple
S: handful of walnuts
D: home made butternut squash soup and rosemary aoli chicken salad, glass of red wine

B: shredded wheat and 1% milk, coffee
Snack: banana and peach chobani yogurt
L: turkey and swiss sammy with lettuce and tomato on wheat
D: salad with leftover chicken/beef from fajitas of the night before, vinaigrette dressing, 1 beer