Am home for lunch
 

Food so far...will add later

2 eggs, scrambled w/2tbsp cottage cheese
2 C coffee w/ 6% cream
1 small apple
1 1/2 C black bean soup
2 rye sourdough biscuits

1/2 c grapes
small apple both going to work for mid afternoon crash

Am working on 2 c hot water at present.

will add dinner later.

Dinner....

2 fish filets breaded unfortunately
3/4 C mashed potatoes w/ grated carrots
3/4 c boiled turnip
And......more water!!!!!!

Ceara :doh:

Hello all!

Dh made saurkraut soup tonight w/ no meat...and it is really tasty and......

its .....

ZERO POINTS......
Dh doesnt want to take credit so he says
to call it
Kaye's Sauerkraut Soup

2 vegetable builloin
1 big sauerkraut
2 big onions
8 cloves of garlic
2 cups green cabbage
1 pt of mushrooms ( about 8 large mushrooms0
4 carrots


saute the onions and garlic with the raw cabbage in with lots and lots of water.
Add buillion.
When cabbage and onions are soft, add sliced carrots and mushrooms with the saurkraut.
Cook for 30 minutes.....

Its tangy!


*****
Ceara:
Am very interested to hear about the sourdough bisquits... are they Whole Wheat by chance???
And do you find the Cottage Cheese stays with you when you put it in the omelet or is this just your recipe that you've always used??

**
Time for tea!

Thanks for the recipe, Kaylets! I always forget saurkraut is out there; I'll have to give it a try.

I recall reading in one of my old macrobiotic cookbooks that saurkraut is good for warding off sugar cravings. Just have a spoonful of saurkraut when you're craving cake and...nah, I'm not buying it either! :lol:

Feb. 10
 

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
ww bagel w/ egg, cream cheese, spinach, onion
apple**clementine

2 ww toast w/ humuus, lettuce, onion
tomato-red pepper soup
coffee**almond-chocolate biscotti

black-eyed pea soup
ww tortilla w/ 1 oz. swiss cheese, onion
apple

snacks: 1 btl. Propel
lo-fat ice cream sandwich

calories:1500 exactly!
vitamins: I took 'em!
water: 10 cups
exercise:4 miles treadmill**30 min. pilates**200 crunches

Answers to questions
 

Kaylets...I'm interpretting "stays with you" as you don't get hungry quickly? Yes it does in that case...I use it instead of cream or milk which is normally how you "cut" eggs up here when you scramble..or add water...the microwave melts the cottage cheese without drying the eggs to death. The sour dough biscuits are made with white flour...that is what you feed them with...the starter that is..plus milk and sugar. The yeast or whatever is in the sourdough eats up the sugar. (the recipe uses oil, flour, baking soda and powder and salt, or p cheese instead). I have made them with unrefined whole wheat flour but I'd wanna playa bit...they were a bit stonish. That is why I'm currently playing with rye...there isn't as much gluten in rye flour so the flour ratio gets skewed...these weren't tough though...does this help?

What is a big saurkraut...?...a can or do you pickle them whole? Aren't they just pickled salted cabbage? usually shredded? New stuff..I love it!

Anyway...am off

Ta-rah off to drink hot water...am lacking in that today...feel parchy.

Ceara :doh:

Yo!
 

Hmmmm. As thou knowest, I be a novice with whole wheat flour ... what does unrefined mean in regard to whole wheat flour?

I'm with thee, Eydie, I don't think I'd buy saurkrat as a substitute for a pb cup! :s:

But I do think thy recipe soundeth good, Kaylets. Mayhap I shall try it. I've never had saurkrat. I even have trouble spelling it.

Ceara, thanks for the discussion of sourdough starter. I had a friend who did this and made the most astonishing things. I've never had the nerve! :hungry:

The cottage cheese is really good in the brownies I made now that they're in their second day. Gives an interesting texture. Beginning to think I must always have ff cottage cheese in the house.

Was going for another 1500 day but had to do the high cal day today ... involved pb cups, better not talk about it, I did try to stave it off by eating oranges on the road, but ... Too much traveling and reporter stress to write down everything so just did the calories. Do plan to post my menus as much as possible because I so enjoy reading the ones posted her. So many great :devil: Food Slaying ideas ... hope the "slaying" word offendeth not ... just for fun, although I do think pb cups should be slain, sorry, they must be removed from the planet. They are EVIL! :rollpin:

Have sinus :headache: ... must sleep, report below:

21-Day Challenge Report: Week 1, Day 3, My High Cal Day, calories: 1795, Day 3 exercise 60 minutes, on to Day 4, no more high cal days allowed in my challenge until next week!

Onto day 4!
 

Pyrex
 

Yes...I too be leery of the plastics...I use only microwavable ones but I think they can break down over time too....or else why would they stale date bottled water? It is the bottle they are dating not the water...Jeez.

Ceara

Feb. 11--Wednesday
 

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
ww bagel w/ chopped hard-boiled egg, cream cheese, spinach, carrot
clementine [this is my new favorite breakfast.]

