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Post by tullyfamily on Dec 30, 2012 11:09:06 GMT -5
I'm only in chapter 10 & my questions might find answers as I continue to read but I can't help myself! I relate to Farm Fresh Tess & Serene- I'm a purist by heart & practice (though I've cheated far to often! Sadly, old habits are hard to break!)... I tend to make almost everything from scratch & love, LOVE raw milk! Real foods are a priority around here! So, with that background, here are my ?s: - do you feel full with E Meals? - instead of buying 100% liquid egg whites, can I just you egg whites from real eggs? If yes, how many whites per 1 cup of 100% liquid egg whites? - I make chicken stock from scratch- can I use it vs buying fat free stock in E meals? - Since I like cooking from scratch, how do I make reduced fat mayo & yogurt for E meals? - I'm going to have to get use to the sweeteners & almond milk mentioned in the book- I've never used them before! They sound weird & unreal- anyone want to help me get over this fear? Thanks in advance! Heather
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Post by beckyhaffner on Dec 30, 2012 14:08:57 GMT -5
I very much relate to you, I am also a farm fresh tess. My husband works at a plant that makes almond milk so I am used to drinking that. it's pretty plain in flavor so I don't think anyone could really love it or really hate it. I have to say I am on day 5 and didn't like stevia at all at first but it's already tasting better to me. I have only had 2 E meals so far, like today had a venison steak, sweet potato with 1 tsp butter and some truvia and cinnamon which that was delicious! and a salad with vinegret dressing, I didn't get filled up enough. so I drank some water and waiting a half hour to see if I would be full enough but nope, so I made 1/2 big boy smoothie (fuel pull) and drank that and I'm ok now. I like S meals much more.
7 egg whites equals 1 cup egg whites. I am interested too about the chicken stock since I prefer to make my own. I just skip the recipe with reduced fat mayo for now and I make yogurt for my family but started buying greek yogurt for myself. I think you could just strain your own yogurt until the consisitency of greek yogurt maybe?
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Post by DanielleBaucom on Dec 30, 2012 15:13:45 GMT -5
Hey! I have to admit...I eat store bought mayo and buy the carton egg whites. However, I am a foodie at heart! I googled recipes for low fat mayo that you may be interested in: www.injennieskitchen.com/2011/07/homemade-lowfat-mayonnaise/Also, if you refrigerate your broth and scrape the fat layer off the top, it should be fine for E meals.
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Post by kim on Dec 30, 2012 15:56:48 GMT -5
If you check out a box of egg whites it gives exact amounts of measurements of pourable egg whites to real egg whites. I don't personally buy OR use low fat mayo. I just go without I'd rather wait to have an S and use real mayo. An E meal done right definitely will get you full.
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Post by nancy on Dec 30, 2012 16:27:27 GMT -5
The chicken stock that I have would not be fat free. I make it from a whole chicken. I use the homemade for something that is S and use the organic fat free chicken broth for the E meals.
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Post by nancy on Dec 30, 2012 16:28:39 GMT -5
You can buy organic egg whites. Costco has some as well. The only ingredient is egg whites.
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Post by Pearl on Dec 30, 2012 20:19:02 GMT -5
If you don't feel full enough after E meals, the trick is to fill up further with Fuel Pull puddings or smoothies. Konjac noodles can help fill you up too without adding any more calories.
If you make your own chicken stock, you can use that so long as it is skimmed. We do have a recipe for it in the book somewhere but of course I buy mine being the short cutter than I am.
If you make your own yogurt and take all the cream off, you can then strain that and it will be 0% Greek yogurt, perfect for all S, E and Fuel Pull needs.
We had a recipe for light mayo using glucci but it was not there it time to make the book. I'll ask Serene if she still has it written down. Remember mustard and horse radish sauce work great on E sandwiches if you don't want to use light mayo.
Try the pancakes as an E meal. Most of use find them very filling. You don't have to have a lot of E meals, just make sure you get some each week. Breakfasts and lunches work the best.
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Post by itsgwen on Dec 30, 2012 21:26:34 GMT -5
A friend of mine refrigerates her stock, and then it's really easy to just lift the fat off the top after it solidifies. It can be saved for other purposes.
