What I'm eating

[Idgie]

Today's plan:

B1: Oatmeal & melon (ate more than a cup of melon -- probably closer to 2 cups. half a small melon. I'm the only one who likes melon, so if I don't eat it, it will get tossed, and it was SO GOOD that I made an exception to the 2-fruits-a-day rule in this case.)
L4: Unfried rice
S1: Salad / melon didn't eat the melon, which means I ended up not going over my fruits for the day. I just wasn't hungry again after dinner.
S2: Veg soup ate chestnuts instead -- MWL compliant, but not what I planned
S5: Hummus & peppers ate some roasted favas before bed instead. They accidentally got refrigerated instead of frozen, so they needed to be cooked up, and I love roasted beans.

Fat: 10%
Protein: 12%
Carbs: 78%

Tomorrow's plan:
B1: Oatmeal & melon
L4: Unfried rice & salad
S2: Veg soup
S5: Hummus & peppers
S8: Roasted garbanzos or favas
S9: Slaw

[Idgie]

today's plan:
B1: Oatmeal & melon
L4: Unfried rice & salad (dinner was just the rice, no salad. not that hungry. ate it cold with a little asian salad dressing, so it was like rice salad)
S2: Veg soup - didn't eat.
S5: Hummus & peppers
S8: Roasted garbanzos or favas ate with the salad from lunch, but ate it really late
S9: Slaw didn't eat

[Idgie]

Today's plan:

B: Hash browns and salad
L: Sweet potatoes and slaw
D: Sweet potatoes and slaw ate veg sushi
S: Peppers and hummus
S: Veg soup

Fat: 7%
Protein: 12%
Carbs: 80%

Food eaten not on plan:
Snack of chestnuts at work
Ate sushi instead of planned dinner

Tomorrow's plan:
B: rice & cucumbers
L8: Sweet potatoes and slaw
S2: Veg soup
S3: Berries
S1: Salad

[Idgie]

Not feeling good today, so I'm going to adjust my meal plan to make it as easy and mild as possible.

Previous plan:
B: rice & cucumbers
L8: Sweet potatoes and slaw
S2: Veg soup
S3: Berries
S1: Salad

New plan:
B: rice and a little kimchi (for flavor and probiotic quality)
L: Sweet potatoes
D: Sweet potatoes didn't have my planned food, but my rice bowl was compliant
S: Sweet potatoes
S2: Chestnuts
I also have some chestnuts and canned soup in my desk drawer if I want something else, but right now, I'm thinking just keep it simple.

Plan for tomorrow: It's partner's birthday, and my plan for the year includes 3 "days off" -- my birthday, partner's birthday, and the kid's birthday.

[Idgie]

Even though today is my "day off," I don't have any desire to go crazy. That's a win for me. We're going to have a non-veg meal for dinner, and possibly for lunch, too, but I'm having my MWL breakfast and not feeling deprived at all.

B: Apple, hashbrowns in the waffle iron, a little ketchup
S: Salad (mixed greens, tomato, chickpea miso dressing)
L: Non-veg lunch that partner made. Had whole grains, though, so not a total loss. (I will tell what these were, but I"ll leave some spoiler space below)
S2: Lettuce wraps filled with Mexican-seasoned corn
D: Non-veg dinner that partner made
S3: Sweet potato

Fat: 20%
Protein: 16%
Carb: 64%
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Lunch was shredded wheat with poached eggs and butter.
Dinner was a very small piece of partner's sous vide steak (I'd say about 2 ounces) and a cup of corn (no butter).

[bunsofaluminum]

Ooh I want to go to the Asian market and get me some chestnuts! sounds SOOOO good!

[Idgie]

Chestnuts are nearly a perfect snack for me. They don't have much fiber, but they are a whole plant food, have very little fat, are tidy to eat at my desk if I need to do that, and I like them okay, but I don't love them so much that I will binge on them. [Edit: and I have a Filipino grocery nearby that during the holidays sells them freshly roasted, YUM.]

[Jobet]

Awesome journal, Idgie.

