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#1: Meg Tayler (rebelcat) on May 5, 2009 [SPOILER]

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Yuck.

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230 calories per 10 oz. package

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Corn is a vegetable, but it is usually included in the starch group because it is so high in carbs. Same goes for peas and potatoes. Or some food plans consider corn a grain.

Meg, you would be even more impressed with my Thanksgiving dinner recipes. Where a typical Thanksgiving dinner with one normal serving is over 1,500 calories, I can do it for 500 calories and still have it taste good.
http://members.cox.net/pwsaa/tgtable.htm

I've bookmarked the page - those look like nice simple, yummy recipes, (esp. the stuffing!).

We're not trying to cut down on calories, but because of my son's hypoglycemia we're all on a diabetic diet. I think there's a lot of overlap between your plan and ours, though we focus more on "good carbs" and "bad carbs" instead of calories. And on combining higher carb foods with high protein foods. Ie, if my son eats half an apple, he has to eat some cheese as well. Or he can put peanut butter on it.

If he eats the apple by itself his blood sugar will first spike and then crash. And that's not fun for anyone, lol!

Apple slices with peanut butter - yum! One of my favorite snacks.

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I was wondering what... I think it was John Stewart? Either him or Colbert - I watch them both back to back in the morning reruns so it's easy to mix up the jokes. Anyway, he said something about cilantro tasting nasty this morning and I was wondering what that was about. Now I know! :-D

That is so interesting!

I've never needed to watch calories in the food I cook, which is a good thing because I'm watching so many allergins for various family members. For a meal to be safely eaten by me, Valerie and the kids it may contain no:

wheat
corn
dairy
sugar
onions
garlic
tomatos
barley
oats
rye

We just recently got soy back on the lists of edible foods. Accept for the glutin foods (wheat, barley, oats, rye) it's no great disaster if small traces get in. Sugar is, of course, impossible to completely eliminate, so we are mostly just avoided added sweeteners not the natural sugars that appear in most foods.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, I'm the only non-vegetarian in the family, so meats and fish are off the list too.

I can sympathize, Jan! When I was a kid I was allergic to dairy, eggs, wheat, corn, and citrus. Thankfully my allergies all disappeared in my teens. Do they still give people shots for their allergies these days?

No onions, garlic or tomatoes? Oh, I would just die of starvation. I love my Italian and Mexican dishes.

The glutin thing is celiac disease, not an allergy, and it doesn't go away. The others might.

It does inspire some originality in cooking. Teff, tapioca, and garbanzo flour are all regular parts of our diet. I'm not sure pizza with a curried spinach sauce instead of tomato is going to take over the world, but it isn't bad.

Jan, do you ever get to sneak away for a favorite food that is forbidden at home?

Not much. Some of those are my own food restrictions, like the sugar, tomato, garlic and onions. You don't find much in a restaurant that doesn't contain gobs of those.

Hey Meg! Thx 4 the creative in your puzzle! Enjoyed it!

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