7/8/2014 0 Comments Day 2I don't really have many pictures today; the smoothie was the standard with some raw kale thrown in, so that was green. Lunch was the leftover pasta.
Round about three pm, my normal time to go on a rampage through the kitchen (must be my stomach memory of getting home from school, or maybe just that lunch is gone), I had to eat something else. I snagged a fruit and nut bar (mango and cashew) out of the snack drawer. Before dinner, I butchered a watermelon as Dani and I were both pretty hungry. Dinner was supposed to be the tomato soup and a salad. I opted to grill the zucchini for tomorrow's lunch sandwiches and had some yellow squash so I just grilled it all. We had sandwiches with the soup (which I put white kidney beans in because I had two cups cooked and tomorrow's dinner is red beans and rice). I also assume he uses white rice (really?) in the soup because it cooks in 25 minutes, so I cooked brown rice separately and used that. I also snuck in some of my no chicken broth powder instead of just regular salt. The soup was ugly, but it was pretty tasty (it would have been prettier with red beans). We ate about 1/2 of it, even though there were supposed to be two servings total. So, in Day 2, I liked the food fine. The sandwiches are yummy with the white bean and roasted pepper spread (I put in two cloves of garlic and some seasoned salt) and with the veggies grilled. I put some garlic powder in the balsamic vinegar rub and grilled some onion and roasted another pepper to put on the sandwiches. Grand total for the day is around 1366 calories give or take for some estimates given that I didn't eat 1/2 of the soup serving and I didn't really measure how much watermelon I ate, so I guessed. I'm under 15% of those from fat, so I'm hoping that helps budge the extra pounds. So, the new recipe find today is the white bean spread for the sandwiches. With the grilled vegetables it was quite tasty--not surprising, as it's basically white kidney bean roasted pepper hummus :) In the book, some of his daily meals combos are a bit weird. The web version of day 5 has no lunch--in the book, the lunch is a baked potato topped with black beans and salsa, which would be fine if dinner that day were not black bean and potato soup. Day 4's dinner is black bean chili. Since I'm cooking my own beans, I guess I can kind of see why he does this as it means you could go through a batch of beans without having to eat the same thing over and over. But, I can cook beans easily in the pressure cooker and freeze them in portions needed for specific recipes, so that's where some of the alteration comes in. If I'm eating beans twice a day daily I want some bean variety. I also can't guarantee that I'm following his recipe for red beans and rice--I make a pretty darn good version already that is vegan and low fat, so we'll see. I'm not sure I'm ok with stirring the greens into the beans.
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