Weekly EGG FAST and live cooking demonstration!

Give everybody a moment to come on in. I'll just start by introducing myself for anybody who's new here. I am Maggie, the substitute teacher and I am on a health and wellness journey. Thank you for coming along with me and helping me to stay accountable so that I can age gracefully. Let's see, I've completely changed the way that I eat. I am down over 70 pounds with 30, at least 30 more to go. I've been tested for food sensitivities which was a cheek swab and some hair samples and so I have a list of foods that I can have and a list of foods that I can't have. So today I've got a few things I'm going to show you guys. I'm going to cook, I don't know if I call it breakfast, I guess it's breakfast or maybe Sunday brunch wherever you are. I'll be going to service later on but I am going to do my weekly egg fast today. I know Alisha had a question about the egg fast. I do this about once a week. My metabolic specialist advised it if you want to kickstart your metabolism and I'll tell you what it is and kind of why I do it. I do weigh myself every day just to kind of take some of the stigma and the shock away from seeing the number on the scale because you know how many of us don't weigh and then you go to the doctor's office or whatever and you get on a scale and you're shocked you know because of that number. It's happened to me you know this is year three of my journey. So I weigh myself every day and in my mind you know if I stay on track and I eat the way that I'm supposed to I would like to see my weight kind of come down you know pretty consecutively you know even if it's just you know a half a pound or you know a little bit but what I've noticed about myself and this is important to learn you know whether you are also trying to age gracefully or if you are trying to lose weight. I've shared with you guys I had a lot of joint pain, knee pain, back pain. I had you know elevated cholesterol, borderline blood pressure. I was pre-diabetic. All of that stuff has normalized without medication because I've changed what I eat and the weight has kind of come off as a byproduct. So hey So weighing myself every day I would love to see the scale change every day. That doesn't happen for me. What I've learned on my journey is that my weight will kind of plateau and then I'll drop like a couple pounds plateau and then I'll drop like a couple pounds. It's still going in the right direction but you know it is frustrating when you're trying to do the right thing. We know when we are, we know when we're not but when we really are and the scale doesn't reflect that. So what I do is an egg fast once a week and on the egg fast that means that for one day and never consecutive days I will eat only eggs and apples or only eggs and strawberries. I'm out of apples today and I've got some sad frozen strawberries that I've thawed out so we'll see if we can top them with sweetener and enjoy. I already only eat two meals per day but so I'm gonna have four. I think I'm gonna do fried eggs this morning maybe I'll poach them we'll see. You can have up to eight or nine eggs in a day and you can have you know I think up to like 12 strawberries per meal. Apples are probably better because you know that fiber you know keeps you full but for me it's not about fullness it's about giving my body a day to kind of work through what I've already eaten all week and then it also for me when I do the egg fast I wait this morning and when I wait tomorrow I'm guaranteed to see you know at least a pound and a half or two drop. So again that's what I'm doing today. All I've had is my coffee so I'm going to start with my eggs and then I've got some more giveaways, food giveaways that I'm going to give away and go through and just share some stuff. I'll make my apple cider tea and you know just kind of keep you guys on here for a leisurely Sunday brunch and then I'll wrap up, go to service, pick up another giveaway box and then come back on this afternoon. All right so let me get my skillet pan. I know and yes I'm one of those that uses the oven for storage sometimes so this is a collar pan. It's square obviously but I think I got this at the Dollar General. It actually works well. One of the things that I like about it you can see that the whole thing is metal. Some of the other pans that I have that have the I don't know if it's rubber or silicone handle or whatever it is you can't put that in the oven. So it is good to have in your kitchen at least one pan that can go from the stove to the counter to the oven so that's why I have this one. All right so for my fried eggs I'm going to be using, you guys know it, my goat's butter. One of the things that I found out in my sensitivity test is that I can't have cow dairy so I have pretty much changed. I do have regular butter in the fridge for the boys and you know anyone else who needs it but this is my go-to. You can get it at Whole Foods. You can get it at online a deli called Caputo's. So this is the one that I'm going to open up and cut. So the key to fried eggs, I know it seems simple and it is simple but you know hey we all have to start somewhere. For me the key to a nice crispy fried egg you want to heat up your pan before you put your eggs in. Obviously eggs can be runny. If you like them runny that's great but what happens especially if you have a stove like mine that kind of tilts a little bit, if you crack an egg into a cold pan it'll run and then you won't have that nice egg shape. