I reckon I jam no different than most of you guys on here. I like cold Shiner, hot woman and meat cooked with mesquite or fried. Add some of my sister Sarah's bacon gravy and I'd fight you for the last spoonful.
Well I hit the age where the pendulum has swung. My body can't process all that any longer. I got the blood sugar problem. I also have to pass a physical agility test every year and it "aint a gimme".
So I am on a 21 day 21 pound loss, hammer down the sugar, three a day workouts. I also started dreaming up ways to change how I prepare food. I am not giving up jalapeno poppers or other foods I love to eat. So I got to work and found ways to change the way they are prepared. I have attached a couple recipes here. For you guys in the same boat as I am, give it a try and you might be surprised.
Shrimp Linguine
HEB has tofu linguine- you will need at least a pack per person.
1 pound gulf brown shrimp on sale right no for 6 bucks a pound
1 medium onion
regular Alfredo sauce
Greek no/low fat yogurt
mushrooms
4 Garlic toes cut thin
Rinse the linguine, place in a bowl, microwave until hot.
In a skillet add a tablespoon of olive oil, sliced onion, mushrooms and garlic and start to change the onion color, add the peeled de-veined shrimp.
While that is cooking add 50/50 ratio of Alfredo sauce and no fat yogurt in a bowl and stir together well. When the shrimp are done add your 50/50 sauce to the pan. Stir it in and let all that get married together good. I season it further with black pepper and a little salt.
Use about half of the sauce you would normally use. That would be 75 % less fat and carbs from the sauce because you mixed the yogurt cutting the mix by half and then used half of that. Add black olives if you like.
Jalapeno poppers
Do exactly as you would with cream cheese. Just replace the cream cheese with soft tofu. We had it last night and it is a guiltless scrumptious popper. Just have to be careful on the bacon.
A large jalapeno has .5g carb and a .5g dietary fiber. Take the dietary fiber and subtract it from the carb, the number remaining is the true carb. So the jalapeno has 0 carbs (.5g minus .5 g =0g carbs) so far as a diabetic is concerned. The tofu has almost nothing so far as a carb but loaded with protein. I believe a 328 g serving has 43% of your daily protein. Tofu is relatively tasteless but takes on the flavor of whatever its cooked with. My wife went back for seconds, something she never does and she is an extremely picky eater. The bacon is certainly a fat but if you cook them on a drain rack you will get rid of a tremendous amount of fat.
I hope somebody tries these and like it. Enjoy.
Well I hit the age where the pendulum has swung. My body can't process all that any longer. I got the blood sugar problem. I also have to pass a physical agility test every year and it "aint a gimme".
So I am on a 21 day 21 pound loss, hammer down the sugar, three a day workouts. I also started dreaming up ways to change how I prepare food. I am not giving up jalapeno poppers or other foods I love to eat. So I got to work and found ways to change the way they are prepared. I have attached a couple recipes here. For you guys in the same boat as I am, give it a try and you might be surprised.
Shrimp Linguine
HEB has tofu linguine- you will need at least a pack per person.
1 pound gulf brown shrimp on sale right no for 6 bucks a pound
1 medium onion
regular Alfredo sauce
Greek no/low fat yogurt
mushrooms
4 Garlic toes cut thin
Rinse the linguine, place in a bowl, microwave until hot.
In a skillet add a tablespoon of olive oil, sliced onion, mushrooms and garlic and start to change the onion color, add the peeled de-veined shrimp.
While that is cooking add 50/50 ratio of Alfredo sauce and no fat yogurt in a bowl and stir together well. When the shrimp are done add your 50/50 sauce to the pan. Stir it in and let all that get married together good. I season it further with black pepper and a little salt.
Use about half of the sauce you would normally use. That would be 75 % less fat and carbs from the sauce because you mixed the yogurt cutting the mix by half and then used half of that. Add black olives if you like.
Jalapeno poppers
Do exactly as you would with cream cheese. Just replace the cream cheese with soft tofu. We had it last night and it is a guiltless scrumptious popper. Just have to be careful on the bacon.
A large jalapeno has .5g carb and a .5g dietary fiber. Take the dietary fiber and subtract it from the carb, the number remaining is the true carb. So the jalapeno has 0 carbs (.5g minus .5 g =0g carbs) so far as a diabetic is concerned. The tofu has almost nothing so far as a carb but loaded with protein. I believe a 328 g serving has 43% of your daily protein. Tofu is relatively tasteless but takes on the flavor of whatever its cooked with. My wife went back for seconds, something she never does and she is an extremely picky eater. The bacon is certainly a fat but if you cook them on a drain rack you will get rid of a tremendous amount of fat.
I hope somebody tries these and like it. Enjoy.
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