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January 28, 2006
Fancy Dinner With Mom
My day:
Up at six (slept in!)
Take supplements, pet giant cat, take shower.
Eat breakfast.
Meditate (Zeynep -- Sting is calling you to meditate!)
Be one of first customers at Whole Foods.
Call MR to find out if roasted almonds are bad (answer is yes, buy raw)
Buy organic things.
Home: listen to NPR, cuddle cats, do some housecleaning.
Eat:
1 cup cottage cheese with 1 tablespoon Carolina Treet.
Lots of olives.
Go to gym. Last workout with trainer. Very good.
Eat almonds: 28 g.
Hit Target for batteries for scales.
Go home, cook dinner.
Dinner for Mom:
Spicy grapefruit salad:
100 g grapefruit with 100 g organic tomatoes, sake wasabi vinegarette mixed in -- weird and delicious! Will make for Orange.
Scallops and cauliflower:
Steam organic cauliflower, 150 g each, in water.
Add 2 oz red wine and 15 g chopped shallots, continue to steam.
Add 150 g bay scallops (on sale for $5.99 a pound)
Allow to boil in wine till cooked, add half salt and garlic powder to taste.
Dessert:
100 g organic blueberries (fresh and on sale) and 100 g organic kiwi, skin on, in little glass dishes.
Mom brought over some Texas late harvest Riesling (sounds weird, but is great!) so I drank six ounces of that and two ounces of pinot noir. We listened to my new Windham Hill CD, which I bought for $1.99.
A very delicious dinner. Here's the crunch du jour:
NUTRIENT TOTALS:
Abs. Values %RDA/SA
Calories 1191.49__cal 60%
Protein 95.53__gm 174% RDA
Total Fat 37.10__gm 57%
Sat. Fat 9.96__gm 50%
Mono. Fat 18.17__gm 63%
Poly. Fat 5.30__gm 79%
Carbohydrate 89.36__gm 30%
Fiber 21.87__gm 73%
Cholesterol 90.41__mg 30%
Vit. A 2199.73__IU 44% RDA
Vit. B6 1.13__mg 71% RDA
Vit. B12 4.38__mcg 219% RDA
Vit. C 240.67__mg 401% RDA
Vit. E 12.23__mg 153% RDA
Thiamine 0.40__mg 37% RDA
Folacin 249.46__mcg 139% RDA
Riboflavin 2.09__mg 161% RDA
Niacin 6.02__mg 40% RDA
Panto. Acid 3.09__mg 62% SA
Calcium 655.36__mg 55% RDA
Copper 1.35__mg 67% SA
Iron 14.25__mg 95% RDA
Magnesium 334.38__mg 119% RDA
Manganese 2.89__mg 96% SA
Phosphorus 1048.06__mg 87% RDA
Potassium 2851.88__mg 143% RDA
Selenium 107.33__mcg 195% RDA
Sodium 3335.82__mg 139% SA
Zinc 5.28__mg 44% RDA
Tyrosine 5.34__gm 557% RDA
Lysine 10.42__gm 1448% RDA
Phenylalanine 6.46__gm 673% RDA
Leucine 11.59__gm 1207% RDA
Valine 7.51__gm 895% RDA
Methionine 3.65__gm 1218% RDA
Cystine 1.95__gm 650% RDA
Tryptophan 1.68__gm 932% RDA
Threonine 6.08__gm 1267% RDA
Isoleucine 6.92__gm 961% RDA
P:C:F = 32:40:28
Rather light on some nutrients I'm usually high on... no kale, so no kale induced vitamin A. Low on calcium, as I had cottage cheese instead of yogurt. Hmmm... well, I get so much of those most days that I won't worry about it. It just goes to show how relatively useless fruits are as compared to veggies. I had tons of fruit: grapefruit, kiwi, blueberries, but would have been better off with kale. My mom doesn't care for raw kale, so I skipped it.
Correction: last night I served black kale, not dino kale. I apologize for any inconvenience this misreporting may have caused.
Wow, scallops are so good. Kieffer ate one. And I have enough left over to cook for dinner on Monday night when my birthday friend comes over. His girlfriend leaves for a work assignment in Germany today, so we can complain together about having our significant others in different countries. At least I can see the end now... in just over two weeks, my Orange angel will be sitting at his place at the table, where he belongs, being fed CR treats...
Off to bed, then up to go to a meeting with nurses. At a McDonald's, no less. I assure you, I will be drinking black coffee.
Posted by april at January 28, 2006 9:56 PM
Comments
You may not know, but the evil McDonald's now has a few things that might almost be classed as "food". One item is the Yogurt Parfait. It's basically yogurt, strawberries & blueberries with a little bit of granola on top. It has 160 calories; the rest of the crunch you can get on their website. I wouldn't drink their coffee, though: camel urine comes to mind. As for bay scallops, they're only $4.99/lb here, and that's in CDN dollars! JD :-)
Posted by: Judith at January 28, 2006 6:43 PM
Sting has not been visiting me since that weird dream but I was in Tokyo last night... This is actually my second in-dream trip to Tokyo so I know the city very well now :)Recommended, those dream trips to different parts of the world, they're free! Still, I guess it's another call to meditate. But I can't concentrate on anything for more than 30 seconds so meditation is alien to me.
I am glad fruit is useless compared to veggies. I love veggies and never cared much about fruit ever and always felt guilty about that.
What is kale exactly? I checked in the dictionary and it translates as curly cabbage into Turkish. I've never seen any curly cabbages around lately or ever. Is it possible that we don't have them here? But we must we must..
Posted by: zeynep at January 28, 2006 7:00 PM
Wait, what? No to roasted almonds? Oh no! Why?
Posted by: stirred_apart at January 28, 2006 7:28 PM
Stirred -- the roasted almonds are either oxidized or have peroxide in them or something. Just get the whole raw... they're fab!
I left two things out of dinner: 1 teaspoon flax oil and 50 g olives. I also ate 100g almonds with lunch. You were probably wondering where all the supposed fat was.
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Posted by: April at January 29, 2006 3:35 AM
Hi Stirred,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Per this page on food processing from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory :
http://www.sentech.org/CHP4foodprocessing/snacks.htm
"In dry-roasting, the nuts are roasted at 800 degrees F for 40-60 minutes using either a gas-fired rotating oven, or a conveyor belt with countercurrent hot air." This is obviously going to lead to some pretty serious peroxidatioin, esp if they are not in-shell.
Then, of course, they have to be transported, and then sit on the shelf for weeks or months, during which the lipid peroxyl radicals (LOO
Posted by: MR at January 29, 2006 6:27 PM
Good to know re: raw vs. roasted almonds. Thanks, April and MR!
Posted by: stirred_apart at January 31, 2006 9:18 AM
Good to know re: raw vs. roasted almonds. Thanks, April and MR!
Posted by: stirred_apart at January 31, 2006 9:29 AM
Hi, April. I've enjoyed reading your blogs and admire the effort and time invested in CR. I just joined, will have blood tests this week and hop on the band wagon as well. My question is this...how in the world do you figure out all the details about nutrients in food you eat? Even with a guide, it must take you hours to weigh and post results. So, is this the way it has to be done to guarantee success with CR? My hat's off to you!
Posted by: Jan Trapnell at January 31, 2006 11:02 AM