6 Week - Day 3

My Food:

Breakfast: Cabbage "hash" with mushrooms on a bed of baby spinach and topped with about a 1/2 cup or so of black beans cooked with mushrooms, onion, and greens.  I had about 1 cup of fruit salad and green tea with it.

Lunch: Breakfast salad

Dinner: Large dinner salad (plate of romaine topped with roasted chickpeas, cauliflower, raisins, and a few pecans with our Italian dressing; full plate of sautéed broccoli and green beans with cannellini bean balls topped with home made spaghetti sauce. 

Drank more cups of green tea than I can count all day today. So refreshing and kept me warm. :)

My Thoughts:

What a fab day! I ate so well and I felt so full with every meal.  I was excited to have something new to try for breakfast. I need to work at adjusting the seasonings a bit, but it was a good start.  I altered the recipe found here by skipping the oil and using veg broth in place of white wine.  I also had to use lime juice in place of lemons and I used cabbage in place of Brussels sprouts. I added onion powder and also a few mushrooms.  So, it was a decent stretch of the recipe, but, like I said, a good start.  I want to try again tomorrow with using less lime juice and playing with the seasonings some more.

 

My 11yo daughter was ambitious and built a lovely brunch for us this morning.  She heated up buckwheat blueberry pancakes from the freezer, g-bombed some black beans, made baked hash browns from scratch, an a fruit salad with oats.  It all looked and smelled amazing. It was very hard to resist the hash browns, which are a personal favorite of mine.  I had a couple of bites of pancake but otherwise filled up on my cabbage bowl and was quite satisfied. Still, I'm super proud of my girly and all she's learning and doing to help serve healthy meals to her family.

Drinking that green tea was awesome.  I was so happy to have something hot and comforting in my hands that I knew was so good for me.  It made every sip that much more enjoyable.  It also kept me hydrated which I've been lacking lately.  Hey, waddya know? I just realized I haven't dealt with a headache all day. Nice!

I got in a short walk to the library and back today. I do need to figure out how to start getting exercise into my day too. For now, I'm going to be thankful for the fresh air and not start getting all guilty about that. 

Dinner was great. The family all enjoyed the meal. The children had their bean balls and sauce over whole wheat spaghetti noodles with the cooked veggies on the side.  I loaded up my plate so much, I felt so.very.stuffed by the end of my meal.  I didn't have any fruit for dessert like I had planned. Too full and now too tired to bother.  But I am enjoying my fancy apricot green tea that I bought this summer at a lovely tea shop while visiting my mom in Wisconsin.  It's nice to have a way to treat myself after a day well done. :)

Looking Ahead:

I'll be working on that cabbage hash recipe some more tomorrow.  I've got a very full day so I'm not sure about how much else will get done in the kitchen.  I do know that it's Tuesday which means a pot of lentils will be simmering for lunch. Yum.