Hi
Rosey, Thank you.
I go through phases of very simple eating too. I'm sure the fact that I'm currently photographing my meals is influencing what I'm choosing to make, even if I don't consciously realize it. This is just what I
feel like eating right now...LOL. I tried to look at your kitchen photo in your journal, but Google tells me I am required to download the 4000 or so photos on my iPad to access my Google photos account to look at your photo...so I'll try again tomorrow once my computer does whatever it needs to do to allow me to access it.
Hi
Buns -
Thanks. I'm definitely going to try and keep up the photos for December, at the very least. I'm needing some motivation in the form of actual progress and it looks like I'm going to have to work for it. Go figure.
Kechap manis and another good paste called sambal oelek can create sweet, salty, spice-y bases for different sauces for veggies (certain brands of chili paste have have oil and shrimp paste in them, so be careful). When I use it, it reminds my husband of his mom's cooking. I try to keep the amounts quite tiny because it is essentially just adding sugar and salt to your food. But it bumps up the flavour really well and satisfies the non-McDougallers eating with you too. One day I want to try and recreate a soup that is a favourite of all of my husband's family. His mom calls it sumur soup (I don't know the spelling). It is an Indonesian meatball soup, with beef meatballs, and large chunks of potato and carrot and tomatoes in a sweet tomato flavoured broth (mostly made from actual ketchup, kechap manis water, pepper, chilis and garlic). I haven't been able to create a faux meatball that can handle staying in a soup without disintegrating. I'll have to keep working on that. I've mostly tried lentil and grain style loaf recipes for the faux meatballs, but maybe I'll have to try adding tofu. This would be for the kids and hubby because it would be a bit too tasty for me to get into. There are so many great Indonesian dishes that can easily be McDougallized. Nasi goreng, mei goreng, spicy green beans....Susan Voisin of
Fat Free Vegan makes a delicious looking
vegan soto ayam too... mmmm...now I'm getting hungry. These are not MWL dishes...best to move on. Ha!
Here is what I ate today:
Breakfast: I absolutely know that I took a photo of it... LOL...but when I look on my phone it's showing under yesterday's photos. Maybe that's what happened early this week too. Oatmeal, 1 tsp of sugar and decaf green tea.
Lunch: quinoa black bean salad, 1.5 mangoes, green beans
Dinner: brown rice, frozen riced sweet potato and cauliflower, frozen corn, Esselstyn's homemade garlic hummus, pico de gallo, iceburg lettuce, chipotle chili spice. Super yum! I'm having this again tomorrow. I almost want to goto bed right now just so tomorrow comes sooner so I can have it...LOL. It'll be like Christmas.
Additonally: 2 pots decaf tea, 1 regular tea
Exercise: 23 flights of stairs