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Happy TGIF! looking forward to no alarm tomorrow. For some reason my body is not liking 4am this week. I've gotten to bed a little late, think it's mostly due to not following my normal sleep schedule on vacation week last week.
Have been eating lots of veggies, making sure I also eat 3 fruits daily, and the only animal proteins have been fresh grated parmesan or coitja cheese. Interesting as since Deb mentioned recommended fiber I've been checking mine 40grams plus a day, much higher than when I eat animal proteins.
Stopped in a favorite Hispanic market on my way home the last 2 days for veggies, they have a good price on boneless chicken breasts right now, didn't feel like eating meat. It's a fairly small crowded store with an excellent meat market (nothing packaged), a good Hispanic cheese selection, store made flour tortillas, and great produce.
Am taking taboulli to work for a food day. Always interesting since I work in a department where most everyone seems to prefer junk food. Today the focus is sandwiches and things to go with them. Will probably be an entire table of huge bags of chips and sandwich ingredients will be processed lunch meats and bags of gluey store bread. I usually don't eat much.
View Diet Calendar, 26 September 2014:
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1066 kcal
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Fat: 48.10g | Prot: 25.98g | Carbs: 112.79g.
Breakfast: Bob's Red Mill Wheat Bran, kale smoothie, Kretschmer Wheat Germ, Flaxseed Seeds. Lunch: Tabbouleh (Bulgar with Tomatoes and Parsley), Carrot Cake without Icing, Croissant, Chicken or Turkey Salad. Dinner: veggie/tofu burger. Snacks/Other: White Table Wine. more...
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2251 kcal
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Exercise:
Shopping - 4 hours, Housework - 1 hour, Resting - 1 hour and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours, Walking (exercise) - 5.5/kph - 30 minutes, Desk Work - 9 hours. more...
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The market I walk to is Hispanic too and I love it, esp the meat department. Like you said - fresh, not packaged and shipped. It's only been in business about 5 years or so and the first thing I noticed other than an absence of name brands in other products was the same absence of 'fat free, low fat, etc' labeled food. The vegetables there aren't as 'large' as in the mainstream stores but that makes me wonder if they aren't more organic, less gmo'd. You tabouli'd too, huh :-) This was my first time too and it was good. I liked the texture and taste. I can imagine you may hopefully introduce a whole new light on the 'sandwich' meal. It doesn't 'have' to be bread & packaged meats. I'm thinking right now some tabouli chilled with fresh tomato stirred in wrapped in romaine lettuce hearts would make a great sandwich :-)
26 Sep 14 by member: FullaBella
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Oops.. just read your post on the challenge .. GMTA on the tomato and like the idea of the cucumber too.
26 Sep 14 by member: FullaBella
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I grw up on calle ocho in miami..talk @ spanish markets--few spoke english---such great foods---what i remember most is foing to a pig farm where a bunch of live pigs ran around and u pick one out and come back the next day to have it dressed and cooked for u...the second were the cunam barbers---never used clippers but were masters with scissors..miss everythingl laatin in miami
26 Sep 14 by member: ED BO
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I've made it for probably 30+ years, definately good as a lettuce wrap. Even my rather picky SIL loves it when I make taboulli. I took some to their house last summer, Terry ate almost the entire big container; my notes say I used 10 cups of bulgur!! I usually bring something different to food days sometimes people get adventurous, sometimes not. ED, most employees speak spainish and some english and signs in the store are mostly in spainish. I keep thinking I should learn spainish so I can decipher food names. They have started putting english names on some things as the non-hispanic clientel is increasing. We used to buy hogs and beef from farmer friends when I lived in the country, we knew how they were raised. Twas good meat. We would get them partially dressed and break them down from there, package and freeze them, grind the scraps for ground eef or pork.
26 Sep 14 by member: wholefoodnut
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Seven months ago I started to take the psyllium fiber powder mixed in my water glass. I needed the daily recommended 25 grams fiber (38 grams recommended for men). Now that I eat healthier, I check my fiber after dinner, and I only take my fiber supplement if my fiber is low.
26 Sep 14 by member: Deb_N
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That would help. I used that when I was on Atkins several years ago. Yesterday for I'm sure was lower with not taking lunch. Now I eat so many grains and veggies with seeds most days my fiber is usually pretty high.
27 Sep 14 by member: wholefoodnut
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