How We Moved and What We Ate On One Fourteen Nine

Hello Dawn,

Where do you get decaf chicory coffee and what is an MIM?

Hi Randy!

I got addicted to the chicory at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans, but I am too cheap to have it shipped, so.........I make my own blend. 
I use a decaf French Roast Coffee, beans, if I can get them--Trader Joe's has really good ones---otherwise Maxwell House has a decaf French Roast that will do.  I mix one can of the ground French Roast with one package of chicory, sold in stores as "Coffee Partner".  It is sold by the coffee in a small orange box (about 4 in x 4 in).  So far, I can only find the "Coffee Partner"  in "Schnucks" supermarkets out here, but I live in a more rural area.

The MIM is a "Muffin in a Minute"---a low carb bread alternative.
Here is the basic recipe:  (I will post them as an R.O.D. in a separate post for those who have not seen them.)

Minute Muffins

Take the small mixer cup that came with the Magic Bullet and add:

1/4 cup flax meal (grind ½ c seeds  in bullet)
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 or 2 packets of splenda
1 teas cinnamon
1 large egg

Mix in the Bullet for about 5 seconds (make sure well blended)
Microwave for 1 minute! (in the same cup)

If you want you can add 2 T of cream cheese to the mixture (Plopped in the middle--it manages to stay in the muffin and ooze out when you eat it!)

While warm spread with some butter, cream cheese or SF jelly (watch the
carbs in the jelly)

1.5 net carb. (?)  According to CalorieCounter.com, here are the stats:

Calories 200 Calories from Fat 135

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 15.0g 23%

Saturated Fat 1.6g 8%

Cholesterol 212mg 71%

Sodium 72mg 3%

Total Carbohydrates 11.6g 4%

Dietary Fiber 9.3g 37%

Protein 12.4g

 

I usually add 1 tsp. vegetable oil and that adds 40 calories.

 

Thank you for the information. I will check around for the decaf Maxwell house coffee and Coffee Partner.  I really like my sage tea and Earl Grey tea but occasionally would like that extra fragrance of coffee in the house.  I am addicted to French roast from drinkining it at La Madeline and Croissant Brioche for years in Houston.  I think I have seen the Cafe Du Monde in the markets here but maybe not and maybe not and very likely not in decaf.  I also have had my share of benieghs at Cafe Du Monde in the Quarter as well as at the stand in the mall by the river but that is a habit I do not need as well as having been 99 percent caffeine free for over a year now.  Do you know if chicory has caffeine?

I have not invested in a bullit yet but guess I need to do that eventually.

Does your protein mix well with the coffee?

Chicory is caffeine free!  beignets.........mmmmmmmmmmm.  Not for me anymore either.  I used to love them though.  I bought the mix when I was down there the first time, but it just was not the same.  Good memories.

The Magic Bullet is great, but I have been hearing a lot about a personal blender from Hamilton Beach that is just about the same, but WAY less expensive.  Only about $15 as opposed to almost $ 45-50 for the bullet.

As long as you "temper" the protein by mixing it with cold water BEFORE adding the hot liquid, it works GREAT!  If you do not mix the protein with cold water first, you wind up with little curds of protein that have to be chewed........and I HATE to have to chew my coffee or cocoa .

Wishing you an awsome day!

Thank you.  I will have to watch for that Bullit knock off.  I am currently sipping on a cup of decaf chicory coffee that I have added a scoop of Chocolate SlimFast and feeling very decadent.  For years since I have quit using sugar I have been surprised by an occasional sweet taste just as I was beginning to sip a cup of black coffee.  I had always thought it was that someone had gotten something sweet appetite on the cup.  Reading Wikipedia on chickory yesterday I found that chickory has a substance called inulin that is a sweetener and an appetite enhancer.  Hopefully it will not enhance my too much.

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I LOVE THESE POSTS--IT'S FUN TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS EATING.


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L--SOUP/STRING CHEESE

D--TUNA SALAD

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Today was not a good eating day for me.  It seems to me that I'm getting to where I can eat more and this scares me to death.  Anyway here it goes.

Breakfast- 3/4 of a egg & sausage burrito w/semi hot salsa (small shell)

2 tootsie rolls (mini)

13 reduced fat wheat thins
 4 tortilla chips

2 tootsie rolls (mini)

Fiber One granola bar

1 cup popcorn

3 SF halls (cough drops)

3 bites of my hubbys drumstick **** cream)...yuck wont do that again

Bariatric Vitamins which I don't take faithfully ( I know very very bad)

Water off and on throughout the day and 1 small glass of diet cream soda (lots of ice)

I hate when I'm stuck at home I munch more than actually eat meals.  When I'm out and busy I forget to eat most the time or just have a handful of almonds, thru out the day off and on.