Recipe: Curry Meat Pie
January 2, 2007 in dinner, recipe
Tonight I made a curry beef pie using whole wheat phyllo dough. It turned out to be fantastic!
The recipe follows…
Daily Archives: January 2, 2007
HFCS Free Day #2
January 2, 2007 in daily food, HFCS Challenge
- Coffee (black)
- Breakfast: oatmeal with almond butter, milk, & protein powder
- Lunch: tofu patties (tofu + veggies baked up – delicious!), black eyed peas, apple
- Dinner: meat & curry pie in whole wheat phyllo
- Dessert: pears sauteed in dab of butter with cinnamon wrapped in phyllo & baked
- red wine
I should note that I am not posting what I eat for any reason other than to show that you can eat just fine without HFCS! Also – it helps keep me honest! 
That Rice Wine Vinegar
January 2, 2007 in HFCS
I mentioned in my previous post that I had two bottles of rice wine vinegar – one with HFCS, one without.
One is labeled “seasoned” – perhaps that is why it has HFCS in it? Not sure but needless to say I did not use it yesterday. Just pointing this out b/c its amazing how many things can be made with or without HFCS!
Welcome to 2007 & The Whole Wheat!
January 2, 2007 in daily food, HFCS Challenge
As 2007 gets underway, I am going to do an experiment. For 30 days I am cutting out high fructose corn syrup from my diet. This means that if I am not sure – then it is out. I will also be cutting out dextrose and all other forms of sugar chemically derived from corn. I’ll post what I eat each day and any discoveries I make along the way. I also weighed in this morning so we’ll see if there is any effect on weight along the way too. ( this is x-posted to the about page)
January 1: New Year’s Day
I had a cooking bug all day so I went a bit crazy but we have a fridge full of great things to eat this week now:
- huge batch of oatmeal
- carrot ginger soup
- shrimp & pork potstickers
- baked tofu patties (these are full of veggies and are delicious – even Brad likes them!)
- sauted pear with cinnamon
- fresh potato gnocchi
- tarragon tomato sauce
- fresh black eyed peas – if you have never had these fresh they are a real treat!
And my food tracker for the day:
- Breakfast: oatmeal with almond butter, milk, & protein powder
- Lunch: potstickers and tofu patties
- Dinner: gnocchi with tarragon tomato sauce and fresh Dungeness crab, fresh black eyed peas
- Dessert: milk chocolate made only with cane sugar
- Drinks: champagne and red wine
There were a few interesting surprises during the day of cooking as I investigated every item I used for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
- I had 2 bottles of rice wine vinegar – once contains HFCS, the other does not
- Panko bread crumbs are full of all kinds chemical ingredients. I can’t remember if HFCS was one of them but I know the chemical content startled me enough I opted not to use them.
- Finding a milk chocolate bar made only with cane sugar in our house was quite a treat! Of course that is gone now…