Week 5 Cass

Cass week 5

This week for Meatless Monday I started the day off with an omelet. I took the advice someone gave me last week and used the leftover green onion and cilantro in it as well as a little bit of regular onion and cheese mixed in. It was very delicious and a good use of the left over ingredients from my tabbouleh last week. For lunch, I just ate a quick orange and cliff car. For dinner, I was at work (Tim Horton’s) and did not have time to prepare anything unfortunately. I ate a yogurt parfait and a vegetable soup that we had that day. This past Monday was hard to eat for since I had been so busy all weekend with starting final projects and working 16 hours, I didn’t have time to go to Wegman’s and create a new meal. I tried my best to follow the Meatless Monday project even at work but these next few weeks are just crunch time for projects and tests so it is going to be a bit harder to find good planning and cooking time. However, I did make something new with the ingredients I got from the Lexington co-op; from the bulk section I got the powder hummus mix. I was curious to see how it came out since it was powder. I followed the instructions and tried mixing it as best as I could since I do not have a good blending machine at my apartment. I added in some of the green onion, cilantro, and minced garlic leftovers I had to give it some extra flavor.  After leaving it in the fridge like the instructions said, I took it out and noticed that it was not the normal hummus texture. It was thick but not like normal hummus you would buy at the store. I am not sure if this is because it was from powder or because I did not mix it enough. It tasted great though! It did not taste any different than store bought hummus, I enjoyed it with some whole grain pita bread.

            

This week was a bit more difficult for me since I was so busy the weekend before and forgot to plan out a meal. There was no price differences in my shopping trip mainly because I did not have time to shop and I still need to find time to go this week. My cooking never interferes with what my roommates do because we each cook our own food. I don’t really see going meatless yesterday affecting any of the other days of the week for me. Like always, the meal that was affected most was dinner. During the day I have no problem just eating an orange or yogurt for lunch so I try to fill up the most at dinner time.