FOOD!!!!!!!!

We actually found a Bisquick/Betty Crocker gluten free pancake mix - used egg substitute for the eggs called for - added blueberries, too. If you go to Amazon and look for 'gluten-free' you'll find a ton of stuff. This particular brand is mostly rice flour - but it works - they were delicious. My 34 year old son who is not vegan loved them.

Every meal on the SAD plan is based on meat (Standard American Diet). We eat mostly the same things - just without a stack of meat. This year, my wife was sick so we didn't get with a bunch of people. We had gluten free pizzas - little personal pizzas - on Christmas Eve. Blueberry pancakes for breakfast on Christmas Day. Then a Thai sauced veggie dish for a late lunch. Finally a batch of humus and red peppers for dinner.

At Thanksgiving we were with about ten family members - and it was a double birthday party. We had a huge salad - all the vegetable dishes - cranberry sauce shaped like a can - and there were two cakes, one gluten-free and one not. Actually it is the gluten-free part that is most difficult at family meals. In the little town where my parents live there is a Seven Day Adventist grocery store and they had WONDERFUL gluten-free bread products. We had some loaves of french bread that we used to make veggie sandwiches.

We ate well all through the holidays.
 
Abba San said:
- cranberry sauce shaped like a can -
Click to expand...

Yikes! Have you ever tried making it from fresh cranberries? It's extremely easy, and soooo good. Seems to fit with how you approach food, as well.

I still eat meat, but we've made a massive shift from the SAD, which focuses mostly on meat and grains, with a small helping of vegetables. Aside from choosin lean meat and whole grains, the proportions are our big change. We shoot for half the plate being veggies and fruit, and small portions of grains and meats.

We've eaten pretty close to vegetarian in the past, but it didn't feel right for me. Instead, it came to be about the quality of the food and the proportions, rather than eliminating any given thing.

In all my reading, one of the conclusions I came to is that there isn't one right way to eat, though there are many wrong ways. It's kind of amazing that we've been designed to really be that adaptable.
 
lol - the 'shaped like a can' part is a Thanksgiving tradition with us. We do eat fresh prepared cranberry sauce, too.

We went gluten-free vegan about a year ago in response to some physical problems my wife was having. We also areas sugar and caffeine free as possible. We actually try to do more raw than cooked. The live enzymes do wonders for letting the body heal itself.
 
Abba San said:
We actually found a Bisquick/Betty Crocker gluten free pancake mix - used egg substitute for the eggs called for - added blueberries, too. If you go to Amazon and look for 'gluten-free' you'll find a ton of stuff. This particular brand is mostly rice flour - but it works - they were delicious. My 34 year old son who is not vegan loved them.

Every meal on the SAD plan is based on meat (Standard American Diet). We eat mostly the same things - just without a stack of meat. This year, my wife was sick so we didn't get with a bunch of people. We had gluten free pizzas - little personal pizzas - on Christmas Eve. Blueberry pancakes for breakfast on Christmas Day. Then a Thai sauced veggie dish for a late lunch. Finally a batch of humus and red peppers for dinner.

At Thanksgiving we were with about ten family members - and it was a double birthday party. We had a huge salad - all the vegetable dishes - cranberry sauce shaped like a can - and there were two cakes, one gluten-free and one not. Actually it is the gluten-free part that is most difficult at family meals. In the little town where my parents live there is a Seven Day Adventist grocery store and they had WONDERFUL gluten-free bread products. We had some loaves of french bread that we used to make veggie sandwiches.

We ate well all through the holidays.
Click to expand...

