REPORTING IN - 1/16/06
#238856 - 01/16/06 09:55 AM
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Shell Marr
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Everyone post their report for what you did on 1/16 here....
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I have a bunch of beets in my fridge..
what are some of the fancy ideas you have involving beets?
thanks! 
(I also have baby spinach, celery, onions, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, carrots, green pepper, cucumber, romaine lettuce and portabello mushrooms in my fridge) I dunno if any of those mix well though with your ideas..
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ROASTED BEETS RULE! (Peel them after they cook; it's easier)
Just oven bake them like you would a potatatoes, i.e. wrapped in foil.
You could make a wonderful romaine salad--very safe with the portabellas & the beets. Baby spinach is great wilted. Maybe a warm beet & baby spinach side dish with your favourite herbs? Romaine & portabella mushroom salad? With sweet potatoes, the colours would be opulent--the deep green, the red/purple, and the earthy brown. You could dress those beets up with a balsalmic vinegar/vinaigrette or whip up something with dijon. Maple dijon? Those natural sugars seem to totally want to carmelize & actually don't really need much doctoring. Instructions in depth for roasting beets are on the recipe board.
You could also do a "mock tomato" sauce (see recipe index) with the carrots, beets & celery.
Truthfully, I'd keep it more or less simple--the ingredients speak for themselves alone!
I know that's a boring response. Roasted pureed beets are outstanding as a sauce/dressing/gravy type of thing. I'd be a "weirdo" and puree the roasted beets and put that on my lettuce with the mushrooms & spinach puree with balsalmic & whatever herbs I'm in the mood for & also dunk sweet potatoe fries in them. Portabella mushrooms have that mock beefiness about them to make them either steak-like or burger like! Hmmm...I bet sweet potatoe whipped with beet would be really yummy in a retro-comfort food sort of way.
Just had another flash thought--grate the cooked beets &/or carrots and have a fabulous confetti kind of sunburst side/topping??? Add your favourite kind of acidity. Hey! I'd just toss it on top of my romaine & splash with some kind of vinaigrette!
Kate. 
Edited by Wind (01/16/06 03:34 PM)
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i was thinking about mixing the beets and sweet potato together.. i'll have to try it out.
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Something really warming, in the spice department would work great with the sweet potatoe, the beets, the carrots, even the green pepper. Cinnamon, definitely...curry, perhaps? Some ginger? Maybe a masala of some sort? A little chili? It definitely has some sweet with heat potential. I smell cumin already. YUM. Even fennel. Aromatics would really make it outstanding--and simple!
Kate.
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Cals: less than 1800. Exercise: advanced walk on treadmill for 35 min and lots of situps. Advanced walk goes up to 7 on the inclination which is pretty high. I seem to have no problem with it.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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I'll edit it as I eat more food.. but I want to remember everything..
Gym- Eliptical- 30 mins, burned 315 cals.
Breakfast- two small waffles, with 1 1/2 tsps lite syrup. 1/2 a handful of toasted oatmeal squares (tiny tiny), water with a splash of cran.
Lunch- 1 coke, 1 serving of trader joe's steamed ShuMai
Then my friend called, boyfriend problems and wanted to meet up for late lunch at the cheesecake factory. Took four immodiums and ate... 1/2 crab cake sandwhich (phenomenal BTW) with no tarter sauce etc, and french fries. (diet ruiner I know.. PMS I tell you.. oh and our one and only Amandapanda for raving about it and reccommending it to me! )
Late Dinner- other half of crab cake sandwich without the bun. (still phenomenal).
Late Night Snack- 3/4 c toasted oatmeal cereal dry
handful of sweettarts conversation hearts.
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Edited by spicey813 (01/16/06 08:22 PM)
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breakfast: 2 crackers, granola w/ soy milk
snack: 3 biscotti
lunch: big ol' salad, biscuit
dinner: turkey ham, 2 slices of lite garlic bread, green beans w/ onions
dessert: 3 biscotti
snack: granola w/ soy milk
workout: tae bo, and I really pushed it
Good day today... I'm still not seeing any results, but I'm pleased with myself anyway. 
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Chicken Breast (1/2 c.)
Asparagus
Spinach
a twist of lemon
all food processed (really good! babyfood chicken salad?)
