Happy Halloween Everybody!

Oh what a fun Halloween it's been.

We carved pumkins. We dressed like punk rockers. I mean, who hasn't wanted to be a punk rocker at some point in their life? It was fun!

Food Diary, October 31st

Happy Halloween!

Breakfast:
Fruit salad with pineapple, apples, blueberries and mandarins
whole wheat toast with cashew butter

Lunch:
A giant green salad with cashew caesar dressing
One teeny, tiny slice of veggie pizza

Snack:
One rum ball at all-employee birthday dessert day. Oh what the heck. It's halloween!

Dinner:
Hummus with baked corn chips
Black bean soup

Brussels sprouts with basil and garlic, from Fat Free Vegan. This was my first attempt - ever - at cooking brussels sprouts. They were wonderful!

I love Whole Foods Market

WOW. I got to go grocery shopping today at Whole Foods Market. What a wonderful place! I won't give you the entire list of things that I bought, but here are the things I that I picked up that are not available at my local grocery stores:

Lara Bars (I've never tried these. YUM!)
Red Lentils
French Green Lentils
Chana Dal
Yellow Split Peas
Adzuki Beans
Goji Berries
Baby Bok Choi
Patty Pan Squash
Broccoli Rab
Broccolini
Chicken Chorizo
Jalapeno Hummus
100% Whole Wheat French Bread

Did I mention that I LOVE Whole Foods Market?

Food Diary, October 29

This was not exactly a good day, food-wise. This was what I would call a JUNK day. But you know what? Even at that rate, it was better than 99% of my pre-ETL food days! I still consider this progress!

Here's the problem: Sunday is family breakfast day at my MIL's. She cooks what she wants and we eat it. And she's very concerned about me since I've been sick with this cold all week, and she's convinced that what I need is to stop eating just fruits and veggies and eat some REAL food. I have had a long week and I'm tired and I just didn't feel like arguing about it, so I ate breakfast.

Breakfast:
Eggo waffle (plain!)
Fruit salad with blueberries, mango, pineapple, apple and mandarin (I brought this)
Coffee with soy milk and Carolan's
What I didn't eat: bacon and eggs

Lunch:
Guiltless Gourmet baked torilla chips and jalapeno hummus
Roasted red pepper and tomato soup
More coffee and soy milk
My first ever Lara bar. WOW.
Portland French Bakery 100% whole wheat bread

Dinner:
Green salad
Black bean soup
One bite of carrot cake
A fun size snicker's bar

Do I HAVE to get in the bath?

(Yes Maisy, you do.)

ETL T-Shirt Idea

This is pretty goofy, but I've always liked H = N/C.

So why not put it on a t-shirt?

Food Diary, October 28th

Today was the annual Children's Fair in St. Helens. I manned the company booth all day and lost my voice doing presentations. It was fun.

Food wise, not too bad. Still haven't been to the grocery so I'm running short on vegetables. I did plan ahead well enough to pack my own lunch, which was a good thing: the only thing they had to offer at the fair was hot dogs, carrot cake and popcorn. (Oh, and TONS of candy.)

Breakfast:
Fruit salad with fresh pineapple, banana, orange and apple
A soy milk latte on the way to the children's fair

Lunch:
Carrots, celery and cucumber with hummus
A little bit more pineapple
A handful of walnuts

Dinner:
Hot and sour spicy vegetable soup with beef at Kuy's
A rice paper vegetable roll
Some hot tea
I passed on the fortune cookie (first time for everything!) and had a coconut date roll at home instead.

Water: four or five glasses
The scale was down a pound this morning!