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April 01, 2005
But It Just May Be A Lunatic You're Looking For
MR and I had one of those classic pop music moments the other day. I don't remember what we were talking about, but he said, "You may be right."
I answered, "I may be crazy."
And we said in unison, "But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for."
If there was ever a moment when the truth about two people and their relationship was spoken, that was it.
We had another of those CR geek moments later that day when I was planning our dinner on my DWIDP (for those of you who are new to the blog -- welcome! -- that's Dr. Walford's Interactive Diet Planner, nutritional software that I use to monitor my calories and nutrition.) I had just finished entering the data for the stuffed peppers, vegetable soup, and glass of pinot noir that I was planning to serve for dinner. The ratios came out MR Zone perfect: 31:41:28! MR eats a little more fat since he doesn't want to overdo it on the protein at his calorie level, and the Zone thing is to find your protein grams, match them with carbs, and fill in the rest with fat. So I excitedly showed MR the computer screen and we had a happy CR geek out fest.
Here's what I made:
Green Peppers Stuffed with Goat Cheese, Tomato and Basil
Wash and cut the little heads off of however many green peppers.
I made MR's in one giant green pepper -- 238 grams. I stuffed it with 85 grams of goat cheese, 100 grams of tomatoes, 5 grams of fresh chopped basil. Then I drizzled in some white wine vinegar with tarragon, covered the pepper with its pepper hat (that I had previously cut off) and put it in the baking dish with my pepper (half the size of MR's, as I am half of him) and drizzled with a bit of chardonnay, leaving a substantial pool of chardonnay at the bottom of the baking dish so that the peppers would be standing in it. Bake at 350 ish for abouut 45 minutes with a lid on the baking dish (though it's okay if you don't have a lid), adding more chardonnay periodically to make sure that the peppers are always standing in a little pool of wine (happy peppers!) Yummy!
The rest of the meal that I served included free range organic chicken broth brewers yeast soup with half a bag of carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. I only gave MR one tablespoon of brewers yeast, as his nutritional day is not entirely dependent on it.
Here's the crunch for the dinner I made for him:
Food List : MR Stuffed Pepper and Soup
DATE : 03/28/05
Num. Foods : 10
Food #1 : Peppers, sweet, green, raw 2.0 servings
Food #2 : Cheese, goat, semisoft type 3.0 servings
Food #3 : Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average 5.0 servings
Food #4 : Basil, fresh 4.0 servings
Food #5 : Soup, chicken broth cubes, dehydrated, dry 3.2 servings
Food #6 : Lewis Labs 0.8 servings
Food #7 : Alcoholic beverage, wine, table, red 0.8 servings
Food #8 : Carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 0.5 servings
Food #9 : Broccoli, frozen, spears, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 1.0 servings
Food #10 : Cauliflower, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 0.7 servings
NUTRIENT TOTALS:
Abs. Values %RDA/SA
3wCalories 618.54__cal 31%
Protein 48.01__gm 87% RDA
Total Fat 27.88__gm 43%
Sat. Fat 17.93__gm 90%
Mono. Fat 6.21__gm 21%
Poly. Fat 1.49__gm 22%
Carbohydrate 61.30__gm 20%
Fiber 15.26__gm 51%
Cholesterol 69.16__mg 23%
Vit. A 17697.29__IU 354% RDA
Vit. B6 2.31__mg 144% RDA
Vit. B12 0.29__mcg 14% RDA
Vit. C 312.52__mg 521% RDA
Vit. E 4.31__mg 54% RDA
Thiamine 0.85__mg 78% RDA
Folacin 184.21__mcg 102% RDA
Riboflavin 1.52__mg 117% RDA
Niacin 8.55__mg 57% RDA
Panto. Acid 1.37__mg 27% SA
Calcium 519.45__mg 43% RDA
Copper 3.43__mg 172% SA
Iron 6.02__mg 40% RDA
Magnesium 234.56__mg 84% RDA
Manganese 2.12__mg 71% SA
Phosphorus 1379.23__mg 115% RDA
Potassium 1732.76__mg 87% RDA
Selenium 42.84__mcg 78% RDA
Sodium 4209.20__mg 175% SA
Zinc 2.31__mg 19% RDA
Tyrosine 2.55__gm 266% RDA
Lysine 5.13__gm 713% RDA
Phenylalanine 2.78__gm 290% RDA
Leucine 5.29__gm 551% RDA
Valine 4.02__gm 478% RDA
Methionine 1.15__gm 383% RDA
Cystine 0.43__gm 144% RDA
Tryptophan 0.88__gm 487% RDA
Threonine 3.05__gm 635% RDA
Isoleucine 3.22__gm 447% RDA
How cool is that... we finally figured out how to save the nutrient crunch and copy it onto the blog! Yea!
We're having lots of fun here cooking for each other and working on our computers side by side. He's working on stuff for Aubrey, I'm working on grant applications for the MF. I'm constantly sipping green tea sweetened with sucralose, to which I am rapidly becoming addicted. For breakfast, I have one cup of eggwhites and one teaspoon of flax oil. When MR makes his breakfast salad, he puts aside one for me (half the size!) and I eat it with my lunch, as I enjoy eating more at lunch and have historically had my salad at midday. So my lunch is one cup of cottage cheese, my breakfast salad, and half a megamuffin. For dinner we do his recipes some days and mine on others. Tonight I'm making my lasagna, which he loved when I was here in Feb.
Okay, back to the grant.
Posted by april at April 1, 2005 01:44 PM
Comments
Hey April,
I have three thoughts for you guys:
1) Yum!
2) Does this mean I can eat 18 g of sat fat in one sitting without the CRONie police coming after me? I hope so, because I have a sneaking suspicion that tonight's Team Tennis dinner is going to involve cheese.
3) Why can't more people cook healthy food like this? I think a sizeable portion of the population would enjoy eating honest, healthy food if it were well prepared. "You mean there are flavors other than chicken fried? Who knew?!"
Luckily, I just had breakfast or I'd probably be raiding the Trader Joe's right now for goat cheese :) My breakfast, BTW, is sort of a hybrid of yours and MR's: (1) Egg white & veggie scramble on a bed of spinach and (2) yogurt and fruit (and, yes, April, I also add a tsp of flax oil :)).
Happy eating,
-Dan
Posted by: Dan at April 2, 2005 12:08 PM
P.S. It's actually kefir and fruit, but I usually say yogurt because people actually know what that is.
Posted by: Dan at April 2, 2005 12:10 PM
For those who don't enjoy traditional "exercise", dancing to Billy Joel's higher energy up-tunes might provide some cardiovascular benefits. Can't beat the music, either! JD ;-))
Posted by: Judith at April 6, 2005 03:31 PM