Potatoes!!

If you love potatoes - and what McDougaller doesn't? - the you NEED to buy Jeanine Elder's newly release ebook, The Potato Reset.

Sure, she has a load of potato recipes on her YouTube channel, like:



or




or even




but the book has all those AND MORE!! French Toast potatoes? Yum! Over a dozen different sauces and dips? Salt-free spice mixtures to make? Almost everything here is even MWLP safe, too!

Really, everyone needs to get this e-book!

And you may as well grab it this holiday weekend while she's having a half-price Launch Weekend sale!! You can't beat it for the price of $12.50 if you want easy, low-cost, healthy potato recipes! Whether you love white, red, Gold, russets, or any of the varieties of sweet potatoes, this book is for you!

Oh, and she outlines her Potato Reset weight loss plan, too, an added bonus. :) You could already get the free 3-day version of that on her website, but the book goes into a little more detail. 

I'm sure a lot of you probably already spent over $60 to get Jill McKeever's Soy Curls books, so why not shell out just a little bit more money to get even healthier potato recipes.

Updated McDougall Holiday Recipe Guide Released

Dr. McDougall posted the following on his Facebook page today:

Holiday Meal Planning & Recipes (Updated) - Thanksgiving is less than three weeks away. Time to plan ahead. In this article, Mary has laid out a complete menu, shopping list, and time schedule so that you will be able to more easily prepare a successful meal to enjoy with your friends and family.

"This time of year, the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays frighten many people who eat a healthy diet. They wonder how to socialize with friends and how to prepare a meal in their home. These two days are supposed to be the largest feasts of the year."

https://www.drmcdougall.com/…/recipes/holiday-meal-planning/

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McDougall EXTRA Webinar - Implementing a Healthy Diet for Children

Remember, there will still be the regular weekly webinar on Thursday March 16, 2017 on the Digestive Tune-Up book.

Jane Esselstyn at the Plant Based Cooking Summit

There's a Plant Based Cooking Summit going on right now, hosted by Kelley Williamson. She's already had such guests as Chef AJ and Wendy Solganick. You can still register and get these Skype talks that already aired.

This morning we received the link to Jane Esselstyn's talk. Lots of great information on how to eat WFPB, especially for families with kids, and all her tips, hints - and meal ideas - are perfect for those following the Engine 2 Seven Day Diet Rescue. Everything is also McDougall-legal, too, of course.

And great news - she's coming out with an Engine 2 Cookbook January 2018! That 10 months is going to DRAG!!

Free Mastering Diabetes Summit

This summit has been going on for a week now, but I only found out about it when someone posted that Dr. McDougall is going to appear. Well, I found the registration page and signed up.

Many of the big names in WFPB living are here, not just Dr. McDougall. There's Dr. Barnard, Dr. Fuhrman, Dr. Klaper, all the Esselstyns - over 25 of your heroes in one summit!

Here's the schedule of who and when they're appearing.

Have fun!

Engine 2 Seven Day Rescue Diet

Rip Esselstyn has a new book and program out called The Engine 2 Seven Day Rescue Diet. You can see the details of it in this PDF file. Note that although it's on a Dropbox site you DO NOT need a Dropbox account to download it, nor to you even have to sign in with the suggested Google or FaceBook account. The last option is to just continue without signing in. That will open the PDF file in your browser and you can then just click the Download button on that page to save it.

For those of you already quite familiar with the whole foods plant based, Plant Strong way of eating, there is no new material here. For those who own any of the other Engine 2 or any of the Esselstyn Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease books, neither the info nor the majority of the recipes are new. Also, like what happened in The Healthiest Diet on the Planet, some of the recipes are old ones just released under a new name.

The purpose of the book and and Rip's in-person 7 Day Rescue programs are to convert SAD eaters to the WFPB way of eating. But many of us are completists and want to read, probably own, not only every McDougall book ever published but anything the Esselstyn family puts out, too. Well, with the exception of the book Plant Strong, which is just the paperback & Kindle version of My Beef With Meat released with a new title.

