What Is Left To Eat? -- a Food Journal by Laura Bracken

Remember those hash browns (or breakfast patties) from my previous post?  Yesterday (which was the next day), I added twice the amount of potato to the remaining mixture and they were much more to my liking.  So that was breakfast.  Although I'm running low on Primal Kitchen Ketchup (Organic Tomato Concentrate, Organic Balsamic Vinegar, Less than 2% of Salt, Organic Onion Powder, Organic Garlic Powder, Organic Spices). I was taken out to lunch but I got to pick the restaurant and I remembered hearing the WFPB people have better options at Mexican, Thai, and Vietnamese  restaurants, so I picked a Vietnamese place with good reviews.  We both ordered Eggplant with Tofu (mine spicy, hers mild).  It was tasty but OH SO SWEET.  I'm guessing there was a crapton of sugar in the sauce.  Oh well.  We each ate half our meal and then had the leftovers for dinner. So that was my day yesterday.  No cooking.  And today, it appears to be runni...

Okay, back to keeping track of recipes I try so I know what to repeat and what to avoid. Yesterday I shared a PDF with a friend. It's a one-week meal plan along with shopping list(s). It's so easy for me to go off the rails if I’m not prepared. I suddenly realize I’m really hungry but don't have time to prepare anything and I’m totally sick of the "grab 'n go" foods like nuts and raisins. So I cave, just this once. (Except I cave a lot.) So I made myself a weekly meal plan. It's not set in stone. If I go out with friends, I know I will go off the rails slightly. No biggie. When I get home I return to the meal plan. Here's what it looks like. On the left, I have the days/meals, in the middle I list the recipe and where to find it, the column on the right is my shopping list (these are not all the ingredients for the recipes, merely the ingredients I don't already have on-hand). In a perfect world, I don’t eat processed foods, b...

Everything is a work in progress.  I don't believe any of us can follow one particular meal plan that is outlined by others without tweaking things to suite our particular needs. So yeah... I've got a new plan and I'm sharing it with you. The other day, a friend posted a link to this video.  I stopped what I was doing and watched the entire thing (which, if you know me, know that was MAJOR!). I've always been squeemish about eating animal products.  I don't even like the taste of meat or eggs or fish most times, but in my weirdly desperate attempt to make sure I get the protein I need, I was eating it.  I'd mask it with spices and sauces. The animal products I ate had to be from humanely raised sources, but something still didn't feel quite right. On the other hand, veganism?  That seems so .... severe. After watching the video, though, I'm willing to give it another go (been vegan before).  This time, however, I have more knowledge of ...