What I Ate Today

2006-11-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

Remember when I used to update this blog?

Here's what I ate today - for old times' sake:

Morning:
-red pepper
-green tea
-eggs

Lunch:
-salad with lettuce mix, cucumber, green pepper, tomato, broccoli, purple cabbage, egg, tuna, feta, sunflower seeds, craisins

Dinner:
-yogurt w/ oat bran and raspberries
-avocado
-turkey burger

There it is, folks! If for some reason you have been checking back here every day looking for a new entry, then God help you and I am very sorry.

Oh, I have been getting a series of exertion headaches. They do not make me happy. That's about it I guess. Tune in next time for another exciting entry! Who knows when it may happen again!

2006-02-28T18:03:00.000-08:00

Also this one.

2006-02-25T18:37:00.000-08:00

I don't generally like to do this, but I found this non-food-related music video pretty fun today.

2006-02-25T11:37:00.000-08:00

Let me tell you a few things about Buenos Aires:

-Buenos Aires is a city in Argentina, South America
-It is a big city - like 12 million people
-The food is fantastic
-and cheap
-People don't have snacks, from what I can tell. They sit down and eat meals and then they get up and they do what they have to do. They don't mess around with eating stuff while walking. In fact, if you do that with anything besides ice cream, I don't think they like it very much
-The coffee is just amazingly good. It is all cafe con leche (like espresso with milk), but again, you have to sit there and drink it. You don't get stuff to go. You just don't.
-My girlfriend and I ate at some of the best restaurants we have ever been to. EVER. We live in a major east coast city that has some pretty nice restaurants, but in terms of food quality, decor, atmosphere, and service, the places in BA just blew everything else away, as far as I am concerned. All the pasta was hand-made. If you want to find fresh hand-made pasta in the US you are going to have to get yourself an Italian grandmother or something because no restaurant is going to do it for you, because they don't think you are worth it.
-Buenos Aires is really clean, with lots of nice big parks, and slender, good-looking people.
-There were no obviously drunken, crazy, ranting homeless people. With all the huge beautiful parks, they seem like they would be a natural place for people who like to yell stuff to no one in particular to hang out, but no. This may have been a function of the nice neighborhoods we were staying in, but it seemed consistent throughout the different areas of the city. I know that if any city in the US had parks like BA did, that they would be filled with people who slept there all day. Oh, and there was no trash in these parks. Did I mention that? It was like being in Canada or something.
-Some restaurants don't open until 9 pm. People do stuff late. All kinds of people walk their dogs at like 3 am on a Tuesday, yet everything is open in the morning. It's like a riddle.
-Buenos Aires is awesome.

So I'm back from there. I've been eating a bunch at the City Girl Cafe in Inman, and they have a good salad (spinach, onion, chicken, some kind of cheese) that I always get. While you're there, you can say hi to my good friend Beth, who told me to start this blog because she was sick of me telling her what I had eaten every day. They have good music, too.

Also in Inman is Montien, which is a good Thai place. It is very red inside. I had the most boring dish I possibly could have ordered, the chicken and broccoli, but it was good and I enjoyed it. I thought about getting chicken massaman curry but as I have said previously, that is special and to be saved for special occasions otherwise I will start down the slippery slope of becoming a shut-in who starts only wearing the same pants because they are "the ones I like".

2006-01-22T10:33:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a few projects recently that have turned out ok. Projects #1 is the mock mashed potatoes. Bascially you steam a head of cauliflower for about 15 and then mash it up in a food processor with a tbsp of butter and some garlic. It's a pretty convincing subsititute. Unfortunately in my zeal I put in enough garlic to bring tears to my eyes. I ate this yesterday and I can still taste the garlic. There are a lot of people out there who are all, "You can never have enough garlic!" I used too much garlic. I promise.

The other project is trying to eat more cabbage. Cabbage is good for you, and I eat a lot of vegetables, so I'm kind of looking for new vegetables and new ways to eat them. I bought a head of cabbage (which weighs about 3-5 pounds, it's pretty heavy), chopped it, and stir fried it with carrots, onion, garlic, and a peanut sauce I made out of omega-3 peanut butter and soy sauce. It's not bad, although I can imagine other people not loving this.

2006-01-03T12:17:00.000-08:00

So I don’t really update anymore. I’m sorry about that. Here are some things I ate last week while I was on vacation in my house:

Salmon w/ butter sauce
Hamburgers w/ extra lean beef
Turkeyburgers
French mix of beans with wax beans, green beans, carrots
Broccoli
Greens+ powder (this is sort of like a vegetable when I am feeling lazy)
Fish oil
A ton of mixed nuts. Too many, really. (Did you know that hazelnuts are sometimes called “philberts”? Now you do!)
Omega-3 Eggs w/ pesto, sour cream and salsa. This may not sound that appetizing, but really it’s good. Don’t judge me.
Really this was about it. Not too much variety

Oh, lots of holiday stuff, too. Xmas cookies are brutal. They just sit there all helpless and waiting for you and before you know it there are crumbs all over you and you snap out of it, dazed and greasy.

Ate at a few restaurants:

Massaman curry again at Spice and Rice in Inman Sq. I was really torn on this one. I’ve eaten at Spice and Rice before, and I had the massaman curry, so I felt like you know I should really try something else and test out their menu, but then I was like that massaman curry was so stupidly good that if I get something else and it is not as good then I will be disappointed and sad and angry at myself for not getting the massaman curry in the first place. So I just got what I had before. This is the reasoning that leads people to order the same foods over and over again until they are just scared to order anything else. I felt this was about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when I was young. I knew I liked peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, so why would I risk eating something else that I didn’t know about when I knew what I liked already? Generally this kind of reasoning does not produce a very interesting life for whoever lives by it, however, so I have tried to stay away from it. In the case of Spice and Rice, however, I was in a particularly fragile mental state for some reason and needed some kind of comfort food. Massaman curry was my port in the storm.

Texas chili at Redbones in Davis. This was a good bowl of chili with several large chunks of quality beef in it. I didn’t get the sense that they were just the scraps that they couldn’t serve without drowning them in a meaty broth; this was decent beef. Good and covered with cheese. It did cost like $7, however, which is a lot to pay for chili, so this is not like a great value or anything. Tasty, but you pay for it. It was ably washed down by a Bud Light.

Huh. Seemed like I ate out more last week. Oh well.

Today Morning:
-coffee (that's it. kind of in a hurry.)

Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ broccoli, tomatos, mushrooms, egg, turkey, tuna, feta, craisins, pineapple, and bacon with “oriental” dressing. This is the awesome salad that I eat at work every day. Sometimes it has green pepper in it.
-fish oil
-water. I drink upwards of 160 oz of water every day. That is just at work. It is really dry there.

Dinner:
I have no idea. If I know my patterns, probably some fish and vegetables. You never know when some spinach souffle might pop up, though. I'm feelin' a little frisky today.

2005-12-16T12:44:00.000-08:00

I am not very good at this these days. My apologies, blogging community. in payment for actually turning up to read this blog even though i have not updated in nearly a month, i will take jesse's suggestion to post my very first "what I listened to today." i will select a few songs that i listened to over the past 24 hours.

"addiction" - kanye west
this is a nice song that i think is about being addicted to things that are bad for you, and having a girlfriend who only really goes out with you because you have drugs or booze or something. i kind of forget but it's got a great beat, etc. the skits on his albums are actually pretty funny, too, which is nice. so many skits are terrible.

"i'll believe in anything" - wolf parade
when i first heard this, i was like "what kind of crazy time signature is this in?" when i counted it out it was 6/8, which is not all that crazy, but it's got a cool off-balance feel to it. i always seem to hear this song when i am approaching the school i work at.

"she said, she said" - black keys
a not very good cover of the beatles song. it doesn't add very much and it just sounds badly done. they have much better songs.

"f*ck the ying yang twins" - ying yang twins
i am not proud of this. the ying yang twins are ridiculous and kind of sleazy. i don't think i listened to this the whole way through.

"almost was good enough" - songs:ohia
i really like jason molina and this is a really good song for a sad grey winter day. it's got some interesting tension and lonesomeness in it despite a full sound.

"tiny paintings" - architecture in helsinki
this is a pretty silly song with funny instruments, but it's melodically interesting enough to not be too obnoxious/precious. i'm not sure what to think of the guy with the high voice in this song. i'm alternately and annoyed and ok with him. if you're in a bad mood, this song is not going to help.

"banquet" - bloc party
this is a good song, but after listening to silent alarm again, i don't like it as much as i thought i did, despite the great energy the songs have. the songs just aren't all that strong. except this one, though. it's good.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming:

Today Morning:
-protein bar
-mixed nuts
-2 clementines

Lunch:
-the big spinach salad i get every day that makes me think doing this blog is getting boring. spinach, marinated mushrooms, green pepper, broccoli, tomato, egg, turkey, feta, craisins, soybeans, and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. i mean, it's awesome. it's like the perfect lunch. it's an "all you can fit onto your tray" buffet-style salad bar, where they charge you one price no matter how much you cram onto your salad tray. I of course build a huge salad that weighs many pounds and eat it for basically two meals. it is the awesome. i eat this salad with 32 oz of water.
-fish oil

Dinner (uh, i'll give you yesterday's, i guess):
-salmon cooked in olive oil w/ green beans also cooked in olive oil and topped with a walnut vinaigrette
-omega-3 peanut butter and celery

2005-11-21T18:21:00.000-08:00

It's hard to do this with the new work schedule, but I'm working on it.

Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-pineapple
-coffee
-protein bar

Lunch:
-ginormous spinach salad w/ egg, tuna, edamame, broccoli, cherry tomatos, cucmber, mushrooms, sweet potato, feta, craisins, almonds, pineapple, bacon, with asian dressing of some kind. i made this. it must have weighed 2 pounds. not much news on nutrition from work to share quite yet. oh, there was some discussion about the recent decaf coffee study linking decaf coffee with higher risk of heart disease around it being hugely overblown by the press. it was a study of only 187 people drinking 3-6 cups a day over only 3 months, and the 18% rise in non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA's) could be burned off by exercise anyway. not that i'm in any way considering going back to decaf, but it's not the recent study that's stopping me - it's my addiction/love affair with caffeine. may we never part again.
-mixed nuts

Dinner:
-roasted vegetables (carrots, mushrooms, little tiny cocktail onions, roasted red pepper) with green beans. from a frozen pack of veggies from trader joe's. there were these little things in there that confused me since they were shaped like little hershey's kisses and not like any vegetable i had ever seen, but they turned out to be little frozen hershey's kisses made of butter and herbs that melted in the pan as i cooked them. fascinating.
-butternut squash soup
-turkey chili
-3-bean salad
-omega-3 peanut butter with carrots. kind of an ADD dinner. this was mostly me wandering around the kitchen in a daze and eating things that were vaguely orange-red.

2005-11-16T21:18:00.000-08:00

Hey! Hiya. It's been awhile, huh? I've been pretty busy with the new job at Fancy University and honestly I haven't been able to update as much as I'd like/at all. I can say that I've started eating a little better, i think, thanks to the good salad place nearby for lunch and then half or an entire bag of frozen vegetables in the evening. Trader Joe's has some great bags of mixed frozen vegetables with various sauces and in various styles. I'm thinking that with the big salad and the bag of vegetables at night, I may finally be getting enough vegetables in my diet.

Today Morning:
so this morning was the commute from hell, and it was pretty much all of my own making, this hell, making it that much worse since i really have no one to blame but myself. i missed several buses because i couldn't find my pass, and then i didn't have the right amount of money, and then in an uncaffeinated and low-blood sugar state, i somehow wound up at the B.U. Medical Center, which let me tell you is distressingly far from my office and the meeting i had scheduled this morning. just thinking about it is getting me embarrassed so i'm not going to get into it. it was like i was suddenly dropped into a foreign country where i couldn't speak english and had no sense of the geography of the area, except i do speak english and i've lived in this city for four years. i was not at my best this morning is what you should take away from this complainy quasi-anecdote. anyway:
-coffee
-oatmeal w/ frozen blueberries
-1/2 yam (mid-morning snack)

Lunch:
-spinach salad with egg, tuna, cherry tomato, zuchinni, cucumber, beets, (i'm getting better with beets. i used to hate them, and i'm still not their biggest fan, but i no longer gag when eating them) sweet potato, pineapple, feta cheese, broccoli, hummus, tofu, asian ginger dressing, and maybe some other things i can't remember. this salad probably weighed a pound or so, and it pretty much my favorite lunch right now (of course, i'm too far from the falafel king and chacarero, and i haven't explored any of the many places to eat in the neighborhood, so there you go). i seem to get something like the big salad nearly every day now. sometimes if i eat at the school cafeteria there is spelt and walnuts and better hummus other stuff, but i have more or less the same salad. it is good, though. souper salad.
-protein bar

Dinner:
-asian stir fry w/ broccoli, baby corn, snow peas, green beans, onion, carrots
-yogurt w/ oat bran and blackberries
-tuna fish sandwich
i was really hungry. it was a long emotional day.

2005-10-28T13:32:00.000-07:00

New Thoughts On Coffee

On second thought, I have decided that quitting coffee was a stupid idea. I am reading a book written by my future co-worker at Fancy University, Walter Willett. The book is called Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, and has these things to say about coffee:

Con:
-"drinking too much coffee can give you the shakes, make you irritable, and keep you from sleeping." (duh. actually, this whole time I've tried to quit drinking coffee, I haven't gotten more than 5 hours of sleep a night. is insomia a symptom of caffeine withdrawal too?)
-"people who drink a lot of coffee may be at risk of osteoporosis or breaking a bone....increased risks with four or more cups per day have been seen in several studies, but the final answer is not in." (I have never really broken a bone, for the record, although I've sprained my ankles approx 11 times. honestly i've forgotten how many times. i own my own set of crutches.)
-"drinking espresso, French press, ot other coffee that doesn't drip through a paper filter can increase your cholesterol a few points." (he goes on to say later that cholesterol is not as important a health problem as previously thought.)

Pro:
-"coffee is a remarkably safe beverage. it's dubious health reputation, which stretches back hundreds of years, is more image than substance."
-people who drink coffee have a "lower chance of developing kidney stones", "lower chance of developing gallstones" and "fewer suicides." fewer suicides is kind of weird, but according to the Nurses' Health Study, "suicide rates are as much as 50% lower among coffee drinkers than non-coffee drinkers." coffee may be a mild anti-depressant.
-"given the body of research on coffee, it's safe to say that there aren't any major health hazards lurking in the murky depths of your cup. in short, when drunk in moderation, coffee is no threat to your health."

Welcome back, coffee!

Yesterday Morning:
-coffee
-sweet potato
-apple

Lunch:
-chicken breast with lemon-butter sauce and steamed broccoli. the chicken breast tasted like it had been cooked in a microwave, and was like eating a chicken-flavored rubber sole. otherwise, a pretty good meal. vinny t's. i had a $5 off coupon, so this was pretty cheap. not a place i would probably eat if i didn't have a $5 off lunch and $10 off dinner coupon. the place wasn't as obnoxious as i expected it would be, however. it's more trying to be a homey corporate family-style italian restaurant rather than a goofy corporate "pieces of flair" type gimmick-fest. my waiter sounded like he was from a foreign country i couldn't quite identify.

Dinner:
-3-bean chili with soy protein granules
-salmon fillet with olive oil and soy sauce
-spinach salad with delicious goddess dressing. is goddess dressing the actual name, like ranch or bleu cheese, of the dressing i love? it's like a canola oil and sesame tahini-based dressing. it's really good, but do they have to call it goddess dressing? why do salad dressings need to be gendered?
-oh, it was a little while ago (monday), but i had a chicken massaman curry (chicken, carrots, potato, broccoli, baby corn, onion, all floating in a soup of curry sauce) at the new place in inman called spice and rice, which despite its silly name and bizarre interior design, is a great restaurant. the girlfriend had sushi which was very good as well. i've had a lot of bad sushi in my life, and this was not it. reasonable prices, as well. the whole time we were there, family who i presume owned the place were taking pictures of each other in their halloween costumes. when i went to the bathroom, the guy who was dressed as batman had to take his entire costume off in order to use the urinal, and was standing there half-naked when i walked in.

2005-10-27T11:33:00.000-07:00

hey. hi. it's been a little while. so the new job starts soon and i've been eating pretty badly for some reason and i'm tired and i think coming down with something. yesterday every thought i had was slowed down like my brain was bouncing the signal off a satellite high in the stratosphere before allowing me access to it, and today clearly that satellite has been hit by a small meteor. headaches, irritability, spaced-outedness, feeling generally like a slimy discharge. let's see if we can figure out what went wrong.

Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries. nothing too shocking here. i've just run out of oatmeal, so let's see if the world ends if i eat something else for breakfast.
-decaf coffee. ok. this is the first sign that something is seriously awry. in a questionable plan to live a less useful and interesting life, i am trying to cut out caffeine and alcohol from my diet. on the former fronts i am succeeding beyond my wildest dreams, but the alcohol consumption is holding steady. i'm holding caffeine (or lack thereof) mostly to blame here, but let's continue this exercise, shall we?
-protein bar. nothing new here either.

Lunch:
-buffalo chicken salad with iceberg lettuce. what a depressing salad this was. just looking at it made me sad, and i'm sad again thinking about it. comprised of deep fried chicken fingers submerged in a spicy buffalo sauce dropped on half a head of shredded iceberg, looking at this salad was like looking at a guy who has just been served his divorce papers after 8 years of marriage because he cheated or maybe he killed someone in a car accident or did something stupid that was his fault and you could tell he knew this was coming but he wasn't prepared for the incredible sinking feeling and he's sort of looking at his hands and feet like they aren't even attached to him and he's wondering what the force is exactly that is holding him together. sometimes he's not sure he really loved her and maybe he hadn't ever loved anything and maybe no one had ever really loved him. not the real him, the person who did those terrible things. he's feeling the depths of this, connecting his sadness with all sadness everywhere, the hopelessness of it, and he hasn't shaved or taken care of himself very well and maybe he puts on whatever clothes are nearby and writes a check for milk and eggs at the store and people look at him and it's true, it doesn't look like there's anything holding him together other than tendons and skin. that guy is like the salad. no dressing or bleu cheese. served cold (the chicken). just because something has the word 'salad' in it does not mean that it has to be in any way good for you. in the back of my mind i knew this, but decided to go with the buffalo chicken anyway because, well because i didn't think it would be like this. sidebar.
-green tea. in the coffee-free world that i envision, green tea is king. i would love it just as much as coffee, if not more. maybe i just need to drink a lot more of it to make this work. thing is, i really like coffee. the desire to be healthy and drink green tea is at war with the coffee-loving part of me, and it's tearing me apart.

Dinner:
-huevos rancheros. 3 omega-3 eggs w/ tortilla, salsa, and sour cream. eaten cold because i totally forgot about picking up the farm share yet again and rushed out to meet my wonderful girlfriend at the co-op. (good stuff at the farm share. 7.5 lbs of sweet potatos! i don't really like sweet potatos, but i am going to try to eat all of them. also a big stalk of brussel sprouts. i don't really like those either, but i will also give them a try.

possible themes of the week:
"force it down week"
"just a few more bites week"
"here comes the locomotive, choo choo! chuggachugga-chuggachugga mmmmmmmm! week"
"why do i do this to myself? why?! week"
"that wasn't so bad week")

-big bowl of spinach w/ newman's italian dressing. good. i would like to see more of this sort of thing in the future. hardly any vegetables these days, though. not good.
-bourbon and water (maker's mark). this is my new drink because i really feel every sip of this drink. it is not easy to knock back a lot of this, at least for me.
-schaeffer lager. one 12 oz can. cheap. bukowski tavern.
-one boneless buffalo wing. i don't know why i ate this. i was still hungry. i didn't really eat a lot of food yesterday. nutritionally this was just me throwing up my hands. bukowski's.

a brief analysis
-strong symptoms of caffeine withdrawal
-malnourishment from lack of vegetables
-not enough healthy fats
-probably not enough total calories when taking into account 4-5x a week vigorous exercise
-maybe bourbon is not the right unpleasant-tasting liqour for me

2005-10-24T13:35:00.000-07:00

Weekend Roundup:
Morning:
-coffee
-oatmeal w/ walnuts and raisins and probably brown sugar even though i specifically asked nicely for no brown sugar or walnuts. watery. probably instant. bad oatmeal. carberry's. good pastries and sandwiches, though. the oatmeal is probably their worst item.
-tomato and feta cheese omelette w/ brocolli, carrots, peppers, onions. pretty awesome. the feta was just sitting in a block on top of the eggs rather than in them, which is more traditional for an omelette, but that was cool. brookline cafe.

