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January 22, 2007
Mega Goodness Fresh From Your Toaster!
A reader alerted me to the presence of an even-more-portable version of Pop Tarts. Were Pop Tarts hard to carry in the first place? Well, I have my answer to Pop Tarts. My very own toaster pastry. You guessed it... the megamuffin!
In the never ending quest to pack more nutrition into my calories, I decided to try eating a megamuffin for breakfast. I love it with nonfat cream cheese, and that also increases the calcium. And lately, I've taken to the idea of toasting the thing. So MR dug our toaster oven out of the basement and has begun toasting my megamuffin for me! It's so pretty coming out of the toaster oven, ready to be slathered with nonfat cream cheese and flax oil. Of course we are careful not to let it burn. The cherry berry muffin turned out quite well this morning.
I posted my crunch for yesterday, then I realized that I had forgotten the veggies in my dinner soup. I got so mad I deleted the entry. I was a bit low on vitamin E, potassium, and oddly enough, only at 59 g protein since I had a megamuffin for breakfast (on the road) and none with lunch. Here it is, 27 cals low due to the omitted squash, zucchini, carrots, and cauliflower that I forgot to enter and then gave up. So put 27 cals and some vitamin A on there and call it a day.
General (73%)
Energy 1231.9 kcal 62%
Protein 58.9 g 118%
Fat 30.6 g 47%
Carbs 117.8 g 39%
Fiber 31.4 g 126%
Water 1372.1 g 91%
Vitamins (87%)
Vitamin A 16128.1 IU 538%
Folate 500.7 mcg 125%
B1 (Thiamine) 2.4 mg 200%
B2 (Riboflavin) 3.3 mg 250%
B3 (Niacin) 22.8 mg 142%
B5 (Pantothenic Acid) 4.9 mg 99%
B6 (Pyridoxine) 2.5 mg 147%
B12 (Cyanocobalamin) 1.7 mcg 69%
Vitamin C 163.2 mg 181%
Vitamin D 6.2 IU 2%
Vitamin E 11.5 mg 76%
Vitamin K 427.7 mcg 356%
Minerals (98%)
Calcium 1011.1 mg 84%
Copper 2.2 mg 250%
Iron 14.0 mg 176%
Magnesium 457.3 mg 109%
Manganese 5.9 mg 258%
Phosphorus 1524.0 mg 218%
Potassium 4374.9 mg 93%
Selenium 93.0 mcg 169%
Sodium 3660.8 mg 282%
Zinc 13.1 mg 119%
Lipids (13%)
Saturated 3.4 g 17%
Cholesterol 26.4 g 9%
I think I am still using the male DRI's. Am having a bit of CRON-O-Meter confusion. Anyhow, I'll stock up on calcium and B's tomorrow. All I needed was a glass of milk or a latte today to fix those deficiencies.
Yesterday was almost a work day... meetings in the morning, phone calls in the afternoon. Cleaning the house. At least I got to eat both lunch and dinner at home with MR. Wine calories high due to weekend custom of having a glass of wine with both lunch and dinner. And a very good sale on Ravenswood Shiraz. No offense to non-French wines, but I really am missing my Frenchy cabs. I have to get over to my favorite wine store that sells the French wine from small family producers you never hear about. The store has a large selection of wines excellent wines that are actually cheaper than the mass-produced stuff you get in most wine stores, which is a big plus. I love earthy French wines. The kind that MR says taste like wine, and my step-mother (who will only drink California) says taste like dirt. Someday I'd love to meet Mireille Guiliano, author of Why French Women Don't Get Fat. She's bringing the wine. She advocates drinking champagne with lunch, and describes in great detail how French women drink small amounts of wine with most meals and don't get drunk, old or fat. I love her outlook on food, wine and life in general. I wonder if she would like to come for dinner?
But back to the real world, where I have to buy my own wine. Yesterday I had my megamuffin for breakfast, followed by my normal salad with yogurt for lunch (and almonds) with brewers yeast soup and veggies for dinner (plus flax oil.) Very simple food for me. I made MR a pumpkin tomato chili with (surprise!) pumpkin, tomatoes, and some fun chili powders that I picked up at a gourmet market in North Carolina. Quorn and eggwhites for protein, flax and olive oil plus hazelnuts for fat. I also put an entire yellow squash into the pot for crunchy veggie filler. He loved it. It took him a long time (about a year) to accept that I enjoy cooking fancy dishes for him, but that I usually prefer to eat my regular food. I love to cook as a work of art, but I like to eat food that I already know works for me both nutrionally and taste-wise. I don't like to gamble too much with my calories. I love my food, and I've crunched it to come out well on nutrition. Why switch, if I'm happy? He just has so many more calories to play with. Ladies, imagine what we could do with 1913! About two to three times a week I'll cook the same thing for myself that I make for him, especially on tilapia, tofu, or scallop night.
It's snowing here... I'm glad I can walk to work! We should have better weather for our get together in March. We're official now... Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24. And Gina, Gregg and G., you're all quite welcome!
Posted by april at January 22, 2007 6:02 AM
Comments
To get the female DRI's, you have to ask CRON-o-Meter to re-calculate them. Go to the FILE menu and select 'Edit Nutritional Targets'. Then click the 'Set to Dietary Reference Intakes' which will pop-up a window where you can tell it about your body type. Once you've told it you gender, weight, age, and activity level, you can click 'ok', at which point it will reset all your targets to the appropriate values. If you have any custom targets, you'll need to change them afterwards.
Cheers,
Aaron
Posted by: Aaron at January 22, 2007 8:19 AM
Thank you! I will seriously consider this, as I am very interested. I do know that I would like to meet you at some point and discuss CR further. As for Mirielle, I have read both of her books, and how easy this is to put into practice -- the notion of enjoying good food in small portions!
And while this is a far cry from "in person", I do like catching Mirielle live whenever possible.
Mirielle on NBC's Today Show:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16625034/
Mirielle with Borders Book Club:
http://www.bordersmedia.com/frenchwomen/default.asp
Posted by: Gina at January 22, 2007 10:31 AM
Thanks! :) I wish I could, but Iowa just isn't close to KoP...
Speaking of CRON-o-Meter, I also am having problems with the interface.. it's not particularly intuitive and it doesn't have the flexibility I'd like.. That, and there's an obvious bug (Aaron, it doesn't sort by columns, even when you select it).. all that said, it is definitely a useful tool, and perhaps we can give Aaron suggestions as to what we'd like the interface to be? Or even better yet, we could come to some kind of community consensus on what would be the "best" interface (easiest to use and find stuff), then altering COM (or writing equivalent software).. There's got to be a way to make COM the best-looking and most-efficient CR software out there!
Posted by: Gregg M. at January 22, 2007 12:25 PM
Hi April, the one thing that Mireille Guiliano never mentions is the Parisian women's smoking. Smoking is known to kill or reduce appetite. Paris smells in many places like an ashtray, alas, which is how Prague smells too. Pretty places, pity about the stick..
Posted by: Shefaly at January 23, 2007 3:11 AM