Well here I am. At home on a Sunday. No church today and no school tomorrow, nor for the next two weeks. I sure do love to be at home, but not like this, with people sick, or people panicked and worried.
This too shall pass. Either with heavy impacts or light impacts. God is in control, and it is times like this where we can display the peace that passes all understanding. We Christians have the truth - the only truth - we have eternal life, and we have Jesus. He is our all in all. Or are we focused on circumstances and exuding fear? I hope not. I hope I'm not.
So here I am with time on my hands. I have some time right now to write a snacks review! How about that!
I have to be gluten free, dairy free, low carb, low FODMAP. I have a small budget. This means my food choices are very limited either through allergies or finances. Sigh.
I found these two bags of snax on sale at Kroger. Their normal prices are more than twice what is on the sticker. A crunchy G-F snack that wouldn't break my budget? Yes please. I bought them. I ate them. Were they any good?
The serving size for the pretzels is about 20 sticks. The serving size for the chips is about 10 chips. Not a lot. Just enough to make ya mad. OK, the carbs for the pretzels is over the pre-diabetes recommendations for a snack, or keto, which is 15 net carbs or as minimal carbs as possible.
Both snacks are gluten free.
The pretzels were pretty good. A slight sweetness and a lot of crunch. Of course those were the higher carb snack. Sigh. The green chips were less successful tasting. They were very crunchy but not totally tasty. I think kale was the tip-off it wasn't going to be - ahem- good.
Meanwhile, I did some food prep. No, I don't have school this week, but prepping isn't only for time. It's for money. If I'm going to turn on the stove (a big electricity eater) I want to stuff the oven and make use of the heat once for all.
Today I put in some breaded tofu slices, red and orange peppers, green peppers, and a G-F pizza.
I made a fruit salad and when I'm ready to eat some, I'll add some chili powder and lime juice. I also have 2 eggplants and some Bella mushrooms along with celery I'll saute.
I had seen a movie about a fruit stand owner's daughter who longed to be a chef, and was trying to pursue her dream. The movie showed her prepping the fruit for her dad's stand in the wee hours, and adding lime juice and chili powder. Hmmm, this was new. Here in Epicurious, we read of Three Ingredients That Instantly Turn Fruits and Veggies Into Addictive Snacks
We'd pulled over to one of those roadside fruit stands and I ate hunks of fresh coconut, doused in lime juice, and sprinkled with salt and chili powder. It was the simplest thing—served in a flimsy plastic bag—but it was everything I didn't know I wanted and needed.
A fresh squeeze of lime or lemon juice does magic to a slice of raw fruit. That touch of acid brings out the natural sweetness, and intensifies all the flavors. This was something I'd known for years—something my mom used to do to all our fresh sliced fruit. But the addition of salt and chili powder was, I'm embarrassed to admit, completely foreign to this gal from New England.
In Mexico, though, most fruits and many raw vegetables would be considered naked without the zing of lime, chili, and salt. But after that trip I never looked back. How to Make Fruta con Chile y Limón (see recipe at link above.)By the way the third ingredient is salt.
So I thought hey, I'll try it. I bought some chili powder. The spice aisle as empty while the bagged and canned beans aisle next door was overflowing. Win.
It's spring here in the south. Meanwhile up north in Maine (my former abode) there is still snow in the woods. This is my yard today-
This was my morning:
This afternoon I'm going to read more of the book The Prince of Providence (about the ex-Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci), watch an episode of Highway to Heaven, and take a tutorial or two on my Logos software to learn it better.
Have a wonderful day and week ahead, whether you're 'out there' or social distancing. BTW thank you to clerks, law enforcement, garbage collectors, postal workers and others who due to their essential service must be in public or deal with the public.
5 comments:
I enjoyed reading your blog post today. Brought me some comfort during this stressful time. Getting ready to prep my food for longer eating too, for just myself and my young boy.1 Thanks for posting.
Thank you Evelyn. I'm so glad.
Hi Elizabeth I don't know whether this would be in your budget or not but it sure helps me. I'm on FODMAP too and one of my go to breakfasts or snacks is a smoothie. I use ensure or boost and - of course the store brands of these are good too. my sister says the Kroger brand is very good and so is equate from Walmart. Of course it's chilled first. To the blender I add 1/4 cup frozen blueberries first, 1/2 of a frozen banana and maybe a small handful of baby spinach. Pour in the Ensure or whatever you are using. Blend it all up in the blender and it makes a very satisfying snack or light meal. the frozen blueberries are great at masking flavors and making the whole thing sweet. You can buy a big bag of frozen berries or buy them on sale, wash and freeze yourself.
thank you so much! its so kind of you to share! I'll make a note of it and thanks for noting about the frozen bag of berries, I always forget to look in the frozen aisle. :) thanks again!
I've tried to love kale...I wish I was the kind of person who loves kale...but I think it is a vile weed.
It's so interesting that you noticed a detail in the movie (chili powder) that I don't remember at all, though I do remember the lime/lemon juice being added to the fruit but completely dismissed it. I've been buying fruit this year in an effort to boost my immune system and I wrote down the three ingredients you mentioned to try them out.
I spoke to a friend in Maine earlier this week and they probably didn't have snow on the ground when you wrote this post...she said they had only had one good storm this winter. Colorado got all the snow this year, which of course would happen right after we leave the state. :)
My computer died on March 13, and I'm just now getting a new (used) one up to speed. It was a good break, but I missed your blogs a lot.
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