Today my good food choice was...

gardengumby

Yoghurt with flaxseed for breakfast - I had no idea it was a phytoestrogen - I need to check with my oncologist as my naturopath recommended I include it in my diet....

For dinner brown rice, spinach and duck.  had no time for lunch

For late "snack" tonight will have crab legs and a glass of wine.    gotta celebrate a little!!

SAB

They had whole wheat pasta at the restaurant so I had that, a dish with chicken breast, sun dried tomato and arugula and half a tomato stuffed artichoke. I did fall down and eat a slice of bread with oil and garlic, but did not even lift my spoon for the perfideroles or chocolate souffle that was brought to the table.  Worst thing I did was a half glass of 1989 chardonnay champagne (oh yum) and a very small pour of Silverado cabernet. All topped off with a nonfat cappucino.  Oh, it has been a LONG time since I had a dinner like that.

Today I stuck to wasa and peanut butter and walked 5 miles.  At dinner it was pasta night again, topped with an eggplant mixture I made.  

I would definitely say I fell off the wagon!  Chasing after it though, and hope to hop on tomorrow (after my midnight vodka tonight)

My wishes for a happy and HEALTHY 2012 to everyone. 

CorinneM1

I was good yesterday.  Shiitake mushroom sushi for dinner with lots of green tea. 

Today will be a watercress salad for lunch.  I had 2 omega 3 scrambled eggs for breakfast. 

Tonight will be my treat night.  Caesar salad, king crab legs, steamed artichokes, crusty multi-grain french bread and a dessert TBD.  Thinking either bread pudding or making a pumpkin pie.  Going on a 30 min run and will decide then.

Momine

stage1, which herb teas are phytoestrogenic?

Kay_G

I was pretty good yesterday. Had oatmeal with strawberries for breakfast, just a couple of apples for lunch/snack, and whole wheat quesadilla with portobello mushrooms, spinach, a small bit of cheese and salsa. Did have some nachos with black beans, jalapeños, salsa and cheese. Mostly good choices I think. I am even beginning to like oatmeal. Not love it, but like it.

cupcakies

Had vegetable pho for lunch today for the first time. It wasn't bad!

For afternoon snack, had a chocolate smoothie - almond milk, ghiradelli cocoa powder, and frozen banana. SO GOOD! 

KeepingFaith69

Asparagus and salmon for dinner.  This morning I had a green smoothie, YUM.  Lunch will be a green salad and tuna.  Heading off for a walk shortly, life is MAGNIFICENT

CorinneM1

Veggie pho?  I never heard of veggie pho.  Beef of course, chicken sometimes and seafood but not veggie.  I am on the lookout now.  I loved me a big ole bowl of pho in the winter.  But I can't do beef anymore, and not sure if I would do the chicken either.

CorinneM1

Good choices today included veggie lentil soup and a small side of hummas with pita chips and 2 cups of green tea.

Tonight will be veggie curry/indian with veggie samosas.

AmyIsStrong

I would LOVE some veggie curry and samosas. Do you make or buy them? Send a recipe for the curry if you have one. 

My good choice was: I threw away the rest of the Christmas cookies and am ready to start eating healthy again. This holiday season was sort of brutal. Clean start, new beginning. Here we go! 

CorinneM1

I bought them from Trader Joes.  The veggie curry is a curry sauce from trader joes, and I add in carrots, peas, brocolli, mushrooms and onion--really whatever I have in the fridge.  I saute these in a bit of EVOO (first the onion, other veggies and add the peas in last) and then add on the sauce to warm and simmer for a bit.  Serve over basmati rice, brown rice or naan.

Kay_G

I love the trader joes curry sauce too. I have only stir fried chicken and made it. Thanks for the idea. I am going to try the veggie curry.

calamtykel

I follow this thread often - I like it~!    I wanted to share about flax, since a lot of people have questions on it.  ---http://foodforbreastcancer.com/foods/flaxseed  

Foodforbrfeastcancer is a great site!  It's been invaluable to me - all the studies all in one place, just type in the food.

