day 23 EC

Today's been a productive day, if not totally successful and ending on a slightly frustrating note. 

Dinner tonight I was looking forward to, but unfortunately it was a fail.   I found a chef on Cooking channel that makes a lot of Indian foods, but well her focus is spices.  She also utilizes healthy ingredients - yogurt instead of cream and butter, whole wheat flour etc.  So I made 2 dishes.   One - a cauliflower roti - well this was a big fail - was doughy and just not edible.  The other was no butter chicken - a chicken in rich spiced sauce.  Well something was too spicy and again - not edible. 

I did make chocolate tofu mousse.  Amazingly its really good - not too sweet, nice and rich and creamy, but this is where the frustration came in.  The recipe calls for dark chocolate - so mom, who's reading the book (though she's not read it, she just looks at what she wants and blocks the rest out) asks about the sugars.  Okay so at this moment she's obsessed with the part of the book where you avoid over-processed foods particularly white flour and sugar.  So I tell her dark chocolate, silken tofu and milk.  And she wants to know how much sugar is in the chocolate and then she says, well don't you think she meant unsweetened chocolate when she says dark chocolate and not to have anything with sugar b/c she didn't say to add any of her natural sweeteners.   So we get into this argument about how its okay to have the occasional piece of dark chocolate or the occasional treat with dark chocolate.  She still doesn't get it.  I just get so frustrated.  This works for me.   At night I have my 'sweet' and it keeps me on track.  Is it a real chocolate mousse, or ice cream or something else?  No, its something fairly and half decently healthy.  I'm losing weight so why can't she let it go.  She wants to make it with unsweetened chocolate she's more than welcome to, and feel free.  Don't think she'll like it much though. It's just so grrrrrr.....  Sugar is in everything - you can't get away from it - and heck, the skim milk had more sugar in it then my chocolate.   (although I used almond milk)

Anyways:

Meal 1: banana nut bread w/ glass of skim milk w/ hershey's syrup

Meal 2: carrots and cucumbers w/ hummus

Meal 3: hamburger on whole wheat bun w/ yogurt cheese, homemade ketchup, lettuce and tomato

Meal 4: cottage cheese and mango

Meal 5: a few bites of no butter chicken, a few bites of cauliflower roti (Before determining they were inedible) 1/4 c brown rice and 1 slice whole grain bread w/ blue cheese

Meal 6: chocolate tofu mousse (3/4 cup melted dark chocolate, 12 oz silken tofu drained at room temp, 1/2 c milk of your choice - blend in food processor and chill)