Day 7 Supportive Rice and Beef Mushroom Gravy

Sunday’s are good days. I love to go to church and hear God’s word from another perspective and fellowship with the Saints. But today my daughter was recovering from the stomach flu so we stayed home together. That was another kind of wonderful. My mother came and picked up the older children and left me with a quiet house. I was able to read my scriptures longer than usual and just rest and enjoy the morning.

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Breakfast: 6 oz Greek Yogurt and 1 cup fresh strawberries (everything with stevia)

Snack: Half a crunch protein bar
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Here’s my beautiful oldest daughter waiting to eat with me. I love that everything in this meal we can all eat.image

 

Supportive Rice and Beef Mushroom Gravy

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Hot Cooked Brown Rice
  • 2 lbs grass fed lean ground beef
  • garlic powder (or garlic salt)
  • 1 can sliced mushrooms, undrained
  • 1/4 cup homemade onion soup mix (mine was with stevia)
  • 3 cups water
  • 3 tsp glucomannan powder

Instructions

  1. While rice is cooking; brown ground beef with garlic powder to taste. Drain well. Return ground beef to the skillet and stir in mushrooms; water, onion soup mix, and glucomannan. Cook and stir until thick and heated through. Glucomannan will thicken instantly without heat and may clump up. Sprinkle it in a little at a time evenly over the dish and stir any lumps back into the gravy. Mine eventually was smooth and lovely. If you grave a little more flavor add a dash of Worcestershire sauce. Some Greek yogurt stirred in is nice too--gives it a stroganoff flavor.
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Lunch: Brown rice with Grass Fed Hamburger gravy (thickened with glucomannan so carb free); organic petite green beans; salad from the garden and a Planned Indulgence of a piece of Angel Food Cake and Fresh Strawberries.

Snack: Slept through it, didn’t even miss it :).

Dinner: Another helping of rice and hamburger gravy and a fresh banana

After dinner we went to hear one of my student’s preach his first sermon and a neighboring church. He was just ordained to the ministry this spring and we were so glad to get to go and support him.
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Snack 3: After church I was pretty hungry, and was low on my calories. I was stumbling around the kitchen trying to figure out what to eat and DH said, “What nutrients are you low on?” I never thought about it that way before. So I went to myfitnesspal which said I was 27 grams of protein low! That made my food choices much easier. So I made a smoothie with almond milk, Greek yogurt; whey powder; dutch cocoa; and frozen raspberries. Yum! I still finished out the day 100 calories low but my tummy is happily full :). I love smoothies. They are so filling to me and taste like a dessert even without sugar.

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