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Post by cathygeha on Oct 7, 2019 7:41:51 GMT
This round runs from September 26 - November 6th. It’s not too late. If you’d like to join us, respond on today’s thread with your board name/first name and your goal for this round. The hostess will add you to the challengers list the following day. Everyone is welcome.
Challengers:
bmazzo/Beverly - staying more active
cathygeha/Cathy - journal every BLT
cherryt38/Cherry - being more active, including exercise
jalibmu/Jan - track 4/7 days
jasimons/Judy - stretch 10 minutes per day 4 days a week
pamthomas46/Pam - stay focused on healthy guidelines, especially limiting refined sugar
Hostess Schedule:
Sept 26 - Oct 2 Pam
Oct 3 - Oct 9 Cathy
Oct 10 - Oct 16 Cherry
Oct 17 - Oct 23 Judy
Oct 24 - Oct 30 Jan
Oct 31 - Nov 6 Beverly
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 7, 2019 8:03:04 GMT
Snacks should be mini-meals OR should fit into your calorie/points budget for the day. Planned snacks are recommended but not always possible. I thought we could come up with snacks for autumn and see how we do. I looked up some links BUT found most were not necessarily autumn produce related...
LINKS to some snack ideas:
Questions:
1. Do you eat snacks every day?
2. How do you put snacks into your menu and stay within points/calories? 3. Can you think of any snacks you eat or have made that include autumn produce?
4. FUN: Have you ever helped with a harvest? What did you harvest? Did you preserve it? Any stories or recipes to share?
Thank you for the recipes yesterday. Saved into a file to share later 
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Post by cathygeha on Oct 7, 2019 8:22:44 GMT
1. Do you eat snacks every day? No
2. How do you put snacks into your menu and stay within points/calories? Days I know I will need a snack I plan for them. In the past I knew I would have ice cream with chocolate sauce to planned for those exchanges (1 milk + 1 fruit + optional calories) or points for popcorn OR if on FS or Core or SFT would now choose something that is a power food or zero points - fruit or fruit and nonfat yogurt or popcorn BUT would count the GHG's/exchanges/calories (maybe?)
3. Can you think of any snacks you eat or have made that include autumn produce? * apples and apples with peanut butter * pumpkin fluff
Pumpkin Fluff
Serves: 4
Points: 2
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 cup skim milk
1 cup FF cool whip
1 package SF FF instant vanilla pudding mix
Mix together pumpkin, spice and milk until well blended. Add pudding mix and beat by hand 2 minutes. Fold in cool whip. Refrigerate.
4. FUN: Have you ever helped with a harvest? What did you harvest? Did you preserve it? Any stories or recipes to share?
I remember one year we could not find olive pickers to come help with the harvest so hubby and I took a picnic, walked to the groves and did what we could to harvest the land that belongs to one of his brothers (now sold) and we were exhausted by the end of the day. I then had to cut olives with a paring knife, soak in water and toss out the water and soak again for about a week, make the brine and add the seasonings and brine the olives for a month or so before we could eat them. If anyone wants the recipe it is to boil six cups of water with one cup of sea salt and let cool. You put lemon slices, fennel fronds, lemon leaves, hot pepper and whatever else you want into the jar with the olives, pour brine over and wait. Put the olives in only after at least a week of soaking and throwing and adding clean water daily.
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Post by cherryt38 on Oct 7, 2019 13:39:08 GMT
1. Do you eat snacks every day?
** No, though often I'll have some little thing before I go to bed, such as a couple of Dove chocolate Promises, and or a few nuts, or a few grapes and some nuts.
2. How do you put snacks into your menu and stay within points/calories?
** I don't count points or calories. I choose balanced, healthy foods, take normal servings and go by my feeling of satisfaction.
3. Can you think of any snacks you eat or have made that include autumn produce?
** Anything with apples, pears, etc.
4. FUN: Have you ever helped with a harvest? What did you harvest? Did you preserve it? Any stories or recipes to share?
** I grew up on a farm and from the time I was 12 or 13 or so helped with the grain harvest by hauling grain and unloading it into the granaries. I also garden and harvest and preserve the produce. For several years (about 10 or so years ago) I worked for my neighbor during his potato harvest. I helped sort the dirt lumps and other junk from the potatoes while they were crossing a conveyor belt.
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Post by bmazzo on Oct 7, 2019 13:44:20 GMT
I don't have snacks every day, as I have said many times, I am not a snacker, I am an eater!
If I do have a snack, it is usually at night, I have a lot of night time cravings. Often I will have a yogurt. Last night I had a yogurt with a bit of left-over cooked rice mixed in.
The only autumn produce snack that I can think of is an apple. Since I don't eat pumpkin, none of the pumpkin-flavored stuff interests me.
Oh, yeah, I have helped with many a harvest. I have helped preserve just about anything that could be preserved, we dried foods, smoked, canned and just about any other way to preserve food that you could think of. Cathy, interesting that you mentioned olives, my DH has recently found out that his grandfather (who he never met), was an olive farmer in Italy. I personally have never seen an olive tree.
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Post by jasimons on Oct 7, 2019 14:10:50 GMT
1. Do you eat snacks every day?
I graze, so, I guess I snack. It works out by keeping the "good" choices on hand (or at least most easily at hand) and letting weight be my guide and paying attention to hunger.
2. How do you put snacks into your menu and stay within points/calories?
Kind of the same answer as above.
3. Can you think of any snacks you eat or have made that include autumn produce?
4. FUN: Have you ever helped with a harvest? What did you harvest? Did you preserve it? Any stories or recipes to share?
Like Cherry, I helped with field crops. Mainly unloading - my dad & uncle would work together, so they took care of most of the actual combining or picking and hauling. I'd do things like take meals out to the field as well. As far as food for us, I remember canning green beans and freezing sweet corn. For the sweet corn - pick, husk, blanch the ears, cool them (took them outside and cooled them by running cold water from the well over the ears), cut kernels off and pack for freezing.
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Post by jan on Oct 7, 2019 16:46:16 GMT
1. Do you eat snacks every day? I usually bring some kind of snack to work with me. I bring either fruit or cut up veggies or maybe a granola bar. Today I have carrots, celery and peppers. Part is for my lunch and park I figure I can eat earlier if needed. I also keep microwave popcorn bags here as we have a microwave.
2. How do you put snacks into your menu and stay within points/calories? Plan ahead and try to keep my snacks low point.
3. Can you think of any snacks you eat or have made that include autumn produce? 4. FUN: Have you ever helped with a harvest? What did you harvest? Did you preserve it? Any stories or recipes to share?
I have picked (for me personally) gallons of blueberries and pounds of cherries and Italian plums and pears. Made either jam/jelly or froze. When my friends were growing their big garden, we would pick everything that they didn't want and take it to the food bank.
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Post by pamthomas46 on Oct 8, 2019 0:16:04 GMT
I keep apples, bananas and grapes handy for a snack if needed. Since breakfast is often late, I often have a snack/light lunch to tide me over until early dinner. I track everything.
I didn’t do harvesting although I do remember picking raspberries off grandma’s bushes. Of course many were eaten as we picked them. 😊
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