Be Back Monday

I'll be taking a break from recording every thing I eat from Friday through Sunday, due to the fam & I travelling to Michigan to see my father-in-law. The eating will not be healthy, and I suspect a minimum of vegetables will be involved. However, when I get back, I'll rededicate to 3+ cups of vegetable matter a day.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, homemade granola with the good milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2pm, 2oz of dark chocolate hot chocolate, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 4pm, 2 slices of Sicilian, root beer, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8pm, gumbo & rice, chocolate covered graham crackers, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Underpowered

Didn't leave the house today, just felt underpowered. Got to bed by 10:30 last night, but 9.5 hours of sleep just didn't do it. When Edie went down for a nap around 10, I did too. Ordered in a crappy lunch, and just boiled up noodles for dinner. In the afternoon, I whipped out a tray of granola and started seasoning an old caste iron waffle iron that was given to me. And that's about it.

BREAKFAST: 9am, toasted bagel with cream cheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 1:30pm, small green salad, piece of Italian bread, eggplant parm, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7:45pm, ramen noodles, diet gatorade, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, slice of chocolate tart, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Tuesday, as Fat as any other

Woke up at 8 to look after the baby, but I easily could of slept until noon -- that chocolate tart last night kept me up, and Edie getting a lil' cranky around midnight didn't help either. Stayed in and moved as little as possible until 1pm, then went to the weekly playdate drop in. Only two other mothers showed up because of the weather. From there, collected the chocolate pecan pie I baked the other day and went to a Mardi Gras themed playdate in the East Village. Edie super-dug the bouncy jumper thing, but I dunno if we need another hunk of plastic in our apartment.

Spent the evening at a Food Coop meeting, it's still early but should be cool when we get there.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, 1 cheddar-bacon-biscuit, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 1:15pm, 1 slice of streetza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2:15pm, cherry jam bar thing

LINNER: 4:30pm, gumbo & rice, muffalata sandwich, cornbread, buttermilk pie, 2 rum drinks, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Chill

A chill President's day. I woke up late, left B behind with Lil' Edles and hung out with D. I was going to have more vegetable matter with dinner, but B decided to overcook a selection of the veg in the crisper drawer in the steamer, so I passed.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, bagel & creamcheese, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2:30pm, tonkatsu ramen, half an order of gyoza, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6pm, large green salad and potato chips, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 9:45pm, homemade chocolate tart, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Mum-Mum

Edie has been wonderful. She's now 8 months old, and more interactive and interesting than ever. She's been sleeping a good 12 hours a night, with only 1 or 2 brief wake-ups in the earlier part. She doesn't have teeth to speak of yet, so has been eating mushed veg, mushed fruit and blended grains. We recently introduced "mum mums", something I've seen other moms give their babies -- basically starchy wafers of rice flour and potato starch that is dry and crisp, but when wet with saliva turns to a loose paste. Edie seems to dig it, though I think she'll be more into it when she starts teething properly.

This morning I went out and did some chores while B did the baby thing, then we went out to lunch with peeps, followed by an impromptu play date. Back home, baked up some dinner and we vegged in front of a movie. Pretty good day.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, homemade granola with dead organic milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2pm, burger & fries, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Me n' B were going to meet with some friends at Vegetarian Dim Sum, but we were unaware that today was Chinese New Years as well as Valentine's, so we shuffled off that crowded part of the city back to our hood to go to Broadway East. We haven't been back since they changed menus, and this menu was pretty standard New American. I had a burger (well done) to test them, and they muffed it. I knew the burger would be dry and unappealing, but the bun was nothing special, the vegetables wilted, the fries a little too cool and greasy.

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, lemonade & whiskey, 1 slice chocolate tart, a few bites of shrimp, a chocolate truffle, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
We were invited to a last minute play date, and I brought over one of the tarts I baked off last night. Edie got to chill with a few other babies, B got to chill with a few other muthahs, I got to chill with a nice food spread, he he.

DINNER: 7pm, pepperoni pizza, chocolate pecan pie, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Made pizza upon B's request for V-day. I also baked up a few chocolate pecan pies for a Mardi Gras-themed playdate this Tuesday, had to try some -- pretty good, kinda like a white-trash souffle.