Saturday

I really need to get caught up in these before I start to forget what I ate. Saturday we didn't go to the store or buy any food. Jeremy got off work a little early to take Winter to the airport. We got home pretty late after I got off work and I was quite hungry. Jeremy had already eaten. I cooked up some quinoa and teff with a little cinnamon and honey, and added the last of the honey goat cheese, a sliced banana, a peeled and sectioned clementine, and some walnuts. I thought it was really good, but Jeremy was uninterested.

Breakfast: caramel flavored Mediterranean yogurt
Lunch: leftover pasta with tomatoes and beef, clementine
Dinner: quinoa and teff with goat cheese, banana, clementine, and walnuts
Snacks/desserts: Christmas candy
Beverages: water

Christmas observed

Also known as "fake Christmas." During the years that Winter lives with us through the school year she spends winter break with her dad, so we choose a day to celebrate before she leaves. Usually the day before. This year she left on the morning of Saturday the 20th, so we had our Christmas Friday evening. I left work a few hours early.

Winter wanted to make "Hot Pockets" with Field Roast and other holiday foods. We used refrigerated butter croissant roll dough for the crust, cubed Field Roast, cornbread stuffing, and sausage gravy from a mix.It was a little difficult to put them together because the croissants didn't want to stay together where they normally are split into two triangles. We baked them about 15 minutes. They tasted great! Like salty processed holiday comfort food. What's not to love?

After dinner we opened our gifts. For dessert we had the glazed apples with vanilla ice cream. And we all got plenty of candy for Christmas and ate a lot.

Breakfast: protein bar
Lunch: leftover mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar, walnuts, and dried cranberries, a clementine
Dinner: holiday hot pockets
Snacks/desserts: Christmas candy, glazed apples with vanilla ice cream
Beverages: water, diet cranberry gingerale

Wednesday and Thursday

Wednesday I had a massage appointment in the morning, and in the afternoon I had a final visit for a vaccine clinical trial I started last year. I got paid $75 for the visit. They just had to draw blood, get my blood pressure and ask a few questions. It went quickly.

On the way home I went to QFC and bought:

White chocolate raspberry ice cream $3.50
Big chocolate mint cupcake (RFQS) $1.25
Slice of red velvet cake (RFQS) $1.00
Slice of lemon cake (RFQS) $1.00
1.5 lbs old bananas $.75
.77 lbs broccoli $.76

Total: $8.26

We thawed out some turkey sausages and for dinner I made quinoa with turkey sausage, broccoli, olive oil, parmesan, and some red pepper flakes.

Breakfast: smoothie with milk, banana, and frozen tropical fruit
Lunch: left over brown rice, black beans, potatoes and green beans
Dinner: quinoa, turkey sausage, and broccoli
Snacks/desserts: red velvet cake with white chocolate raspberry ice cream
Beverages: water

Thursday, my boss brought in some chocolate chip cookies he ha  made for us. Jeremy met me after work and we stopped at QFC to get the rest of the things we needed for our Christmas celebration:

Diet cranberry ginger ale: $1.50
Vanilla ice cream $2.79 (Didn't we just buy ice cream like yesterday? Jeremy asked. Yes. Yes we did.)
2 tubes of butter croissant roll dough ($1.50 each) $3.00
Cornbread stuffing mix $1.88
4 lbs clementines $4.49
Oat and nut bread $2.50
Tray of mashed sweet potatoes (RFQS) $.99
Tray of glazed apples (RFQS) $.99

Total: $18.14

Apparently no one else in my house likes sweet potatoes. I ate half of them for dinner topped with brown sugar, cinnamon, and walnuts.

Breakfast: protein bar
Lunch: leftover pasta with seasoned beef and tomatoes, clementines
Dinner: sweet potatoes with brown sugar, cinnamon, and walnuts
Snacks/desserts: chocolate chip cookies
Beverages: water