Poppa Day

The day started off to a rollicking roil with Edie a bit too feverish to go to school. Instead of weights, I rallied the troops to come do the laundry with me, and I'll lift hopefully tomorrow when Edles is back in school.

Baby sitter came last minute, and I took Edles to see the doc, then off to Two Boots on A for lunch. We locked up the bike and strolled over to Tompkins to play in the playground for 30 minutes, then off for food shopping. What could have been a horrible day turned into a nice time and some quality one-on-one time with my daughter. It was a good day to be a poppa.

TODAY'S COOKING
Tabouli: B wanted me to pick some up from the market, but why get stuff that's twice the price and half as good as homemade? 3/4 cup red bulgar soaked in 2.25 cups of hot water with salt. Mixed with chopped deseeded cucumber, deseeded tomato, juice of 1 lemon, 1 clove garlic crushed, 1 chopped roasted red pepper, 1/4 of a sweet white onion chopped, a few tablespoons of minced mint and parsley, 3 tbsp of olive oil, a teaspoon of salt, a half teaspoon of cumin. Mixed up and left in the fridge to set up and meld and mellow.


Poppa Salad: Getting a bit bored of the Spinach, so bringing this out of retirement this week. Chopped salad, lettuce-based. Red leaf & iceberg lettuces, English cucumber, shredded carrot, red bell pepper, scallion, red onion.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:15am, hardcore oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:45pm, 1 slice of vegan whole wheat pizza, 2 slices of normal pizza, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Two Boots after Edie's doc. I was going to only eat the vegetable-laden cheeseless whole grain "Earth Mother" slice and a slice with sausage and peppers, but Edie was not feeling her plain slice, so I ended up eating most of that, too. She did, however, greatly enjoy eating an apple. -sigh- Who is showing who how to eat well? Maybe Edie'll publish a "Toddler Diet" book.

DINNER: 7pm, poppa salad, tabouli with sauteed curried shrimp, 10oz Sprite, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9pm, whole wheat pretzel rods with nutella, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5