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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOADFOOD,ENJOY THE DAY! RAS

Happy Birthday!!!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOADFOOD!!!
Sounds like it's going to be a great year ahead! Hope you have a wonderful day celebrating YOU!!!

happy birthday! & thanks for the recipe.

Happy Birthday and thanks for the nice soup recipe!

Thanks for all the birthday greetings, everyone! I had an excellent birthday and this morning at the office we celebrated with delicious fresh fruit salad. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, so maybe I'll start a trend.

I hope you like the Cajun veggie soup. I have all the ingredients in my fridge and freezer and am planning to make a vat of it this Sunday. It's one of my partner's favorite McDougall friendly recipes, and it's so easy. I think LauraA's original recipe had frozen okra in it too, which sounds good to me but my partner hates okra so I just put in extra green beans (her favorite vegetable) instead.

Tomorrow we're headed to the beach to relax for a few days. I've been working on the menu, as our hotel room will not have a kitchen or even a microwave. I bought an electric kettle and breakfast is going to be instant oatmeal and fresh fruit. I bought a bunch of McDougall soup cups for lunches, which will again be supplemented with fresh fruit and something like baby carrots. Dinners we will eat out. There's a Mexican restaurant there that makes some yummy vegan dishes, and I will just skip the chips and the tortillas. We're going to be in the car at dinner time tomorrow, so I made some hummus and packed a bunch of cut up raw veggies in a ziploc bag. Now I just have to cross my fingers for good weather.

Where is this mexican restaurant? I've had bad luck with eating at the beach so I take my own. I do like the pink place around 57th street Bayside Skillet because you can get the best OJ in the world and some great fresh fruit.

Mother's Cantina in Ocean City. It's on 28th Street, on the ocean side, if I remember correctly. The food is not oil free (I don't worry about this when eating out, as I don't eat out often), but they have good rice and beans, portobello mushroom tacos, and when we found out the guacamole had dairy in it the chef sent us out a plate of sliced avocado as a substitute. I'll bet they would try to come up with something oil free, if asked. They were very nice.

I'll have to check out Bayside Skillet.

Hi Toadfood

I got a few minutes while at work. Just stopping in. Looks like you're doing teeee-riffic!

I'm gonna try that soup recipe, maybe without the Cajun, but all the veggies in there look scrumptious and I have a good selection of vegs in the house.

Thanks for stopping by, bunso! I hope you enjoy whatever variation on the soup you come up with. The original recipe I based it on was not Cajun -- I think it had herbs in it like basil and thyme, so you might try that.

I had an interesting grocery store experience yesterday. Not long ago I had been to the regular supermarket, and had commented on another thread here about how little of what's in the supermarket is actual food, as opposed to toxic foodlike substances. Well, last night we went to the organic market to pick up some stuff for our trip. This is a beautiful, brand new store that has lovely organic produce, a huge bulk section with stuff you can't find anywhere else in our area, lots and lots of interesting grains, beans, pastas, dried fruits etc . . . . and still, so much of the store is junk food! I could cut the store in half and still have room for all the actual food. I was wandering around the store saying "I can't believe all this junk food, how did I not notice this before?" I think it's a sign that my tastes are really changing.

Hey,

Hope you have a good day!

Thanks, boots! I hope you're doing well.

I really enjoyed my trip to the beach. For breakfast every morning I had instant oatmeal (Nature's Path brand, which is organic and has no added sugar) and an apple. Lunch was McDougall soup cups, raw veggies, and grapes. I had dinner at the Mexican restaurant one night and it wasn't as good as I'd remembered. I had a great meal at a Japanese restaurant, though -- it's called O.C. Wasabi and it's on Coastal Highway near 33rd street. I had a yummy salad and what I think was the best vegetable sushi I've ever tasted. Something about the way they cut and combined the veggies was just so good. I took a bite and said, "There's a party in my mouth." Then I got home, weighed in, and I've lost 10 pounds this month. At the rate I'm going, I will be back in my "skinny" clothes by Thanksgiving! Yay!

I did my cooking for the week yesterday -- huge vat of Cajun veggie soup, big pot of brown rice, 2 pounds of carrots with olives and garlic, boiled up some potatoes, and soaked a pound of black beans. The black beans are now cooking in the slow cooker while I'm at work, and they'll be ready for tonight's dinner.

This is the carrot recipe, adapted from Lorna Sass's Complete Vegetarian Kitchen. I made this because I had bought some baby carrots to eat raw, and they weren't as sweet and yummy as I wanted them to be.

1 pound carrots (baby, or peeled and sliced in 1" chunks)
1 onion, chopped
1/4 cup kalamata olives, chopped
10 big cloves of garlic or 20 little ones, peeled and trimmed
2 cups vegetable broth

Cook it all up until the carrots are soft. Check it halfway through to make sure there's still enough broth -- it cooks down a lot.

I made a double recipe, because I had 2 bags of baby carrots to use up.

I have some awesome results to share. Yesterday I got some test strips and tested my blood sugar for the first time in months. Preprandial (before dinner) was 106; 2 hours postprandial was 101. This morning, fasting was 87. 87!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only other time I can remember it being that low was one Yom Kippur when I took it mid-afternoon after fasting for the entire day. My goal was to get my fasting bs down to 99. So yay! Thank you OA, thank you Dr. McDougall, thank you Dr. Barnard!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is such great news!!! Keep on keepin on