So...whats for dinner?
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Minustwo- Here is the recipe for the bars if you want to go to the orignial site, and you can see the bars and read reviews on it, she also has many other good recipes that are really healthy and good, just type into your search bar ( sorry i cant paste the link) ' kath eats real food oatmeal bars' and click on that link.
Baked Oatmeal Snack Bars
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts [or any nuts you like]
- 1/2 cup dried fruit (any you like – raisins, cranberries, dates, figs)
- 1/4 cup seeds (any you like – sunflower, pumpkin, flax, sesame)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1.25 cups skim milk
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
Method:
- Preheat oven to 350*
- Mix dry ingredients.
- Mix wet ingredients.
- Pour wet into dry. Stir to combine.
- Pour into a 9×9 baking dish either coated in cooking spray or lined with parchment.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Cut into 9 squares.
Makes 9 servings . Each bar is appx. 170 calories, 3 grams fiber and 5 grams protein. [Cut into 12 squares reduces calories to about 125 calories per square]
While delicious, the only sweetness in these comes from the dried fruit. Add in 1/4 – 1/2 cup brown sugar if you like.
The variations are endless: cranberries, coconut, all kinds of dried fruit, nuts, etc.
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Been a busy thread today, i will have to catch up-
Apple- After reading your post i asked my dad if he wanted extra blankets and or a hat but he told me they took off half the blankets i gave them last night! He wore shorts today in the rain while i was all bundled up. LOL!
Joyce- Florida sounds really good about now. Hope you have a great time.
Seaside- You can put chocolate on a bumper and i would eat it LOL! Hope you are feeling better.
Kay- Im usually cold except when im sleeping we have 5 fans going on us at night ;-)))
My friend is on the ww points plus and she has lost a lot of weight, she looks amazing. After eating (2 ) buffets today, ( lunch and dinner) i may need it as well LOL!
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kaye1963.. if you don't like the lox you can use it in an awesome horsdoover..
chop a quarter onion finely and mix it with minced lox and cream cheese.. serve with crackers or if you want to be fancy and wow the guests. pipe it into cream puff pastry... the chef's answer to what should i serve today.
the recipe is simple. better with whipped cream, pastry cream and covered with chocolate but delish as a horse doover base.
http://www.recipetips.com/recipe-cards/t--2318/cream-puff-pastry.asp
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Seaside - glad you enjoyed the chili!
Joyce - can't wait for a week from Monday!!!
Kay and Apple - I'm not a fan of lox, and I really dislike raw onion, so it has two strikes against it! There are lots of other yummy things to shmear on a bagel, though!
Deborye - glad you found some nice color in Jaffrey. It seems to be a disappointing year for fall foliage. I think we'll have to take a drive to Newport Beach in early November. We went there last year for a wedding and the Japanese Maples were brilliant!
Last night we took our daughter to Boston's North End for a nice Itialian dinner and then dessert at the Modern Pastry Shop, our favorite. It was such a gorgeous evening, and the NE was jammed. But somehow (because DH listened to me for a change) we found a parking spot on a side street and a restaurant that wasn't in the heart of the crowds. I had lobster ravioli and it was just amazing. I wanted to take a loaf of bread and just wipe up all the sauce. But I was saving a few carbs for the chocolate fruit tart that my DD and I shared at the pastry shop. We also had cappuccinos; and because we were having table service, we got to walk past the line that went half way up the street. It's a little known secret for Friday and Saturday nights there. I learned it from a 92-year-old lady who buzzed right by us a couple weeks ago when we were patiently waiting our turn to get in the door. I saw that and, thought she was pretty nervy. Then we found out that those tables were first come, first served. Hey, you can always learn something, right?
Today we are picking up some friends from Olathe at their hotel at the airport and showing them a few sights, exploring Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall area, and eating in the North End (because you cannot possibly do that too often!) The weather is spectacular and we are going to enjoy every minute of it!
Hope everyone has a great Sunday!
Michelle
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Apple, thanks for the recipe. I am absolutely going to serve that the next time my in-laws come over. I think they will love it.
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The color will be here soon. Rebekah has been taking pictures to bring back to Bermuda, she misses the change in seasons.
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Went to Boston today and did some touring with our friends from Kansas. What a spectacular day! And we scored a patio table with full view of the Columbus Day Parade in the North End! He was Italian, after all! So it was all just perfect!
