On behalf of Tablespoonsandteaspoons we want to wish you and your family a very happy, healthy and Blessed Thanksgiving. So thankful to God, family and supporters for the blessing and opportunity to share this journey with all of you.
Working on developing new ideas for the holiday posts coming up. Stay tuned.
It has been awhile since I posted a game plan for meals of the week. For the past two weeks I have been exploring cheap places to eat and new restaurants. Now it is time to get back to business and proceed with my weight loss plan in order to reach my weight goal by the end of the year which is easier said than done at this point.
Today’s game plan include recipes for vegetarians, pescatarians, paleo eaters, and gluten free consumers on a budget. This week’s recipes are inspired by Physique57 Solution, The Food Babe Way and The Pound a Day Diet.
In addition to the food consumption I will be doing at least 30 minutes of cardio with strength circuit training.
Let the weight loss journey resume. Stay tuned.
Ever since I was a child I would have family style Chinese food. This is not your typical Chinese American cuisine. Majority of authentic Chinese restaurant are identified based on the number of Chinese customers eating there. There are two family style Chinese cuisine I have eaten at, both in Elmhurst. Every year I always have to celebrate my birthday with Chinese food. I grew up with the belief of consuming noodles on my birthday signifying long life. When I eat at these family style Chinese restaurants I always request an order of pan fried noodles. Recently I had a craving a found a recipe to make it on own, which was recently posted here under Traditional Tuesday. In addition to the pan fried noodles we would order a crusted t-bone steak and honey walnut shrimp.
The top collage was taken place at China Pearl Chinese Restaurant, one of the original Chinese restaurants in Elmhurst. Total meal cost including tip was $300.
The bottom collage was taken place at the recently opened Broadway Seafood Chinese Restaurant also located in Elmhurst. Total meal cost including tip was $170.
The major differences between the two restaurants is the quality of food. China Pearl had the better house special soup, steak and honey shrimp walnut while Broadway Seafood had more street food options such as lamb chops and roast pig and duck and soy sauce chicken.
The pan fried noodles with seafood is better at Broadway Seafood than in China Pearl.
Stay tuned for more eating journeys…
Happy Friday! It is time to take full advantage of the summer deals during my vacation.
One of these deals is the bento box lunch special from 12pm-4pm Monday-Saturday at China Grill in New York City.
Did you know that China Grill was around for almost thirty years? Well after one of the best fusion lunches I have had in a while, I can definitely testify to that.
Earlier this week, I caught up with a friend for lunch and both of us were definitely excited to explore the options. So below are the two bento boxes we created. Both of us ordered the Peking duck salad and wasabi mashed potatoes. My friend ordered the dumplings and salmon teriyaki and I was on the noodle box and shrimp red curry. Our bento boxes were “to die for”, presentation was beautiful but more importantly the taste was on point. It was definitely worth the $19.87 spent on this meal.
In addition to the bento box, we decided order the popular salted caramel soufflé ($20), which has to be ordered ahead of time and it is served only on the lunch menu.
Made to order dessert that serves two people available during lunch
After devouring the divine dessert, that was well balanced. The sponge cake, plus the cream and caramel definitely hit the spot.
It was after 4pm and happy hour begins. My other friend contacted me and informed me that I have to come here for happy hour. It turns out she was right. The menu offers a lot of options for drinks such as cocktails and bar bites from their appetizer menu. So I settled for the lychee and cucumber cocktail ($8) with the lotus root dumplings ($7). Both choices were delicious.
Overall service for lunch and happy hour were awesome. My friend and I were satisfied and I can’t wait to share this experience with my friends and peers. Cheers to China Grill and their continuing success. See you soon China Grill!
Hello everybody, it has been a over two weeks since my last post and after doing additional research on healthy meals, weight loss and trying to get off the weight loss plateau, I am devising a diet game plan inspired and partly adapted by the authors of Physique 57 Solution After reviewing my food supply, I have been attempting to follow the diet plan as outlined in the book, which appears to be cost-effective, but requires a lot of discipline especially playing catch up with my social life. To be brief, this two week diet and exercise plan outlined in this book calls for no carbs, no soy, no dairy, no alcohol in combination with pilates, barre and yoga. The hardest part of all this is getting enough sleep and drinking enough water.
So, in order to ideally lose 5 lbs., I would have to burn 14,000 calories, since 2000 calories equals to 1 lb. Here’s my ambitious potentially unhealthy and unsafe plan, I want to lose 5lbs. in seven days; easier said than done.
Based on the blogs and fitness articles, the minimum calorie consumption is 1200 calories daily; that is 8,400 calories per week. According to articles and testimonials about Physique 57, for about a hour of exercise one can lose up to 500 calories. So five hours of Physique 57 exercises would total up to 2500 calories, that is about 1.25 lbs weight loss from this exercise alone. Well as they say it is 85% what is consumed and 15% what is burned off.
A few days ago I started on my grocery shopping and had to come up with a game plan that models the diet plan outlined in Physique 57. To start here is this week’s game plan:
The star ingredients of each of these dishes were on sale this week at the various supermarkets in my neighborhood. I am looking forward to start this diet and exercise plan, hopefully I can lose five pounds in the next seven days. I will provide updates in the next week of my progress. Stay tuned!
Happy 2016!!
Welcome to Tablespoons and Teaspoons first blog!
The popular New Year’s Resolution is to lose weight or eat healthy.
This blog will display a week’s worth of posts consisting of a game plan listing items that are on sale. There will be vegetarian, traditional and healthy recipes. In addition, there will be throwback photos of restaurants and happy hour deals that are worthwhile. But more importantly key food ingredients will be dissected to discuss its benefits to alleviating disease symptoms and improving health.
This is going to be an exciting year so sit back and enjoy!
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