Lunch:
-almonds
-orange juice
-salmon burger w/ soy sauce
Not a lot of lunch. Morning stuff was pretty filling.

Dinner:
-roast chicken with pan sauce, japanese eggplant, broccolini, and garlic mashed potatos. really good.
-green soy pasta w/ marinara sauce and grated romano
-chicken sandwich w/ pesto and mayo

2005-10-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-green tea
-protein bar
-pear

Lunch:
-that awesome falafel king salad with the chicken kabobs, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, green pepper, hummus, tahini, and falafel. i am going to seriously miss both that salad and the falafel king himself. i told him i was leaving the area for a new job in a different part of the city and i probably wouldn't be seeing him for a while (i see him at least once a week for the past three years) and he suddenly stopped and looked up quickly - but just as quickly his face relaxed and he smiled and said, "you come back and visit, ok buddy? i give you falafel. ok? you come back and visit." i just might come back and visit, falafel king. i just might.
-fish oil
-almonds
-like half a pound of carrots. i ate a lot of carrots yesterday.

Dinner:
-2 seared ahi tuna steaks, (count 'em, 2 steaks. they were kind of small. ) rare, with lemon, fresh garlic, soy sauce, and extra virgin olive oil. they were seriously delicious.
-stir fried cabbage with a winey, soy saucey sauce.
i was really hankering for a beer or glass of wine last night, but all i have is sake and aftershock. sake at least can be useful in cooking (see stir fry above), but aftershock to my knowledge has no known uses. it is like the liqour equivalent of say, fruitcake. i imagine if you gave someone aftershock as a gift you would probably receive the same confused, hurt, angry look from the person that you would receive if you gave them a fruitcake. wait, i think i have met at least one person in my life who likes fruitcake. i cannot say the same about aftershock.

2005-10-13T12:29:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a little while, but I have excuses:
-no internet at home
-work was closed for a little while renovations to the building
-malaise
-red sox lost in the playoffs
-pants uncomfortable
-sore left shoulder
-angry stomach
-insanely loud jackhammering outside my window
-floods

So that's why. Also, I have a new job, working in, of all things, the Department of Nutrition at a Fancy University. Perhaps at some point I will have thoughts about food that are actually backed up by some kind of research and have valuable scientific information. Perhaps they may one day be interesting or have some kind of consistent capitalization scheme. You never know. Stay tuned!

I would do like a two week roundup here, but honestly I don't feel like getting into it. I haven't been eating a lot of vegatables recently. Oh! there was a wedding in there somewhere.

Wedding:
-chicken cacciatore
-root vegatables
-swiss, cheddar, and some other kind of cheese. havarti?
-pumpkin soup? i don't exactly remember. it has been a while. soup was good though. it was nice to have a warm soup on a cold, rainy wedding day. it was the coldest, rainiest wedding i've yet been to. the girlfriend and i were forced to dance much of the time in order to stay warm. for some reason i cannot dance in a circle not touching anybody like everyone else - i have to dance and like spin my partner and do all kinds of elaborate dance things. one day i will dance at a wedding like a regular person again and not be the obnoxious overdancer. i promise.

Yesterday Morning:
-pear
-coffee
-protein bar
-apple

Yesterday Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ onion, cherry tomato, egg, bacon, and honey dijon dressing.
-green tea
-fish oil

Yesterday Dinner:
-yogurt w/ oat bran
-2 fried scallops in a sweetened smooth butternut squash sauce
-1 piece rare steak, 1 piece rare venison wrapped in bacon
-morbier cheese w/ walnuts
-4 different kinds of wine (1 voignier, 2 malbec, 1 cabernet)
went to a wine tasting "flight" to argentina, with wonderful wines and tasting foods. unfortunately, i hadn't read the description of this event properly and had assumed that i would be eating dinner there. i went there starving (having just returned from completely exhausting myself at the gym), and when the sommelier started talking about the wines for an hour, my heart was basically dying and i began hungrily eyeing the paper tablecloth as well as any stray hand that came too close. the worst part was this would-be wonderful evening was a very kind gift celebrating my new job and i was perhaps the worst company imaginable. just yawning and dying inside and feeling like a turd and acting like one too. who sucks? me. i do. les zygomates.
-3 egg omelette w/ pesto, broccoli, and parmesean. had this when i got home.
-bowl of broccoli soup. also ate this at home.
-fish oil

2005-10-05T08:40:00.000-07:00

Monday Dinner:
-eggs and extra egg whites from a carton w/ salsa, broccoli, curry sauce. i don't know what moved me to put the curry sauce in there. i pulled out some ranch dressing and considered adding that to the mix, but i suddenly i realized what i was doing and slowly screwed the cap back on the bottle, put the bottle back in the fridge, sat down and reflected quietly for a few minutes about what i had nearly done.
-steamed kale
-glass of wine (red). this wine has been on sale at the store recently. it is much better than charles shaw, which is the acidic, tooth-staining crap i usually buy.

Yesterday Morning:
-apple
-coffee
-protein bar

Lunch:
-delicious delicious chacarero sandwich. chicken. ordered a large for the first time and ate the whole thing happily. i don't know if i'll make a habit of ordering the large, but i was really hankering for chacarero. i have problems with the american habit of ordering huge servings of food all the time and i don't want to be like that. however, i don't eat a lot of crappy food and i run so my calories have to come from somewhere. if that means that when i eat healthy-ish foods that i have to order large sizes of them then ok. there's a concept wherein eating healthy, nutrient-dense foods makes you less hungry later, so you get the first benefit of eating the nutrient-dense food over the junky food in the first place, and the second benefit is you are less hungry later than if you ate the junky food so you don't look for some other quick, likely empty, food again. (was that a comprehensible sentence?) i think this concept is called dietary displacement, but i could have just made that up.
-vitamin water

Dinner:
-yogurt w/ oat bran
-broccoli w/ curry sauce
-chicken breast w/ pesto
small portions. i should have eaten more last night but i got distracted.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries. back to the steel cut oatmeal. i'm realizing that the steel cut is a better deal. the rolled oats are fine and they cook faster, but the steel cut oats last seemingly forever (about a month, i think) whereas the rolled oats barely last me a week. the steel cut oats are way more dense and of course take way longer to cook. i have figured out how to cook them without boiling them over, though, which saves me from spilling boiling hot water on my weak, fumbling, uncaffeinated hands first thing in the morning.
-apple
-coffee

2005-10-03T11:36:00.000-07:00

Weekend Roundup!

Morning:
-coffee
-omelette w/ peppers, onion, tomato, mozzarella
-omelette w/ spinach, broccoli, peppers, onion and a tremendous amount of cheese. brookline cafe. a nice little find, the brookline cafe place. kind of like a diner but not a diner atmosphere, really. it was a good place to read the sunday ny times (which was surprisingly slender this week).

Lunch:
-6 apples. went apple-picking this weekend in bolton and got macintosh, mcauon(?), and i think cortlands. oh my god i was so full of apple. the trees went up a hill and we climbed up picking apples along the way and at the top had a gorgeous view of the area and the beautiful beautiful day. the farm place also had fresh made donuts and i had a few bites of jess' caramel apple. it was my first caramel/candy apple! as we were leaving we were strafed by several of what looked to be WWII aircraft. they were enormous.

Dinner:
-3 slices buffalo chicken pizza consumed after another win for my softball team. finally my power came back and i had some home runs after a long stretch of doing little but grounding weakly to second.
-2 glasses of wine
-salmon burger w/ soy sauce
-steamed kale w/ curry sauce
-cheese dip with chips. pretty good. homemade tortilla chips. eaten with chip at bukowski's.
-3 beers, 1 Amstel Light, 1 Schlitz, 1 strange beer with a long German name that was "smoked." it was like drinking liquid smoke, this beer. if you could liquify mesquite and turn it into a beer, it would be this. kind of overwhelming but a memorable way to celebrate the red sox' playoff win.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-coffee

Lunch:
-extra lean ground beef w/ broccoli
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-09-30T07:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning:
-carrots w/ beloved omega-3 peanut butter
-coffee

Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ chicken, tomato, purple pepper, italian dressing.
-fish oil
-green tea

Dinner:
-orange juice (just bought a gallon of orange juice. orange juice is really good. i had forgotten. i'm sorry, orange juice, i'll never forget you again.)
-tuna fish sandwich w/ that ezekiel bread and mustardayonaisse
-3 (omega-3) egg omellete with pesto, broccoli, grated romano, and salsa. i cooked this in extra virgin olive oil. i bought what i think is a half gallon of olive oil, so anytime i am cooking something you can pretty much assume that it is dripping with olive oil because extra virgin olive oil is delicious and goes bad in like 3 months. oddly, olives themselves are unpleasant to me. it is funny how the world works.
-sharp cheddar cheese, apple, almonds, and water crackers
-2 glasses of wine. i had a good time partying with myself last night. i am apparently one of the last people in the country to read this book, and it was fantastic like everyone says. it is one of my new favorites. it doesn't talk about food very much, but from pages 50-51, young Toby is promised a hamburger by a guy who likes his mother:

"Come on, Bub," said the man I'd been talking to. "I'll rustle you up something to eat."
I followed him to the kitchen and sat at a counter while Judd pulled things out of the refrigerator. He slapped together a baloney sandwich and set it in front of me. He seemed to have forgotten about the hamburger. I would have said something, but I had a pretty good idea that even if I did there wasn't going to be any hamburger.
When we came back to the living room, my mother was looking out the window through the binoculars. The sunburned man stood beside her, his head bent close to hers, one hand resting on her shoulder as he gestured with his beer bottle at some point of interest. He turned as we came in and grinned at us. "There's our guy," he said. How's it going? You get some lunch? Judd, did you get this man some lunch?"
"Yes sir," he said."

