We have two favorite things we eat A LOT. The first would be all manner of tacos and bowls. They're never the same. Rice, beans, salsa and then whatever else we want to throw in. We can get rather creative. Whole Foods has beans for sixty-nine cents a can and have a salt free variety which we buy mostly. We kind of mix it up with the different brands of tortillas and buy mostly corn since my wife does not tolerate wheat very well.
Our second most common meal is spaghetti and we buy the Whole Foods "fat free" pasta sauce which is excellent. We put this over Tinkyada brand rice pasta (usually the organic ones) and then add some greens like kale or chard. We tend to add kale and chard a lot to the burritos as well.
As the seasons change our diet changes with whatever produce is on sale or at the farmers markets. As summer approaches we tend to drift to corn on the cob, watermelon and stuffed green peppers (a great recipe my mom found in a vegan book which I will find and post here later.)
Breakfast seems bland but I look forward to it. Usually just oatmeal and bananas or other fruit or the Wheat Free "Seven Grain" cereal by Arrowhead Mills. I also like the Perky's Nutty Rice cereal with applesauce and raisins and occasionally buy the "Fruit Sweetened" corn flakes from Natures Path but boxed cereals are definitely the exception and kept around for rushed mornings.
One of my favorite new things; and I have a feeling it is just a local product; is "Mexicali Bean Dip" made by De Casa Fine Foods in Eugene OR. It is found in the refrigerated deli section of the store. It is excellent. I throw some tortillas on the griddle to warm, slather some of the bean dip on the top to heat the beans, then a little salsa and roll and eat. It's a quick meal for lunch if I'm home. Definitely all McD.
I have always been a bread fanatic so I'm a natural McD'er. We buy the Alvarado Street bakery Sprouted Barley bread or sometimes the Multi-Grain. Locally, a lot of the Nature Bake breads are McD friendly but not all. Gotta keep reading the labels.
On a sad note, the Guiltless Gourmet Salt Free Baked Tortilla chips we used to buy are not McD friendly any longer. Now they add oil to them. So, gotta make our own now if we want them.
Well, that's a start on the food we eat. The non-McD'ers think I am deprived but I am completely content with my food and have done some enormously long hikes on just simple McD foods while they sit on their couch decrying that I'm probably not getting enough calcium and protein and their mothers get osteoporosis. I try to point out that cows are not carnivorous, stopped drinking milk when they were very young, and get by just fine on a grass diet and get huge and strong too but they just look bewildered. I sometimes offer them a free McD cookbook (I have a box of them) as incentive but it looks too "unamerican" and feel it could be "dangerous" to make such a radical switch in diet. Then they hop down to the other McD's for a Big Mac (ingredients unknown) and fill up their arteries as well as their stomach. Well, the proof is in the oat milk pudding and my food is working very well for me thank you.
Oh, I should mention that the Mary McD french toast is incredible and even the grandkids have no idea there are no eggs or milk on their bread. And it's so easy to make. Keep the good food coming Mary. Love the new recipes in the newsletter every month.
