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Amarantha2 , 01-28-2004 01:28 PM

Elberta Crone here, 100-year-old-fabulous-spa-cook-to-the-imperial-family-who-looketh-20-something-because-she-eateth-so-healthily! CCRRMMs, wanderers in the wasteland, neighbors and lurkers in the shadows, listen up. Welcome to this Demon Food/Angel Food steering committee meeting here in the kitchen o' the Imperial Palace o' Fit Folks and Fab s!!! Yowza!

By imperial edict and consensus of the Demon Food Slayer Troop, we are opening up the kitchen to regular meetings (aka whenever anyone feeleth like posting) to discuss food and the challenges we all have (I THINK we all have 'em) related to those evil DFs (Demon Foods) and happy AFs (Angel Foods BUT NOT CAKE)! Seest thou this empty slate ... that's for people to post food ideas, thoughts, personal challenges of whatever time or other parameters, daily menus, food hopes, food dreams, food anything.

This is a revamping of the CCRRMM Demon Food 21-Day Challenge ... the idea of a "buffet" of food challenges and food discussion came from Eydie!

Disclaimer, this is not meant to interfere with the main CCRRMM thread or the CCRRMM NOLA thread, both of which are favorites of the palace ... it's just a food talk kinda place and also a place to post food challenges and daily food menus!

Ok? Ok! Bye!
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Amarantha2 , 01-28-2004 01:37 PM

Ok, dokey, Elbert, old dear, I, the amazingly beautiful and wise Empress Amarantha shall post a message on thy fab board here in the Imperial Kitchen. I, EA, having failed miserably to refrain from pb cups (we're NOT talking about those PB Valentine hearts now stashed in the dungeon, are we?), do declareth a challenge for myself to eat only the amount of points legally applied for in the Flexpoints program ... no cheating ... that still means I can eat a lot as I have flexpoints left and I exercise regularly ... this is just to get me back on track and eating in the healthy Body For Life type of meals I desire for my health ... I also have a goal to reduce EVIL REFINED SUGAR in my life, but obviously this is going to take longer than expected.

Today's planned main meal (after recovering from the pb hearts, which actually did not put me over plan), is a crabcake, corn and brocolli. Had some more of the 3-point herb biscuits I'm obsessed with ... froze an extra recipe of them. Old Dog had one as well!

Ok, bye! No work today and am reading for a long time!
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ceara , 01-28-2004 05:41 PM

Today is day 13 for me. Yippee...!!!
Just so's I can remember.

Am going on BC pills...jeez, am clipped, fibroids all around the family and we are trying this for three months..OK.

Am going to add to my challenges tomorrow...will continue with 21 day no wine...1 week to go!!!!

Ceara
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deleted2 , 01-28-2004 05:42 PM

Thanks for starting the thread, Amaran....er, Elberta C!

I'm having a great food day! So far, so good---I shouldn't feel too cocky, the demons are everywhere and know all my weaknesses. Today I was at the library where DH works and the staff had their jug 'o chocolates there with all my favorites, and they were little too. The demons like to seduce you into having the little ones, one and then another and another. "Fun-size"??? nothing fun about it! "Begone! You have no power here!" Yep, that's what I said and ate my banana and clementine and felt virtuous beyond all reason!
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Amarantha2 , 01-28-2004 06:23 PM

Hooray for Ceara the Sword Bearer and Demon Wine Slayer on Day 13 and heading into the completion of a 21-dayer!!! Yowza! Good luck with the BC pills, should help!

Hooray for Eydie the Stalwart Slayer also, as I think thou hast not waivered for all the days since we started the 21er! I know thy good food day will continue.

Mine, alas, hath bit ye dust! Never should have set myself up for a challenge and then brought the pb hearts home. What WAS I thinking!? I know ... I was thinking I'd eat one now and then and it'd be just hunky dory. How many times does one have to go through this before one knows for sure one ISN'T going to eat one now and then, one is going to eat them all at once and blow the challenge?

Oh, well, as Anne of Green Gables saith, or someone, "Tomorrow is a brand new day with no mistakes in it ... yet!" I'm going to set up a new challenge for myself tomorrow.