2 ww toast w/ soy 'ham', ff cheese, mustard
tomato-red pepper soup
Slim-Fast bar [the peanut butter crunch ones taste like butterfingers! :devil: ]

Mexican veg-bean soup
1/2 c. ff chocolate pudding

snax: apple
1 btl. caramel frappicino

Calories: 1510**fiber: 21 grams**fat: 23 grams
water: 8 cups
exercise: 3 miles treadmill**15 min. yoga**40 pushups**200 crunches**25 min. dumbells

Made breakfast and lunch for a group at work today and I didn't indulge in any mindless nibbling in the kitchen. Victory! :D

Yo! Kudos to DFS Eydie for passing on the mindless nibbles at work whilst having to cook! Yowza! :cheer: Good job, Eydie!

OT on the subject of spam I brought up on the other thread: Now I'm getting spam with the word "devil" in the subject line ... oh, well! Nevertheless mine challenge today be an :angel: although my sugar consumption is still way high ... but reducing sugar is not the subject of my challenge; it's about calories in and calories out, with an emphasis on health where possible.

21-Day Challenge Report: Week 1, Day 4, calories: 1440, exercise 43 minutes, weights in gym, 2 min. cardio, on to Day 5

Ateth the following: 1/4 cup Scottish oatmeal (75)
1 T turbinado sugar (45)
Butter Spray, count for day (10)

1 T barley malt syrup (60)

Healthy German chocolate brownie bar (55)
EAS Carb Control Vanilla shake (100)

Grilled salmon w/dill/butter spray (120)
Corn (70)
Brocolli w/lowfat cheese sauce (70)
EAS Carb Control Vanilla shake (100)

:devil: 3.5 ounce maple iced glazed donut bar, no filling (455)
EAS Carb Control Vanilla shake (100)

1 slice sprouted bread toasted in oven w/butter spray (80)
EAS Carb Control Rich Dark Chocolate shake (100)

Total: 1440

Going back to calorie counting is making it easier to see where the problem lies. The donut would be approximately 9 points, which I was not seeing as very high on Flexpoints, but looking at my menu now, it's more readily apparent that the one donut that took two minutes to buy and eat was 32 percent or so of my whole day's food. A pb cup or two would have been better (115 cal each). :doh: It's ok to have a donut now and then (I do know it's not spelled donut, but I like it), but a couple of oranges would have been better for this sinus infection I have. :yes:

Tomorrow, determined to make muffins sometime. Will post the recipe. Elberta Crone hath now locked Amarantha out of the kitchen, the better to save her from herownself!

:wave:

P.S. The sprouted bread is flourless and totally delicious ... I remembered that Wood Nymph had posted something about this last year and when I saw it in the health food section, I decided to try it. I froze half the loaf as it has no preservatives or anything ...

Thursday!
 

Yo!
 

Ah, Ceara, I have fond memories of butter tarts from when I lived across the river from Ontario ... well, no, these were called raisin tarts, now that I think of it, so forget that ... anyway, they were definitely :devil: Food! Off with their heads! But your day looketh great nevertheless!!!!

Amarantha's Day With a Sinus Infection and People Standing Her Up For Appointments and the Like and the :devil: Foods All Over the Friggin' Countryside:

1/4 cup Scottish oatmeal (75)
1 T turbinado sugar :devil: (45)
Butter spray for day (10)

EAS Carb Control Vanilla shake (100)
Orange (70)

EAS Rich Dark Chocolate Carb Control shake (100)

:devil: 2 packages (of 2 each) pb cups (460)

Ouevres Rustico ala Ceara*
*1 container Eggbeaters (30)
1/2 serving asparagus (10)
1/2 serving bottled mushrooms (15)
1/4 cup fat free cottage cheese (45)

2 slices sprouted bread toasted in oven and sprayed w/butter spray (160)

1/2 serving Scottish oatmeal (75)
1 T turbinado sugar (45)
EAS Carb Control shake (100)

EAS Carb Control shake (100)

**Editing: Adding some more food. Didn't realize I was hungry so am having another EAS. Rich Dark Chocolate ... :s: ... not enough calories to add a carb, though. Oh, well!

21-Day Challenge Report: Week 1, Day 5, calories: 1440, exercise 55 minutes between treadmill/recumbent bike, on to Day 6

Feb. 12--food/exercise
 

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
1/2 c, brown rice w/ corn, onion, egg sub. 1 oz. gouda
apple

ww bagel w/ hard-boiled egg, cream cheese, peppers, onion, carrot
cucumber slices w/ humuus

Brown rice and beans w/ salsa, corn, cheese, lo-fat sour cream
ff fudgesicle

snack: yogurt 'cheesecake' w/ pineapple

calories: 1500**fiber: 21 grams**fat: 37 grams
water: 5 cups
exercise: 4 miles treadmill**15 min. 'thighs' video**15 min. 'abs' video** 20 min. Pilates**40 pushups