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

Will seriously need to try the sweet recipes. i swear I can smell it cooking with a sugary, buttery, cinnamon mix on it. I have never heard of / eaten squashes this way. Its always savory here. Always in soups or roasted.

13 hours ago, Kris77 said:

VERY hard to cut.
I cut a few slices (cook faster)-cut seeds out-
Put a little butter on, cook in oven, then finish w brown sugar, bake a little longer til melted. Yummy goodness.
So good

SO HARD TO CUT!

Ok! It’s great. Sat butter and maple syrup ❤️

5 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

SO HARD TO CUT!

omg i was holding my breath watching this cuz i thought there was gonna be an accident! knife safety please!!!

2 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

Ok! It’s great. Sat butter and maple Syrup ❤️

final result looks great! but methinks i like your pants better!!! ❤️❤️

6 minutes ago, ms.sss said:

omg i was holding my breath watching this cuz i thought there was gonna be an accident! knife safety please!!!

I’ve never cut myself with a knife but this felt like the time it would happen!

Edited October 22, 20241 yr by GreenTealael

3 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

I’ve never cut myself with a knife

um...i cut myself like at least once a month, ha!

first meal of the day:

i was soooooo excited to eat this while i was preparing it...and yes, it was crazy delicious!!!

smoked salmon, avocado, yuzu cream sauce, capers & toasted sesame seeds. with a side of some homemade feta focaccia i made yesterday.

soooooooooooooooo yummer omg.

a whopping 776 calories for the plate, ate roughly 2/3 of it (?)...Mr. ate the rest.

On 10/22/2024 at 12:37 PM, GreenTealael said:

Ok! It’s great. Sat butter and maple Syrup ❤️

That’s honestly one of my favorite substitutes for pumpkin pie

On 10/23/2024 at 8:20 AM, ms.sss said:

um...i cut myself like at least once a month, ha!

Me too. Lol! Always seem to have a bandaid on one finger or another. Swear I’m responsible for a major percentage of Johnson & Johnson’s profits. Almost needed one on a toe yesterday when I dropped a knife. I must be excessively clumsy.

Some food from my road trip:

Classic (tourist trap ?) burger and fries in Arizona. This became my only meal split throughout the day. I loved it.

Flan and butter bundt cake with local tea selections (?) in New Mexico. I barely ate any because it was a super sweet dumpling risk but I really like flan.

9 hours ago, Arabesque said:

Me too. Lol! Always seem to have a bandaid on one finger or another. Swear I’m responsible for a major percentage of Johnson & Johnson’s profits. Almost needed one on a toe yesterday when I dropped a knife. I must be excessively clumsy.

This is my nightmare fuel every time my clumsy kid asks to help me prepare a meal.

“Cut the cucumber… over t h e r e “ ?

Edited October 24, 20241 yr by GreenTealael

I make a roasted acorn squash last night with chicken for my husband and I and he really liked them. I went the more savory route.

My dad makes a stuffed acorn squash recipe that is delicious but might need to be tweaked for newer surgery patients (like me), but I thought I would share since they seem to be a big hit!

5 hours ago, GreenTealael said:

I really like flan.

same.

i make a mean, super duper sweet filipino milk flan. i limit myself to like a single bite or two at a time but i will say its a hit at parties.

FILIPINO LECHE FLAN:

INGREDIENTS

• 10 room temperature egg yolks ( i usually use the unused egg whites to make a palvova or almond cookies or macarons)
• 1 can condensed milk
• 1 can evaporated milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• (optional) 1 tsp fresh lime juice
• 1/2 cup sugar

DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 350
• melt sugar in bottom of pans
• whisk egg yolks
• add condensed milk, stir until combined
• add evaporated milk, vanilla and optional lime & mix well (slowly so no air bubbles)
• pour mixture through cheesecloth or sieve to remove any undissolved bits
• pour into pans
• tap the pans onto hard surface to remove any bubbles
• cover pans loosely with foil
• put pans into a roasting pan then fill roasting pan with water until reaches halfway up the flan pans
• bake 35-40 mins until set (firm but still jiggly)
• let cool and put in fridge for at least 3 hours
• remove from pan by placing a plate on top and carefully flipping over to release to goodness lol

yesterday's smoked salmon avocado salad was so yum, i made another one...this time i added more stuff just cuz.

salmon, avocado, strawberries, dried cranberries, gouda, brocollini, and....pumpkin pie!! haha, it was the last slice leftover from (canadian) thanksgiving last week hahah...didn't end up eating any of it anyway (and none of the brocollini either for some reason), but ate maybe ½ of everything else.

704 calories for the plate...not gonna adjust for what i actually ate cuz im most likely gonna finish the rest later.

isnt it so colourful and pretty????