How this Fast Diet Lifestyle works: Eat these meals tomorrow, for a total of 600 calories. On Monday, eat the meals that will be posted on Sunday, another day of 600 calories.  Eat sensibly the other days of the week.  That’s it.  Simple way to lose weight and be healthier. Join me in the Fasting Lifestyle.

 Isabel Flores de Olivia was born on August 20, 1586, to a family of Spanish colonists in Peru.  To her parents’ dismay, she died with the name Rosa of Lima. Little did they suspect that she would become the first Catholic saint born in the ‘New World.’  The beautiful girl was slated for marriage, but defied her parents by wishing to become a nun.  They grudgingly agreed, permitting her to live a secluded life in a hut in their garden. There Rosa fasted, lived an ascetic life, and helped the sick and poor. Her elevation to sainthood was a boost to the faith of the inhabitants of Peru and all of South America.

Many foods we commonly eat today are from Peru, and in honor of Rosa, we will sample several. The breakfast contains tomatoes and anchovies, both typical ingredients which Rosa would have known.  The dinner contains Lima beans, of course, in a traditional meal of Western Hemisphere First Peoples.

Peruvian ScrOmelette:  289 calories…  8.3 g fat…   3 g fiber…  17.4 g protein…   37 g carbs… 231.6 mg Calcium…   PB GF  Traditional foods of Peru from land and sea combine with the new taste of coffee, now grown in the mountains.

++ 1 ½ two-oz eggs HINT: If you are serving one person, crack three 2-oz eggs into a small bowl or glass measuring cup. Whip up those eggs and pour half of their volume, crack three 2-oz eggs into a jar with a lid and put it in the ‘fridge for next week++++ 2 oz diced tomato, drained++++ ¼ oz [2 tsp] anchovies canned in olive oil, drained but not rinsed ++++2 oz melon OR mango ++++ optional: blackish coffee or blackish tea++++ optional: 5-6 oz green smoothie, fruit smoothie or pure apple cider++

Night before:After you dice the tomato, put it in a strainer over a bowl to reduce the moisture. In the morning: Chop the anchovies and add to the eggs. Spritz a non-stick pan with non-stick spray and add the tomatoes. This will cook them a bit and warm them. Whisk the egg/anchovy and pour into the warm pan. Scramble or cook as an omelette. Plate with the fruit, pour the beverages, and dream of the Andes.

‘Original’ Succotash:  270 calories…  2.6 g fat…   9.3 g fiber…  18 g protein…  50 g carbs… 71 mg Calcium…  PB GF  The Mystic Seaport Cookbook  contains many quaint and curious old recipes. What follows is my combination of two of them. It is ‘original’ because it gets us back to what succotash once was [a maindish, not a side] and because it is my own version. HINT: This recipe makes 3 cups of succotash, which could be 3 servings.

++ ½ cup lima beans [Green Giant frozen Fordhook] ++++ ½ cup green/snap beans ++++ ½ cup corn kernels++++   ++++ ¼ cup canned navy beans ++++ 2 oz corned beef [New England style is grey because it contains no nitrates]   ++++ 1 slice cornmeal mush aka: polenta++++ sage + pepper + salt to taste [mind that the corned beef might be salty] ++

Cook the vegetables until they are tender. Drain the cooking water and reserve ½ cup. Mash the navy beans and whisk into ¼ cup vegetable water. Put all vegetables and the meat into a pan along with the mashed beans. Add sage and pepper to taste and more vegetable broth if you wish, and heat.  If it needs more salt, add it too. In a non-stick pan, saute the corn mush on each side until it is warm. Start with one cup of succotash, as it is very filling.

Ingredients for next week: breakfast, single portion

1.5 two-oz eggs	1.5 two-oz eggs
tuna	canned white beans [navy]
frozen spinach	green onion   +   tomato
clementine	shrimp
Mediterranean Vegetables	nectarine or peach
optional smoothie	optional hot beverage
optional hot beverage	optional smoothie

Dinner, single portion:

tuna steaks	chicken breast
red bell peppers	sherry wine    +  angel hair pasta
zucchini	carrot  +  broccoli
cherry tomatoes	sherry wine [not cooking sherry]
olive oil	Bechamel sauce without cheese
	Parmesan cheese
Sparkling water	Sparkling water