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Post by cathygeha on Jan 7, 2021 20:33:18 GMT
Holly Gail, Bulgur will absorb liquid and for some reason the cracked wheat has to be cooked. Bulgur is precooked and dried while cracked is just broken without cooking so it has to be cooked to soften. I don't know how you can tell BUT you could put a tablespoon of what you have into cold water and leave it for an hour and take a nibble. If it is still hard and crunchy and not soft then it is probably cracked wheat and if it is softer it is probably bulgur. You can cook bulgur or soak it and squeeze the water out to ensure it is soft for the tabouleh BUT I have found that letting it absorb the liquid from washed chopped parsley, tomatoes and lemon juice then leaves no liquid in the tabouleh or much less of it than if you presoak the bulgur.
Good luck!
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Post by Holly Gail on Jan 7, 2021 21:09:48 GMT
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 8, 2021 7:31:36 GMT
January 7
Breakfast: egg on toast with cooked spinach and tomato + black coffee
Lunch: leftovers: beet/veg/orange lentil soup with a bowl of leftover tabouleh with a scoop of hummus in the middle (no bread), guava from the garden
Dinner: homemade bean burger in Lebanese bread/pita with ketchup & mustard & pickles with a smoothie using pb, frozen bananas, few drops of vanilla and a bit of cocoa powder in milk (for vegan use plant milk)
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 9, 2021 8:34:23 GMT
January 8
Breakfast: Peanut butter on toast with a grapefruit and black coffee
Lunch: leftover soup with wrap made with leftover hummus, tabouli and romaine lettuce leaf
Dinner: cheese and lettuce sandwich with dessert of peanut butter, tahini and sugar mixed together (not healthy but in the mood for it) and wine
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 9, 2021 16:08:46 GMT
Breakfast: egg on toast with spinach and tomato and a latte made with instant coffee
Lunch: zucchini/eggplant/tomato paste/onion, garlic and white beans on bulgur
Snacks: tangerine THEN nonfat yogurt, apple, tsp sesame seeds, tsp coconut, tsp sugar THEN lebanese bread, apricot jam and light cheese
Dinner: veggie burger made with beets and nuts(no recipe...just made it with ingredients on hand then froze to use as needed) and such in pita bread with ketchup and mustard and a cucumber on the side with nonfat milk to drink
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 11, 2021 15:19:15 GMT
January 11
Breakfast(6): egg, lebanese bread, latte
Lunch(10?): nonfat yogurt with jam(3), capellini with lemon, leftover vegetable stew, light cheese
Dinner(6): bulgur, beans in tomato sauce, lettuce, ranch in laban - kind of a Mexican bowl
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 13, 2021 8:31:44 GMT
January 12
Breakfast: egg on toast with cooked tomato and black coffee (could use beans or vegan eggs instead)
Lunch: curly endive chopped and boiled, removed with slotted spoon and dressed with lemon juice, tsp olive oil and topped with chopped onions and salt to taste - eaten with Lebanese (pita) bread to scoop it up
Dinner: I wanted tuna so that was not vegan-vegetarian BUT there are "vegan" chickpea based "tuna" salad sandwiches should one want to try one. I had a chopped guava in yogurt (no vegan here) with homemade guava jam for dessert. The sandwich was made on Lebanese bread as a wrap and included dijon mustard, mayonnaise, light cheese and a romaine lettuce leaf
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 14, 2021 7:39:36 GMT
January 13
Breakfast: egg on toast with cooked tomato and spinach + black coffee (in the past, when our avocado trees were bearing, I would have avocado in place of the egg and top with a cooked tomato)
Lunch: 2 tangerines and lentil soup (with potato, onion, garlic, spinach, lemon juice, drizzle olive oil),
Snack: nonfat yogurt with fruit salad
