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Day 58 Feed Day
by jmousey on 18 Nov 2013, 10:37
It was actually 8st 8 but then weighed again and 8st 7. I expected as much after last night and once again - I'm all bloated. Today I am cooking and running. I feel way better than Saturday. So did a 5mile run in 48 mins with a friend with no problem - so I must be on the mend. No acid - just the bloated gassy feeling - I'm sure a fast day will help Monday.
So I spent about 4 hours cooking - was exhausted afterwards but it was worth it. I made peanut butter cookies and butternut squash casserole. I think the casserole was tough just because the squash takes so long to prepare - it took me an hour to cut and peel one squash. Ridiculous. Anyway, the recipes are pasted below. For the casserole, I actually just used 3/4 cup of grana padana instead of the asiago and parmesan as I didn't have either and it was delicious. I didn't use bread crumbs either so my the calories for 4 portions were 234 cals, 17 carbs, 12 fat. bit carborific but you could probaly add other veg to lower it - such as zucchini which I will do next time.
Butternut Squash Casserole
Author: Erin Alderson
Recipe type: Side Dish
Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Serves: 3-4
4 cups butternut squash, peeled and cubed
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 egg
¼ cup cream cheese, room temperature (try craime fraiche or whatever I have)
½ cup parmesan cheese
1 cup asiago cheese
1 cup bread crumbs (JP try substitute ground almonds)
Preheat oven to 400˚.
Cube butternut squash in ½” cubes. Toss with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast for 15-20 minutes or until tender. Remove and place in a large bowl. Reduce oven to 350˚.
While squash cooks, whisk together cream cheese, egg, ¼ cup parmesan, ½ cup of asiago, and ½ cup of bread crumbs. Once squash is done, fold cream cheese mixture with the squash and place in a small baking dish (I used a 3 cup pyrex dish.)
Sprinkle remaining cheeses and breadcrumbs on top. Bake at 350˚ for 15-20 minutes or until cheese is melted. Serve hot.
Peanut Butter Cookies
half cup P2B Peanut butter
1/4 cup vanilla protein
2egg whites
1tsb baking powder
coconut flour to dry up
Mix the Peanut Butter and egg whites together, add baking powerder and vanilla protein powder. then I added 3 teaspoons of coconut flower. I don't think you actually need the protein powder to be honest so I'm going to try a variation of these. I got 7 mini cookies out of this- perfect to dull the cravings but quite dry. 57 cals per cookie and 3carbs.
My final experiment was with @fatdog's bread roll and they were delicious.
Fat Dog Bread Roll recipe tweaked
40g Coconut flour
30g ground brown linseed
30g oat bran,
pinch sweetner,
1egg &1egg yolk(all I had)
tea spoon baking powder
I mixed all dry ingredients and then the wet. I kept adding water as it was very dry. I got 4 good muffin shaped rolls out of this - delicious. Had one with butter. Think I probably could have added more water and made a less dense or fluffier version as they are quite heavy. It worked out at 129cals per roll, and 6.3 carbs. I was happy with that. I have to say, I much prefer the taste of linseed to the flaxseed I was buying. For the life of me I can't find out the difference between them. Flaxseed is quite herby and I'm not mad on it but really like the linseed. Anyway - the cooking was a success - I will try more bread rolls soon but I've a funny fastingweek this week so no point in cooking. Although I read somewhere that the ground linseed ( which I ground myself) will go off. So must do some research to see if that is true. I am desperately hoping to be about 8st 3 or 4 by Friday morning. That will be 2 weeks with no alcohol and eating quite litte.I just really need this gas to get out of my system - advice anyone?
Anyway my food today looked like this:
9am: peanut butter cookie(57)
2pm:butternut squash casserole ( 235), quark (126)
4pm: brown roll (129)
6pm: pork belly ( 447)
8pm: peanut butter cookie ( 57)
Total: 1016 cals and 36 carbs. Bit carborific but as Sundays go, this is about 1000 cals less than usual - I'm mightily impressed- didn't miss my takeaway at all. Wish it wasn't my birthday next week so I could practise another weekend like this. I have dinner fri night, spa weekend away Sat and Sunday dinner with parents. BUT then I have 2 weekends like this weekend so I won't beat myself up too much about it.
I give today a 7/10 as while the scales was disappointing ( hence low score), I loved cooking, running and doing the garden which I never get to do because I'm usually hungover. Here is to the new way of life for me
paleo friendly diet