Five Day Pescetarian Challenge

I'm challenging myself this week. After the Nor'easter knocked out my power for almost three days my fridge was in great need of restocking. I had to throw away almost everything in there and when I went to Trader Joes today I restocked with all the good stuff I could afford. Why might you ask when there are Christmas and Thanksgiving treats all over the place? Because I've been eating terribly for waaay too long. Last Christmas I was a healthy eating machine, but two trips back to England with countless ciders, indians and fish'n'chips has unfortunately left its mark. Not to dwell on the past I decided that this week would be a good detox week for me. Not some crazy pepper water detox, but a real food detox. Food I have to make that doesn't come a bag that tells me how to make it. Brian's in Portland this week so I figured this wee would be easiet for me to focus on a veggie, fruit and fish-filled diet. Brian's not much for fish so I stocked up since he's away. Hopefully this week will help me get back on track with my eating habits and maybe help the scale budge past my current weight which has barely changed since March :(. The hollidays are coming up, but I'm hoping I can keep it together enough to get back on track. School is super stressful but almost at an end. Hopefully working out can help me burn off some of that stress! This week I'll be checking in more often with my meals mostly to keep myself on track so I'll be less likely to stray! Until next time!

Wow

What a crazy few weeks it's been! After going out of town, school, and fighting with my landlord I am in much need of a break! Soon I'll be able to do that in my new apartment! I'm moving in less than 2 weeks and I'm sooo excited, mostly because I'll have a big new kitchen to cook in! No more single square of counter space and I have a DISHWASHER!!! Anywho, foodwise I've been kinda off these past few weeks. My workouts have been very sporadic too and I need to get back on track. Lately I've been on a pasta kick and I've made spaghetti the past two days. I've added fresh garlic, onions and peppers to the sauce and a little parmesean. So easy! Thtis is all I've got for now and who knows when I'll be able to update again since I'll be packing and working and doing homework!

Doing it Raw

Well, kind of. I attempted my first raw food dish other than a salad yesterday and made raw "spaghetti"! The noodles were pieces of zucchini that I sliced up with my trusty julienne slicer which is becoming the best $5 investment of all time. The sauce was just a bunch of grape tomatoes, minced garlic and a little basil that I threw in the food processor for about a minute.


To tell you the truth I didn't really like it. I put way too much garlic in the sauce and it was just...cold. I don't know if I'll jump on the raw food bandwagon past salads and desserts. My "spaghetti" was just to bland for me :(. But I still ate it because it was good for me! I also made some whole wheat bread, but I think the yeast was past it's time and didn't make the dough rise properly. Lame!

Today I made a little salad to have after my hot vinyasa class (which kicked my ass. It's been a while) and it was pretty good. It's basically romaine lettuce, red peppers, English cucumber, onions, broccoli and red grapes. I made a dressing from olive oil, balsamic vinergar, salt, pepper, spicy brown mustard and a tiny bit of honey.

For some reason I always get balsamic vinegar that seems super duper sweet. I wouldn't have put in the honey if I'd known the vinegar was so freaking sweet. Anywho, at least it was nice to look at.

That's all for now peoples. I'll be back soon with some more food stuffs.

BTW I'm moving into a new apartment with a kitchen about 3 times bigger than the one we have now and a DISHWASHER! So excited I have more than one square foot of counter space!

Lazy Sunday

I did almost nothing today. Actually, I won't say that. I did some reading for my post modern American lit class and started on an assignment sheet project for my teach college composition class. I also did 108 push-ups, two different kinds, standard and tricep! I'm working on moving away from doing push-ups on my knees and towards "real" ones. It's one of the small goal I'm setting for myself. Food-wise today was pretty standard. I had some cereal for breakfast and sort of grazed around at lunch. For dinner Brian and I has a pre-cooked tri tip roast with korean bbq sauce from Trader Joes and I made an asian-y noodle stir fry to go with it. Brian augmented the beef with some Sweet Baby Rays while I used a little Hoisin sauce. I feel much more relaxed now that I'm not pressed to document everything I eat. I much prefer this more laid-back approach to food blogging! It's also given me some inspiration to cook a little more and try new things! I know I'm in a sort of food rut, but I'm trying to break out of it!

Hey so uhhhh, how have you been?

Ok so my intentions for this blog were good, but I epically failed at keeping up with it. School started and totally overwhelmed me so just about everything took a back seat. Maybe documenting everything I eat is a little too ambitious since I'm just too scatter-brained to remember to take pictures, but I would like to keep my food blog alive. Today for instace I have for breakfast: two hard/soft boiled eggs (I can never get just one), two turkey sausage patties and a cup of coffee with coffee mate italian sweet cream creamer. Lunch was a piece of multigrain toast with peanut butter and dinner was chicken fajitas. I just finished my snack, a honeycrisp apple with some almond butter (my new favorite thing). I like to blog, and it keeps me writing which as an mfa creative writing student is something I need to be doing more than I am now! Now that I'm in the swing of things I can start cooking more and getting back to my diet/exercise routine which I desperately need. Thanks a bunch everyone (if anyone reads this) and I'll be back with an update soon!

I ate my dinner too fast :(

Breakfast- As always Trader Joe's Organic Morning Light with 1% milk (I bought like 4 boxes and now I'm just trying to get ride of it. New breakfasts soon!)

Lunch- homemade wrap with Kashi Fiery Fiesta pilaf, grilled chicken, provolone cheese and baby spinach and a peach (worst peach EVER)

Snack- a post workout Spirutein pina colada protein shake

Dinner- 6 inch turkey sub on wheat, Mr. Pibb (first soda in forever) and garden salsa Sun chips.

PS- sorry about the generic turkey sub photo. I was so hungry I forgot to take a picture of it :(

Tuesdays start too early...

Breakfast (6am)- Trader Joe's Organic Morning Light and 1% milk

Snack (9:30am)- 3 danish butter cookies

Lunch (12pm)- garden roll (miso soup not pictured)

Snack PM (4pm)- Whole wheat Ritz crackers with Brie spread, strawberries

Dinner (6pm)- Vegetable Lo Mein (leftovers from yesterday)

Labor Day

Breakfast_ Trader Joe's Organic Morning Light and organic 2% milk

















Lunch- Vegetable Lo Mein (wholefoods.com recipe)




















Snack- 6 large strawberries, a hand full of grapes, whole wheat Ritz crackers with brie cheese spread.


















Dinner- Store-bought rotisserie chicken (I didn't eat the leg) and baked potato with butter and Parmesan cheese....and some Texas Pete...

In The Beginning...

I've started up this blog because I have a particular fascination with what people eat. Whether it be healthy or a coronary inducing fat-fest I find it interesting to see what people sustain themselves with. I really started this with the hopes that it would keep my food intake in line and just as a visual reference of what I've consumed over a period of time. There will be pictures and descriptions of what I eat throughout the day (snacks included if time permits). Well, let the "flogging" (food+blogging?) begin!