Snack: pieces of apples, oranges, banana
Lunch: rest of the carrot & red lentil soup over arugula. I ate two bowls. I added some blood orange vinegar to the arugula and it was good.
Dinner: I had a big dessert planned so just had something I've been wanting to try out: 1/2 cup chickpeas topped with banana slices! I got this idea from mycrunchylife. She eats it for breakfast sometimes, thinks of it as a cheerios substitute. It was pretty good--a really easy meal to keep in mind when I'm traveling. I wonder how it would taste with spinach.
Dessert: Ruth's Yam peach pie from Alan Goldhamer's "Health Promoting Cookbook". This was my Superbowl treat. The pie crust was polenta made from corn meal and apple juice. I made the apple juice fresh so it was really good. The filling was baked yams and peaches (and a touch of orange juice and cinnamon). I also added 4 dates and pureed it. So the ingredients were all good. But the polenta was mushy. I ate half the pie. yeah, I'm a pig but that was only equivalent to 1 yam and 1 cup of peaches and 3/4 cup apple juice. This took a long time to prepare. Was it worth it? As almost always with desserts, I don't really think so. Of course, for someone who keeps saying this, I have been making and eating a lot of desserts. Well, part of it is the fun of experimenting with these recipes.
5 comments:
Barb: Did you know that the original meaning of the English word, dessert, was fruit?
I eat almost no desserts because I am too lazy to make them. My raw trail mix is my standard dessert. Dr. Fuhrman says eat nuts/seeds with a meal rather than as a snack, so I try to conform to that...sometimes snack though.
Mary, I did not know that. I think I'd prefer it that became my meaning again.
Howard I agree with you completely. Desserts are a hassle to make. I'm going to look for your trail mix recipe--is it posted on your blog?
Yes, you it is posted on my recipes Blog. You can either make the whole nut/seed version or the ground (in the Vitamix) version. They are both good.
My problem is that it is so good, I probably surpass the 1-2 oz. per day limit regularly.
Hey, Howard, you can always portion your trail mix and keep them in the freezer. Just grab one per day :^) Of course, you can always grab another...but having to go and open up another package sometimes is enough of a lull in time to give more thought to it :)
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