What did you eat today?

[Catrin]

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...

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.

My dinner yesterday wound up being chicken salad made from a roasted chicken thigh and veggies over a bed of mixed salad greens. Yummm!

[Crankin]

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

[spokewench]

B: 2 eggs, hashbrowns, coffee, toast with butter, strawberries
L: 1 piece chicken
Snack: 1 piece marble cake
Dinner: pork burrito, 1 margarita

[Catrin]

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!

[Owlie]

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.

[Becky]

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

[Crankin]

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.

[Catrin]

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.

[Owlie]

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.