{"id":386,"date":"2013-02-24T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T10:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-02-25T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:08:46","slug":"yesterdays-fresh-veggie-score-spicy-not-hot-food-keeps-my-weight-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/yesterdays-fresh-veggie-score-spicy-not-hot-food-keeps-my-weight-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday&#8217;s fresh veggie score; spicy (not hot) food keeps my weight down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/spicy-veggies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-407\" title=\"spicy veggies\" src=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/spicy-veggies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a>Yesterday morning I went to the market to check out the fresh  produce. I bought 2 eggplants, 3 zucchini and 6 baby yellow squash.  Lunch was roasted red peppers with zucchini and squash atop a baked  potato and a bed of raw spinach and sauteed bok choy. My formula is to  have at least one of each color vegetable every day, one protein, one  starch. The details don&#8217;t matter, I get inspired by the palette itself.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I used to rely on fats to give me most flavor but they also added  weight and slowed me down.\u00a0 I took a year to learn, online and through  trial and error,\u00a0 what combination of spices I liked.\u00a0 What combination  of spices gave me such sensation of pleasure in eating the most simple  of vegetables they are cooked with.\u00a0 My meat and starch consumption took  a dive as I gave up bread type products.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t feel the need for  them anymore.\u00a0 The strongly spiced &#8211; not hot, just highly savory &#8211;  flavors satisfied me deeply and decreased my appetite for lesser food  such as bread. \u00a0 My weight also took a dive.\u00a0 Score!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=392\">Indian spiced garam masala recipe (for potatoes, stews, soups.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/\">Goddess Grub, healthy and luscious low fat meals for the goddess on the go<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I went to the market to check out the fresh produce. I bought 2 eggplants, 3 zucchini and 6 baby yellow squash. Lunch was roasted red peppers with zucchini and squash atop a baked potato and a bed of raw spinach and sauteed bok choy. My formula is to have at least one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5vW9k-6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}