Deborye - I would say we are at about 25% color, do you agree? But what I see happening is a very quick turning to brown.
I am tired...lots of running around the last few days. I was going to my daughter's tomorrow to watch the grandkids while the parents shopped. My daughter just texted me - the kids are all coughing, so I won't be going. So, I'll be relaxing. Sounds like a plan! DH has to work, so it will be just me, and that's good! And I won't have to share my leftover veal parm with sauteed spinach
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Sounds like a very good plan Michelle. Getting up early to bring DD to Logan, she will be going back to Bermuda and straight to work. We went to visit my Dad in assisted living to have lunch with him, he seemed a little out of it today. We spent 4 hours at the Pheasant Lane Mall. Things are so expensive in Bermuda that when she comes here she has to shop shop shop.
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Thanks Debbie. They sound like a good snack to keep around.
Jan
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Jan- Wanted to tell you also that i have made these a few times and this time i put in a lot of sunflower seeds, liked them but not as good as when i used walnuts only and not the seeds.
Michelle- How are your counts are they back to normal yet? I love boston, sounds like you had a great time, and the lobster raviolis sounds delicious!
I love lox- I make mine with capers and cream cheese but put it on english muffins as i dont care too much for bagels. Mainly because they are too hard on my teeth.
Had a great week-end with my Dad, I just love him so much, dont know what i will do if any thing happens to him. we said our good-byes tonight because he gets up really early and he will have left by the time i get up. Even though he only lives 4 1/2 hours away i still cry everytime i have to say goodbye. We laugh, and joke and cry together over my mom and sister but mostly we are always telling each other how much we love each other and hug alot! You just never know when the last time you will see any of your loved ones. See, Im all emotional right now !! LOL!
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Debbie - I am not scheduled for more lab work until early November. I would assume that my WBC is hovering around the low end of normal, at best, and my RBC is probably still down. I am less than two weeks PFC so I am still technically in the "chemo zone".
Today will be an "almost no carb" diet for me as I have the PET/CT scan tomorrow at 11:30. And I have to lay low - no physical exercise to mess up the test. I may go for a ride to find some pretty foliage views and take a few pictures. There are enough back roads right around here that I don't have to go too far. It's going to be around 80 again today and I don't want to miss what is probably the last of these really nice days.
Michelle
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hamburgers? should i have hamburgers for dinner with lots of pickles and tomatoes and Velveeta cheese? (the only time i eat velveeta).
I don't know what to serve anymore because I myself have little appetite.. nothing sounds good... except lobster.
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ok this really cracked me up for some reason. a great video for gefilte fish lovers
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Uggg.... gefilte fish is another favorite of the in laws. That one I refuse to try.
I sort of know how you feel Apple. I have little desire to cook. This thread gives me incentive. The problem is not my appetite, but I'm afraid to eat anything. I'm afraid it's too high in carbs or glycemic index or inflammatory or too high in fat or dairy or something. I'm sorry you have no appetite.
I cooked a roast beef last night. It was still some of that cow that we bought that is still in our freezer. Not a cut I have ever bought, bolar roast. The flavor of the meat was great. It is just incredible to me how much more flavor this has that what you buy in the supermarket, but it had a lot of fat on it and was really hard to slice (made even harder by my wrapped arm - thanks lymphedema!). I have another one in the freezer. Not sure what to do with it. I guess I'll do the same thing,hopefully that one won't have as much fat going through it. Also tried making mashed turnips. I boiled them for almost 2 hours, but they never got soft. Should they have? Had to mash them in the blender because the hand mixer wasn't cutting it. Flavor was good, but didn't like the texture, seemed soupy even though they were hard before putting in the blender. Maybe I'll try baking them next time.
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Hamburgers and corn on the cob - one of my favorite "easy" meals. But if lobster sounds good, I think you should get one for yourself! I do believe Price Chopper usually has them in a tank, live and kickin'.
Just ate two scrambled eggs with some shredded Mexican cheese mixed in. That should get me through my little photo-op seeking trip. Going to leave soon.
Michelle
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kay, if the thought of all that fat on the roast bothers you just remind yourself that it is the fat that gives it all that wonderful flavor.
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I really don't have a recipe but combine groundbeef, rice, an egg and cooked onions and garlic.. roll them up in the leave of cabbage (lightly blanched for suppleness) and layer the rolls with saurkraut and cook for quite a while at a low low temp in my big German pot.
