BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

[Doggygirl]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Oh My!!! I need to dig up the recipe for pizza crust out of cauliflower and post it ASAP for perroni pizza emergencies. (No kidding. Cauliflower. And Mr. Doggy ate more than his fair share of the pizza. He wouldn't eat PLAIN cauliflower if it was a choice between that or dog poop.)

Pamina, I hope your visit goes OK. I don't have the energy to start a thread myself today....but I will tomorrow if nobody else does in the mean time.

DG

[louise]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Are you serious? Cauliflower pizza crust? I have has cauliflower "mashed potatoes" but I never imagined pizza crust! Pamina, what self control to eat strawberries instead of pizza. It is odd how sometimes food cravings come from nowhere. Mine are often for things I hardly ever eat, like meatloaf or mashed potatoes. comfort food I guess.
Hey Guy, congrats on 16 days!
Mame I'm not feeling as motivated either, but sometimes just do it anyway is enough I think. Sometimes motivation follows actions rather than precedes them.
I think what your counselor said Marshy about having a relationship with AL and thinking about any, even negative relationship explains a lot about the early days of not drinking.
Well, to bed and then on to day 3!

[Doggygirl]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Good Day Booze Busters!!! I hope everyone is rackin' up the AFHF days in whatever 30 day stretch you are on. Special support goes out to those who are in the early days which can be a challenge. WE CAN DO THIS. We CAN get sober as Booze Busters before us like July have shown. So let's be KICKIN' AL'S ASS today, K?

louise, yes indeed - cauliflower pizza crust. And in a Booze Buster exclusive, here is the recipe:

1 cup cooked "riced" cauliflower**
1 egg
1 cup mozarella cheese
1/2 teaspoon fennel
1 teaspoon oregano
2 teaspoon parsley

pizza or alfredo sauce (I use tomato sauce and put italian spices in it)
toppings of your choice
more mozzarella cheese, or italian cheese mix with parmesan, etc.

**riced cauliflower is just cauliflower than has spent time (when raw) in your blender or food processor with S blade until it resembers the shape and size of rice. I cook this in the microwave. It needs to be cooked through but NOT too mushy. This might take a couple tries and as you work with it, you get a feel for it. "Riced cauliflower" has some other good uses for low carbers too where you would otherwise use rice. i.e. in things like stuffed green peppers. But I digress. Let the riced cauliflower cool before you make the pizza crust.

Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees F. Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray. (I line the cookie sheet with foil and then spray it for easier/faster clean up)

In a medium bowl, combine cauliflower, egg and mozarella. Press this mix evenly on the pan. Make it THIN - there will be spots that look like they are barely covered. This makes a pretty small crust - i.e. for 2 people. You can double the recipe for a bigger one. Sprinkle this "crust" with fennel, oregano and parsley. Bake the crust at 450 for 12 - 15 minutes - longer if you double the recipe for bigger pizza. The crust should be pretty darn brown before you stop cooking it. If you don't let it get brown enough the crust will be too mushy.

Add sauce and toppings, then cheese to the crust and broil until cheese is melted.

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Of all the low carb pizza crusts I've tried, that are also gluten free, this one you can get closest to a firmer crust that you can actually eat with your hands like a REAL pizza rather than having to use a fork. The key is making the crust really thin and letting it get brown enough. Of course Dominos won't be switching to this any time soon, but it's a nice way to get a pizza fix if you don't eat bread or flour things.

OK - time for me to go to Curves and get weighed and measured!! Oh - and also work out. KICK AL'S ASS TODAY!!!!

DG
Day 84 AFHF
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BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Hey I love that cauliflower crust recipe!!! Must try, must try...

Good morning all, I have not been a regular on this thread, but would like to be. Today is I think day 23, anyway I am working my way up to having 4 weeks AF (this time around!). Feels great. I have been on all these threads, and different areas in MWO, and like an old colleague once used to say to me, when we were working in the midst of various felony cases:

"I've seen two world fairs and a goat-roping... But I've never seen NOTHING like this!"

It's amazing, what goes on around here. This morning there's a guy asking about FLIGHT SCHOOLS!!! And a person asking for help in a crisis, who was advised by one member to just get drunk!

I want to get away from some of the Wild West aspect of the life of recovery (spent far too much time in my Wild Wests of my own making, and involved also, all my adult working life, in the crises and disasters of other people) and focus on the threads that are all about getting alcohol out of our lives. So that's my plan for getting the most out of MWO and avoiding getting sucked into too much of the other stuff.

DG (and others here), the elderly parent situation is one I am also involved deeply in, an 88-yr old mother who was very difficult to start with now has Alzheimer's and it has pretty much dominated my life for the last 2 months... before that, her presence in my life was toxic but not all-consuming... It was one of my "reasons" for getting drunk, which of course did not help. I am doing much better about all that without the alcohol... but it is still very, very challenging, in a number of ways...

best wishes all,

wip

[Doggygirl]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

wip, we would LOVE to have you as a regular Booze Buster. Congratulations on your 23 days AF. For those Booze Busters who haven't had a chance to read many of wip's posts, she brings a LOT of wisdom to MWO as a person who achieved sobriety for many years with the help of AA. wip would also remind us that we must be ever vigilent about AL lurking around us. YEAH!!!

wip I can also relate to your desire to stay focused on the MWO program and achieving sobriety as the #1 goal and reason for being here. The "just for fun" topics have to come 2nd, and any topics that get my fantasies of drinking started up have to be avoided. MWO is wonderful because it offers a diverse program to a very diverse audience. There is plenty of room for everyone - I think the key to maximizing the benefits of the forum is to be very clear on your goals, and what helps or doesn't in term of achieving them.

If you are "lurking" and reading this thread, and want to join in with a goal of reaching 30 Days Alcohol Free, Hangover Free, jump on in and post!!

