OK so today was not so good to start. I ate left over raisin cinnamon swirl bread for breakfast. I have never looked at the ingredients but I imagine it is highly processed. Didn't really have time for lunch. I went shopping at HT again. I needed to find salad dressing for tomorrows salad. I looked at the ingredients of every single bottle. All of them had ingredients that I couldn't imagine what it was so I passed. Pulled out my handy IPhone and called my vegetarian friend. She made perfect sense when she told me to just make my own dressing. Duh! This really never occurred to me. Its as if salad dressing is some crazy concoction that I thought only a wizard could make in some far away land. When I got home I googled homemade salad dressing and I found zillions of tasty sounding dressings that are so easy. Its a pretty basic formula and sounds like it could be made with infinite variations. I cant wait to try it out tomorrow. If I'm successful I will throw out all the dressings in the fridge.
For dinner tonight I made bruschetta. It was so simple and so so good. I looked up a ton of recipes and then just made my own variation. I used tomato, onion, garlic, and spinach. Yum!
I also tried Quinoa for the first time. I bought a box of easy Quinoa with spices. It was okay. At first I didn't like it at all but then I thought maybe I hadn't cooked it right so I put it back on the stove for a few more minutes and it was a lot better the second time. Still not a real favorite for me or any of the family but I will try it again sometime since I have heard that taste buds change once you get used to the diet.
I also made cranberry sauce. I used cranberries, one apple and honey. It was good but tart so next time I will use more honey. So cool though.
Tonight my older daughter went through her candy and picked out the 10 pieces we agreed on and she dumped the rest with no problem. I must admit that it was hard for me to just throw away so many lollipops. I thought I should give them away. But then I thought that would be like saying these things are poison to my kids but who cares about yours. Weird.
Lastly, I decided that I will be more motivated to keep this going if I continue to watch the food documentaries that got me started. Well today I watched one about Vegans. Truly a big mistake. They showed all the awful things the animals go through so that we Americans can have eggs, milk, cheese, and meat. It was so sad. I guess I already knew that those things happen but I felt that it was probably just a few misguided farms. Reality is that it is industry standard. How else could our massive population be fed. Now I'm at a weird place. I don't know if I can eat eggs, milk, cheese, or meat now. How will I not feel guilt every time. I'm thinking I might have to go to local farms and see behind the scenes until I find one I can live with.
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