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Originally Posted by linJber
I'd lose weight really quickly on your plan because there would be very little for me to eat! LOL. I think I eat pretty well on a whole. I guess when I think "processed" I think cheese single or Velveeta, boxed meals, lunch meats, that sort of thing.
Marshmallows don't even factor in, so that's a day's worth of labor I don't have to worry about. They're all sugar, and the recipe I saw made 1 1/2 pounds of marshmallows and would last a week in the fridge. That's a lot of marshmallows to eat in a week. And I just read the label on my plain, 0% fat Greek yogurt and I'm not sure I can improve on it, so that's another one I wouldn't bother with. I don't use enough mayo to worry about it. I use yogurt with seasonings in it in place of mayo as a spread on the occasional sandwich.
Will you use fresh tomatoes to make the marinara? Or are canned tomato products OK? I make my own sauce, but I use canned tomato puree and diced tomatoes to start. Starting with fresh tomatoes adds a whole lot of labor and time to the process. Almond and / or peanut butter that is just ground nuts is readily available at a local whole foods, so I'd pass on that, too, and save the clean up.
I love the idea of this and hope you can do it. I know I'd never succeed at it. I've found it easier to work around the things that are considered to be "processed" and just eat something else. Maybe that's a cop-out, but I look at the return on the labor investment and I'm sure I'd never be happy with what seems to me to be a big imbalance.
Lin
Not a cop-out at all.
Gosh, not all of us love spending hours and hours in the kitchen and this "eating right" thing has to work for everyone, right? Your suggestions prove there really is no excuse for eating healthy.
I just like working in the kitchen, some of the time. There are certainly times I have no desire to cook and that's when I find my own easy way around things. My favorite I-don't-wanna-cook-meal is a rotisserie chicken from Meijer. It's the next best thing to making it myself. Just add frozen veggies.
And no, marshmallows don't exactly fit into my plan.
I was just plunking mini marshmallows into my boys' hot chocolate and it got me thinking. I've been drinking hot chocolate soy mix and adding a couple marshmallows myself.