Ellie New Cat and Things That Don't Go Well On Chicken

[thistlechaser]

Cream of (something) soup is generally a winner to top a chicken breast with. Cream of chicken has the right number of carbs to have with a meal, so that's been my go-to soup. While picking up more, I eyed the other options.

Cream of Potato soup. Hmmm. Chicken + potato = Sunday night dinner, right? Maybe so, but the soup was a poor match. On its own, the soup was surprisingly good. (I worried it might be god awful.) I ate the chunks of potato out of it. But the soup with the chicken was just wrong. Somehow the texture was horribly terribly scary awful.

Have I mentioned how tired I am of chicken breasts? I've lost track of how many months I've been eating them now, with only two ways I know how to make them. lokyst suggested I try garam masala spices, so that's the next thing I'm attempting, likely Monday night.

In Ellie news, I can't believe I've had her her almost a year now. She came home with me on February 26th 2011. It's even more surprising that she's still making progress (or maybe I should word that 'it's even more surprising that a year later there's still progress to be made').

Over the last couple days she's turned a really big corner. I've been thinking about how to describe it, but I haven't come up with a better way than this: She's finally seeing me. She looks at me and sees me. She meets my eyes and sees me, not just sees a horrible cat-eating monster.

While she still doesn't like being picked up, she likes being held. When I hold her to my shoulder, she puts her head against mine and purrs. It's such a wonderful thing.

I know this will sound awful, but I still don't feel love for her. I'm not blaming her, but it's hard to feel a connection with something that doesn't look at you and expects you to hurt it. It's only now with her starting to see me that I'm starting to feel more, feel a connection. I'm really, really happy I do. I'd like her to become more than just "a nice cat I happen to live with because no one else wanted".

Comments

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

Also... why are you eating chicken breasts so often, do you feel like you need the extra protein, or do you have a lack of other choices?

I think there's nothing wrong with eating the same thing day after day but it only works if you kind of like it. Since staring the LCHF plan, I have been eating a lot of salad and veggies with mayo+soy dressing (like 3-4 cups of veg for lunch and 5-6 cups of salad plus some veggies for dinner) and Morningstar meat patties with cheese melted over them, and for snacks I've been having mixed nuts, cheese, hot tea. I'm going low-carb, but I'm not body-building, so I don't need to seek out more protein. That leaves veggies, and fat (mostly mayo, cheese, cottage cheese, occasional boiled egg)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Mostly it's just that I have to have something for dinner that's not fast food. Low calories/fat are important as well. I have beef once or twice a week (often lunches) and pork once a week (dinner, usually).

I should look at how calories run on the Morningstar stuff, I used to eat that all the time when I wasn't eating meat. It'd be a nice change now and then.

One of my bigger problems is that I don't like vegetables. I mean like any of them. That's an issue I'm still dealing with.

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

...I don't remember, did I give you my recipe for teriyaki pear chicken breasts? (om nom nom!)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

You did, but I just remembered it now! I love teriyaki and pears both, I need to try it!