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Category: Food Logs

  • Not Always Easy

    Not Always Easy

    One of the hardest times for me to stay away from eating poorly is when I’m enjoying God’s Great Outdoors. Something about sitting around free from the city sounds, stress of work, and normal daily demands makes me want to munch. A lot. On easy food.

    We decided to take a weekend getaway for the grown-ups (Thanks Mom!) and  headed down the road. Along the way we stopped in the little town of Muenster, TX (Population 1,561). Muenster was founded by German settlers in 1889 and has done well keeping it’s small-town charm without turning into a ghost town. One of those reasons has to be the Fischer’s Meat Market founded in 1927. We stopped in to look and walked out with a small bag of goodies.

    Fischer's Products

    Pictured above are Pepper Cheddar cheese, Smoked Habanero Jack Cheese, Pastrami, and some delicious horseradish sauce. Not pictured are the equally tasty jalapeño stuffed green olives.

    The pastrami and the Pepper Cheddar paired up nicely. Cooked in the skillet this stuff was great! The horseradish sauce only served to make it better.

    grilled pastrami with pepper cheddar

    It was fairly quick and was a great way to end the day without resorting to a bag of chips and loading up on carbs.

    This article was first published on February 21, 2015 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.

  • Green Beans & Sausage

    Green Beans & Sausage

    One of the reasons I hear time and again for not eating healthy is, “I can’t afford it.” That used to be one of my personal favorites. If you think the only way to eat healthy food is to eat only locally grown, super-organic, ultra-natural whatever, then you’re right. That’s not the only way.

    You do have to be dedicated. You do have to understand that making better food choices involves effort. That’s not a bad thing because EFFORT IS FREE!

    The effort involves looking in the right places in the store when you are there. Our local Market Street has the best produce around, and a quick trip in the store netted me a meal on the cheap.

    • 9/10ths of a pound of green beans – $1.05
    • one onion – $0.31
    • one-half pound of polish sausage on sale – $0.84
    • plus about $0.50 worth of raw almonds
    • maybe $1.00 or so worth of homemade bacon
    • and about $0.10 worth of garlic

    Put everything but the sausage in a pot of water, and boil for an 1 1/2 hours or so. Heat up the sausage in the microwave or a skillet.

    Green Beans with Sausage

    This made my entire meal plus provided servings of truly excellent green beans for two others.

    This article was first published on October 5, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.

  • Did Not Plan Well

    Our preferred WOE (way of eating) went out the window because I did not plan for the busyness or the emotions of moving house.  The worst was an incident with a box of doughnuts and cinnamon rolls. Ack!  And before things continue down a path I don’t want to go down, I’m rebooting with an induction phase type diet for a few days.

    B- bacon

    L- steamed in bag Brussels sprouts browned in butter in a skillet topped with parmesan

    snack- raw almonds, cream cheese

    D- chili with cheese, dark chocolate

    This article was first published on February 12, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.

  • Food Log

    Hers from yesterday

    B- bacon

    L- big salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, celery, red onion, ranch, freshly ground black pepper (I love avocado, bacon, red bell pepper, and black olives in my big salads, but we did not have any. I like cheese thrown in there too, but didn’t feel like grating any)

    afternoon- taste testing raw cashews, macadamia, and almonds toasted in the oven (recipe coming soon hopefully!)

    D- attended a dinner for Derek’s job. there were plenty of lower carb choices (sliced deli meat, cheese cubes, veggie tray, etc), but I was feeling not hungry from all the earlier tasting.

    Later at home I wanted something so ate celery with cream cheese, celery with no sugar added peanut butter, and cucumber slices dipped in ranch.

    This article was first published on January 29, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.

  • Random Food Log

    Hers

    B- skip

    L- bacon and a flax minute muffin with the addition of vanilla, nutmeg and xylitol

    D- flax minute muffin made bun-style with the addition of onion powder and cheddar, sliced in half topped with bbq beef (I was roasted out, but it was on sale), 1 avocado mashed and mixed with sour cream, sprinkled with sea salt, garlic powder, cumin, and cayenne

    This article was first published on January 25, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.

  • Random Food Log 1/13/14

    Hers

    B- bacon

    L- one pot sorta cabbage roll (roast challenge conclusion coming soon!)

    D- red bell peppers/ yellow bell peppers/ onion cooked in butter, pepper jack cheese, sliced steak in a bowl

    This article was first published on January 13, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.

  • Random Food Log 1/11/14

    Breakfast consisted of three pieces of bacon, three fried eggs, a sweet-potato diced with one jalapeño fried and then hidden deliciously below melted cheese and the fried eggs. YUM!

    That breakfast and a handful of raw almonds with a few bites of dark chocolate powered me through the morning and a thirty-three mile bike ride. After the ride I came home and had a smoothie made from banana, kale, carrot, pineapple, and dried plums. Followed up with a small portion of “sorta stroganoff” the better half had thrown together.

    I closed the day with a couple of bowls of the equivalent of chopped BBQ Beef topped with dill pickles and mustard.

    This article was first published on January 12, 2014 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.