Post vacation meal planning with LIVE COOKING!

Sorry to keep you waiting. We had to make an unexpected trip to the store because there's a project due tomorrow and of course we didn't have supplies. So uh sorry I'm usually really on time because that's important but I appreciate you guys being here. I'm just going to clean off the counters and wash my hands and then we'll get started and I'll introduce myself. Hello everyone. Hello hello. Thank you so much for being here. All right so I like to always start with clean surfaces. This is just some brandless granite and stone cleaner. Let me start by introducing myself. I just get right into it. Hope you all are having a good Sunday. I missed you all. Hey princess. I don't have my usual equipment so if there's comments I don't think I'll be able to see them without messing them up. I could try but I don't want to break it. But I hope you all are doing well. Okay let me wash my hands. All right so hello and welcome. I am Maggie your substitute teacher and in today's class we're actually going to do a do-over from this morning. I didn't have my settings right in the video and I feel like it wasn't that good of a quality and since I'm doing the egg fast I'm eating the same thing anyway. Thank you. Thank you. So happy to be back. For anyone that's been following I actually did a little travel. Oh you missed the videos. Oh I miss you guys too. Thank you. That made my day. I was actually on spring break. It's spring break where I live and I took my youngest son who's upstairs getting ready for school to go back. We went to Costa Rica and there was a big achievement for me in Costa Rica. I won't bore you all with that. If anybody wants to know or see you know I am happy to repeat it. Okay there's some comments. Gosh I don't know if this is gonna let's see how I can see the comments. Hey okay CK is here. Okay yay you guys can see. Okay hi I'm here. Hi okay good. I haven't charged my iPad so I have a very small screen I'm working with so I hope you guys can see even though I can't really see myself that well. Oh crap see now I'm touching it. All right okay so I'm just gonna pretend that you can see I've moved my own view out of the way but at least I have a view of the comment. All right so what I'm gonna do today let me sorry y'all it's just all over the place. So I'm Maggie the substitute teacher. I've been chronicling my weight loss journey. I have to say the scale was not looking too happy. I had too many rice and beans in Costa Rica and you know that's what I do when I'm on vacation. I eat what the locals eat. So today I'm doing my egg fast. I'm just gonna do excuse me my fried eggs and I made a fried apple this morning that was actually really tasty so I'm gonna eat the same thing again. I feel a sneeze coming. Excuse me y'all I was in the tropics. Okay great you can see. Thank you CK. I was in the tropics and everything was fine. I'm back here with a little bit of a tan, a little bit of a burn on the arms from the beach and just those allergies and stuff are back. So my skin is adjusting. My sinuses are adjusting but we are all healthy and well. Negative COVID test before and after so I'm ready to get back on it. Aw thank you princess. All right so like I said the reason I was late sorry we had to stop by Walmart for poster boards because there's a project for school. Lines were long so I misjudged the time but what I'm drinking. Stop by Panera. You guys know me and my iced coffee so this is iced coffee with almond milk because thank you CK because I'm sensitive to dairy. Do we even say that? Y'all I'm all out of sorts. So I've been chronicling my weight loss journey, health and wellness journey. So far kept off 75 pounds with at least 25 more to go and for me that was a hair sample and a cheek swab on the inside. So I've got a list of foods that I can eat and a list of foods that I can't. All right you got yourself Alex you can say hi. We're getting ready to um yeah I'm gonna do the same apple and eggs from this morning. My son is in military school and he goes to boarding school so I don't really see him every day. So since it's a spring break we wanted to do something special. Um is that all the stuff or do you have a few more trips? Yeah get your pop-tarts and um you got the case of water? Okay so iced coffee with uh thank you. Hey Lou Kaisley. So happy to see you. So y'all I'm back on it because oh those rice and beans. Iced coffee from Panera with um almond milk and then my sweetener. You guys have seen me use um the skinny syrups vanilla. You guys have seen me use this before. Zero calories, zero sugar. Ah thank you CK. Um so if you like those coffee shop drinks you can save money and save calories. These are all zero sugar, zero calorie, lots of different flavors. This one is vanilla. So I just put a squeeze of that in there. I need to be drinking lots of water so I'm drinking water too. Okay so uh we're gonna do a couple things today. We're gonna do the egg fast and uh I have gotten some groceries here, a couple deliveries. So I'm going to put those things away but also I wanted to just kind of chat about some ideas for some different um meals that I can make as I put the ingredients away. I kind of think about what I can do with it so I said whenever I'm in the kitchen I will come on and share with you all. Okay so the egg fast again this is completely optional. My metabolic specialist recommended it to me. Uh anyone who's been here before uh you know that I do that whenever the scale kind of stops moving. So I did the egg fast before I went to Costa Rica and now that I'm back and