Rip and his sister Jane put together this nice introductory program, and in the book Rip explains all the whys and how-to's of the program. Jane contributes all the recipes and cooking preparation advice. If you like the recipes in the other Engine 2 books and web site, you'll like these. Older recipes have been slightly updated to recommend the Engine 2 food products sold exclusively through Whole Foods, but they do also suggest what can be used in place of them.

Bowls and Flats are the main categories of recipes, and they each come with their own handy dandy chart, which you can see in glorious color in that PDF I link to above. Breakfast Bowls, Salad Bowls, Flats (a.k.a. open faced sandwiches), Dinner Bowls. There are also soups in with the flats, but no Soup Bowl chart for those. With these charts and once a week batch cooking you can have a plethora of meals on hand without having to even think - just open the 'fridge, grab a few ingredients, nuke what needs to be reheated, put it all together, and grab a fork. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not very inventive in the kitchen - I like to have someone tell me what combinations go well together. The most improvisation I've done lately is substitute romaine lettuce instead of bread when making sandwiches because I can no longer have gluten and winter squash or turnips for the potatoes I continue to react to.

I think I'll even print out those full color charts from the PDF file and hang them on my kitchen cabinets. It'll make grocery shopping and meal times so much easier.

My only complaint about the book (Come on now, you all know me. You know I have to gripe about *something*!! LOL) is the small serving sizes suggested in some of the recipes. In the intro to the breakfast section, they write: "Wow yourself with the size of your cereal bowl. Pile it so high that you are still eating it in the carpool lane at the pre-school drop-off, on the train to work, in the midmorning meeting at the office, or on the way to your 10am yoga class!" All the oatmeal breakfasts come out to a cup to a cup and a half, cooked, per serving. That wouldn't hold me for long, much less still be eating it at 10am! What do they plan, we eat a bite an hour? While watching this video where Rip talks about the program in Sedona, notice the size of the food served on the plates. Most are pretty small servings on smallish paper plates. Desserts are served in paper cups. Now, that might be a sample from a cooking demo, but then again, maybe not. Coming from the McDougall and Ultimate Weight Loss programs, where you're told to pile up your plate high with veggies and starches, going for these smaller portions will take a bit to get used to. Then again, there are still a lot of people out there who aren't losing as much weight as they want eating those large UWL and McD portions, so this may be exactly what's needed.



When people on the Facebook community show their batch-cooked meals and how they're portioned out, they're usually shown in pint-sized (2 cups, 500 ml) jars.

So, if you were on the fence about getting this book and like all the Engine 2 recipes you already have, like to put together meals on the fly from what you already have in your fridge, like to cook just once a week, and don't mind "bowl" and "flat" meals, this is the book for you.

New to the Instant Pot?

I know many people bought their first Instant Pot last weekend at the Amazon Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, and many of those people never had a pressure cooker before in their lives and are deathly afraid to USE these new pots.

Well, Jill Nussinow, author of a number of cookbooks, including 2 pressure cooker books, to the rescue! With the help of some other ladies, Jill started a FaceBook community called Instant Pot Beginners Veg Support.

Even if you've been using a pressure cooker for a while, it won't hurt to join this community for all the support and information. It's just a few days old, so not a lot in the Photos, Links or Files sections yet, but there's already over 1200 members, so things are sure to pick up. Jill knows everything there is to know about pressure cookers, especially the Instant Pot, and will answer all your questions, help you solve any problem you have with your new toy.

VeganMoFo in November for 2016

Vegan Month of Food (a.k.a. VeganMoFo) is going to be in November again this year. IIRC, it was November the first year they had it, too.

If interested in joining, go to the VeganMoFo page for details.

I didn't participate last year because I really didn't like the idea of having to follow their themes and daily prompts for posts, but it seemed a lot of other people disliked it, too, and didn't follow them. Because of that, it's not going to be an official requirement this year.

