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(Curly Sue) wrote in
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> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:33:47 +0100, SteveR
> > wrote:
>
> >Melba's Jammin' > writes:
> <snip>
> >>All four breakfasts are from a booklet from a dietitian -- I left
> >>out the portion sizes to make them look more "regular" than they
> >>do.
> >>
> >>How about dinner?
> >>Chicken breast
> >>mashed potatoes
> >>steamed asparagus spears
> >>green salad with tomato and dressing
> >>fruit
> >>milk
> >>
> >>That's a nutritionist-suggested meal, too. The chicken is a 3-oz
> >>portion, the potatoes are a half cup measure and the asparagus is
> >>10 spears. Four fresh apricots for fruit, and skim milk.
> >>Dressing is fat free. Eminently edible.
> >
> >Milk with dinner? Half a cup of mash isn't much at all, and a 3-oz
> >helping of chicken is *tiny*. What's in the dressing that makes it
> >fat-free? Skimmed milk? Ick.
>
> Just a comment on something I missed befo 3 oz is a serving of
> meat and 1/2 cup is a serving of vegetables. I do stick to that
> myself.
>
> >>Pork chop
> >>Barley
> >>coleslaw
> >>Green beans
> >>Milk
> >>Apple Crisp
> >>
> >>Also a nutritionist-recommended meal. Also quite edible, not to
> >>mention a lot of foods to put away.
> >
> >How much of each, though? And what do you do with the barley?
> >Where's the apple sauce? I thought that *everybody* has apple
> >sauce with pork.
> >
> >>I'd enjoy any of those meals, and I'm about as "regular" (shut up,
> >>Sheldon!) as they come.
> >
> >They sound a bit small to me.
> >
> >The point is that I'm not really acquainted with American tastes
> >anymore, and I'm looking for things that most people would eat,
> >rather than a dietician's diet plan, and none of these sound quite
> >right.
> >
> Tonight I had a lamb chop (4 oz with bone), spinach (1/2 c),
> wheatberry pilaf with corn (3/4 c), Israeli couscous (1/2 c),
> strawberries, and some chocolate graham sticks (graham crackers).
> Tea.
>
> Does that sound like what you'd expect?
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
>

Tonight I had a pork steak with bone about 10 oz and about 1/3 lb of
broiled asparagus (rolled in oil and salt prior to broiling). To
drink...Tap water and Ice about 10 oz.

I admit to eating possibly more salt than I should....but asparagus is
very good well salted.

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No Bread Crumbs were hurt in the making of this Meal.
Type 2 Diabetic 1AC 7.3, 5.5, 5.6 mmol
Continuing to be Manitoban