Week 4 Jan

Jan

Monday 3/31

I had a very busy weekend with family in town. Normally I try to shop and do some cooking on Sundays, but did not get to it this week.

For breakfast, I had my usual whole wheat toast with margarine, and a little cashew butter. One cup orange juice and one cup water (o.j. is too sweet straight), one cup soy milk. 1 3/4 cups coffee. For lunch, I threw together a quick whole wheat pita stuffed with baby spinach, baked tofu (Brand: Wildwood), something expensive but new.  Also added a little ranch dressing which was leftover from family get together last month (date still good!). The tofu-spinach sandwich oddly tasted little like a tuna sandwich. Sometimes if I’m really short on time I just bring the sandwich ingredients and assemble it at work. Decided to add some spicy beans (“uncanny refried black beans” are the name, found in the hummus section) to the second half of the pita. Also had a handful of walnuts and an orange.

Snack: apple (organic, pink lady)

Dinner: I cooked some mixed veggies (frozen), cooked jasmine rice in water + remaining vegetable water. 

I sautéed onions and garlic, and added mixed veggies and garbanzo beans. I had this over rice with a few black bean tortilla chips. Later I had dark chocolate, a little cashew butter, and soy milk.

I relied a lot on some convenience foods (tofu, spicy beans) that would be better made by myself—classic trade-off of time and money, and this weekend time was in shortest supply. The extra money spent was still probably less than eating out.