Day 26

Oatmeal, like coffee, only works two ways for me: It must be tooth-rottingly dessert sweet, or completely untouched by sugar in any form. This time I ate it with a little 1% milk and a bunch of cinnamon.

Pine nuts are so good. I love them. Love love love.

Made rice the way my dad used to when I was a kid. Basmati rice browned with a little smoked turkey sausage and a chopped red onion, then steamed with a bunch of broccoli and seasonings. It was awesome.

For dinner, I drank 1/3 of this chocolate malt. Good god, that's a lot of sugar! I gave the rest to hubby. I traded for a couple of his tater tots.

We went to the grocery store tonight, so I have a ton of fresh veggies and fruit in the house again. Yay, a break from constant carbs! I'd still KILL for a cup of coffee, though.

Day 25

Breakfast sandwiches are healthier if you make them yourself, right? Two eggs and a lean sausage patty on a whole wheat bun.

Oops, forgot lunch. Almonds to the rescue!

Late lunch was some veggie soup with navy beans and a slice of buttered toast.

Broiled seasoned chicken breast with jasmine rice, chopped tomato and more homemade tzatziki. I could eat this every damn day. x)

Day 24

Skipped breakfast again. When hubby brought hamburgers home for lunch, I didn't complain.

Made a simple cornbread and crab salad with yogurt-based dressing and tomatoes, cucumber, and feta cheese.

And... well, I really like gin. Extra lime, please.

I still miss coffee.

Day 23

Was a bit late for breakfast so I made a wrap and yogurt with blueberries and honey.

Bill made oatmeal later so I had a little of that, too...

Then I waited too long to make dinner and was hungry enough to heat up leftover shells from a few days ago. Sure doesn't look as appetizing as it did then, but it tasted good. What a terrible picture!

For dinner, homemade tzatziki (I made it with low-fat yogurt and light sour cream to make up for the olive oil) with greek-seasoned grilled chicken and tomatoes. There was steamed rice on the side but I didn't eat very much of it, since it was pretty superfluous. I was super-full even without eating the rice. I made the triangular flatbread myself from an old vegetarian cookbook. It was tasty while it was still hot/warm, not so much once it was cold, but only one piece lived to the cold stage so it all worked out.

Day 22

Egg and bacon frowny-face (hubby was being a turkey so I made it this way especially for him).

Then he shared his chocolate bar with me later, so he was mostly forgiven.

He loves barley in soup, maybe a little TOO much. I made this with a little leftover hamburger, veggies and some quick-cooking barley for lunch.

We DID have dinner, and I DID take a picture of it, but I deleted it from my camera thinking that I'd already sent it to myself. It was a venison stew with navy beans, vegetables and potatoes. I was pretty weirded out eating deer so I didn't eat very much of it. I made up for it by drinking a couple gin and tonics and pouring one out for Bambi's mom.

Day 21

(For the record, I only ate one of these)

Then I had enough scotch to make me silly.

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I got up early to read and mixed some plain yogurt with a spoonful of strawberry freezer jam and honey...

But then hubby woke up and made breakfast for everyone, so I ate that too. Two strips of bacon, a dozen "hash browns" (lawl, tots) and two eggs rather marginally cooked. Not my fault this time.

Lunch: Vegetable beef soup with extra peas, half a tuna on rye with a slice of cheese and some lettuce, and baby dills.

Then I read some more and ate a candy. My husband is not one to forgo the buying of sweets just because I'm trying to eat better, which is unfortunate and very tempting when he brings home stuff like this. Sometimes I do better than others.

Dinner: Beef pot roast with onion, carrot, and green beans over rice.

And later, while on a marathon run of Bones on Netflix, a glass of Johnnie Walker and some jalapeno flavored tortilla chips. They didn't really go together so I drank first and ate later. ;)

Day 17

Breakfast: Leftover peanut chicken (yum).

Lunch: Romaine, tomatoes, carrots, chickpeas and balsamic dressing. And a leftover spring roll. Which, well, looks an awful lot like a... Oh hey, what's that? Over there behind you?

Hmm, musta just been a shadow. Anyway, I had a glass of reisling before dinner.

Then I had a bowl of beef sauteed with mushrooms and onions in a soup-based sauce, served with shell pasta. Then I had seconds.

Day 16: Mmm, Takeout

Okay! Back to actual logging of food.

The "oops-I-forgot-breakfast" snack of pine nuts, right out of the bag. Yum.

Why are they so good? They're creamy and sweet and crisp, I guess that's why.

Then a sandwich happened! Slow-cooked BBQ chicken, on plain ol' wheat bread. Baked chips and fruit cocktail on the side. I don't think I'll buy an industrial sized can of fruit again without a real good reason!

Then... we ordered takeout. Om nom.

Three dumplings with sauce:

Peanut chicken. It is not good for you. It is delicious. It is a shame. Crisp chicken breast smothered in a sweet peanutbutter-based sauce with sesame seed garnish. Also a spring roll on the side.

A few hours later I had a little of hubby's kung pao chicken. It had a ton of celery and was served with fried rice.

Day 15: Ultimate Slacker

This is the only food pic I took today. Breakfast was leftover cabbage soup with buttered rye toast. It was delicious.

Day 14

I didn't take pictures of everything. It was one of those couch-sitting snacky days, I guess. I ate a lot of soup and toast! x)

Skipped breakfast, ate a nice big salad for lunch. Romaine, tomatoes, chickpeas, a little smoked salmon, some garlic croutons I found leftover from when my parents were visiting, and a little sprinkle of salted sunflower seeds with mom's balsamic dressing.

Dinner: Cabbage soup made with smoked turkey sausage, mini shell pasta and onion sauteed with bacon. It made a boatload of soup!

I'm sure there was an ice cream bar for dessert among other things. I didn't feel much like bothering with the camera for them though.