Taco salad for breakfast yesterday, eggs for dinner today. Dinner for breakfast, breakfast for dinner. Someone must have set the clocks ahead 12 hours. Tonight was a crustless quiche with spinach, mushrooms, red pepper and onions. Crustless quiche means no grains or refined carbohydrates, it saves you on calories too. I was pretty strict with my grain …
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Greens To Go. Thank you Daylight Savings Time for NOT SAVING ME ANY TIME AT ALL. OK, that’s not true. I had plenty of time for breakfast this morning, I just ran out of time. This is why God invented Travel Mugs. For people like me who continue to underestimate how long it will take …
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My biggest gal turned 9 years old today. NINE! I guess that means I must have been 16 when she was born because I can’t possibly be a day over 25 myself. (What?) Ava’s birthday breakfast request was bagels, and so bagels it was. After Deep Nutrition, bagels became more of a treat around here – this …
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It’s Day 2 of The Greener March Challenge! Here’s today’s lunchtime salad – KAPOW! Oh, wait. I mean, Hi! Did you eat something leafy and green yesterday? And today already too? High five! If you’re about to become a lean green eating machine for the next 30 days or so, we should talk about salad …
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I’ve got too many ripe avocados right now. Although I think this is comparable to complaining that your pants are too loose or that you have too much money. I like avocado and egg salad sandwiches, so I decided to throw some of my abundant avocado onto my over easy eggs this morning. This was an …
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A Cheese Omelet That Makes All the Other Cheese Omelets Jealous
February 8th, 2013 | Posted by in Lunch - (6 Comments)QUICK! Go get your grocery list! I’ll wait. Add cream cheese to the list. (I’ll wait.) It turns out there’s more than one good place to smear cream cheese. Like a bagel? That’s one. Cream cheese frosting? Why not. For cheesecake? Getting my fork… And how about into an omelet? Yes, please! This fantastic cheese …
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A lunch time quickie today! When I was a vegetarian, I truly didn’t miss meat. Truly. But now that I’ve been eating some meat again, I must admit. It’s good. Especially bacon. When I get good quality bacon from the local markets – or in this case, from Zak’s mom and step dad who raised …
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Today I’m here with a couple of my recent lunch time regulars. Some days I eat lunch all by myself. When the big kids are at an afternoon class and the baby is napping, I get to eat late lunch in peace and quiet with just myself and maybe a literary friend too. I’m re-reading …
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If more presidential candidates had a campaign slogan like that one… So! Kale. 10 years ago, if you’d have told me that one day I will LOVE eating this pile of greenery, I would have laughed in your face. “No thanks”, my 23 year old self would have said. Or better yet, “No way.” In …
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Dear Everything Bagel, I know you aren’t the best thing in the world to eat, but you’ve really got a hold on me right now, so I’m rolling with it. Like a bagel would roll down a hill, you might say. I justified you today with an early morning two mile walk to the bagel …
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