Day to day

Or maybe he is - my first piece of kitchen gear is a steel wok that I bought more than 20 years ago and I used it to make stir fry last night. It is actually a quick cooking method as everything is cut into tiny pieces. I have a book called "Hot Wok" that I bought (also many years ago) and I love their approach - get all of your ingredients prepared, put the wok on, and usually about 5 minutes later you are eating. Because of the speed of cooking, getting your ingredients prepared and lined up makes a huge difference.

 

The heating element in our West-Bend electric wok has started burning through the bottom....after 27 years.
We wore out the cookbook that came with it.

 

Dint even know how to stir fry.
The boiled eggs seem to be helping in the mornings. Today's lunch was crackers and hummus. That shit was pretty good if I must say. Snack was pecans. Not sure about dinner yet.

 

Way to go man.
And remember that you don't need a wok to stir fry.
If you have a conventional gas range you will do better with a flat bottom pan that can withstand high heat.

 

I do have a gas stove and a big ass pan. Just grease the pan a little?

 

Don't forget your fruits and veggies! Pretty much any veggie is good roasted in the oven. Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, asparagus, mushrooms, carrots. Whatever you like! Just spray with olive oil add a touch of sea salt, pepper and garlic powder and let those babies become delicious in a 425 degree oven. Once they're slightly browned they're ready. So easy and so good.

 

Great news! Slow and steady.

 

What is the health difference in sea salt and table salt??

 

Thanks

 

Negligible. But sea salt gives you hipster cred.

If high blood pressure is an issue, avoid both of them as much as you can.

 

Yeah regular salt is ok. Easy on the salt either way.

 

This:
Wok Skills 101: Stir-Frying Basics | Serious Eats

gives a nice overview of stir frying. No recipes, but it is a pretty good place to start, though if I was you I wouldn't rush out to buy a wok - just use whatever you have

 

Braggs amino acids are great alternative to soy sauce or salt if you're stir frying.

Also, try cucumbers, carrots and broccoli with hummus... YUM. I get the dip-sliced carrot chips from Publix when I'm at home. Sooo easy! Make sure you're getting enough calories at lunch though... no one likes to get hangry! Sabra makes pretzel chip and hummus to-go packs that are easy to toss in a lunch sack. And they're not terrible for you, either.

You're making great strides, man, keep it up!

 

My only addition to the salt commentary - you wouldn't believe how much salt and sugar are hidden in packaged food, as the salt actually partially cancels out the sweetness of the sugar. Partly getting people to cook things from scratch is to get as far away from the pre-packaged stuff as possible. Once you move away from pre-packaged food, then you can start adding sugar and salt when they are needed.

 

If I agreed with the above comment any more I'd be standing on a soap box. Don't be fooled by the reduced sodium labelling. Usually (but not always) all that means is the insanely high sodium content has been reduced to lower but still way too high level. Confession--We do keep a few cans of the Progresso soups with 50% less sodium for quick lunches & one-person dinners.

Cooking from scratch lets you control what goes into the food (we use no or very little salt while cooking), and you can cook enough to have leftovers for another meal.

 

Dinner last night was Chinese food. And I was proud of myself. I had the veggie plate. No rice.

 

Since I mentioned it, I decided to take a look at one of the reduced sodium soups:
Progresso soup Reduced Sodium Minestrone.

Most of the nutritution facts on the label (I never trust that they are completely accurate) aren't bad at all, pretty good in fact. Except that the 30% reduced sodium is still 470mg for one serving. One half of 1 lb 3 oz = a 9.5 ounce serving. I don't know of many people who would satiated by 1/2 a can of soup, certainly not me. So let's say in reality it contains 940mg of sodium, 38% of the RDA. That's a lot of sodium, esp. if you take into consideration other pre-packaged foods that are typicall consumed during a normal day.