Further Vitamix adventures – prepping for Phase 2 travel

Jul 2, 2011 by Vicky

So, my daughter is leaving to go hang out at Virginia Beach with her friends from Saturday to next Wednesday. But the problem is, she’s on Phase 2 and has to pack in her food if she wants to stay on. She could take a break, but she really wants to finish up, so I am supporting her commitment and helping her to figure out her foods for the trip.

She needs 10 meals (5 day trip). So she’s packed 6 apples and 4 oranges, 7 half-wasa crackers (you’ll see why in a sec), and we’re cooking her proteins and veggies ahead.

We dug through ‘The hCG Diet Gourmet Cookbook’, and came up with the following for her other food:

- 3 portions of Cinnamon Chicken

- 4 cajun hamburgers (burgers with cajun spices)

- 3 portions of Cajun Chicken

- 4 portions of Cream of Asparagus Soup (3 c asparagus, 2 c water, 2 c chicken broth. 2 tbsp organic whole milk,  a little low sodium soy or Braggs liquid aminos), cajun spice (she likes cajun), salt, pepper ) We whizzed this all up in the Vitamix. Put it on variable 1, then cranked it up to 10, then turned it on high for about a minute. It made this great creamy (and very green) soup, very tasty!

- 4 portions of Cream of Celery Soup (same as above, except with celery instead of asparagus). Again we’re going to use the Vitamix to make a smooth and creamy soup.

- 2 portions fresh bibb and romaine lettuce from our garden

- plenty of water

- sodastream diet vanilla coke and diet energy drink

So she’s going to head for VA Beach with her cooler full of pre-cooked and packed up Phase 2 goodies.

And *boy* am I having fun playing with the Vitamix. I am counting the days until Phase 3 to play with more varied ingredients, and have big plans to use it to make salsa with my garden veggies for canning.