August 27, 2021
Day 44
Steak and pepper stir fry with onions and fermented black beans, a dinner that my mother-in-law taught me how to cook, is a pretty simple meal to throw together on a weeknight. However, cooking a seemingly sugar free dinner, one that I’ve made many times before, now that I’m paying attention, turned out to be one with added sugar, not much, but still enough to alter the recipe.
Here’s how it went last night.
Heat avocado oil in a wok.
Add sliced onion; stir fry
Add sliced red and green peppers; stir fry
Add minced garlic; stir fry,
Add soaked fermented black beans.
Then here is when I had to start making some changes. Usually, I’d add beef broth at this point. I checked the ingredient label and it showed cane sugar. It wasn’t enough to show (less than .5 g per serving) on the nutrition fact label, but it was still there. So, I took out half of the veggies and set them aside, then added vegetable broth to the remaining veggies, and removed that – those are my veggies. I’ll serve them over brown rice.
Then with the remaining veggies, I added the (added sugar) beef broth. Then removed that from the wok. Then I wiped out the wok, added avocado oil, and sauteed the beef that had been marinated in sherry. (No sherry for me - sugar). I added back the veggies in beef broth and that was served to my husband over white rice.
Oh, the hoops. Can you see me jumping?
Really though, it was pretty simple. I got what I wanted, he got what he wanted. Keepin’ the peace.
#mysugarfreeyear #sugar #sugarfree #healthcoachmaryellen #sugarfreerecipe
#sugarfreediet #nutrition #sugarfreestyle #sugarfreelife #nosugaraddedlifestyle
#nosugaradded #healthcoach