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut a little bit of goat's butter, put it in the pan, turn it on and let it heat up and I like to move to the next step once my butter has started foaming and melted. Before it turns brown you don't want it to burn. All right so I'm gonna get since I'm gonna make four maybe five I don't know we'll see. I have a nice healthy pat of goat's butter. Again looks like butter, cooks like butter, tastes like butter. So that's what I'm using. So I'm putting this in my skillet right in front of me and then I'm gonna go put this on the stove. Hey Dottie and UK so good to see you. Okay my burner sometimes it wants to work sometimes it doesn't. All right so again on the egg fast you can have eggs any way you like them. You can have them boiled. I'm doing fried. I may do an omelet later today. You can do them poached. You can do your eggs any way that you want. You can't do cheese or I can't do like goat's cheese. So today literally I'm gonna have my beverages, my coffee, my tea. I'm gonna make my apple cider vinegar and my strawberries. So again I just do that about once a week because I really want to get this weight off. Okay so for the eggs that I'm using these are from Sprouts which is a farmer's market here organic cage free. There's so much, so many opinions on you know all the ingredients that we use. You know organic is better. Cage free is bread better. We like happy chickens but look use what you have and use what you can. So I'm just moving the butter around the pan. So you see it's nice and foamy. It's nice and hot. Another thing that you can do not touching it but when the pan is on the stove I kind of put my hand hovering over it and if I feel that radiant heat I'm like okay now we're ready to put our eggs in there. So I'm gonna go put this down and then I'm gonna crack four maybe five eggs. I like my biggest meal of the day early because I wake up hungry. So here are my eggs some interesting colors. I've heard brown is better and the harder the shell it's better. I don't know y'all I'm not a I'm just a home cooker. All right that egg did run a little bit so I'm gonna let it heat up just a minute and wash my hands. I'm working on a setup. Okay I'm not working on it. Someone's working on it for me but to be able to like switch the camera like a proper cooking show which this is not. This is just me in the kitchen sharing my journey with you all but maybe like an over the stovetop camera so I don't have to walk back and forth and you guys can see what I'm doing. All right a little messy. I got some shell in there so let me clean up and wash my hands again. I did four eggs. All right I'll show you guys what I have. I think I'm gonna cook them uncovered and I think we're gonna leave them sunny side up. I'll show you guys what we have so far. So I was trying to get the perfect egg shape but you can see I've got four eggs here and they did run to kind of spread out in the pan. So I'm just gonna salt them and let them cook kind of low and slow. All right so I'm not gonna put the lid on them. If you put the lid on them what happens is they'll kind of poach and they'll steam and then you'll get like um you won't be able to see that actual yellow. It'll just kind of be like you know I don't know it'll still be eggs but I want that you know pop of color. No reason. It's gonna taste the same and I'll hold off on the pepper until I'm ready to eat because I just want them to look the way I want them to look. All right I'm gonna make my apple cider vinegar and tell you guys about that because I like to do that with my egg fast. All right I like to use everything. Hey good morning. Thank you guys for coming in. I like to use everything. I'm trying to remember what this is from but I have a little used piece of lemon. I think this is from our crab cakes when we uh zested the lemon. So I'm going to show you guys a tea. You could drink this every day. I don't drink it every day because I don't need it but I'll tell you um what it is and how it helps. I know a lot of people are big on apple cider vinegar so my metabolic specialist recommended this one for me. Um Bragg's is I don't know organic unfiltered. What I do know is that you can see it kind of settles at the bottom so once I pick it up I always just kind of shake it and swirl it around to make sure we get all that goodness whatever's in there. Um but apple cider vinegar they say it's good for weight loss. It's good for digestion. Um it is Sunday morning so we'll keep it uh appropriate but you just want to make sure that your system is regular you know. I mean that's the bottom line um and so if you have struggles in that area I'm going to show you a tea that can help um but it's also just good you know for just regular digestion. All right so you guys can see our fried eggs here. We're starting to get that nice like I don't know y'all me and holding this thing up nice like crispy buttery um bottom and I'm just leaving it uncovered so that it's going to cook from the bottom. My yolks are still kind of jiggly when I move it. You know we um use all of our senses when we're cooking that's how I was taught. Um so you know cook it to your satisfaction. If you like your yolks a little runny this might be good for you. I