by eatingbirdfood on September 7, 2008
I was pretty excited about the fact that I everything I ate today is summed up in 5 photos.. only 5, I feel like this is such an accomplishment for me because I am a grazer – aka I snack all day- but today I only had one snack. This called for me featuring my oatmeal again. Here she is in all her glory… banana oats with toppings.
Lunch consisted of this spinach salad with tomatoes, avocado, carrots, cucs and cut up mozzarella string cheese.
And I decided to something really orignial with my left over pieces of tempeh and portobello (portobella… which is correct, I’ve seen both) mushrooms…. put them in a pita with a smear of hummus, spinach, tomato, and onion. I know not very original but it tasted really good. 
After lunch I had a few pieces of TJ’s Oat and Wheat Bran Swirls for a snack… its addicting so having one handful is quite an accomplishment. I actually went back to the cabinet to get another handful, got it out, sat down at my computer and thought I am full – I seriously shouldn’t eat this. So I took the second handful and put it back in the box. My hands were clean! 
I went to the gym after lunch, around the same time the guys arrived for football mania. Isaac was grilling out for them so he bought a portobello mushroom for me. I had a grilled portobello mushroom burger with tomato, onion, and some more of the mozzarella string cheese all nestled in-between the top and bottom of an Ezekiel English Muffin. On the side I had left over broccolini and CRISPY sweet potato fries… has anyone noticed it is really hard to make your own sweet potato fries crispy.. maybe it’s just me, but Alexia sure knows how to make her frozen fries crispy. So good!
Football has been on my tv from 1PM-10PM and it’s still on…. when is football going to be over again? Can you tell I am a big fan?
by eatingbirdfood on September 6, 2008
I didn’t do much of anything today – cleaned house, checked out blogs, looked up jobs and left the house twice- once to go to the gym and the next to go back to the grocery store. The first time I went by on my way home from the gym. I had picked up the few things I needed, scanned my items at the U-SCAN and then started looking through my purse only to realize I didn’t have my wallet! I had bought some concert tickets this morning online with my credit card so my whole wallet was sitting on my dining room table by my computer rather than in my purse. I had to tell the supervisor that I couldn’t purchase the items because I had left my wallet at home… embarrassing. So when I went to the grocery store the second time around.. I went to a different one, just in case the same people were still working.
For breakfast I had the norm of banana oats. No picture – they looked the same as usual though. With granola and flax and a side of PB.
For lunch I had 1/2 a whole wheat pita stuffed with red onion, 1/4 of an avocado, and 2 slices of tomato. It was really tasty. On the side I had a bowl of edamamae and a sliced peach. I love edamamae – it’s so fun to eat and always reminds me of sushi.
A little later in the afternoon, after my unsuccessful grocery store trip I had a snack of some granola.
Then I had another snack- the Apple flavored z-bar. It tasted appley, cinnamony and had chunks of apples but I wasn’t too impressed – I think apple is my least favorite out of all the flavors. Don’t get me wrong, I still ate it, but I probably won’t buy it again.
And lastly onto my Tempeh at home cooking trial: I successfully tackled cooking tempeh at home and I was pleasantly pleased with the taste. I owe my great experience this recipe, but I changed it up a bit – mainly because I didn’t have some of the ingredients.
I used the marinade given in the recipe and let my tempeh sit for about 45 minutes. Because Isaac wasn’t home and I’m not a grill master I used our electric griddle to cook up the portobello mushroom and the tempeh. I served it over quinoa and had some broccolini on the side. I really like the sweetness of the marinade from the maple syrup and the tempeh turned out to be perfect…..It didn’t have a bitter aftertaste and was quite delicious. And, I have some leftovers for another meal tomorrow.. maybe a tempeh pita, or sandwich.
Brittany Mullins, HHC
