Like weight loss before and after photos but of your new diet !

I'm especially interested in before and after meal photos (take a pic at the point you feel restriction) but it can be of recipe substitutions, your refrigerator/pantry/shopping cart/etc

VSG2017 HW 249 SW 238 CW 167

6 hours ago, Sophie7713 said:

I just ordered Nutrition Stripped: 100 whole food recipes. I will enjoy exploring both sites including One Green Planet. Not to mention, these little perfect bite sized superfood treats to die for. Did you make and photograph these, too? They are textured and sculpted beautifully... Look so forward to discovering more scrumptious delectables + recipes. Fun! Quality carbs so important for fueling body and brain. I become quite foggy and fussy without them.

Appreciate that you're curious about - and open to - exploring plant-based foods! That's a pretty good cookbook, too, one of a handful that we use regularly.

My kind, thoughtful daughter makes various energy bars for the family almost every week. She's only 13, but has already developed a great deal of capability in the kitchen (and elsewhere!). Years of massive kitchen waste and mess led to this point ?, but it was all worth it because she'll carry these skills and this confidence in herself for the rest of her life. We just use a food-safe silicone mold to shape them: I've found that something like this is roughly the perfect size for virtually every kind of post-op treat.

Love the New Yorker and Bruce Kaplan. Thank you for that, and am attaching another of his cartoons in kind:

Edited July 9, 20206 yr by PollyEster

This was our lockdown project; repurposing an old storage shed on our property into a summer cottage-slash-studio, instead of tearing it down. It was a quick-ish job because we just wanted to be able to enjoy it this summer, but we're using it so often that we've decided we'd like to have it year-round, so are planning on insulation and drywall, new wiring, etc. as next steps. There's always tea or soup on at the cottage!

2 hours ago, PollyEster said:

Thank you for that, and am attaching another of his cartoons in kind...

Oops, obviously this is a Barbara Smaller cartoon. But BEK has done a many humorous interior design-related cartoons for the New Yorker as well. You might even have collected the whole set!

7 hours ago, PollyEster said:

This was our lockdown project; repurposing an old storage shed on our property into a summer cottage-slash-studio, instead of tearing it down. It was a quick-ish job because we just wanted to be able to enjoy it this summer, but we're using it so often that we've decided we'd like to have it year-round, so are planning on insulation and drywall, new wiring, etc. as next steps. There's always tea or Soup on at the cottage!

love it - it looks like a very restful place!

Convenience food

On 7/8/2020 at 1:31 AM, PollyEster said:

Required fuel (yes, I'm referring to the bariatric "c" word: carbs! ?) for distance cycling and running: raw vegan superfood squares, loosely inspired by these two recipes.

These look YUM

10 hours ago, PollyEster said:

This was our lockdown project; repurposing an old storage shed on our property into a summer cottage-slash-studio, instead of tearing it down. It was a quick-ish job because we just wanted to be able to enjoy it this summer, but we're using it so often that we've decided we'd like to have it year-round, so are planning on insulation and drywall, new wiring, etc. as next steps. There's always tea or Soup on at the cottage!

Jeezus. You do all this for fun? You have a viable career change option if you ever decided to. I can only imagine how fabulous you are in your day job ?

1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

Convenience food

Done. Making saucy chicken wings tomorrow! ? ?

Edited July 9, 20206 yr by ms.sss

Drove out of the city for some patio time by a lake yesterday.

First pic, 1/2 dozen oysters w/ mignonette sauce (ate em all along with 2 glasses of wine, not shown): 244 calories

Second pic, are what I am now going to refer to as DEATH TARTS (Portugese custard tarts w/ scoop of vanilla gelato). I ate one tart and all the gelato: 329 calories.

Eating the tart is the likely culprit to my evening of nausea, cold sweats, & lethargy. I spent pretty much the remainder of the day on the couch oscillating between feeling death-y and sleeping. Lesson learned? Probably not. ?

It was crazy hot out yesterday and anything frozen was half melted by the time it got to our table..!

3 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Convenience food

These wings look perfect ??

Avocado toast topped with a running egg, everything bagel seasoning, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and red pepper chili flakes. Obsessed. I was only able to eat one.

On 7/8/2020 at 1:31 AM, PollyEster said:

Required fuel (yes, I'm referring to the bariatric "c" word: carbs! ?) for distance cycling and running: raw vegan superfood squares, loosely inspired by these two recipes.

Your photos and food .... AMAZING! ??? you are super talented!

On 7/8/2020 at 1:31 AM, PollyEster said:

Required fuel (yes, I'm referring to the bariatric "c" word: carbs! ?) for distance cycling and running: raw vegan superfood squares, loosely inspired by these two recipes.

Your 13yr old daughter made these?

7 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Convenience food

How many did you eat ?

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Your 13yr old daughter made these?

She’s been making these since about age 6 or 7. Simple no-bake recipes like these are perfect for younger kids; they can easily manage them on their own (with an adult nearby when using the mixer), especially if just rolling into balls or bars. I had a food blog for many years, and both my kids were helping out (and I use that term veeeeery loosely ? because basically it meant everything took 20 times longer and was 50 times messier) by the time they were 3 with little things like mashing foods, stirring batter, shaking liquids, kneading dough, rinsing fruit and veg, helping with grocery shopping, etc. Both had their first nylon knife and peeler sets by age 5, could read recipes (kids cookbooks) and make them without any help by age 6, and my daughter cooked and served an entire plant-based holiday meal for us by herself last year.

She’s been obsessed with watching Kids Baking Championship and Chopped Jr. for years now. Since kids summer cooking camp was cancelled this year, we got her a monthly subscription service for a kit that includes ingredients, recipes, a video cooking lesson, a new kitchen tool, and fun dinner conversation starters – takes some pressure off of me, plus I don’t have to cook as often, win-win!