Wednesday's menu:
Breakfast: black tea with 1 Tbs. sugar; gluten-free oatmeal with 1 Tbs. sugar, and cinnamon
Lunch: roasted root vegetables (sweet potato, parsnip, butternut squash, carrot, turnip, and rutabaga); cranberry sauce; kale; kasha
Dinner: Veggie Queen's Autumn Night Soup; cornbread
Snack: potato chips made with
TopChipsThursday's menu:
Breakfast: coffee with 1 Tbs. sugar, and some almond milk; gluten-free oatmeal with 1 Tbs. sugar, and cinnamon; apple chips made with
TopChipsLunch: brown rice, mixed vegetables (broccoli, carrots, sugar snap peas & water chestnuts) with tamari and garlic powder; portobello mushroom basted in teriyaki sauce; potato chips made with
TopChipsDinner: Veggie Queen's Autumn Night Soup; cornbread
Exercise: 20 minutes swimming laps
So, I made potato chips! Yay! I'm really happy with the TopChips device. I haven't quite gotten all the kinks worked out, and it's a lot more work than buying a bag of chips, but I think it's just what I needed. I made a whole large yellow potato with salt and nutritional yeast, and it took upwards of 10 minutes in the microwave for the first batch of three trays, and then another batch of one tray. The chips filled one of my vegetable bowls, and were quite satisfying. I could, of course, eat more, but that was a good amount.
I'm really pathetically excited about the chips. My mother thinks the novelty might wear off, but I'm thinking about making some for breakfast. I really love chips. And these chips are real food - not junk food! In the past I've been very fond of potato chips and corn chips, now I have healthy alternatives for both, although the baked tortilla chips aren't salty enough to eat by themselves., but they are really good with dips. I've been thinking about all the things I can make into chips - purple potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, mango, taro, parsnip. This is really the best thing I've gotten kitchen-wise since the combined pressure cooker, slow cooker.
And although I don't think I'll get to my three days of exercise this week, at least I got out swimming yesterday. I'm planning on going again today. I like swimming. And, it's really good exercise. I don't know if it's aerobic, or more like weight training, or a combination, or what, but at least I spent some time being active. I need goggles though.
Seriously though, with the chips? I kinda feel like all my problems have been solved. Everything is going to work out fine. I can make potato chips any time I want. It's funny how solving one problem can make other problems look less worrisome.
But my mother is coming over tonight so we can go see the
opera tomorrow, and I have to feed her, and I have no food in the house. And my college roommate might be coming over Sunday, and I have to feed her too. So I have some menu planning and food buying, and cooking to do. It never ends.
Eat well!
~Skye~