Before I grovel at your collective feet for forgiveness, please accept this picture of a cupcake I made last week as a peace offering. A token of good will, if you will. Or even if you won’t.
Lemon Glazed Cupper - tangy.
I ate exactly one of those cupcakes. The rest were kindly disposed of (devoured) by The Brit.
Okay, so, I basically sucked at the whole posting every day thing last week. That’s mostly because I don’t think any of the food I’ve been making lately has been particularly interesting (except for the tester recipes, obvs). You see, recently I started logging everything I eat into a food journal. I’m on a quest to become healthier, and hopefully lose a little (lot) of my excess weight in the process. So, while I spend a lot of my day thinking about food, and planning food, and even eating food, I’m afraid it will bore the ever-loving shit out of people if I blog about it, too. Most of it is not what you might call culinarily adventurous.
This week though, I have a plan. I plan to not give a flying toss whether anyone deems my food interesting, and just blog it anyway. Every. Boring. Detail. Get ready people! This might be moderately tolerable!
Breakfast this morning was a smoothie. I love smoothies, but it’s starting to get too cool for them. Soon they’ll have to relinquish their spot among favorite breakfast items to something more befitting cold weather, like oatmeal. Until then though, I’m still enjoying the occasional smoothie when the mood strikes. My favorite combo of late has been strawberries, banana, soy milk (Silk Light) and a tablespoon of Dark Chocolate Dreams.
It wasn't blurry in real life.
A day just isn’t complete without a nice cuppa tea. Of course, if that’s true, I’ve had a lot of incomplete days lately. I’m pretty low on tea right now, but I’m making do with what I have. I actually had two cups today, but they both looked exactly the same so use your imagination, kay?
Lady Grey, if you must know.
Lunch was sandwiches (that’s right, plural! Two sandwiches!). They consisted of some leftover whole wheat buns that need using up, Yves Meatless Salami, Vegenaise and yellow mustard. On the side I had my first ever Honeycrisp apple. It was gigantic and amazing and perfect and I wanted to marry it but I ate it instead (there’s a dirty joke in there somewhere, but I’ll leave that up to you).
With, of course, the ubiquitous big glass of water.
Snack time! Homemade hummus with celery. I’m not usually a big celery eater but I had some leftover and figured I might as well eat it. Don’t you hate that you have to buy a whole mess o’celery when you only need a couple of stalks? Yeah, me too.
Hummus loves anything crunchy. Even celery.
Finally, for dinner, I made a modified version of my Tamarind Orange Tofu. I served it up with some long grain brown rice, steamed carrots and peas. Deeelish!
I got lazy cutting the tofu into little pieces. What?
And since I’m obsessed with nutritional stats, I’ll inflict them on you! You’re welcome! Hey, just count yourself lucky that I decided not to post nutrition for every meal like I was temped to do.
The percentages listed with fat, carbs and protein indicate what percent of total calories came from each. The percentages listed with everything else indicate what percentage of the Recommended Daily Allowance they equal. Saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium should be below 100%. The vitamins, minerals and fiber should meet or exceed 100%.
Daily total:
- Calories: 1455
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- Carbs: 234g (60%)
- Fat: 37.9g (22%)
- Protein: 70g (18%)
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- Saturated Fat: 4.4g (27%)
- Cholesterol: 0mg (0%)
- Sodium: 1759mg (76%)
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- Fiber: 42g (251%)
- Vitamin A: 2286µg (327%)
- Vitamin C: 134mg (178%)
- Calcium: 1159mg (116%)
- Iron: 20.4mg (113%)
Tags: a day in the life, cake, cupcakes, tofu, veganmofo 2009
I don’t think it’s boring at all… It’s nice to see what other people are eating on a daily basis; you kinda get to know people that way.
Yeahhh honey crisp apple! Your eats look amazing–and inspiring, for serious!
I love seeing what people eat on a typical day, that is why I do my Everyday Nums post. Your meals look fabulous, love that hummus!
I agree with The Voracious Vegan- it’s great to see what other people are eating and I wouldn’t mind that tofu dish of yours
I plan on doing a “daily eats” post too sometime during Vegan MoFo, although my food isn’t always interesting either. I guess that’s normal though. I mean, seriously, who eats fancy gourmet meals EVERY day?
I’m with ya ont he celery thing. I rarely buy it because it just goes to waste.
hey poopie:
your posts are just fine. i don’t think it matters how “exciting” the posts are, i think the purpose of MOFO is for everyone to see what everyone else does and get inspired. never underestimate the power of seeing what other people do, even if it “seems” plain–your ordinary is my extrordinary and vice versa.
xo jewy
Dude, I find this way interesting. I love seeing what people eat in a day…especially people I know. I feel like I know you even better now. I didn’t know you loved smoothies that much or that you’d never had a honeycrisp apple. Post stuff like this with your head held high, Poopie.
The cupcake looks deeeelicious! Damn that Brit for eating them all though. And I love your tamarind tofu.
I can’t wait to see ya on Friday…just 3 1/2 days til my birfday!!!
yummmy smoothie strawberry pb choc = loveeeeee
You may never have had a honeycrisp apple, but I had never even heard of them! See what just blogging about your daily stuff will do? BTW, I love your sense of humor and have been lurking/stalking you for a while, but only today decided to comment…