Well, I ended up making the Asian Garbanzo Spread/Dip instead of the Aloo Gobi. I'll make that today. I signed up for Imperfect Foods, which brings a box of groceries that doesn't fit the "look" of grocery store items: crooked cucumbers, dented oranges, etc. Yesterday's delivery has 9 Roma tomatoes, a bunch of cilantro, green onions, and large white onions...pico de gallo anyone?
So I'll spin that together as well.
This morning's walk was very nice. I'm going a bit farther out and in different directions and today walked on a street with some of the prettiest houses. The pre-dawn time is just perfect. I rarely see anyone else, the birds are starting up their dawn chorus, houses are mostly dark but you see lights on inside some of them...early risers, eh? Yesterday I found THE coolest Little Library. We have lots of them scattered around, including one on our street. But this one was a little bit larger than average, with a couple of "sections"... Grown Up Books, Kids Books. And a little selection of pencils and bookmarks displayed in a cup. Anyway, yesterday I picked up a book "The Golem and the Jinni" and enjoying it so far. I'll take it to a different Little Library and swap for some other book...after sticking one of my Zentangle bookmarks in it.
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
mostly2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.
yes3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.
starlite mints...boy I love them.
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
scrambled egg samwich for dinner
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
yes6. Eliminate any added oil.
yes7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.
bread with my samwich8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
yes9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.
yes...this has been really good, overall. Eating to satiation and stopping.10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).
yesDon't know what got into me with the scrambled egg samwich. I ate the second half of my lunch salad, and 20 minutes later I was still hungry and darned if scrambled egg didn't sound just right.
And tbh, I have been having whole wheat toast here and there, which is not MWL.
Today I will follow 100% MWL guidelines.