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Today was our last day eating in and we didn’t do anything fancy. For dinner we made our vegetarian taco salad which is about the easiest thing on the planet. It’s a taco flavored, meat substitute that heats up on the stove. Add whatever salad fixings you like and it’s done. It’s one of my favorite meals actually.

It was an interesting week. I actually had a lot of fun trying out different recipes and I even feel healthier. Food at restaurants tends to be so fatty and greasy and I never feel like I eat enough fruits and veggies. Eating in I got to control exactly what went into my food and I made sure to incorporate healthier ingredients. Amazingly I didn’t have any major disasters either! Perhaps not quite as interesting for you readers but I feel good about it. It was a lot easier than I imagined it would be too. I didn’t spend hours in the kitchen every day because we were able to eat leftovers certain days. I still need to work on starting on dinner earlier since we tended to eat at around 8pm most nights. Things always seemed to take longer than I expected. I just have to learn to think about food before I’m hungry. All in all it was a great experience and I’m planning on continuing it for the most part. I feel much more productive and good about myself when I eat something that I worked hard on rather than just ordering in all the time.

My favorite quote of the week:

Joel- “Abigail, I love you more when you cook.”

Me – “Um, thanks… so do you love me less when I don’t?”

Joel – “Uh….”

Thanks Huffington Post for an interesting challenge and making my husband love me more in the process.

Well, today we kind of cheated. We had a yummy pancake breakfast at home and just relaxed. Then I had a job interview. That went really well so Joel and I decided to see a movie. That’s when we ran into trouble. See, I have this obsession with popcorn. It just seems so wrong to see a movie without popcorn so I caved and we bought some. And an icee. Because what’s a movie without popcorn and an icee? For dinner we weren’t very hungry because of all the popcorn so we had the rest of the fritatta I made the other night. It was still yummy.

So we’re still good on all of our technical meals but we did buy some food “out.”

I feel like second grader writing in her journal right now. I did this. Then I went and did that. It was fun. We ate food. It was good food. It was a good day.

I’m sorry this is so boring. I’m tired, it’s been a long couple of days. I have a lot on my mind actually but nothing I feel comfortable sharing with the whole world. It’s one of those trains of thought where if I share I’d be afraid I’d look like I was feeling sorry for myself (maybe I am) and I wouldn’t want any pity comments. Then again, I’d be just as afraid of not getting any comments at all. It’s no-win. Maybe I can figure out how to put my thoughts into words eventually but until then I’ll just blabber on about basically nothing and bore you to tears. Hope you needed a good cry.

Joel had to work both jobs again today so I wasn’t planning on being very creative with food. It always seems like a waste if I make something delicious and I’m the only one who gets to enjoy it. Well today I accidentally made something delicious. I love sweet potatoes so I thought I’d have one for dinner. I wasn’t really sure exactly how I should cook them. I’ve made sweet potato fries before but I wanted something a little different so I did a little looking online. I couldn’t really find a recipe that I thought sounded good so I decided to just kind of wing it.

I baked one potato in the oven at 350 until it was soft (it took about an hour). I’m thinking there is probably a faster way to bake a potato but I didn’t feel like figuring it out. Once it was soft I scooped out the middle. I planned on just adding a little brown sugar and butter but I realized we didn’t have any. Instead I chopped up some walnuts, added a little cinnamon, a dash of nutmeg and a teaspoon of white sugar. I mixed it all up, spooned it back into the skin and put it back in the oven for ten minutes. It was really yummy!

So this was my dinner. It may not look the prettiest but it was awesome.

Today was a much better food day and I even have a recipe to share. Since I started tracking my calories on SparkPeople I’ve run into some interesting problems. I thought I would have a hard time staying within my recommended calories for the day and I was right, just not in the way I thought. When I eat out I have problems staying under my calories for the day. However, when I eat in I have the opposite problem. I have to yet to follow the meal plan exactly and maybe that’s my problem. I was surprised to find how easy it is not to eat enough calories every day. What I have the most trouble with though is eating enough carbs. I know, whine whine. You probably hate me now. Not getting enough calories every day is just as bad as eating too many so it’s something I have to manage better.

Anyway, the food report: I woke up and was freezing this morning so I had some oatmeal. There’s nothing like oatmeal on a cold morning, love it. For lunch I cooked the rest of the Greek turkey burgers that I made Monday.

Mmmm, it was a really yummy lunch.

Then dinner I made a garden vegetable frittata. It took a decent amount of time to prepare. There was a lot of chopping and mincing vegetables. I also discovered that if I say ah! enough times while using a big knife Joel will offer to buy me a food processor. I wonder how I can make that work for other things… Anyway, it took awhile but it was delicious!

It doesn’t look too bad either, does it?

The recipe calls for it to be served at room temperature but we were hungry (because it took three times as long as it should have to make due to my lack of vegetable chopping skills) so we just let it sit out for 20 minutes or so. If you would like to make this yummy, veggie-full frittata you can get the recipe here.

Today was a fairly boring day, food wise. Joel had to work most of the day so I didn’t make anything fancy for dinner. Tomorrow I’m going to try something different so things will be a lot more interesting. Until tomorrow here is an adorable picture of the two loves of my life.

Watching a movie.

She is such a little sweetheart.