I'm going to share today's menu to give you an idea as to what I eat each day.
Breakfast was, well, a cup of coffee. I'm not proud of that. But then I ate about half an egg scrambled with 5% goat's milk ricotta, soy and almond milk for my mid-morning snack (I eat every three hours, usually 5, sometimes 6 times a day)
Lunch was a small serving of mango yogurt drink.
Afternoon snack was 1/3C ground veggie burger and cooked green beans in tomato sauce.
Dinner was the aforementioned cheese blintz and as a lat evening snack, which I usually try to avoid, I had some of the baked cauliflower than didn't make it into the quiche (I had too much cauliflower in there so some just baked on top instead of baking into the egg mixture). It was delicious! But I didn't eat it slow enough and am paying the price for it now. I was just so starved for yummy veggies!
Monday, December 9, 2013
What I'm eating right now #2
I only finished about 2/3rds of yesterday's ricotta and avocado.
But right now I'm having a fabulous supper. I'm busy soaking some cauliflower in order to make a cauliflower quiche to enjoy over the next several days but since there's no way it's be ready in time, I peeked around the fridge and came up with a great dinner. Cheese blintzes!
I mixed some of the 5% goat's milk ricotta with an equal amount of 5% cottage cheese, added cinnamon and vanilla sugar (my plan does not require me to be off sugar. I limit it of course, by my dietitian said to think of myself as not being on a diet ever again. I have to use my head and eat reasonable things, and my body limits portion sizes of course. I still trained myself to be off sugar for coffee but a dash of vanilla sugar in my blintz? Hell yeah!). I also mixed an egg with almond milk, salt, a bit more of the vanilla sugar, and a couple of teaspoons of flour to make a thin batter. Made a crepe, added the filling, and wallah! Cheese blintz.
My diet is lacking in vegetables which is weird for me. I'm a freaking vegetarian, after all. But I find cooked veggies need to be really soft or else they don't go down well. I'm looking forward to the cauliflower tomorrow and for lunch today I had some ground veggie burger mixed with tomato sauce and well-cooked green beans. I generally prefer my green beans bright and crisp but they just wouldn't go down that way, no matter how well I chewed them.
I do, however, plan on trying peeled, fresh cucumbers this week and, if I can find some fresh kale, I may make kale chips. I'm usually a salad-o-holic and being without fresh veggies has been hard. Mmmm, now I'm imagining a salad with greens, chopped tomatoes, shredded carrots, beets, and kohlrabi, slices of cucumbers, garbanzo beans, maybe some quinoa, shredded salty cheese, a dash of lemon juice and olive oil with salt and pepper....yummy. Some day.
I think couscous with stewed veggies may be on the menu for later this week. That should work well enough.
But right now I'm having a fabulous supper. I'm busy soaking some cauliflower in order to make a cauliflower quiche to enjoy over the next several days but since there's no way it's be ready in time, I peeked around the fridge and came up with a great dinner. Cheese blintzes!
I mixed some of the 5% goat's milk ricotta with an equal amount of 5% cottage cheese, added cinnamon and vanilla sugar (my plan does not require me to be off sugar. I limit it of course, by my dietitian said to think of myself as not being on a diet ever again. I have to use my head and eat reasonable things, and my body limits portion sizes of course. I still trained myself to be off sugar for coffee but a dash of vanilla sugar in my blintz? Hell yeah!). I also mixed an egg with almond milk, salt, a bit more of the vanilla sugar, and a couple of teaspoons of flour to make a thin batter. Made a crepe, added the filling, and wallah! Cheese blintz.
My diet is lacking in vegetables which is weird for me. I'm a freaking vegetarian, after all. But I find cooked veggies need to be really soft or else they don't go down well. I'm looking forward to the cauliflower tomorrow and for lunch today I had some ground veggie burger mixed with tomato sauce and well-cooked green beans. I generally prefer my green beans bright and crisp but they just wouldn't go down that way, no matter how well I chewed them.
I do, however, plan on trying peeled, fresh cucumbers this week and, if I can find some fresh kale, I may make kale chips. I'm usually a salad-o-holic and being without fresh veggies has been hard. Mmmm, now I'm imagining a salad with greens, chopped tomatoes, shredded carrots, beets, and kohlrabi, slices of cucumbers, garbanzo beans, maybe some quinoa, shredded salty cheese, a dash of lemon juice and olive oil with salt and pepper....yummy. Some day.
I think couscous with stewed veggies may be on the menu for later this week. That should work well enough.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
What I'm eating right now #1
I'm on the third stage post-op, which means I can eat most foods. Anything soft, at least. But I'm passed the liquids and pureed/mushy foods stage. I can eat cooked vegetables, soft, peeled fruit, pasta, etc. But I can only eat very little at a time. For example, for lunch I am trying to eat 60gr 5% goat's milk ricotta and 40gr of fresh avocado. I've been eating this for nearly 20 minutes an have yet to finish half my plate. I have to stop eating soon as my meals shouldn't be dragged out more than 30 minutes. The food is delicious but I have no appetite and feel very full very quickly.
The only other thing I've had today was 50gr 5% tsfatit cheese, which is a local, salty, soft cheese that I find absolutely delicious. I should be on my third meal of the day (I'm supposed to eat five small meals a day) but haven't been able to eat anything else yet.
The only other thing I've had today was 50gr 5% tsfatit cheese, which is a local, salty, soft cheese that I find absolutely delicious. I should be on my third meal of the day (I'm supposed to eat five small meals a day) but haven't been able to eat anything else yet.
MOM, VSG, JLM
Hi! I'm a mom. Most of you are probably unaware that 'mom' is actually an acronym. M.O.M. Or, Made Of Marbles. Why marbles, you ask? You know the idiom of one losing one's marbles, right? Well, us M.O.M.s, we lose our marbles every day. We lose them when our babies cry, when our kids whine, when they fight, when they refuse to eat their vegetables, when they insist on wearing their sandals in freezing weather, when they won't let us go to the bathroom alone, when they tell us how we're ruining their lives...basically; All. The. Time.
Fortunately, as M.O.M.s, we're Made Of Marbles. So we have an everlasting supply of what we lose on a constant basis. Well, not of our hair, our boobs, or our youth...but at least our marbles.
So that explains who I am. As to what this blog is, VSG stands for Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy. JLM stands for Jerusalem, the city in which I live (what out for loose marbles when visiting). Three weeks ago today I underwent a VSG. So this blog is to document my being an M.O.M. (which will, from here on out, be referred to simply in the vernacular, i.e. 'mom') with a VSG in JLM. Simple enough, right?
Welcome, and enjoy!
Fortunately, as M.O.M.s, we're Made Of Marbles. So we have an everlasting supply of what we lose on a constant basis. Well, not of our hair, our boobs, or our youth...but at least our marbles.
So that explains who I am. As to what this blog is, VSG stands for Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy. JLM stands for Jerusalem, the city in which I live (what out for loose marbles when visiting). Three weeks ago today I underwent a VSG. So this blog is to document my being an M.O.M. (which will, from here on out, be referred to simply in the vernacular, i.e. 'mom') with a VSG in JLM. Simple enough, right?
Welcome, and enjoy!
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