according to the scale like 11 pounds it can't be right. It's got to be water weight because I ate but who's weak. Um I'm gonna do the egg fast today. So I do it usually about once a week. I want to get right back on track and um never consecutive days. So on the egg fast I do uh one day that's just eggs and apples. So I've got some apples here and so I'm just going to do a standard um fried egg and uh I'm gonna make a fried apple. I did it this morning just kind of made it up and the video quality wasn't that great that's why I pulled it but I'm gonna do the same thing here. Hey cub kitten and um we're gonna put some groceries away. Um what I did before I left uh those of you all who were here I tried to go through all of my fresh produce and really you know cut back on the shopping and tear down um you know the groceries that I had but now that I'm back I've got some new stuff and a couple um substitution ideas that I want to make. So unfortunately my stove is not clean. I usually do that before I get started so I'm gonna spray and wipe that down and then get started on my fry. You know while I'm doing that it's really important I clean before I cook and then again after I cook you know. So I'll just share with you guys you know the way that I was raised you never leave the kitchen in a mess unfortunately we were rushing today um but yeah especially if you're in a shared space just get in the habit of wiping up after yourself. You know my former mother-in-law, God rest her soul. Hey seven oh you want to see the apples yeah it was actually really yummy we'll talk about that um I'll get to cooking in just a second. Oh I have something I was gonna put on I don't know if you guys can see this I don't even know if it's forwards or backwards but I did get excuse me I did get um a little souvenir for myself um sometimes I cook with the apron sometimes I don't but I thought while I was in Costa Rica you know what is something that I'll actually use and so I did get is it okay I was gonna say is it on I still have this the label on it the price tag but I think I'm gonna do that because I love to travel hey Katie um oh good good to see you one of our Costa Rican friends um I think when I travel I'm gonna start I'm going to start collecting aprons from the different uh areas I've been to you guys have seen my Paris apron the chocolate one uh so I picked this up in Costa Rica so um yeah I think it fits all right let me clean my stove oh I know I'm kind of OCD with the cleaning this is just a little um my mom taught us to clean as you go absolutely this is uh an all-purpose it's like a what do you call it when you put the concentrated and then you add your own water I self-sensey so this is just a little all-purpose cleaner um yeah you should you clean as you go my former mother-in-law said what wipe now scrub later so if you make a mess and you know you're making messes what I'm always telling the kids just clean it up when you see it don't let me come behind and find it what's that what's what yeah let's just use the last one all right what are you wiping up oh did it come off no are you working on your poster board now do you need to print out anything before you go oh I don't think so right now but I'm gonna get some information and see the directions you know how long the football field is no that's not really it's a really even number okay sorry y'all so when you clean the stove this is just me being at home when you clean the stove hey Maya um take the burners off you know get in there again like Luke Paisley said if you are uh cleaning as you go then it makes it just a lot easier all right so let me wash my hands and we're gonna get started so when I do the egg and apple fast again this is just something that I'm doing completely optional um because I enjoyed myself and I want to get back into weight loss I still have at least 25 more pounds to go but uh for anybody who saw I had a major goal that I accomplished in Costa Rica a once in a lifetime because I will never do it again I was able to zip line with my son and that was something that I kind of had tucked away for a long time so I'm really happy about that all right so I've got my copper skillet here I'm going to do my eggs in this and then I'm going to do my apple in this all right so I'm going to fry my eggs in butter you can use oil if you want to um I do like the taste uh butter has a little bit more of a creamier taste for me uh so again I am sensitive to cow dairy that came up in my test results so you guys have seen me use this is Delamere goat's butter you can get it at Whole Foods or online looks like butter cooks like butter tastes like butter so that's the substitute that I'm using so again this is going to be a really simple fried egg what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut some butter into the pan I'll show you I know kind of janky but just enough so that you want to coat the pan you don't want to have any dry spots I'll do a little bit more you don't want to have any dry spots you don't want to have any hot spots you want your food um to be able to kind of glide on that butter um I'm going to turn this on and let the pan I see I just got it out of the dishwasher I'm just gonna wipe up a couple of wet spots because you don't want to mix the oil and water but um I like to fry like once the butter has melted and it starts like sizzling a little bit before it goes brown all right so let's get this on the stove all right so while that's going I'm also going to do the fried apple so I'm going to get another little pat of butter probably could do them in the