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?

Sleep at last!

Good morning!

Well, I finally got to sleep last night at a decent hour and I slept like a log. It was wonderful but I feel more tired this morning! I know this usually happens to me while I’m “catching up” though, so in a couple of days I will feel better if I keep sleeping well.

I had some banana oatmeal this morning. I’m taking advantage of the weather still being cool to enjoy a warm breakfast since I probably won’t be in the mood in a month or two.

A few weeks ago I did a breakfast experiment. I know a lot of people like to eat a bigger breakfast and include more healthy fat and protein by adding nuts or nut butters, so I gave it a try. I wanted to really give this a chance, so my experiment lasted for a few weeks. The result? I prefer to eat a smaller breakfast and then a snack or early lunch a few hours later. I find that no matter what I eat, I’m hungry within 3 hours (unless I eat junk, then I’m hungry a lot sooner!) This applies to all my meals, not just breakfast. More proof that everyone is different I guess

I’m goung to post my lunch now too because it’s all packed up and ready to go. I don’t want to carry my camera around with me at school all day because I’m not all that careful (sometimes I drop my bag on the desk without thinking!) I don’t want a broken camera! It’s just leftovers from last night, nothing too exciting to see… but exciting to eat

See you at suppertime!

Big eyes!

That’s me! My eyes are bigger than my stomach, I mean.

For supper tonight, I made Scentilentil Journey from the Looneyspoons cookbook with Happy Herbivore’s Saag. I should say that I didn’t make it exactly as in the recipe and I didn’t puree the greens (didn’t want extra dishes to wash!) I am stuffed and there’s still about 3/4 of the rice left over, so I stuck it in the fridge for later. I know it’s really not photogenic, but this meal was so good. Here’s a close-up showing the mountain of rice:

I’m back! As promised, I ate the rest of my rice tonight. I made a microwave “rice pudding” by adding some milk, raisins sugar, cinnamon and vanilla to my rice, then nuking it on low for about 10 minutes. This was the perfect little sweet treat – healthy too because of the brown rice and very small amount of added sugar.