More Cucumbers on the Go!

Today I had to try to do the planning needed to eat this diet on the road.  I wish I could say I was completely successful, but that wouldn't be accurate.  I changed the order of the dishes a bit since the salads had a lot of ingredients so prep was more involved and I thought the bowls would not travel quite as well as the drinks.  

So let's get on with our day since it's already pretty late in the day where I live. Here's today's menu:

First up early this morning we have Green Grapefruit Shake.  In addition to grapefruit and the ever present cucumber we also have lime juice and cilantro.  All my fav ingredients.  I've never been a fan of orange juice for breakfast.  Always seemed way too sweet for me so when I have a choice I always pick grapefruit so this already starts as a winner for me.  And no big surprise this was spectacular.  My fav a.m. drink thus far.  This gets an A for sure!

I didn't get around to making the fruit salad but it looks reasonably basic with banana, strawberry and more grapefruit.  Garnished with mint, basil and ginger it would be a nice salad I'm sure.  No grade though since I learned long ago as a laboratorian not to do what we call in the biz "dry lab".

Lunchtime is another coleslaw type salad with an orange vinaigrette.  I already confessed that I'm not a coleslaw fan but I thought the orange dressing would make it a better call for me.  The dressing has orange juice, soy sauce, cider vinegar and some ginger.  Sadly - even this exotic dressing was not enough to convince me that coleslaw was worth the time.  You may love this but it gets a B- from me.

Our mid-afternoon snack is Coconut Miso Soup made with ginger a smidge of cayenne and coconut oil with the miso.  This is a very nice variation on the standard miso soup.  I really loved it and wished there was more after I slurped it down.  It gets an A for sure.

Lastly, for dinner we have Collard Rolls with Cashew Pate'.  The pate' for this dish is a mixture of celery, garlic, miso and lovely cashew nut ground up in a meal.  This is smeared on a half of a collard leaf and piled up with jullianed cucumber, scallions and avocado.  Then the leaf is all rolled up and it is worth the work.  This is the best recipe I think I've had from this book so far.  Love, love, LOVE this.  If you never make any of the other recipes I've reviewed, make this one and enjoy!  If you don't like the collards make the pate' and use it as a dip or roll it up in a sheet of nori seaweed.  Yum!  A+

OK - I now need to make the stuff I have to take for tomorrow's sessions.  Here's the recipe spreadsheet:

Name	Category	Diet	Day	Page number		Rating
Vanilla Blueberry Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	eight	128		D
Red, White and blue berry salad	Salad	Fat Blast	eight	166		B
Kreamy Chipotle Salad	Salad	Fat Blast	eight	136		A
Kreamy Cucumber Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	eight	146		A
Zucchini Noodles	Dinner	Fat Blast	eight	160		C
Pineapple Cilantro Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	nine	124		B
Cucumber Guacamole	Dip	Fat Blast	nine	158		B+
Cabbage Salad with Cucumber Miso Dressing	Salad	Fat Blast	nine	131		C
Garlic Bell Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	nine	142		A
Celery Almond Pate'	Dip	Fat Blast	nine	158		A
Pear Lime Ginger Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	ten	122		B
Watermelon Grapefruit Salad	Salad	Fat Blast	ten	168		A
Zucchini Hummus	Dip	Fat Blast	ten	159		B
Curried Cilantro Cucumber Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	ten	141		C-
Mixed Vegetable Seaweed Rolls	Roll	Fat Blast	ten	154		B
Green Grapefruit Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	eleven	119		A
Mshredded Sesame Salad	Salad	Fat Blast	eleven	137		B-
Coconut Miso Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	eleven	140		A
Collard Rolls w/ Cashew Pate	Dip / Roll	Fat Blast	eleven	152		A+