Thank you all for the kind posts! They fill me with hope. I am genuinely surprised at how wonderful it feels to have everyone here. I tend to read more than I post, and I always appreciate the information that I am reading, but I guess I have never developed a connection with this group that way.
So thank you all! I have had a successful week regardless of weight loss (which I won t know about until tomorrow morning).
Day 7:
B: Green Tea
S: 1 quarter of a cantaloupe
L: Pita Pit whole grain hummus and veggie wrap
(this came out to 25% calories from fat because of the hummus,
so I won t be repeating it) with mushrooms, green peppers,
onions, spinach, alfalfa sprouts, cucumber.
S: 1.5 bananas
D: My Vegan Chili, Mashed PotatoFlower and a small bit of salad
greens
Dinner, Day 7 by
amandamechele, on Flickr
Recipes of the Day:Mashed Potato Flower:
1 half head of cauliflower
5 large potatoes (I used Yukon Golds tonight, but Russets taste
creamier in this recipe)
Rice or Non Fat Soy milk
Salt to taste
Boil the spuds and cauliflower together until soft. Drain water, add small amount of milk and mash until smooth. Add salt if desired.
Tonight I did not peel the potatoes. It was not because the recipe is then higher in fiber and thus better for you, but due to lack of time.
Mashed PotatoFlower by
amandamechele, on Flickr
My Vegan Chili:
This recipe is not totally mine, as the name implies. It is a tweaked version of two recipes - one from Dr. Fuhrman and one from Vegan Planet Cookbook.
Chili is the type of recipe that is good in many, many variations and thus easy for almost anyone to like, if they add and subtract the right ingredients.
My Vegan Chili 1 by
amandamechele, on Flickr
Ingredients:
2 small onions
3 cloves garlic
4-5 medium white button mushrooms
Fat free vegetable broth
4 tsps. ground cumin
1 tsp Smoked Paprika
1half tsp Chipotle Chili Pepper
1 half tsp dried cilantro leaves (parsley will also work)
1 tsp salt (optional)
1 half large can of crushed tomatoes (no salt)
1 chopped red pepper
2 cans tomato paste
2 stevia tabs (equiv to 2 tsps. sugar) to cut acid taste of tomatoes
1 can chickpeas (salt free)
1 can black beans (salt free)
1 can red kidney beans (salt free)
1 cup frozen corn
I have listed the ingredients in order of preparation. I chop the onions, mushrooms and garlic first so that they can sit for 10 mins and become great cancer fighters before being heated. While they sit, I open all of the cans, drain and rinse the beans, chop the red pepper, and measure out the spices into a little cup.
Saute on medium heat the mushrooms, onions and garlic until soft with veggie broth, approx. 5 mins. Stir in the spices. Add tomatoes and tomato paste. Add Stevia., Add red pepper, beans and corn. Simmer on low until peppers are soft.
This is delicious over a baked potato. And, unfortunately, even with the salt I did add to the recipe, I think it still could have used a bit more if you are used to a SAD diet.
My Vegan Chili 2 by
amandamechele, on Flickr