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First one is day 2 post op heart surgery dinner. Are about half. The second and third are the after picture and nutrition info from dinner today (post op day 4 and a full day home). Used about 1/2 a serving of sauce to a full serving of dumplings. As you can see, I ate a half serving. Im gonna have an ensure max protein shake with my medicine and go to bed.

Meals and snacks yesterday (minus a small handful of corn nuts) avocado toast with cucumber and coffee canned (tinned) peaches and peanut butter Sautéed peppers and onions with garlic basil polenta and sugar free pancake syrup blueberries and strawberries with cranberry almond granola and coconut milk Greek yogurt Mini vegan chick’n slider with sugar free bbq sauce and tomatoes.

Homemade mix of sweet and sour and general tso’s chicken but with vegan nuggets (on clearance for $1.59 a bag!) with rice. Yogurt gummy snacks I bought my kid but they say they hate them now so I’m eating them. Chopped salad with crispy corn tortillas- pinto beans, tomatoes, onions, bell pepper, jalapeño, tajin, cumin, and lime juice

I was in the large family that celebrated/soothed everything with food. Sad? Have a cookie you’ll feel better! Good grades? Have some ice cream! Birthday? Don’t forget the cake! Going to a reunion? Make sure you bring the potato salad and pink stuff! Oh someone died? Don’t forget the luncheon and the funeral potatoes and pie. But dinners most week nights were my responsibility after age 10 so we ate a lot of latchkey ability dinners- spaghetti, white people tacos (tortillas, ground beef, shredded cheese, iceberg lettuce and sour cream), and Mac and cheese with peas and tuna mixed in, and potato surprise (mashed potatoes, ground beef, peas, and shredded cheese). Now? I’m still the one cooking even for holidays and such. I don’t regret it but I do make better choices now that I know better…. Most of the time.

Hi, I’m the problem 😂

More oatmeal (photo halfway through) a hummus veggie bowl (before and after) and vegan pizza and salad for today (and 9 Hershey kisses throughout the day)

Chocolate peanut butter and strawberry oatmeal and coffee, ice coffee and Italian bread with red lentil “ragu”. Dessert was another slice of Italian bread with a glob of peanut butter.

Breakfast- toast with ricotta, chopped dates, and honey with coffee (and zero sugar peppermint mocha creamer lunch- vegetable soup with cannellini beans dinner- tofu and veggie stir fry with peanut sauce.

She’s doing better. She got a dialysis fistula and a port (for labs and meds) placed in October. She’s still working with physical therapy and a home health nurse to get stronger. I on the other hand and currently on medical leave until after heart surgery because even walking into work leaves me short of breath when a few short months ago I was hiking miles and it turns out my congenital heart defect has acutely gotten worse over the past year. 😭

Most meals are between 300-500 calories each except the sushi was like 250. I’ve been eating a lot of eggs the past week but am definitely not doing the egg fast diet again! And most of these “meals” are things I pick at for a couple hours. Today’s lunch (the last picture) I made at 3pm and finished around 630pm. It’s roasted butternut squash with sautéed kale, garlic, onion, and shiitake rice.

I rarely ever finish a meal in one sitting and it usually I either graze on it or eat it the next meal. However I am 2yrs out from revisions (one lifesaving) and can eat 2 scrambled eggs and half an English muffin for a meal most of the time.

I’ve been eating a lot of eggs lately. The pancakes I ate half a stack (kid and I split them to try) and didn’t eat the other half and sent home with the kid. 😂 Also, these fryums from the Indian grocery are a new addiction by air frying at 400 for 3 minutes.

A lot of the recipes in that book are really tasty. This is the cover with the name.

Breakfast today and the recipe nutrition info includes the toast

Hear me out- whipped cottage cheese with whatever you want mixed in- I suggest going the fruity route and mixing chopped figs and pecans and a drizzle of honey and freezing first.

I, too, am always cold 😭 Also, is anyone else eating a ton of cottage cheese (with a variety of toppings) lately?

Demi-baguettes, cranberry walnut bread, soup 😍 and meatball subs on the Demi-baguettes with salad. I did not take an after picture of the meatball sub dinner but failed to eat most of the salad and only most of the sub.

Not a clue, I drink it year round but I’m an odd duck. Made soup yesterday and it was 90f/32c outside. 😂 🤷‍♀️

Veggie fried rice, rice with furikake, and inarizushi (I also ate one full sushi and 2 of the pouches without the rice in them while making them).

The trick to eggs- baking soda in the water. And then ice bath right away after cooking. Also, I use an egg cooker so I poke a tiny hole in each egg before cooking it. I don’t cook boil them anymore and that seems to help.

The back of my pumpkin spice spice bottle

Did a whole bunch of errands today and by the time I got home I was starving! Starting at the avocado and going clockwise- sliced avocado, strawberries, blueberries, fontina, Roth blue cheese, espresso bellavitano, pizza Gouda, salame calabrese, prosciutto, coppa Italiana, salame Milano, snack mix and cinnamon toast cookies and dry cured olives The leftovers (including the plate) went into a bag for breakfast in the morning. Calories adjusted to what I ate.

I’m sad that the work salad was $6.50! Anyway- baked Parmesan meatballs a spicy chicken bacon ranch flatbread pizza thing and green beans (only are 3/4 the pizza and half the green beans) very crispy green beans roasted in bacon fat paprika marinated chicken and mozzarella nooch zucchini with soy sesame cucumbers

I’m sad that the work salad was $6.50! Anyway- baked Parmesan meatballs a spicy chicken bacon ranch flatbread pizza thing and green beans (only are 3/4 the pizza and half the green beans) very crispy green beans roasted in bacon fat paprika marinated chicken and mozzarella nooch zucchini with soy sesame cucumbers

I purposefully buy it because im the only one in my house who’ll eat it so I know it’s safe. 😂