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Anna Green wrote:So I have a friend who is in med school. He could lose a few lbs.l...not much. His bp is a little high so he got on meds. I need to send him here so he can see Dr. McDougall's thoughts on that. Anyway, he and his wife just had a baby so you can imagine they have no time. He asked me to give him 5 recipes he can put in his crockpot so he has food in the eve and can work to get off his meds. Also, he lifts weights and burns a lot of calories. So I thought I would give them a start by making chili for them with bulger, tiny black lentils, eggplant, shroons, etc, and baking sweet potatoes and yukon golds. I plan to give them a bunch of stuff to go with the chili and that they can make burrito bowls and such with and use that chili in a variety of ways...such as greens, salsa, corn, peppers, rice, cilantro, chopped red onions, avocado (I'll recommend to limit) and the TJ oil free eggplant hummus. I may make them some cheezy sauce and some tahini sauce to use on rice and veggies (again I'll suggest they limit). I want to make sure I'm giving them stuff that has enough calories...she is also breastfeeding and not overweight. And yet I of course want to make sure it's food that will help him with the mild bp issue. I know that this is much much lower in fat than what he is normally eating so I think it will work and be tasty enough to help him stick to it. It will give her an example too of what to eat to feed herself and that baby. I think it may help his bp because I've seen my own respond to this kind of change.
Any other ideas for food that you just love and would be easy for them to continue making on their own?
Of course you know my other motivation besides that I love them is to educate a future physician on the best way of eating.
Anna Green wrote:yep....it's hard to get these New Orleans folk including the transplants, once they've had the goods, to buy into simple...otherwise called bland or in the case of liquids, pis-a-swa. That's part of the reason I'll do some cooking for them. Not that I'm a good cook but I do know the flavors. May even make them a veggie jambalaya and it might just turn out ok. We'll see. One awesome thing the vegan folk have trained some people to do is to boil potatoes, corn, garlic, and an assortment of other veggies in the spices before the crawfish so I'll be able to nab them some legal albeit a bit salty local flavor.
I just wanted extra input because it seems stuff always turns up here I didn't know existed.
vegman wrote:Apparently not on Jeff's facebook page
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