like them soft but firm so I'm going to keep them on the stove. All right so let me get my ingredients for this tea. I'm going to make it and I'm going to walk you guys through it. Once again I have to put water in my curing because it's always running empty. When I used to work in the office I'm spoiled. The ones they had there were like connected to the water system so you never had to fill up the tank but I'm not complaining. Some good hacks with the Keurig if you are um you guys know I'm an Airbnb host and so I have one in my guest suite but um you can use it obviously for coffee and tea. I'm going to use it to run hot water through. You can also use it for like little soups um you know lots of different things you can do with it if you don't have access to a kitchen. All right check my eggs one more time. I don't want them to stick so I'm just getting the spatula and I'm just kind of going around the edges because I want them to really like slide out of the skillet easily onto my plate when I'm ready to eat. I'd say they're kind of done. I don't know how you guys like your eggs I'm trying to show you you can see the nice like crispy bottom um I like them that way that's from the butter and so I'm just gonna let them I'm gonna let them cook a little bit more. I'm just touching the yolks to me they're still kind of soft so we're gonna keep them going. Eggs don't take long at all but since I'm doing other things y'all know I can get distracted and then things will burn. Okay so my apple cider vinegar tea this is really easy you guys um basically you know a lot of teas use honey and lemon right so I'm going to show you my substitutes for that. So for the apple cider vinegar tea you can measure it if you want to. I think I eyeball it I kind of do a lot of stuff to taste but I think it's a couple tablespoons of apple cider vinegar um like I'm just gonna put the whole thing in there squeeze it um this is like a a quarter of a lemon that's already been kind of squeezed um put that in there if you have lemon juice you can use that um if you have maybe even lemon extract but you want the citrus um and then for my sweetener uh this is the super gold honey substitute that I use I think you can get this at Walmart you can get this at Amazon hey Mr. Kata um you can also buy from Sucrin and I'm going to show you guys some other stuff that I got from them but this is a great honey substitute um that I'm going to use in my tea. I think I'm going to put the top on the eggs and just keep them on low. Okay so for anyone who's new here I always start every beverage with my alkaline drops my test results revealed that I was acidic which just means I needed to drink more alkaline water you can buy alkaline water to me it's expensive so you can make your own these drops are on Amazon the brand is called AlkaZone and literally all I'm going to do I'm going to put a couple drops in I do that with every beverage it's just a habit now and it turns regular water into alkaline water is that important um I was drinking drinking drinking drinking water and it wasn't staying to hydrate me it was literally just running through me and so I noticed when I'm pretty consistent with the alkaline drops not running to the bathroom as much um and I just am more hydrated and my test results show that all right so I've got my lemon I don't even know if there's anything I can squeeze I'm just putting the whole thing in there I've got my honey substitute y'all know me and sweet so I'm pretty generous with this so make it how you like it in the bottom I just have lemon honey honey and um I could measure this apple cider vinegar is pretty tart so a little goes a long way but I'm just gonna pour a tablespoon or two I don't know make it the way you want it and then I'm gonna put the whole thing underneath the Keurig and just run hot water so it is an acquired taste but um again if you have any issues with digestion just give it a try um you can you can drink this tea after every meal um you can drink it once a day or for me maybe once or twice a week all right clean up as we go and check the egg all right eggs are doing great on low all right so my egg fast again it's either eggs and apples that's it for the day or eggs and strawberries that's it for the day you know of course your beverages but no cheese on the eggs no yogurt or cream with the fruit that kind of stuff all right so I'm gonna give my tea a stir it's a strong taste for in the morning but you know my palate has completely changed you know I mean it just takes time I'm not gonna lie the first two weeks was really kind of like a detox when I started I had to get you know off the artificial sugar and just all the stuff that I mean I'm 46 so for the first what 43 years I had the typical American diet you know I tried the diet uh with lose weight and um you know put it all back but um this is what I found that's worked for me oh the lemon and the apple cider vinegar I'm gonna put some more um sweetener in here I'll just go grab the honey and then I'm gonna show you guys what I'm doing for strawberries so this the sweeteners have been a godsend for me you know they don't spike the blood sugar and they give you you know the sweet experience without all those extra you know calories and carbs and all that oh much better still very tart but hey that's what I'm doing today all right checking my egg all right you