IMBY Diet Day - 4 &5
I was up late last night so I didn’t get around to jotting the days diet down.
Day 4
Breakfast: Omelette & potato gritz
Omelette
Ingredients: green onion, red onion, beet leaves, 2 eggs, and hamburger. And I added zucchini last minute. In a pan I fried up the hamburger with the medium chopped red onion, green onion, beet leaves, and I shredded some zucchini. After it was all cooked I moved it to a bowl. In a different bowl I scrambled 2 eggs together; the pan was all greased up from the hamburger so I poured the egg on the pan, added the mixture and made an omelette.
The omelette was very good. It turned out great.
Potato stix:
In request to Amy I made these and I will probably make them again. They were awesome!
Ingredients: hamburger grease and one large potato.
I had a pan greased with hamburger fat. I used a cheese shredder to shred the pieces of potato on the pan and fried it up. The potato pieces kept sticking together so they kind of made a patty like form. Again it the potato was awesome! I will now crave this.
Lunch: Carrot and apple power juice:
Ingredients: 8 carrots, 8 Apples
I used the Hamilton beach juicer and put all the ingredients in it, to expect the outcome to be a glass of juice and some pulp. This was an ultimate failure. The Hamilton beach juicer it absolute crap. I was not very hungry and I didn’t have time to make a large meal so I wanted to try out this juicer. All I got was a shot. The pulp was still full of juice, I tried to use a strainer and push the juice out by had. It was such a mess. I gave up and just blended the remainder of the carrots and apples in the magic bullet. If the juicer worked it would have been awesome. If I added wild ginger it would make it even better. Does anyone know if the Jack Lalanne juicer works well?
Supper: Steak and vegetables
Ingredients: rib eye steaks, potatoes, yellow beans, peas, and carrots.
The beans, peas and carrots were placed in a steamer then all ready to go.
Tin foiled the potato and put it on the BBQ, Steaks thawed them out put them on the BBQ.
This meal had the potential to be great but I cooked the steaks for way too long. Kind of embarrassing since I had guests over for dinner. (Thank you Beth and Hayley for helping make supper and for supporting me, by also eating 100 IMBY diet (In Meaghan’s back yard for you two I guess)). I tried to eat the steak but it was way too dry, even the dogs were having a hard time eating the scraps. But... The vegetables were very excellent. Everything tastes good steamed. I recommend everyone to get a steamer, best appliance I have ever bought.
Day 5:
Brunch: Cabbage rolls
Ingredients: Cabbage and (leftovers from the omelette mix above)
I microwaved the hamburger mix filling that I used in my omelette yesterday and I steamed some cabbage. When cabbage was ready and cooled I placed it flat on a plate, added the hammy mix and then rolled the cabbage. Then done. I was going to go further and shred some potato and stick it in the oven to get a little crispy, but at that point I was too hungry to be patient.
Supper: Thanksgiving in August.
Ingredients: Whole chicken, celery, garden garlic, wild garlic, potatoes, zucchini, red onion, green onion and parsley.
Thawed the chicken out and dropped it in a pan. Chopped up all the vegetable and herbs and stuffed it in the chicken. Also placed small whole potatoes around the chicken.
Put it in the oven at 300 F (I think…) and let it cook for 5 hours.
Results: The stuffing was great I would totally make it again, and for people who can not have gluten this probably a great alternative. The chicken was a little dry I left it in a bit too long, but was much better than the steaks.
Today I noticed I was not very hungry and I did not crave anything. I was very surprised, so either I finally cleansed myself from process foods, or because it was really hot today… maybe both factors.
Today something exciting happened, my wish was answered. It turns out “The Healing Arc” was having an open house so my Dad and I went to check it out. The Healing Arc is where they sell SEA BUCKTHORN!!! We bought 10 females and 3 males for our orchard. I am very excited for its berries next year. Also the woman at the open house showed us proper management and harvesting of the berries. These plants are amazing 8 of the berries will provide you with your daily vitamin C, they can withstand temperature of -40 to +40, they are drought tolerant, the berries do not spoil quickly so you can take up to 3 weeks to harvest them and These trees grow very fast. And I will admit I did cheat on my diet I did try a couple berries, but mainly because the lady was very nice and very insistent. Oops…
Lastly, I found some chicory last night!!!! Which equals caffeine? Even though I do not feel I need it anymore I still want to try it.
“Supposedly it takes twenty minutes before the brain gets the word that the belly is full; unfortunately most of us take considerably less than twenty minutes to finish a meal. with the result that the sensation of feeling full exerts little if any influence on how much we eat. What this is suggesting is that eating more slowly, and then consulting our sense of satiety, might help us to eat less.” Michael Pollan. In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto. Pg 193.