same but yeah I'm not so I'm using a little small non-stick ck all right so I have an apple here these are just I don't know what kind of apples you guys like these say pink lady I just ordered these they came in from sprouts to me they are um a little on the tart side but they cook down fine one second let is that paint off of the carpet let me wash my apple all right let's go check on our butter over here so it's melting kind of nice and foamy and I just kind of move it around the pan you can lift it up off of the stove I just want to make sure that I have good coverage here I probably could put a bit more on it but I'm just kind of letting it glide down so that all of the bottom of the pan is covered and then I'm going to let my skillet get kind of like a medium high heat because when you crack an egg in it if you have a stove that kind of tilts like mine it'll run but once it's nice and warm I just put my hand over it not on it but over it I want it to get sizzling so that once I crack my egg into it it'll actually stay in place all right so let's get another vegetable peeler so on this egg and apple fast I had an apple as a snack while we were out and about I can just eat it raw you guys have seen me core apples and stuff them we've done baked apples that's really good this is a really good for me snack but it could also be a dessert what I'm going to show you you can do it with just an apple and a few spices and you can top it with ice cream or whipped cream on the egg fast I don't have any dairy at all so I'm going to eat it plain but you guys will see it and I think you'll like it all right so let me go crack my eggs I had three this morning on the egg fast you can have about eight or nine eggs in a day so let's see how many we get in the pan okay so I'm sure you guys heard the sizzle manna taught me to cook with all of your senses and so you can do the first egg and if you have that sizzle do more if it just kind of lays there you can wait for your pan to get a little bit hotter and then continue and then like I did this morning you'll see me rotate my pan because my stove kind of tilt and I want to get good coverage I don't want them to all clump up to be one egg all right so we've got four eggs in the pan since it was hot they kind of stayed in shape not really but we've got a nice white and I'm going to crack the yolk I'll show you that in a second washing my hands I did it this morning so the spatula that I'm using is in the dishwasher so you can keep the yolks whole and do like a sunny side up I like them a little bit flat so I take the corner of the spatula and I just tap on the yolk so this is what we have so far if you guys can see so literally I just go to each one and I just tap it so that it flattens out a little bit you can see this one right here already flattened when I cracked it as soon as it hit the pan it kind of flattened on its own but you see now how they're a little bit flatter and I'm going to do one in the middle I think this will be my last meal for the day when I usually eat I only eat about two meals a day on vacation I had three meals a day plus snacks all right so I'm going to go ahead and crack that yolk and then I'll just season with salt and pepper that's all I'm doing for the eggs and we'll get to this after okay and so to anybody new to cooking one moment to anyone new to cooking when you season you have to kind of season up high I know it just kind of looks fancy on the cooking shows but it also helps you disperse the seasoning on all of the food I'll show you what I mean so this is what we have here so if I keep the salt shaker right here I'm going to get salt just on this little corner you could do that but if you go up higher you can see that you can easily get dispersion if that's the word I don't know all over the pan and then I'm going to do the same thing with the black pepper I think when I was listening to was it before the billions or somebody who was talking about he made fish and there was just seasoning on like one little section so try and come up a little bit that helps the seasoning to go everywhere but then you end up having to clean the stove kind of like I did all right so I'm going to let the eggs cook uncovered because I want that nice golden fry on the bottom excuse me if I cover them they'll kind of cook in like a little steam bubble and they'll poach which is fine but they'll be kind of opaque they'll get that cloudy white over the top I want the the difference between the white of the egg and the yolk of the egg so we're going to let them cook all right so clean up as we go let's put our goat's butter away because we've got some in the pan here and let's talk about this apple which is going to be a snack for me but you can make it into a very nice dessert okay so for this fried apple all you need is the butter that you use if you can have dairy have regular butter you know I'm using goat's butter and then whatever warming spice you like I'm going to use nutmeg and I'm going to use cinnamon you could do one or the other I have both that's how I made it this morning and I'm using sugar substitutes today I'm going to be using this is the Truvia brown sugar blend it's half brown sugar and half stevia you guys have also seen me talk about Swerve makes a brown sugar this one you'll see it looks like brown sugar it kind of crumbles like brown sugar it tastes like brown sugar without that sugar that's going to spike your blood sugar all right I can't remember if I washed this yes I think I did wash it so we're going to peel this apple I peeled it this morning should I do it with the skin on or peel it skin on I need all of that paint off of the carpet all right so I'm going to turn off the eggs and just leave them you can see now I still have them a little bit soft on the top they'll continue to cook but I'm going to go into the I can show you guys a nice little golden brown on the edge all right so that for me is perfect so we're going to set these back down and we'll let them plate all right so Alex says we're going to leave the skin on yes because I think it'll help them together okay we'll do it that way this morning I did peel it so let's just go ahead and chop and we do know that all of the nutrients and everything are inside the skin so I'm going to do this pink lady apple you don't have to have very fancy knife skills excuse me I cut in half then I cut that section in half then I cut that section in half so let me go ahead and put this butter on the stove to melt down since I'm not peeling this won't take long so we have our apple oh interesting you ever seen it like that where it's got those little white specks on the inside I don't know what that is we're gonna cut it out though I'm sure it serves some purpose all right so we have our apple just have I'm using this little silicone cutting mat so then you cut it in half then you cut it in half again and then I just go through the middle and take out I know that looks crazy uh thank you Macmillan um we've got this little section here so I'm not doing a proper dice I'm not a chef I'm just a home cooker but I do want you to have your like apple slice probably in thirds so cut and then a cut and I'll show you guys what it so again we're leaving the skin on when I did it this morning I had peeled it so we're gonna see how these turn out all right so we're just gonna cut our apples into pieces let me check on the butter all right butter's melted down nice and foamy you want to try and get it before it browns because that's how you make toffee and I learned that well I knew that before but we did that in Costa Rica and in case anybody missed any of the updates they are on Instagram and in my YouTube community tab and on Facebook and I have more stuff y'all I had to fight a monkey for my food and I mean that all right so let's get the rest of this apple cut up you can see what I'm doing just in half then in half again take out the core and then bite-sized pieces so rinse and repeat hope everybody's doing well it's Palm Sunday if you celebrate so looking forward to holy week for anyone who celebrates Easter Passover all of our brothers and sisters everyone is welcome here all right so I'm just continuing to cut this apple down then we're going to toss it in that skillet it didn't take long at all when I did it this morning this is a great snack if you like apple pie if you have a kid that wants something sweet but you don't want to do like artificial sugar and I did add some brown sugar sweetener this morning but when you cook down fruit like this this is a trash can I don't really think you need much at all all right so this is what I have I started with a whole apple and just cut it into bite-sized pieces so you heard that in the skillet now I'm going to dust it with some nutmeg and some cinnamon whatever warming spice you like you could probably do cloves you could do anything so I'm going to season it liberally so so far we have our nutmeg don't want to smoke you out sorry now let's do some cinnamon I'm gonna go back on the stove but this is what we have so I'm just gonna toss a little bit and then again you probably don't need any sweetener but I'm gonna put just a pinch oh you guys are saying hi to each other I'm so glad I love the community we're building so again I'm using the Truvia I'm not measuring y'all you know I just kind of eyeball let's say a half teaspoon literally just a dusting this is a quarter teaspoon so I'll do a heaping but you guys can see here this is the brown sugar substitute that I have and it looks like those grains of sand hey Parker Dean so we're gonna put this in with the apples and that's pretty much it I'm not even gonna get a utensil yet I'm just gonna move it around so you can see what we have so far just a fresh apple nutmeg cinnamon and brown sugar you can have regular brown sugar please do but I am your substitute teacher so I use substitute ingredients because that's what's helping me on my health and wellness journey all right take off my Costa Rica apron let's clean up a little bit and go through some groceries you all know that I love my delivery services my mom is old school and she likes to go into the into the shops and touch everything herself but I got to be multiple places at once so I'm a big fan of instacart um shift walmart delivery I think it's called walmart plus amazon prime all of it so you guys saw the apples that we had today the sprouts delivery I don't think she was supposed to do this y'all she left this the whole cart thank you Dottie I'm so glad to be back all right so a few ideas we're gonna do this week checking on the apples you guys see they're starting to brown and caramelize so again just butter sugar if you can have it sugar substitute for me nutmeg and cinnamon medium heat and just keep them moving but you can see they're starting to get kind of like Maggie I am an engineer I know what's that um Uncle Sue I was so nervous not really but you that was my first interview and I do work in technology uh thankfully I'm able to work from home so that's what allows me to come into the kitchen you know as much as I do um so yeah my best friend was like when I started when I thought about doing this