guys see how they become kind of opaque when you keep the top on them that's fine if you like them poached I think oh yeah they're nice and good to go so I'm going to turn off the stove I'm gonna make my strawberries I'm gonna put an apron on because I had a big old bag of strawberries take my jewelry off um fresh is better if you can get it but there's nothing wrong with frozen I got a big bag of frozen obviously frozen lasts longer and I just had them thawing out in and I'll tell you guys a little hack you can do to defrost and kind of sweeten at the same time all right so whenever you have fruits um frozen anything you know it's going to release a lot of water as it's thawing out so I'll show you guys I got a big old bag of strawberries just from Walmart and they're still kind of cold but you can see there's a lot of liquid in there so what I'm going to do let's see if I can pour that's why I put the apron on you guys know me and my meal prep containers I keep these in my pantry I use them all the time for leftovers for meal prep for ingredients let me make my portion first all right so what I'm going to do for strawberries again these were frozen and they're thawed out I just have a little ramekin so I'm going into this big old bag of frozen strawberries so you guys can see not bad I mean if you were making a dessert or something you know they're kind of like soft and obviously thawed out but not bad so we'll just do one scoop and then what I'm going to do I'm going to taste them but I'm going to show you guys some sweetener because I am going to sprinkle some sugar on them so we've got two options here I'm going to use the swerve because it's already open this is a table sugar replacement a good substitute that I use the granular option so swerve is a brand you can get powdered sugar brown sugar or the table sugar and then sucrin the same brand that I use for the honey substitute they have the monk fruit granulated sweetener it hasn't been open yet so I just wanted to show you guys that let me get a spoon I have never heard of any of this stuff you guys I've just been doing a lot of research and I wanted to find something that actually tastes good because sometimes stevia can have a bite to it a lot of people don't like those tastes you know and I understand so this is my swerve and I'm literally just putting this oh I said I was going to taste it first I'll taste one out of the bag just because when you thaw out frozen fruit frozen fruit oftentimes it's kind of sweeter anyway if I can get one oh my word all right every time I pick one up they're kind of dropping and dripping but you guys can see here so this is just a bag of frozen fruit I'm going to taste it not bad I prefer sweeter but not bad all right so let me plate my eggs and then I'm going to go ahead and move all of that fruit into a container and put some sweetener on it and put it in the fridge I'm going to try and slide my eggs out of my square pan into my square okay thank you guys I appreciate how you guys keep an eye on everything I need your help this is not a real cooking show this is just me in my kitchen all right so I have four fried eggs all it was is some goat's butter a non-stick skillet got the nice crispy edges and okay sorry that was lame y'all know I get excited in the kitchen okay so you can see my fried eggs here this is going to be my first meal of the day I'm having fried eggs the thawed out frozen strawberries with the sugar-free sweetener and then this apple cider vinegar tea you know like I said I'm not a doctor I'm just a home cook but it does kind of it's just a good light way of eating so that your body can kind of process whatever you've been eating all week I only do it once a week for one day never consecutive so you guys saw yesterday I ate regular tomorrow I'll eat regular I also do this egg fast when I am like going on a vacation or let's say it's a holiday Thanksgiving or whatever the day before I'll do the egg fast on Thanksgiving I'll enjoy myself indulge eat whatever and then the day after I'll do the egg fast again just to kind of keep things from going y'all know how it can be all right so we've got our nice crispy fried eggs I'm just tearing off a piece okay sorry putting in it's just nice because sorry the goat butter and just everything so you guys can see here just a nice fried egg it's um it's done but it's still kind of soft the way that I like it got the nice crispy buttery edges if I had left the top off then I wouldn't have this little white uh covering just they kind of poached a little bit okay okay I know and then I'm gonna have a couple strawberries so good so once I eat this this will be all that I will eat today until you know I'll do it again maybe we'll do the French omelet however else if y'all want me to do scrambled or poached or boiled or whatever thank you all right so what I'm gonna try and do without making a mess I'm gonna try and pour out my thawed strawberries into a couple containers and then go ahead and put the sweetener on them and put them in the fridge so I'll have um you know an easy fruit that I can have um you know whenever I'll do another order today oh I got some orders come in I'll show you guys so if you can have fresh that's great but this is a good option I've got two of these on the counter hey Floyd I'm gonna try and pour so I got this apron on I just don't want to splatter any