Thursday, February 28, 2019

Slow cooker soup





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What worked for me yesterday was making a vegetable soup in the slow cooker in the early morning and then eating it all day. Not having  to prep each meal seemed to keep me from eating too much. I'll try that again.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Lemon drink, coffee and almond milk. Mushrooms and onions, tomato, avocado half.

Saturday, February 23, 2019

DAY 154

Winding down on this project. I will mention interesting facts on food as I find them. I had planned 150 days but went a bit further.

Friday, February 22, 2019

DAY 153

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast: Avocado and tomato on skinny bread.

Thursday, February 21, 2019

DAY 152

Lemon drink. Coffee and almond milk.
Breakfast: English muffins avocado and tomato.
Lunch: Iranian recipe from Grandview. Onion, potato, tomato paste, curry and salt and pepper. Sautéed . Really yummy.
Dinner: chicken, tomato and cucumber

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

DAY 151

Lemon drink and coffee with almond milk.
I will eat raw veg and soup today. Soup alone makes me eat other things. So...I will try crunchy veg today for breakfast and soup for lunch...
Lunch: Veg soup and gluten-free bagel with butter
Dinner: Soup and bagel and figs.

Breakfast




Tuesday, February 19, 2019

DAY 150

Lemon drink and coffee/almond milk.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner: soup, soup, soup.
Also 1 tomato, multiple figs and popcorn.

Monday, February 18, 2019

DAY 149

Ate so much, so wrong since last food posting (while I visited CA) that I must do something to get back on track.

Breakfast: Veg broth.
Mid. Soup
Lunch: Soup
Mid: Soup
Dinner: Soup
After: bread and butter. I also ate figs all day.
I'll do better tomorrow.

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Saturday, February 9, 2019

DAY 140

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast: carrots. apple with  cinnamon, cucumber, walnuts, tomato.
Figs, walnuts, apple, celery with hummus. cake.


Friday, February 8, 2019

DAY 139

Lemon drink and coffee/almond milk.
Breakfast: tomato, cucumber, apple, carrots, basil. Sautéed onion, mushrooms, mixed peppers, nutritional yeast, chia, Napa cabbage, ginger, garlic.
Dinner: Drive thru meal. Pure poison to my body. I haven't done such a thing in a long time. I don't know what possessed me.
Orange, figs, walnuts

Thursday, February 7, 2019

DAY 138

Lemon drink, coffee and almond milk.
Breakfast: Onion, mushrooms, mixed peppers, Napa cabbage, sesame seeds, sage, basil, fish oil, nutritional yeast and sunflower seeds.
Mid morning: orange
Lunch: chicken broth with broccoli and gluten free pasta, nutritional yeast, turmeric, black pepper.
Dinner, chickpeas, left-over beef stew.


Wednesday, February 6, 2019

DAY 137

Lemon drink, coffee and almond milk.
Breakfast: Orange.
Sautéed onion, mushroom, mixed peppers, garlic and basil. Raw: carrots, celery and cucumber.
Lunch: avocado, apple with cinnamon, ranch dressing, tomato, almonds.
Celery and carrots with hummus.  Too many almonds, too much hummus.
Dinner: Jess and me at PT Noodle.



Tuesday, February 5, 2019

DAY 136

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast: mushrooms, mixed peppers, celery, carrots, cucumbers, basil.
Lunch: apple
Dinner: carrots, celery with homemade almond butter, cucumber, avocado, ranch dressing (copious amounts), tomato.




Monday, February 4, 2019

DAY 135

Lemon Drink, coffee and almond milk. Slowly getting back to normal.
Breakfast: orange and almonds.
Sautéed onions, mushrooms, mixed peppers, celery, tomato, hemp hearts.
Raw: carrots, celery, cucumber, tomato, almonds, basil.
Lunch: Avocado and tomato
Dinner Cucumber, apple with cinnamon, carrots.






Sunday, February 3, 2019

DAY 134

Lemon drink. Coffee and almond milk.

