Just got my copy of Practical Paleo from the library. I think I'm going to like this cookbook enough to buy it. I've written out a huge list of things to make!
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Just got my copy of Practical Paleo from the library. I think I'm going to like this cookbook enough to buy it. I've written out a huge list of things to make!
a handful of walnuts before boot camp
B: 4 slices turkey breast over a sliced tomato, with a sprinkle of cheddar and avocado, bowl of blueberries and strawberries, coffee, glass of almond milk (6 oz)
S: coffee, with a friend (I was buzzed after this)
L: 2 small salmon patties, an orange
S: packet of nuts and cranberries
D: 5 oz. tuna, zucchini, big salad with cranberries and goat cheese, fig vinegar
S: 4 oz. of almond milk
B: 1 piece wg toast, butter, coffee
L: pulled chicken sandwich with coleslaw
D: salad with blue cheese crumbles, chicken, and vinaigrette dressing
1 piece marble cake
cup of tea with honey
1 bowl of shredded wheat, 1% milk, strawberries, coffee
L: cheeseburger and small fries
D: chicken with red, yellow, orange bell peppers, onions, tomatoes over rice, 1 beer
1 piece marble cake
handful of walnuts and 2 dried apricots before one hour spin class
B: egg whites, ham, kale, avocado, blueberries, strawberries, coffee
L: tomato stuffed with homemade curried chicken salad, cup of creamy tomato soup
S: slice of low fat provolone
D: chicken fajitas with yellow peppers, onions, tomatoes, avocado, 2 corn tortillas, glass of red wine, 2 squares dark chocolate
Yesterday:
B: very small piece of frittata and 2 scrambled eggs, coffee with cream
L: chocolate chili over spaghetti squash
S: pear
D: sardines, baby spinach with small amount home-made dressing, small baked sweet potato
Today:
B: scrambled eggs with spinach, 1 slice FRESH side-pork, coffee with cream
L: chocolate chili over baby spinach, tiny pear
D:??? perhaps a very different kind of chili that I still need to cook, or citrus carnitas - time will tell ;)
Catrin--Are you using fresh or canned sardines? And where do you find them? The local Kroger only has them packed in mustard sauce (uh...) or soybean oil. Do you do anything to them? I think there's an Indian recipe for almost a curry or spicy tomato sauce for sardines, but I'm a sucker for nearly anything in a spicy tomato sauce...
B: 3 slices of bacon, oatmeal with brown sugar, cinnamon and homemade apple topping with walnuts, tea.
L: Inventory day at work means that management buys food! Half a chicken burrito from Chipotle, a handful or two of tortilla chips and a glass of Pepsi.
S: More chips and another glass of Pepsi.
D: The other half of the burrito
S: Hot chocolate with whipped cream.
Canned, and I don't do anything to them, I've not tried using them in a recipe. Both Trader Joe's and Whole Foods has different varieties packed in extra virgin olive oil, mustard, or tomato sauce. I won't touch canola oil in anything so I do have to watch out for that - TJ has more varities of small fish packed in canola oil than WF :( I also like herring. Whole Foods has canned trout but it is quite a bit more expensive so I've not tried it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
My dinner yesterday wound up being chicken salad made from a roasted chicken thigh and veggies over a bed of mixed salad greens. Yummm!
B: 2 egg omelette with tomatoes and avocado, strawberries and orange slices, coffee
S: 4 oz. almond milk, handful of walnuts, one dried apricot before a 4 mile trail run (well, about 3 miles of it was running)
L: left over curried chicken salad on red leaf lettuce, fig vinegar, apple slices, another 4 oz. almond milk
S: one square of dark chocolate, handful of mixed nuts
D: glass of red wine, turkey meatloaf with yellow pepper and onions, sautéed sweet potatoes, one square dark chocolate
B: 2 eggs, hashbrowns, coffee, toast with butter, strawberries
L: 1 piece chicken
Snack: 1 piece marble cake
Dinner: pork burrito, 1 margarita
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).
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:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
[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.
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Becky
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
B:2 eggs over easy, 2 slices uncured bacon, bowl of blueberries and oranges, coffee, 4 oz. almond milk
L: tuna in oil over red lettuce, yellow grape tomatoes, avocado, chocolate vinegar, an apple
S: 1/4 cup of nuts and cranberries, 1/2 cup of blueberries
D: taco salad made with ground turkey, chipolte sauce, avocado, tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, on lettuce and splashed with buffalo sauce
2 squares dark chocolate
I am fighting an illness... not terrible, just a full head, and some achy feelings. I was starving this morning, but not so hungry in the afternoon. Hopefully, I'll feel better in the AM, as I am planning on going on a hike with my cycling group, who I have seen once since last year at this time
I'm joining in again. I just found out some potentially bad news about my back and I know that a squeaky clean diet will be very important as I try to recover from whatever this turns out to be...
