Last week I took photos of my whole day of eats – something I rarely do anymore – and then I just forgot about it.
But they were good meals worth sharing so I’m posting them now because it’s food related and this is a food blog!
It’s pretty atypical for me to have oats in the mornings nowadays, so this creation is more of an anomaly than the norm. I was in the mood for peanut butter but I used sunbutter instead because I’m still nervous about eating nuts when I’m around P. Even though I’m super careful it’s still scary. It also had coconut and cinnamon for days.
My lunch featured Quorn chik’n tenders which are easy to have in the freezer for random protein emergencies (because we all have those?!?! what??). Anyway, I was in the mood for a salad with some oomph so I thawed some chunks and kinda worried they’d be weird.
They looked like chicken with freezer burn, but tasted shockingly good! The ingredients list isn’t short, but despite appearances, it’s all decent. It’s actually mostly egg protein, and yet it doesn’t taste eggy at all. I liked it more than gardein and many other mock meats.
I tossed it with steamed kale, coconut chips, and tamari – a quickie take on this salad (again).
My afternoon boost was green – thanks to the frozen spinach. The rest of the smoothie had coconut milk, frozen banana, nutribiotic vanilla rice protein powder, and ice.
Dinner was more kale (I can’t get enough lately) with salmon.
I definitely phoned it in with this meal, but sometimes you need simple ones to balance out the more time consuming ones. I know which days are going to be busier in advance so those days are the ones that I bust out the crock pot or turn to big salads. Kyle loves kale salads too so it’s a win win.
This one had kale (massaged with olive oil and avocado), quinoa, and white beans. I used canned salmon from TJs so it was ready in minutes.
P still refuses to have anything to do with beans. It’s breaking my hippie heart. 🙁 I’ll just keep trying…
Kyle and I finished off his birthday cake while watching Girls. We flew through all 3 seasons in a matter of days. Now it’s on to the next season of Mad Men that I saw just popped onto our Netflix queue. Woo hoo.
is Girls on Netflix!? How did you watch it? I’ve been dying to watch the show but haven’t seen it online!
no, we “borrow” HBOgo from kyles parents through our appletv. if you know someone who has an hbo account you can probably hack the same. i dont know the legality of it but thats what we do 🙂
So are you veg*n again now that you’re not breastfeeding? Just curious. 🙂 Love all the kale!
Good luck with the beans! I dropped a bowl of black beans on the floor and my son, who was 3 at the time, instantly threw up! I actually laughed, but I think it left him afraid of beans forever! Better luck to you. 🙂
Yay for kale! In short, I’m trying to sort it out – I’m optimistic that we will lean that way in the future again, but until P starts eating more protein sources that aren’t meat (he can’t have soy and hates beans/lentils) it’s difficult to make veg*n meals for the whole family. It’s definitely a lot of extra work to make separate meals for us all – not to mention $$$. So for now, we are all eating some meat. Only time will tell…
Totally understand – I did the veg*n thing while the rest of my family ate meat for a while and it was quite a challenge! 🙂
Elise,
your love of kale is slowly convincing me to give it a try again..I don’t know what it is but I cannot get myself to like it! I love all other vegetables so it’s quite odd.
Also, my friend and I had a potluck tonight and we were talking about food blogs for the first time and it was funny that both of us said that your blog is our favourite! We were talking about you as if you were our friend 😛
I love kale, just had eggs/kale scramble for lunch.
I love those Quorn products! I rarely buy fuax meats but had a coupon once and now i’m hooked on their meatless balls…. I go thru some obscene amounts of kale too
Maybe P will like beans if they are pureed like hummus? Or socca ?
I’d steer clear of the Quorn products. I’ve not heard good things about them. Just my opinion but do a little of your own research.
http://www.vegparadise.com/news16.html
Otherwise I love to see you eats! Inspires me to try new and different combos too. 🙂
i was thinking socca too – or some kind of chickpea flour scramble…hmmm..wheels turning…
thanks for the article kim!
ha, you are like me with tempeh…until i fell in love with it. so there’s hope for you yet! i didn’t like tempeh for years and years unless it was prepared by a chef at a restaurant. i just couldn’t get into the nutty flavor that my own versions had. but then randomly i just started liking it. then craving it. so who knows. taste buds are strange.
have you tried all different kinds of kale? i think lacinato is my favorite.
by the way, i looooove that you and your friend chat about me over dinner. i feel like i should have been there! hehe.
That article is fairly old but there are other more recent things to read if you are interested. Just thought you might not know there are questions surrounding the product. 🙂