Winter stayed home from school Thursday and Friday. She's still pretty sick. Jeremy is mostly better, though he still coughs here and there. I think I've finally started succumbing to this cold as well, though the symptoms are not very severe.
No food was purchased on Thursday. I made a green smoothie for breakfast on Thursday, and the sounds of the blender woke up Winter. I gave her a small glass of smoothie, but didn't tell her until she had drank half of it that it had spinach in it. Her reaction was priceless. "Whyyyyy???!!!" She still finished it though.
Breakfast: smoothie with kiwi, banana, spinach, honey, and coconut milk, banana nut muffin
Lunch: salmon salad with almonds and dill, gluten free chive and onion crackers, apple, clementine
Dinner: chicken burger on toasted brown rice bread with avocado and lettuce, carrot sticks with spicy pepper hummus
Snacks/desserts: none
Beverages: cocoa mint coconut milk, water
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Grocery Outlet and QFC
I was off work Tuesday. Jeremy and I went to Grocery Outlet after he got home from work. We spent $24 and got all of this:
Quart of organic almond milk
Jar of crushed garlic
Bottle of dried onion flakes
2 black cherry Silk soy yogurt
2 lbs clementines
2 quarts cappuccino flavored soy milk
Cheez-its
Apple and strawberry granola bars
Chocolate and pretzel granola bars
Whole wheat bagels
2 lbs avocados
2 bottles Mio
2 pouches white meat chicken
1 pouch protein granola
8 Italian style frozen chicken burgers
For dinner I sauteed chicken breast, red bell pepper, spinach, and bamboo shoots in olive oil. It turns out the rice noodles I bought at Uwajimaya are actually mung bean noodles. I cooked some of those up, and added peanut sauce to the meat, veggies, and noodles. In my peanut sauce I used creamy peanut butter, coconut milk, garlic, chili garlic sauce, soy sauce, honey, sesame oil, and rice wine vinegar. This is the first time I have used honey in it, and I thought it turned out great.
After dinner I used up four spotty bananas and made two batches of banana oatmeal muffins. One batch was gluten free and I used honey and coconut oil instead of sugar and veg oil. I also added walnuts to this batch. The other was just made as per the recipe, and no nuts.
Breakfast: fried egg with sliced avocado and toasted brown rice bread
Lunch: blueberry muffin Lara Bar, peanuts and chicken chunks from a P3 pack (Winter ate the cheese)
Dinner: chicken, veggies, mung bean noodles and peanut sauce
Snacks/desserts: banana nut muffins
Beverages: cocoa mint coconut milk, water
Wednesday I went in to work until 2:30. Winter caught the cold that Jeremy had over the weekend and stayed home from school. We are fully booked for the weekend at the massage studio I work at, and no one is available to cover for me Saturday, so I have been taking all of the zinc and vitamin C. So far, so good. Wish I had time to go in for extra acupuncture sessions.
On the way home I went to QFC and spent $9 and bought: six pack of kiwi, 2 lbs carrots, 8 oz almond based cheese, a reduced for quick sale chocolate gluten free pie crust, and a 2 lt bottle of lemon lime soda for Winter.
I made pizza for dinner. I had bought one 7" and one 12" pizza pans at Grocery Outlet last week. I made a small gluten free crust where I just subbed gluten free flour blend for regular flour, and kept the rest of the recipe the same. I made a larger crust with wheat flour for Winter and Jeremy. I topped mine with tomato sauce, almond based cheese, spinach, roasted red peppers and a little parmesan and Romano cheese blend. The larger pizza was topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, roasted red peppers, turkey pepperoni, and park/Romano blend.
The gluten free crust actually turned out good, and other than the fact that is didn't rise as much, it tasted just like regular pizza crust and had the same nice chewy texture. I'm sure Jeremy and Winter would have liked it fine, but since GF flour costs 4X as much, I'd rather keep using regular flour for their food as much as I can. Since I do not have an allergy, or apparently a severe sensitivity, I do not worry about things like soy sauce or cross contamination.
I have to say though that my leg pain has improved a whole lot, and I wonder how much the overall improvement of my diet has influenced the fact that I haven't gotten sick yet.
Breakfast: black cherry soy yogurt, banana nut muffin
Lunch: leftover quinoa with chicken sausage, broccoli, and red bell pepper
Dinner: roasted red pepper and spinach pizza
Snacks/desserts: strawberry apple granola bar, Clementine
Beverages: water
Quart of organic almond milk
Jar of crushed garlic
Bottle of dried onion flakes
2 black cherry Silk soy yogurt
2 lbs clementines
2 quarts cappuccino flavored soy milk
Cheez-its
Apple and strawberry granola bars
Chocolate and pretzel granola bars
Whole wheat bagels
2 lbs avocados
2 bottles Mio
2 pouches white meat chicken
1 pouch protein granola
8 Italian style frozen chicken burgers
For dinner I sauteed chicken breast, red bell pepper, spinach, and bamboo shoots in olive oil. It turns out the rice noodles I bought at Uwajimaya are actually mung bean noodles. I cooked some of those up, and added peanut sauce to the meat, veggies, and noodles. In my peanut sauce I used creamy peanut butter, coconut milk, garlic, chili garlic sauce, soy sauce, honey, sesame oil, and rice wine vinegar. This is the first time I have used honey in it, and I thought it turned out great.