DG
Day 84 AFHF

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BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Thanks, DG!

wip

[louise]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Welcome WIP. Yes, this thread is a bit calmer than many. I feel safe here as a result. DG, do you cook the cauliflower before you rice it or after? It's late so I've got to get to bed but I wanted to say hi to everyone. Day 3 down for me (for the umpteenth time).

[Miss Behaving]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Hi all,

.... I have just got to try that cauliflower crust!!

I crashed a couple of days ago ........ dont think it was flu (although everyone else around me seems to have it!), just a few things catching up on me. I've been sleeping 12 hours a night and not doing much during the day but essentials. Lots of lavender baths and home made soup .... and I'm going to keep doing it like this until I feel normal again! But tonight I had a huge piece of steak to see whether animal protein might deliver some additional protein energy!!

[Doggygirl]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Good Day Booze Busters!!!!!

Despite having to clean up dog puke in the middle of the night, I'm in a great mood today - feeling well rested and rarin' to go. I'm sure my good mood has to do with the fact that I did not STEP in the dog puke - there is always a silver lining to every cloud.

louise, rice the cauliflour before you cook it. YUM YUM. I think I'm going to make low carb pizza on Sunday - I'm in that mood since we've been talking about it!! I think I'm going to use some foo foo toppings like spinach and pine nuts. GOOD FOR YOU ON DAY 3!!!! Every day with no AL in it is a good day. Are you getting adjusted to being back to work? Hope so. I think I would feel like I just got a hug shock to my system with that sort of change every end-o-summer.

Mame it is good to see you as always. After all the busy days and stress you've had for.....several months now, it's not surprising that your body is demanding REST now that there is a slow down. Good for you listening to your body and giving it what it needs. Those lavendar baths sound heavenly!! That steak is sounding good too.

I recently made a road trip out to a farm that produces beef / pork / chicken without the antibiotics and hormones. They aren't officially organic because they buy their feed from a neighbor farmer who grows it, and he is not officially organic. They trust the feed from this farmer more than getting "organic" official feed from a depot many miles away. They know what products this farmer friend uses. Everything I've tried from there has been awesome from the steaks to ever less expensive cuts like pork shoulder (pulled pork turned out great). It's time for another road trip!

Mr. Doggy and I had another great talk last night about the benefits of our sobriety. We are having a really good summer in our business which is largely attributable to his being fully functional at any given time. He didn't realize how much the pot was really dragging him down. (not to mention the additional legal risk ever present) Of course I'm sober all day in the office so no risk of slurred phone calls, forgeting things, etc. And if a client needs to come by to drop off or pick up something, all is good. We should have done this years ago. He too has thoughts of his vice, but just like with me, and just like it was for both of us when we separately quit smoking, the thoughts get less intense and less frequent with time. YAY!!!

Today is Day 85 AFHF. It's cleaning lady day which is always a great day!!! (I will give up food before I give up this service!) Once she gets going, I will go to Curves then run my errands then back to the office. I have some lingering accounting work to catch up on - so if you see me posting away all day here, get out the :b&d: and beat me into doing my work!! (it won't take me that long - just getting started on it is the hard part!) I also got some of those storage bags where you put clothes or bedding or whatever in them, then suck the air out with a vaccuum cleaner. Anybody tried those?? Do they work?? I need to start putting some of my too big clothes in storage. I'm going to donate some of that to charity, but just in case my thyroid goes whacky or something like that I don't want to re-buy everything. (I don't plan to eat lousy and not exercise my way back into them!) If those storage bags work, they should take up less space than storage boxes.

YAY!! (I like that word!)

Sorry my posts get so long. As you have figured out, you can ignore 90% or more of it and still get the important stuff. Have a great BOOZE BUSTIN' DAY everyone!! I too love the calm of this thread and all you Booze Busters old and new mean a lot to me and my sobriety.

DG
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BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Good morning all, I'm sitting here with my smoothie (with that awful powder stuff in it), taking my supps, catching up with the threads... Dogs and cats are fed, etc. Lots of meetings today, and still various tasks connected with cleaning up various stuff for my mother... taxes, bills, bank accounts, etc.

Hoping everyone has a good day!

wip

[greeneyes]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Hi all - Doggy girl, you inspire me (among others). Just wanted you to know that. I know what you mean about the effects of sobriety. Addictions strongly if not soley attributed to the demise of my marriage.

Have a great day!

What is "ricing cauliflower"?

[louise]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

But we are very proud of you for not using the demise as a reason to drink Greenie! That is awesome. Go back up several posts and DG explains how to make pizza with cauliflower crust if you are cutting carbs or wheat. Ricing is explained there.
WIP - I know, that stuff tastes terrible. I take it in V-8 juice. But I'm not always getting it now I'm back at work as I take a thyroid med that I'm not supposed to take a multivitamin with in the am. Over the summer I'd have the all-one/juice as a snack or for lunch but harder now I'm back at work.
No, not yet used to back to work! On that note I best get going or I'll be late.
Hope you feel better Mame!

[Marshy]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

DG - as there seems to be a certain amount of confusion about this cauliflower pizza thingy, I think we'll all have to come over to yours on Sunday for a demo and taste test. Six-ish suit everyone? I'll bring the cherryade!

[sothankful]

BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Hi All, I haven't read post today. just checking in quick. Hope all are doing great.
Having bad cramps. So i will check in tomorrow. I think I will have some soup and lay down. Wow,

Still kicking booze ass.

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BOOZE BUSTERS Week of 8/11 (A)bsolutely (F)abulous (H)angover (F)ree 30 Day Challenge

Hope you're feeling better tomorrow, ST... I guess you'll have to miss this pizza do at DG's??

wip