Lobster Shorts Food

October 7/2020 Kahlua Mini Cupcakes!

I got a new gadget on the weekend (this was before my “Stop Buying So Much Shit! You’re killing the planet and being wasteful.” epiphany… more about that another day). I got this used from the classifieds, so my guilt about it, is minimal.

It’s a mini cupcake maker and came with a full recipe book… for $15. Not a bad score!

I followed the recipe for Kahlua chocolate cupcakes, very loosely. I didn’t have half the ingredients and made up my own for some of it. For example I didn’t have any milk (we never seem to have milk), so I just used my lime flavoured Bubly instead. I also used an egg substitute from Bob’s Redmill, because I didn’t have any eggs. There was something else… oh yes, coffee. I didn’t have any made coffee, so I used more Kahlua.

That could explain why they stuck so bad. It was a nightmare to get them out. I don’t blame the cupcake maker for it, I really messed with the recipe and I didn’t use cooking spray, like they suggested (I mean it was non-stick)

The second batch, I used cooking spray, and they came out like a dream. I will remember that for next time. I iced them with Kahlua icing, which I didn’t have icing sugar for. Turns out you can make icing out of granulated white sugar and cornstarch. I had no idea! I’ll put the recipe I used here. I’ll never buy icing sugar again! I’m just going to make it. I didn’t blend the sugar long enough and the icing was grainy, but they were fine.

They were easier than regular full sized cupcakes and turned out pretty good. You can also use this device to make quiches and other appetizer like things. I’ll have to try one of the cheesecake recipes next.

Lobster Shorts books, Food

Kitchen Gadgets, Books, and Breakfast

It’s been a great weekend so far. It started with breakfast at a café with the puppy, apple picking, soon I’ll be visiting family, and I’ve started a new book ( I do love Stephen King).

Our beautiful step daughter, gifted Jay this fun kitchen gadget.

It’s a mini pie maker! As we have a monster sized bag of apples, we decided to make an apple pie. I used a premade vegetarian pie crust, waited until it was at room temperature, and then rolled it, and cut out the pie crust shapes.

The filling was made with grated apple, cinnamon and sugar, with a little cornstarch to thicken it up.

The recipe was designed to be fast and easy. The pie was then topped with the remaining crust cut out, then baked.

It was baked for only 5 minutes. It was the fasted pie I’ve ever made.

It was good too. It reminded me of the pies you get at Mcdonald’s and Harveys. I will probably make a different apple pie filling recipe for it, when I make it again. I’m really excited to try other fruit flavours. It was fast, easy, fun, and yummy. I will definitely be using this little gadget again.

Lobster Shorts Food, The Great Outdoors

Apple Picking 2020

Another year of picking apples at Myers Farm in Copetown. The staff was super friendly and I love this place, I try to go every Fall. Each year I get a monster sized bag of apples. They are so delicious. I just love apples!! I went with my spouse and best friend. We had a great time. It’s activities like this that really help improve my mood. It gets me outside into the fresh air for some fun and happiness.

There were no wagons this year because of COVID, so we carried the bags through the orchard (there is also a 45 minute time limit – also because of COVID). It was a good workout! Between the three of us, we had two humungous bags of apples, and were able to take turns carrying them, so it really wasn’t too difficult. We did see a couple guys hunched over, hauling two huge bags under their arms. They didn’t look like they though it wasn’t too difficult lol. I hope they made it back to their cars without dropping them!

I highly recommend an afternoon of apple picking. You will know exactly what I’m talking about when I mention being “apple full” by the end of it. ❤ ❤ ❤

Lobster Shorts Food, weight loss

OMAD Week 3 Roundup

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I didn’t lose any weight at the end of the week, but I’m not frustrated, just a tiny bit disappointment. It’s early shark week (that’s a period reference) and I always gain a couple pounds beforehand. That’s why I’m not super upset about not losing anything this week.

I definitely need to be better on weekends. Sunday was a free for all eating fest. I made the magic custard cake with a recipe I got from YouTube

It was pretty good and I’m embarrassed to say I ate most of it. Next week I hope to do better.

Lobster Shorts Food, weight loss

OMAD September 14/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

This is what I had for OMAD (one meal a day) today. I used to have spring rolls all the time. I love them so much and they’re really healthy. I’m happy I made them.

Today went really well. Mondays are usually one of the easier days because weekends I tend to eat a lot. I had some coffee and Bubly. I didn’t have any dizziness. I got really hungry around noon, which is normal for me. The hunger faded and came back around 5 with a vengeance.

The spring rolls are easy to make. I just throw shredded carrots and mushrooms, spinach, green onion, and marinated tofu, into some rice paper. I used to make my own sweet chili sauce, but this time I used a commercially prepared one. I plan on making them more often.

Lobster Shorts Food, weight loss

OMAD Week 2 Roundup

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I finished another week of OMAD (one meal a day). I do OMAD on the weekdays and eat whatever I feel like on weekends. I lost a pound this week. My weekends of bad behavior are really stalling the progress, but at least it was a loss, bringing me to a grand total of almost three pounds.

I have struggled with dizziness on OMAD days. On those days I’ll eat a couple salty crackers and that has helped. I’ve noticed that days I drink a Bubly carbonated beverage, the dizziness hasn’t come. I plan on drinking one every OMAD day. If I don’t get dizzy, I’ll stick to that otherwise, I’ll have some crackers when I get dizzy.

