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Yes, very important for you to follow guidelines. Sorry you both have troubling health issues, hope you are doing better.
You can still do the fresh veggies cut and ready to use or snack on...
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Originally Posted by CSD610
Unfortunately we do not have the ability to do the things you listed.
I have to have ingredient lists and nutrition labels on everything.
Mr. CSD is diaabetic and I have an auto immune liver disease and I had a stroke 2 years ago on August 18.
With the daily medications and dietary needs we do eat at home most of the time.
so easy to make a bad decision if you are tired and hungry.
Yes, yes, yes to the chicken stir fry with peanut sauce!
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Originally Posted by klaucka
This sounds great, going to try this next week. Given our late nights at work we usually make bad last minute decisions to go out to eat, so I want to try to prep some meals on Sunday that could be eaten maybe twice during the week. I also think a chicken stir fry with a bottled peanut sauce, soy or hoisin sauce can work too. Just do the veggie chopping on sunday and steam up the rice in a rice cooker on Monday.
I also keep frozen stir-fry vegetables in the freezer, though I'm not happy with the frozen stir-fry vegetables from BJ's... too many carrots in the mix.[/quote]
This seemed like such an innocent thread; I'm shocked at all the judgy posters. You're welcome to come over and try to get my husband (who owns a business and works erratic hours) and my three busy kids (a college student, a high school student, and a middle schooler) "on a schedule" so we can all eat the same thing at the same time every day.
Back to the topic, I've never been able to cook a chicken at home that was as tasty and juicy as a store-bought rotisserie chicken. With a little creativity, I can get two or even three meals out of it (pot pie, chicken salad, etc.)
We always have hummus and raw vegetables (carrots, celery, cucumber, bell peppers) on hand for those frequent moments when someone is starving.
I try not to rely on frozen premade foods, but Trader Joe's has a few that we like and that are pretty healthful, especially their Indian entrees like saag paneer and channa masala, so I usually have a couple of those around.
Pre-chopped fresh vegetables at the supermarket, some raw meat like ground turkey, and throw them both onto the pan. Some cooking oil onto the pan, add some everything spice from Trader Joes (for flavor, and to extend its shelf life after cooking), and after 5 to 10 minutes of cooking, meal is served! Well, no starch, but toast some bread, a can of no salt added corn, cook up pasta, or leftover starch, and you're still good to go!
You do have to clean up by putting leftovers into touperware to fridge, but getting pre-chopped veggies has been a time saver for me since I'm still not proficient at chopping quickly.
With you on the mixed salads with nuts or etc. I like one particular Asian mix...so easy and I always eat the entire bag, no waste like with lettuce, as you said...
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Originally Posted by gentlearts
I have found that many one pot dinners are enhanced by a few handfuls of fresh spinach. I almost always have a bag or two in the fridge. Similarly, I'm a recent convert to the pre packaged salad mixes. There are a few with kale and shredded Brussels sprouts, nuts, berries and dressings, that we love.
I used to pass these by for cost reasons but I figure I save throwing out a lot of lettuce and expired salad dressings.
Need to do better re having fresh veggies ready to eat...sounds like you have a great meal planning program!
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LOL!
It's not planning so much as a giant basket full of fruits and veggies sitting on our counter and endless trips to the grocery store (which luckily is less than 0.5 miles away).
I go to the Costco for the paper goods (like my blue Charmin), and then I just grab chicken breasts out of the freezer section.
A couple of years ago, we bought a freezer for the garage. Man, that's changed things. We bought a grass-fed wagyu cow and split it 4 ways with some friends. Half a side of awesome, healthy, tasty beef in the garage freezer.
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