Phew! What an interesting few days these have been. Well, like Corey and David have talked about and I mentioned on Thursday the new diet plans came in when none of us were really prepared for them...well, we may have been ready for them but really had no concept as to exactly what was really in store for us when we all took our food scales out of their boxes, set them up on the counter, and started to slowly pile on the veggies while shaking our heads as the little counters weren't anywhere nearer to 250 grams than when we started measuring them out.
And then you try and make a meal out of them with the 150 grams of carbs (or however much the other two have to have) because there's no way you're going to try and fork 250 grams of vegetables plain into you without some kind of variation or a more noticeable flavor. There's no way that's going to happen, believe me, because after doing that for this mornings vegetable requirement I can say for more certainty than I've had for a lot of things that doing that would be a drag of the very absolute worst kind.
Of course, you can work your way around those things--laying down some spinach on a tortilla and spilling all of those veggies onto it with some salt-free mustard and wrapping it all up makes for delectable eats, a good, regular sized artichoke averages out to be about 250 grams of vegetable when all is said and done with those things and even if it doesn't make it all the way to 250 it's close enough that you don't have to eat as many vegetables to make up for the remainder. Low calorie dressings always make powering through those big bowls of veggies much easier and, guess what, they have vegan dressings in all sorts of different flavors:
So thank you Nasoya, you've made me totally happy.
Now if I can just keep my skin from turning orange from all of the carrots I'm eating...or from growing big fuzzy ears and a puffy tail and developing a nose twitch then things should be totally cool.
3 comments:
Yes, dressings are the key. Also, try making your own salsa or vegetable spread. That way your "dip" can also count as a veggie.
Rabbit -- it's so true. My roommates even mentioned that I'm becoming a hamster as I end up eating these sandwiches with massive amounts of lettuce.
Those dressings sound good, man. Thanks for the tip.
Keep up the awesome work, bro.
Weird that I've never thought of making a sandwich with all of that lettuce like the one you're describing, the only sandwiches I've been making are the ones like Patrick described on his Day 3 post. I'll have to give your lettuce sandwich a try along with a bit of tofu and some of the vegetable spread Patrick suggested.
Thanks for the support, man, it all helps especially in these early, trying days of the project. I've been enjoying following your own journey and struggles and accomplishments.
Keep rockin it.
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