Under normal circumstances, I try to avoid cereal like the bubonic plague.
(I don’t know what the bubonic plague is exactly, but I do know that I like that word “bubonic”.)
I had a coupon for a box of this stuff and it looked good, so I went for it.
Except “normal circumstances” no longer applies, at least not for a while here. You see, I am in the first trimester of pregnancy with our third child.
(Surprised? Yeah, me too!)
(Surprised, but ultimately delighted!)
OK you salad lovers out there, riddle me this:
What do you do when you are sick of salad?
One possibility? Stop eating salad for a while. That’s what I’ve been doing lately. Skipping salad and getting greens elsewhere. Like slipping them into egg quesadillas, green smoothies or shoving them through the juicer.
But then other day I went out for pizza with a friend and had a side Caesar salad and you know what?
It was good. Real good.
This made me realize I just need to change things up a bit. Variety! It’s the spice of life, oui?
Can you eat just coleslaw for dinner?
I can.
You can too if you want, I won’t tell. Here’s how you do it.
First, spend your afternoon at a child’s birthday party that you didn’t intend to stay at. When your sometimes-shy-sometimes-not 5 year old persuades/begs you to stay because today she’s feeling shy, you stay.
But that means instead of heading home for a couple hours to prepare a real dinner and then coming back later to pick them both up, you sit around chatting with some of the other moms who stayed too, snacking on pretzel sticks and a particularly beautiful fruit salad.
I have Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in my freezer.
Blasted Halloween.
These are Maxine’s, and it was her idea to put them in the freezer. I think there is something programmed into women from birth to know that chocolate + peanut butter are best when cold.
I will not eat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for breakfast, but I totally could.
Good thing they aren’t mine. And good thing I also have frozen bananas in my freezer.
Because frozen bananas + oats + cocoa powder are the start of something magical.
Have you ever eaten Seitan?
Pronounced “sey-tan”, as in “say, you look tan.”
Seitan.
I stopped eating meat in early 2007, and even though it’s a “meatless meal” substitute, it wasn’t until this year that I’d ever tried the stuff.
My first time was at a veg friendly restaurant, and it was one of the dinner specials. When the waitress described it, she said it was made out of wheat gluten, is high in protein (120 calories, 2 g fat, 21 g protein per serving!) and its texture is a lot like meat.
Did you ever watch that HBO show Six Feet Under?
There’s this great quote in one episode that I think about from time to time.
We all go through fallow periods when we must let the soil rest to prepare for new growth.
Agriculturally speaking, when a field is left to go “fallow”, that means nothing is planted for a period of time in order to let the soil rest before it’s called upon to grow another crop.
I often think of that quote when it’s time to take a break from anything, whether you particularly want to or not.
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