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4. Pasta with LaChoy Chow Mein topping (1), Salmon
Fri May 24, 2024, 04:20 PM
May 2024

(1) La Choy Chicken Chow Mein White Meat Chicken & Sauce With Asian-Style Vegetables

Usually I wait until an evening when rice is the starch, but yesterday I couldn't resist the LaChoy and used half of it to top off the remaining potatoes I had. I know that's unconventional, but it was delicious.

Tonight the starch is pasta and I think it will work out great with the remaining LaChoy.

The pasta (spaghetti broken into quarter-lengths) is being cooked in the Instant Pot - 1 pound spaghetti and 5 cups water and 4 minutes of high pressure cook timer.

I rotate starch between potatoes, rice, potatoes, pasta, potatoes, rice etc. Perhaps with beans thrown into the rotation occasionally.

I have a quota on salmon that I try to fill in the last 10 days of the month, so that's why the salmon. (Similarly I have a quota of a large can of tuna to consume in the first part of the month).

Also I have to get going on it soon because I'm 3 days behind on my flossing and brushing quotas -- an accumulated deficit that accumulated over about 3 months. My health condition makes regular hours impossible, so I just keep track of where I'm at and try to reduce the deficit, by e.g. targeting 8 hours in-between instead of the quota 12 hours in-between. And to do my brush/floss soon after a major meal.

I'm doing great on the meat quota (4.0 oz/day no more and no less on average), and veggie quota (2.5 cups/day minimum).

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