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

Steak salad. Hubby ended up with about 1/3 of it. It was super yum!

Is that blue cheese I see dotted in your salad? So good. Have you tried letting a wedge melt on the top of your steak before serving. Delicious.

1 minute ago, Arabesque said:

Is that blue cheese I see dotted in your salad? So good. Have you tried letting a wedge melt on the top of your steak before serving. Delicious.

That is Stilton. I have never tried melting blue cheese on my steak, but I can totally imagine the deliciousness! ???

Today’s salad with baked chicken breast. I should have added avocado, but I didn’t want to cut anything else up. ? I am going to eat the whole thing, even if it takes an hour. ?

Continuing the salad parade, here's mine.

Drank 1/2 the can of the Caesar drink as an apéritif (lol), then the salad, and then had an almond biscotti chaser.

376 calories..biscotti cals estimated. Ate it all.

Don't think I'm going to drink the other half of the Caesar as the taste is off-putting to me. Mango & Clam juice is no bueno. BFF gifted me an assorted 6 pack of "limited edition" flavours and so far, NOT so very good. I've had the The Works one and the Pickled Green Bean one, both of which are just meh.

I’m in the middle of stress baking and started with carrot cake (top ones) and morning glory muffins (bottom ones) Ate half a carrot cake muffin about 2hrs before dinner and then had corned beef (ate about 1/2oz before picture), homemade pickles and salty roasted potatoes.

I have plans for more baking that include a lemon poppyseed loaf, chocolate chip muffins, cranberry orange biscotti, and some kitchen sink cookies and maybe something else who knows.

On 03/15/2021 at 20:28, WishMeSmaller said:

Steak salad. Hubby ended up with about 1/3 of it. It was super yum!

Yum. I’m an avocado lover!! I’d put it on everything if I could!!

Made rissoles yesterday afternoon. I used to make them with my mum as a child. Had them with a brown gravy made with all the bits left in the pan. Gotta love comfort food.

2 hours ago, Arabesque said:

Made rissoles yesterday afternoon.

I had to google that.

Meat, good. Fried, good. Mini, gooood.

P.S. I was staring into the pic and that second rissole from the bottom, second from the left started to look like a piranha face popping its head out of the water. Now I can't UNSEE it.

15 hours ago, Starwarsandcupcakes said:

I’m in the middle of stress baking and started with carrot cake (top ones) and morning glory muffins (bottom ones) Ate half a carrot cake muffin about 2hrs before dinner and then had corned beef (ate about 1/2oz before picture), homemade pickles and salty roasted potatoes.

I have plans for more baking that include a lemon poppyseed loaf, chocolate chip muffins, cranberry orange biscotti, and some kitchen sink Cookies and maybe something else who knows.

Greetings fellow baker! Can't wait to see all your other creations, yum.

...You know, I've yet to make an acceptable batch of muffins. Now I want to try to do it today.

I am beginning to feel like @ms.sss ? Today’s salad. Back to steak. This is going to take me several hours to finish, but I believe I will do it. I am actually very hungry today. I finished about 1/3 during the first go. If there is any left when hubby gets home, he will definitely grab it, so I have about 3 hours to finish ?

On 3/17/2021 at 2:25 PM, ms.sss said:

I had to google that.

meat, good. Fried, good. Mini, gooood.

P.S. I was staring into the pic and that second rissole from the bottom, second from the left started to look like a piranha face popping its head out of the Water. Now I can't UNSEE it.

OMG. I didn’t see that at all. Now I’m glad the piranha is smothered in gravy & I can’t see him. ??

Didn’t anyone make you rissoles when you lived in Australia? They are the best. Basically a meatball but in a rich brown gravy not a tomato sauce. You just got to get those crunchy bits around the edges. Also great warmed & smushed on white bread with some of the gravy or a little BBQ sauce drizzled on top. Like a mince roll. Please tell me you had one of those when you lived here.

17 hours ago, ms.sss said:

Greetings fellow baker! Can't wait to see all your other creations, yum.

...You know, I've yet to make an acceptable batch of muffins. Now I want to try to do it today.

I recommend a recipe that calls them “bakery style” as they’re the best when it comes to the crumb you want from a muffin and the sour cream can be replaced with Greek yogurt to up the protein content without changing texture. Plus, they stay fresh longer.

Carnitas burrito bowl (Instant Pot pork carnitas, riced cauliflower, salsa, and homemade pico de gallo).

On Fridays, I usually do an inventory of the perishable stuff in the fridge/pantry and cook stuff up before they go bad (or throw stuff out if they have). There was tofu, green onions and a bag of defrosted frozen clams on the need-to-use-now-list.

So I give you: Agedashi Tofu, and Fried Clams w/ homemade cocktail sauce (who knew it was just ketchup and horseradish? not me.)

I had 2 pieces of the tofu, and 5 clams: 145 calories.

Edited March 19, 20215 yr by ms.sss