Dinner: 1/2 cup each rice and beans with hot sauce topped with lettuce and light ranch dressing
Snack: Herbal Tea
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 15, 2021 10:32:28 GMT
January 14
Breakfast: egg on toast with cooked tomato and spinach, fruit salad and black coffee
Lunch: 2 tangerines, 1 cup bulgur, 1 cup beans, lettuce, light ranch dressing
Dinner: lentil-potato-spinach soup with veggie burger in 1/4 pita and glass of milk
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 15, 2021 14:33:54 GMT
January 15
Breakfast: egg on high fiber toast with spinach and tomato + black coffee
Lunch: 1 cup bulgur, 1/2 cup hummus, broccoli and caulifllower, 1 cup nonfat yogurt with about a cup of mixed fruit salad
Dinner: 1/4 pita with a tahini-pb-chocolate-sugar mixture and a smoothie of nonfat milk, frozen banana, sweetener, vanilla and pinch of sugar
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 17, 2021 8:54:07 GMT
January 16
Breakfast: egg on toast with spinach and tomato + black coffee
Lunch: bulgur, hummus, cauliflower and broccoli, nonfat yogurt with guava and pomegranate and homemade guava jam mixed in for sweetener
Snack: popcorn, arabic coffee, tahini-pb-choc bites
Dinner: egg, spinach, cheese in lebanese/pita bread and nonfat milk
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 17, 2021 16:39:15 GMT
January 17
Breakfast: pb on toast with an apple cut in chunks and cooked in the microwave then plunked on top of the pb toast and cut into bite size pieces then eaten with a fork+ black coffee
Snack1: Grapefruit peeled and eaten in sections Snack2: the pb-tahini-sugar-cocoa mix (no idea what I put in but itt was tasty and thankfully all gone now)
Lunch: Mexican bowl with bulgur, red kidney or whatever they are beans cooked then put into tomato sauce with some onion and garlic and then mixed the grain and beans together with some hot sauce, topped with thinly sliced romaine lettuce and two chopped cucumbers and drizzled all of the big bowl with some light ranch dressing
Dinner: 1/4 loaf (25g) Lebanese bread (like pita) with a homemade beet-bean-seed burger inside and condiments of with dijon mustard and ketchup + a side of broccoli-cauliflower soup (leftover veg heated with 2 cups water and bouillon cube then whirred till smooth) I added more pepper and salt to adjust the seasoning on the soup and squeezed in some lemon juice to taste.
Snackk: Lebanese bread with light cheese and homemade guava jam
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 18, 2021 15:59:18 GMT
January 18
Breakfast: toast, egg, oil, black coffee, tomato and spinach cooked and eaten with the egg and toast...all stacked up
Lunch: Mexican Bowl that had bulgur, beans, a salsa-ish thing with tomato, garlic, onion and cucumbers then lettuce and ranch dressing and some hot sauce all mixed together in a bowl
Snack: popcorn(2) with peanut butter(2) - popcorn made in stainless steel pan on stove top without oil and the peanut butter heated a bit in the microwave before being added and stirred into the popcorn
Dinner: yogurt with 1/2 cup oats, tbsp coconut, tbsp sesame seeds, tbsp homemade guava jam, chopped guava(0), a few pomegranate arils(0)
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 19, 2021 18:16:18 GMT
January 19
Breakfast: Hot cereal with labne and jam, coconut and sesame seeds + black coffee
Lunch:Chili with TVP, beans, wheat berries, corn, tomato sauce, spinach, and dessert of labne & guava jam
Dinner: Lebanese bread wrapped around hummus, spinach, homemade sundried tomatoes and light cheese
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Post by cathygeha on Jan 20, 2021 15:19:13 GMT
January 20
Breakfast: orange, egg in hot cereal cup thingy with spinach and tomato sauce + black coffee Lunch: lentil-carrot soup with bean burger on 1/4 lebanese bread + nonfat milk heated then 1 teaspoon carob molasses stirred in Dinner: wheat berries with nonfat yogurt, sesame-flax-sunflower seeds, coconut, guava jam
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