Fallback Meals

I'm getting a lot of good ideas from this thread (and hope others
are too). Thanks! My current to-dos (complicated by the fact
that the fridge has to house my daughter's birthday cake later
today): get chicken and other ingredients for stir-frying or for
salads. (I need to put together an all-purpose Thai-style version
that I can do quickly!) Start prepping a batch of faux-tatoes...

I do feel I should not eat so much bacon and other processed
meats. I have been eating much more of them than usual and am
uncomfortable with that.

THANKS!!!!!
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Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

In article , "Jean B." wrote:

I'm getting a lot of good ideas from this thread (and hope others
are too). Thanks! My current to-dos (complicated by the fact
that the fridge has to house my daughter's birthday cake later
today): get chicken and other ingredients for stir-frying or for
salads. (I need to put together an all-purpose Thai-style version
that I can do quickly!) Start prepping a batch of faux-tatoes...

I do feel I should not eat so much bacon and other processed
meats. I have been eating much more of them than usual and am
uncomfortable with that.

THANKS!!!!!

Those prepackaged, pre-cut, frozen vegetable stir-fries are a godsend to
me, since fresh vegetables always seem to go bad before I can use them all.
Sam's Club has a couple of varieties that I like, some of the vegetables
are the moderately higher carb ones like red peppers and onions, but
usually the bulk of them is brocolli. If you get one with the sauce
packets in them, don't use them because they're sugary and they don't taste
so good anyway. I usually cook the veggies in olive oil and soy sauce, and
season with garlic, salt, and pepper. I add leftover meat of whatever sort
we have in the fridge, or I thaw some frozen shrimp while the veggies are
cooking and add them for the last 3 minutes of cooking.

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-Michelle Levin (Luna)
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I do a Thai Green Curry stir fry with catfish, sweet (Vidalia type) onions,
green peppers and sometimes eggplant. I follow the recipe for the curry on
the green curry jar, it uses a can of coconut milk and some fish sauce,
except that I omit the sugar it calls for. I don't substitute for that,
have never put it in as my SO doesn't like anything sweet (except me). I
cook him some rice to eat with his but just eat mine plain. This is
something we have loved even before I started lo carbing.

"Jean B." wrote in message ...
I'm getting a lot of good ideas from this thread (and hope others
are too). Thanks! My current to-dos (complicated by the fact
that the fridge has to house my daughter's birthday cake later
today): get chicken and other ingredients for stir-frying or for
salads. (I need to put together an all-purpose Thai-style version
that I can do quickly!) Start prepping a batch of faux-tatoes...

I do feel I should not eat so much bacon and other processed
meats. I have been eating much more of them than usual and am
uncomfortable with that.

THANKS!!!!!
--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Luna wrote:

In article , "Jean B." wrote:

I'm getting a lot of good ideas from this thread (and hope others
are too). Thanks! My current to-dos (complicated by the fact
that the fridge has to house my daughter's birthday cake later
today): get chicken and other ingredients for stir-frying or for
salads. (I need to put together an all-purpose Thai-style version
that I can do quickly!) Start prepping a batch of faux-tatoes...

I do feel I should not eat so much bacon and other processed
meats. I have been eating much more of them than usual and am
uncomfortable with that.

THANKS!!!!!

Those prepackaged, pre-cut, frozen vegetable stir-fries are a godsend to
me, since fresh vegetables always seem to go bad before I can use them all.
Sam's Club has a couple of varieties that I like, some of the vegetables
are the moderately higher carb ones like red peppers and onions, but
usually the bulk of them is brocolli. If you get one with the sauce
packets in them, don't use them because they're sugary and they don't taste
so good anyway. I usually cook the veggies in olive oil and soy sauce, and
season with garlic, salt, and pepper. I add leftover meat of whatever sort
we have in the fridge, or I thaw some frozen shrimp while the veggies are
cooking and add them for the last 3 minutes of cooking.

I have never used such packages, and they sound like a great
idea. I'm going to work on my own sauces to go with them. I did
pick up some xanthan gum yesterday--and more interesting
ingredients. Otherwise I've been preoccupied with my daughter's
birthday. (I doubt I have the time to get into that tonight
though.) Turns out SHE has a cold too, and I will probably be
next. I need to try to fend it off with Zicam. Hope you feel
better soon.


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Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

FOB wrote:

I do a Thai Green Curry stir fry with catfish, sweet (Vidalia type) onions,
green peppers and sometimes eggplant. I follow the recipe for the curry on
the green curry jar, it uses a can of coconut milk and some fish sauce,
except that I omit the sugar it calls for. I don't substitute for that,
have never put it in as my SO doesn't like anything sweet (except me). I
cook him some rice to eat with his but just eat mine plain. This is
something we have loved even before I started lo carbing.


Well, that's sure easy enough. I like the curry in jars, although
it doesn't have as much flavor as the curries I grind myself.
Sometimes, like now, it is just nice to be able to open up that
jar...

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Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA