What did you eat today?

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Too much ideology has gotten mixed in with this over the years.
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I try to keep it personal. If I eat too much, or get too much salt, or too much sugar, I feel lousy....
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I think that "I feel lousy" is the practical definition of having had "too much" of anything.

As I've reduced the amount of food I eat, I've been raising its quality. Yesterday, I made my usual rigatoni, pasta, and meat,only I upgraded to Rao's pasta and sauce. Walmart has 21-ounce jars of sauce for $6.98, and a glitch on their website has three pounds of pasta for $8.98, so I bought thirty pounds.
I divided the results into four and froze two; I just took out one of the refrigerated ones and was surprised to find the pasta had absorbed most of the sauce. I've made this dish thousands of times with various brands of pasta and its never happened before. The sauce I used, Sausage and Pepper, is ranked the 21st-best Rao's sauce and was delicious. I'm looking forward to some of the higher-rated sauces.
Rao's own website and Goldbelly both charge substantially more for these sauces, although they carry a wider variety.

I don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.

In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.

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I don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.

In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
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Next time make a big salad but remove some of the veggies and replace with an equivalent amount of moist grilled chicken..or any other animal. A can of tuna even.You get you veggies and some nice protein. It's the protein that satiates.

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I don’t eat as many vegetables as I should. Tonight made big salad with pre shredded iceberg lettuce, Roma tomatoes, chopped up white onion, Kalamata olives, some hard salami, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. It was a large volume of food that did nothing to satiate me. Wifey is making ‘poor man meal’. Chopped up hamburger in golden mushroom soup with LeSeur peas on top of mashed potatoes. That will satiate me.

In one of those gift baskets we got for the holidays there is a Maille Dijon Mustard jar. So I’ll be trying it soon. It’ll make EB happy.
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I add a scoop of potato salad or macaroni salad to top my "big salad". Some people add a deviled egg or a scoop of cottage cheese.
The deli in my old neighborhood served pumpernickel toast points with cream cheese along with their big fancy salads.

Reading your "poor man's meal", I realize I haven't had a good meatloaf in a very long time. I am fiercely in the mushroom gravy camp, and believe tomato ketchup glaze is a crime against beef.