I subscribe to the “Eat this, not that” e-newsletter from Women’s Health Magazine and they offer sooooo many good tips and ideas etc. I love how they divulge the contents of common restaurant foods too – some of which are SHOCKING (Wow turkey and chicken wraps aren’t all that good for you overall, thanks mayonnaise!). I mean, my goal is to eat as much Whole food as I can get, but, sometimes I have to eat out (it’s a social thing after all) and I like knowing what the good choices are. The following is a great choice when at a Mexican restaurant (except I’d probably have it meatless, just because I keep thinking back to inhumane factory farms and can no longer stomach meat that came from there). Or, I can easily make this at home with all my better choices of food…then I can only add as much cilantro as *I* like (a little bit, not a lot!) and I have something to make with all the beans I am supposed to be eating…and who doesn’t like corn tacos?

I totally stole this (picture and everything)from HERE

I am also going to make this as soon as I can! (FYI- Corn tortillas have half the fat and a lot more protein than flour tortillas)

Tostadas

A tostada takes a crispy corn taco shell, irons it flat, and buries it beneath a heap of beans, meat, cheese, and salsa. Ordinarily that sort of pileup approach would lead to trouble, but with the tostada, the perimeter of the corn shell halts the expansion before it gets out of hand. That makes for an awesome lunch for about 300 calories.

Yesterday, I went to a lunch and learn at work about a program in Bermuda called “Healthy Harvest” and it was pretty interesting to find out about the Greenrock organization and their efforts to make Bermuda a more environmentally friendly island. The Healthy Harvest campaign is all about eating locally – there’s a great brochure HERE outlining Bermuda’s growing seasons and some really GREAT information on its site HERE. I have said this since the day my feet touched this rock – BERMUDA PRODUCE IS SOOOOO YUMMY!!!!!!!!! It seriously is way more tasty than the regular stuff. I will go so far as to extend that assumption to food locally produced in your neck of the woods. Like there is nothing yummier than Ontario peaches and cream corn helllooooo - NOTHING! Obviously, Bermuda’s growing seasons are different than those in Ontario (for example, bananas grow here year round but they don’t grow naturally in Ontario AT ALL) but it shouldn’t be hard to find information on what is locally produced in your area (remember those CSA’s I wrote about a bit ago? They’d be the ones who could give you info on that!)

I have cooking club today at work and I made this yummy cornmeal casserole! It was sooooo yummy that when it came out of the oven I tasted a bit as it was the first time I made it so I had to make sure I wasn't going to kill anyone at work - and it was SO GOOD, I had to make another one and keep the first :) It is pretty easy too...take a small onion and large stalk of celery, chop the hell out of them, cook in 1 tbs of butter until golden, add 1/2 cup of stone ground yellow cornmeal and mix it up, add 1/2 tsp of salt 1/2 tsp of sugar, pinch of pepper, mix it up, scald 2 cups of milk, then add it to the cornmeal mix and then cook over low heat until it thickens, cool, add 1 beaten egg, pour into a 1L casserole dish, bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes or until the top turns brown....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so yummy! This Is from the Dieticians of Canada Cook Great food book…mmmmmmmmmmmm I cannot wait til lunch!



UPDATE: All the food was scrumptious at the cooking club meeting - but I have to say the lasagna soup was especially tasty!