You too can successfully graze. For the new folks, grazing is eating many small snacks throughout the day, with no real meals, just lots of good stuff. Some days are meant for grazing. I'm having a bad day, a bad week, a bad year
but that whine is in my journal.
The graze:
1. leftover mini quiche from the recipe section. (Christmas day I made a double batch of 12. I was the only one that ate it. The rest went into little baggies in the freeze for quick grabs, mostly breakfast)
2. 1 cup of zucchini, sliced thick, fried in butter, topped with italian seasonings and shredded swiss cheese. The heat from the frying pan melted the cheese but did not brown it on top. Thanks Alto for the idea.
3. The ultimate pig out on smoked salmon. I usually carefully divide the 4 oz pack of smoked salmon (lox) into several meal servings. Today I took the whole pack, spread 3 tablespoons of cream cheese on it, rolled it up cigar style, and ate the whole mess. Gosh was that satisfying!
4. 1/4 cup of macadamia nuts. (a no-no for you folks on induction)
5. Only Angela can make a mess of a recipe as simple as mock danish. I stopped the microwave at 1 minute 30 to check it and it was nice and creamy. I should have taken it out. But I left it in for another 30 seconds (the recipe said 2 minutes, but I KNOW my microwave cooks shorter) It had the consitency of corn bread not creamy at all. oh well, to disguise it I heated a half cup of frozen raspberries in the microwave, then mushed them into a sauce with a fork and poured that on top. I'll try the recipe again tomorrow,and do it right.
6. Dinner will be a roasted whole chicken that will serve 3 purposes: dinner with a salad, chicken salad for tomorrow, and a carcuss for plain chicken stock (no onion, celery or carrots) Then I can have soup again!!!!
It's 4pm and I have only managed 1 1/2 litres of water. How on earth can Iforget to drink it when it is sitting right there in front of me???
Happy eating everyone.
So far that's 22 carbs and 2/3 of my minimum protein. Dinner portions will be calculated beforehand to make sure I meet the right numbers.
An important note about recipe counts:
Many of the people who post recipes here work very hard at putting accurate food counts on the recipes (much appreciated). BUT, it depends on the brands they use, and those brands are not available everywhere. Before I try a new recipe, I recalculate it with the brands I have on hand. In my case it was eye opening. The recipe carb count for the mock danish is 4 gr. My calculations using the brand of cream cheese I like brought it to 5.6. 1.6 more is a big deal if you are really watching the counts. Looks like I need to spend some more time in the store to find a cream cheese that is lower in carbs, although I only have 3 choices here...Philadelphia cream Cheese, Lactantia and Pres Choice no name brand.
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Originally posted by MaryB
So many things are not available here in rural KS, I've even broke down and ordered a few things on the internet!
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Mary, you don't have to buy or eat special food. I too deal with limited selection, and the best source for my food is the grocery store dairy counter, meat counter and veggie area. After 10 weeks on this new way of life, the only specialty food I have purchased was artificial sweetener. Everything else comes from the regular old grocery store.
I also have the luxury of a friend who has free range laying chickens and she has started giving me free eggs. They are much healthier than store bought. Do you have chickens? I bet you have a great big vegetable garden that has all sorts of possibilities for your own organic vegetables come planting season.
I can hardly wait for planting season!!!!!