LynnCS wrote:eXtremE wrote: I really can't cook. Never learned how and don't want to learn how now. That is why my meals are so simple and do not vary a lot.
My mother use make things with sweet potatoes like candied yams, sweet potato souffles, and a few other things that I can't think of. I have no idea how these things are made but I knew they were delicious but unhealthy for you because of all the butter and sugar in them.
How do you prepare a sweet potato to eat and is it really sweet without adding refined sugar to it? I just eat a lot of the regular potatoes now. I just bake em or boil them and eat them with my canned beans and salad and sometimes brown rice.
I am not very food literate at all.
I used to cook all kinds of "creative" foods, SAD foods for my family. I started to get a sense that it wasn't the best and by the time I was on my own decided to follow a more healthy route. At first it was a little complicated and it took a while to understand how to simplify it. I often just chop up a potato, onion, cabbage or other green vegi, and any kind of other vegis in my fridge or freezer. I prefer the one dish meals.
Now I am learning about JeffNs SNAP meals.
In his forum under the SNAP meals thread. I copied this from another thread so maybe you can go over to his site and pick up on all his discussion of his great, easy, fast, and complete one dish meals. I'm just learning too, but have been putting together similar meals for awhile because I cook on a one burner hot plate. I often have brown rice cooked and stored in the fridge, and potatoes/sweet potatoes ready to go so either I add cooked rice or potatoes to broth with frozen vegies and some canned beans. My faves are from Eden. Healthy, no salt, no pba cans, and cooked in a little kombu, A sea veg which gives some healthy micronutrients. Then all I do is add some cut up or torn up greens at the end and they wilt beautifully into the broth. Yum, yum, yum!....Sometimes I've been lazy and don't have any starch ready. I can cut up 1, or more potatoes, sweet potatoes and fresh vegis too. If I do it that way, I put the burner on low and go do some morning chores. I come back in 15 or 20 min and it's ready. Add what ever flavorings you want. If it's a sweet potato, things like cinnamon or nutmeg works, with regular potatoes, well...you get it.
Jeff's SNAP meals:
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It is basically
28 oz Canned NSA Tomatoes (or fresh)
1 can NSA Beans (or 1.5 cups cooked)
1.5-2.0 cups cooked starch (rice, potatoes, etc)
1 lb frozen veggies
1/4 lb frozen leafy greens
Spice to taste
Two of those makes about 1600 calories and if you add in 2 tsp of flax, you surpass the RDA/DRI for all nutrients except Vitamin B12 and D. Three of them and you are at about 2300 calories.
You can also substitute veggie broth or water for the tomatoes.
In Health
Jeff
I also borrow a page out to "FrozenVeg's" book and use frozen veg's. I haven't done it yet, but I think she talks about using already frozen potatoes. I'm getting ready to try that out soon. Dr. McDougall and others talk about using frozen hash browns. I and others use frozen mixed vegis. I've even seen some frozen vegis with beans, like southwest flavored. Jeff uses canned tomatoes in his SNAP recipes. I haven't tried that yet, but will soon. I add a cut up small tomato sometimes to my one dish meal.
Hope that gives you some encouragement. Make a big pot of whatever you make and save it in the fridge and freezer for the rest of the week if you don't mind leftovers. Enjoy, Lynn
For less than $2.50 for the large cannister I think they are a great deal. The McCanns (sp) Irish cut oats are really, really good and really, really expensive. When I was using them I cooked up a large batch and then re-heated when it was time to eat.