After dinner I used up four spotty bananas and made two batches of banana oatmeal muffins. One batch was gluten free and I used honey and coconut oil instead of sugar and veg oil. I also added walnuts to this batch. The other was just made as per the recipe, and no nuts.
Breakfast: fried egg with sliced avocado and toasted brown rice bread
Lunch: blueberry muffin Lara Bar, peanuts and chicken chunks from a P3 pack (Winter ate the cheese)
Dinner: chicken, veggies, mung bean noodles and peanut sauce
Snacks/desserts: banana nut muffins
Beverages: cocoa mint coconut milk, water
Wednesday I went in to work until 2:30. Winter caught the cold that Jeremy had over the weekend and stayed home from school. We are fully booked for the weekend at the massage studio I work at, and no one is available to cover for me Saturday, so I have been taking all of the zinc and vitamin C. So far, so good. Wish I had time to go in for extra acupuncture sessions.
On the way home I went to QFC and spent $9 and bought: six pack of kiwi, 2 lbs carrots, 8 oz almond based cheese, a reduced for quick sale chocolate gluten free pie crust, and a 2 lt bottle of lemon lime soda for Winter.
I made pizza for dinner. I had bought one 7" and one 12" pizza pans at Grocery Outlet last week. I made a small gluten free crust where I just subbed gluten free flour blend for regular flour, and kept the rest of the recipe the same. I made a larger crust with wheat flour for Winter and Jeremy. I topped mine with tomato sauce, almond based cheese, spinach, roasted red peppers and a little parmesan and Romano cheese blend. The larger pizza was topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, roasted red peppers, turkey pepperoni, and park/Romano blend.
The gluten free crust actually turned out good, and other than the fact that is didn't rise as much, it tasted just like regular pizza crust and had the same nice chewy texture. I'm sure Jeremy and Winter would have liked it fine, but since GF flour costs 4X as much, I'd rather keep using regular flour for their food as much as I can. Since I do not have an allergy, or apparently a severe sensitivity, I do not worry about things like soy sauce or cross contamination.
I have to say though that my leg pain has improved a whole lot, and I wonder how much the overall improvement of my diet has influenced the fact that I haven't gotten sick yet.
Breakfast: black cherry soy yogurt, banana nut muffin
Lunch: leftover quinoa with chicken sausage, broccoli, and red bell pepper
Dinner: roasted red pepper and spinach pizza
Snacks/desserts: strawberry apple granola bar, Clementine
Beverages: water
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Why do today, what you can put off until tomorrow?
Has been my motto over the weekend. I planned to catch up on my posting yesterday, but then my schedule blew up and I had zero downtime. Oh well.
Winter went to art class on Friday. I brought food with me, and hung out at work with my tablet, trying to ignore all the creepy noises in the dark. I spent $1.00 on a dark chocolate bar on the way back, which Winter and I shared.
Breakfast: nut bar
Lunch: salmon salad sandwich with avocado and lettuce, apple
Dinner: leftover turkey sausage and rice soup, two clementines
Desserts/snacks: 1/2 bar of dark chocolate, Alpha-Bits with nut milk
Beverages: cocoa mint flavored coconut milk, water
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Saturday. What even happened on Saturday? I went to work. Winter met me after work and we went to Menchie's on the way home. I got some pomegranate raspberry sorbet with lots of strawberries, blackberries, and toasted almonds. We spent $2 at QFC on milk and a can of creamed corn from the reduced section. I wasn't hungry when I got home.
Breakfast: granola with chopped dates and nut milk
Lunch: leftover curried lentils, apple
Dinner: pomegranate raspberry sorbet with strawberries, blackberries, and toasted almonds
Snacks/desserts: apple Lara bar
Beverages: water
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Jeremy caught some kind of cold at work and it was blown up by Sunday. Winter and I went to Uwajimaya. We spent $22 on:
Can of bamboo shoots
Rice noodles
Gluten free soba noodles
Black sesame oil
Pistachios
Strawberry flavored almonds
Can of coconut milk
Ramune soda
Mango popsicle
We stoped at a Thai place in the food court, and I bought crispy spring rolls for Winter, and chicken with brown rice, baby bok choy and peanut sauce for myself. Winter also had the Ramune, and the mango popsicle. She ate half of the spring rolls and gave the rest to Jeremy when we got home. We spent $14.
