I’m not exaggerating..

Losing weight is NOT the goal of our new healthy eating plan, but let me tell ya, for those who want to lose weight…I’m not 100% sure why, but it’s just coming off.

In a nutshell, here are the biggest changes we’ve made in an effort to lower my husband’s cholesterol:

Small portion of red meat once a week or less, chicken once, MAYBE twice, fish for my husband maybe once a week..pasta once a week or less.

ALMOST NO BREAD, MUCH, MUCH LESS SUGAR and we’ve exchanged a square of chocolate for dessert…every day..and NO, it’s not dark- it should be, it will be..but we’re not there yet.

Oatmeal for breakfast every day.

Lots of veggies, salads.. more beans of every kind…exactly what you would expect on a low cholesterol diet.

Portions are bigger, I use more spices, my husband is never hungry…at least that’s what he says and I haven’t found candy wrappers in his pants yet!

Here’s what we ate last night and it was easy and yummy! My husband had two large helpings.

BOK CHOY STIR-FRY

I peeled  three baby bok-choy apart (first time I made this, it’s like a cross between celery and lettuce) then quickly stir fried in olive oil with

sliced habanero pepper

sliced red onion

mushrooms

I then added the sauce I had whisked together separately  in a bowl:

About 3 tablespoons low salt soy sauce

About one tablespoon light brown sugar

a few teaspoons of cornstarch

hmm, about 1/3 cup of water

(you can shake in some extra spices like garlic, red pepper etc)

Once I added the sauce to the pan it got pretty thick quickly, so I added a bit more water to thin it out.

Served the stir-fry over multi-grain rice and added some peanuts for protein. 

You could add flank steak or chicken, but we didn’t miss the meat.