Showing posts with label butter. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Discoveries - Cereal and Ice Cream

I forgot to mention some new exciting food items in my last post!


This morning I had EnviroKidz Organic Gorilla Munch Cereal with almond milk. That cereal is so tasty! It has evaporated cane juice, but it hasn't made me sick. It also tastes like something i've had before...and that seems like a win to me. Especially in this gluten free hell....hey just kidding! 
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For some reason this cereal doesn't have any games on the back, just lots of info about gorillas. They REALLY LOVE GORILLAS. 
I have a feeling this will become my alternative to popcorn. I miss my popcorn.
UPDATE: No wonder I was going to use this as my replacement for popcorn. Main ingredient: corn. Why have I stopped being able to read? 

My mom also bought me something similar to chicken noodle soup - it's Gluten Free Cafe from Valley Food Chicken Noodle Soup.

It tasted like your average can of soup, but the amazing plus side is that it's allergen free and is edible in about 3 minutes. YAY.

Also, my oldest sister got me some apple butter from Woody's Smokehouse. It's kind of like applesauce with cinnamon. It tastes pretty good on non-dairy ice cream too!


Which, by the way, we found non-dairy/gluten/sugar/soy/corn free ice cream!! Try out NadaMoo ice creams!!

I put some apple butter on my ice cream. I got the vanilla flavor. It has a very potent taste / aftertaste that I cannot pinpoint, but it might go good with some fruit also or maybe in a different flavor.


Thursday, April 12, 2012

Kitchen Shananananananagins - Mac&Chreese and cookie dough

Annnnd here we are, it's Thursday night, official college party night. Did you know that? I didn't before coming to college, and I thought it was dumb when I found out - who would go out on a Thursday when you had classes on Friday? :O


;) I have since been out plenty on Thursday nights, but tonight, tonight I'm just going to relax. Thanks to my mom sending me leftovers from last weekend, I haven't really had to stress out about eating meals this week. Besides having a test today, this week hasn't been terrible. 


So, updates: I didn't really take my medical food shake over last weekend because it was Easter and I was home and distracted. Since then, I've broken the habit of a shake twice a day, I've been having one once a day, sometimes twice the amount to make up for missing one, sometimes just a one normal shake a day. And you know what? I think I actually feel a little better without a shake that often lol. 


Tonight I ate Road's End Organic Mac and Chreese Alfredo Style and green beans. 
That's right. Chreese. That company really needs a high five for that one. 
Good news though - the noodles tasted like real noodles!! It says to cook for about 6-10 minutes but not to overcook or they will get mushy. I cooked mine for about 8.5 minutes and was a little concerned that I should have let them cook a tad bit longer, but after a day in the fridge, they are quite mushy (a good way though, i still happily ate them). So, heads up, none of this food follows normal food logic. 


I snagged this pic from google since I forgot to take one before I Michael Jordan'ed this box into the trash.
For Dessert, I decided to make that cookie dough that I've made before. ( http://realsustenance.com/30-second-raw-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-glutendairygrainstarchegg-soy-free-low-sugar/ ). 


Ok, so I had run out of almond flour, but I realllllly wanted something in dessert form. That's my weakness...I really need dessert. My sister bought me "Mama's Almond Blend" so I was like, "hey, flour is flour right? And this has almond in the title! I'll use this and it will work."
Wrong.
So, so wrong. 


I mixed it up with the almond blend, only to discover that it was mainly just flour and not so much dough. I rechecked the recipe 30 times and then was like..."it must just need more liquid! I'll make the liquid parts of the ingredients proportional to this flour!!" 
I thought I could Betty Crocker that &*!%.
Wrong.


I ended up with some form of dough that resembled yeast or raw bread dough. I tasted it and immediately had to wash down the taste with juice. There was no salvaging it. I threw it away and, still determined to make my cookie dough, I grabbed the almonds my sister bought me and stuck them  in my blender,
"I'LL MAKE MY OWN ALMOND FLOUR!!!" *CRAZY EYES*




It worked :) Granted, it was kind of crunchy flour. I have no idea what those flour places used to make it so finely ground. Be careful you don't overblend it or you will make almond butter! 

I was able to make the cookie dough normally after all :) I win!


Like seriously, this batch is 1000 calories? It's so small! Why must we pay to eat healthy...
Make sure you pair these cookies with almond milk. It's tasty.

PEACE.