P.C. fatfree raspberry vinaigrette (10 cal./tbsp.)
asian eggplant puree with TONS of parsley (this was amazing!)
on top of romaine lettuce
with "scalloped" zucchini
fresh lemon & balsalmic
chicken breast/asparagus/baby spinach food processor combo. (eek! i'm starting to sound like a drive thru--combo. no. ??? supersize that ginger tea, s.v.p.!!!)
cinnamon & nutmeg & dijon (cinnamon is so good on chicken & spinach! and nutmeg!)
cauliflower "faux-taters" topped with chives
more field greens (for dessert? weird i know)
topped with really savory portabella mushroom crumbles & a little bit of anise
& some of that fatfree raspberry dressing
extra rosemary & lavendar, herbs de provence
a little lemon zest & juice
more cinnamon (sometimes I just go nuts shaking things)
I think that's it. I will advise if there is more. Sometimes, if I don't have a protein bedtime snack I wake-up starving @ 4 a.m.
I think, Ginger tea might be a really good vinaigrette.
Kate.
P.S. I DID have a bedtime snack--cinnamon & nutmeg & ginger & stevia infused unsweetened carrageenan-free soy milk.
4 a.m. nibble: 1/2 c. chicken breast shreds!
Yup, I know...I'm barely meeting my basal needs!
Edited by Wind (01/17/06 10:49 AM)
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breakfast: 2 crackers, granola w/ soy milk
snack: 3 biscotti
lunch: big ol' salad, biscuit
... about this big 'ol salad of yours! Maybe you have said before and I missed it, so sorry if I am making you repeat yourself but... What exactly is in your "big ol' salad"? I used to looove salad but I wouldn't go near it now. My nutritionist told me not to eat it because it was "too cold" (eh?), but it is more the leafy'ness that scares me! Every time I see this in your posts, I get curious so.. spill the beans, girl!
dinner: turkey ham, 2 slices of lite garlic bread, green beans w/ onions
dessert: 3 biscotti
snack: granola w/ soy milk
workout: tae bo, and I really pushed it
Good for you! Wednesday I am off to the post office to send you that video so you'll have more to play with.
Good day today... I'm still not seeing any results, but I'm pleased with myself anyway.
I wouldn't say that!! You said you LOST 5 LBS!! Dude, those are RESULTS. I haven't lost a single pound yet, I think my pants actually feel a little tighter! 
I am very proud of you, I think you are doing awesomely kick-butt!
Cheers!
--Steph
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Big ol' salad
#239053 - 01/16/06 08:55 PM
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atomic rose
Reged: 06/01/04
Posts: 7013
Loc: Maine (IBS-A stable since July '05!)
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First of all, I'm lazy, so I buy bagged salad greens... one bag of an iceberg-lettuce-carrots-red-cabbage mix, and one bag of a baby-lettuce mix. I combine the two. So a big ol' salad is usually...
3 cups or so of the lettuce mix - I just pile the plate high
a handful of cucumber slices
a hard-boiled egg, minus the yolk
6 or 7 slices of turkey pepperoni
a whole bunch of raw mushrooms
*sometimes* a few Spanish olives
And then I do a lite/ff dressing of some kind... so it's really mostly lettuce that I'm eating. I was always a weird-salad person... there's not a whole lot of veggies that I really like to eat raw in salads.
And yeah, I lost 5lbs... but my clothes are still just as tight, and a friend of mine who did Tae Bo in the past said that I should be feeling more energetic by now, and I'm not. But I'm keeping at it. I'm also PMSing right now so I'm sure that has a lot to do with my lack of energy, at least.
Thanks for all the encouragement! I need all the help I can get!
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apple crumb cobbler w/ vanilla soy ice cream
oatmeal
toast
Luna Bar
corn tortilla
slice of Italian "table" bread
baked salmon
cremini crumbles sauteed w/ spinach and garlic (Kate! Thank you! I never knew how good mushrooms + spinach tasted! WOW! )
steamed carrots
white and brown rice
apple crumb cobbler
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Breakfast: Weetabix, soy milk, grapes
Lunch: Vegetable curry and rice (small portion)
Dinner: Fish casserole with ratatouille and pasta
Snacks: Rice Krispie Square (bad) Pear (good) 2 mini time out bars, mint tea, snack sized can of pineapple in juice, luna bar
I was in work from 8.45am to 8pm so I was exhausted when I got home and had to snack to keep my tummy in check, plus I rewarded myself with food for working so late
Have abour 350 calories to spare but goal is 500 (I really don't deserve it after all the junk I ate) I also got no exercise because I worked so late, and then when I got home we had a gas leak in the house (yet to be fixed) so I couldn't leave to go walking until the Gas Board guy came.
