Vitamin C Anyone?

I think this might turn into a full blown cold – I’ve got the runny nose and sore muscles now

I’ll spare you the details and get right to the food part… I ate a bunch of times today!

Lunch was a cup of noodle soup, of the store-bought variety. Not the healthiest, but easy and satisfying. I love noodles so this was right up my alley!

Mid afternoon snack was some mango and a pink orange. Looks like grapefruit but tastes like orange – the best of both worlds in my opinion! I thought it would look pretty in a glass:

Supper was HappyHerbivore’s Red Lentil Dal, made with green lentils because that’s what I had. It was yummy served with some rice and a dollop of plain yogurt. I started to eat before I realized that I hadn’t (a) taken a photo or (b) added the yogurt, so the photo’s a bit messy!

Evening snack is a “chickpea cutlet” made with the last of my adzuki beans and some okra. Two comments here… First, I really would have liked to find my potato masher because I couldn’t get the beans mashed with my fork, so the cutlets are a bit crumbly. Second, I’ve never had okra before so I was happy to try something new I cut up the cutlet and sautéed it with the okra.

Now I’m going back to the books and will likely need another snack to make it through the rest of my studying – maybe more fruit?

Yawn

Sociology reading is so boring! While I was reading, I tried mixing some squash puree with my yogurt, to simulate the pumpkin yogurt idea that’s been floating around lately. I have a confession: although I’ve never tried pumpkin, I have always believed it is yucky! Now, there’s no reason for this since I like other types of squash, so I will make it my new mission to try pumpkin sometime!

Back on topic, this was not too bad. It did increase the volume of my yogurt, but I didn’t puree the squash enough, so there were lumps. I don’t know that I’d do this again, but ya never know!

Sorry for the ugly plastic, it’s time to wash dishes soon!

Lunch was my last chickpea cutlet, along with some brown rice and steamed spinach. I added some barbecue sauce to my cutlet (yum) and some plain yogurt to my rice (also yum!).

It’s another gorgeous day outside with a forcasted high of 16 Celsius. I should try to get outside later, but that means I have to speed through the rest of my reading, so I better get at it

Sleep tight

I’m off to bed after my second last super long day! I’m definitely ready to crash and I hope I fall asleep right away!

As I thought, I got really hungry at around 3PM. I made my free soup, which was really yummy – Butternut Squash by Gardennay. It’s not the absolute best choice with cream, sugar and butter on the list of ingredients, but it was perfect for a quick light meal/snack. I dipped a few wedges od tortilla in it just to have something on the side.

Dinner was some brown rice, some chopped peppers and a chickpea cutlet. Pretty simple and plain, but still healthy considering I ate my planned dinner last night! Unfortunately, in my sleepy state, I just deleted the photo instead of inserting it into the post And, to top it off, I had already deleted it from my camera as I just did a clean-up.

Finally, on my way home I stopped at the grocery store – no post about that though because I only bought veggies and fruit (moving soon so cleaning out the pantry) and one amazing find – So Delicious Chocolate Peanut Butter “ice cream”!

Phew! I didn’t hit delete this time! I’ve been reading about this on Kath’s blog and I didn’t think it was available around here, but I found it and I had to have it. At least, I think it’s the same thing and if not, it’s still a peanut buttery chocolatey yummy desert

Now, off to bed before I do any more stupid things

Double Trouble!

So I picked up some more tortillas the other day because I was enjoying my wrap craze so much. I don’t know what came over me, but I decided to get the small ones. Let me tell you, these bring on some major wrap explosions! Luckily I managed to keep it under control, but it was tough for a while there

My solution? Two wraps, each filled with half a chickpea cutlet and spinach. The first one also had cucumber slices (which I forgot in the second)

The second had cheese (which I forgot in the first).

I guess all together I ended up with all the fillings that I wanted! I heated the rolled up wraps in the frying pan for a couple of minutes so they got a bit crispy on the sides.

It’s still only 7 degrees out, so I don’t know if we’ll make it to the forecasted 14, but it’s still way too gorgeous to stay inside!

An early night

I had a meal full of firsts tonight I made those famous chickpea cutlets I’ve read so much about. I’m the type of person that once I start thinking about something I can’t stop until I’ve satisfied my curiosity. These are good but I should have made a sauce or something to go with them.

In the side, I had brussels sprouts (recipe) and roasted acorn squash. The squash was very yummy but are brussels sprouts always so bitter? I think they might have been past their prime – they were far from going bad, but they were in my fridge for more than a couple of days. Here’s the full view:

I am so tired today, and it’s only Tuesday! I really hope I can get to sleep super early tonight. Maybe I’ll try to study – that should put me right to sleep