Yes, E, the BFDs (Bad Food Demons) do like to disguise themselves in tiny packages and beckon us to just have one and that can't hurt!!!! I've noticed that meself, dearies! (Elberta Crone voice). They are EVIL, I TELL THEE, EVIL!!!!!!

We must be wary and seek out the foods (no Amarantha, NOT CAKE) that acteth as an antidote. Along those lines, I must sayeth that I was reading Vegetarian Times today and came across a very promising recipe for southwestern blue corn muffins with sage (I seem to be obsessed with baking since discovering that it's the best way to get some healthy carbs ... preparing most of my own food and carrying it with me may be the salvation from the demons I'm looking for ... but it's a long process). These bread items are very filling and remind me that I like carbs ... I just need to make them good for me ... I can't post the recipe here, of course, but it's in the newest issue and is just calling to me EXCEPT, I'm going to try it with the whole wheat flour, or at least half whole wheat). I'm hoping to do it by the weekend ... think I want to find some fresh sage first. I'm sure I can find the blue corn flour.

Sorry for the baking obsession. It's all Elberta thinks about these days!

Avanti, Demon Food Slayers! Be veeeery careful out there as tis the season o' the Demon St. Valentine's (no offense to any saint meant, of course)!
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ceara , 01-29-2004 07:46 AM

Ah...day 14
Now going to add new challenge...if I keep them in weekly increments, maybe I can keep them straight.

So, will add the staples....no food after 7, small portions, no booze (as opposed to just wine), and more water....I have been drinking some but not enough. I will keep the diet coke for the moment...maybe I can fool meself into thinking there is a splash of rum in there....but I really don't like pop. However I know I am battling depression here....so gotta set some goals...

Madame Crone...I will be by later for some fresh baked healthy blue corn muffins...I like cornmeal stuff...maybe I should make some Johnny Cakes...

to Eydie, my inspiration.....am off to do 8 or so minutes on the treadmill...since that is when it slips...

Ceara
#7

Amarantha2 , 01-29-2004 07:58 AM

All hail, fellow DF Slayers!!!! I, Amarantha, hath stopped into the palace kitchen to grab a whole wheat biscuit and protein shake and Elberta Crone, the fab-100-year-old-palace-spa-chef-who-hath-an-awesome-bod-from-a-century-o'-healthy-food, hath reminded me I promised to post an Angel Food (NOT CAKE) personal challenge on the food challenge board!!!!! Here it is:

I, Amarantha, shall embark on a three-day MISSION to get find a FOOD ANGEL (not cake) ... I shall go forth from the palace each day and seek the named "28 POINTS" and not retire to the royal chamber until that be on my shoulder for the night! (E.g., for three days I'm challenging myself to eat no more than 28 points in hopes I might have a maintain on my Sunday weigh-in despite eating like a horse for two weeks!!!! Amen!)!!!!!

My first challenge on this mission will be to only order a diet coke or water at Burger King, where I'm interviewing someone who wants to buy my lunch. I don't want to hurt this person's feelings (or the noble BK chain) but I would never eat there normally but the DEMON might force me to eat what I don't want just to be sociable ... but I'm only going there for work and don't need to break my vow ... need to remember that it really means nothing to anyone else what I ultimately put into my body ... no social convention is worth invoking the DEMONS!! Amen!
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deleted2 , 01-29-2004 09:06 AM

Amarantha, is there anything remotely healthy at Burger King? I've heard about those chicken baguette thingies that are supposed to be only 5 grams of fat. If you could change and meet at McDonald's, their yogurt-fruit parfait is pretty decent--actually makes a nice dessert and has saved me and Garry a few times when we're out in the big bad world and are led into temptation! Hey, maybe check out the 3FC's fast food guide before you leave? Do you have any more PBCs at home? I reccommend that you snatch the up, open the package and pour soap all over them and chuck them in the trash while cackling hideously. I'm serious! Very empowering!

