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Thursday, on my way to work, I stopped at the farmers’ market and bought a HUGE golden cauliflower. It was SO big, that it was the basis for at least 5 meals. First meal - steamed about 1/4 of i...

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Aside from tasty - they’re satisfying, filling. I add them to salads as much as possible - either white potatoes or sweet potatoes. I also add cooked summer or winter squash. I like my salads wi...

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Since I bought so MANY potatoes and zucchini, I figured I should eat them up as soon as possible. So my salad started with steamed potato, while the zucchini was cooking, I added the salad mix (...

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I had a HUGE salad for breakfast - baby spinach as the base, cooked cauliflower, veggie burger and feta cheese on it. I like the different textures and temperatures. I added olive oil and balsa...

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Not your typical breakfast food, but OH SO tasty!!! Having gone to the Farmers’ Market last Tuesday, I still had some veggies… so… I cut up the Asian eggplant - the long skinny kind - and a “head...

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Having gone to the Farmers’ market the other day, I had lots of raw materials for meals. Last night, and the leftovers for this morning: Moroccan vegetables over cous-cous: two kinds of squash,...

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An abundance of riches!!! It IS harvest season, so it’s not surprising. When I work in Brooklyn, I get the chance both Tuesday and Thursday, to walk through the farmers’ market to get to work… w...

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I had a change of pace for breakfast - 1/2 kombocha squash - a winter type squash, tastes a bit like pumpkin… of course it wasn’t enough, so I had a medium sweet potato… that did it. Lots of yel...

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OK… now I am seriously sick of cooked kale. I made a soup - it sounded good on paper. Was NOT as good as I expected it to be. I threw out about 1/2 of it! SOMETHING has been irritating my art...

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breakfast - well, snack 1/2 cantaloupe, green tea lunch - well - two meals soup - with beans, kale, barley, etc. SO GOOD!!! snack - metamucil wafers early dinner? rice pasta, fake cheese, onion,...

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I am making up recipes as I go along. This one will be for tomorrow: brown rice kale black beans onions corn cumin, chili flakes broth I had made a HUGE amount today … and finished it in two mea...

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I no longer have a stove - LONG story - and cook either in the microwave or toaster oven. I figured the toaster oven wouldn’t work out for soup so it’s in the microwave. I started with barley at...

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breakfast - kombacha squash - 1/4, steamed fish sticks with mustard - not “clean”, but oh, so tasty lunch - huge salad: kale, steamed cauliflower with onion and rosemary, tofu cheese, pink bean...

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For breakfast - I steamed cauliflower, sweet potato slices (cooked the night before) with spinach, a mushroom, some white and red onion bits. It was a FULL bowl. Snack - fell off the “wagon” bo...

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I walked to the large supermarket to get my ingredients - of course I’d left my list home, so had to do with whatever I remembered. I am going to try to eat “clean” - the less “processed” foods ...

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first step - breakfast today. I cooked up some brown rice, added pecans and dried fruit, and rice vinegar. I also steamed some squash. It was a bag from Trader Joe’s - supposed to be all butter...

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I was going to try to avoid wheat and milk.. HA! The supermarket I go to when I leave the post office has Lean Pockets on sale - $2 each! I LOVE these things. They only had two types of the L...

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When I finish with the food I already have (can't bring myself to throw out food that's still good), I will try to stop eating milk and wheat. They can both cause bloating, and I want to see if ...

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MANY years ago, when my parents and I first ate at an Indian restaurant... and moaned with pleasure throughout the meal, I asked to purchase the curry powder they used. This was before it was so...

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I had been stocking up on pantry foods - it's time to EAT them! So: breakfast: oatmeal with raisins and dried cranberries... and flax and chia seeds... sometimes I season it with spices, oft...

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Before I was working at the beginning of May, I weighed around 192. After working for three weeks, I ended up at 198. One horrible day I saw the scale push OVER 200! Since I've been back off wo...

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Although I no longer go to the WW meetings, I am trying to stick with the Smart Start guidelines. I find they're a bit top heavy with grains and wheat - both items I try to avoid, but the fact t...

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A number of food programs try to make the participants plan their meals ahead of time. Although, of course, most of my meals depend on what's in the pantry, I am in the mood for a specific food ...

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I worked for three weeks - and GAINED about 8 lbs! I blame it on the sitting all day long... and the wonderful nearby restaurants. One was Chinese food, the other "down home" Italian food (I fi...

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As much as I like the concept of "clean eating" - everything fresh and recognizable - there are some convenience foods that are, well, convenient. There are various companies that make small pou...

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