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I ate tofu and liked it!

With John going vegetarian, he eats tofu for his protein – usually when I am having chicken 😀 .  I have tried it a couple times. Once was in a chocolate silk pie, which was very good, but then that’s chocolate.  Not to mention you shouldn’t really eat chocolate for breakfast or dinner, I suppose. Sorry Count Chocula.

Another time I tried tofu and it was too soft and tasteless to me. Needless to say, I haven’t been too eager to try it again.  However, when we were at the store last week, I was looking at the tofu for some reason and I saw a pre-marinated firm tofu.

tofu

Since taste and texture are my biggest issues with the ‘fu, I wanted to take a gamble.  John was more than willing to try it and we planned a stir fry.

A serving is only 90 calories, so we just split this package and had 2 servings each. For dinner, 8 grams of protein is not enough for me, but 16 is more like it.

John cubed the tofu and pan sauteed it.  Then added a little Kikkoman Triple Ginger sauce for extra zing.

gingersauce

This sauce is really good, by the way.

I sauteed some broccoli for myself and we cooked some calrose rice in the rice cooker. Dinner is served!

tofubowl

It was really good, I have to say. The tofu was really firm and had a nice flavor to it.  Much better experience this time. I would definitely eat this again.

By the way, calrose rice is that sticky rice used for sushi and I like it a lot more than brown rice, hate to say. Especially in stir fries.

Who else eats tofu?

April Wrap Up and May Goals.

First off, just a note to say that maybe a new era of peace could come.  We can always hope, right?

I woke up this morning and biked to the gym.  After a week off, it felt quite nice to go there and I was very refreshed.

Exercise Set/rep/weight Muscle worked
Stiff Legged Deadlift 3 sets of 12 at 55# Lower body
Face Pull 3 sets of 12 at 30# Shoulders
Dumbbell Pull Over 3 sets of 10 with 20# DB Back
Barbell Bench Press 3 sets of 1 at 55# Chest
Seated Calf raise 3 sets of 12 at 140# Calves
Rope Crunch 3 sets of 15 at 30# Core
Alternating Forward Lunges 3 sets of 10 with 15# DBs (30# total) Lower Body
Lower Back Extension 3 sets of 12 at 80# Low Back
Nosebreakers 3 sets of 10 with 25# bar Triceps

Then I headed home for breakfast! Protein pancakes today just for a different shape.

Gosh I love this breakfast.  No matter if it is in waffle form or pancake form.

Okay, because of the weekend, I am going to do a mash up of the wrap up and new goals for April and May.

April Goals and how they went:

1.  I am going to shoot for some weight loss. I have to say I do not know how I did as I have not weighed myself all month.  My pants fit the same, so unlikely that I lost anything.  I am not sure when I will step on the scale again.

2. I am going to reduce as much wheat in my diet as possible. This was really hard to do.  Good thing I do not have celiac.  Sometimes I just forgot, and other times I found wheat in things after the fact.  I really did learn that eating wheat does cause cravings for me.

3.  I want to try a bit of meditation this month. Fail!!  I did not enjoy this at all, so I stopped.  I find that just having quiet time reading or weeding in my garden much more pleasing than trying to meditate.  And you know what? I am totally okay with that.

4.  I am going to work my way through recipes from Nourishing Traditions book by Sally Fallon. I did the soaked grains, crispy nuts, and I have made a sourdough starter.

5.  More biking. Yeah baby! 263 cycling miles for the month of April! Increased from 150 in March.

6.  I am going to clean up the blog some.  Kind of lame.  I worked on the recipes a bit, but we just have had a lot going on and I wasn’t able to sit down and do much with it.

So, kind of middling on the goals last month with the exception of biking.  Goals for may coming up after lunch.  Which was cheesy scrambled eggs and broccoli!

Classically simple. You are going to be seeing a lot of eggs this week, btw.  (See below).

Now time for my goals for May:

1.  Weight loss/fat loss. Continue with paying a lot of attention to what I am eating and see if I can get my pants looser, whether by pounds or body composition.  Again, I don’t know when I will step on the scale again.

2. Go vegetarian for 1 week!  In fact, it started today. You all know how I love my protein.  This will be a real challenge as I don’t eat tofu or veggie burgers or beans.  You will be seeing a lot of eggs, that’s for sure :mrgreen:

3. Finish our half bath/pantry. No matter whether it’s finished or not, it will be done by the end of May LOL!  We are very close now.  Just need the doors, to install the sink, window trim, and to caulk the tile.  I think I will wait to show anymore pictures until it is just finished.  It is making me very happy right now, though.

4. Scrub down the house.  With the remodel, everything else has gone down the tubes as far as clutter and cleanliness.  There really is not an excuse for that other than just being a little lazy.

5. Do another round of 28-day Body Shapeover.  I need to get the book out again to do so.

6.  Bring back some no-added sugar days once or twice a week. These are just good for me to do to keep focused.

So, hopefully May’s goals will be a little more fruitful than April’s! 😉

I had a latte in the afternoon with some protein powder to amp up my protein for the day.

Busted out all my work by dinner time plus a little extra, which was nice. Gotta start socking away money for Disney trip in January.

For dinner I made a recreation of a lentil/rice/caramelized onion dish the easy way.  Yesterday I had caramelized some onions to have on hand to add to dishes this week.  I also had a can of lentils. Normally I cook dry lentils, but the cans were on sale.  Into a saute pan went 1/2 cup cooked brown rice, 1/4 cup lentils, and some caramelized onions.  5 minute dinner:

This was really good, too.  You might be seeing this again during vegetarian week.

Doing some work on the reno tonight and having a pumpkin snack.  Turns out not only is today veggie day #1, but also a no-added sugar day!

Question: How was your April?

Another 5K

Today I did a virtual 5K – where a bunch of us (100) all ran a 5K on our own this weekend. My sister joined me – and here we are in the final couple of laps around the track:

DH had walked down to the bakery down the street and had cranberry orange scones fresh from the oven waiting for us! All I could think about was scones for the last 3/4 mile LOL! The jog burned off all of those calories. HRM says I burn 400 calories jogging for 51 minutes (3.23 miles). The time was a bit longer than usual, since my sister was with me and she has only done a 5K once before – so went a bit slower. It was fun having someone to jog with, I have to say. I could actually talk – which was surprising.
Other than the scone, food was pretty good today. We made a good dinner that was a lower fat version of a chili cheese dog.
One Smart Ones veggie link (the big kind), 1/4 cup of Hormel chili with no beans, wheat hot dog bun and a sprinkle of reduced fat cheddar on top. It was super filling, and only about 250 calories for the whole thing! I would never eat a chili cheese dog in ‘real life’, but I would have this version again!

In our efforts to not eat corporate meat, we got some new products at the grocery store. (We were going to get local meat at the farmer’s market today – but by the time I finished the run, it was too late to get there). So, we got the Smart dogs, and a new veggie burger. I was disappointed that the local stores seem to have stopped carrying my Boca Flame grilled patty that I love. I don’t know why. 2 different stores stopped carrying them. Also – some TVP, I don’t know why, though LOL!

Interesting tidbit: We went to fireworks last night, and there were food vendors there. I did not have anything. DH walked over to see what they had, came back empty handed. He said he stood there, looked around and it seemed to him that 90% of the people were overweight standing in long lines for greasy food.

C/P/F ratio:
53/24/23