Right now I'm following a really stripped down version of the McDougall program, eating close to how Dr. McDougall has said in webinars he and Mary currently eat and how Jeff said to eat in my last post. Weekend dinners I make the old tried and true McDougall soups; twice a week I make rice and veggies; once a week we're again having baked or mashed potatoes with veggies and one of Mary McDougall's gravies, now that I can eat spuds again; another day we have sweet potatoes with either broccoli or saurkraut and black beans. The seventh day changes weekly - sometimes it's a McDougall chili, or a Jeff Novick SNAP recipe, or just a pot of spaghetti with jarred sauce and a bag of veggies tossed in. Breakfast every day is oatmeal with fruit. Lunch for my husband is a hummus sandwich or 2 with a handful of romaine, Boston lettuce, baby kale, or baby spinach. My lunches are either leftovers or some rice or taters with veggies.

I really don't have the energy or inclination to start making more elaborate recipes again, and at this point in my life, anything with 5 or more ingredients is "elaborate" to me now Because of all this, I'm most likely not going to participate in VeganMoFo this year, either. I'm not closing to door on it entirely - when the new McDougall book comes out later this month, The Healthiest Diet on the Planet, there's going to be a recipe section of some of Mary McDougall's favorite tried-and-true recipes with full color pictures. I may be moved enough by this to do a month of these recipes to get non-believers interested in the book, even if I already wrote blog posts, even past VeganMoFo posts, on the exact same recipes. I guess I'll find out in about 3 weeks what the 60 recipes are and see then.

An Evening with the Esselstyn's Video

Plant Based Nutrition Support Group (of Michigan?) meeting. Dr. Esselstyn is introduced at around 33 minutes, Ann and Jane start their talk and cooking demo - and exercise break with a song! - at 1:38.

New Contest by Jill McKeever

Still don't have an Instant Pot or a copy of Jill's book, OMGee Good! Instant Pot Meals?

Lucky for you, Jill McKeever is currently running a contest with these items as the prizes in honor of hitting 17,000 subscribers.

Limited to residents of the USA and Canada only, she says, due to shipping costs.

It's a nice trivia contest and all the answers are in her previous YouTube videos. She even tells you which videos the answers are in, so it's super simple. She didn't say how many winners there will be, though. Winners will be announced Saturday July 30th.

Good luck, everyone.

And, "Woot! Woot!"

I Want Me One of THESE!

Farmer Fred's Book Giveaway Almost Over

Whole Foods Safari Tour (comedy skit)

Why A Plant Based Diet is Best for Heart Disease

A great demonstration on how the heart works, how it's harmed by a SAD diet, and how a plant-rich diet can lower the risk of heart disease. Yes, it's an ad for his new book, The End of Heart Disease, but everything he says goes for the McDougall and Esselstyn food plans, too.

McDougall Advance Study Weekend is THIS Weekend!

I honestly forgot all about it until I got this email overnight:

Watch the February 2016 Advanced Study Weekend by Internet Broadcast

View it for up to 6 months online!

Then it dawned on me that he opens the McDougall Media store up to this a few days before the event. Yikes! Better go warm up that credit card and register, because I don't want to miss Dr. Esselstyn and Dr. Campbell, the Esselstyn ladies, and Dr Lisle. And of course, Dr. McDougall himself! The rest of the speakers are gravy to these meaty speakers.

And don't forget this week's free webinar with Gustavo and special guest Dr Lisle on self esteem. It's sure to be another goodie!

It's Soup and Stew Weather

The season is finally changing from summer to autumn around here, and this week some days are darn near winter-like! Time for making even more soups and stews than I have been.

The people over at Forks Over Knives must feel the same, because they now have a page with links to 54 soup and stew recipes. I wonder how many of these I've already made in the past and which I may make in the future. It's a guarantee anything by Mary or Heather McDougall I've made and probably wrote about here already. If not, I most likely will soon.

Kroger Recalls 4 Spices for Salmonella Concerns

No Kroger near me, but for those of you who do shop there:

In a press release Saturday, the grocery store chain announced they are recalling the following products:

• Kroger Bac'n Buds: 12 oz containers
• Kroger Coarse Ground Black Pepper: 17.1 oz containers
• Kroger Ground Cinnamon: 18.3 oz containers
• Kroger Garlic Powder: 24.7 oz containers

Kroger says the products may be contaminated with salmonella and, if eaten, could result in severe illness to those individuals who may consume this product.