channel I was like okay I need to do something like cooking with Maggie doesn't it thank you um Macmillan um I thought about like cooking with Maggie or Maggie can cook or something like that and uh you know they were he was like you know no you need something because you got that teacher vibe he was like you need something like Maggie to substitute teacher oh you've been in aerospace okay now I'm curious what makes you how did you know I was at work in tech I'm not really an engineer I'm let's just say okay I'm an engineer let's not split hairs here but I do have a chemistry degree so I come from you know a stem background all right so you guys see what's happening with the apple so we're just gonna let it continue to brown and soften in my opinion if I had peeled it it would be going a lot faster but you know that skin kind of holds that moisture in but butter brown sugar cinnamon and nutmeg all right so let's go through the first batch of groceries so if you guys saw yesterday oh thank you Macmillan um that's my OCD he says I'm organized um if you could see like I still have to unpack I have laundry to do I have stuff to clean you know on the inside I'm like ah but it's gonna be fine if you guys saw yesterday when we flew in from Costa Rica we connected in Dallas and there was a um California pizza kitchen right next to like our next gate and so I went in and I did have their original I know I don't write code oh my gosh y'all I'm a senior BA so anybody who's in tech I gather in sidebar coming back to the cooking um I work with business people and tech people I write requirements user acceptance testing I do I don't write code but I do like you know um training and documentation technical manuals that kind of stuff all right back to the snack if you like apple pie you can do this on the stove you can do it in the air fryer too or the toaster oven just melt your butter cinnamon and um yes I'm coming I'm coming to that um and you can just put it in the pan and do this in the uh air fryer oven or whatever okay so yes California pizza kitchen is where uh we went yesterday connecting flights and I got their original pizza if you guys go back and look on my excuse me community tab on YouTube and on my Instagram I'm Maggie the substitute teacher on all platforms I'm always posting what I'm eating because you guys help keep me accountable it was a pizza crust and instead of red sauce they use barbecue sauce it did have real cheese you know I'm supposed to stay away from dairy so I'm gonna do it with goat's cheese I did the cauliflower crust instead of regular crust because I'm sensitive to gluten um and then it had shredded chicken so I bought oh it's still warm I had Costco deliver a rotisserie chicken so I'm gonna shred some chicken breast and we'll do chicken toss it in some sugar-free barbecue sauce that I have and then it was topped with sliced red onion and um cilantro cilantro so I got some fresh cilantro y'all it kind of sounds like a weird combination but now I know why it's their original it was so amazing so we've got cilantro I'm gonna put this on the pizza you can also puree this with like the oil of your choice and some salt and make it like a nice cilantro sauce um you guys saw me do the fish tacos cilantro is great in your own pico um any latin flavors I love it people either love or hate it I love it so since we're talking about CPK I know doesn't it sound good let's do that tomorrow so I ordered these from um Costco let me check that apple I just like to keep stuff moving need anything you got everything out of your room okay I think we're good with the apples I'm gonna go ahead and just leave them um they'll continue to cook but they're actually getting a little bit darker I'm fine with it but we're gonna put those in a container and plate okay so I was gonna get a pizza crust but I've gotten I don't know if you guys have had these so this brand is outer aisle so this is a cauliflower it says um sandwich thin they do make a pizza crust which is the whole thing but I was gonna make like little mini pizzas so you can see here they are um I could butter these and put cheese inside make a grilled cheese but I'm gonna do like a mini CPK pizza so tomorrow this will be our crust sugar-free barbecue sauce shredded rotisserie chicken uh tossed in barbecue sauce with sliced red onion and cilantro oh I'm getting excited y'all know how I get when they whoop so that's gonna be yummy all right let's see what else is here because I'm hungry what else did I order sometimes I'm like what is all this stuff you guys already know I had to refill this anybody who's been around a while you know my maggie cakes um we're going to do and I also got this it's a little soft I need to put it in the fridge okay so I have a sugar-free dairy-free and gluten-free pancake recipe I know lead attorney makes fun of me but it's excellent so the recipe calls for eggs and cream cheese but because I can't have cream cheese I use goat's cheese so I bought the plain oh I need to put these in the fridge they're supposed to be nice and plump but this is my cream cheese substitute let's see what y'all are saying what's that okay we'll talk about what everything is so goat's cheese is uh basically a soft creamy cheese made from goat's milk so uh because I can't have cow dairy I can have goat dairy so this is the substitute that I use for ricotta this is the substitute that I use for cream cheese this is excellent this one right here if you can read it's probably backwards y'all my settings my setup this one says blueberry lemon so this is goat's cheese but it's rolled in