Story Time: My Relapse

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After another failure to stay fit (i.e. relapse), I decided again to eat healthier, be mindful at the table, and be more active this week. And I found this website linked to a magazine with healthy meal plans.  So I chose a 7 Day diabetic meal plan and 7 day plan to help lose your belly plan. I decided I will alternate every other week. Let's see if I'll make it a habit!

I found very interesting recipes. Most of them are from dieticians and nutritionists, therefore, they taste bland according to the comments. I laughed! Actually, in my surroundings, I noticed that there are two types of dieticians: the ones that hesitated between becoming a professional dietician and becoming a chef, and the others. Trust me: the first ones usually suggest much tastier and interesting meals, recipes, and these one are epicureans. You can bet they will find you a spot selling good, healthy, and tasty cookies, on top of a special coffee shop, hidden in an aisle, affordable for the penny pinched wallets!

I love this type of dietician. They are from a new generation of people who love cooking healthy and balanced food. They have the cooking knowledge, know the basics of a good gravy (for example), and they went to university so they twist our family recipes into a healthy and safe for our arteries one. really, I trust their recipes.

I'm not a chef, but I can tell when I see bad proportions between dry and liquid ingredients for a cake. I can also make a very good gravy with what I find in my camping cupboard, transforming oatmeal in flour with a coffee grinder. I know the basic stuff. I'm lazy too. With me, there are less dirty dishes. I don't split my ingredients into 12 different bowls: liquids, then dry, then mix, then toppings like chocolate chips and dry fruits.  

If you know your cooking basics, you can navigate and be inspired by any found recipes. Go ahead! Try to switch the ones on the page with the ones from your pantry. You could get surprised. Here below, I share with you what I go from the recipe I found here. It became a winner! I'll come back with another variation: my brain is bubbling with other mixtures I have in my pantry!!!

Spiced nuts

gives: 1 cup
  1. Turn on your oven (or convection: roast) at 250oF.
  2. Cover a baking sheet with silicone sheet or cooking paper
  3. Whip together:
  4. Add 1 cup mixed nuts*
  5. With a spoon, make sure the mixture covers the nuts.
  6. Pour the nuts on the sheet, slide the whole baking sheet in the oven.
  7. Mix and turn every 10-15 minutes.
It should be ready in 20-45 minutes, depending on your oven.
Nuts are tricky: they can burn quick. Stay around, check often, no smartphone in hands!

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