Four day weekend [part 2]

Laziness continued.

   

Coffee.

Coffee.

Fruit.

Coffee.

A perfect Sunday morning (“morning” being used loosely since I slept in a LOT).

  

Random fact: I really love fruit salad but I never make it because I like it when it’s already at least a day old.  That means I have to plan ahead so I get the exact level of oxidized fruit.  I also think that bananas are the essence of any good fruit salad. 

 

That’s why I made this salad the night before. 

It had apples, strawberries, pineapple, blackberries, and bananas. 

If it had had grapes it would’ve been perfect.  I only had minimal amounts of apples and blackberries (FODMAPs).  So good.  I should start every day with pounds of fruit because it makes me feel so clean and pure.  Fabulous.

The things is, it doesn’t hold my appetite for very long.

 

So later on I had a cinnamon roll and scrambled eggs (2).

 

I never really had meals for the rest of the day…instead I grazed the afternoon away. 

  

Snacks: open faced Peanut Butter & Co. crunch time on toasted artisan bread & TJ’s dark chocolate caramel with black sea salt.

The best part of the weekend came next…

What do you get when you have a new house (with a backyard) and a Home Dept gift card?

Green children!! 

 

Look at my new babies!  🙂

It took a while to figure out where to start.  I went in open minded, but I did have a general game plan.  I knew I wanted a few herbs and probably a tomato plant.  I was also considering some leafy greens. 

Lately I have been reading up on gardening.  I am a long way from raised beds, but soon our yard will look more legit than my former situation.

I chose three organic and local herbs – sweet basil, sage, and parsley. 

Why these?  Well, recently I’ve been using both basil and parsley quite a bit (herbs are crucial to give FODMAPs free meals flavor since onion and garlic are out).  Sage was an impulse buy, but I know it pairs well with squash (especially butternut), which is something Kyle and I both adore.

  

After picking my herbs, I browsed the other veggies.  It was hard to not go crazy and get one of everything.  Bell peppers, eggplant, and squash, oh my!!  But I knew I had to start slow.  Plus I’m limited further in that I have to use pots (our backyard is paved so there’s no dirt plot).

Thanks to my mom’s help, I went with a sweet 100 tomato, which is apparently delicious and prolific. 

Next, I went in search of greens.  I read that kale is relatively pest free and can survive through almost any climate.  And chard is a nice filler plant that’s best planted in May, so I figured they could both share a massive pot.  Home Depot didn’t have any that were already sprouted though, so I got seeds.  Plus spinach seeds for good measure.  We’ll see how it all goes once I plant them.  I will probably hold off on the spinach for now and just try the kale and chard first.

Finally, I got three HUGE pots to plant them in.  I’m so excited.

 

From L to R: tomato, parsley, sage, basil. 

Back at the casa, I changed into my bathing suit for more backyard lounging.

 

Magazines and smokehouse almonds.  The almond munching continued for a few cups (eeek!) more before I got a handle on myself.  These gosh darn freakin’ nuts!!!

 

Once again, I used the dog as an excuse to get away from them.  We walked Buck, played ball with Maggie, and hot tubbed at the community pool.

  

Snacking through happy hour with chips with hummus and snapea crisps.

Dinner: avocado sushi rolls and leftover rice & quinoa with Field Roast vegan sausage and veggies

  

I had raw carrots (dipped in more hummus), but Kyle requested steamed broccoli. 

 

Unfortunately, he had to take a call right as we I sat down to eat, so his broccoli was on the softer side of steamed by the time he ate.

  

In lieu of my typical coconut ice cream dessert I went for more hummus. 

Mary’s Gone Crackers with hummus.  On the late night, I had two big bowls of cereal.  This turned out to be a bad call on my part.  I forgot we only had soy milk (not almond milk) at the house and wound up mixing two FODMAPs categories in a pretty sizeable amount.  The aftermath was mild at the time, but the next day I felt so so bloated and uncomfortable.  It was definitely not worth it.  It’s been a long time since I’ve had soymilk so combining it with (wheat) cereal truly pissed off my GI tract.  And it let me know it.

The next morning we did errands around the house and once the place was cleaned up we headed home.