I was wandering City Market in Vail looking for cookable items. My daily diet consists of coffee yogurt with blueberries and roasted walnuts, and some kind of protein and vegetable at night. As far as how many meals during the day? I've never eaten three. Seems like too much food to me. Then again, my mother never ever made breakfast for us, she was in bed until 10 AM every day. I didn't think twice, even though it came up in school all the time... They seemed to believe I'd do better if I had a full tummy. True? I don't know.
And now the research keeps flip-flopping. Breakfast good, breakfast unnecessary, only eat when you're hungry. But I have to take some pills in the morning and food makes the medicine go down easier, so it doesn't burn up my esophagus and stomach.
As for pills... The anti group... My doctor has the exact opposite philosophy. I know, I know, you feel healthier when you take no pills. But the pills help. And too many people don't have health care good enough to give advance warning before consequences. Kind of like Biden and his PSA... If you do what the government tells you... No, scratch that, that's got the wrong connotation. When you hear that prostate tests and mammograms can be spread out or stopped...don't buy it, I mean do you want to gamble with your health?
Now in Vail I also eat New York Style Nova lox in the morning, for an added jolt of protein, I never stop for lunch, why waste the time, if I get hungry I chow down on an energy bar, and I'm loath to let you in on my secret, but for grocery store smoked salmon, this stuff is the sh*t:
Spence & Co., Nova Lox, NY Style: shorturl.at/ZS0OM
That link is to Amazon, but it provides a picture so you can purchase the product at your market of choice, assuming they have it. I've found most markets do not. But City Market does. And I'll buy six at a time. Because inventory control...
There's this Oui Mocha & Chocolate French style yogurt that's delish! But good luck finding a market that sells it. When I see it at City Market I buy all they've got, sometimes fourteen or fifteen jars! Because oftentimes they're out. They're also often out of Chobani Coffee, which replaced the much better Coffee & Cream, and the third coffee yogurt of my triumvirate... I'm not going to tell you what it is, inventory is incredibly spotty, and I too buy all I see when it's available.
And City Market in Vail is gigantic. They slice Boar's Head meat, albeit at a glacial pace. And they've got my Vitamin Water Zero. And they've also got aisle after aisle of frozen products I should not eat.
But being unable to cook and looking for variety, one day I did a deep dive.
All the Indian stuff comes with rice, which my nutritionist calls a "filler food." If you're insulin resistant, and I am, and you might be without knowing it...if you eat pasta and then get tired, you are...you shouldn't be eating any rice. Nor most breads and that includes pizza.
Now in Italy pasta sales are going down for the negative health reasons, even though we all adore it. It's kind of like how the younger generation in America doesn't drink. These are trends.
As for the keto-trend, even Gwyneth Paltrow gave up on that, you probably saw that. As for the protein craze... My nutritionist says a man needs fifteen to twenty grams per meal and a woman ten to fifteen. If you see someone ordering a salad for dinner, laugh at them. Sans chicken or salmon or some other kind of protein atop it they're going to be starving soon. Protein salves the hunger. Fat makes the food taste good. There's more underneath all this, but those are the basic rules.
Oh, just one more thing. Don't eat anything within three hours of going to bed.
All this science I know from my nutritionist, I never paid attention in school, you may know the basics, but you'd be stunned how many don't. I see these people whose parents died of heart attacks eating KFC and french fries and no vegetables and even smoking. Sure, some people get away with this, but the odds are against you.
Now Green Giant has made big strides in the frozen vegetable vertical, you've got to try out their "Restaurant Style" stuff:
greengiant.com/products/restaurant-style-sides/
Sure, fresh is always better, but it's good to have a couple of these in the fridge.
So, I tried some frozen Chinese stuff. Almost all come with noodles or rice and very little protein, so I gave up on that.
But one day in City Market I came across Caulipower pizza.
eatcaulipower.com/en/products/cauliflower-pizza/
In truth, it kind of tastes like cardboard, but it's easy to cook and it's not the bread of the usual frozen pizza and I checked out all the models and you want the ones with protein on top. Not only for the nutrients, but because without them these pizzas taste even worse.
And if you're hungry after a day of skiing you're oftentimes bolting down the food anyway, so less than great taste is not crucial, but I bought a couple of Caulipowers after coming back from the mountains and...
The taste is just too bland.
But I like having one in the freezer, for when I'm in a pinch. You heat the oven (or large toaster oven) to 425 and then the pizza bakes in 14-16 minutes and the amazing thing about cauliflower pizza is it cools down much faster than the regular stuff, so you can eat it earlier and not burn the roof of your mouth.
And just the other day we were ordering from Instacart and I thought about Caulipower and started to wonder, does the company have any competitors?
And that's why I'm writing this.
They offered Milton's. A terrible name compared to Caulipower. And the graphics on the box are nowhere near as good. But Google is your friend and doing some research I found out that Milton's was on a par with Caulipower so I ordered one. The Meat Lover's Trio. For the protein, if not the taste.
And I tend to eat lunch late, to the point where it's actually dinner. I don't like to take the time to stop. And today I saw the Caulipower box in the freezer along with the Milton's and I decided what the hell, let me try the Milton's.
Now I had a hankering for Caulipower. Never ignore your inner tuning fork. Yes, I know Caulipower mostly tastes like cardboard, but it was titillating my taste buds, conceptually anyway. But variety is the spice of life so I heated the toaster oven (the pizza just fits and it warms up much more quickly) for the Milton's.
Now I've learned that the toaster oven also cooks more quickly than your regular oven. So you want to remove the 'za at the low end of the time spectrum, in this case 13-15 minutes.
And I was hungry and looked through the glass door of the toaster oven at exactly thirteen minutes and the damn pizza looked BURNED!
So now I wasn't having Caulipower and the pizza was at the limit of golden brown and I sliced and took a bite and...
It was immediately clear that the consistency was different. The Milton's is more like a cracker. I was getting a bad vibe, but I put the food in my mouth and...
It was definitely different from Caulipower.
And then I'm continuing to eat the Milton's and it gets better with every bite.
Now let me be clear, it's not as good as regular pizza, and frozen pizza is inherently substandard compared to cooked to order, but the Milton's actually tasted pretty good. The pepperoni wasn't bad, the sausage not great, but both were a bit better than Caulipower. It's about the crust not the toppings, and since pizza is mostly crust, in this case cauliflower, that's good!
Now in truth I haven't run these cauliflower pizzas by my nutritionist yet. They're probably not that great for you. But they're definitely better for you than the conventional DiGiorno and Tombstone. And I have a sinking feeling my nutritionist is going to nix them, but...
If you're in the market for cauliflower pizza...
Well, let me just say I'm at the beginning of my research, I'm sure there are experts with knowledge that far exceeds mine and I even know people who make their own, kudos, but the Milton's was actually filling and fulfilling, satisfying, and I had an urge to tell you.
eatmiltons.com/collections/cauliflower-crust-pizza/products/meat-lovers-trio-cauliflower-crust-pizza
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