Feb 22
Breakfast (before work): cooked fava beans, leftover cheeseburger with pickles, iceberg lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup. Breakfast of champions. It held me all day.
Lunch (2:30 pm): leftover french fries with ketchup, leftover chicken salad. This was not as sustaining as the previous meal.
Dinner: A big salad with iceberg lettuce and herb salad mix, parsley, scallions, and shredded carrots, with hard-boiled eggs, dried cherries, and sliced almonds. Homemade honey-mustard dressing. Some white bakery bread and butter on the side. As always while grating carrots, I grated my knuckle, and proceeded to bleed slightly onto the boiled eggs as I was peeling them. I rinsed them off.
Breakfast (before work): cooked fava beans, leftover cheeseburger with pickles, iceberg lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup. Breakfast of champions. It held me all day.
Lunch (2:30 pm): leftover french fries with ketchup, leftover chicken salad. This was not as sustaining as the previous meal.
Dinner: A big salad with iceberg lettuce and herb salad mix, parsley, scallions, and shredded carrots, with hard-boiled eggs, dried cherries, and sliced almonds. Homemade honey-mustard dressing. Some white bakery bread and butter on the side. As always while grating carrots, I grated my knuckle, and proceeded to bleed slightly onto the boiled eggs as I was peeling them. I rinsed them off.
Snacks: a taste of a new mango chicken dish that my boss was experimenting with at work (it was great, not overly sweet, I would totally order it). A leftover brownie after lunch, because I was still really hungry. 4 cups of coffee, 2 regular, 2 decaf, with half and half. Sherry in the evening. 5 Valentine-themed Ghirardelli squares (we shared out a bag amongst the three of us) while watching TV.
Feb. 23
Breakfast: coffee with whipped cream on it, little dish of mixed dried cherries and sliced almonds, two little slices of toasted baguette with butter. I was instantly hungry again but oh well. It sounds like a good breakfast when I describe it.
Lunch: toasted hamburger bun with butter and jam (don't knock it till you've tried it; soft and pillowy, this can rival an English muffin in flavor); carrot and celery sticks; small dish of chocolate granola with milk.
Shopping (Safeway): beef jerky, salt, ice cream salt, Peets coffee (decaf), ice, 2 large containers of Chobani Greek yogurt (1 strawberry, 1 honey), Dobie sponges, 3 pink grapefruit, ginger root, 2 bunches collard greens, organic bananas, 1 organic tomato, 2 organic yellow onions, 1 package cremini mushrooms, 2 packages oyster mushrooms, organic "poultry seasoning" herbs (fresh thyme, sage and rosemary), strawberries, Rondele garlic & herb soft cheese, flatbread crackers. $67. (Co-op): lemon juice, frozen peaches, 3 packages pea shoots. $19.
Dinner: My husband and I had been planning to go to the movies, but canceled our plan because he was sick with this still-unresolved sinus infection. So we ordered in Domino's: 2 medium pizzas, one with spinach and mushroom, the other with mushroom and tomato. And binge-watched The Amazing Race, season 5, with my daughter.
Snacks: 3 other cups of coffee, 2 regular, 1 decaf, with half and half. Cup of Pero with half and half and honey. Small dish of maple granola with milk in the afternoon before yoga class, because I was starving. A Godiva milk chocolate bar after pizza (my mom sent us a box of Godiva bars for Valentine's Day). Godiva chocolate really is good: even the plain milk chocolate was perfectly wonderful.
Feb. 24
Breakfast (before work): Leftover pizza, one slice spinach-and-mushroom, one slice mushroom-and-tomato; celery sticks.
Lunch (after work at 2:30): small bowl of Cascadian Farm multigrain squares with milk; 3 Safeway Open Nature flatbread crackers with garlic & herb Rondele cheese; celery sticks.