you know strawberry stuff all over me so honestly this would have been better if you get a bag of frozen fruit let me pour and then talk hold on whoo kind of came out fast almost done yep got a little splatter on the counter but it's okay I'll clean it up and I always clean my counters you know always uh before I start cooking wash my hands and wipe down the counters even if they're clean I still clean them before I cook and then um clean them again after because you just you know people set stuff on the counters whatever all right I'll show you guys what I have so this is empty now again that's just Walmart and I'll show you guys what I have so I've got two big containers of thawed out strawberries on this I'm going to sprinkle the um sweetener of course I'm not going to eat all this but it'll be in the fridge um if you're making french toast if you're making pancakes if you want to put some in yogurt you have an option for fruit and since I'm going to put the sweetener on it it'll be sweet wash my hands and wipe off the counter oh but what I was going to say what you can do that would be easier and neater if you have a bag of frozen fruit go ahead and um I'm trying to say is it partitioned go ahead and separate it out into some containers and then use the sweetener of your choice if you can have full sugar you know you can put some sugar on it I'm going to use my um swerve sugar replacement get a clean spoon so I'm just going to sprinkle this all over the top so if these strawberries were frozen you can just go ahead and put the um sweetener on them frozen like this hey Tracy um and then put the top on it and let them thaw so they will thaw release the liquid and they'll look like this but they'll already be sweet so you know you can use it as a um if you want to use it as a pie filling drain off the liquid um you could do all kind of stuff with it but you could get your frozen fruit put it in the fridge with some sweetener overnight hungry y'all and um you have a nice uh fruit option that's pretty much always ready okay I have one more container I'm just doing one spoonful because the strawberries are always already kind of sweet I already I always taste them before a little is fine just a teaspoon if you want more do more all right so that's your little hack you guys know the fruits that I can have on my plan are the low sugar fruits berries apples citrus I can't have mango and pineapple and all that stuff yet peaches so this is what I'm adding to my shelf I have a shelf in the fridge or I try to keep a shelf in the fridge full of these like prepped ingredients you guys have seen my green onions my shredded cheese that's been another helpful key for me is to have this kind of stuff you know that's how my mom taught me she always used to prep cook you know working kids in school whatever it is you know she would cook of course a big like Sunday dinner but then she would also cook down for the week so that my dad would have you know his meals ready grab and go because things get busy and for me I'm just having some more egg for me I do enjoy cooking but I use the prep time like on the weekends the boys are at their dad's so it's quiet to just go ahead and have all my ingredients so that if I'm rushing between meetings I can quickly y'all saw that sad quesadilla yesterday grab and go all right some more fried egg it's so good on the bottom look at that all right so let's put this stuff away and then I've got a few things I want to show you guys a couple orders came in in another giveaway box and then I'll let you get to it all right hope everyone is doing well happy Sunday so okay let's go over the orders that have come in some of them I can see through some of them I haven't opened yet so we'll see y'all are here to keep me accountable make sure I don't have any of the bad snacks wash my hands again all right so another thing that's helped me on my journey you guys know that I'm big on these delivery services because I am I will struggle with impulse shopping I'll go in the store for a few things and then I'll see a beautiful end cap of a new Oreo flavor and it goes downhill from there so I've talked to you about Instacart I've talked to you about Shipt I've also talked to you oh you're so thank you for the compliment I appreciate that I'm also a member of Amazon Prime and a member of Walmart Plus y'all pick the one that works for you they're all about a hundred dollars a year same kind of thing with like unlimited delivery and they used to be like about $35 minimum shopping order in order to get free delivery Walmart has taken that away and I'll show you what I have Shipt is still $35 but Instacart is now $10 so by the time you buy a few ingredients you've got a $10 order they'll leave it at the porch or you can you know have them hand it to you if you want for me that's been helpful to keep me out of the stores you know we all have our weaknesses I know what mine are um let's see what else I was gonna say something oh yes on my YouTube and thank you all I'm still waiting on my community tab but thank you all for helping me to get to 500 subscribers I think it's in the about me section I'm starting to put some links some of the ingredients that I use all the time you know that I hold up for you guys you can see them there and it's just the same links that I use to go shopping if it's helpful for you um one of my former