Whatchya Eatin' Today VSGers? - Monday?

Let's Hear It!

B - Protein Shake

S - Blueberries

L - Turkey Quinoa Kale Scramble & Jalapeno Popper Cauliflower Casserole

S - Greek Yogurt

D - Some sort of Pork I think

S - Probably nothing

W - Slow

V - No

E - Not yet

B - Protein Shake

S - no (day got away from me)

L- chopped asian salad with grilled chicken

S- weigh****chers string cheese

D - fish and brussel spouts

2 - PB2 and celery

W - 64 ounces in already - trying for 120

V- yest

E - not yet

B- Hot chocolate protein drink with 2 tsp instant coffee

L-1/2 cup veggie chili with shredded protein cheese

Afternoon coffee with coconut non dairy creamer

D-Mussels in marinara sauce with veggies

Vitamins and water..on track

Excercise- 30 min eliptical

Skipped breakfast today and only had a large mug of coffee with lite soy milk. 

Will have grilled radicchio stuffed with lime grilled shrimp and avocado/yogurt sauce on top of butter lettuce for lunch

Dinner will be meat borscht and grilled eggplant

If I get hungry and choose to snack, I have a portabella mushrooms stuffed with goat cheese, caramelized onions and chicken breast.

Hey is borscht high in carbs? Its made with beets right? I've never had it, just curious.

Traditionally, it's made with potatoes and beats.  I do not put potatoes and my borscht is anything but traditional.  It does have beets, (two beets for the whole pot) but it also has cabbage, onion, carrots, mushrooms, olives, lemons, garlic, celery, and a ton of other stuff.  It is amazingly good.  I use stew meat and cook it until it is super soft.  My husband makes cooing sounds when he eats it.  :)

Wow, that sounds really good, so its sort of like a stew then? I always thought it was like beet soup.

The stuff you see in jars or really bad restaurants is NOTHING like what real borscht is like.  :)  It always makes me laugh when people are adamantly against it and swear that they hate it.  :)  Most American's (unless they have roots from the old counrty and their grandmother was a good cook) have never even tried the real stuff.

It is like a thick soup with chunks of meat and many different veggies.  I always top mine with a dollop of lite sour cream.  Some people make it a bit sweet and sour, others go for more zesty flavors and still others like to make it spicy.  There is no right or wrong (unless you ask a Russian cook) when it comes to borscht.  Every Russian woman is incredibly proud of her particular recipe and will argue for hours about the relative value of adding this or that vegetable to it.  When my mother was first married, (age 19), she had to share a kitchen with four other older women.  They literally brought her to tears trying to convince her that her borscht would be ruined unless it was just like their own.  My mother listened to them all and than proceeded to make it just like grandma always had.  :)  My dad didn't file for immediate divorce, so it must have worked. 

Damn it now I am hungry and I still have over an hour before snack time. Sounds good. I will have to try it in a couple places that I can find it.