Diet changing: geographic moves

[shootingstar]

I never thought my diet could easily change by moving to another province. I think it's more due to the fact also that winters are alot colder and hence, I'm just less motivated to grocery shop more than once a wk.

I am making a conscious effort for diet not to change much. But I have notice now these changes:
*eat abit more meat. I figure to balance out for "emergencies' for my paltry refrigerator, by just having small amount of frozen meat on hand is good protein for the days and my fridge is getting low on food, plus it's just to cold for me to walk over the grocery store and lug back stuff.

*less seafood. It's just not as good here as being on the coast.

*fruits and veggies the same, but might be less variety for veggies.

*skim milk drinking the same, less bread the same, egg whites the same, rarely white rice the same, rarely any butter the same.

[jessmarimba]

My diet changed when I moved to CO from VA. Groceries are more expensive here, so I buy a lot of meat on sale and freeze it, then forget it's in the freezer and don't eat it.

I use my crockpot to make a soup/stew pretty much once a week to bring for lunch, and I've stopped baking as often since I can't get the altitude changes straight. And I miss pancakes but they always turn out hard as rocks here, even using box mixes with altitude directions on them (and this is Denver. I can't imagine cooking in, say, Telluride).

[malkin]

Hey--jess--check out Pie in the Sky! It's a cookbook all about altitude. The author gives the same recipe with changes for several different altitudes.

I love it!

[jessmarimba]

You're a lifesaver! Kitchensaver, anyway I'll know in about 5 minutes how my non-altitude-corrected pound cake came out.