Ceara, I feel your pain. Our treadmill slipped and drove us crazy. Garry did everything he could for it and we finally had to send it to treadmill heaven. We had a Pro-Form from Sears, and it lasted less than a year. We were told by the sales guy where we bought our new one that at Sears they really don't expect for you to use them, so they tell you they'll last for 10 years! It choked me to pay what we did for our new one but I love it! It was like going from a Chevette to a Cadillac! I hope it gets better or you get another piece of equipment. Believe me, I know how frustated you are with the treadmill. Andabout the depression thing, awareness is everything! You're doing everything right.
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deleted2 , 01-29-2004 09:15 AM

Wed.--Jan. 28
coffee w/ fat-free 1/2 and 1/2
2 whole wheat toast w/ lite cream cheese, egg, spinach, carrots, onion
2 clementines

whole wheat tortilla w/ humuus, halloumi, spinach, peppers, onion
banana**clementine

2 tacos w/ beans, salsa, onions, lettuce, lo-fat sour cream,
1/2 c. rice and vegs.
low-fat ice cream sandwich

snax: Luna bar
banana

Calories: 1530
fiber: 37 grams
fat: 41 grams
water: 10 cups
exercise: 45 min. step video**15 min. thigh workout video

Halloumi is a cheese I bought as an 'experiment'. You can heat it in a skillet and it doesn't melt away, it holds it shape and is nice and salty. I haven't researched it, but I think it's used in Greek and/or Middle Eastern cooking. Very good, and I'll buy it again!
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Amarantha2 , 01-29-2004 08:38 PM

Yo, Demon Food Slayers, we are really doing well here!!!! DFS Ceara hath set a number o' lofty goals and methinks Amarantha could emulate her and E in the good food department even more ... I'm trying ... and doing well today at my 28 point three day challenge (DAY ONE AND COUNTING)!!!!!

Eydie, as it happened there wasn't a problem because the guy was too busy to really be interviewed ... but that was another problem that led me to have to go talk to more old nemeses (is that the plural of nemesis? Works for me!) ... Anyway, this particular BK is actually really nice and I may go in again and try that yogurt and fruit parfait you mentioned ...

Sugar has been another nemesis today ... I don't usually write down my menus but today I think I ate the following (remember, my nutrition is improving, not perfect):

Three of my herb biscuits with butter spray (9 points)
EAS Carb Control vanilla shake (2 points)

Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake ice cream bar (5 points)

Package PB cups (2 to a package, total of 5 points)

Salmon w/lf dill sauce (2 points)
Corn w/butter spray (1 point)
Broccoli w/lf cheese sauce (1 point)

Carb Control shake (2 points)
2 Clementines (1 point)

Looks like 28 points to me ... now if I can join Sword Bearer in not eating after 7 p.m. just tonight, I've got it made in the shade for Day 1!

Re the blue corn muffins, I settled for yellow cornmeal, no pinon nuts and dried sage at the store ... haven't made the muffins yet but it'll be a nice break from writing this weekend ... I was so obsessed with blue cornmeal that I bought blue food coloring and I may color them blue ... I know it's not authentic and probably not healthy but I want them to be blue ... am going to change the recipe a little to bring down the calories and am going to up the fiber by substituting the whole wheat flour ... am obsessed with making a switch to whole wheat but it will take time ... again will use the self-rising flour rather than all-purpose to make everything fluffier ...

I am making myself hungry so will sign off ... avanti ... be veeery cautious during the night, Slayers, as that's when the BFDs like to roam and seek out the unwary ...
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deleted2 , 01-30-2004 08:18 AM

Amarantha, thanks for sharing your menu! What herbs do you put in your biscuits? You're doing well! How's the no-eating after 7:00 working out? I try to do that too.

Here's my efforts yesterday:

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
2 breakfast tacos! w/ beans, egg sub., lo-fat cheese, lettuce, salsa

1 c. rice and vegs., w/ 1 tbsp. chopped cashews and 1 tsp. nutritional yeast
3 rye crackers w/ 1 wedge 'Laughing Cow' cheese

ww tortilla w/ lite cheese, had-boiled egg, spinach
strawberry creamsicle

snax: 2 ww crackers w/ peanut butter
shape-Up nutrition bar

calories: 1555
water: 6 cups
exercise: 15 min. arms video**40 pushups**200 crunches** 4 miles treadmill

I hate to admit it, but the 'shape up' bar [the one w/ Dr. Phil on the front!] was really very tasty. I'll buy them again--when they're on sale!
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ceara , 01-30-2004 11:47 AM

onto days 15/2!
Good news...I made it!
One boozeless day under my seatbelt. Onto two. Managed the gym this am too...easy on the upper body though...the shoulders are still wonky.
No food after 7 is good...drank more water too....am into eating out less...and using fewer pre-ready type foods...made sourdough biscuits yesterday...starter needed to be fed...and in honour of Empress A, I put in a couple tbsp of corn meal....made 'em a nice crunchy....
So am off to do stuff....meeting at 1, etc....so much for my day off eh?

