An Apple a Day means a little less chocolate!

Woke up late -- our usual alarm clocks (da kidz) didn't go off and B got up at 7:45, and got Edie out the door while I slept with Milli Mil. Got up at 8:30 with a sore throat and stuffy nose, worse than yesterday. Still have energy and a clear head, so it's not a HUGE deal, but I popped a vitamin C to help things along.

A good day. Road the cargo bike to B's cousin's house in Brooklym and transported a child's desk and chairs over. Lifted weights, walked to Wholefoods with Milford, did a little light cooking.

Good news: Just picked up a new cooking class for a semester, will be teaching it starting next week through April, overlapping the other class I teach by a month. We'll see how it goes, hopefully it'll become a regular thing.


TODAY'S COOKING
Tabouli: While making the week's mama salad, whipped up some simple tabouli. 1 cup of bulgar wheat into 2 cups of salted boiling water, sit for 30 minutes. Mixed in one deseed chopped tomato, 2 deseeded chopped cucumbers, minced bunch of mint, minced bunch of parsley, a small amount of grated red onion, some olive oil. Forgot to get a lemon, will hit it tomorrow.


AM SNACK: 8:45am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:15am, good yogurt with almonds, vanilla and agave, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
I squirted the agave into the yogurt assuming it would flow like honey, and ended up shooting too much in. I poured as much as I could off, but it was still too loose and sweet. Oh well, probably still not as sweet as a McDonald's "healthy" yogurt parfait.

LUNCH: 12:30pm, turkey & swiss on whole wheat, health salad, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Toasted the bread and zapped the filling in the micro for 30 seconds, made for a much more satisfying sandwich.

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, brown rice avocado cucumber nori roll, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Out to Wholefoods with Mil strapped to me, forgot to grab a granola bar on the way out. Considered a slice o' streetza or a hotdog on the way over, but occured to me half way there would probably some sort of appetizing but healthy snack at the market.

PM SNACK: 6pm, momma salad, with carrot dip, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7:30pm, leftover whole wheat penne with beef gravy, spinach and a little broc, an apple, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
The pasta wasn't too appetizing, and when I sniffed it I almost hope it went bad. But it was fine, and afet zapping, the umami-ness of the brisket braising-liquid derived gravy was nice, beefy, mushroomy. After finishing, felt the urge for desert, for sweet. I bought some nice fujis the other day, so cut up some big apple chunks, and it left me feeling satiated. Though in the back of my mind I feel a salt/greasy urge building....

EVENING SNACK: 8:30pm, potato chips. .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10:30pm, frozen waffle, the 2 last mini bagel wrapped hot dogs, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5