Erica's food, Texas Edition.

Breakfast, 7:15 am: We ate the free breakfast at the hotel. I tried to eat a bagel with cream cheese and a banana, but it was all kind of gross. So mostly I had apple juice.

Snack, 10:00: While driving to different fields we had string cheese and Cinnabon coffee in a can.

Lunch, 12:30: We went out with the crew we were working with to a bar/diner kind of place in a little town. Justin had beef bbq and I had the appetizer sampler. I got taquitos, fried mushrooms, and something called Texas toothpicks. These are jalapeños and onions sliced very thin and fried.

Dinner, 7:00: We wanted to eat Mexican food because we figured it would be better down there. All the Mexican restaurants were closed (was it a holiday?) and Justin was unwilling to visit one of the food stands across from the meat packing plant, but we found a bodega selling some dinner stuff to go. So I got a chili relleno and Justin got a chili rojo torta and some Coke with actual sugar instead of corn syrup. Very good and very inexpensive.

Erica's food, July 29.

Today we drove to Texas for collecting bugs. I always eat terribly when we travel.

Breakfast, 8:30: Grits with American cheese, Carnation Instant breakfast. The last time I was at the store I decided to get the instant breakfast with no sugar and extra fiber even though it is more expensive than the sugary kind.

Lunch: We went to the Dairy Queen in some forgettable town in Kansas. I got chicken strips, but they were so bad that I could only eat the fries.

Dinner: We stopped in Dodge City, Kansas (birthplace of Wyatt Earp!) and decided to look around briefly and sample the local cuisine. Well, the local cuisine of west Kansas consists of beef. So I had sirloin kabobs with grilled peppers and onions with a baked potato and side salad. After dinner we got the hell out of Dodge. I saved my dinner roll and ate it at some point in Oklahoma.

Snacks: Snacking is required in the car. We brought Cinnabon coffee beverages, string cheese, sasparilla soda (diet), gummi Lifesavers, and BBQ chips with us. Food that we don't eat at other times helps pass the time.

Erica's food, July 27th.

Breakfast: I had a piece of cake, which turned out to be awful so I didn't finish it. Instead I had instant grits with American cheese.

Lunch: Bucket of popcorn while seeing Mamma Mia. Terrible, I know.

Dinner: Green curry with tofu at a Thai restaurant.

Snack: Cookies'n'cream Hyvee brand icecream.

Later my cat dumped the cake on the floor and ate a bunch of it, negating my feeling of guilt for having to throw away most of a cake. I guess he likes avocado frosting.

Erica's food, July 26 2008.

I'm going to try to be better about posting.

Breakfast/Lunch, 12:30: Egg sammiches: homemade whitebread toast with butter, 2 fried eggs with 2 slices of American cheese. Glass of milk.

Dinner, 6:00: Lo mein Justin made. It contained Chinese noodles, yellow peppers, celery, shrimp, mushrooms, onion, and bean sprouts. Diet Pepsi Max.

Snack, 10:30: Some batter and frosting from making a birthday cake for myself. Just plain old white cake mix from a box because I wanted to try an avocado frosting recipe I saw on Good Eats. The frosting is pretty good and probably healthy, but if you don't like avocados it's probably not for you. Glass of milk.

Does anybody have an opinion on dairy? Is it good for me or is it evil? Because I tend to eat a lot of it. I like things like soy milk, but the particulate content makes my throat scratchy if I drink it regularly. Anyway, I prefer to bake with real dairy products.

Erica's food, July 25 2008.

Breakfast, 9:30: Carnation Instant Breakfast

Snack, 10:00-11:00: Dried mango strips, 2 fake Oreos, and coffee with fake creamer at Santiago's defense. He's Filipino and mangoes are his favorite crop.

Lunch, 1:30: Campbell's potato ham chowder, Diet Pepsi Max.

Dinner, ~7:00: Left over lasagna, Diet Pepsi Max.

Snack, ~10:00: I had a freeze pop but I was still hungry so I made a shake out of frozen mixed berries, milk, vanilla Instant Breakfast, and cream (since we didn't have any ice cream).

Erica's food, 7/14/08.

Breakfast: Carnation Instant Breakfast, plain bagel + cream cheese.

Lunch: Left over Chinese, bean curd homestyle. Basically it was tofu stir fried with mini corn, snap peas, onion, green pepper, broccoli, and brown sauce. I mix it with rice. Diet Pepsi Max.

Dinner: More left over Chinese. I love that they give you so much food you can make it into 3 or 4 meals. Milk.

Snack: A handful of jalapeño Cheetos. This is a major weakness of mine.

Damn, now I'm hungry again.

Erica's food, 7/12/08, no pics.

Breakfast: Diet Pepsi Max.

Lunch: At some point I emerged from Knights of the Old Republic II to realize that I was starving to death, and microwaved 2 burritos.

Dinner: Mashed potatoes, teriyaki salmon, tilapia and a beer. The Hyvee sells these little frozen fillets for $1 each and they're pretty good.

Today was terrible, I know. The explanation is that I played video games all day and probably wouldn't even have eaten dinner had Justin not made it and set it in front of me.

Erica's food, 7/9/08, no pics.

breakfast: Carnation Instant Breakfast made with skim milk, whole wheat bagel + creamcheese.

lunch: 3 pieces of left over pizza and Hyvee diet cola. I made the pizza myself using Hyvee crust mix, Hyvee pizza sauce, cheese, and pineapples.

snack: About 1/4 of a bittersweet chocolate bar filled with hazelnuts.

dinner: I didn't really eat dinner. I had a piece of homemade whole wheat bread with butter and honey at about 5:00 and then at about 9:30 I had 3 pieces of homemade white bread with butter and a beer. And then at about 11:30 I had a plum.