Thanks for mentioning water chestnuts, I'd totally forgotten about them. I'll have to get some this week as they will be a crunchy addition to my meals. The chestnuts that are roasted during the holidays are not water chestnuts, but tree chestnuts, right? I've never had roasted chestnuts, so was just wondering. Since I'm doing MWL, I'm not eating tree nuts.

[Idgie]

Yes, chestnuts grow on trees (I wasn't talking about water chestnuts, but I love them, too, especially fresh), but they're very low in fat, so I do eat them on MWL, just not very often. They come in small pouches in my Asian grocery store, so I keep a couple small pouches in my purse and a couple in my desk drawer at work in case I get hungry and don't have time/inclination to stop for a meal.

[Jobet]

Thanks, Idgie. I'm looking up chestnuts now on the forum. So far, found this thread where Jeff discusses them:

https://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=57632&p=579523&hilit=chestnuts#p579523

[Idgie]

Today's food:

B: Sweet potatoes and shredded wheat
L: Sweet potatoes and salad just the sweet potato; not that hungry at lunchtime
D: Sweet potatoes and salad switched it out for a burrito bowl: quinoa, brown rice, kale, black beans, garlic, salsa, corn, peas, lettuce, hot sauce. Also had a diet soda.
S: Roasted garbanzos switched it out for fat-free hummus and pepper strips
S2: Salad -- greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, scallions, and the creamy pesto dressing I posted in the recipe forum today.
S3: Handful of fresh strawberries
S4: Sweet potato with chickpea miso dressing
S5: cup of blueberries

(Note: I have hypoglycemia, so I eat often, sometimes as much as 7 or 8 times a day, like today)

Plan for tomorrow:

B: Oatmeal and blueberries
L: Sweet potatoes and slaw
D: Sweet potatoes and slaw
S: Roasted garbanzos
S2: Lentil soup

[Idgie]

Today's food:

B: leftover filling from yesterday's burrito bowl: brown rice, quinoa, kale, black beans, corn, peas, salsa
S: sweet potato with seasoned salt
L: Chipotle bowl: brown rice, black beans, onions/peppers, salsa, corn
S2: Chestnuts
D: Salad (garbanzos, tomatoes, mushrooms, miso dressing)
S3: Slice of potato from partner's sous vide experiment
S4: Melon. I swear I could be a fruitarian if there were a way to afford to eat enough of it to get enough calories in.
S5: Buffalo chickpeas and flavored sparkling water

[Idgie]

Today's food:

B: Unfried rice: precooked brown/red rice with kale & quinoa, peas, mushroom powder. SO GOOD.
L: Unfried rice, blueberries, cucumber salad (cucumbers, rice vinegar, salt)
S: Split pea soup
D: Garbanzos & kimchi slaw (there's a tiny bit of sesame oil in the slaw, so I didn't give it a thumbs up)

[Idgie]

Today's food:

B: Unfried rice & peas
S: Unfried rice, peas, kimchi slaw without oil, hot tea
S2: Frozen blueberries
L: Canned soup (Campbell's Well Yes Italian vegetable and farro -- no fat, tasty, pretty high in sodium but I don't worrory too much about sodium)
S3: kimchi
S4: Peppers and "ranch dip"
S5: Nectarine
D: white rice bowl with broccoli, carrots, and vegetarian "oyster sauce," kimchi, flavored sparkling water (unsweetened)
S6: roasted garbanzos

[Idgie]

Today's food:

B: Saturn peach (OMG YUM), waffle hash browns, seasoned salt, a few roasted garbanzos
S: Roasted garbanzos
L: Curry, brown rice, kimchi slaw
S2: Salad with "ranch" dressing
D: Veg sushi (white rice) with pickled ginger, wasabi, soy sauce
S3: frozen blueberries

Plan for tomorrow:

B: waffle hashbrowns, cherries
L: curry, leftover white rice, stif-fry mix veggies
D: sweet potatoes and salad
S1: salad
S2: chestnuts
S3: kimchi