2005-09-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

well howdy welcome back! I have been extremely busy recently as the series of tasks that I perform and am in turn paid for moved up a level in intensity to the 12-15 hour a day range and what meals I have had have been catered or restaurant-made. They have been pretty good quality meals, but I have either been just sitting around doing work or frantically running from building to building in a state of panic that rendered me nearly blind and always exhausted, so I didn't really get to enjoy them the way I would have liked. also i have gotten little to no exercise aside from the short anxiety-filled run/walks between work buildings.

Some of the things I have eaten over the past week and a half:
-english muffins w/ melted peanut butter (no oatmeal!)
-lots of salmon
-a veggie burrito
-steak flank w/ potatos
-italian chicken salad with green beans
-some kind of other italian chicken thing with mushrooms

I also went to a bunch of restaurants because work paid for it and I had no time to cook:
-tuna steak w/ green beans and asparagus. not terrible, although sweet jesus they put an insane amount of pepper on the tuna steak. i mean, why? tuna steak is pretty tasty on its own. it really doesn't need to be so coated in pepper rub that the top of the fish i completely black and all you can taste is pepper. why do people who supposedly like preparing food do this? it's like hey why don't we just take this beautiful new york sirloin and put ketchup all over it so that all you can taste is a sweet vinegary tomato flavor. come on. despite the best efforts of the kitchen, the food was actually pretty good. the vegetables were cooked with real butter, which was a delicious surprise. i hadn't tasted real butter in so long that i actually had to think about what i was tasting. tavern in the square. kind of a corporo-trendy atmosphere with lots of big screen tv's in case you hadn't looked at a screen for a few moments.
-chicken in like an onion sauce with garlic naan. fantastic. some of the best indian food i've ever had, to be honest. had a fascinating cocktail with lychee (kind of like a fleshy egg that tastes citrusy) while my girlfriend's cocktail had tamarind and was oddly spicy and sweet. the naan wasn't amazing, but it's naan so eh. tamarind bay. atmosphere was fancy. lots of well-dressed, good-looking people.
-grilled swordfish with melted mozzarella, zuccini, mint, and garlicy mashed potatos. pretty awesome. i don't remember much except that this was really really good. my girlfriend got flattened lemon chicken with za'atar and Turkish cheese pancake. hers was pretty good too, although the pancake tasted like it was goat cheesey and i am not the world's biggest fan of goat cheese. she likes it, however, so we were both very happy. oleana. atmosphere is fancy but warm. lots of people who wear clothing that looks like it could be considered artisanal "textile art" or who wear expensive-looking glasses.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-coffee

Lunch:
-chicken fajita wrap w/ chicken, onion, salsa, cabbage(?), red pepper. kind of an unexpected lunch purchased at kind of a high end lunch place in an office building that was not where i work. pretty good but wet so that while eating it with one hand like a burrito and peeling back the foil to expose its gifts of chicken and onion, the lunch product after a time dribbled a thin chicken/salsa liquid onto my shoes. i need to get new shoes but i don't like being pressured by my fajita to do so.

2005-09-16T10:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Dinner:
-ground turkey w/ curry and yellow pepper
-omega-3 peanut butter and purple pepper, carrots
-spinach salad w/ italian dressing and tomato

Today Morning:
-omega-3 eggs huevos rancheros-style w/ tortilla, crumbled cheese, salsa. no sausage, however.
-coffee

Lunch:
-chicken breast sandwich w/ chicken breast, lettuce, tomato. about as basic a sandwich as you can have and still be considered a sandwich. just a roll with some meat in it. eating this sandwich made me feel a little sad. i thought of this.

2005-09-15T13:41:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Dinner:
-chicken breast w/ pesto
-turkey quinoa chili w/ kidney beans
I was going to steam some kale too, but I got tired and fell asleep.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-coffee
-protein bar
the maintenance guys came over this morning to fix that leak in the ceiling. nothing is more disracting than water (god i hope it's clean water) and pieces of ceiling falling on you when you are trying to watch david ortiz continue to be the greatest hero in american history. i love david ortiz. i love him so much.

Today Lunch:
-a chicken taco salad. served in a largish bowl made of taco, it contained salsa, lettuce, chicken, cheese, and sour cream that looked like they had been hurled into the taco bowl at high velocity from a great height. not a tremendous amount of food all told, but not bad. i was given several samples of free chicken while standing waiting for my food. i expected the chicken to be more tendony than it turned out to be. remarkably tendon-free chicken for a cheap mexican place. mexican place in the corner mall in downtown crossing.
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-09-14T13:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-green tea
-fish oil
-spinach salad w/ feta and peanut sauce that i accidently poured on. i just wasn't thinking and poured peanut sauce on a salad that contained feta. was this a big deal? no. i ate and it tasted weird and i didn't think about it again until this very moment.
-tomato
-walnuts

Supper:
-1 Long Island Iced Tea. fancy chinese restaurant version with sake in addition to the other 5 kinds of liqours. as far as most liqour for your buck goes, it's hard to beat the long island iced tea. i mean, martinis and manhattens are pretty much straight liqour, but i'm talking like mixed drinks. real martinis (with gin or vodka and vermouth only, not like the oversweetened overpriced cocktails on fancy bar menus) and manhattens say something a little different; it seems grown-up or something to order a drink that tastes bad. sometimes you want a drink that kind of tastes bad. it is strange. rarely do i feel like eating bad tasting food out of the garbage, but i sometimes do like drinks that make me cringe a little when i taste them. i am not knocking martinis or manhattens or even the overpriced oversweet fake martinis with cutesy names like the chocotini or the loganberry frostini. all of these drinks have their place. in the world of mixed drinks, though, the long island iced tea is king. there's like 5 different things in there. they were my favorite drink to make as a bartender because you could pour like 4 or 5 bottles at the same time and it looked like you were an exacting chemist, a student of booze. (for my least favorite drink to make, please scroll down.) it was my roommate's birthday. peking tom's.
-1 Bud Light. bluegrass at the cantab. it was a busy night.
-salmon fillet with olive oil, greent tomatos and fennel
-steamed kale with lemon juice and soy sauce
did you notice that i referred to the evening meal as supper rather than dinner?

Today Morning:
-banana
-coffee
-2 hardboiled eggs

Lunch:
-the always dependably good chicken kabob salad. there was a long line today, but as usual the falafel king himself recognized me and called me his beautiful friend like he does to everyone else and it warmed my heart. seriously that dude should run for office. i would vote for him. well, maybe - if it was for like alderman or selectman or something that i don't think has a lot of actual power. i bet he would handle business nicely and extremely efficiently. he'd be pretty much the perfect bureaucrat.
-green tea
-fish oil
-carrots

*old-fashioneds. old-fashioneds are such a pain to make. a lot of times you'd have to go back to the kitchen to get sugar and then you had to find the right kind of spoon to mottle everything and it just took forever. annoy your local bartender by asking them to make you an old-fashioned on an extremely busy night at the bar. for bonus points, send the drink back because it doesn't taste right and be a semi-regular whom the bartender remembers as an inadequate tipper and sloppy drunk.

2005-09-13T07:55:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-chicken salad sandwich. i am generally not a big fan of chicken salad, but this sandwich was the "special" sandwich of the day at the sandwich place i went to, so i got it. it was not terrible, but not entirely memorable. primo's.
-green tea

Dinner:
-went to costco yesterday and wound up buying $225 worth of huge things. it was not my intention to spend so much money at the gigantic store. i probably should have held off on a few of the huge things, but i now have around 15 lbs of various frozen fishes. i didn't really need the gallon of shampoo, but it's not like i'm not going to use it, and in the end i guess it saves packaging so that is a good thing. anyway, i wound up sort of skipping dinner because i went shopping in a warehouse that is maybe the size of a city block. awesome girlfriend fed me almonds and propel fancy water in the car as i drove on the way home.
-when i got home i had yogurt and oat bran and blueberries
-and a chicken breast with curry sauce. i should have had more vegetables, because i did not really have any

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries. i have been eating the rolled oats, rather than the steel-cut ones. i found i could get the rolled oats for cheaper and i don't think there is a huge difference. these oats seem to cook a little faster than steel-cut. they also seem even more filling, if such a thing is possible. i kind of prefer steel-cut, but these aren't bad.
-coffee
-a tomato

my dreams were free of death-imagery last night, which could be a good sign.