Airbnb guests is a um a millennial with a lot of energy I remember those days and she told me about TikTok so I just wanted to say this y'all I've only been Maggie the Substitute Teacher for about a month and a half but I am Maggie the Substitute Teacher on all platforms right now I'm streaming on YouTube on Facebook and on Instagram but she let me know that TikTok is the top but I can't go live on TikTok until I have a thousand subscribers so again no rush but if you're are if you are on TikTok please is it subscribe or follow y'all I don't know I'm old but um if once I qualify then I'll go live on TikTok too for whatever that you know is if it's helpful all right so I had a couple Walmart orders come in again Walmart um Plus is the name of the membership program it's $99 I think for the year on limited delivery and I'll show you guys how I use it and some things that came in um I was gonna say something else oh there's a Walmart close to me so if there's a Walmart close to you sometime to fulfill your order you will get this dropped off at your door so you can see you know Margaret Brown that's me um they will literally bring the items from the stores in Walmart bags if they don't have it in the store see I'm not the only one y'all we're in this together this is helping me so I appreciate that sorry y'all let me just swipe it's allergy season where I live so and wash my hands that just reminds me I need to restock my allergy medicine so um apologies for touching my face um so yeah so um Walmart um so usually if they don't have it in the store you will get it in a Walmart box like this they use FedEx so you'll just get this dropped off like any other package y'all know we all shop online so I'm gonna open this box because I don't know what's in it and then I'll open the other so you guys can see remember I made that towel dirty with some raw eggs I wanted to move it out of the way so usually you know I just have the Walmart app in my phone and I literally use it kind of like a shopping list right so when I need something like allergy medicine I'll just go ahead and put it in my shopping cart and now that there's no minimum I'll just check out so again I know to have one item delivered is not the most sustainable please y'all I recycle and I'm sustainable in other ways so please don't come at me about that but it helps me so I'm just opening this Walmart box oh this is not necessarily about snacks but you know I believe in a clean house I was raised to clean the house and keep it clean um this is not edible but from time to time you know whether you buy this kind of stuff um or you make a home remedy you can use you know lemon um I like those um garbage disposal cleaners you run water hot water through your garbage disposal and then turn it on and it kind of foams and cleans and makes the house or the kitchen smell good it's just good to keep your disposal uh clean from time to time so I probably do it maybe once a week or so and especially anytime you you know you've cleaned up but you still smell something's just not super fresh um I run it so I was out and that's what I do when I use the last of something then before I use it I go ahead and order another one so I keep it in stock all right let's see what we got in this bag Walmart has partnered with DoorDash I believe so if there's a Walmart in your area you'll order something online and if they have it in the store they'll just bring it and it's free next day delivery but what I love is that if it's something in the store you make it at the same day so you guys know about me and my ingredients these are just canned mushrooms this is the kind of stuff that I'll keep in this pantry it's good to have vegetables like that on hand toss them into an omelet um toss them into a stir fry um I think this was like a dollar and yes I placed an order for a dollar that's what the membership's for all right I'm also gluten-free thank you weed um but yeah I can't have uh grains even though I love bread bread doesn't love me back so these are some crackers that have been approved for me you can see good thins I've tried this this uh this kind the one that says simply salt to me they're great I mean they're kind of a very mild taste with just a little bit of salt but they're a great vehicle for tuna salad you could melt cheese on them you guys saw the dessert that I made with the chocolate and the toffee so good thins and then I just decided to get another flavor this one says garden veggie so it looks like it could be tasty so I'm here to experiment and try stuff and let you guys know what works or not I'm going to put this in the pantry and then we'll go through our giveaway box all of my substitutions have just come from trying stuff it either you like it or you don't like it if I don't like it I won't have it again but I'll try pretty much anything whoa that apple cider vinegar but it's good for the body all right giveaway box I'm gonna have another bite of my food and then we'll see what arrives the food giveaway boxes so I've shared with you all my story about how I got introduced to this and for me it's kind of fun you know I work from home so my schedule is flexible enough to go and pick up you know food I live um there's some seniors in my neighborhood some of them don't have transportation some of them have the grandkids dropped off unexpectedly and you just never know who's