Tonight I had a quick version of turkey Sloppy Joe's (Alex /Sarah take note, because this is an easy and inexpensive meal for someone who's more sensitive to carbohydrate). Lightly sauté ground turkey breast in a little olive oil together with a handful of minced onion (the fat free ground white meat turkey that is a light pink color when raw, not the fatty one made with dark meat). Mix in a Zone favorable pasta sauce from a jar, and heat through. I had a few orange sections and a handful of raw almonds for dessert. If you're sensitive to the carbohydrate you eat keep the orange sections to a minimum. A bowl of berries is another good choice for dessert in place of the oranges. A tip, to make meal prep faster I brown a couple pounds of turkey at a time and keep in the freezer, 3 or 4 blocks to a Zip-lock freezer bag. All I do at dinner time is add the pasta sauce and heat it in the microwave.

What did you have for dinner?

I have been having issues with tolerating my antibiotics from the dog bite, and I just did not feel like preparing a meal, nor eating one. So, I ended up making a strawberry smoothie for dinner--usually my breakfast! Went down great!

Something that that will require some checking, but isn't ground turkey kind of high in AA? IDK, I remember having this false sense of security in eating white meat ground turkey breast, and then later reading somewhere that it was higher in AA than extra lean ground beef, which is what I was subbing the ground turkey for... so in response to that, I have not been eating a lot of ground turkey (or any ground meat, for that matter).

Sounds yummy!

Thanks for sharing.

Surprised you can have a few sections of oranges. Wow. How many is "a few"? How big? Etc.

I remember them days before the forums, when I used to eat 1.5 apples or 1.5 oranges as part of the meal (and tofu) and how terribly hungry I'd become a short time later. Drove me crazy. I couldnt understand how the science made so much sense, yet not worked for me.

Now I know!! :-)

Alexy who is congested ... again ... and thus up at nighttime ... again. Inhaling hot steam. Sighhh.

Thanks for letting me know re: this is an inexpensive meal.

I'm struggling with huge grocery costs and confused as to how to reduce it. I'm leaning more on pollock than grass-fed chicken since it's definitely cheaper, so chicken is just once a day.

Etc.

I can use help figuring how to reduce grocery costs. I have pollock, grass-fed chicken, will add grass-fed red meat (my naturopathic doctor recommended I do so a couple times a week) to my diet. The pollock and chicken and meat are my only sources of protein at this point.

Veggies are spaggetti squash (works very well for me, once the bad hunger period passed), zucchini, tomatoes, broccili, cauliflower, and I also have bags of frozen vegetables--including green beans, onions, carrots (I pick most of the carrots out though as I'm sensitive to them), sugar snap peas, water chestnuts, mushrooms, bell pepper.

I am very cross and upset because I have done everything to eliminate the congestion and it just comes back ... arrrgggghh ...

off to breath in the hot steam ...

I'm interested by the way re: the AA in turkey?

Alexy

If you buy the fat free kind that I mentioned then there's no fat in it (AA is a fat).

which brand is fat free? I have never seen fat free ground turkey breast. I have seen some "extra lean" varieties, but have never come across fat free. Certainly, if there is no fat, then there would not be an AA issue.

Nature's Promise and Plainville both have it in one pound packages. If you don't have those brands just ask the meat in yor grocery store to remove the fat from a turkey breast and grind the meat for you.

No, we don't have those brands.

So, if I am going to ask for the turkey breast to be ground for me after the fat has been removed, I am still thinking that there is some residual fat in the meat, is there not? Sure, turkey breast is naturally very lean, but it isn't naturally fat free, I believe that there is still some fat content, even removing the visible fat.

Like I said in my previous post, probably will need to research this more. I used to use a lot of it, and would be nice to go back to that option.

To satisfy you concerns you can check out the USDA nutrition info, which lists AA.

Here's the link

http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_m...2-35-45-00

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Posted By cranberrycat on 26 Jul 2012 09:56 PM
Something that that will require some checking, but isn't ground turkey kind of high in AA? IDK, I remember having this false sense of security in eating white meat ground turkey breast, and then later reading somewhere that it was higher in AA than extra lean ground beef, which is what I was subbing the ground turkey for... so in response to that, I have not been eating a lot of ground turkey (or any ground meat, for that matter).
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If you reread my original post here, note that I specified I eat the ground turkey hat is basically fat free.

Forgot to say, if you're looking for AA, the nomenclature is w-6 20:4.

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Posted By Sarah on 26 Jul 2012 11:30 PM


Surprised you can have a few sections of oranges. Wow. How many is "a few"? How big? Etc.


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A few is three. Small sections. If the orange is huge, I would eat one section. Everyone is different.

So, for turkey breast meat:
1 oz serving has 0.5g fat
AA 4.8 mg

compared with the 95% fat free ground beef that I had been using:
1 oz serving has 1.4g fat
AA 29 mg

compared with grass fed ground beef:
1 oz serving has 3.6g fat
AA 3.4 gm


I guess if you are looking at AA content, it is fairly low, but there is still AA in turkey breast. There is less AA in grass fed ground beef, although more fat per ounce. I think this is what I had discovered back when I did this search previously, I had concluded that grass fed beef was a better choice than turkey breast, in terms of AA content, which was quite surprising to me at the time. The turkey has a relatively small amount of fat in it, but the concentration of AA is obviously much higher than in the grass fed ground beef, along with the fact that there is MORE of it.

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I guess if you are looking at AA content, it is fairly low, but there is still AA in turkey breast. There is less AA in grass fed ground beef, although more fat per ounce. I think this is what I had discovered back when I did this search previously, I had concluded that grass fed beef was a better choice than turkey breast, in terms of AA content, which was quite surprising to me at the time. The turkey has a relatively small amount of fat in it, but the concentration of AA is obviously much higher than in the grass fed ground beef, along with the fact that there is MORE of it.
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I guess IF you could find hormone free Pastured Turkey - then the AA might be lower?

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Posted By cranberrycat on 27 Jul 2012 05:29 PM
So, for turkey breast meat:
1 oz serving has 0.5g fat
AA 4.8 mg

compared with the 95% fat free ground beef that I had been using:
1 oz serving has 1.4g fat
AA 29 mg

compared with grass fed ground beef:
1 oz serving has 3.6g fat
AA 3.4 gm
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Did you mean "mg" instead of "gm" for the amount of AA in Grass Fed Beef?
3.4 grams = 3400 mg!

Oh, I see my error

YES I meant mg, not gm.