Christy's coming home tomorrow
Sep. 28th, 2003 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rikibethOr Tuesday.
But we all hope it's tomorrow.
They gave her the basic pamphlet with "how big is a carbohydrate serving" and "how many servings a day" and "substitutions."
GODS, it's depressing.
Especially the "substitutions" part. I have always been deeply suspicious of NutraSweet.
Honestly, a lot of what we'll be doing is monkeying with her portion sizes, rather than drastically altering what we eat -- and cutting out the sugared soda, and allowing ourselves less reliance on pasta than we previously did.
Food budget's going up, I can tell you that.
One thing, though, that I am NOT doing, is putting margarine on the list. Margarine is evil. Margarine is the enemy of both flavor and health. I will be more vigilant about substituting olive and canola oils where appropriate, but I am NOT going to stop using butter. I *will* stop making biscuits and cornbread as meal accompaniments to reduce the temptation to slather on the butter (and to take away one carbohydrate exchange) -- but if something needs butter, I'll use BUTTER.
Dammit.
Fat free sour cream is not nearly as onerous. That will be easy to deal with -- make a fat free sour cream dip to keep around and have that plus raw veggies be a snack-by-default instead of the less healthy snack foods. That's actually a good idea.
I'm a pastry chef. So much for taking my work home!
But we all hope it's tomorrow.
They gave her the basic pamphlet with "how big is a carbohydrate serving" and "how many servings a day" and "substitutions."
GODS, it's depressing.
Especially the "substitutions" part. I have always been deeply suspicious of NutraSweet.
Honestly, a lot of what we'll be doing is monkeying with her portion sizes, rather than drastically altering what we eat -- and cutting out the sugared soda, and allowing ourselves less reliance on pasta than we previously did.
Food budget's going up, I can tell you that.
One thing, though, that I am NOT doing, is putting margarine on the list. Margarine is evil. Margarine is the enemy of both flavor and health. I will be more vigilant about substituting olive and canola oils where appropriate, but I am NOT going to stop using butter. I *will* stop making biscuits and cornbread as meal accompaniments to reduce the temptation to slather on the butter (and to take away one carbohydrate exchange) -- but if something needs butter, I'll use BUTTER.
Dammit.
Fat free sour cream is not nearly as onerous. That will be easy to deal with -- make a fat free sour cream dip to keep around and have that plus raw veggies be a snack-by-default instead of the less healthy snack foods. That's actually a good idea.
