Day Off Work, for reals

Breakfast: typical plus low-fat cheese and another slice of bread - I was off to a personal training appointment that morning

Lunch: At Trader Joe's yesterday, I had the most amazing sample ever. It was lemon pepper pasta with tuna and capers. I made that for myself for lunch around 1 and had a glass of chardonnay [not pictured].


Dinner [Evening eating]: I went to a Unitarian meeting in Livermore and had two brownies, two mini-scones, two italian sodas, and some popcorn [not pictured]

Damn, I walked at LEAST 6 miles today, maybe 7 or 8

Breakfast: 10am

A massive iced coffee and a bagel with egg and cheese - tons of high fructose corn syrup, I'm sure.

Snack: The first checkpoint, before Mile 3

A very tasty granola bar they had for the walkers

Snack: The second checkpoint, before Mile 4

They were offering potato chips and some other unhealthy things too, which was weird to me. This wasn't the best thing either, but it was tasty.

Snack: somewhere between Mile 4 and the Weed Band

Another granola bar

Lunch: 2:30ish

I had a sandwich with three slices of cheese, mustard, tomatoes and pickles

Dinner: 8:30

I had a banana and some canned salmon. There isn't a pic yet because I haven't eaten it, I wanted to post this first and then I need to upload my AIDS Walk pics. I wasn't sure if I wanted to even have dinner, but I figured it would be better to eat something, because I am sure I'd be hungry later.

Chinatown!

Breakfast: A spinach, feta, egg, tomato wrap from the Starbucks near Civic Center. It was in a whole wheat wrap, and not too big. I didn't have time to have a breakfast before I left the house and wanted to eat something before being at a museum for a few hours. It isn't pictured.

Snack: I had a Chinese doughnut while looking for a dim sum place, this was around 3 or something


Lunch: Dim Sum around 3 or something. Not pictured are the two shrimp dumplings [steamed dough around shrimp, basically], I also only had about half of the broccoli and the other shrimp dumpling thingers


Evening eating: Grapes I picked up at Trader Joe's on the way home

Breakfast: oatmeal. takes 1.5 minutes in the microwave. I don't get the instant oatmeal shit 'cause it's not as healthy, and you can cook regular oatmeal just as fast.









Lunch: leftover grilled steak that my sister's boyfriend prepared. Awesome. Blue cheese and slightly grilled onions on top.












Dinner: no one will know what this is, but whatever. Rice with miniature shrimp-stuffed bittermelon. It's a Guyanese thing. My mom made a bunch of these back in the day for me, and they've just been sitting in my freezer because I eat out all the time. So I defrosted it and made rice in the rice cooker.






Snack before bed that appeased the foodie in me: I ate Tete de Moin - a cheese from Switzerland, and compared two types of proscuitto - Di Parma from Italy and Jamon Iberico from Spain. The Jamon Iberico is pretty expensive ($75/lb) and the Di Parma is cheap ($14/lb), so I wanted to compare. Apparently to make the Jamon Iberico they only allow the hog to eat this particular type of acorn. The Jamon Iberico was definitely the better of the two, but I couldn't tell if it was because of the way the meat was cured, or because of the taste of the meat itself. I will continue my assessment :) I also had a little extra old Beemster which is currently my favorite type of cheese, and a large glass of Ledson Winery Red Zin that I got on my visit with Urs. It was an excellent before-bed snack. Not healthy my any means, but lovely. I also shared some of the prosciutto with Mika, the new doggie. She loves it :)

I never really call myself a vegetarian anymore, I always use qualifiers

Breakfast: Typical minus banana, probably.

Lunch

This was the same container, I just wanted to show the tomatoes under the pasta and tofu.

Snack: Banana

Boozin': A Tokyo Tea (and the worst I've had so far, even worse considering the price) and a Tequila Sunrise

Dinner

Yes, that is a hot dog, I was at the club, they were selling hot dogs, I was [bleep]ing hungry, so I bought it. It was delicious.

Breakfast: 9:00 or so: bacon, egg, and cream cheese sandwich on a bun that I got at the farmer's market. Ohhhh the bacon is, too. It is excellent bacon. I made it before I went to work and it took little to no time, and was extremely cheap. Don't know why I buy breakfast most days.














Lunch was leftover subway. Since they do the 12" sammy for $5, I had a 6" sub left. I don't count this as eating out...

Dinner: I made beans and rice. I forgot to take a picture until it was almost gone. I make fantastic beans and rice, and it's easily one of the healthiest things you can eat and also the cheapest. Mine always turns out different, but in addition to the black beans and rice in this batch there is also cilantro, tomatoes, and peppers from my "garden" :) and also red onion, cumin, salt and pepper. I eat it with low fat sour cream. My sister and mom came over to meet my dog (see 17 bottles :), and so even though I made a ton, it's all gone now. I'll make more tonight to bring for lunch this next week!

Bounce Back!

Breakfast: 7am

No banana today, instead, a glass of orange juice. I also only had one creamer in my coffee, it wasn't half bad.

Lunch: 11:30am

This is the same container, but I had the tofu first, then I had cherry tomatoes with feta mixed with a cous cous salad.

Snack: 3pm

I had about 5 strawberries at an ice cream social for a new employee network at work.

Snack: 5pm

I had a piece of string cheese

Snack: 7:30

On the way back from my workout, I stumbled across some fresh escargot on the sidewalk.

Dinner: 9pm

At the happy hour, I had some of these nachos and a piece of this quesadilla. I picked off the chicken.

Snack/Late Night: 10:30pm

I had two cups of orange juice.

Home Sick

Breakfast: 9-10am

Some orange juice [not pictured] and scrambled eggs and potatoes from Whole Foods, after my doctor appointment. I also had some of that immunity stuff and then went to bed.

Mid-Day Eating: 2 or 3pm

I got up and had more immunity stuff, more orange juice, and this muffin that the apartment people gave me earlier in the day.

Evening Eating: 10pm

I had my standard breakfast food with a piece of string cheese and an extra piece of bread to make a sandwich. I also had more orange juice before going to bed for the evening. I was nervous that I wouldn't feel better the next day, but thankfully, I did.

I'm doing something new

And I need you guys to badger me. I NEED to start cooking because 1) I'm a good cook and 2) I eat every meal out and this needs to stop because I'm letting money flow through my fingers like water. So. I am striving to prepare 12 meals a week. This would be a huge improvement over now, where I prepare 0 meals a week. Ha. No, wait. That's not funny. Plus I have this kickass windowsill garden where I have access to fresh herbs, tomatoes, stawberries, and such. I have no excuses!

Be mean. Or stern. Or whatever. I just need to be better about my food.

I will attempt to be reporting this daily!!

Breakfast: 8 or something


Lunch: 11:15

I had about half of this salad and the circled bit of the flat bread. I meant to have the rest for a snack later, but then I left the box somewhere in the cafeteria. Did I mention that I was kind of out of it today? I was.

Snack: 3pm

A friend gave me two of these bars because he ordered a bunch and he was sick of them. It was pretty good. Nutrition Information Here.

Snack: 6pm

I needed some food before working out

Dinner: 8:30

I had some sockeye salmon and green beans (cooked from frozen, not canned). I was eating the fruit, which contained raspberries as well, up until about 11:30. When I bake things, I put a sheet of aluminum foil on a baking sheet, and all of the salmon skin stuck to the aluminum foil, so I threw it away.