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A day in the life: day 2

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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Hello again! Time again for me to post everything I ate today, in excruciating detail. First up, breakfast! Grape Nuts, banana and soy milk. Sounds blah, but it’s actually one of my favorites. Don’t judge.

Grape Nuts, banana and soy milk.

Grape Nuts, banana and soy milk. Better than it sounds.

I ate breakfast on the patio, but just as I was finishing it started sprinkling. Not five minutes after I went back inside, the sky opened up and started pissing it down, and it hasn’t stopped all day. Cold and rainy always makes me want soup, so thank goodness I had some in the freezer for just such an occasion. Last week I made another Isa tester, Lotsa Veggie Lentil Soup. It made quite a lot, so I kept a few servings out for lunches last week, and froze the rest in individual portions for another time. Such as today. Thankfully, I had some cornbread muffins in the freezer as well. Instant comfort meal.

Lotsa Veggie Lentil Soup and cornbread muffins. Yum.

Lotsa Veggie Lentil Soup and cornbread muffins. Comforty.

Snack time! I couldn’t resist another Honeycrisp apple. Check out the size of it!

Hello, gigantic Honeycrisp. I love you.

Hello, gigantic Honeycrisp. I love you.

I ate it with a slice of Ezekiel 4:9 Low Sodium Sprouted Grain Bread spread with a tablespoon of Mighty Maple Peanut Butter.

Seriously, how adorable is my place mat?

Seriously, how adorable is my place mat?

Dinner was pizza. I made a nice, thin whole wheat crust, which cooked up so perfectly crispy on my pizza stone, I can’t accurately communicate the level of perfection reached without resorting to guttural noises. I topped it with pizza sauce, onion, green bell pepper, roasted red pepper, tofu ricotta and spinach.

You can't see my perfectly crispy crust, but it's there.

You can't see my perfectly crisp crust, but it's there.

At the end of the day, I wanted something sweet. I don’t usually indulge in dessert, but today I decided to throw caution to the wind and go for it. I decided on some Purely Decadent Cherry Nirvana with banana, walnuts and chocolate syrup.

Cover anything with bananas and chocolate syrup, and I'll eat it.

Cover anything with bananas and chocolate syrup, and I'll eat it.

And of course, the nutritional stats. I did end up having to take a calcium supplement, since I opted for dessert and not something a little more nutritionally sound, but it was so worth it.

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: 1663

  • Carbs: 283g (63%)
  • Fat: 46.7g (23%)
  • Protein: 62g (14%)

  • Saturated Fat: 7.9g (43%)
  • Cholesterol: 0mg (0%)
  • Sodium: 1654mg (72%)

  • Fiber: 50g (261%)
  • Vitamin A: 1090µg (156%)
  • Vitamin C: 124mg (165%)
  • Calcium: 1124mg (112%)
  • Iron: 21.6mg (120%)

A day in the life: day 1

Monday, October 12th, 2009

veganmofo-iii

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

  • Carbs: 234g (60%)
  • Fat: 37.9g (22%)
  • Protein: 70g (18%)

  • Saturated Fat: 4.4g (27%)
  • Cholesterol: 0mg (0%)
  • Sodium: 1759mg (76%)

  • Fiber: 42g (251%)
  • Vitamin A: 2286µg (327%)
  • Vitamin C: 134mg (178%)
  • Calcium: 1159mg (116%)
  • Iron: 20.4mg (113%)