Posts Tagged ‘Cooking Substitutes’

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

The Boyfriend and I decided to skip grocery shopping this week. The main reason is we have no money, but I suppose there is some benefit to cleaning out the cupboards a little and taking stock of what we have. We have planned out breakfast, lunch, and dinner all week. Perhaps we’ll find some buried [...]

Proud of My Tilapia

I am not a fish person. Not to say I don’t enjoy it; I just never make it or order it in restaurants. Growing up my mother cooked us the odd salmon or tuna steak, but that was about it. I was more of a pasta kid, what can I say? I still am.
So the [...]

TGI Thursday

Today was busy, but it flew by! Thank goodness!
I remembered my camera today. Lunch in action:

Greens and mushrooms with leftover tofu and YUMMY peanut sauce as salad dressing. Pretty sure I have to start making this weekly.

Fruit and cottage cheese. Cottage cheese doesn’t photograph well.

PB&J Larabar.
This held me over well through my second job, the [...]

Healthy Does Not Mean Hungry

I learned an important lesson today: eating healthy does not mean going hungry. I was pleasantly full after each meal today and not once did I eat sugar, bread, or meat.
Lunch was thrown together before work:

Spinach salad with avocado and tuna salad, plain yogurt with fruit, and a juice [...]

Refresh

As evident by my lack of posting, I’ve been off in my own little world slightly. A combination of factors — the gluttony of the holidays, the crummy weather, my finances (or lack thereof), my seemingly fruitless search for full-time work — has left me feeling sluggish and tired. And not in the mood to [...]