Breakfast: Orange, apple, walnuts.
Later: mushrooms, onions, basil, mixed peppers sautéed.
Raw: tomato, cucumber, carrots
Lunch: celery and hummus
Orange, apple, almonds




Saturday, February 2, 2019

DAY 133

Coffee with almond milk. Lemon drink.


Will shop for healthy food today. I realize when I am down, I can't keep unhealthy food around. I'm not as strong as I thought I was, not when I get depressed and feeling unloved. When I am tired, I am worse. I am not able to do the things I did when I was younger. Very taxing on mind and body.
Breakfast: broccoli with ranch dressing.
Shopped. Bought organic apples, avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, oranges, herring...

Lunch:celery, tomato, herring, avocado.


Friday, February 1, 2019

DAY 132

Lost yesterday, Day 131. Did have my lemon drink, though.  Ate and drank with abandon. Long story. All in my head. Back on track.

Lemon drink, coffee and almond milk.
Last of the beef stew, chickpeas, drink, ranch dressing, popcorn. Horrible combination. I must be depressed or something. Thought I was back on track. :-)
Rest of day lost in a fog of unhealthy consumption. Feeling neglected.  ( I am, but what good does it do to give in to the negative.)

Must. get. back. on. track.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Day 130

Lemon drink and coffee with almond milk
Breakfast: tomato, celery, carrots, cucumber, avocado, sage, basil, cilantro
Mid-morning: poached eggs (2) on a bed of avocado with garlic
Blueberries and walnuts.
Beef stew, salad, yogurt parfait with Joe and Tracie. also, margarita.


Tuesday, January 29, 2019

DAY 129

Lemon drink and coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast: egg, avocado, tomato, basil, carrots.
Lunch: Sweet potato, cucumber, with avocado, tomato, lime, garlic sauce
with carrots on the side.
2 bananas, cacao, maple syrup
corn bread, Jiffy. taste test





Monday, January 28, 2019

DAY 128

Lemon water (two- I don't feel that well, so I think I need two), coffee and almond milk.
Breakfast: kiwi, stuffed portabellas with sweet potato and chickpea, herbs, spinach. I did not like this recipe. Won't make it again.
Lunch: popcorn. Avocado.
Dinner: (Salt with Jill and Duane) Ceasar salad and water
Small red wine when I got home.



Sunday, January 27, 2019

DAY 127

Lemon drink, coffee/almond milk.
Breakfast: Sautéed  tempeh, onion, mixed peppers, sage, basil, mushrooms, hemp hearts and chia.
Raw: carrots and blueberries
From then on, never mind. I went off the rails. Back on tomorrow. Seems this happens when I have things planned and don't know how to prepare or have the energy to pull things off. Must plan less, I guess. I am getting up there in age. I keep forgetting that fact.

Saturday, January 26, 2019

DAY 126

Lemon drink and coffee/almond milk
Breakfast: Carrots, kiwi, sautéed mushrooms with spinach and herbs. Carrots.
Lunch: Large romaine, carrot salad with chickpeas and oil and ACV.
Apple half
Mid afternoon: walnuts, apple half and herbal tea.
Dinner: vegan stew and small hash brown potato.


Friday, January 25, 2019

DAY 125

Lemon drink and coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast: sautéed onion, tempeh, sd tomato, basil, sage, spinach. Raw carrots,
apple.
All day: GF corn bread and butter. WHAT?
Before bed: apple.

Thursday, January 24, 2019

DAY 124

Lemon drink, coffee and almond milk.
Breakfast: apple with cinnamon, kiwi, peppermint basil.
1 egg, mushrooms, spinach, basil.
Lunch: Huge mixed salad
Dinner: stews, apple, kiwi and walnuts
herbal tea






Wednesday, January 23, 2019

DAY 123

Lemon drink, coffee and almond milk. 3 cups
Breakfast: 2 egg omelet with mushrooms, kiwi. raw sweet potato with cucumber and avocado, tomato, garlic. lime dressing.
Lunch: same as breakfast (sweet potato cucumber...)
apple
mid afternoon: kiwi and walnuts
Dinner: various beef stews I made.
carrots, celery, cucumbers and hummus.


