Support for low-fat high-fiber diet

yep, me and ned just keep wildly dancing...

right on!

laura

This is good, it came from the Mayo Clinic site, and is pretty close to what we got at the Baltimore Museum.

Ingredients
1 medium-sized fennel bulb, thinly sliced
1 large Granny Smith apple, cored and thinly sliced
2 carrots, grated
2 tablespoons raisins
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup apple juice
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
4 lettuce leaves



Directions
In a large bowl, combine the fennel, apple, carrots and raisins to make the slaw. Drizzle with olive oil, cover and refrigerate.

In a small saucepan, mix together the sugar and apple juice. Place over medium heat and cook until reduced to about 1/4 cup, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool. Stir in the cider vinegar. Pour the apple juice mixture over the slaw and stir to combine well. Chill thoroughly. Serve on lettuce leaves.

crap i feel guilty posting here i ate so BAD this weekend...
love the salad, rose///will definitely try this week...do you really think it needs the sugar...

man why is the diet so hard to follow these days of parties, celebrations and downright decadent living?

sorry but post bc dx i feel guilty and sad about precious little!


happy monday!
laura

Laura,

I know what you mean by post bc not feeling guilty about things. But i do feel guilty about blowing my diet too if I do it too often because it's part of my "war" against recurrence. exercise is the same--though I don't skip that too much.

Just need to put the blowing the diet behind us and get back on tract--it's Monday!!

Well, today our paper has the newest American Heart Asso. recommendations on transfats--

They recommend limiting trans fats to less than 1 percent of our total calories. And they suggest we get in the habit of cooking with healthier oils and not concentrating so much on all fats, but the bad fats. In addition to transfats, they recommend we limit saturated fats to no more than 7 percent of our daily calories (they state most Americans consume 11 percent daily.) Saturated and transfats raise LDL--the bad cholesterol.

They've got lots of other recommendations too. They look like the suggestions we've been making to each other here on this thread. Guess we're right in step with the Heart Association. DH (former president of our state's Heart Asso.)is one of those docs who's had us doing this for years.

Within the last year, I think, the amount of transfats in our processed foods from the grocery store has to be on the label. But I can't remember when I've seen that on a sack when I buy donuts--for my mother, of course. She says she's too old not to eat what she wants.

It's an AP article--probably in your local paper, too.

i put my money on you cowgirl in the war against fat...

you can do it and let the little hottie within sashay around the great state of texas...

what do you need from us, how can we help!

if this is what it takes to make you feel real good about yourself...
game on!

i would feel better if i put on your excess lbs...
so

i will try and gain the first fifteen pounds you loose...

deal?

laura
too skinny, borderline anorexic

I so wish there was an easy way to pound-swap! I know people who need to keep it on and just can't and I'd be willing to donate to them (hopefully this offer is only good for a few mre months!!)

I need Tex Mex that is good and yet healthy laura! I know I need to make better choices but Tex Mex is Delicious!

Somehow right now with me running to moms every day I am eating very unhealthy, as well as my family.

I need to plan out meals, and get my head in the game(sorry I really do adore football). I am like a player looking around wondering why we are loosing and not helping any at all.

I am still off soda, down to two cups of coffee a day. But my food is whatever I can grab and eat in two minutes. Course I am barely cooking, and my veggies were rotten. So I threw those out yesterday.

I guess I am needing something I can eat quick and easy but tasty.

I do the weekly plan thing too and it works great. You can plan to have stuff that needs to be fresh at the beginning then stuff that can be in the freezer at the end of the week. I shop on Wednesday night so will be doing next weeks meal plan later this afternoon. Is a great way to stay on track.

Trying to decide what to cook is always the hardest for me - if that's done I can do the rest pretty easily.

I was just mentioning to my son that the hardest part of cooking is coming up with the ideas. He gave me the same suggestion--get it planned out in advance for a week. I'm so unorganized in a grocery store that if I've got a plan I don't have the stuff. Summer is easier: when in doubt, salmon on the grill!

Thanks gals you know what works! Sunday I will do some planning, that is the day I am not going to Moms.

My portion control is way off too Rose, you are so right. It is a thing that I have to do portions first then lowfat.

Thanks so much!

I think you come out ahead to speed shop. They design the whole darn store to sell you stuff!

The more you wander around in the store the more likely you are to impulse buy. Even though you tell yourself you'll only have a few chips or cookies or ice cream, if you buy it you'll end up eating it!

I used to work for a woman, a Math Stat, who made shopping lists for two weeks at a time. She had a big freezer. She would stop and get more milk at the gas station, but otherwise it was to the store twice a month. I'd have lunch with her and she's pencil the whole thing out...

That woman was not low-fat/high-fiber, if you go heavy on processed it's easier to stock up on things. She had a crock pot and did a lot with that. Any crock pot devotees here?

I have a seperate freezer but it's not plugged in. We bought a new fridge that had a bigger freezer section and I didn't need it anymore. I'd freeze stuff and forget about it since it was in another part of the house.

Yeah - new carpet. Is this a house you're going to sell soon?

We had a leaky roof that used to cause us to have to sleep in the living room when it snowed a lot. When we went to sell the realtor insisted we fix it. It didn't cost much at all and I wished we'd done it sooner.

So the next house had an old roof. We had it re-roofed before it even started to leak. I've learned that lesson myself!

This clay pot cooking - a california thing?