So I Made A Lot of Food

Monday, October 6, 2014
Day 1

Hey, how about that.  I think I'm going to make it through an entire day of accountability.  I am pleased.  Oh, there are still temptations - I have a chocolate bar that I will probably need to give away and the remnants of some ice cream - but it's well into the evening and I think it's going to stick.  For today at least.

No reason to get into the timing, let's just say that this makes sense.  For the same kind of reasoning that new year resolutions make sense - arbitrary reasoning tied to the calendar.  Anyhow, it seems like the right time and I was up to the challenge today food-wise.  I was not exercise-wise.  I did get up this morning when the alarm went off but had woefully insufficient sleep so I napped on the couch instead of working out.  It'll get there.

Oh, and another random thought - I have had some ongoing allergy issues that drive my sinuses crazy at seemingly random intervals.  Afrin takes care of it, but you aren't supposed to use that stuff for more than a couple of days in a row.  That's a big thing that I'd like to figure out and resolve.

On with the show.

Breakfast:  Coffee.

Ugh.  I dawdled so long that I had to race out the door.  I considered grabbing a slice of cheese but decided not to do so.  No big deal, I wasn't real hungry.

Lunch:  Homemade vegetable beef soup, 1 slice sourdough toast with lots of butter

The usual homemade soup.  I freeze it in pint jars, it makes a good sized bowl full.  It's only 3 oz of beef so it's not a ton of protein, I might need to bulk that up, maybe use 2lb of ground beef or switch to using roast.

No picture, I forgot to take one.

Dinner:  3 CF jumbo eggs scrambled with a splash of milk, an ounce or two of Kraft multi-cheddar shredded cheese, 5 strips CF garlic-pepper bacon, a reasonable quantity of Alexia hash browns fried in butter, a little hot sauce.

My table presence, it is SLOPPY.

These might have been the best scrambled eggs I have ever made.  No idea why, really.  I used a splash of whole milk and stirred them while they were cooking.  Otherwise it was business as usual.  I hope that I have inadvertently stumbled onto the holy grail of scrambled eggs, because they were that good.  I usually fry them just because I have that pretty much down, it will be nice to have an alternative.

All in all a very satisfying dinner.  And yes, a lot of food.  I did get smart and used a smaller skillet for the hash browns -- it wasn't a major decrease over what I usually make, but it was less.  I should probably measure them, but for now this is good.

Exercise:  Nope.  I hope to move around some this evening cleaning up but that's about it.

---  (~125.0)