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NJCher

(37,864 posts)
Wed May 8, 2024, 03:57 PM May 2024

What's for Dinner, Wed.,. May 8, 2024

Appetizer: thinly sliced Cherry Belle radish over toasted 9-seed bread, topped with freshly ground black pepper, Whipped cream cheese spread on the toast.

Arugula salad with grape tomatoes and shaved parmesan. Homemade vinaigrette.

Main course is Eggplant Crisp with Walnut Streusel. Has toasted walnuts, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, garlic, dill, parsley.

Kombucha: "Cosmic" Cranberry, a Brew Dr. flavor.

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Squeaky41

(250 posts)
1. Possible Wednesday
Wed May 8, 2024, 04:50 PM
May 2024

Salmon salad with lettuce, small tomatoes, feta, avocado oil base dressing.

Krinkle cut dill pickle potato chips

Chocolate pudding topped with raspberries and spray whip

a wine

Nanuke

(558 posts)
2. Wild sockeye salmon with rub, roasted potatoes, broccoli with lemon and garlic. Strawberries for dessert.
Wed May 8, 2024, 04:57 PM
May 2024

Drum

(9,767 posts)
9. It's hot here in NYC!
Wed May 8, 2024, 06:10 PM
May 2024

We’re having open faced sandwiches of a little cream cheese, fresh dill, cucumber slices and lox;
A cold soup of red lentils, carrots and onion, with a dollop of yogurt, maybe avocado slices.
😎

progree

(11,463 posts)
10. Hard to say. For the first time in weeks I am surplus in my veggie and meat quota. As for my Food Rot Watch List
Wed May 8, 2024, 06:58 PM
May 2024

nothing is jumping up and down demanding immediate consumption.

My minimum 2.5 cups/day vegetables and 4.0 oz meat/day quotas (min & max) described at

I had a couple bowls of beans late this afternoon as an early dinner -- the rest of my Instant Pot batch will be used for the bean gravy I put on just about everything -- potatoes, rice, pasta.

Maybe I'll just have pancakes later since I can't eat anything for breakfast tomorrow except maybe a slice of bread.

NJCher

(37,864 posts)
12. hope you
Wed May 8, 2024, 07:45 PM
May 2024

Keep posting on this veggie intake. I have measured mine out in the past, too.

It's so important.

progree

(11,463 posts)
14. Thanks for the encouragment. It's a lot of work keeping track
Thu May 9, 2024, 04:32 AM
May 2024
Veggies and meat - both tracked to measurements (cups for veggies, ounces for meat)

Fruit - I just write those down but don't endeavor to track ounces or any other measurment

Everything else foody - I just write those down

"Flat back time" - reading in bed and sleeping. Usually I read awhile before falling asleep or deciding to go to sleep, so I don't attempt to try to figure out how much of that is actually sleeping.

Cairycat

(1,760 posts)
11. A co-worker gave me
Wed May 8, 2024, 07:16 PM
May 2024

some morel mushrooms. Our son, the weeknight chef, sauteed them in butter with some green garlic (young garlic, used similarly to green onions, last Saturday's farmers market find) and added some fresh green beans that needed to be used. Main course was lamb chops and we also had mashed potatoes.

chowmama

(506 posts)
13. Pork and veg
Wed May 8, 2024, 08:34 PM
May 2024

Another diet meal. Pork cut thin and pounded thinner, seasoned with salt, white pepper and paprika, oiled lightly and grilled on a ridged griddle that was as hot as I could make it, about 60 seconds a side. Also salad, carrots and steamed asparagus. The carrots had chives from the garden added, but there was so much extra chives, that I pretty much put them on everything.

It's been 5 weeks and DH is down 10 pounds. So he's on track. Since I'm not on the diet, I'm going out once weekly for some damned starch. Master Noodle is a favorite - he doesn't like it anyway, so he's not missing anything.

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