by eatingbirdfood on May 21, 2009
Today has been blah. I woke up this morning and was instantly put in a bad mood because my stomach hurt REALLY bad, my knee was still swollen, and on top of it all, I thought I had gotten poison ivy from Isaac. Later I found out that despite what I’ve believed all my life poison ivy isn’t actually contagious and his itchy spots aren’t actually poison ivy anyhow…. it’s gross and I don’t want to talk about it.
In other bad news my stomach never stopped hurting, I had chills all day and THAT feeling you get right before your going to get sick kept reoccurring, but I didn’t actually ever toss my cookies (I don’t really use this term but I thought it would be funny, am I right?) Things still weren’t good in the bathroom though (I’ll leave it at that). I don’t know what could be the reason- I didn’t really eat anything out of ordinary and I don’t really feel sick otherwise. But eating was sparse today because I didn’t have much of an appetite.
Around 8 I ended up really wanting something for dinner so I made some spring rolls with shrimp.
Each rice paper wrap has 2 shrimp, rice noddles, carrots, avocado, fresh basil, and romaine tucked inside. The fresh basil made the wrap! I know the sauce in the blue bowl looks like dirty water, but really it was tamari and better n pb mixed together for a dipping sauce. I love spring rolls – I usually have everything on hand, because you can seriously throw anything into these wraps and they’re so quick and easy. I should totally make them more often. (mental note to self).
Sorry this post is such a downer… it’s basically my day in a rotten nutshell. Although, the spring rolls turned out excellently so there were some unrotten nuts in the mix.
Hopefully my next post will be chipper!!
by eatingbirdfood on May 20, 2009
Today went by really quickly at work because things were busy. At lunch I ran by the post office and ran home. I only had time to prep my salad so I decided just to take it back to the office and eat at my desk- which apparently is the worst idea germ wise.
The desk, in terms of bacteria, is 400 times more dirty than your toilet,” says Charles Gerba, PhD, a professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “People turn their desks into bacteria cafeterias because they eat at them, but they never clean them. The phone is the dirtiest, the desktop is next, and the mouse and the computer follow.”
(click the quote to read more reasons why you shouldn’t eat at your desk)
I try to not to do it often because I like to move around after sitting all morning, but a girls gotta go what a girls gotta do. So I ate at my desk.
A delicious salad made with kale, red leaf and romaine lettuce (all freshly picked), sweet corn off the cob, raw okra, cherry tomatoes, 1/4 of an avocado, shrooms, and salsa. Really great combo and I loved the sweetness of the corn.
Mid afternoon I had some Virginia Salted Peanuts and a navel orange. After leaving work I headed to the other house (what I will, from now on out, call the house Isaac is house sitting). At the other house they have a strawberry garden… which I LOVE!! I picked this bowl of goodness and ate them throughout the day- the majority were eaten before dinner.
Very similar ingredients as lunch only I added some grated carrots and almond accents. The avocado is speckled with course sea salt and pepper.
And, don’t worry, I didn’t give up on cereal today. I ended up having some Honey Kix as a snack this evening.. out of a coffee cup. 
This post is quick and to the point because I am off to bed. zzzzz.
Brittany Mullins, HHC