B: sweet potato, jalapeno and sausage hash topped with a fried egg, fresh blueberries, black coffee
L: left over chicken wings (cooked in BBQ seasoning and bacon fat), guacamole, plantain chips
S: mixed raw nuts (cashews, macadamia, almonds and pistachios)
D: orange roughy in an Asian inspired marinade, sauteed veggies or greens (depending on mood) and a baked sweet potato.
Hope everything turns out okay with your back GLC.
I have not posted here in a little while. I am still eating paleo with a few stray meals here and there. I do feel my best when I keep on track.
GLC, your breakfast sounds great!!
B: shredded wheat, milk, coffee
snack: 1 banana
L: ham and swiss sammy on wheat bread
D: spagetti with meat/tomato sauce, salad, with vinaigrette dressing, 1 glass red wine
Today:
B: eggs scrambled with kale, uncured side pork, coffee with cream
1 hour group workout
L: citrus carnitas, baby spinach and watercress
S: chili, sauteed bok choy, tiny pear
Wednesday
B: eggs scrambled with sausage, rutabaga and onions, clementine, black coffee
L: banana, 1/2 pear, beef jerky (grass-fed/sugar free), mixed nuts
D: big huge salad topped with chicken (need my veggies for the day!!)
Lunch was unplanned since I ended up having to make a bunch of calls and couldn't even get away to heat up what I'd brought with me!
I need to learn how to tolerate coffee without my little bit of heavy cream.... :)
I've considered trying rutabaga but so far haven't done so. What do you do with it, roast it?
B: reading GLC's breakfast made me crave hash... see lunch; for breakfast I had 3 turkey sausages, and 4 slices of lox stuffed with a very small amount of veggie cream cheese. If anyone can think of a non-dairy filling, let me know. I am having enough trouble not having a whole wheat bagel once a week! Had a small bowl of blueberries and strawberries
I went to the store and bought a few things.
L: one sweet potato, mixed up with 3 slices turkey breast, kale, and egg whites, with an orange
S: handful of walnuts
D: lamb meatballs over zucchini, with mint pesto and a salad with lettuce, grape tomatoes, green onion, vinaigrette
Vegan Goat Cheese? http://www.cestlavegan.com/2009/10/p...w-goat-cheese/ If you're avoiding canola, I bet it would be good with just about any oil - perhaps a nut oil? It comes out lemony - which might be nice for salmon. Maybe with some dill?Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
Catrin - for the rutabega - I shredded it and then browned it in a pan of bacon fat with finely diced onions...kind of like hash browns. It was the leftovers that I tossed into the eggs. Yum! I got the idea from here:
http://paleomg.com/rutabaga-egg-nests/
I started drinking my coffee black by putting it in a travel mug with a lid so that I couldn't see it. And you want good quality, strong coffee, too. Once I did that for 30 days, I stopped liking cream in it. I also know of a lot of people who love coconut milk in their coffee. I never did, but maybe that's an option for you?
Crankin - I've heard of vegans making cheese and spreads and stuff out of cashews. I've never done it but I'm going to attempt a 'cheesecake' as my birthday treat for this weekend: http://mynewroots.org/site/2011/01/r...w-dreamcake-2/
Perhaps there is a good 'cream cheese' recipe out there somewhere?
I will look at the ingredients in the vegan cream cheese. If it's full of soy or weird additives, I am fine with using a small amount of cream cheese. Just being realistic for myself.
Wow, I have always been a black coffee drinker. I can barely taste the coffee with more than a drip of milk or cream in there. A few years ago, I got DH to stop pouring sugar and a ton of milk in his coffee. He lost 10 lbs.
The one I posted (vegan goat cheese) is made from raw cashews, canola oil (I'm sure you could sub this), lemon juice, water, salt and pepper. Pretty straightforward, nothing weird - and very tasty. My entire family enjoyed it over the holidays (made it for an appetizer for a cheese allergic family member).
B: huge breakfast two eggs, pork green chili sauce, hashbrowns, beans, tortilla - ate about 1/2 and it was still huge!
L: none
While playing tennis a few bites of a cliff bar
D: beef stroganoff, egg noodles, asparagus, biscuit, 1 glass red wine
2 chocolate chip cookies
I didn't look at the recipe you posted until today, but I'm totally trying that! AND the almond feta she made as well. I don't really miss cheese at all, but it adds such a depth of flavor to salads that I'd like to have an option available. I used to just use a little of the real stuff, but if this is good enough, I won't need to. Thanks for posting it!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Blueberry
Thanks for the link GLC, I need to try rutabaga. I'd forgotten about coconut milk, I DO like it but prefer cream. I do use good quality coffee, but will likely need to make it less strong if I am going to back off of cream for a month. I don't put sugar in it so that isn't an issue.