Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Peanut Butter Jelly Time Smoothie

I have added my changes in blue.

Servings: 1
Dish Type: Breakfast, Beverages
Product Type: Silken Tofu, Lite Silken Tofu
Diet Type: Vegetarian, Vegan, Dairy Free
Recipe Source: Nasoya Fan

Ingredients:
1 serving of Nasoya Silken Soft Tofu- 1/3rd container
1/2 cup Raspberries- Frozen raspberries
1/4 cup Blueberries
1 small Banana-
2 Tbs Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter- Regular all natural peanut butter or Sunbutter
1/4 cup Soy Milk- Almond milk
1/2 cup Ice and Water mix-I use Ice only
Optional 1 sugar packet
Preparation Method: Blend Until Smooth. The redder the better otherwise if it's still a bluish color it will taste more like blueberries.

This makes 1 and 1/2 shake. I drink it all. It is my meal. I think its around 300 calories. The whole fat peanut butter is 200 calories. This smoothie will not keep, you have to drink it in one sitting.

I make this a lot. I think my changes make it taste creamier. I don't count fat calories. So I use regular or full flavors opposed to low fat products.

The reason I don't worry about fat is because I eat so little. I have done a lot of reading about nutrition and found that some fat is needed in your body. Your body needs a little bit of all nutrients. But your body does not care if it is animal or plant based. So I choose plant based!

Hope this is yummy for your tummy,

Happy Eating

Nasoya- yummy for your tummy

I have to say I love love love this companies products
http://www.nasoya.com/

I have always been a tofu fan even before I became sick. But this company has more than just tofu. It has this awesome Super Hummus. The reason why it is good is that it has extra protein. When you take meat out of your diet you need to add protein. This Hummus does that.

The company also has tofuplus:

 

This product helps you to get the nutrition you need when you don't eat meat, like vitamin E, calcium and protein.It is easy to cook with and Nasoya has online recipes to help you decide what to eat.

Another product is

These are easy to cook and yummy to eat!!

Now I know I might sound like a commercial but I did not know what to eat after I got sick. So these items have helped me to eat and stay healthy. I eat them every week, if not everyday. I just hope the supermarket keeps them in stock!

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Chorizo- made with soy

Everyday I find myself trying new foods that do not have animal products. Today I tried this product:

It is made in Califorina, by El Burrito Mexican Food Products

This product is 90 cal per serving and 35 fat cal. I personally do not count calories because I keep losing so much weight that it does not matter what I eat (within reason).
I made it with potatoes, red and green peppers and onions. I cooked the potatoes then drained the water and added everything together. Saute it for 5 min with 1/4 cup oil and 1 tea salt.
It was good.

Next time, I think I will eat it in a taco shell with jalapenos and salsa. This product will be good as a meat substitute in chili. I have just the recipie to try this in. I'll let you know when I make it.

Every product I eat has no animal products and no dairy. I also like to watch out for oils/ fats too! Oil makes me have "D". so when I post you can be sure its low in fat too!

I did not get paid to write about this product.

Happy Eating

I had to start this blog so I can talk about how sick food has made me and to warn others with food allergies.

At the beginning of the summer, I started to get sick. nausea, dizzy, vomiting, side pain and the worst diarrhea ever. I thought I just had a stomach bug so I took some medication. But it did not go away. I went to my doctor and we started the tests. Blood work. Stool samples. Ultra sound. Cat scan. all came back negative. I had now lost 25 pounds. I was writing a food journal for 4 months and soon learned what was making me sick. Animal products! I have been eating animal all my life and now it was making me so sick I could not even get out of bed.

I went to see a gastrologist and he was going to do a colonoscopy but we finally go my stomach to settle with Lomotil, Zofran and some diet changes. Lomotil is a diarrhea medication, Zofran is for nausea and for my diet no meat + no dairy= no stomach problems. The gastrologist believes that at 44, I am now lactose/ dairy intolerant and that I have adverse reactions to the steroids and antibiotics in commercial farm animals. I had heard of animal medications in meat but now it was literally making me sick.

Now, I am on a mission to eat better and to feed my family better so we are not sick, overweight and tired. My daughter has lactose intolerance and does not really like eating meat and my two sons are meat lovers. So how do I make us all healthy and animal free. This blog will show how I will do this. I will share personal stories, recipes and any information I learn along this journey. I am not a food critic, a medical person and I have no formal education in nutrition or diet. I am just a mother of 3 with a degree in social work, whom is tired of being sick. I hope this blog helps others with dietary problems.

Happy Eating