Feb. 23
Breakfast: coffee with whipped cream on it, little dish of mixed dried cherries and sliced almonds, two little slices of toasted baguette with butter. I was instantly hungry again but oh well. It sounds like a good breakfast when I describe it.
Lunch: toasted hamburger bun with butter and jam (don't knock it till you've tried it; soft and pillowy, this can rival an English muffin in flavor); carrot and celery sticks; small dish of chocolate granola with milk.
Shopping (Safeway): beef jerky, salt, ice cream salt, Peets coffee (decaf), ice, 2 large containers of Chobani Greek yogurt (1 strawberry, 1 honey), Dobie sponges, 3 pink grapefruit, ginger root, 2 bunches collard greens, organic bananas, 1 organic tomato, 2 organic yellow onions, 1 package cremini mushrooms, 2 packages oyster mushrooms, organic "poultry seasoning" herbs (fresh thyme, sage and rosemary), strawberries, Rondele garlic & herb soft cheese, flatbread crackers. $67. (Co-op): lemon juice, frozen peaches, 3 packages pea shoots. $19.
Dinner: My husband and I had been planning to go to the movies, but canceled our plan because he was sick with this still-unresolved sinus infection. So we ordered in Domino's: 2 medium pizzas, one with spinach and mushroom, the other with mushroom and tomato. And binge-watched The Amazing Race, season 5, with my daughter.
Snacks: 3 other cups of coffee, 2 regular, 1 decaf, with half and half. Cup of Pero with half and half and honey. Small dish of maple granola with milk in the afternoon before yoga class, because I was starving. A Godiva milk chocolate bar after pizza (my mom sent us a box of Godiva bars for Valentine's Day). Godiva chocolate really is good: even the plain milk chocolate was perfectly wonderful.
Feb. 24
Breakfast (before work): Leftover pizza, one slice spinach-and-mushroom, one slice mushroom-and-tomato; celery sticks.
Lunch (after work at 2:30): small bowl of Cascadian Farm multigrain squares with milk; 3 Safeway Open Nature flatbread crackers with garlic & herb Rondele cheese; celery sticks.
Before cooking dinner, I made Smitten Kitchen's Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp Bars, except that I wasn't able to get any rhubarb in February, so they were strawberry-frozen peach crisp bars. Except also, as comments and updates on Perelman's blog post should have warned me, they were not crisp, but fairly soft and chewy. And not terribly sweet. (I did not reduce the amount of sugar when switching from rhubarb to peaches, as I'd intended, because the recipe called for only 1 T. of sugar added to the fruit. I did increase the lemon juice to 2 T. to add tartness.) I'm not saying they were bad; only that I would not bother to make them again, and they are not up to Deb's usual standard of baking wowza!.
Dinner: poached eggs on toasted buttered baguette slices, with sauteed oyster and cremini mushrooms cooked according to instructions in the October issue of Bon Appetit, and Stir-Fried Snow Pea Shoots from Madhur Jaffrey. My daughter called this "quite an intense meal." I guess so, if really concentrated nutritional value and flavor (mushrooms cooked down to amazing richness, vast quantities of young nutritious pea shoots cooked down to side-dish size, perfect! poached eggs) are intense. I felt good about it. She didn't eat her pea shoots or her second egg. At least she likes mushrooms again, thank God.
Dessert: two strawberry-peach bars, eaten while watching The Amazing Race together.
Snacks: 5 cups of coffee, 3 regular, 2 decaf, with half and half, and one with whipped cream on top. I had the extra cup of coffee because I developed sudden abdominal pain in the late afternoon, lay down, fell asleep, and then needed something to wake me up when I reemerged from this random incident at about 5:15. Glass of sherry after dinner.
Snacks: 5 cups of coffee, 3 regular, 2 decaf, with half and half, and one with whipped cream on top. I had the extra cup of coffee because I developed sudden abdominal pain in the late afternoon, lay down, fell asleep, and then needed something to wake me up when I reemerged from this random incident at about 5:15. Glass of sherry after dinner.