Tuesday, January 22, 2019

DAY 122 .

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk.
I think I'll back to normal. I don't know what caused me to go off on my binge, but I think it is over. Disappointment in people, perhaps. Lame excuse...maybe. Anyway...
Breakfast: HUGE salad with romaine, cucumbers, tomato, nutritional yeast, EVO and ACV.
Kiwi, apple with cinnamon.
Lunch: apple with cinnamon, celery, cucumber, carrots.
Dinner: hummus, carrots, celery, cucumber.
After dinner: figs


Lunch


Mid-afternoon snack.


Monday, January 21, 2019

DAY 121

Lemon drink and coffee with almond milk.
Got up too early and finished eating the slices of breast meat.
At 5:30 I had 2 gluten-free bagels with avocado.
Figs, walnuts, popcorn with butter.
Something triggered this slide into old habits. I think it's over now.
Dinner:
vegan stew, bagel, large romaine salad, spinach, cucumber, onion, walnut oil, nutritional yeast,  basil.



Sunday, January 20, 2019

DAY 120

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk
Breakfast early: avocado, celery, cucumber
Later: 1/2 apple, kiwi, carrots
Mid morning: 2 Gluten-free bagels with avocado and olive oil. Coffee/almond milk.
Lunch onward: shopped and sampled 3 different types of stews I was making. Simple beef and vegetables, beef burgundy and vegan. I also finished to wine I was using for cooking. It gave me leg cramps. Note: I haven't felt well since I introduced the meat back into my diet.





Saturday, January 19, 2019

DAY 119.

Lemon drink and coffee with almond milk.
Ate breakfast way too early.
Breakfast: Cucumber, apple, avocado.
Second breakfast later: chicken breast.
Walnuts and figs. Herbal tea
Grazed. Also chicken and herring
kiwi, walnuts, figs and herbal tea

Friday, January 18, 2019

DAY 118.

Lemon drink, coffee and almond milk.
Breakfast: onion, tempeh, potato, spinach, Roxanne herbs, rosemary, sweet potato and SD tomato.
Meat: herring, roasted chicken, small piece of beef.
Coffee, figs and walnuts




Thursday, January 17, 2019

DAY 117

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast: Sautéed tempeh, potato, onion, basil (Roxanne), rosemary, sage (Roxanne), spinach.
Red grapes.
Lunch: spinach salad, celery, onions, sd tomatoes, basil, rosemary, nutritional yeast, sweet potato.
walnuts/figs/ herbal tea
Dinner: Grapes, banana and celery







Wednesday, January 16, 2019

DAY 116

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk
Breakfast: hot cereal with blueberries, hemp, chia, cinnamon and almond milk.
Lunch: Chef salad with evo and acv.
Dinner: Figs, celery, grapes, almonds.

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

DAY 115.

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk
Breakfast: Mixed grain oatmeal with blueberries, cinnamon and almond milk.
Lunch: Sautéed tempeh, onion, broccoli, nutritional yeast, fish sauce, sun dried tomatoes
popcorn
walnuts with maple syrup, herbal tea.





Monday, January 14, 2019

DAY 114..

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast: Mixed grain oatmeal, blueberries, cinnamon, hemp hearts, almond milk.
Lunch: carrots and hummus
Dinner: Chicken broth soup, quinoa noodles, spinach and tempeh, nutritional yeast.





Sunday, January 13, 2019

DAY 113 .

Lemon drink, coffee with almond milk.
Breakfast 4am: Mixed grain cereal, cinnamon, quinoa, blueberries, almond milk.
at 9:30:sautéed onions, mushrooms, tempeh, carrots, basil, rosemary, curry, fish sauce.
Lunch: Broccoli and quinoa noodles.
Herbal tea and dark chocolate.
Dinner: Raw carrots and hummus (black beans: looks unappetizing made with black beans but it is so good.)