I’ve been on OMAD for a total of two weeks now. I see other people losing much more weight than I am, but I think they are doing it 7 days a week. I am always up two pounds after the weekend. I am going to continue this way unless the weight loss stops. It’s working for me even though the weight is coming off very slowly.

Lobster Shorts Food, weight loss

OMAD September 8/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Today started out easy enough. I didn’t eat until evening. I had some coffee and tea in the morning. I went out to eat with a friend for dinner. I was doing okay during the day, but by the time I sat down at the restaurant I was starting to get dizzy.

I ordered a pretty healthy meal from the Graffiti Market in Waterloo. I got the Phat Bowl. I found out pickled onion can be super tasty. I liked this bowl and felt good about ordering it. I got some take out for my spouse, a mushroom pizza and I ate almost a whole slice of his pizza. This isn’t ordinary pizza, this is super deep dish (over an inch thick) pizza that was drizzled with truffle oil and cheeses. It was crazy decadent.

I also had a handful of BBQ chips when I got home and chocolate chips. I must be craving sugar because I don’t actually like chocolate chips until they are baked into a cookie. I wanted a peach, but they had already turned. Every peach I buy is rotted in the middle. I’m having no luck with them. Right now I’m enjoying a glass of wine and I’m finished eating for the day.

I think I might bring crackers with me places in case I feel dizzy. I won’t feel bad about breaking the fast in that instance.

Lobster Shorts Food, weight loss

OMAD Friday Fail Sept 4/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

I flubbed OMAD today. I felt really crappy yesterday, and woke up with a headache again today, that I thought eating breakfast today was a good idea. I got a Tim Hortons egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, and I felt great after. The plan was to skip lunch, but that didn’t happen. I picked up two of these packs of sushi from the T&T store in Waterloo, for dinner for me and my spouse. We ended up eating it for lunch in the car on the way home. For takeout sushi, this was really good.

While heading over to get my spouse, I stopped at a bakery to pick up some keto treats for my future in laws. The Sconery has my favourite macarons in the whole world – honey lavender. As you can see, I didn’t leave the bakery without getting a couple (they are the same colour, the sunshine skewed the photo). I love love love these macarons. My spouse does not care for macarons, so I also had the both of them on the way home.

For dinner I had a GIANT salad. I thought I had finished eating for the day after this, but I disappointed myself by eating two slices of white toast with butter, that I really didn’t need.

For the weekend, I don’t plan to follow OMAD. Weekends we go out for breakfast with our dog and I always get a breakfast sandwich and latte. Weekends are what people refer to as cheat days. It seems I started early this weekend.

Lobster Shorts Food, weight loss

OMAD Day 4 September 3/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Today was so hard. I woke up with a splitting headache that lasted all day. By lunch time I felt really nauseated. I decided to break my fast early and got a snack.

I got this granola bar, but I still didn’t feel any better. Later on someone brought cookies for us (I swear I’m a magnet for cookies). They were pumpkin flavoured wafer cookies. They were super delicious too. I had one and still wasn’t feeling any better. Near the end of the afternoon I had two more.

I walked out to meet my spouse and by the time we met up I was feeling really lousy. He had some snacks in the car. Guess what they were. Cookies LOL. I had a couple bites of cookie, probably bringing my cookie total to 5, plus a granola bar.

I got this football sized black bean pattie pita for dinner. It was huge and I ate half of it with an Advil. I still had the monster headache. I must tell you about one of the weirdest sensations I’ve had involving food. I was starving and completely stuffed all at the same time. I’ve never had those two sensations happen at the same time. I ate half the sandwich and still ravenous, but also stuffed. I was so full I was close to feeling uncomfortable and my stomach still hadn’t clued in. It was weird.

It’s later on in the evening I’m feeling much better now. The Advil has kicked the headache and I’ve just finished my other half of the sandwich. It’s rare for me to get a headache. This one was a doozy. I’m not sure if it was from doing OMAD (one meal a day), or because it went from a sunny day to rain. Right now I’m drinking a cherry Bubly and feeling a million times better.

Lobster Shorts Food, weight loss

OMAD Day 3 Aug 19/2020

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Day 3 of OMAD and I didn’t make it to dinner. I felt nauseated and dizzy just before 3pm today. I think it was from having a second cup of coffee on an empty stomach. I’m really caffeine sensitive and at the most can only handle two cups a day, any more and I get jittery and my face feels weird. I think two cups on an empty stomach was too much and I’m still getting used to fasting. My lovely colleague baked alfajores, so guess what I broke my fast early with… Cookies! Just one this time, better then yesterdays hoard.

I bought these crackers for a healthier option, in case I feel sick and dizzy again. I hope I don’t need them, but this way I wont get something worse. I had a container of blueberries on the way home. When I did get home, I had a couple cashews and a pickle.

I had the exact same thing for dinner I had yesterday, barley, chickpeas, avocado, and broccoli, with sesame ginger sauce on top. This time I put a big scoop of hummus on top. Right now I’m drinking my third Bubly and thinking about grabbing another pickle.

Does a giant snack before dinner still count as OMAD?