blueberries and it has probably some lemon in so this makes like a purple pancake really excellent beverages and condiments you guys are going to hear me talk about that this brand Walden Farms this is pancake syrup but it's blueberry pancake syrup sugar-free gluten-free calorie-free everything free I drizzle that on my pancakes it's excellent heavy whipping cream this silk this is a plant-based I saw a recipe that I want to try for um like an orange freeze or like an orange um with a sugar-free soda and then you put this in kind of like how you make an iced coffee but with soda um so I'm going to give that a try but you can put this in make your own whipped cream what else did we use this heavy whipping cream for I felt like I feel like there was something else that I can't remember this is going to go on our cpk pizza this is my shredded goat's cheese the pepper jack this is a block that I shred myself my absolute favorite because it's a it gives you a very good melting experience and it's mild this manchego cheese this is my parmesan substitute this one is made from sheep's milk I know it sounds weird and it is but this one you can see it's like a quarter of the cheese block so it's a very um dry aged salty cheese this is my parmesan substitute so I'm looking forward to having this what am I going to do with it oh Paige sent me a recipe you love goat's milk yummy um I don't really do goat's milk but goat's cheese I will do uh Paige sent me a recipe for zucchini fries that has like shredded parmesan on on top so we're going to do zucchini fries but with shredded uh manchego on top and you kind of toss them and put in the air fryer so they get all amazing okay I just have some oil this is not for me to consume this is actually for my body it's a whole whatever but that's that I know I know I put oil on after a shower hey call me crazy um red onion this is going to be for our California pizza kitchen zucchini this is going to be for our zucchini fries oh man I forget they have a small one butternut squash this makes a very good sweet potato fry I forget that it's cut up so small like this you see how it's small and diced but if you get it in bigger chunks and do the same thing that we did with this apple melted butter cinnamon sugar and air fry it you get like a very nice caramelly uh sweet potato fry but it's squash instead of sweet potatoes all right we're going to try this apple oh Alex you can come try it put the skin on and then we're going to plate it's still a little firm for me get a fork please blow because it's hot so I'll let you guys see what we have here you can see our apple let's taste I still will do the skin off and I'll tell you why it's very good and I'm going to plate is that everything yeah all right that's everything oh what did you think about it um I just think it's better but at the same time it's because I don't like mushy food okay I don't really like yogurt and stuff like that okay understood all right so you would do it with the skin on then right okay so thank you you're welcome all right so I'm going to tell you guys we both have valid points and I'll tell you why so I'm getting my eggs out to plate I'll show you guys what I'm doing I'm just going around the side with the spatula it's going to come out as one big sheet see our nice fried egg there let's see if we can get it to I'm right-handed all right should have done the other hand don't want it to fall off okay my fried egg I know right I only do this once a week and let's get the apples all right so I'm going to tell you guys my thoughts on the apple and why we are both right so I'm just putting this in a little and I dropped one all right I'm eating it anyway so this is what I'm having for my second and last meal you know Uncle Stu said that I don't hold stuff up here long enough hey Josh all right so we've got our apples here now imagine this topped with ice cream or this topped with whipped cream excellent so again the apple that I use is this pink lady is that what it's called yeah pink lady apples and like I said they're a little tart and so for me the tartness is in the skin so if you like tart leave the skin on if you prefer sweet I would peel it it's still very tasty Alex says he doesn't like mushy food because the skin is still on it it keeps its shape and it is more firm just getting another fork so you guys can see because the skin is still on it keeps its shape when I did it this morning and I had peeled it off the apple pulp or the flesh itself does get softer faster but the taste is very good all right let's taste our eggs so again I'm doing my weekly egg fast I usually eat regular food so if you're new here this is not all that I eat you love mushy yeah honestly you guys this would be a great um like crustless crust less apple pie you know um I would definitely give it a try all right so we've got our fried egg here I'm being greedy we've got our nice and the brown on the bottom comes from you know the butter you could also do oil but I do like the butter taste it did cool a bit because I was working on the apple I should have been doing both at the same time actually I probably should have done the apple first I think that would keep its um temperature better but my my yolks are soft but not runny you can cook your eggs um longer to get a firmer yolk all right a couple other groceries and I'm gonna let you guys go I did get some peppers you guys have seen me make the um breakfast stuffed peppers where we cut off the top egg cheese and um veggies inside put this under the broiler excellent you can also do it for a dinner turkey sausage um