1-23-08 Food Log

6:45 am: 1 banana w almond butter, 1bowl oatmeal square cereal a skim milk and herb tea

10:30 am: tuna pita in a bento (see photo below)

3:30 pm: apple and peanut butter snack bento plus a bowl of oatmeal squares with 1 percent milk (see photo below)

7 pm: Cashew chicken bento with an orange for dessert and herb tea (see photo below)

Water: about 44 oz today
Exercise: none today

pita/apple snack/cashew chicken bentos

This is what I had for early lunch today. It's a whole wheat pita with tuna salad (tuna mixed with Annie's Naturals Cowgirl Ranch Dressing) with alfalfa sprouts and cut up tomatoes. It is not really a "bento" but I put it in a bento. smile.


Snack Bento: cut up apple with natural chunky peanut butter for dipping.



Brown rice heated up from dinner last night plus cashew chicken from the local chinese restaurant. I thought I'd make it cute by using the cashews and veggies to make a little face in the rice. I had an orange for dessert.

tuna bento lunch/chicken-brown rice bento dinner

This is what I had for lunch today. Tuna packed in water (drained) with Annie's Naturals "Cowgirl Ranch Dressing" to spread with my nifty bamboo spreader on Ak Mak whole wheat and sesame crachers and sliced radishes.

My dinner bento: Long grain brown rice cooked with Wolfgang Puck chicken stock topped with chicken breast tenders cooked on the Foreman grill with a small salad of alfalfa sprout with Annie's Naturals Tuscan dressing and carrots. I dipped the carrots in Annie's Cowgirl Ranch dressing.

I've been eating more than I should lately, so I was tempted to grab something else with dinner, but I was a good girl and only had herb tea.

I'm getting a sore throat. Hope it isn't strep. (But it easily could be because of my sons has strep right now.)

1-22-08 Food Log

6 am: bowl of oatmeal squares and skim milk, moroccan green tea

10:15: am tuna bento (tuna salad, ak mak crackers, sliced radishes), berry herb tea

1:10: lg passion fruit milk tea tapioca drink from "Quickly"

5:30 pm: 1 banana

7 pm: brown rice and chicken bento (see photo), 2 cups herb tea

exercise: none today
water: not much, really

Busy me! and a recipe...

I have been busy lately with my job and also still have this cold, so I haven't been posting. I think I will start posting some of what I'm eating without worrying about including every little thing and exact times, etc. This will make it more easy for me to keep going with this blog for now. I've been eating well and have continued on the Eating Clean diet. Here is a recipe for "Breakfast in a Blender" that I've found very helpful on busy mornings (and tasty!):

From The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook by Tosca Reno:

1 scoop protien powder ( I use vanilla flavored whey protein powder from Whole Foods -- it is sweetened with Stevia)
1/3 c dry oatmeal
2/3 c skim milk (options are: water, soy milk, almond, or rice milk)
1 Tbsp natural almond butter (or other natural nut butter)
1 frozen banana (or fresh)
2 Tbsp unsweetened applesauce (I substitute or add various kinds of frozen fruit)
1 Tbsp flax seed
1 Tbsp wheat germ
1/2 c ice cubes

I blend this all in my "magic bullet"...very yummy and filling!

(275 calories)

1-2-08: veggie omlet/fruit and cheese bentos

Veggies on the chopping board, waiting to become an omlet.

6:50 am: 1 c steel cut oatmeal topped with 1 Tbsp wheat germ, 1 Tbsp bee pollen, 3 Tbsp apple sauce, 7 fresh raspberries and 1/2 ruby red grapefruit, and tulsi tea (passion fruit flavor)

10:15: veggie omlet made with variety of veggies shown above with 4 egg whites and 1 whole egg (I ate 1/2 of the omlet)

12:30 pm: red and green seedless grapes and gala apple with wedge of low fat laughing cow cheese in white bento and some of the leftover teryaki chicken strips from Whole Foods with a brown rice onigiri that I made from the rice I made for dinner the other night (the left over rice was still warm and sticky in the rice cooker, so I made some onigiri and saved them in the fridge) grilled for a couple minutes in soy sauce.

3:30 pm: 4 ak mak crackers spread with almond butter plus 1/2 banana, and tulsi tea

5 pm: "cutie" (mandarin orange)

6:30 pm: the other 1/2 of the omlet from this morning plus 2 more of the brown rice onigiri which I ate cold right out of the fridge

10 pm: whole grain chips and organic salsa (filled the white bento 1 & 1/2 times with chips)

I stayed home sick today coughing and coughing and eating felt good on my throat. I probably shouldn't have eaten the 10 pm snack, but the rest of the day seemed like I ate okay (except maybe not 2 onigiri at 6:30)

supplements: same as yesterday

water: far exceeded my 64 oz goal

exercise: none at all

1-2-07 egg white and veggie omlet/chicken and rice bentos

I was too tired to post last night. I have a fairly bad cold right now.

5:30 am: 1 tiny 1/5 oz. bag of raw nuts/raisins (cashews, hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts)
5 sections of ak mak 100% whole wheat crackers with hummus dip (from Trader Joe's)
herb tera (no picture of this meal)

9 am: Three egg whites scrambled with chopped celery, fresh green beans, onion, carrots, snap peas, turkey slices (from Trader Joe's). This was soooo good. I ate it with chopsticks.

Then I got busy and didn't eat till after I went to the grocery store...
5 pm... some of a chicken rice bowl from Whole Foods (brown rice, teriyaki chicken, shredded carrots and cabbage, and teriyaki sauce). I shouldn't have waited so long to eat.

7:30 pm: Salad with romaine and radishes (red, pink, purple, and white) with Annie's Natural oil and vinegar salad dressing and short grain brown rice (made with Wolfgang puck chicken stock) and chicken breast (cooked with Foreman grill). This was a very yummy dinner. The chicken stock makes the rice so flavorful but it does have some chicken fat in the stock which I shouldn't have.

supplements: Multi-vitamin (from Trader Joe's), 800 mg CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) which is a good fat that is supposed to help with weight loss, 500 mg Maca for more nutrition and energy, and 50 mg Coenzyme Q10 which is an anti-oxidant which stimulates the immune system and give energy, and tulsi tea which is good for stress.

water: pretty close to my 64 oz goal

exercise: none to speak of as I am sick and coughing today.