Ceara
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Amarantha2 , 01-30-2004 01:26 PM

Yowza, Slayers! I'm on Day 2 of 28 points and feeling good!!!!

Eydie: I'll try to post my menu tonight again ... thank you for sharing yours! I mostly use dried chives and a fines herbe mix from the grocery for the biscuits ... I used to grow all my own herbs in the midwest but I can't grow them here ... SIL says secret here is to grow them under trees where we'd opt for full sun in the midwest, but mine all fry anyway!!! You're doing great with your eating! Is the Shape Up bar from Dr. P? Is it good?

Ceara: Thou also deserveth a big round of applause for thy perfect day and heading into the second!!!! The biscuits soundeth good ... my mom used to use sourdough starter ... it's beyond my skill level!

Vowed to work on story from h*** for only one hour and then rest up a bit ... also vowed to tackle the Blue Corn Muffins and they were good. Since I revamped the recipe so completely, I think it's ok to post it:

Fake Blue Corn Muffins, Inspired by Vegetarian Times

1/2 cup self-rising flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
6 T yellow cornmeal
Salt
4 T buttermilk powder (for baking)
1 tsp. dried sage
dried chives
Pinch Splenda
1 T canola oil
2 tsp Parmesan cheese
1 cup egg substitute (to equal two eggs)
Blue Food Color (optional)

Spray 12 muffin cups with canola spray, bake at 395 for 12 minutes, 1 muffin equals 1.4 points, spray with butter spray and count as 2 points.

Needless to say, I've had several! Froze some. Old Dog stole one.

Gotta work, later, gators!
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Cerise , 01-30-2004 02:52 PM

Oh, baby, I have that recipe written down and I'm gonna make it! Thanks, Amarantha! I'm benefitting from your wisdom more than I can say.

Last night I had 4 points left to eat and wandered around the house going, "Hmmm. What can I eat?". Story of my life. I remembered that I can have half an avocado for 4 points, so I tossed chopped avocado with a chopped tomato, green onion, garlic powder and lemon joice (and salt and pepper). I tossed with enthusiasm so the avocado could break down a bit and coat the tomatoes. Excellent salad.
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Amarantha2 , 01-30-2004 08:03 PM

Welcome to the palace kitchen o' Demon Food Slayers, Slayer Cerise!!! I'm thrilled you like my "fakeover" of the Veg Times muffins ... likewise I love thy avocado salad recipe and am putting it in the "diet cookbook" I've started to keep in the computer ... I like the word "diet," though some scorneth it ... it reminds me of my commitment to get ALL the weight off. I think thy avocado idea would be good with baked blue corn chips, since we're talking blue corn here ... btw, if anyone uses blue food color they'd better remember to tighten the lid ... it fell over in the fridge and dripped all over and onto the floor ... then got on my hands when I cleaned it up ... I look like an ancient Celtic warrior now!

Confident I'll make Day 2 of my 28-point challenge. I haven't had my last mini meal but know what it will be. Menu again:

2 Clementines (1 point)
EAS Vanilla Carb Control shake (2 points)

4 Fake Blue Corn Muffins w/butter spray (8 points)
EAS Vanilla Carb Control shake (2 points)

Clementine (1/2, I count as 1)

1 pkg. PB cups (2 to pkg, total 5 points)

EAS Rich Dark Chocolate Carb Control shake (2 points)

Salmon in lf dill sauce (2 points)
Corn in lf butter flavor sauce (2 points)

2 Clementines (1 point)
EAS Vanilla Carb Control shake (2 points)

Total: 28 points, as always too high in the protein shakes but I like them!

Avanti, Slayers, remember always that the spirit o' Elberta Crone, awesome-100-year-old-spa-cook-who-looketh-amazing-and-wrassles-alligators-in-her-spare-time-because-she-scorneth-bad-food-demons be with thee!!!!!

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