No tomatoes for me..
anyone else make these occasionally?the thought makes my appetite come back.
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Debbie6122 that bar recipe looks great! Do those come out chewy or harder like granola bars? I am gluten free so it's really a nice recipe.
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Beacon- they come out chewy, check out her recipe site, she has gluten free stuff on there too, its under kath eats healthy food-
Michelle- Keeping fingers crossed for normal scans tomorrow- lucky you are still having nice weather there, It's rainy and very windy here.
Apple- I have made what you described but without the saurkraut, sounds good though.
I made belgium waffles for breakfast with scrambled eggs and sausage. YUM!!
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Oh, and i also wanted to remind everyone that the movie on lifetime we had talked about watching "Five" is on tonight!
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I'm back! It looks like you ladies have been busy! We had a great camping trip the campground had a Halloween theme with hay rides, haunted walks, trick or treating, pumpkin carving everything. The kids had a blast and so did the adults. All the families shared food and we do pot luck dinners. The pulled pork I made turned out amazing and all 2 pounds was eaten! I also made a lasagna and there were three pieces left which we are having the left overs for dinner tonight. Other people brought turkey meatballs and a great mexican appetizer dip lots of grilled meats and veggies. We ate like champs!
It's always nice to come home and we have just about everything put away and the washing machine is going. It was our last trip of the year so I have sheets, comforters and clothes to wash. But, a great way to end the season.
I hope everyone is doing well, I'll try to get caught up on posts later when the boys go to sleep.
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sounds like so much fun Laurie!
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Laurie - I don't know how your weather could have been more perfect! Makes up for the weekend when you tried to go and had to cancel at the last minute due to rain. I don't know that I've enjoyed a Columbus Day Weekend this nice in my entire life!
Apple - no cooked cabbage in my house. DH is not a fan. Falls in the same category as cauliflower.
Debbie - thanks! A little scanxiety is setting in.
I had a nice low carb dinner tonight in advance of my scan tomorrow - pan roasted chicken thighs, green beans with bacon and onions (Burger Smokehouse, of course) and cole slaw.
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Apple,
We have a fairly large Polish/Slovac population here and it sounds like you are describing the dish Halupki (many different spellings)... and it has a tomato sauce with it....
If that is it, I have made it only once.... It is a true labor of love and I tend to get my 'fix' at the local ethnic church festivals where someone else makes it but, holy smokes, is it ever tasty!!
Debbie,
Going to make the oatmeal bars tomorrow.... Went snd got all the ingredients but, since I am still feeling a little under the weather, I ran out of steam before I could make them this afternoon...
Thanks, for the reminder on the movie tonight! I need to make sure things are set to record just in case I sack out before 9.....lol
Laurie,
Glad you had a good trip!! What a great weekend, weather-wise, for one last hurrah!
Michelle,
Hope you got some great photos! The trees here have finally started to paint the hillsides but, are a bit muted in comparison to previous years! Must be all those hurricanes/rain...
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Michelle- Good luck tomorrow with the scan. I will be sending you all of my positive thoughts and strength. I hope you are able to relax and sleep tonight.
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I made a veggie stir fry with onions, celery, carrots, cabbage, asparagus, brocolli, zuchinni, peas, olive oil, and a little soy sauce.,, very tastey. All of your dishes sound really yummy. I want to make the oatmeal bars, those really sound good.
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Lauie- I saw all the cute and funny pictures of your trip on FB looks like you all had a great time!
Seaside- Hope you feel better soon. sounds like this is just hanging on. I was wondering if anyone is getting the flu shot? Seems like every time i get one i get sick and my arm swells, wasn't there some controversary on flu shots and breast cancer?
Zuma- Your stir fry sounds good.
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Hummus is for dinner! Gallons and gallons of hummus and pita bread. The party that I made it for was cancelled yesterday. So, the party is here! Anyone want some? I added red pepper flakes, in case you can't handle that.
I'm sorry but I have 3-4 more boosts to go and have a hard time reading all the posts.0 -
bedo, love hummus and pita bread! I'll take some! Are you in the middle of rads too? I had 5th of 28 today,
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I would need some bean-o with that stir fry. Sounds delish.
I will be thinking of you Michelle, Good Luck♥♥
Still sore from Saturday and I have a nasty bruise in the middle of my back when I fell.
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