Honey...Din Din is ready!

Today's dinner consisted of Brussels sprouts, baked chicken and white potatoes. I love the red one's but I have to get rid of the white one's first. I have to confess I am Ms. Butterkin's cousin. To me there is no substitute for butter. The most I can do for this heart clogging gem of a food is to buy it unsalted.

I put some garlic & pepper seasoning, onion powder and some mrs dash, any kind is ok in 3 tbsp of butter in a sauce pan. Melt the seasonings in the butter and 1/3 water and melt for about 2-3 min. Cut each brussell in half and pour sauce over each. Then I cut potatoe's in four's, then placed all in a cookie sheet and put in my George Forman oven. Turned to 30 min and watched some tv. heated up some backed chicken already made and ate before the tv show was off.

To wash it all down, some water with a splash of lemons...real one's.

Bon Appitite!

Whats for lunch today...

OK. If you eat the right proportions for each meal, you should be eating at least six (6) times a day. This does not mean  six 'hungry man plates". This means a serving of this and a serving of that. To figure out the right proportions for your sex, weight, hight and age, you can put your information into My food pyramid and adjust your meal plan just for you.

I just had a Peanut Butter and jelly sandwich. Now, my jelly consisted of fruit preserves.  The preserves substituted for part of the 2.5 cups of fruit for my specific daily fruit intake. In addition, my bread was a 7 grain whole wheat and my peanut butter was crunchy.  It’s just a fun way to satisfy my own taste pallets. 

Now my Milk...well, I have cut out whole cow's milk from my diet.   There are two reasons for this:

1: American farmer use hormones and antibiotics in the cows they raise.  This makes humans sicker, fatter and has many health complications.

2: I drink nut milk.  This includes soy, rice or almond.  Also, the soy helps women deal with menopause. Something to think about. Now I am not a vegan, but eating healthy does not include the vegan diet... necessarily. 

In respect, nut milk can be very expensive. I have found that supermarket name brand milk is substantially less expensive than the exclusive brand soy milk's. Another benefit is that soy milk last's WAYYYY longer than cow's milk...a little over a month. So I am getting my $$$ worth. 

Someone told me, to get use to the change from cow's milk to nut milk, start off with vanilla soy. If you like that, gradually switch to the regular soy. I like to keep at least a quart of vanilla soy just for my Farina/Hot wheat cereal. It reallllly give's it a kick of just the right amount of sweetness. 

With this meal, I have partially satisfied my grain, fruit, dairy, and nut intake of my daily food allowance.

Bon Appetite! 

Things I avoid....

First thing first. There are things that I have totally cut out my diet and thing's I will indulge in from time to time. One of my favorite thing's to eat is red meat. You may have heard of the downfall of eating red meat, but I do eat things with a face. They say to much of anything is not good for you, so I'll include red meat in my diet every 90 day's, at least. I recommend that if you are purchasing ground beef, veal, lamb or other meats you enjoy, purchase a slab of the meat and have it grinded.  This way, you know that it comes from one piece of animal and not a combination of anything leftover like hooves, gristle, eye's...ect.  I prefer elk meat. Less cholesterol, fat and very hearty. That 1/2 lb burger, medium rare with all the fixing's. Romaine leaves,  tomatoes on the vine, sometimes a fried egg white, (which now makes this a Texas burger) some type of whole grain wheat bun-half maybe, red onions raw and just a slash of mustard, Grey Poupon Preferably. What I have totally cut out of my diet is white sugar and things with the ingredient Asparateme. Click on asparateme and find out this poison danger to your health.  This is why I take about 3 hours to shop for food because I read my labels. Labels are on food products to read them! I now use Sugar in the Raw or another Turbinado sugar brand substitute's, or just plain ol' honey to sweeten my food.  I find that having a coupon online or searching the weekend papers for this product to be on sale works for me. 


These are some of the things I use daily for my healthy diet and to keep my young appearance....Bon appetite!