Will do better tomorrow.
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That is one of my favourite combinations of all time. Mushrooms are wonderful paired with asparagus & broccoli, too!
But, spinach & mushrooms rules!
What did you think of the crumbles?
Kate.
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I like putting cooked veggies on top of "Big ol' salads." Mushrooms are my favourite. Beets, carrots, spaghetti squash, zucchini are neat, too. Green & yellow beans are fun. Even mini potatoes are fun. Asparagus is lovely.
Like Atomic Rose, I tend to use bagged greens. I favour field greens & romaine, when in salad mode. I also love baby arugula, mache, boston lettuce & red leaf lettuces. Iceburg is the only lettuce that really despises me, even when stable--I don't know why!!!
Often, I wilt greens as well.
AND YES, I've been known to make "salad smoothies," i.e. put raw greens in blended creations.
Kate.
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I think this is the only way I'm going to eat crimini and portobellos from now on. I think I'll continue to slice shiitake mushrooms, but for the rest it crumbles all the way. I just like how well it mixed with the spinach. I'm going to try it with broccoli next, as you suggested.
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you food process them, right? i've got a thing of mushrooms in my fridge waiting for me tonight - think a blender'd work? (these are destined to go with tofu, though, so sizeable slices might be better.)
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Well, I didn't feel like using my blender so I chopped them myself. I just kept chopping the mushrooms until they were crumbly.
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what are these mushroom crumbles i keep reading about? what did I miss?
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Inspired by Kate's reports and her spinach and portabellini crumble blend, I tried finely chopping mushrooms (creminis) yesterday and sauteeing them with spinach and garlic. (I'm pretty sure Kate uses a food processor or blender, which would probably be faster and give you finer crumbles.) It tasted GREAT! I loved the texture and the combination of flavors.
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I know you love black beans & tortillas, as well. Perhaps a whipped black bean & cremini crumble creation in a corn or flour tortilla? (Or just a crumble roll?) They'd be great in those rice papers! They are outstanding in egg white omelettes/frittas, by the way.
Yes, crumbles are funky & so safe.
Kate.
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Re: Shell
#239272 - 01/17/06 04:08 PM
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Wind
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Mushroom crumbles, as Maria explained are just food processed mushrooms. I generally pulse them prior to cooking, but after cooking works well, too. They are ground mushrooms, in effect, kind of like ground meat.
Delicious!
Kate.
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I just pulse/food process the mushrooms. It's that fast/simple. Vegan ground "meat." Actually, they would really enhance tofu. The juices alone blended with the soy & anything else...wow. Stick it all in the food processor & it would be like vegan pate or potential for a loaf/cake/patty!
Kate.
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well.. sadly.. I think my beets were "off"
after I cooked them plain they tasted a little sour and weird, so I threw them out. boo. I'll try again later.
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OK... here is my reporting in......
My BMR = 2083 + I burned 226 calories (little housework, day off from the gym, sick ) - 730 less calories to get to my goal = 1579 calorie food budget.
Pre-Breakfast: 180 calories Choc Peppermint Stick Luna Bar & Water
Breakfast: 250 calories 1/2 cup Oatmeal w/ Jay Robb Egg White Choc Protein Powder mixed in AFTER cooking & Water
Snack: 150 calories 4oz Unsweetened Applesauce w/ Jay Robb Egg White Choc Protein Powder mixed in after heating it in the microwave & Water
Lunch: 277 calories 6oz Tuna mixed w/Light Mayo, 1/2 peeled and chopped Granny Smith Apple, 4oz Unsweetened Applesauce & Water
Before Gym: 200 calories 12oz Jay Robb Egg White Protein Powder Drink (Chocolate mixed with water) & Water
Dinner: 290 calories Stir Fry of 5oz Chicken Breast, 2 Tablespoons Diced Onion, 1/4 Teaspoon chopped Garlic, 3 chopped Crimni Mushrooms, 1-1/2 cup no salt added canned green beans, 1 Tablespoon NEW Mrs Dash - Zesty Garlic Herb 10 Minute Marinade (no salt) & Water
Tea Time: 0 calories 8oz Heather's Fennel Tea unsweetened
Fiber Pills: 3 calories total
Total Water intake (goal 128oz)  = 64 oz
Total of 1350 ......in my food budget
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How did you like the marinade? Sounds delicious!
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Loved it!! Both the Mesquite Grille & Zesty Garlic are really good!
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