Baked Potatoes

The Stroke Recovery Association of Manitoba sells a nifty little bag to cook your potatoes in a microwave. The potatoes came out moist and really fantastic every time. You just wash the potato and then wrap it in a paper towel and place it in a special insulated bag and then cook it in your microwave.

We decided that it would be fun to try out the potato bags and make our healthy lunch all at one meeting.

We cooked regular potatoes, and we tried sweet potatoes too. Fantastic! We also shared a fresh tossed salad.  Topping available included low fat sour cream, and believe it or not, reduced fat pre-cooked bacon bits.

One of the members tried out my digital camera and took a picture of me. I thought I would show you how happy I look after a great lunch with my friends at SAM.

What interests you?

We had an interesting chat about what makes people want to come to The Stroke Association of Manitoba for first time and what makes people want to keep coming back.

We discussed the option of setting up a questionaire to ask members what activities they might be interested in. We are going to set up a few questions and see if it would be possible to pass out a small survey at our upcoming Christmas party.

Egg Salad Sandwiches

Egg Salad Sandwiches

The Stroke Recovery Association of Manitoba is always trying to find ways to meet the needs of it's members and yesterday we had a meeting of a new sub-group called "Moving Forward". We are stroke survivors who are now trying to find ways to keep learning, growing and contributing.

This meeting was about talking and planning for the future but we also had a concrete focus of learning a basic cooking skill-- Egg Salad Sandwiches

For some of our group it is a new skill to be making the sandwich and for some of us we are looking for new and easier ways to cook now. All of us are interested in finding healthy ways of eating and preparing food.

Egg Salad Sandwich

to serve 1 person

First you need to get all of your ingredients and supplies together and be sure you have everything you need.

foods you need

1 egg

1 teaspoon of mayonnaise

salt to taste

pepper to taste

dried garlic to taste

dried chives to taste

4 pieces of whole wheat bread

butter

equipment you need

pot with water

stove

garbage container for egg shells

bowl

fork to mash eggs

toaster is optional

knife to spread butter

To Boil the Eggs

place the eggs in cold water and

put it on the stove.

turn on the stove

at 10 minutes, turn off the stove and let it cool.

To Assemble the Sandwich

peel the eggs

put in the bowl

add the mayonnaise

add dehydrated chopped garlic

add dehydrated chopped chives

add salt

add pepper

mash your ingredients with the fork

toast your bread if you want a toasted egg salad sandwich.

spread a thin layer of butter on your toast or bread

spread your egg mixture between your 2 pieces of bread.

cut the sandwich in half if you want

enjoy.

We served it with pickles. Be careful how many pickles you eat if you are on a sodium reduced diet.

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Welcome to the Moving Forward Groups Blog. 

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