Angela
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I like to season any ground protein (turkey, chicken, extra lean ground sirloin) with taco seasoning. But pre-packaged, store-bought seasoning has way too much crap that I don’t want to eat so I make my own:
4 tsp chili powder
1 ½ tsp ground cumin
1 tsp paprika
½ tsp seasoned salt
½ tsp black pepper
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp ground coriander
¼ tsp onion powderBasically brown whatever ground protein you’re using, mix in the spices listed above and that’s it… super easy. Sometimes I mix a pound of ground turkey with a pound of ground sirloin to give it a bit more flavour. And if it’s looking too dry I add a splash of no salt added beef or chicken broth, and sometimes a glob of no sugar ketchup.
This is my go-to meal. Can make a week’s worth of protein for a lunch or dinner in less than 30 mins.
So this amount of seasoning is for 2 lbs of meat?
@bnfox27 OOOH, something else I can cook in my air fryer! I sometimes forget I have one. LOL – Thank you!
@KathyLonergan and @ctmize2512 Thank you! I can see I have options!
@a_skelton Thank you!
I’ve got to figure this out, too. I have been sticking to the plan, but today is the first day I remembered to log EVERYTHING in MFP… I came out 50 Cals under, 31 carbs under, but 9 over on fat and 11 over on protein.
Not sure if this is exactly what you have in mind, but in the past I have had a tendency to give up too easily. I’ve been working on that mindset by listening to and reading books like Spartan Up! by Joe DeSena, and GRIT by Angela Duckworth. Also, A Year of Yes, by Shonda Rhimes is pretty good.
I’ve had problems with bloat/gas from sweet potatoes – Those may be the culprit rather than the cauliflower.
Christina, I think it’s both! But yesterday wasn’t near as bad when I subbed green beans for cauliflower.
Hi Angela – you coud try using the food echange list here, here and here, and substitute the cauliflower mash and sweet potato fries with another vegetable and starchy carb such green beans or asparagus for the cauliflower and cream of rice for the sweet potatoe fries. Or you could just hold out for a few more weeks when the meal plan changes in Phase 2
THANKS, Naomi! I am planning to substitute green beans or broccoli for the cauliflower today, since I have those on hand and it will save me from having to make more cauliflower mash. I will go ahead and eat the sweet potato fries, since I already have them made. We will see what happens. That’s my next meal. I am slightly bloated from meal 3 already, which also happened yesterday; not overly full, just bloated up like a balloon. By the time I went to bed last night, my stomach was really big and really tight, despite taking probiotics and enzymes earlier. Not a nice feeling! lol
Great thread! Any tip on bulk cooking the fried rice? I think I may have done it wrong ? I measured enough for 5 portions and cooked according to recipe, then measured equal portions of the mixture into my containers, BUT there is no guarantee that each portion has equivalent amounts of each ingredient ? What did you all do??
I cooked a bunch of rice and a bunch of chicken and chopped up a bunch of peppers, then measured and prepared each portion individually.
Lots of good information here; thanks, everyone! I don’t know if I will be getting a monitor, but I would like to try it out, at least. I am curious. 🙂
Does anyone know what Polar monitor Nicole uses? I would be interested to have accurate readings of my heart rate during cardio and calories burned throughout the day – would the Polar A300 suffice for this?
I think hers is the M400.
Thanks, Maureen! That makes sense. Evidently you find them to be pretty accurate, then? I check mine on the cardio machines at the gym as I’m working out, but I usually don’t think they are accurate. Different machines will show drastically different numbers when my RPE is about the same. Certain ones always show high numbers (180’s) when I feel fine. However, I can see how wearing one that was accurate could actually improve the effectiveness of workouts. Food for thought!
Hi, Abby. Thanks for responding. I can see the advantage of a monitor if you’re heart rate tends to get dangerously high like that, for sure!
Marci, I think you are right. It’s day 3, and I have actually been getting hungry when I am supposed to – and I haven’t been feeling miserably bloated after eating, either. Yay! Currently eating meal 4.
Thank you, Naomi! I am a new member of the site, so I will definitely read through those resources. I will be visiting my parents, and I told my mom about the challenge last night. I am sure she won’t mind me preparing/eating whatever I want most of the time, but I also think it would be rude to spend a lot of time cooking just for myself. Plus, I doubt they’d have room in their fridge for all my pre-prepped meals! ? Just trying to be considerate. Again, thank you so much for giving me some direction!