2005-09-12T13:32:00.000-07:00

Weekend Roundup:
-omega-3 eggs w/ award-winning tomato, parmesean, fresh cilantro, salsa
-coffee
-1/2 panini sandwich, i think pesto, chicken, mozzarella, lettuce
-korean bbq! thickly sliced marinated ribless beef cooked on the table i was sitting at. eaten w/ kim chee, sweet pickled radish, sesame green beans, peanuty bbq sauce, edamame. fabulous girlfriend had marinated pork, which was better than my beef. i am not a huge fan of fatty beef, which is what mine turned out to be. a pretty amazing experience overall, however. i like eating directly off the grill that is built into my table. my table was on fire! koreana.
-1 Kirin Lite
-1 cup "yucca juice." consumed at a party. as far as i know, had no actual yucca in it. thank god, because that would have been gross.
-oatmeal w/ NOTHING IN IT
-grilled chicken wrap w/ lettuce, tomato, american cheese. meh. dilaria's cafe.
-buffalo chicken ceasar salad. surprisingly good. the on the surface weird combination actually worked out ok, although sweet jesus the salad was drowning in ceasar dressing. maybe some people actually like not being able to see pieces of their salad because the are subvmerged under a 1/2 inch of dressing, but that is too much dressing for me. otherwise, a good salad to celebrate winning a softball game with. halfway cafe.
-20 oz Bud Light
-fish oil
-chicken breast w/ pesto
-carrots w/ omega-3 peanut butter

incredibly fast weekend. much of it spent thinking about a couch. maybe this is because of fall, but had a surprising number of dreams about death this past week. in one particularly vivid dream i was dead and was leading 3 anthropomorphic m&ms (not like the computer animated ones in the commercials. these were different anthropomorphized m&ms.) to heaven (which turned out to be very much like a 1940's film noir bar) but got sidetracked in a bathroom downstairs. heaven was upstairs (duh) and to get up we had to climb what looked to be some ugly fire escape-type stairs. the m&ms saw mickey rourke downstairs in the bathroom and while i wanted to get up to heaven already and don't really care much about mickey rourke anyway the m&ms wanted to chat and get his autograph. the m&ms were not very smart and i don't know how they got into heaven in the first place or why i had to take them. this was a stupid dream and i apologize for wasting the last 30 seconds of your life. there were other dreams in which i was dying, already dead or someone else was dying or already dead, but that was the only one i remember even somewhat clearly.

2005-09-09T14:17:00.000-07:00

i am still kind of upset that i lost that whole big thing i wrote a couple days ago. it's been a tough week and i'm glad it's over.

Yesterday:
-protein bar
-coffee
-mixed greens salad w/ chicken, beets, tomato, cucumber, cheese, brocolli and tuna
-chicken breast w/ pesto
-yogurt w/ oat bran and blueberries
-collard greens w/ bleu cheese dressing

Today Morning:
-orange
-coffee

Lunch:
-steak salad w/ greens, onion, mushroom, brocolli
-green tea
-fish oil (am back on the fish oil)

2005-09-07T11:22:00.000-07:00

i had a huge thing here about what i ate this weekend and this week, but firefox crashed and the thing is gone. gone forever. it's hard enough trying to remember what i ate. so now, a remembrance of meals past.

Week Roundup:
-the omega-3 eggs with which i am still infatuated, eaten a variety of ways with a variety of other foods: broccoli, green, yellow, purple, white, and orange peppers, salsa, grated cheddar
-oatmeal w/ blueberries, apples, cinnamon, oranges, pears
-a great picnic meal of carrots, fancy crackers, creamy herbed feta and sharp vermont cheddar. went to the harbor islands over the weekend. they were beautiful. there is more but honestly i can't talk about it anymore. go to the harbor islands sometime and we'll share stories. i'll tell you about the kite festival and the people with the crazy sunburns then.
-steamed kale w/ lemon juice, soy sauce and nutritional yeast
-tomatos
-multicolored peppers and carrots w/ pesto
-chicken breasts w/ peanut sauce
-tuna salads w/ spinach, tomato, cucumber
-surprisingly little fish oil
-salmon burger w/ apple sauce and cilantro (weird)
-wedding food! salmon w/ honey mustard, homemade potato chips (what is up with catering people making their own papas fritas stuff? maybe the price of potato cutters and friolaters came way down), root vegetables, 2 Amstel lights (had to drive)
-hall of fame lunches spinach salad and chicken kebab falafel salad
-lots of coffee
-walnuts, almonds, pecans, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, peanuts
this is not everything but it has been a long time, people. i am all hell of a busy man right now and i have a powerful hunger. i'll eat you and everyone you love. watchout!

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ the berries
-coffee

2005-09-01T13:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Dinner:
-chinese food leftovers
-a mozzarella, tomato, basil leaf platter that the girlfriend made for me with the farm share goodness. that girl is awesome. wow. she also brought over
-3 Sam Adams lights, and helped me move some more. i mean, she is out of her mind nice to me.
Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ blueberries
-coffee
-orange

Today Lunch:
-chicken and spinach salad w/ egg, bacon, tomato, cucumber, pepper and honey dijon
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-08-31T14:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-that chicken kabob salad that i love with all my heart and stomach
-green tea
-fish oil

Dinner:
-chicken and broccolli from a new local chinese place. pretty good actually. it came with like a garlic sauce and the broccolli was cooked well and the sauce was not greasy. my girlfriend didn't seem to like hers as much (spicy chicken w/ peanuts) but that could be because she still was nauseous from the incredibly hazardous cleaning products we were breathing in the floor and bathroom of my new room (my girlfriend put her body and possibly her ability to bear children on the line for me so that i may have a nice place to live. this selfless body-sacrifice is just the tip of the iceberg of why she is the best girlfriend ever and i am an amazingly lucky guy for having her in my life. for this i am extremely grateful.) i was also nauseous and had a headache, but that did not stop my eating. i am moving into a new room that i am pretty excited about. it is bigger, and for the first time ever i do not have to plan my furniture configuration to maximize available floor space. there is enough space so that i could put my bed almost anywhere and it would be fine. i don't even know what to do with myself.
-vitamin water (grape)

Today Morning:
-coffee
-protein bar

Lunch:
-steak tips and broccolli from KnowFat. this place just opened and it still had all the new problems you would associate with a new place. the empoyees were still getting the hang of the menu, and the line got a little backed up at times. still, i like the idea of publishing the nutritional information and paying attention to whether the food served is healthy or not. the menu looks good: the steak i had was delicious and the broccolli was pretty crisp. there was a sauce on the side that for some reason immediately reminded me of a dentist's office, so i didn't really use it. the place was a little expensive and i have doubts about the accuracy of their nutritional information, but overall it was impressive.
in a corner they have like a mini-GNC with sports supplements and stuff which i found a little odd. i can't imagine they will sell much whey protein or anything there. no one really needs that stuff unless they're an athlete or something, and even then it's iffy. i wonder if the supplement companies are trying to expand their market from gym meatheads to the general health-conscious populace. for marathons i've always just had gatorade during the race and something sugary after and i've been fine with that. the fancy sports drinks with electrolytes can be awesome for hangovers, though. its probably just psychological, but i feel like i'm drinking my hangover away with those.

2005-08-30T10:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-tuna sandwich w/ lettuce and tomato
-chicken breast w/ broccoli, balsamic vinegar and olive oil
-carrots and peanut butter

Dinner:
-4 egg omelette w/ garlic, arugala, and asiago cheese
-1 Becks Light and 1 Tiger Beer. the Becks Light was amazing. it just disappeared after it hit my mouth. jesse compared it to budweiser strained through a britta filter. it made me think of this a little, except beer flavored. sort of. i am not dissing Beck's Light because flavorless liquid has its place but if you are looking for something that tastes like a beer then try elsewhere.

Today Morning:
-pluot
-coffee
-protein bar

2005-08-29T08:27:00.000-07:00

Friday Dinner:
-spicy tuna tartar with homemade potato chips
-grilled swordfish with crispy local clams, two chunks of heirloom tomatoes, a difficult to eat watercress basil salad, and a chive lemon remoulade which was basically a tarter sauce, i think. did you notice that i went to a fancy restaurant again? it was restaurant week in boston. davio's. pretty good. i felt better about this meal than i did about aquitaine.
-some sort of orange-ish cocktail

Weekend Roundup:
-omega-3 egg omelettes with fabulous award-winning tomatos, shaved parmesean and chopped cilantro
-coffee
-salmon burger w/ arugala salad w/ walnuts, blue cheese, chicken chunks
-veggie potstickers w/ soy sauce
-broccoli and carrots w/ peanut butter
-several sweet potato fries w/ horseradish sauce
-2 Schiltz
-fish oil
-chicken breast w/ soy sauce and spinach
-various tomatos eaten by hand
-mixed nuts (brazil, almond, macadamia, hazelnut, cashew)
-one shot of what was purported to be homemade absinthe but was really a foul liquor that was insanely bitter even with a ton of flaming sugar added that made me feel queasy for the rest of the night. i have had real absinthe before and this stuff was like 20 different herbs throwing up in my mouth. i suppose that's what you get for drinking someone's homemade booze. i am happy that i am still alive.
-tacos w/ tortilla, chicken, beans, cheese, guacamole, salsa, tomatos. i have discovered that i like a lot of cheese in my tacos
-2 Harpoon IPA
pretty quiet weekend, really. caught up on some sleep i'd been meaning to get done.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ frozen blueberries
-coffee
-protein bar

2005-08-26T11:20:00.000-07:00

Thursday Lunch:
-tuna fish sandwich w/ lettuce and tomato
-green tea

Dinner:
-chicken consumme w/ shaved parmesean, carrots and zuccini
-1/2 roast chicken w/ isreali couscous and a delicious sauce of some kind
-profiterolle w/ vanilla bean ice cream and chocolate sauce
-1 Amstel Light
restaurant week at aquitaine. pretty good. much of the bill was paid by my girlfriend's friends, which was very nice. i feel like i should send them a card or something.

Friday Morning:
-apple
-coffee
-1 1/2 protein bar(s)

2005-08-25T06:26:00.000-07:00

Tuesday Lunch:
-inner circle lunch hall-of-fame charter member chicken kabob salad w/ lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pepper, hummus, tahini, chicken, falafel, hot sauce. i don't have much more to say about this salad, other than it is what sustains me and keeps my soul from fleeing my body.

Tuesday Dinner:
-green soybean pasta with red pepper marinara and pesto
-carrots w/ the omega-3 peanut butter that i love so dearly

Wednesday Morning:
-coffee
-apple

Wed Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ egg, too much onion, tomato, bacon. raw onion is just so overpowering. a little goes a long way. i could have a mouthful of like 4 different things, but if there was onion in there, onion would be all i could taste. onion does not taste so awesome that it should be allowed to bully other flavors around like that. you do not deserve your power, onion.

