Monday, January 4, 2010

January 4th Menu

Breakfast: An Apple, oatmeal and hot coffee.

Lunch: A tortilla wrap, filled with left over black eyed pea and blackbean vegan "hoppin johns" and lettuce, baby carrots, a pink lady apple, iced green tea with ginger and lime

Dinner: Left over curried chickpeas and veggies from Sunday made into psuedo falafel (by processing 1 cup left over curry with 1/2 cup corn meal and 1/2 cup flour and making into patties), topped with cumin-spiced tomato and red onion, served with a green salad, with carrots, red cabbage, pea pods, apples and walnuts and a lime and olive oil dressing. Iced green tea with lime.

Friday, January 1, 2010

A Fresh Start


I have a goal to only clean, healthy foods this year. It is always my goal, but a new year seems like the perfect time to start fresh. I may occasionally post my day's menu here, as a way of keeping track of how well I am meeting my goal.


I noticed this morning that I am low on some of the important healthful ingredients that I like to keep on hand. I am out of whole wheat flour, for example, and whole flax seed. There are no nuts left in the house. In regard to fruit, we are down to a few pink lady apples, two or three bananas, and a few frozen blueberries and cranberries. As I finish this post, I will be heading off to write a meal plan for the week and a really good shopping list. I've gotten out of the habit of shopping with a list... I rush in to the grocery store on my way home from classes and grab a few things, and my cupboards are beginning to reflect the effects of that haphazard approach. I can't promise a cornucopia of posts here, but I hope to post more often than last year (which I think was a grand total of "Once.")