Recipes, Food Tips, Healthy Eating & More

is this the message thread with the Walking? I went for a beautiful winter walk yesterday! beautiful sunshine. The sun is shining again today, a walk will do me alot of good again today, how about you?

I think this just might be what you are looking for: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/lets-go-walking-join-me-for-a-virtual-walking-support-group/
I'm looking out the window at the beautiful sunshine, but the thermometer says 14F - I need to go find my long underwear before I venture out!
Sue

This is a great time to dig out the slow cooker. Last weekend my husband picked up some nice stew meat. Today, I broke the package down in to two, and am making an easy beef stroganoff with the first part.

1 can cream of mushroom soup combined with 1 can of beef broth [I used leftover vegetable broth and added a beef bouillon cube to it] Also added chopped onion and celery not called for in recipe.
cook on high 3.5 to 4.5 hrs
reduce to low, cook 3 to 4 hrs
add 2 cups cooked noodles, and 1 cup sour cream. Return to high, cook 20 minutes more.

That's it! We'll serve it with a side veggie. I love my slow cooker!
Ginger

Yum! I'm hooked on our traditional family stroganoff recipe, but I might have to try this. The only thing you missed is the 2-3 cloves of garlic I love in it. For those who don't do noodles, I like it over garlic mashed potatoes! Garlic mashed are a little time-consuming, so when I make them, I do a triple batch and we have them 3 times with differnet meats and veggies...
Our veg of choice with stroganoff is creamy cole slaw with chopped apple and/or pineapple in it.
Now I'm getting hungry.
Sue

@sueinmn I cannot do potatoes based on my renal diet, and will be judicious in my amount of stroganoff. No cole slaw here, so will do green beans. Add color to the plate and a place for the flavor to land. Oooh, garlic potatoes - love 'em!
Ginger

My first try at making the refrigerator oatmeal with the Mayo Clinic recipe wasn't as good and I found out it was because I used instant oatmeal instead of the old fashioned or rolled oats (my bad). The second time I found a slightly different recipe except the ingredients were 2 tablespoons of almond butter, some unsweetened applesauce, 1/2 cup of rolled or old fashioned oats, topped with whatever milk you like to the top of the oats then add frozen fruit to the top of the jar. The almond butter was OK but reminded me of being a kid again and eating peanut butter and karo syrup by the bowl. It made it kind of gummy and was a little tough to stir up...but it was slightly better than the first try.

Today I think I've got my formula down and probably will know in the morning 😁 I also make some healthy yogurt thanks to @LeeAase and his health blog (https://social-media-university-global.org/2020/05/best-yogurt-ever/). So I thought why not make it part my breakfast instead of my afternoon desert. I put 2 large spoons of yogurt (half of one container) in the jar followed by the same amount of unsweetened applesauce. Then sprinkled 1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon powder on top. Add 1/2 cup of old fashioned oats and topped with some home made cranberry sauce that my wife loves to make with fresh or frozen cranberries. The cranberries make it taste sweet which I like. The thing I really like about it is that it is very filling and I'm not hungry for most of the day after I eat the oatmeal. It's enabled me to pretty much get by with two meals a day and helps with my 20 hour fasting program which I try to do 3 to 4 days a week followed by either an 18 or 16 hour fasting window. Another tip Lee provided was how the Zero phone app makes it easy to keep track of your fasting hours - https://www.zerofasting.com/

I'm Irish, and I love oatmeal, I'll have to try this. I eat steel cut oats. my favorite recipe is this, for 1 serving

1/4 cup steel cut oats
1 cup water
brown sugar
1/4 diced apple
half and half
raisins

cook the oats according to the package. when the water cooks down, place the oats in a bowl, add the apple, raisins, brown sugar, add some half and half. I love the warm oats with the cool milk and a tart apple.

@johnbishop Sounds good. I have been toying with the idea of trying some overnight oatmeal recipes in my little slow cooker.

Will you gift us with your wife's cranberry sauce recipe?
Ginger

@Erinmfs
Hi,

I’m Half Irish half English and my favorite oatmeal is steel cut also. I buy in bulk at Sprouts. I put a little maple syrup in mine with cinnamon, golden raisins and walnuts. I make enough for 4 servings the night before and just heat up a portion in the morning and have even had it for dinner. I grew up on some type of oatmeal and my favorite cereal as a kid was cream of wheat with brown sugar. Never any cold cereal in our house.
My mom also gave me liver and bacon for breakfast on occasion. Not everyone’s cup of tea. Speaking of tea, I didn’t drink coffee until I was dating my husband in school. No sweetener, just cream. So coffee and oatmeal in the morning and tea with honey in the pm.
Steel cut oatmeal rocks!

FL Mary

@gingerw - Here I thought she had a special recipe. She told me it's on the back of the Ocean Spray bag of cranberries but she also has made it with frozen cranberries.

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
3 cups of fresh or frozen cranberries

- Bring water and sugar to a boil in a medium sauce pan. Add cranberries and return to a boil. Reduce heat and boil gently for 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
- Pour sauce into a bowl, cover and cool completely at room temperature.
- Refrigerate until serving time. Makes 2-1/4 cups.

She always made this anytime she cooked turkey and/or chicken. It's great for a sauce. I like it on my yogurt as a topping since the yogurt I make doesn't have any added sugar and cranberries add a great flavor.