Answering questions

Amy posted a comment asking what Eating Clean is. Instead of typing all this out, I took pictures of the pages in the Tosca Reno book The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged. I hope when you click on the picture it enlarges it enough to be read easily. I do recommend this book...I've just started on the recipe section and some of them look great!

I have eaten several small meals per day for over 10 years now. It works especially well for me as I get light-headed and weak easily when I start getting hungry. I try to not get hungry! My meals are not as big as her meals but she's bigger than me and lifts weights.

I love this idea and would pack a cooler every time I had to go out if I could. I know I've told you all that I feel so much better when I eat my own food! I was able to eat Domino's Pizza tonight with only a wee bit of tummy rumbling. I ate a few Wintergreen Altoids and things settled down.

And Amy, I think you mostly Eat Clean already!

Amy asked the next question too...when you make the pizza crust using 1 cup flour and 1 cup greek yogurt, does it have to be greek or can it be American yogurt? Yes, it needs to be greek yogurt...greek yogurt is way thicker than American yogurt...it's more the consistency of sour cream...actually, even thicker than that if you get the Fage brand!

You might could experiment making the crust with American yogurt but I would think you'd have to add extra flour to get the right kind of dough...to make up for the more liquidy non-greek yogurt. And that might change the texture of the whole thing. We really liked the texture of the crust...just want it thicker :)

I made some yummy whole wheat scones tonight to have with fresh raspberries and blueberries and cream for my mom's birthday. She showed me a tea time book she had that had recipes in it...all things for tea time! Scones were included, of course, and something called "yogurt cheese" which turned out to be regular yogurt, put in a cheesecloth and allowed to drain overnight, then squeezed out some more and then it would be the consistency of cream cheese... good for spreading on scones!

So I suppose if you wanted to do that with non-greek yogurt...drain the whey off...that would make it thicker like greek yogurt and acceptable for the pizza crust recipe. It's easier for me to get the Fage greek yogurt from Costco...especially now since the container is 48 ozs!!

And another bonus for that pizza crust recipe...the Fage greek yogurt is non-fat so the only fat in the pizza crust is the trace amount occuring in the whole wheat flour. Save the calorie budget on the crust and spend it on the cheese! hahahaha

 

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