A Plethora of Food at Chez Denise

6/16/2021 Lunch on a Holiday

On our unplanned national holiday, we hadn’t thought about meals. Denise put together this yummy Lunch….the salad was from leftovers in the refrigerator. Fresh spinach, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, seedless cucumber, orange bell pepper, carrots, cauliflower, olives and fennel fronds on top. Of course, extra virgin olive oil to help with nutrient absorption from the salad. The meat is pandemic canned chicken breast. This is just the chicken breast, no added salt or flavorings. 100% whole wheat reduced fat Triscuts with rosemary and sea salt Wasa bread. Honestly, the Wasa bread is whole wheat and wheat flour. My beverage was filtered water.

6/13/2021 Simplicity

I adhere the nutritional precept that prefers simple whole foods over anything else. Minimize highly processed foods. Saturday’s dinner consisted of pan sauteed salmon, asparagus, and boiled shrimp. The sauce on the left is a dill/cucumber-yogurt made with, of course, dill, cucumber, and unsweetened no fat yogurt. The cocktail sauce is homemade using ketchup and horseradish, with no added sugar except that which is the ketchup. The beverage is chardonnay.

Sunday breakfast was strawberries, English muffin with a small amount of margarine. The main dish is sliced potatoes, egg whites, and, admittedly country gravy. The country gravy came from a commercial mix, doubtlessly a highly processed food item. Saturated fat is strongly implicated in heart disease. There is none in the gravy. The coffee is Green Mountain light roast.

5/16/2021 Weekend

Two simple lunches this weekend, both salad-based. Saturday, it was accompanied by a bean burrito, Sunday a bowl of brown rice.

4/24/2021 A Day in Food

Our Saturday in meals. Breakfast was simple scrambled eggs with some fresh pan-fried vegetables. And has browns. Of course, coffee. Lunch was more of our canned COVID era chicken breast on a freshly tossed salad with an olive oil dressing. We got a French baguette and a bit of grocery store sushi. Iced tea and a bit of coffee from breakfast rounded out our meal. For dinner, Denise dipped grouper in egg white and crushed almonds. The green beans are steamed and with very light margarine. White wine with dinner.

4/18/2021 Bento Box Days

As it worked out, Denise took the Thursday and Friday after her shots off to recover. She’d been wanting to use her bento boxes again for months and this was the opportunity. She made us two meals which were delights.

A Day of Food in our Isolated Lives

4/11/2021: We stayed home the day after my second shot. While I didn’t feel as poorly as Denise would the next week, I still skipped my workouts. I diaried our meals that day. Breakfast was egg whites with light parmesan cheese. Denise made a mushroom and broccoli stir fry to go over them. Accompanying the eggs was 100% whole-wheat toast with light margarine. Lunch was a chopped romaine salad with cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and broccoli. The chicken breast for the sandwich is actually chunked canned chicken. Denise bought a case of cans early last year in anticipation of meat shortages that never really arrived. I’ve traded the Green Mountain light roast that I had for breakfast for a cup of simple green tea. Dinner was teriyaki salmon. This time, Denise cheated a bit. The teriyaki was leftover from a carryout meal we had earlier in the week. We always order our sauces on the side and it is always too much. So, she used some of it on our own grilled salmon and it came out very well. We had steamed broccoli with it. To my demerit, a glass of wine replaces the coffee and tea. At 150 calories and little or no benefit, it is my one nutritional vice. I fear that it makes up 100% of my ‘wine belly.’