Kroger says they have removed the potentially affected items from store shelves and initiated its customer recall notification system that alerts customers who may have purchased recalled Class 1 products through register receipt tape messages and phone calls.

Customers who have purchased the above products should not consume them and should return them to a store for a full refund or replacement.

The recall affects stores in Huntsville, Alabama; Georgia; South Carolina; Auburn, Alabama; Central and Northwest Ohio; Northwestern Virginia panhandle; Michigan; Indiana (except SE Indiana, -Evansville-); Illinois; Eastern Missouri; Greater Memphis area, Tennessee; Arkansas; Mississippi; Western Kentucky; Hopkinsville and Bowling Green, Kentucky; Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee; ; North Carolina; Virginia; Eastern West Virginia; Eastern Kentucky; Southeastern Ohio; Texas and Louisiana; Jay C, Dillons, King Soopers, Fry's, Fred Meyer, Ralphs, Food 4 Less, Smiths.

Read more: http://www.wsmv.com/story/29640099/kroger-announces-recall-of-4-spices-over-salmonella-concerns#ixzz3h87c95SR

Dr. Doug Lisle and Chef AJ (revised)

Remember this blog post, where Dr. McDougall and Jeff Novick both chime in on why eating a mostly-vegetable diet isn't such a good idea? Well, last week Chef AJ had a teleconference with Dr. Doug Lisle, and besides repeating things he mentioned in his other videos, such as The Willpower Paradox, Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind, The Continuum of Evil, and even Forks Over Knives: The Extended Interviews, he mentioned how important it is to your brain function to get some carbs/starches in early in the day, preferably first thing in the morning. 

Hear for yourself:



I do have to agree with Dr Doug, and have even argued with others who are following UWL program who were eating only veggies until dinner time. Even Chef AJ has mentioned that you can eat starches at breakfast , just make sure to get your veggies in first. She says, that yeah, if you're not satisfied with those 100+ calories (or 200+, if you get all the required 2 pounds in at this time) of green veggies then go ahead and eat some starch, unlike what Dr Lisle (And Dr McDougall) say, which is that the starch is more important and you should make sure to have that before anything else, like veggies.

Let's all don our Starchivore t-shirts and hats and proudly eat those spuds! LOL

Chef AJ on Foody TV Web Site

Remember back when the weather was warm and sunshine actually existed Chef AJ made the announcement that she was making a few episodes of a web tv show that were going to "air" in Spring 2015? Well, they're already on-line.

The series is called "Healthy Living With Chef AJ", and the episodes are as follows:

Episode 1) Guest: Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn; Recipes: Sweet Potato Chili, Beet Soup and Banana Strawberry Soft Serve



Episode 2) Dr. T. Colin Campbell; Recipes: Yellow Split Pea Soup, Quinoa Salad, Peanut Butter Fudge Truffles



Episode 3) Both Dr. Esselstyn and Dr. Campbell; Recipes: Breakfast Oats, Red Lentil Chili, Hail to the Kale Salad



Episode 4) Rebecca Martinez-Rocha (Chef AJ's sous-chef); Recipes: Hearty Lentil Tostadas, Mockacamole, Black Bean Brownies



Episode 5) John Joseph (front man for Cro-Mags and Ironman participant); Recipes: Clafouti, Cole's Cauliflower Soup, Caramel Apples



Episode 6) Classic Diner Food; Recipes: Mushroom Chili, Chipotle Burgers, Almond Milk and Chocolate Milkshake Smoothie

The Word Really IS Getting Out!

I love comic strips. As a child of the 50's and 60's, I grew up on them, and even now start every morning reading all my favorite strips. Yes, they're on-line instead of in newspapers now, but because of that I've found more comics to love than ever before.

Non Sequitur is one of those strips. Sure, they sometimes go off in tangents I don't care about, like the old New England fisherman rambling on about mermaids now and then, but it's usually pleasant enough.

On November 10th the artist started doing a story line that led up to a character's heart attack. Look at what today's strip is:

When comic strip artists start extolling the virtues of a plant based diet you know it's gone mainstream!