 My naturopath has me on flax capsules - they are a B6 vitamin.  

My healthy food choice were three eggs for breakfast (we have chickens...   and a banana and no-sugar all natural peanut butter for lunch.  I won't pretend that I didn't also have coffee today..(organic...)  Thanks to these BC boards, I now have a stainless steel percolator instead of my drip coffee maker that uses paper filters with possible toxins and heated plastic which we're supposed to avoid I guess.  I never thought of these things until someone on here introduced me to percolators last year.   

Dinner - our Sam's club has a pound of organic spring greens or organic spinach for $3.81!  CRAZY good price!   so that's dinner for me --along with an avacado, walnuts, olives, goat cheese and chia seeds sprinkled on top.  And my 9 year old saw me making it and wanted one too -- it's great when we can set a good example for our kids!

Avacado's apparently are pretty contraversal for BC, but I was really starving and wanted a treat - and I rarely ever get them because they're so expensive.     Some studies say no...some studies say yes for breast cancer....

I avoid wheat at all costs, and try to avoid all cane sugar. 

 I have one grain splurge a day and that is popcorn every night.  Our local healthfood store carries organic popcorn in bulk, so no GMO's...sometimes I put turmeric and rosemary on it - always olive oil with gray Celtic sea salt!

 I also try to incorporate some kind of homemade veggie juice once a day just to make sure I'm getting enough veggies.  Usually it's kale juice, but sometimes carrot. 

I find eating healthy fairly easy - because when I don't do it, I really feel it since for the past several years (even before BC) I've cut sugar almost out.   The holidays have been rough - I baked lots of cookies for people and I have four kids, so it's been hard...but I'm ready to get back on the wagon now!

AmyIsStrong

Why are avocados controversial for women with bc? Never heard that....

SAB

My good choices today included baked asparagus, red onion and avocado over spring greens with 1/3 of an organic chicken breast and a sprinkle of almonds and chia for lunch.  Green tea, an inch of dark chocolate and oranges for snack. A veggie, bean and barley soup for dinner, served with brown rice and grilled bok choy and portabello mushrooms.

Another good choice:  walking past all the food sample tables at Costco today! 

SAB

Well the mushroom and bok choy never got made, but everything else was good.  I wanted to get back on and say thanks to clamtykel for the link.  It was very interesting, but as always, frustrating in that there is so much conflicting information.  

Who knows the healthiest way to make popcorn?  Is it an air popper?  Someone told me you can put organic kernels in a brown paper bag and microwave...has anyone tried it that way? 

cupcakies

For dinner tonight we had healthy eggplant parm: 

eggplant slices coated w/ annies organic mustard, then dredged in whole wheat flour + whole wheat bread crumbs. Baked (w/o any oil), then topped w/ organic tomato sauce & daiya cheese. It was surprisingly good, low fat, and very filling! 

For an evening snack, i had 1/2 a serving of popcorn indiana kettlecorn. SO good.. perfectly sweet & salty   

cupcakies

I'd also like to know why avocados are bad for bc?

Since going vegan, I have avocados pretty frequently and hope it's not a bad thing.. 

KeepingFaith69

Brekky - Green smoothie with chlorella and green tea
Lunch - Chillie Veges and green tea
Dinner - Curried sweet potatoe and Aubergine with brown rice and a green tea.
I LOVE this thread, it keeps me inspired. 
Wishing you all a positively wonderful day, filled with joy and great health

stage1

Mommie, I read on the natural girls thread that rooibos or red tea and other herb teas are phytoestrogens.  Go to the search at the top... and we had a conversation about it, I had bought some at Costco, thinking it was good for me, however, one of the members said it was not a good choice.  Green tea is good, and I heard white tea is good. I am going to have to do more research myself....

stage1

Whoops, I meant Momine

sagina

Hi everyone, been away from the boards for a few, the college DD is  home for a visit and keeping me busy and exhausted, didn't realize how much of a routine I was in, Whole Foods three or four times a week to pick up stuff to make for dinner...etc.....didn't happen this last two weeks!