We went to a friend's birthday party and had issues on the way there because of a missed bus. We had to wait half an hour for the next one. We went to Taco Bell and spent $4 on a bean burrito and soda (for Winter), and a tostada with no cheese for me.
I decided to have a small piece of cake at the birthday party. Luckily this diet is not one that is all or nothing, like some. The doctor who developed it says the closer you follow it the better, but it should help, even if you don't follow it 100%. I didn't feel any worse from eating it, which is good to know.
Breakfast: smoothie with coconut milk, pb, banana and honey
Lunch: chicken, brown rice, baby bok choy, peanut sauce
Dinner: Taco Bell tostada, pistachios, strawberry almonds, peanuts, baby carrots
Snacks/desserts: cranberry orange cake, key lime Luna Bar
Beverages: cocoa mint flavored coconut milk, peach-pear flavored unsweetened sparkling water, ginger apple hard cider
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Yesterday I went to work, then went home. Jeremy went to work too. He is still kind of sick, but not as bad. We got in an order I made on Amazon for 6 jars of sodium free chicken bouillon, and 4 lbs of gluten free flour blend. We spent $52 on that. The bouillon should last almost a year at least, but it's a pretty good chunk of our monthly budget, right there.
Breakfast: protein granola with nut milk
Lunch: salad with spinach, avocado, canned salmon, pecans and roasted red pepper dressing, apple
Dinner: leftover curried lentils
Snacks/desserts: cherry Luna bar
Beverages: cocoa mint flavored coconut milk, water
Winter went to art class on Friday. I brought food with me, and hung out at work with my tablet, trying to ignore all the creepy noises in the dark. I spent $1.00 on a dark chocolate bar on the way back, which Winter and I shared.
Breakfast: nut bar
Lunch: salmon salad sandwich with avocado and lettuce, apple
Dinner: leftover turkey sausage and rice soup, two clementines
Desserts/snacks: 1/2 bar of dark chocolate, Alpha-Bits with nut milk
Beverages: cocoa mint flavored coconut milk, water
______
Saturday. What even happened on Saturday? I went to work. Winter met me after work and we went to Menchie's on the way home. I got some pomegranate raspberry sorbet with lots of strawberries, blackberries, and toasted almonds. We spent $2 at QFC on milk and a can of creamed corn from the reduced section. I wasn't hungry when I got home.
Breakfast: granola with chopped dates and nut milk
Lunch: leftover curried lentils, apple
Dinner: pomegranate raspberry sorbet with strawberries, blackberries, and toasted almonds
Snacks/desserts: apple Lara bar
Beverages: water
_____
Jeremy caught some kind of cold at work and it was blown up by Sunday. Winter and I went to Uwajimaya. We spent $22 on:
Can of bamboo shoots
Rice noodles
Gluten free soba noodles
Black sesame oil
Pistachios
Strawberry flavored almonds
Can of coconut milk
Ramune soda
Mango popsicle
We stoped at a Thai place in the food court, and I bought crispy spring rolls for Winter, and chicken with brown rice, baby bok choy and peanut sauce for myself. Winter also had the Ramune, and the mango popsicle. She ate half of the spring rolls and gave the rest to Jeremy when we got home. We spent $14.
We went to a friend's birthday party and had issues on the way there because of a missed bus. We had to wait half an hour for the next one. We went to Taco Bell and spent $4 on a bean burrito and soda (for Winter), and a tostada with no cheese for me.
I decided to have a small piece of cake at the birthday party. Luckily this diet is not one that is all or nothing, like some. The doctor who developed it says the closer you follow it the better, but it should help, even if you don't follow it 100%. I didn't feel any worse from eating it, which is good to know.
Breakfast: smoothie with coconut milk, pb, banana and honey
Lunch: chicken, brown rice, baby bok choy, peanut sauce
Dinner: Taco Bell tostada, pistachios, strawberry almonds, peanuts, baby carrots
Snacks/desserts: cranberry orange cake, key lime Luna Bar
Beverages: cocoa mint flavored coconut milk, peach-pear flavored unsweetened sparkling water, ginger apple hard cider
______
Yesterday I went to work, then went home. Jeremy went to work too. He is still kind of sick, but not as bad. We got in an order I made on Amazon for 6 jars of sodium free chicken bouillon, and 4 lbs of gluten free flour blend. We spent $52 on that. The bouillon should last almost a year at least, but it's a pretty good chunk of our monthly budget, right there.
Breakfast: protein granola with nut milk
Lunch: salad with spinach, avocado, canned salmon, pecans and roasted red pepper dressing, apple
Dinner: leftover curried lentils
Snacks/desserts: cherry Luna bar
Beverages: cocoa mint flavored coconut milk, water
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