Lunch: Leftover black-eyed pea stew, zucchini & peas & corn (had a zucchini in the fridge, trying to get rid of produce before my trip tomorrow). Dessert: easy arugula apple salad, which I added orange slides to. I love this salad and it is sooo easy! The combination of the bitter greens, tart and sweet apple and orange, and acidic vinegar--it's just an excellent explosion of taste. I'm going to make this a lot on my trip next week because it should be easy to make in a hotel room. I'll talk about my plans in another post if I can get packed in time. Here's my dessert:
We had housemate's family over for lunch and she fixed them their traditional meatloaf dinner. They had ice cream and cake for dessert. This is an example of how weird I am: I totally loved my salad way more than I would have liked even vegan cake and ice cream. Well, okay, I would have been tempted by vegan cake and ice cream, but it wasn't vegan, it was cake from a box and frosting from a can and ice cream from a factory, so it was not tempting at all. And the salad was really good. Oh, I probably did eat a bit too much for lunch. The reason is that I was thinking I have to eat a bunch of salad before leaving town so will need a salad tonight for dinner. But I guess I shouldn't think that way. I should let food go to waste? hmmm, maybe I could make a smoothie--yeah, I can make some green smoothies and put them in the freezer. So then I don't have to feel I need to eat so much today.
Dinner: well, I'm trying to get rid of food from the fridge before my trip. and I wanted some blueberries and know I'll be eating a lot of salads on the trip. But I have lots of salad at home to eat up. So I made a green smoothie consisting of a bag of baby greens (5 oz), a frozen bag of blueberries, an apple, an orange, a little bit of pomegranate juice, and, this is where I think I made a mistake, half of a sweet potato. It was okay, but I think replacing the sweet potato with another orange (both are small) would have been better. oh well, it was pretty satisfying, in fact I overate--normally I'd only eat half the smoothie at a time but I didn't think it was good enough to freeze the rest so I just ate about 2/3 of it and...poured the rest down the sink. I then proceeded to make 9 smoothies for housemate, in 3 batches. Now, to get her to eat spinach, I make hers much sweeter than mine. I use a sweet berry juice, and I got rid of the last of my dates and maple syrup in her smoothies. So I did taste-test them and boy were they good. Perhaps I taste-tested them a bit too much. So I'd say I overate tonight. Darn! okay, I'll get better.