Oct. 16
Breakfast: green smoothie. Lots of locally grown spinach at the co-op so it's been competing with my collard green smoothies.Lunch: mashed potatoes, broccoli & carrots. dessert: fresh cut pineapple (perfect ripeness, delicious). small cup warm soy milk (made from my new soymilk maker which I love!).
Dinner: Brussel sprouts (locally grown, yum) and some odds and ends (orange, pear, figs, carrot)
Oct. 17
Breakfast: green smoothie
Lunch: salad (lettuce, mushrooms, boiled and shelled edamame) with dressing (fresh squeezed orange juice, handful of walnuts, about 4 figs). very yummy! finished off with a small cup of warm soymilk (my coffee substitute).
Dinner: this was surprisingly good: I steamed brussel sprouts for about 15 minutes, added a bag of arugula and about 5 chopped figs for another 5-10 minutes. added some vinegar (Dr. Fuhrman's black fig vinegar. This sat for several hours (in the fridge) since I made it at lunch and I think that allowed the flavors to blend more. Then I also had some leftover lunch salad. And then I was full and should have stopped but I had some fruit salad too (strawberry, pineapple, grapes, pear, figs). ugh. I was too full. so already failing on the Fuhrman plan.
Oct. 18.
Breakfast: wasn't hungry after too much food last night!
Lunch: this was also surprisingly good: I cooked up some quinoa (about 1 cup quinoa and 2 cups water), with some chopped onion, Dr. Fuhrman's veggie zest (1 Tbsp or so), and later on in the cooking, some chopped mushrooms, and 1 cup each frozen peas and corn. oh, and some chopped figs (can you tell figs are in season?). These added a nice sweetness. grapes or raisins would work too. Total cooking time, about 30 minutes. Then had some fruit salad--cut up strawberries, banana, apple, grapes, raisins, figs. Lunch was a picnic at a nearby state park. a beautiful day hiking and viewing the fall colors.
Dinner: Green smoothie
I went grocery shopping tonight and there is so much great local produce now! wow, so that's what I'll be eating the next several days. About the only non-local vegetable I got was carrots because I want to make cabbage salad. And lots of the fruit was non-local because I have to make a fruit salad for a breakfast gathering tomorrow. But the apples and pears are local and much better. All of this local produce is much better than shipped stuff.