Stir Fry

Today I made a stir fry with ground chuck, onions, peppers, cabbage, mushrooms, carrots and a bag of baby spinach and kale. I had a little left over roast I cut up and added to it.
I put soy sauce on it when I ate it. It was really good. Larry ate some and said it was good but he thought I was going to buy a bag that said stir fry on it. He acted disappointed. All my ingredients were fresh. I thought it was better than a bag.

Fiber

I am trying to eat more fiber because I didn't want to go on cholesterol medication to bring the ldl down.  The doctor said I wouldn't be able to make a dietary change that would help because my triglycerides and blood sugar were already good.  I said I was going to try anyway.  The next time I went, my ldl had gone down 20 points and my hdl hadn't dropped.
I had called my health coach associated with my insurance and asked how to bring down my ldl without bringing down my hdl.  She said to eat fiber.
Well.  It turns out there are two kinds of fiber, soluble and insoluble.  Soluble fiber cleans out the blood vessels and insoluble fiber cleans out the intestines.  I did not find that out immediately.  I asked the nutritionist associated with my insurance if it would help if I left the peelings on tomatoes.  I don't like them because it is like I imagine eating plastic wrap would be.  She clued me in that there are two types.  So tweaking that part of my diet has been a fairly recent change.  Some of the foods overlap for both kinds, but benefiber doesn't do what insoluble fiber does.

Food

We had a turkey for Thanksgiving.  I put the left-overs in the freezer.  Yesterday I made gumbo with some of the turkey and broth and this morning I made a form of noodle soup with the rest.  The container with the yellow stuff, that's egg salad.  The brown and white stuff is sugar-free chocolate fudge pudding with  sweetened sour cream.  So I have food in the refrigerator that is on my diet.  I like to eat regularly, but I'm not a fan of cooking regularly.  So a variety of things in the refrigerator that are "on my diet" means I can eat well and do other things for several days.  The containers are uniform in size so they stack nicely in the cabinet and refrigerator:)
The only thing I still plan to do today is make a slaw.  I'm not wild about all the chopping, but it will be worth it.  The lovely cabbage is from Larry's garden.  I started to post a picture of it, but decided a cabbage is a cabbage.  He has grown several green ones and also red ones.  It has been so wet in the garden it is difficult to pick one.

food

Black beans, brown rice, topped with homemade salsa made from my cherry tomatoes, jalapeno pepper,   garlic, onions, olive oil and vinegar.