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Post by tullyfamily on Dec 30, 2012 21:54:05 GMT -5
Thanks, ladies! I'm getting excited to begin! My best friend comes tomorrow & we'll talk about this- I think her family will join ours on this journey! That's what it is- journey of lifetime. Exciting! Anyone want to help me about the sweeteners. For ths farm fresh girl, they don't seem very real! Heather
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Post by Pearl on Dec 30, 2012 22:00:48 GMT -5
The Nustevia pure extract powder suits most purists. It is very real (simply a herb extraction) and even though it is white in color it has no similarities to the destructive effects of sugar.
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Post by family on Dec 31, 2012 0:50:48 GMT -5
tully fam. so are you a nourishing traditions meets trim healthy? me, too. pearl is right, my friend told me that the pancakes were an easy e meal because i was having trouble and they are great, especially when i eat them with blueberries, usually cold and on the go as i make my kids raw egg nog with all the leftover yolks or egg nog made with cream for you, just a little bit or cut with water. i do not feel full on e meals longer than 2 hours, at that point (2.5-3 hours) i make a nice S meal. soon, i hope to get the hang of fuel pulls to add them in the mix more often. when i make chicken soup i cook the whole stew hen and eat it as an s meal, and most of the other soups i make are S so the stock works out well, but of course like others said, you can skim. i'm really excited to try those egg white wraps so i can have full fat mayo on a sandwich. looking forward to the glucomannan mayo recipe though. i posted my ideas about stevia under the FAQ "must i learn to like stevia?" Read more: trimhealthymama.freeforums.net/index.cgi?board=faq&action=display&thread=5#ixzz2Gbbx4lIZ
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Post by tullyfamily on Dec 31, 2012 10:40:14 GMT -5
Yep, you summed me up great fam! Heres a new ? about milk. Sigh. Letting go of raw milk is going to be hard! Can I scoop off the cream from my raw milk & use the leftover milk for E meal (1/2 cup of skim or a dash in coffee)? I haven't bought milk in a store in years & don't really want to! I have a feeling that a bit of raw milk will be my cheat! Ill go read more about the sweeteners!
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Post by beckyhaffner on Dec 31, 2012 13:47:40 GMT -5
couldn't you skim the cream and use that with S and use the milk to make yogurt to use with E meals? I'm curious what people say about this too.
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Post by steffanie3 on Dec 31, 2012 15:17:50 GMT -5
I use raw milk and cream, but never was a milk drinker. I think that you would just want to avoid drinking glasses of milk, but enjoy that wonderful cream for S meals. Makes sense to me that you could make yogurt, cheese, kefir, etc.
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Post by family on Dec 31, 2012 16:15:53 GMT -5
i posted something similar under the yogurt and cheese thread: i've started making raw yogurt after skimming the cream so it will be good for E meals. and use the cream for S meals. whole milk yogurt is too carb dense for S and too fat dense for E. the difference in kefir is that it is further fermented, resulting in less carbohydrates because the grains feed on the lactose/milk sugar and therefore reduce the carbohydrates in the end products. so you can have all the cream for S, make raw yogurt or kefir with the leftover skim and still enjoy your raw milk. also you can have hot chocolate or egg nog for S with cream and stevia and a little water to cut if you like. also, pearl said that if you strain the skimmed milk yogurt it'd be fine for either E or S meals, because the straining drains of the carb dense whey. A note about "raw" cheeses for those interested: most cheeses labeled raw are not, european cheeses are most common in labeling cheese as raw milk cheese. they just start with raw milk rather than pasteurized and therefore can call themselves raw milk cheeses. mozzerellas, romanos and parmesans are high heat cheeses (Thermophilic) therefore it's not possible to have them as raw cheeses. cheddars, goudas, feta, chevre are the ones most often found as raw because they are a lower temperature cheese (mesophilic). most often you'll know when a cheese is really raw because they will state that they do not heat past 100 degrees. keeping cheese raw is the passion of truly raw artisan cheesemaker so they pull out no stops in selling their product are truely raw. i learned this when i told my artisan cheese maker that i could find raw cheese a lot cheaper at azure! ha! she taught me and i called all my 'raw' sources and verified that yes indeed the end product was not raw. if you want a good raw source for cheese, we order our cheese 40lbs at a time (as a group for wholesale pricing and free shipping) from: www.farmsteadfresh.com/buy-raw-milk-cheese-online-store.html
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