:: Day 125 - Summary ::

Activities: Saratoga Farmer's Market with Mikee. We decided to give the organic pasture fed chicken a try, per Tracy's recommendation. It wasn't cheap but what do you expect. We got a 5.2lb chicken for $20 and paid an extra $3 for feet. Mikee's rosemary BBQ chicken is amazing so we've decided to use the chicken for that. And i'll save the bones + feet for more stock. These chickens get to run around, get sunshine and hang out with bugs. How more natural can it get? :P Oh and here's a pic of all the produce we got - cant wait to consume it all!


8am: 1 apple, random sampling of stuff at farmer's market


Lunch @ Tai Wu with Mother-In-Law


Main meal @ home
A small bowl of leftover chinese food, a bowl of vege soup, 1/4 coldstone icecream
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:: Day 124 - Summary ::

Activities: Bah. 12 hour work day again.

7am: Bowl of fresh fruit, strawberry banana odwalla, small slice of egg white vege fritatta


Main meal @ home
We bought some random dishes from whole foods and shared. With the $5 off coupon it was pretty good! Turkey Lasagne, TUrkey meatloaf, parsnip cake, orzo and spinach salad - All for $16. Not bad!

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:: Day 123 ::

Activities: 12 hour work day. blah. + small group in the evening.

8am: 1 apple

2pm: a few mouthful of homemade kale soup


Main meal @ home: vege soup party!!!
White leek soup, Orange soup (Laura's recipe), Cauliflower soup, Leftover vege fritatta

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:: sad poop ::

So if you recall one of my posts from last weeks... I've been eating real bad for a few days... chocolate, cookies, cake... you name it. All the "C"s. And yesterday at lunch I sampled some indian food (yum but lots of heavy cream, another "C") and also had birthday cake.

My poop has not been happy. I get tummy aches randomly through the day - I sit at the toilet and feel constipated. A feeling I haven't had in awhile. My body is not liking the onslaught of the "C"s and I keep apologizing but doing jack about it. Well this morning was the final straw - I went out for a run and the whole time I felt like I was having diarrhea when in fact, I wasn't. I hate feeling like this. i really really need to eat clean again and get rid of the Cs and random GMOs in my system. Talk is cheap - now I have to do.
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:: Day 122 - Summary ::

Yay! Mikee's lab test results came back and everything is great! His cholesterol has improved alot since his last test in 2005 and we have pretty much identical values on everything! :)

Activities: 7am 3.0 mile run, 33:34, 409 cal burnt, HRa 168 HRm 174

8am: ABC Juice + small bowl of freshly made leek soup

12pm: Leek and Kale soup, 2 M&Ms

Main meal @ home
White Leek Soup, Brown-rice fried rice with chard and chicken, eggs with chives

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::White Leek Soup ::

My soups usually tastes good but today's concoction was just amazing. I decided it was important to pen this one down...

1/2 onion, chopped
1 bunch of baby carrots, chopped
1/2 red pepper, chopped
1/3 cauliflower head, chopped
1/3 cabbage, chopped
1 leek, chopped
4 cups chicken broth
1 beefsteak tomato, whole
EVOO

1. Heat up 1-2 tbsp evoo
2. Throw in the onions until translucent
3. Add in the red peppers and carrots and fry for a few more minutes
4. Add in the cauliflower and stir for a few more minutes
5. Add in 2 cups of broth and bring to boil
6. Add the cabbage and leak with remaining 2 cups of broth and bring to boil again
7. Turn off heat and pour everything into the blender (vitamix) and you might need 2 batches
8. Blend on high for 2 minutes until smooth and creamy
9. Season accordingly (i use swiss edamare and sea salt) and blend on medium for 30 seconds
9. Throw in the tomato and blend on low (level 2 on the vitamix) for 30 seconds (the idea is that you can still see the bits of the tomato floating around)
10. Serve immediately. YUM!
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:: Oh Carrots, how i love thee!!! ::

I eat alot of carrots. Alot. They don't taste very sweet to me but I found out this morning that they may be high in GI? I looked up glycemicindex.com just to be sure and raw carrots have an index of 16. I think that's low but I'm not entirely sure. Is it bad that I consume so many carrots? On average about 2 sticks a day. Carrots are really filling though... And i dont get hungry for hours after munching on it. So i feel my blood sugar is well moderated throughout the course of the day. Could it be possible that the same fruit/vege can have a different effect on different people's blood sugar level? I dont know!

And i digress, do you like my new apron?? I figured I deserve one since I cook so much in the kitchen now. $9.99 from anthropologie. Eagle eye strikes again.
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