There's not much else to report right now besides that. My weight is stable. In the past 5 days it's only faltered .4lbs in either direction or it's stayed exactly the same. I can't ask for much more than that right now. The best part is, with these new eating habits, I don't even feel like I'm "dieting" or missing out on anything that I "can't" have.
So... my kitchen short comings...
On Monday night I made almond bread. It's pretty hearty but not quite as sweet as I imagined it being. I had to alter the recipe from the Trader Joe's cookbook a little bit, because it called for agave nectar as it's sweetner. And while that's definitely better than just straight up sugar... it's not entirely sugar free. Again stevia came to the rescue. That always makes me nervous, though, since I never know exactly how much stevia to substitute in due to it's stronger-than-most taste.
In the end I think it turned out really well. My parents and I all like it a lot, and it lives in our house, so that's good. My grandma didn't care for it much, I don't think. I visited her yesterday and brought her some. She ate her whole share but said to me,"You know, I think the taste isn't my favorite because things with no sugar in it are just a little weird."
Of course they are grandma. If by "weird" you mean "not posionous" ;)
The almond bread
Now for the bad part of Monday night's endeavors: the egg salad attempt.
I've made egg salad before. Quite successfully. So I didn't think there would be any problem attempting to do it again. I love egg salad and am thrilled it's something I can have. The only stipulation is that I have to use sugar-free mayo in it this time. I did not know this until quite recently, but mayonaise has sugar in it. I knew it had a bunch of icky crap in it, and I'd actually cut down my consumption of it quite signifigantly prior to this diet. But egg salad has always been an exception to the Mayo is Nothing But Fatmush (so don't use it) rule. So, even though it's allowed in egg salad and egg salad is allowed in my belly, just any kind won't do. I found out that my options were few.
1. Order Duke's sugar free mayo online
2. Make it yourself
I love ordering things online. I think it's brilliant and fun. But I have never ordered a food product online and I thought it would be silly to start. So I chose option #2 and dove into making my own sugar-free mayo from scratch.
This is what happened:
I cannot tell you what it tasted like, since I did not dare taste it. But I can tell you that it smelled as gross as it looks. No way was I letting that thing go anywhere near my egg salad. Or really anything besides my garbage disposal.
Ugh.
So, that was Part 1 of my Egg Salad Disaster Experience.
Part 2 is this:
I'm not quite sure what went wrong with the hard boiling of the eggs. I followed every instruction I found online about how long to keep the eggs in the water and all that. I even asked my grandma her opinion when I saw her yesterday and she couldn't think of anything I did wrong. I guess I'll just have to try again later.
Perhaps once my shipment of Duke's comes in (because, yes, I did break down and order some). I had to. It was inexpensive and I really really do want egg salad on this diet, dangit!
So that's where I'm at today. I now have a few failures under my belt kitchen-wise, but it's all good. You can't win them all, and all that. I made some flaxmeal muffins yesterday, too. I don't count those as a win or a loss. They turned out exactly how they are supposed to, they are just kind of bland. So we'll see. The next step I want to take is experimenting with my own ideas a little bit. I want to try the muffins with almond meal instead of flax, because so far all of the almond stuff has been really yummy. Also, I'm thinking of trying the strawberry cream pie as a chocolate cream pie using cocoa powder.
Until I get a chance to do all of that, though, I think I'll attempt some simple recipes from the TJ cookbook. Like more stuffed mushrooms... yum. That's a definite "up."
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