Shame on Subway

Had a hard time falling asleep, but got to bed around 1am. Lifted weights in the morning, felt strong, happy Mil slept through most of it. A small shop at Wholefoods with Mil, then a few hours in the local playground with Edie in the glorious weather.


TODAY'S COOKING:
Granola Bars: Wallop of almond butter, wallop of maple syrup, a fistful of flax and spirulina, simmered then 3 eggs added. Tossed with yesterdays granola, pressed into a lined pan, 300 for 25 minutes. Looks good.

Tahini Dressing: Used this recipe randomly, which as to my suspicion uses carrot and tahini interchangebly in this Japanese style ginger dressing. I doubled it, as it is a lot of work for ONE serving of dressing. Tasting it, too mustardy, perhaps because all I had was stuff from the pickle guys. Aftr storing, came out surprisingly thick, and the flavor was a bit too strong. In the next iteration, halve the mustard, maybe up the tahini by 50%, and perhaps add some water to thin it out and lower the volume of the flavor.

Salsa Fresca: Diced a bunch of tomatos, one full sweet white onion, minced three cloves of garlic & most of a bunch of cilantro. Tossed in the cup of tomato juice made yesterday, salt, red wine vinegar and a few dashes of tabasco to make up for the jalapeno missing. I sipped the cold tomato juice -- WOW! I never liked V8, it tastes like aluminum and acid, but this was bright, fresh, tomatoey in the right way, and surprisingly redolent of celery (probably due to the call to cook the leaves as well as the stalks)

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10:30am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
The new fruit mix with less pinapple and nit-berries (black and red) definitely makes for a better smoothie, but I'm getting a note of sulfer, not sure where it's coming from. Still, good.

LUNCH: 1pm, veggie burger sub on "9 grain honey oat" bread, diet coke, a few sunchips, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
While eating, I tried to find the ingredient list on line on my phone for the bread to see how healthy it really is. Couldn't find it, but googled around and found this:

9-GRAIN WHEAT Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, barley malt, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, yeast, high fructose corn syrup, whole wheat flour, wheat gluten, contains 2% or less of the following: oat fiber, soybean oil, salt, wheat bran, rolled wheat, rye nuggets, dough conditioners (DATEM, sodium stearoyl lactylate), yeast nutrients (calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate), degermed yellow corn meal, rolled oats, rye flakes, caramel color, triticale flakes, parboiled brown rice, refinery syrup, honey, barley flakes, flaxseed, millet, sorghum flour. Contains wheat.

Jeebsus! This is just Italian bread with a tiny bit of "healthy stuff" thrown in for shits n' giggles. It's mostly just plain white flour -- there is more YEAST than whole wheat flour in it! Ther is more HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP that whole wheat flour in it! Looking at all the bread options, there are NO real healthy bread options there. The take the sheen of healthy eating, but bread-wise, they are committing fraud.

DINNER: 6:45pm, broiled sole with butter & old bay, roasted brussel sprouts, baked potato, baby spinach salad with slivered almonds and tahini ginger dressing, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8:30pm, almonds & chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9:30pm, leftover masaman veg curry & white rice, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5