struggling with food insecurity clearly I'm not I'm blessed but um it is fun for me so you can check in your area there are churches that have partnered with food banks you go literally you don't even have to get out of your car they open your trunk they put a box in and then you drive off no contact an Airbnb guest of mine who was volunteering at a church introduced me to it because she came home with all this stuff and that's been a way that I can experiment with some new ingredients that I had never heard of and especially if you don't have to pay for them it's even better all right so I got one more so I have a short list of people in my phone in my neighborhood and other places that you know I'll ask them hey this is what's in the box would you like it and so this has already been claimed but it's just a little fun you know reveal so a nice head of cabbage cabbage is great in stir fry if you look on my youtube page I think I have a cabbage roll soup recipe that you can use um you can also use these in place of like lettuce wrap so if you like Asian cuisine excuse me you can do like your ground meat with some ginger excuse me some brown sugar garlic and shredded carrot if you can have that oh speaking of carrots I don't eat carrots but carrots were in here um you can shred that and make a nice little filling and then get your cabbage um leaf like lettuce wrap and stuff it with that and roll it and eat it and it gives you um you know keeps you fuller longer some onions were in the giveaway um onions are great I like onions some people don't what I usually try to do is go ahead and chop them up and saute them in a little bit of butter and that's something that I would keep in my meal prep containers so that um you can grab them again like the mushrooms have your onions and mushrooms already sauteed and easy to grab and make a quick meal so this is a cabbage carrot and onion I'll be giving away sometimes there's other things that come in the giveaway box like this I don't drink orange juice but this I think is the whole foods orange juice um I grew up drinking orange juice there's nothing wrong with it um but you guys have heard me talk about beverages and condiments I've completely changed um I don't get I try not to get any calories from what I drink or what I put on top of my food I like to eat my calories and so you know if you can have fruit juice please enjoy but um fruit juice has a lot of sugar in it that I try to avoid another thing that was in the giveaway box this is pretty cool almond breeze you guys know that I use almond milk and I thought oh this is one that I can keep because tell the truth I go through the box and if it's something that I like I keep it and I give away the rest like 80 or 90 but when I looked at this if you guys noticed this almond breeze at the top it says hint of honey and I was like oh crap did they add sugar to it they did I really want to taste it but it has nine no eight grams of sugar and you know y'all I'm not the sugar police do what you want to but I know when I consume a lot of sugar I have a lot of joint pain I used to have an achy back bad knee that I would just kind of like have to shake out I was just really you know taking a pain pill like all the time I just thought oh I'm just getting older that's just what happens no within two days of eliminating the stuff that I'm sensitive to on my diet all of those joint pains went away and I don't take any pain medication I don't take any maintenance medication so for me my metabolic specialist said that everything that I eat has to be under six grams of sugar so that's something that I started doing now when I look I have to turn over the back and I just go straight to the sugar I don't count calories I don't count carbs but um this one has eight grams of sugar so I can't have it so this I'll be giving away I do have a couple things that came in the box that I'm keeping you guys know that I like tea um turmeric it's good for stuff I don't know y'all can look it up but this came in the giveaway box so these are tea bags and it's just herbal tea so zero calories so this is a way that I can try uh some different flavors um you guys know about my alkaline drops and the different sweeteners I've used so this is something that I would take out of the box and keep for myself another thing that I saw came in the box it looks like baby food but this is grain free puffs broccoli and spinach and what I notice at the bottom here you see it says made with cassava flour so that's been a great substitute for me cassava is a root vegetable kind of like a yam um so I can have cassava flour because you guys know about my tortillas I can't have regular flour tortillas so I ordered these on amazon again gluten free and gluten is just dough that's what I think about when I think of gluten I'm sure there's a more scientific name but I'm not a doctor but you can see here the tortillas that I make sorry it's uh made with cassava flour same thing so this is what I use this is a substitute that I use for my tacos for my burritos you guys have seen that and it's great speaking of gluten this came in the giveaway box and this is going away I love a crusty white baguette this is from Publix yeah green wise it reminds me of Paris oh it's just the crusty french bread with uh real cow butter um cut up and spread sometimes they cut it lengthwise and make sandwiches