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Coconut & Mushroom Soup
K & I have made it a recent habit to have soup for most dinners. This was the best way for us to pack nutrients into our daily meals and is also a very tasty way to eat fresh vegetables and herbs. We’ve been experimenting on a variety of globally-inspired healthy, nutritional soups using fresh, unprocessed or minimally processed ingredients. It’s been an exciting trip so far! The Coconut & Mushroom Soup is one of my favorite go-to dinner soups. It’s simple, has very few ingredients. It’s quick; you can pull this off in 20 minutes or so. It’s low-carb,…
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Introducing the Holy Cauliflower (+ a Recipe!)
Anyone who’s explored the Keto or a low-carb lifestyle can vouch to Cauliflower being their best friend! A huge surprise when I started this journey was the horde of Cauliflower-based products we readily get in the grocery store these days – Cauliflower rice, nuggets or my guilty pleasure, Cauliflower Crisps. I never thought I would enjoy Cauliflower Pizza, but honest to god, I don’t even notice the difference these days. Now, I am not someone who follows fads, I do my own research before starting anything new. I have always liked Cauliflower (I make a killer Cauliflower tempura!) Aside from that,…
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Keto Mornings with Bulletproof Coffee
A grande vanilla whole milk latte has close to 40 grams of carbs. Let that sink in for a minute. As I ponder on this fact, I longingly think back to the time (which was last week…Meh) when I had those decadent foamy lattes with the side of a warm croissant, guilt-free. Aarghh…well, no one said a lifestyle redo is fun or not depressing. LOL My morning latte is an absolute must, can’t live without it. But if this one item in my daily menu comes close to my net-carb limit for the day, I know we have a problem.…
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We tried the Keto Diet for One Month
To kick-start our lifestyle change and to understand what we were up against, we downloaded a free app called the “MyFitnessPal” and kept a strict journal of the foods we consumed. We tracked our intakes for a month. The insights were fundamental in understanding our food habits and to charting a path forward. We understood that we were consuming close to 3,000 calories/day and 500 grams of total carbs! (Damn you, my favorite Jalapeño bagel!). We were eating all the wrong foods! On those busy days, I would grab a quick blueberry muffin for breakfast at work. Little did I…
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Self Rx – Nature & Nurture
The pandemic hit NYC and New Jersey hard. It was one of the first few places where the wrath was unbridled. It was eerie to see the climbing death toll in our neck of the woods and feel utterly helpless about it. Like a brick thrown at our face, most of us understood that health is the best wealth there is. Until we semi-retired recently, K & I were technology consultants for close to 12 years. We have both been through the grinder – worked 14+ hours/day, 2 Starbucks Latte’s before 9AM, vending machine chips/Doritos for lunch, a pizza dinner,…