Lunch: Salad made from romaine, spring mix greens, carrots, kidney beans, and Tofu Island Dressing.
Dinner: Tamale Pie from the Moosewood Low Fat Favorites cookbook.
I decided to try making cornmeal by grinding some popcorn in the Blendtec.
By golly, it works!
The finished Pie isn't so beautiful, but around here we're of the opinion that taste IS beauty. And this scored quite high on the taste scale.
If they kids ate as low-fat and low-carb a diet as I'm eating right now, they wouldn't get all the calories they need, so the way I've been handling dinner prep is to make whatever recipe I'm making as a main dish, that I can eat, and then either making extra of the starch (brown rice, whole wheat pasta, etc.) we're having as a side dish, or else just making a separate carb-heavy thing for them to eat. Then we give each of the kids a small amount of my main dish concoction, which they must eat all of in order to have their more starchy food. It's been working really well, and my husband approves of this method.
My daughter asked, tonight, "Mom, why are you always taking pictures of your food?" I said, "Because I like to. I think it's fun, just like taking pictures of you!"
What would I do without a great husband to help blow on the kids' food every night?
Tamale Pie.
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