Day 46 - Starch Solution

Today’s stats:

I decided to finish up the week with a bean based breakfast, more for convenience than anything else. This time as I had two days left I decided to get Smedley’s (the leading brand for me so far) as well as the store brand which was just over half the price of the others. I figured that seeing as though I’m not a connoisseur of beans, I might as well get two for the price of one.

However it turned out that whilst the store brand of beans isn’t bad, it’s pretty much in the same style as Heinz. I was hoping the sauce would be thicker but ah well. At least I know that if Smedley’s isn’t available, I needn’t bother buying Heinz - I can get these instead.

Dinner was the classic combo, but this time I took the opportunity to weigh it. It was less than what I’ve been having over the last week or so. I think there was the general opinion that I’d starve to death or something and so every day a little bit extra was added. It turned out that yesterday’s food weighed in at 816g (or 0.82kg). That’s not exactly lightweight that, and I’m pretty sure that the previous bowls were a lot bigger, so I’m guestimating say 1.3kg. Now if you’re taking your measurements on a daily basis, and you’re putting through a couple of meals like that in a day, well that’s 3kg going through the system right there. That can easily throw things off if you look at the scale on a purely day to day basis.

New Stuff

I’m also happy to report that my Amazon box arrived today. Lots of goodies, with two being directly related to the Starch Solution. The first is a microwave popcorn maker. Now you might wonder why I bothered to get that given that I’ve already shown you can make popcorn in the microwave with just a bowl and a lid. Well the answer is simple, in the process of making that popcorn, I totally a bowl and a lid. Well, the bowl is still usable but it is severely pock marked from where all the kernels tried to melt through. This is even though the bowl is microwave save, which I did have the foresight to check. Unfortunately it’s only rated up to 110c and it seems popcorn kernels get much hotter than that.

Anyway, this pot has a number of advantages (I’ll do a little review later). It has a way to measure the right amount of kernels for the pot, and a foldable lid that makes it easy to stop the popcorn exploding everywhere and doubles as a handy way to retrieve it from the microwave. Basically it makes it much more convenient and as it’s designed to withstand popcorn kernels, it won’t melt and be destroyed each time I try and make some.

The other item was a spiralizer. I’ve seen some great ideas recently and I love the idea of being able to make curly fries. It’s a great way to eat potato and as it’s made without oil, you can basically have as much as you like. So I’m looking forward to making snacks for our next movie - hot curly fries made with potato and sweet potato - along with home popped, oil free popcorn. All McDougall approved. Yay!