out of it and everybody just kind of sits outside and eats their bread and butter and wine it's lovely but I can't have it so this I'm giving away but you know I like all the regular stuff you guys it's just that I save those type of indulgences for special occasions because like I always say what I've learned is it's not what you eat from time to time it's what you eat all of the time all right also in the giveaway box hot dogs um I'm giving these away um these actually say chicken hot dogs um but right now I'm trying to be really clean so I'm only eating chicken breast but that could be a good snack um if you're you know I've changed my snacks I don't do chips and granola bars and any of that stuff anymore I'll do jerky or boiled eggs or you could put a couple of these in the air fryer they actually plump up ballpark right they plump up kind of like those convenience store rollers and um dip them in some no sugar ketchup no bun that's a good snack you know in a pinch too but those are going away spaghetti came in the giveaway box um I can't have grains a whole wheat spaghetti I don't eat pasta I never really was a big pasta person but the boys love it so I cook this stuff all the time but what I've done as a substitute for pasta you guys may have heard of the zoodles so the zucchini noodles um they make the butternut squash one um fresh is better sometimes when I buy the frozen ones they're a little watery another great substitute for pasta um if you guys look on my page I think I have a spaghetti squash uh meatball so you basically have a squash that when you pull out the inside it's like long and stringy and you can use that as a pasta substitute then you put your sauce and your meatballs and everything on it for me a lot of the substitutes by themselves you can taste that it's different but when you eat it with the rest of the meal you don't miss it so if you guys saw my saint patrick's day shepherd's pie which is the casserole with the ground beef and it's supposed to have a layer of mashed potato and then shredded I think like cheddar cheese and you guys saw me make the mashed cauliflower um add butter and some goat's cheese to it to make it nice and creamy and then the goat's milk cheese it was great took it to my mom um loved it all right so I'm just seeing what else is in here more hot dogs more cabbage and onions they give you a lot so you can definitely share with your neighbors um I don't eat I'm not familiar with this brand freshly fit but they have these like they look like tv dinners you know um but they have some stuff here um I cook my own food so I can control what goes into my body but you know if you if you have some seniors I'm kind of like meals on wheels that might be a delivery hold on thank you so I may or may not be shopping online a lot okay so anyway yeah I was just saying you know I don't eat this stuff but there's nothing wrong with it right if you have neighbors or people who you don't need something you just never know who's struggling a can of beans I don't eat beans I stay away from starch I pretty much have lean protein some veggies very little starch and no sugar but if you eat beans what chili northern beans are the white ones I guess you can make chili with that maybe my guest is here hello this I think I am gonna keep sorry guys this is real um this is uh looks like a half and half substitute so Califia Farms I've tried some of their creamers before honestly I wasn't a fan of the taste but this came in the giveaway box so I'm gonna try this with coffee it says coconut cream and almond milk soy free only one gram of sugar so this is something I'm gonna set off to the side for me almost done tofu I don't eat tofu but I know we have some people that might be vegetarian or vegan tofu is a protein supplement it comes from soybeans well substitute but you can cut it up and you can pan fry it and you can put it you know in different sauces to soak up I'm giving this away I don't eat tofu I eat real meat and then I don't know what this is chlorophyll super aid uh some type of super beverage I don't know and um honestly it looks like the seal is broken so but anyway that's pretty much it you guys what I wanted to show you I'm going to drop this off at the neighbors and then I'm going to service and then I'm actually gonna go pick up another box I know it's lame but it's fun for me um I love you know being a blessing to people who you know for whatever reason can't um you know buy everything that they need y'all know in the pandemic when the kids were home they were eating up everything so a little bit goes a long way so all of this is going to be given away and I still have I'm going to inhale my eggs and strawberries but yeah I just wanted to talk to you guys about MIT whoa I just wanted to talk to you guys about the egg fast I'm going to finish what I have I've got one egg left and some strawberries you're so welcome thank you all for being here and um I will come back on later today when I do my second meal and my um next giveaway box but like I said I eat every day so I post every day anytime I'm in the kitchen I'll bring you guys along until then thank you thank you thank you Gail is on oh my gosh hello hello all right you guys thank you for all the likes and the shares and the subscribes if you're on tiktok try to find me there too 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