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May 1, 2005
Getting Ready for the Week
Now that I'm back at a job where I'm in an office much of the time, I'm packing my lunch, along with my pill box full of just a few essential supplements, every day before I go to work.
For tomorrow I have packed:
a salad of kale, romaine and arugula
1 cup of fat free yogurt (40% of the RDA of calcium in 110 calories!)
10 olives (a salty way to get my requisite fat)
half a megamuffin (a delicious dessert... bound to make your co-workers demand a bite, which will throw off your calorie count)
I'm thinking of making an adjustment to my breakfast. Don't freak out but I'm thinking of making a brewers yeast, broth and yogurt feast instead of my traditional eggwhites. Of course I would add flax oil, as the world will no doubt end if I don't balance my omega 3
s and 6's. It would just be so efficient to get my brewers yeast early in the day, get a head start on my calcium, and lately I've been so hungry in the morning! Today I had a cup of cottage cheese with my eggwhite and flax oil breakfast. Maybe it's because I've started to add NC bbq sauce to everything... I often use fat free yogurt as a thickener in soup, and to make it into "Cream of Whatever." So why not in my breakfast? When I was a kid I used to love eating soup for breakfast. Lots of mornings of Campbells chunky this or that. Not bad at all, if you consider that most kids were eating sugary cereals or pop tarts. So eating soup at breakfast is just as natural as eating scrambled eggwhites.
Don't worry, I'll still be the priestess of the eggwhite magic. I might just have my eggwhites later in the day. On days like this when I go out unexpectedly for meals, I still manage to get my protein, but I miss a lot of the nutrients that are found in brewers yeast. If I ate my brewers yeast first thing in the morning I could be sure of getting those nutrients before I did anything else.
Meanwhile, not sure on the crunch because I ate lunch out with a friend in Center City Philly and then wandered around reading a book that MR gave me and drinking a giant iced latte with skim in a favorite coffee shop. For dinner, I went out with my mom to the Ruby Tuesday's, where they have a great salad bar, filled with veggies, salsa, olives, and Heinz salad vinegar, as well as a huge selection of various kinds of pickled hot peppers.
Looking forward to the week... more recipes to follow!
Posted by april at May 1, 2005 5:54 PM