That's great you're able to eat quite well with the vegan lifestyle. I keep finding great recipes on the Internet but have bought a few recipe books as well. I'm pretty much sticking with these flours now since they are low carb: almond flour, almond meal, & coconut flour. They're the lowest in carbs I've found. I also use flaxseed meal. I bought a case of the Chebe Original Cheese Bread Mix from Amazon. It's gluten-free. I made pizza with it and it was quite tasty. This uses tapioca flour. But admittedly, it was still high in carbs. I have yet to try making a pizza crust with almond flour. Eventually I'll try it. You're right about Amazon having a great gluten-free section. Plus I rely on their reviews from people who actually bought the food. I'm diabetic and earlier this year I began to seriously eat low carb instead of intermittently. Then I discovered the Paleo diet and incorporated that. I'm probably 75% Paleo & 25% low carb. Now I use 2/3 less insulin and my A1C (test to determine blood glucose over a 2-3 month period) is near normal to that of someone without diabetes. So I'm never going back :) I also discovered that I may have a sensitivity to wheat as I tend to develop headaches when I eat it. I had an allergy test in 2005 and I'm working on getting a new one.

You should try almond meal pancakes. They taste very good with a slight nutty flavor. Plus it's cheap. A 1-pound bag of almond meal from Trader Joes is $3.99. I'm unsure how they would taste using an egg substitute though.
 
Wow - that's great about the reduction in meds.

We've learned a lot about how much better your body does if you manage what you put into it.

I'll have to try the almond meal. I usually find recipes with a variety of flours mixed together - and a lot of them use tapioca flour.
 
The only problem around here with healthy foods is that they are too few, and way too expensive. I am on a fixed income, and too often, despite being on the retired/disabled list have too many things going on to eat properly. One thing my wife uses and is hard to find in pure form here is

Stevia

Great sweetener in pure form but too often has other stuff added.
 
Is that pure Stevia or has additives? There is always a small health food store 1 1/2 hrs from here near a clinic I go to that carries the pure stuff. I just never remember to go there when I have an appointment. It would be nice to have a closer supplier.
 
New Years normally I might do something special, but today it will be strangled eggs with cheese, for the rest of the day leftover pizza, unless my other half feels well enough, or I do, to make
French Toast
some to eat know, some to freeze for later.
 
I like your style, ursen, especially that whole "some now, some later" bit.

Wish I had me some leftover pizza right now.
 
There has been a slight change of plans. My better half doesn't really feel like it, but for tradition sake would like something corned beef for New Years, so while she is out today she is going to get the other half of the corned beef hash ingredients and I will make corned beef hash with eggs for later.
 
Some friends are over this evening. One is vegetarian, so we've got an Asian salad and a veggie fried rice in the works.

Brownie sundaes for desert.

We revisited Christmas morning crepes this morning, since we had a lot of leftover compote in the fridge. Raspberries compote and nutella wrapped in a crepe, topped with a dollop of hand-whipped cream.

Tomorrow morning it's back to work, so a less frou-frou breakfast is in order. I'll make a family tradition: Wheat-Chex eggs. It's scrambled eggs with Wheat-Chex cooked right in. As far as I understand, it is a variation on adding Matzah to eggs to make them go farther... something inherited from Jewish ancestors who weren't very wealthy. Somewhere along the line someone in our family switched from Matzah.
 
Last edited:
OK went to a special hot dog place tonight and had them create a special hot dog for me, the dog wrapped in fried bologna, in a bun with mayo, onion, sauce, bacon, and sprinkled with cheese. Lovingly dubbed The Blarney Dog by my better half. A wonderful mess guarenteed to raise your bad cholesterol.
 
One of my favorite fresh veggies, see I do eat fresh veggies.
Green Pepper rings
 
Until I started gardening I never realized that green bell peppers are just unripe. Which explains the cost difference. Red/Yellow/Orange/Purple bells have to stay on the vine longer.

Red peppers are more costly, but for eating raw I like them a lot more.

One summer we had such a good red pepper crop I was able to make an amazing pasta sauce by cooking them up and pureeing them. It was sweet and tangy and so amazing.

I don't tend to grow bells anymore, though. We have limited space in our garden, so I go for Italian grilling peppers. They're sweet peppers like bells, but have a shape like chili peppers. The plants are a lot more productive and it doesn't take as long for the fruit to form and ripen.
 
A 36-page thread about food. So this is why I see the Twitter "over capacity" failwhale less often these days.

Also: Cereal this morning...and most mornings. I know, I know, but it's a relatively healthy cereal and I'm usually pressed for time to get out the door (because I tend to stay up later than I should and sleep a few minutes later as well).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top