Well, without meaning to, I started to low carb again. Low carb-ish, I guess. I was remembering how much I enjoyed it while reading some old posts and thought, hey, why not. It has always worked. I am my own worst enemy but maybe this time will be it. I've done this so many times it's like riding a bike.
I was planning to go Paleo a while back, but it just never happened. Food prices are my biggest deterrent but you know, I will manage some how.
Right now it's a big deal that cauliflower is around $8 a head now for conventional. It's on sale this week 2/$5 at one store but they're out (I must remember to get a rain cheque!). The frozen bags are often 2/$5 and you don't have waste but there is something about fresh cauliflower that's so good.
Meat prices have become absurd. I used to pay 99 cents a pound for regular ground beef, which you can't even buy any more. Now it goes on sale for $5 a pound for lean. We don't eat beef much, mainly pork and chicken. I buy when they are around the date and I can sometimes find what I"m looking for at around $1.99 a pound. Fortunately I have a stash of meat in the freezer I will be able to dip into.
So yesterday I had pumpkin curry soup for lunch. For supper we had crockpot chicken, turnip, I had a spoon of corn and 1/4 cup of stuffing (not low carb, but I wasn't thinking of that at the time). After supper I had a banana muffin we made with red fife flour. (again, not thinking low carb). I don't think I had breakfast, to be honest.
Today, I only had coffee and some seaweed for breakfast. Lunch was three eggs and I am making chicken soup for supper. I cooked two heads of cauliflower I bought last week that I was going to make into pizza crusts, but they are in the fridge, draining, for now. I was just feeling lazy at lunchtime when everyone else had calzones. I didn't even want them, I was happy with eggs. Oh, and I also had about 10 peanuts.
Like I said, I'm not going to be perfect. I'm mostly just trying to get the processed foods out of my life. I want to eat in a way that I can live with. I am not going to be hard on myself and I don't want to get crazy with substitution recipes. If I want something, I'll deal with it at the time. It may be that I don't eat it, it may be that I do. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
One thing I am really trying is not eating after 8pm. That is very rewarding because when 8pm hits, I know I am not eating anything else for that day. I can have water and herbal tea, but no food. I am tempted, oh yeah, so tempted, but it is not impossible.
So I'm taking it one day at a time. I am tired of how sick the flours and sugars are making me feel. Fat is where it's at, just not on my body, lol!
I was planning to go Paleo a while back, but it just never happened. Food prices are my biggest deterrent but you know, I will manage some how.
Right now it's a big deal that cauliflower is around $8 a head now for conventional. It's on sale this week 2/$5 at one store but they're out (I must remember to get a rain cheque!). The frozen bags are often 2/$5 and you don't have waste but there is something about fresh cauliflower that's so good.
Meat prices have become absurd. I used to pay 99 cents a pound for regular ground beef, which you can't even buy any more. Now it goes on sale for $5 a pound for lean. We don't eat beef much, mainly pork and chicken. I buy when they are around the date and I can sometimes find what I"m looking for at around $1.99 a pound. Fortunately I have a stash of meat in the freezer I will be able to dip into.
So yesterday I had pumpkin curry soup for lunch. For supper we had crockpot chicken, turnip, I had a spoon of corn and 1/4 cup of stuffing (not low carb, but I wasn't thinking of that at the time). After supper I had a banana muffin we made with red fife flour. (again, not thinking low carb). I don't think I had breakfast, to be honest.
Today, I only had coffee and some seaweed for breakfast. Lunch was three eggs and I am making chicken soup for supper. I cooked two heads of cauliflower I bought last week that I was going to make into pizza crusts, but they are in the fridge, draining, for now. I was just feeling lazy at lunchtime when everyone else had calzones. I didn't even want them, I was happy with eggs. Oh, and I also had about 10 peanuts.
Like I said, I'm not going to be perfect. I'm mostly just trying to get the processed foods out of my life. I want to eat in a way that I can live with. I am not going to be hard on myself and I don't want to get crazy with substitution recipes. If I want something, I'll deal with it at the time. It may be that I don't eat it, it may be that I do. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
One thing I am really trying is not eating after 8pm. That is very rewarding because when 8pm hits, I know I am not eating anything else for that day. I can have water and herbal tea, but no food. I am tempted, oh yeah, so tempted, but it is not impossible.
So I'm taking it one day at a time. I am tired of how sick the flours and sugars are making me feel. Fat is where it's at, just not on my body, lol!
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