Wed Dinner:
-chicken burrito w/ pinto beans, cheese, salsa, sour cream. kind of eh. cheap though. i ran out of water and when i went to the soda fountain for more water i couldn't find a water thing and i was dying of thirst (i really drink a ridiculous amount of water. probably too much) so i took like 1/3 cup (w/ice) of diet coke which was the closest thing to water, i figured. the owner i guess of the place was sitting at the table next to me and kind of said hey next time don't do that please. crap. i felt bad. i don't steal (even on the internet) and i never drink soda anyway but i still feel lousy about taking the tiny amount of soda from the man. felipe's taqueria. (fyi, the man did not look like a felipe)
-what added up to probably 3 or so glasses of wine. went to a wine tasting. cotes du rhone, mostly, like 8 or 9 different kinds. they were ok. mostly pretty mild, although there was one that tasted like it had been aged in a rusty bucket in the sun near some horses for a couple days. other than that one, though, they were good. some of them had pretty labels. i used to judge wines by how pretty their labels were. i am not saying this is right but i have wound up making some pretty good choices based on solely on label prettiness. (full disclosure: ok i still sort of do this, choosing wines based on lable prettiness. i know what the good kinds of wine are, but the labels still beckon to me.)

Today Morning:
-eggs with green salsa and the last of the pesto
-coffee
-apple

2005-08-23T09:04:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Dinner:
-nachos. nachos with jalapenos, tomato, sour cream, and a salsa which was spiced up with tabasco sause or something. yes, i had nachos for dinner. and i loved it.
-6 beers. 3 Magic Hat #9, 3 Bud Light. partying on a monday because my friend won some money on online poker.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ maple flavoring. i dropped the bottle of maple flavor and it shattered all over the floor. the consistency of the maple substance is quite thin as it is in like an alcohol base and has an impressive splatter range. the splash "crater" had a diameter of approx 2 meters from far edge to edge and left pieces of tiny tiny glass shrapnel littering the kitchen floor. the crater was not entirely circular, since the small brown bottle (like a vanilla bottle) smashed against the floor as i was swinging my hand around (to place the bottle back on the shelf, lest you think i enjoy just standing in my kitchen swinging bottles of maple flavoring around) and lost control of the bottle while my hand was in motion, such that the bottle struck the floor with some sideways velocity. this caused the liquid to spray more in one direction rather than if it had fallen straight down and creating a circular splash pattern. it is my theory that the extra sideways velocity caused the splash area to be larger than it otherwise would be if i had simply dropped the bottle straight down with no additional force other than gravity. anyway i am trying to convey the level of mess i created as i was already late for work. basically a "holy shit" level of mess. did i mention that maple extract/flavoring stains all clothing products it comes in contact with? it does. my hands still reak of maple flavoring that is really hard to get off.
-coffee

2005-08-22T11:28:00.000-07:00

Special

Cape Cod Wedding Weekend Roundup Spectacular!!!
Friday Dinner:
-seafood kabobs w/ scallop, swordfish, zuccini, tomato, onion
-chicken breast w/ rosemary
-green beens w/ roasted red pepper
-caesar salad w/ lettuce, parmesean, caeser dressing. you know the drill.
-several beers, mostly Amstel Light. possibly 3 beers and a glass of wine.
there was an attempt at dancing, but it was in a very well lit room to a small boombox in front of family members and it just didn't feel right. it was the rehearsal dinner so it was like getting warmed up for the big event. i have a hard time dancing in front of family members because my family makes me nervous.

Saturday:
-coffee
-some kind of watermelon that was yellow inside rather than reddish pink
-protein bar
-pressed turkey sandwich w/ muenster, tomato, avocado, horseradish mayo. huge.
-pickle
-salmon, steak, green beans, red potato, salad. this is all a little hazy because i drank
-like 15 top shelf drinks. tanqueray and tonic, grey goose and tonic, bacardi and coke. a fair amount of dancing. i need a refresher on my leading skills, but my dancing knowledge goes up to about wedding level, so that i do ok at weddings (not hard to do) but anyplace more serious i am way out of my element. in clubs at least you are surrounded by people so your skills aren't completely on display all the time. i am of the hands-on let's dance like grown ups school. not that i am against the dancing in a circle with your friends thing, but i like dancing with another person in like a real way too.

Sunday Brunch:
-1/2 an everything bagel w/ veggie cream cheese and 1 thin slice of lox. got to brunch a little late and found it pretty much picked clean. animals. no coffee.
-1/3 slice of sausage quiche. was almost entirely sausage.
was told by my stepmother for the 3rd time how big a deal it that i was invited to the rehearsal dinner, "even though we kept asking XXX if she really wanted you to come and she kept insisting that she wanted you." she had food in her teeth while she was telling me this.

Monday Morning:
-oatmeal w/ berries
-coffee
-orange

Lunch:
-inner-circle lunch hall-of-fame member chacarero sandwich. chicken w/ green beans, muenster, spicy sauce and avocado green sauce.
-fish oil
-green tea

2005-08-19T10:01:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Dinner:
-steak and spinach salad w/ tomato, avocado, and gorganzola vinegrette dressing.
-1 margarita, salt, rocks. way too sweet.
-1 rum and coke, bacardi. ok. not very good drinks at this place. perhaps the bartenders were conserving their energy for the $13 martinis. charley's, newbury st.
-1/2 glass of wine. charles shaw.

Today Breakfast:
-oatmeal w/ frozen blueberries
-coffee

Lunch:
-cobb salad w/ mixed greens, chicken, tomato, cucumber, muenster cheese, oily vinegrette. no avocado! avocado-less cobb salad. freaky. what is this world coming to? i thought avocado, blue cheese and egg was what made it a cobb salad in the first place. maybe i will try their caeser salad next time, which is a piece of beef jerky wrapped in mustard greens with cauliflower covered in a highly acidic french dressing and served in a lady's running sneaker.
-green tea
-fish oil

Am going to a wedding in Cape Cod this weekend, so stay tuned for the Cape Wedding food report. And no breaking into my house again! (full disclosure: my apartment was broken into this week. as far as i can tell, none of my food was touched.) No stealing my mail, either! (someone broke into my mailbox, too. no food in there as far as i know)

2005-08-18T11:05:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-turkey sandwich w/ lettuce, tomato
-fish oil
-carrots

Yesterday Dinner:
-chicken breast with delicious rich wine sauce w/ muchrooms, sauteed onions, fresh bread and olive oil. went out for dinner at pomodoro in the north end and it was pretty excellent. not cheap, but i was very satisfied with the value.
-1 glass white wine
-1 Miller Lite (consumed at the Neil Diamond concert. i got free tickets.)
-2 Schlitz (consumed following Neil Diamond concert during the debriefing period. Neil's still got it. he's not moving very fast, but he's still got it, that sly devil.)

Today Breakfast:
-apple
-orange
-protein bar
-coffee

Lunch:
-the chicken salad thing with the hummus and falafel and everything. damn is that a good salad. i mean jesus. i am not fucking around here. it is really good.
-fish oil
-green tea

2005-08-16T09:54:00.000-07:00

Weekend Roundup:
Morning:
-omelettes with feta and spinach (there were multiple omelettes. it was that kind of weekend. plus i got these omega-3 eggs that i was pretty excited about. i am so all about omega-3 fatty acids right now. if any omega-3 fatty acids are reading this right now then let me tell you i think you guys are all right.)
-coffee

Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ ground turkey, otherworldly tomatos, and vinagrette dressing (ok, I bought about 3 lbs of spinach at the store. I'm not sure why. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I have all this spinach.
-lemon garlic chicken breast sandwich w/ a jalapeno mayo that i made that didn't come out as badly as i had feared.
-yogurt w/ oat bran and berries
-carrots and omega-3 peanut butter (they make omega-3 enriched peanut butter. I'm crazy about this stuff.)

Dinner:
-spinach salads w/ ground beef, cucumber, tomato from the garden of our lord him/herself
-pizza w/ broccoli and mushroom
-cheeseburger w/ tomato (not the amazing gift from the heavens kind, but not terrible. was at a bbq.) kind of a depressing weekend though, for various reasons.
-3 beers (1 Corona w/lime, 1 Corona Light w/lime, 1 Sam Adams Summer Ale)
-2 mixed drinks of some kind. they were blue and had cubes of blue frozen jello floating in them.

Monday Morning:
-oatmeal with protein and frozen blueberries
-coffee
-protein bar

Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ tomato, onion, egg, bacon, ground turkey, and honey dijon dressing
-carrots
-green tea
-fish oil

Dinner:
-salmon burger with the last of the unbelievably good tomatos (R.I.P. my darlings) and teriyake sauce
-spinach salad w/ cucumber, white and orange pepper, feta, onion, diced chicken breast, black soybean pasta, (for color. I don't know if you've seen the black soy pasta, but it just looks awesome all thrown on a salad. the black really sets of the white of the feta and pepper and the colors just look ridicuously pretty together. if you're looking to make an impressive looking with a little exotic touch, this is a good way to go. sadly, i had no one to show the salad to. maybe i will get a camera so you can get a sense of how nice this salad looked. i got a little teary before i ate the salad if you want to know the truth, but that could be because i was eating it alone in a basement with my girlfriend away and like some shit weighing on me, but that goes outside the strict confines of this blog's subject matter. sorry.) and diced chicken (marinaded in a sweet pepper sauce).

