The one word that my wife and I haven't talked about for the last 10 years, is DIET! What to eat and how much. It's everywhere... what diet works and which one doesn't... Even with runners... If I can just lose those last few pounds I'll cut a minute off my times... My wife was never a big meat eater.. excluding BBQ Ribs... when she went…
The one word that my wife and I haven't talked about for the last 10 years, is DIET! What to eat and how much. It's everywhere... what diet works and which one doesn't... Even with runners... If I can just lose those last few pounds I'll cut a minute off my times... My wife was never a big meat eater.. excluding BBQ Ribs... when she went to a plant based life style I figured it was just a phase, it wasn't. Now after 10 plus years, it's our life style. I still eat meat on and off but I have to be the one to cook it, she won't. At first the choices out there sucked... Most items tasted awful, even smothered in salsa or other toppings.. Now what's out there rivals the meat products and the choices are endless and they no longer taste like cardboard, though I still hate Tofu in its uncooked state... Do I feel better and are my times as good as they were in my 30's? Not a chance... I don't feel as bloated after a meal and we don't seem to eat as much as we used to...We stir fry a lot and cook most veggie burgers on the grill...Will I ever give up meat? No! I like a real burger once in a while and still crave chicken wings and a beer watching a sports event... but, after my yearly physicals, I'm told I'm healthy and to just keep doing what I'm doing...
That's excelllent, Steve! That's where I want to be -- tell me more about the stir frying, because that's a great way to approach it, that also adds a lot of flavor when you cook with veggies. How do you all do it?
We do a ton of stir frying with fresh veggies. We have salads at least 4 nights a week and I love my wife's beans and rice she makes in a crock pot. A lot of our meals are worked around Morning Star and Gardein ... I don't like everything but most item are good... They used to have a veggie ribs meal that if you didn't know it wasn't meat you never would have known... I find that they discontinue an item after a couple of years... They used to have a Mediterranean burger that we ate in a pita pocket with humus and veggies... one day it was there, the next it was gone... Gardien stop making it... There are new brands showing up all time... some are good... others not so much...
Yes, I know potatoes equate to carbs, but if you ARE exercising, then those carbs ARE needed. Now, back to the potatoes. Wet the potato, score it every 1/2 inch all the way around, there generously coat the potato with garlic powder. Bake it for an hour and a quarter. When done, you need to add nothing, not even butter or butter substitute, it will have a great taste all its own
The one word that my wife and I haven't talked about for the last 10 years, is DIET! What to eat and how much. It's everywhere... what diet works and which one doesn't... Even with runners... If I can just lose those last few pounds I'll cut a minute off my times... My wife was never a big meat eater.. excluding BBQ Ribs... when she went to a plant based life style I figured it was just a phase, it wasn't. Now after 10 plus years, it's our life style. I still eat meat on and off but I have to be the one to cook it, she won't. At first the choices out there sucked... Most items tasted awful, even smothered in salsa or other toppings.. Now what's out there rivals the meat products and the choices are endless and they no longer taste like cardboard, though I still hate Tofu in its uncooked state... Do I feel better and are my times as good as they were in my 30's? Not a chance... I don't feel as bloated after a meal and we don't seem to eat as much as we used to...We stir fry a lot and cook most veggie burgers on the grill...Will I ever give up meat? No! I like a real burger once in a while and still crave chicken wings and a beer watching a sports event... but, after my yearly physicals, I'm told I'm healthy and to just keep doing what I'm doing...
That's excelllent, Steve! That's where I want to be -- tell me more about the stir frying, because that's a great way to approach it, that also adds a lot of flavor when you cook with veggies. How do you all do it?
We do a ton of stir frying with fresh veggies. We have salads at least 4 nights a week and I love my wife's beans and rice she makes in a crock pot. A lot of our meals are worked around Morning Star and Gardein ... I don't like everything but most item are good... They used to have a veggie ribs meal that if you didn't know it wasn't meat you never would have known... I find that they discontinue an item after a couple of years... They used to have a Mediterranean burger that we ate in a pita pocket with humus and veggies... one day it was there, the next it was gone... Gardien stop making it... There are new brands showing up all time... some are good... others not so much...
Yes, I know potatoes equate to carbs, but if you ARE exercising, then those carbs ARE needed. Now, back to the potatoes. Wet the potato, score it every 1/2 inch all the way around, there generously coat the potato with garlic powder. Bake it for an hour and a quarter. When done, you need to add nothing, not even butter or butter substitute, it will have a great taste all its own
Thank you for the recipe.. I'll give it a try...