Beyond Willpower

So I made this today: Joey loves 'chicken and rice' or 'chicken and star's' types of canned soups, but he doesn't eat meat anymore. I'm eating dinner before him tonight and wanted him to have something easy to heat up when he got home that wouldn't dirty a lot of dishes. I made this chicken style tofu and rice veggie soup. It. Is. Amazing. It is a weird assortment of spices, because I was fresh out of veggie broth and base. Instead I boiled some spices for a bit then strained them through cheesecloth,the remaining bits can be seen above. Just enough of them to make my photo stylin'. :) I was also shocked to find that I found a way to make tofu taste like rotisserie chicken. On total accident. Wow. There's a bit of rice in there too. It is truly amazing. I'm not much a soup person and this is hearty, packed with veggies and protein, the recipe I tracked my calories for was for half of this. I doubt I'll eat even a quarter of all it made...

~*~*~This recipe is gluten free and vegan~*~*~ As are all my recipes This makes 2 servings Stuff you will need: Stuff I forgot on the drawing board: Chili powder Daiya (if you like) or nutritional yeast Chopped red onion Prep Directions: The first thing you want to do is put your 2 cups of light plain soy milk (for the calorie watchers) over low heat while you chop your broccoli. Add 1 tbls veggie base. I just got some Spike veggie base powder and it's pretty good. As for the broccoli, I just use mostly florets and break them off or chop them into large chunks. I used about 2 cups of broccoli for the soup. *NOTE* I set aside about a half cup for garnish. Over low heat let 2 tbls of earth balance melt and simmer and then add the onions and saute until they start to turn clearish. Here, you need some type of blender/food processor. I use the new ninja master prep pro . I just add the broccoli Florette's to the bottom of the large container and pour the hot soy milk o...

So, last night I had a really busy day, Joey and I went shopping! I got new jeans for 25$ at target! I'm starting to grow out so fast that spending 50$ every few months is not worth it. I got a new tank and best of all, a new camera! I got this for anyone who cares, I like it, I'm electronics impaired and this is an easy touch screen: It's a Sony Cyber-shot T99 and I love it! Expect better food pics!  Anyhow, we didn't want to eat out, it's too difficult for me with the gluten thing most times anyhow, but we ended up being out much later than expected. After we were done shopping, we decided to hit up the salad bar at eat n' park. I had one plate of salad with fat free italian dressing, a few pieces of fruit and a scoop of sunflower seeds. I hadn't looked at the menu so I asked the waitress afterwards how much the salad bar was. It was too much for what I ate, that much was true. This is another reason I don't see the point in going out much any...