Today Morning:
-because i ate the same thing i always do, i will make up an alternate breakfast that i have no intention of eating ever. it's opposite day!
-McDonald's sausage/egg/cheese biscuit sandwich (i worked at McDonald's briefly in my early teens and was fascinated by the health consequences of this product. it was like eating a small tub of shortening. and not in a good way.)
-decaf coffee
-a human baby arm

2005-08-12T06:07:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-chicken kabob salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pepper, hummus, falafel, and tahini sauce. always a delicious salad.
-green tea
-fish oil

Dinner:
-salmon with lemon and real vanilla bean. i don't know if you've ever used vanilla bean, but it is ungodly expensive. very vanilla-y and tasty, but wow. this was an expensive meal.
-omellete with feta and broccoli

Today Morning:
-oatmeal with frozen mixed berries (strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, schnozzberries.)
-coffee

2005-08-11T07:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-chacarero sandwich. the chacarero sandwich is supposedly a Chilean sandwich made with chicken or beef, a slice of gouda, red peppers, green beans, a green spicy sauce and an avocado-y guacamole type sauce. It is a masterpiece of sandwich design and execution. It uses (i guess) special chacarero bread that is tasty in a buttery, rich sort of way, like a portugese bread but not as sweet. just an outstanding sandwich. I have no idea if these sandwiches have anything to do with Chile or what, but they are highly recommended no matter what their origin.
-green tea
-fish oil

Dinner:
-spinach and ground beef salad with peanut sauce
-flax seed chips
-broccoli w/ chunky natural peanut butter
-1 Michelob light. Michelob is a funny looking word.
-half a melon i got from the farm share. i don't know what kind of melon it is, but it is smallish and looks like a watermelon except it is yellow inside! crazy! it was really juicy and dripped all over me but i slurped on it like a little kid and made a mess.
-more fish oil

Today Morning:
-apple
-1/4 of a cantaloupe
-coffee

2005-08-10T09:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Dinner:
-spinach salad w/ diced chicken breast and balsamic vinegrette dressing
-2 beers; 1 Bud Light, 1 Michelob Light (maybe I will drink a fancy beer soon. stay tuned!)
-flax seed chips
-fish oil
-broccoli w/ hummus

Today Morning:
-kashi cereal w/ banana slices
-protein bar
-coffee

2005-08-09T11:19:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ tomato, egg, onion, cucumber, bacon and honey dijon dressing
-green tea
-tuna salad w/ walnuts and grapes
-fish oil

Dinner:
-gouda and wine fondue with vegetable crudite
-tuna tatare with sesame seaweed salad
-gazpacho with sliced avocados
-2 Amstel lights
(went out for dinner last night. also saw murderball, which was excellent. please go and see murderball at your local movie theater immediately.)

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ frozen blueberries
-protein bar
-apple
-coffee

Lunch:
-tofu with onions, red and green peppers, and carrots in a sugary thai sauce. went to the really cheap thai place where all their food is flavored with extra sugar. everything is spicy and sweet. even the peanut sauce was like candy. the people who serve you the food are very nice, though, so I keep going back even though I break out into sugar sweats during and after the meal.
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-08-08T07:55:00.000-07:00

Weekend food roundup:
Morning:
-omelette w/feta, broccoli and tomato
-oatmeal (ok, let me just explain something about the oatmeal. i eat a lot of it, it is true. i eat oatmeal of the steel-cut variety 1) because steel-cut sounds manly and tough and 2) because it is better for you and less processed than instant oatmeal. it doesn't even take that much longer to cook than instant if you cook it in a large bowl in the microwave. it will boil over and cover your microwave with a concrete oatmealyness (that no amount of cursing will remove) if you don't use a big bowl. oatmeal is also good for your skin and stuff and it fills you up like crazy.)
coffee (the cheap maxwell house type stuff)
-apple

Lunch:
-spinach salad with ground beef and orange sesame dressing
-cucumber w/ peanut butter
-turkey sandwich w/ gorgeous, red, absolutely perfect and delicious tomato from the farm share. the tomato was pretty much the platonic ideal of tomatos. it was amongst the top 5 best tomatos i've ever had in my life.
-yogurt with oat bran and frozen mixed berries (strawberries, blackberries, reaspberries)
-flax seed tortilla chips from trader joe's
-apple

Dinner:
-salmon burger
-broccoli with peanut sauce
-chicken breast w/ lemon, garlic and parsley
-omelette w/ feta and salsa
-fish oil
-6 1/2 drinks. 3 Harpoon Summer Ale, 1 1/2 Margarita, 2 Michelob light.

Today Morning:
-usual oatmeal
-protein bar
-coffee

I have not gone out to a restaurant in a really long time. Strange. I will go soon.

2005-08-05T07:36:00.000-07:00

Ok, I am not doing as well as I would like in updating this. I will try to be better for the sake of whatever poor soul may be interested.

Morning Food Roundup (last couple days):
-oatmeal w/ protein stuff and frozen berries. I should just write a small program that automatically fills this in.
-coffee (new kinds of coffees recently. rainforest nut, belgian chocolate nut, and hazelnut. I'm into nutty coffees now)

Lunch Roundup:
-chicken kabbo salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pepper, falafel, hummus, chicken and tahini sauce. I've had this like 3 times this week because once I forgot my money and they just gave it to me for free so I went back twice out of guilt and gratitude and to pay them back. It's a damn good salad though so I'm not puting myself out or anything.
-spinach salad with spinach, ground turkey and orange sesame dressing
-chicken parmesean sandwich. one of those sandwiches you buy in the convenience store. completely unimpressive. noteworthy in its lack of charm. why do I keep getting this sandwich? I do not really like it yet I am helpless to resist.

Dinner Roundup:
-didn't have dinner last night, unless you count peanuts eaten at the movies. Did have 5 beers, however. 2 Bud Light, 3 Schlitz.
-omelette w/ spinach, broccoli and cheese
-tuna salad w/ lettuce, tuna, and balsamic vinagrette dressing
-fish oil

2005-08-02T08:47:00.000-07:00

Hey! I am back!

So I was on vacation on a lovely island off the coast of New England where they really did have pretty decent food. I mean, for an island that has to ship all of its supplies in by boat daily. Not a ton of fresh vegetables, but honestly I can't complain because I just ate a tremndous amount of food. Some things I ate:

Mornings:
Lots of oatmeal
maypo (I am still unsure of what this is exactly.)
cheesy eggs
grapefruit (grapefruit is another experience where I never really liked grapefruit before, but here I just forced myself to ignore the sourness and wound up liking it. My force of will only grows stronger.)

Lunches:
tomato soup w/grilled cheese
various salads, often including walnuts
deli meats
other soups that weren't that great
lots of pears

Dinners:
steak (!) with like a roquefort sauce. memorable.
occasional broccoli. lots of salads and al dente root vegetables
chicken breasts, pork, turkey. various meats. suprisingly little fish for a place surrounded on all sides by water. there was salmon once but it was probably from a farm in Japan.
a tasty bean and plaintain vegetable dish that I had instead of sheperd's pie because I am not a fan of meaty pies
dessert was served at nearly every meal, but I only went for the good ones, like a mini key lime pie thing.

Yesterday Morning:
-oatmeal w/ protein stuff
-apple

Lunch:
-spinach salad w/ tomato, egg, onion, bacon, honey dijon
-fish oil

Dinner:
-yogurt and oat bran with fresh fruit
-grilled mahi mahi w/ crushed almonds and soy ginger marinade
-1 can Pabst Blue Ribbon

Today Morning:
-huevos rancheros
-apple

Lunch:
-chicken parmesean sandwich
-carrots w/ peanut butter
-fish oil
-green tea

2005-07-22T12:14:00.000-07:00

Thursday Morning:
-omelette w/ chicken sauage and spinach
-protein bar
-coffee

Lunch:
-i don't remember. probably a salad or something. i've got a lot on my mind.

Dinner:
-spinach salad
-stir fry w/cabbage, carrots, soy sauce, wine, cornstarch, onions, zuccini, water chestnuts, green pepper
-chicken
-some wine swigged from the bottle

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/protein stuff
-protein bar
-coffee

Lunch:
-chicken kabob salad w/ lettuce, tomato, cucumber, falafel, tahini sauce, hummus
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-07-20T13:31:00.000-07:00

Tuesday Dinner:
-yogurt w/oat bran and berries
-spinach salad w/ orange sesame dressing
-lemon garlic chicken breast
-mixed nuts
-fish oil

Today Morning:
-3 egg omelette with cheese and salsa
-protein bar
-coffee

Lunch:
-chicken and chinese broccoli in some kind of sauce. possibly garlic. chinese broccoli is very hard to eat when you don't have a knife, but I mostly ok from the experience. a little shaken.
-oolong tea
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-07-18T08:55:00.000-07:00

Weekend Roundup:
-yogurt w/oat bran and frozen berries
-beef with orange sesame sauce and broccoli
-salmon burger with soy sauce
-southwestern chicken wrap w/ lettuce, cumumber, tomato, and "southwestern sauce"
-spinach salad w/walnuts, chicken, cucumber, raisins, sesame dressing
-mixed nuts
-fish oil
-3 beers (1 Bud Light, 2 Pabst), 1 Hard Lemonade
-some other things I don't remember

Monday Morning:
-guess (correct, oatmeal w/ protein powder and frozen berries)
-fish oil
-protein bar

Monday Lunch:
-Spinach Souffle (spinach, cottage cheese, romano, garlic)

2005-07-15T11:19:00.000-07:00

Thurs Morning:
-oatmeal w/protein and frozen blueberries
-protein bar
-coffee

Thurs Lunch:
-chicken w/ an absolutely delicious pesto sauce that my friend made. (oddly, i've never really liked pesto, but for some reason i just knew i was going to like this and i did. i think whether i like the tastes of things or not is largely in my head and i can sometimes make myself like something by force of will.)
-fish oil

Thurs Dinner:
-salmon fillet w/olive oil (as if salmon were not oily enough already)
-cheeseburger
-chicken sausage
(today was the day of meat)
-salad w/lettuce, tabbouli
-2 glasses of wine

-delicious zuccini bread my friend made

Fri Morning:
-yogurt w/ oat bran and frozen blueberries
-protien bar
-coffee

Fri Lunch:
-tuna fish sandwich w/lettuce and tomato
-lean ground beef with sesame orange sauce
-cucumber
-fish oil

2005-07-13T12:07:00.000-07:00

Maybe this is going to become an every-other-day blog. I don't know. Stay tuned!

