Honest Ups and Downs

Friday, February 7, 2014

TGIF.  Although it was a pretty decent week, I'm glad it is the weekend.

Kind of excited this evening.  I got a package delivered today - the stuff I ordered at the beginning of the week.  One of the things in my box was some pasta (fusilli) made with einkorn wheat.  I'm thinking dinner!

Also, after hitting up the grocery store I am less than $1 over for the week, and if I don't spend any money this weekend on food I am absolutely booking it as a win, since a couple of bucks were spent on convenience store items and that money came out of the spare change in my car.  I am not a purist!  Also, this week's spending was definitely inflated by the $30 I spent on the package ... almost makes up for skewing the beginning of the week the other way by squeezing a grocery run into January.  I imagine this is kind of how the government works...

On to the eats.

Breakfast:  ~ 4 strips bacon, 2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee

Lunch:  Spicy beans, some colby/jack cheese, 1 large avocado

Snack:  Chips and onion dip.  Ugh.  I spent $3.04 for this?  Why?

Dinner:  ~ 4 oz einkorn fusilli pasta, half a jar of Classico italian sausage spaghetti sauce, a little parmesan.

It looks like whole wheat pasta to me, man

In a word, YUM.  Really nice flavor, no texture surprises.  Just good pasta.  Like any pasta it's highly caloric (4 oz is 400 calories), but the nutrition chart actually shows it has some value.  Assuming that I can tolerate the stuff and ideally assuming that it doesn't bloat me like today's wheat, I'd love to be able to use this occasionally as a side dish -- tonight is likely the only time in the immediate future it'll be used as a main course.  Maybe I'll get some spaghetti to use as a base for other italian dishes.  Lots of possibilities.

And I haven't even played with the plain einkorn flour or the coconut flour yet!

Exercise:  Sigh, no.  Slept in.  Bitterly cold.  Try again.

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