Along with going vegan I've decided to focus on starch. It's a vegan plant based diet that is whole foods with emphasis on getting plenty of starchy vegetables. The diet was developed by Dr. McDougal and after lots of reading and research it looks good so I'm giving it a try.
I will continue my intermittent fasting from 5 pm till 7 am. It has become a habit and I believe it is helping me in my weight loss journey and improving my health. I like giving my body a period of time to completely digest what I've eaten before beginning to eat again. It's easy because 8 of my 14 fasting hours are spent sleeping.
So yesterday I grocery shopped. I bought loads of potatoes, grains, fruit and green vegetables. Here's some of my meal prep for the coming week:
I bought three of these for convience. You just pop this 1 lb. container of potatoes into the microwave for 5 minutes and then add the seasoning pack. I ate one Saturday and it was very good. Great for lunches too.
I bought a big bag of hash brown potatoes with peppers and onions. Buying potatoes like this make it so convenient and they turned out great.
I bought a big bag of sweet potatoes. I bakes half of them and I'll cook the rest as needed. You can't go wrong with sweet potatoes. They are perfect just plain with anything.
This was a big bag of mixed vegetables. I added an onion soup mix and boiled them. I'll add these veggies to grains and potatoes.
I bought several boxes of grains. This is a wild rice mix. I'll add veggies and even potatoes to my servings.
I love baked green beans. I'll chop these and add them to potatoes or cooked grains.
This is two bags of a blend of brussel sprouts, kale, cabbage and carrots. I added the soup mix and boiled it. I'll be adding this to grains or potatoes.
This is a container of fresh mushrooms with a packet of soup mix. I mashed some of the red potatoes and added in the mushrooms. So good.
The above and bottom photo are both grains; couscous and quinoa. I'll be adding veggies to both.