onion put whatever you want in there we'll do stuffed peppers this week I also have um someone that I went on the trip with wants me to do a um arroz con pollo which is rice and chicken or rice with chicken so I don't eat rice and so I got this cauliflower rice and this is like a six pack of like microwave you know steam bag rice so I can use that for stir fry I can use that anywhere you would use rice so again you know my substitutions are about substituting the foods that I used to love for the foods that love me back okay so hi I'm here has a question all right so the cooking demo is over but I'm gonna eat and answer you guys questions any questions that you have so the story behind the egg fast it's really to kind of kickstart your metabolism so what I shared with you guys you know on this weight loss journey so far down 75 pounds with at least 25 more to go I got in the habit of weighing myself every day this is completely optional some people say I'm never doing that but a nutritionist that I used to see said that you know if you have any like phobia with the number on the scale you can kind of take the shock out of it by just weighing every day like after you brush your teeth just kind of part of your routine so you know the number on the scale because some of us used to only weigh when we went to the doctor once a year and then you're shocked so I started doing that and when I started my health and wellness journey with the metabolic specialist I was weighing myself every day and tracking it and I thought that the number on the scale would just go down you know like a mountain slope it doesn't for me I hold then I drop a couple pounds and then I hold and then I drop a couple pounds and for me that can be very frustrating when I'm really trying to do right and eat on plan we all know when we're not like I just came off a vacation I had everything but when you're really trying to stay on track and the scale isn't moving I would get frustrated so my metabolic specialist suggested this egg fast for one day all you do is eat eggs and apples or eggs and strawberries if you can't have apples just to give you the protein some natural sugar some fiber and it kind of kick starts your metabolism so I weigh the day why I weigh every day but every time I do the egg fast which for me is about once a week um when the boys are gone that way I don't have to cook and um it does it just kind of helps me get back into weight loss mode so because I'm just coming off of spring break and scale this morning but I know it's water weight because you know my clothes still fit but it's not going in the losing direction I put on weight on um vacation so I want to get back on track so that's why I'm doing the so hopefully that answers your question oh thank you so much I appreciate that I appreciate you guys being here you know anybody who's new here all are welcome I just really love hearing that this is helpful because you know my mom taught me how to cook she cooked for the family that's just how I was raised I didn't really have a choice and so you know like I said I thought everybody knew this stuff and then when I started talking to people and I realized people don't this whole channel started with me when I was on my you know journey posting like the finished product right this is what I'm eating today presentation is not that great anymore but this would be my post and I'm usually pretty good at presentation and so people would see my post and they would say did you make that and I would say yeah I made that and so then I started posting the before so all these ingredients and then the finished product kind of a side by side before and after and then people would say how did you make that so then I would go back and I would comment or I would explain like what I did and it went from you know the end picture to the before and after picture and then me commenting and then I my earliest videos because this is just month three for Maggie the substitute teacher so I'm still very new so I really appreciate you all being here I was just narrating my still pictures then I did this and then I did that and then I just got to when somebody asked are you going to do cooking demonstrations and clearly this is just me in my kitchen with my phone or my iPad I'm working on getting some above stove equipment and all of that but I said you know what whenever I'm in the kitchen I'll just bring you guys in with me and you can kind of see what I'm doing ask questions and because this is how I'm going to have to eat you know for the rest of my life I used to be pre-diabetic used to have elevated blood pressure and borderline cholesterol or maybe the other way around all of that is normal now without any medication and I went on a very active spring break trip where we hiked and ziplined and did all this stuff that I do not do and I felt amazing with no pain pills and no joint pain so you really can turn a lot of that around with what you eat so thank you all for being here like I said I'm going to clean up and go through the fridge and wipe down and put my groceries away I will be back tomorrow we'll make um I don't know blueberry pancakes or stuffed peppers and then we'll do the California pizza kitchen um tomorrow afternoon so first meal let's do our blueberry pancakes and then second meal our barbecue chicken pizza I think that'll be really good you're so welcome all right you guys I'm gonna go ahead and let you go this one I will share I'm glad that the technology worked out so thank you for being here so goodbye Instagram uh thank you so much and goodbye Twitter YouTube