RE: Waffle House and pre-NT

[Guest guest]

Nanette, i'm having the same problem with eating out. it's starting to gross

me out and we do it less and less. so we're saving money, which i need to

afford food for the nt diet!

Funny you mention pot pie. I just (over) roasted a 16-pound pastured turkey

yesterday. stock is cooking for the pot pies i will make and freeze. i am

using the yogurt dough for the pot pie. I also have two children under three

and this is my preferred method of cooking -- big batches that go in the

freezer or provide a week of leftovers. I also make beef jerky in five pound

batches. I rinse off the marinade before drying and the kids love it; the

baby likes to teeth on it.

I would be interested in knowing which recipes your kids like.

Elaine

> Hello all. My husband has been out of town for three days. I have two kids

> under the age of three and I thought I would treat the three of us to a

> break - Waffle House. Well, it was always fine before, so I didn't give it

> much thought. I've been reading NT now non-stop and experimenting with

> different things since shortly after Christmas. Here is a peak inside my

> mind at the Waffle House - oh - we ordered orange juice, two waffles (one w/

> pecans), and bacon.

[Guest guest]

>My guilt trip ended with the conclusion that I SHOULD HAVE just stayed home

>and TREATED the three of us to home-made breakfast.

I've heard this from several people now ... not just NT'ers, but once you get

used

to making your own food, eating out just doesn't taste as good. We used to go

out to a great restaurant on a regular basis, but now I just look at that little

piece of $30 meat and think " you call that a steak? "

> I make breakfast EVERY

>morning and just wanted a break - but none of us benefited from the WAffle

>House breakfast.

Now waffles are pretty easy ... what we do is make a big

batch of them and freeze them. Pancakes work well too.

And bacon (bake a pound or two in the oven ... lay the

strips on a broiler pan and cook til crispy -- then the fat

is all in the bottom of the broiler pan and you can save it).

Then you just pop whatever you want in the toaster

oven while you fry up a couple of pastured eggs.

Another timesaver, esp. with kids ... I bake my

hamburger 2-4 lbs at a time, in a roasting pan. Much

easier than on the stove. I just pop it in frozen

and start baking ... when it is partly cooked I break

it up with a pancake turner and add salt. Then I have

cooked hamburger in the fridge, so I can make quickie

foods. Like, add tomato sauce for spaghetti. Or fry it

up with a leftover baked potato (diced) and diced onions

for " Joe's special " (a favorite). Or make tacos.

I usually have a big container of broth I make

once a week or so for " instant soup " ... just spoon out

some broth into a pan and add stuff to make soup

(usually kimchi, yam noodles, or chopped greens, for me,

hamburger and egg noodles or dumplings for the others --

soup is a good way to use up leftovers).

I am hoping

>that in six months I'll have a well-stocked fridge full of fermented

>veggies, etc. to choose from.....

Kimchi is my favorite vegetable ... BTW you can cook with it too,

chop it and add eggs and a little rice flour for " Korean pancakes " .

Add to soup for flavor.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

Don't feel too guilty about your Waffle House experience.

It's what you eat every day that counts. That occasional outing once or

twice a month isn't going to damage anyone who is not allergic to the fare.

Enjoy! ;-)

Judith Alta

-----Original Message-----

From: Nanette Landen [mailto:nlanden@...]

Hello all. My husband has been out of town for three days. I have two kids

under the age of three and I thought I would treat the three of us to a

break - Waffle House. Well, it was always fine before, so I didn't give it

much thought. I've been reading NT now non-stop and experimenting with

different things since shortly after Christmas. Here is a peak inside my

mind at the Waffle House - oh - we ordered orange juice, two waffles (one w/

pecans), and bacon.

" Geez, this is what we always used to order. Bacon isn't much protein.

Should of ordered some eggs. But they aren't pastured eggs. "

" Margarine, margarine? Do you have real butter here? "

" I bet these pecans weren't soaked. "

" White flour. Not soaked or prepraed. "

" Bacon. Pork. Too bad they don't serve turkey sausage. "

" Syrup. High fructose poison. Should have brought the maple syrup from

home. "

My guilt trip ended with the conclusion that I SHOULD HAVE just stayed home

and TREATED the three of us to home-made breakfast. I make breakfast EVERY

morning and just wanted a break - but none of us benefited from the WAffle

House breakfast. I think my biggest problem with overcoming the old way of

eating is when I get into a crunch and don't have anything thawed/soaked or

when I just don't have the desire to fix anything (which happens once or

twice a week). (Other than that I am pretty excited about cooking/preparing

meals. Sure beats practicing law which I did pre-children.) I am hoping

that in six months I'll have a well-stocked fridge full of fermented

veggies, etc. to choose from.....

I was so proud of this last week - NT Roast chicken recipe on Sunday

evening. Had two cups of the sauce leftover. Monday picked all the

leftover chicken off the carcass. Tuesday made chicken potpie with leftover

chicken and used sauce as a base. Two for the price of one - I loved it!!!

I did discover Sally's white flour crust recipe needs more water than what

she lists. Oh well, that's all for now. I just wanted to share.

Nanette