I hadn't heard about avocados bad for bc either? I know that they are high in the good fat, and fat is fat if you're looking for a low fat diet...but I hadn't heard anything else.  I'm triple neg so I don't keep up with the other food issues for positive bc.

So I started my new year yesterday with a breakfast of colored swiss chard, sauteed with garlic and olive oil, with mushrooms, purple scallions, topped with a couple of grape tomatoes and chives.

Today I had my cheerios almond milk and I"m out of chia seed, need a Whole Foods fix - no trader joes here....

hymil

Banana on toast instead of chocolate spread. (while throwing out the Chistmas cookies)

Sorting out the old stuff in the freezer and the cupboards: looks like it will be defrosted veg soup for several weeks, mmmmm.

Tonight I've got Falafel mix with onion to mix in, good veggie stuff, and a sauce with lemon juice and yogurt.

Great to see this thread still going  New Year, new start! 

CorinneM1

Had a banana blueberry smoothie for breakfast and will have a veggie soup today for lunch.  Tonight will be leftover veggie curry from last night---it was really really good.  Sauted minced garlic, chopped into coins carrots, 1 chopped sweet onion and organic peas then covered with the curry sauce. Served over basmati rice with a veggie samosa.

Tomorrow I will be making my own pasta sauce (thanks to you ladies) and mushroom ravoli.  The mushroom ravoli comes from this little Italian deli store in the neighborhood where the grandma and daughters make lasagnas, pastas, tiarmisus etc and freeze them.  The mushroom and pumpkin are awesome.  My kids don't miss the meat or cheese ones at all.

SAB

Met an old girlfriend for lunch.  Chinese chicken salad (small) hold the wontons and the dressing on the side.  2 slices of fresh from the oven whole wheat sourdough, and yes, I dipped them in olive oil. Fruit and green tea for a snack and then I fell down (again) and had leftover multi grain pasta for dinner...but not too much! Will pay for all this on the treadmill tomorrow. 

KeepingFaith69

Green smoothie for breakfast.... yum!
For lunch I had a garden salad and tuna, green tea
Snack was a hand ful of prunes (please don;t tell me they are bad, I have removed sugar from my diet and prunes are a yummy alternaitve)
Dinner was stir fried aubergine and corgettes on brown rice.  Made a bit too much so that will be my dinner tomorrow.  Green tea
Need to get to the vege mart, I need to replenish (and change) my veges.  Cravinf spinach and mushroom, YUM.

Kay_G

Prunes are good! On another thread, they say they help to combat the bone loss from AI's. They are talking about marketing dark chocolate covered prunes to BC survivors. (not seriously though)

CorinneM1

Once again, I did not make the sauce.  My kids ate dinner at my moms, do I had leftover Indian.  TONIGHT!  I plan on making homemade sauce.

Anyone make Thai at home and have any good curry recipes to share?  My son is allergic to peanuts, so eating at a Thai place will never happen, but wanted to try to make a red, green or panang curry this weekend.  I love me a good veggie panang curry.

AmyIsStrong

FINALLY a whole good day of eating.  Healthy bfst and lunch and then chicken breast with scallions and snow peas in the wok, over brown rice. And NOTHING after that. (Evening eating has been my downfall with all the holiday treats around.) Plus a good solid hour on the treadclimber yesterday. Feeling back to normal and very happy. Now I just have to keep this going!

SusanHG

I have never posted on here, but today is a new day.  Need desperately to detox from the holidays.  Did ALL the hosting this year and am all cooked out.  Sitting drinking my green tea now, reduced my coffee down to a quarter cup this morning, and planning on making a big tuna salad for lunch.  Planning on a walk and maybe a trip on the elliptical as well...