breakfast, 8 am: 0.1 serving of housemate's smoothie; buckwheat berry breakfast. I had the same breakfast as yesterday except I cooked up a combination of grains that I can eat over the next few days: forbidden rice, red quinoa, buckwheat and oat groats. It was festive looking and yummy:
Forbidden rice is neat: it's velvety black and smallish grains, very pretty. It has a nice flavor. I used 1/2 cup of the cooked grains, 8 oz of strawberries, 3 oz of blackberries, a couple spoonfuls of soy yogurt (about 1 oz). I think I'll start putting flaxseed on this to make sure I get it on a regular basis. I usually put seeds on my salads too but maybe I won't have a salad every day.
snack while preparing lunch: 2 carrots, handful of sugar snap peas.
lunch, noon: big pile of veggies: fried onions, mushrooms, celery, fennel; added spices (cumin, cinnamon, graram masala, sweet curry), stirred; added cabbage, cauliflower, bok choy; cooked until reasonably tender; turned off the heat, added 1/2 cup beans, fresh herbs (cilantro, dill, a little mint) and the rest of my soy yogurt (about 4 oz). A little soy or nut milk could replace the soy yogurt. This was very good.
Forbidden rice is neat: it's velvety black and smallish grains, very pretty. It has a nice flavor. I used 1/2 cup of the cooked grains, 8 oz of strawberries, 3 oz of blackberries, a couple spoonfuls of soy yogurt (about 1 oz). I think I'll start putting flaxseed on this to make sure I get it on a regular basis. I usually put seeds on my salads too but maybe I won't have a salad every day.
snack while preparing lunch: 2 carrots, handful of sugar snap peas.
lunch, noon: big pile of veggies: fried onions, mushrooms, celery, fennel; added spices (cumin, cinnamon, graram masala, sweet curry), stirred; added cabbage, cauliflower, bok choy; cooked until reasonably tender; turned off the heat, added 1/2 cup beans, fresh herbs (cilantro, dill, a little mint) and the rest of my soy yogurt (about 4 oz). A little soy or nut milk could replace the soy yogurt. This was very good.
snack, 4 pm: the rest of my lunch veggies, half a baked sweet potato
snack, 7 pm: 3 carrots, handful of sugar snap peas, handful of cherries
dinner, 9 pm: big salad made from romaine lettuce, jicama, fresh herbs (cilantro, dill, mint), ground flaxseed, and d'angou pear vinegar. some orange remainders. dessert: a big bowl of frozen peas and corn with d'angou pear vinegar. may not sound like dessert but it's really good.
snack, 7 pm: 3 carrots, handful of sugar snap peas, handful of cherries
dinner, 9 pm: big salad made from romaine lettuce, jicama, fresh herbs (cilantro, dill, mint), ground flaxseed, and d'angou pear vinegar. some orange remainders. dessert: a big bowl of frozen peas and corn with d'angou pear vinegar. may not sound like dessert but it's really good.
Weight: 126.2
Exercise: too tired to exercise this morning. bike commuted 14 miles.
Thoughts/notes:
- I slept poorly last night. I woke up hungry at 2:30 am. I suspect it was the lack of seeds yesterday.
- I'm trying to add a little bit of starchy veggies and grains to my diet, to increase my calorie density and decrease my volume of veggies. Today I did part 1, but habitually cooked up too many veggies for lunch and made too big a salad for dinner. So I overate today. Tomorrow and Wednesday I'll be too busy to do much food prep so that will be a good opportunity to teach myself to scale back on the veggie portions.
- I didn't monitor calories. I'm tired of doing that.
2 comments:
Can you point me to a link of the Campbell stuff you are reading/
Hi Kristi,
most recently I was listening to the Food Revolution Summit interviews by John and Ocean Robbins. I found all of the interviews interesting (except one). I paid for the "empowerment package" and there were some additional talks by Campbell. I also have bought a lot of the DVDs from the McDougall site, by Esselstyn, Campbell, and Novick.
In fact, I wanted to ask you a question based on something Novick was saying. He said that a major problem in the American diet is the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fats. the 6/3 ratio is very high in oils and most nuts and seeds. and we have only so many enzymes available to process them. so even if you get enough omega-3s, if you eat too many omega-6's, your enzymes will get used up processing the omega 6s. so I'm wondering, would it be best for you to mostly eat the high omega 3 nuts and seeds? that would be walnuts, flax, chia, and hemp. I think pretty much everything else has really high 6-3 ratios. I'm curious what you think. there is so much conflicting information I'm not sure what to believe or what's really known.
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