Tuesday Morning:
-protein bar
-coffee
-apple

Tue Lunch:
-tuna fish sandwich
-salad w/ lettuce
-fish oil

Tue Evening:
-1 beer (sam adams light)
-hamburger w/mustard
-omelette w/greena and red salsas
-spinach salad w/hummus
-cucumber (just a cucumber. nothing on it or anything)

Wednesday Morning:
-protein bar
-coffee

Lunch:
-turkey and quinoa chili w/green and yellow zuccini
-fish oil

Lame. My eating still stinks. You'd think with all of these vegetables around it would be better. It's hard to change eating habits.

2005-07-11T11:01:00.000-07:00

Geez, I missed last Friday, too. I had another fancy dinner on Friday: tapas. So of course there were like 15 different things. I remember eating rabbit, and thinking it was good, which surprised me. Also I drank probably 7 or 8 drinks, including some sangria, which was kind of bitter, actually. Not a good batch. Anyway, lots of delicious fatty food.

This weekend:
-omelettes w/ garlic snakes, broccoli, feta cheese, red and green salsas
-tuna
-apples
-turkey and quinoa chili w/ zuccini
-big salads w/ spinach, cucumber, tomato and hummus
-nachos
-ben and jerry's brownie batter ice cream (small bowl)
-mixed nuts
-trader joe's flax chips
-fish oil

I think I drank nearly every day last week. Let's see if we can replace some of those with vegetables this week.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ protein powder and frozen blueberries
-iced coffee
-protein bar

Lunch:
-Spinach salad w/ egg, bacon, cerry tomato, onion, and honey dijon mustard
-tuna fish sandwich
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-07-07T08:25:00.000-07:00

Whoops! Missed a day there. Nothing too exciting though.

Yesterday morning:
-oatmeal w/ protein powder and frozen blueberries
-coffee
-protein bar
(so it shall always be)

Yesterday Lunch:
-chicken salad w/cheese, tomatoes, corn, torilla strips, 4 black beans and a salsa/southwestern type sauce
-fish oil

Yesterday Dinner:
-salmon burger w/2 waffle-cut fries
-3 eggs with salsa and cheese
-4 beers

i bought a whole bunch of apples and got the farm share vegetables yesterday, yet almost no vegetable consumption this week. one thing i have noticed - the farm vegetables do not go bad as quickly as the ones you buy at the store. everyone knows deep down that vegetables from the local farm are better, but this is yet another reason to get locally farmed vegetables, and in my opinion, the best one. they are aso organic, which is good, but i am not all hung up on whether my food is organic or not. if it is, great, if not, the nutritional value the food provides is more important than what kind of crap it was grown in.

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/ protein powder and frozen blueberries
-coffee
-protein bar
(i can pretty much just cut and paste this into my morning meal. i will have an apply or something else tomorrow if i can remember.)

2005-07-05T09:16:00.000-07:00

i hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend. kind of different eating-wise for me.

Some things I ate this weekend:
-2 (3?) cheeseburgers
-krinkle cut kettle chips (salt and pepper flavor)
-various green salads
-omelettes (cheese, tomato)
-carrots and hummus
-coffee (lots of it)
-several beers and mixed drinks
-swiss chard
-chicken salad (a salad with chicken in it, not chickensalad.)
and, of course:
-fish oil

Today Morning:
-coffee
-oatmeal w/protein powder (i am out of frozen berries right now. i miss them.)
-protein bar

Lunch:
-tuna fish sandwich w/lettuce. pretty lame.
-fish oil

i will try to start eating some more entertaining foods.

2005-07-01T11:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Evening:
-almonds
-salmon fillet with green garlic
-steamed kale with lime and green garlic
-i invented a drink
pint glass fill withed w/ ice, add
1/2 shot of rum
1 shot of peach schnapps
juice of 1/2 lime
fill to top with iced tea

i had two of these

This Morning
-oatmeal w/ protein powder and froze blueberries.
-coffee
-protein bar
this is getting boring, huh? i will try to mix this up a little more.

Lunch:
-slice of pizza
-spinach salad w/low fat ranch dressing
-low fat cottage cheese. i cannot stand cottage cheese but i ate some anyway because it was going to go bad. don't ask me why i bought it in the first place.

2005-06-30T11:23:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Evening:
-burrito thing with the chicken, peppers, tomatillos, cheese, onions and no tortilla
-2 eggs over-medium with salsa and cheese
-tuna fish sandwich
-carrots

actually picked up the farm share last night. things i do not know what to do with:
-beets (i hate beets, but they are good for you. maybe i can juice them)
-garlic snakes (??)
-zuccini (don't really care much for zuccini either. i will try to force this down somehow)
-swiss chard (never had this before. don't have any problems with it in theory)

Today Morning:
-oatmeal w/frozen berries and protein powder
-coffee
-protein bar

Lunch:
-salad w/ hummus, falafel, lettuce, feta, chicken, cucumber, tomato, tahini. awesome.
-green tea
-fish oil

2005-06-29T10:47:00.000-07:00

Yesterday dinner:
-omelette with green tomatillo salsa
-broccoli w/cheese
-salmon burger

Today Morning: worked out in the morning today, which was not terrible.
-apple
-protein bar
-coffee
-fish oil

Lunch:
-tuna fish sandwich w/lettuce and tomato
-green tea

2005-06-28T12:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday dinner:
-turkey quinoa chile w/broccoli, soy beans and corn
-wasabi and soy sauce almonds
-pretzels w/peanut butter
-2 hard lemonades

Today morning:
-oatmeal w/protein powder, bluberries and raspberries
-protein bar
-coffee

Lunch:
-chicken parm sandwich
-wasabi and soy sauce almonds

Dinner:
I hope some salmon and some vegetables. hope i can rustle up something.

2005-06-27T10:36:00.000-07:00

I ate a number of things over the weekend.

Weekend Morning:
-eggs over medium
-oatmeal with frozen blueberries and raspberries
-coffee

Weekend Lunch: kind of a mix of things.
-moussaka
-peanuts
-some kind of fried tortilla thing with cheese and refried beans
-something called a "pizza strip" which was a rectangular piece of bread with pizza sauce on it
-chex mix
-grapes
-broccoli w/hummus

Weekend Evening: ate at a fancy restaurant. see if you can guess the restaurant things. challenge your friends!
-tuna fish sandwich
-softshell crab saganaki, briefly fried in a light tempura batter with a feta fennel sauce, sitting on a rice cake, tomatoes and peppers
-veggie burger
-fancy beer with cumin, coriander and cardamom
-pabst blue ribbon (2 cups from the keg)
-fried mussels and hot peppers with turkish tarator sauce
-spicy egyptian carrot puree with nuts and olive oil
-3 egg omellette with enchilada sauce, salsa, and crumbled cheese of some kind

Today Morning:
-protein bar
-coffee

Lunch:
-cobb salad w/avocado, lettuce, bacon, egg, onion, cherry tomato and honey dijon dressing.
-fish oil

Not as many vegetables as I would like at this point. Having picked up the vegetables from the farm share last week would really be nice right about now.

2005-06-24T12:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-chicken salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, green pepper, falafel, tahini sauce, chicken kebab. delicious.
-fish oil

Yesterday Dinner:
-chicken breast
-spinach salad w/tandoori dressing
-fish oil
-like 6 beers

Today Morning:
-casein protein powder mixed with nonfat milk and oat bran into a yogurty, pudding-like consistency.
-coffee

Lunch:
-"burrito in a bowl" thing. green peppers, celery, chicken, green tomatoes, cheese, some unidentified seeds. probably some other green vegetables I couldn't figure out. No tortilla. I don't know why they called this a burrito.
-decaf coffee w/fake sugar and fake cream (fake sugar and fake cream in all my coffees unless otherwise noted)
-fish oil
-salad w/romaine lettuce and the tandoori dressing again. the lettuce was dirty.

2005-06-23T07:50:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Lunch:
-spinach salad w/onion, egg, bacon, cherry tomatos and honey djion dressing.
-almond butter
-coffee (felt dizzy and tired in the afternoon)
-3 fish oil caps

Dinner:
-spinach salad w/hummus
-chicken breast w/tandoori sauce (chicken said to use or freeze by friday, but I cooked the crap out of it and it seems fine. I had to throw away some ground turkey I wanted to use which if you know me means that the turkey would have killed somebody or at least sent someone (me) on an unpleasant journey to an emergency room or hallucinegenic nightmareland.)
-almonds
-white wine
-3 fish oil caps

Today Morning:
-protein bar
-coffee
-flax meal

2005-06-22T06:28:00.000-07:00

I went on vacation for a few days and was not able to write down everything that I ate, but here are some things I remember eating:

Morning:
-oatmeal w/fruit
-scrambled eggs w/melon
-some of the worst coffee I have ever tasted
-oj
-oatmeal

Lunch:
-very good hummus
-tuna fish
-protein bars
-a good meaty chili that had chunks of beef in it rather than ground beef
-chicken soup
-tomato soup
-salads of various kinds
-cooked broccoli

Dinner:
-pork chops in a salty sauce
-cooked broccoli (this was served at nearly every meal)
-white meat turkey w/gravy
-several beers (there were good beers but for some reason I kept drinking Bud Lights)
-an enchilada

That is all I remember of things I ate on my vacation. Today I have eaten so far:

Morning:
-yogurt w/oat bran, raspberries and blueberries
-coffee

2005-06-17T10:38:00.000-07:00

Morning:
-yogurt with oat bran and frozen berries (raspberries, blueberries)
-coffee with fake sugar and fake cream that was powdered
-protein bar
-apple

Lunch:
-2 big bowls of spinach with hummus mixed in (am trying to get rid of the spinach. i have another pound and a half to go. does not look good.)
-another protein bar
-baby carrots (finished the bag)
-green tea with one fake sugar
-fish oil capsules

Dinner:
? hasn't happened yet. probably finish off the ground beef and turkey with maybe some random restaurant crap. not a lot of solid food so far today.