The Sensible Mom

I had class tonight, but I wanted to get this posted before I go to bed.  I know I probably won’t remember what I ate today if I wait until tomorrow!

Breakfast: piece of whole wheat bread with avocado and tomato (I’m addicted)

Snacks: blueberry smoothie and a banana (I just wanted to mention that we buy bananas on a regular basis.  I would never buy organic until recently, and l can totally tell the difference!  Organic bananas taste like bananas are supposed to taste all the time.  This is not just in my head.  We bought some organic and some non-organic, and the non-organic ones had a little trouble tasting like a good banana.  Definitely not as pleasant as the organic.)

Lunch: we were out so I didn’t really have a sit down lunch–I packed snacks….things like almonds, goji berries, raisins, sunflower kernals, cashews, and other stuff like that

Dinner: Ruben and I made a Mexican dish called picadillo.  It’s kind of like a soup with potatoes, green peppers, onions, and ground beef.  We used an organic green pepper, organic potatoes, and grass fed beef to make it.  This is the first time we’ve had beef in awhile!  I like not eating meat everyday, though.  I don’t miss it a bit, but today was a nice treat for the kids.  We usually eat this dish with tortillas, but we opted for either no tortillas (the kids…hmm the ones in the fridge probably have green fuzzy stuff growing on them by now anyway) or some wheat bread (with avocado for me–I told you, I’m addicted.)

After I got home from school snack: I had a little more of the nut/berry mix I made earlier, and Ruben asked me to make some guacamole.  I obliged, and we shared a bowl of guac (just tomatoes, avocados, and a little sea salt) with blue corn chips.  I hope the scale doesn’t repay me for this in the morning! 🙂

Til tomorrow!

P.S. If you are wondering what we did with those bananas in the picture, I’ll share that soon, too!

We were pretty busy today running errands and grocery shopping (trying to get odds and ends done before school at the community college starts back up tomorrow), but I still managed to keep everyone’s eating under control by packing snacks for the hours we spent away from home.   Here’s what I ate:

Breakfast: blueberry smoothie and nibbles of the snacks I was packing

Lunch: Kashi mushroom and spinach pizza with raw tomato on top (so good!) and a piece of whole wheat bread with avocado and tomato (avocados are my favorite–I could eat them every day)

Dinner: baked tilapia (Breanna almost made this all by herself and it was delicious! We did follow a recipe from allrecipes.com.)

Snacks: almond/sunflower kernal/chocolate chip mix

Drinks: water except for my breakfast smoothie

I’m not looking forward to the grind of school starting again, but it’s for the best!

I had planned on doing a post on the food changes that we’ve been making in our diet, and I will probably still do that, but I thought that it might be more fun to log my daily meals here for a week so that you can see what a typical week’s meals now looks like for me.

Today’s meals:

Breakfast: baked sweet potato with a tiny bit of honey (I usually have a fruit smoothie for breakfast, but I didn’t want to wake everyone this morning with the blender.  I had to leave the house before everyone was awake for a web design class.)

Lunch: spinach salad (this consisted of tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, and spinach leaves with some lemon) and celery sticks with natural peanut butter

Dinner: Annie’s organic mac-n-cheese and homemade refried beans with a little cheese and natural blue corn chips

Snacks: nut/berry mix (raw almonds, sunflower kernals, and goji berries dusted with cacao powder) and an organic lollipop

Drinks: water and two cups of green tea (I used to be a regular tea drinker then switched to coffee. I have just almost completely given up coffee (except for rare occasions) and I don’t plan on taking up tea again to replace the coffee.  Why?  Because I always feel the need to add sugar to my tea.  I only had tea today in order to help stay awake in class.  I was the only student in this particular class (CSS aka Cascading Style Sheets), and my head still almost hit the table. So glad it didn’t! It’s hard to hide from the teacher when you’re the only one!)

Tomorrow’s meals will have a little more variety because I don’t have class, and I’ll be home to make meals. 🙂