Alright everyone I have been MIA. Don't worry, I wasn't off using my microwave. This postit still stands strong:
But honestly, I haven't eaten a whole lot of exciting stuff. I pretty much made some food and ate it over and over (and over).
Day 7 (1/12/15)
Breakfast: Bagel w/ cream cheese. Medium roast coffee with half and half. I was running a little late (by a little, I mean like woke up 30 minutes before I needed to be somewhere). SO I purchased the bagel and coffee on the go.
Lunch: Spinach salad with black beans, almonds, balsamic vinegar, hardboiled egg, and sunflower seeds. Sidenote: I can't lie,
my food Pinterest board has some awesome ideas for lunches, including packing all the ingredients (wet and dry) for a
salad in a mason jar.
Snack: Apple.
Dinner: Sweet potato, farro, arugula salad.
Day 8 (1/13/2015) - Day 9 (1/14/2015)
Yes, I ate the same sequence of meals for like three or four days straight.
Breakfast: homemade granola with soy milk. Coffee with soy milk and some sugar.
Lunch: Spinach salad with black beans, almonds, balsamic vinegar, hardboiled egg, and sunflower seeds.
Snack: Apple.
Also, at some point on either the 13th or 14th, my bananas went bad. How does that happen so early in the week? Struggles. Anyway, I happen to LOVE banana bread. LOVE IT. And I found an awesome recipe a million years ago that I stick to and I make sure to usually have the ingredients on hand. So I whipped up a banana bread loaf in about 65 minutes!
Dinner: Same as 1/12/15 but I roasted a chicken breast as well.
Daily time: 105 mins
Day 10 (1/15/2015):
Breakfast: homemade granola with soy milk. Black coffee (who am I?).
Lunch: The. Same. Salad. Side note: At this time, I'm seriously questioning whether or not I even like this salad. Yes, I do get food fatigue (is that a thing?) but convenience trumps my taste buds sometimes, so I eat it.
Snack: Banana bread
Tonight, I am beyond over the sweet potato salad thing. Yes, it was delicious. And yes I still have some in my fridge. No I am not going to eat it. "Serves 5" my behind, I ate that stuff for DAYS. So I pulled out my Clean Slate cookbook and whipped up another vegetarian delight: broccoli roasted with pumpkin seeds, dusted with pecorino romano cheese. (Yes, I know, dairy. I was not thrilled at my caving on the dairy but it was pretty darn tasty). This didn't take too long to make - probably about 40 minutes total.
Time: 60 minutes.
Day 11 (1/16/2015):
Breakfast: Granola and soy milk. Coffee with soy milk.
Snack: soy caramel macchiato from Starbucks (hadn't had the soy caramel macchiato before and I was a HUGE fan). Annnnd some banana bread.
Lunch: I had a late lunch of leftover broccoli (heated up in my favorite Pyrex pan), before I headed off to a class from 4-6 pm (yes, a class from 4-6 on a Friday, I know. Torture).
Dinner: PIZZA. On my way home, I really dreaded the idea of cooking something. So, for just $4.00 I snagged up an awesome pizza. I only slightly regretted it the next day.
Oh and I finished off the evening with some chocolate coconut ice cream from Trader Joes. I don't like it as much as the strawberry coconut ice cream, but it's still amazing. I could eat ice cream for probably every meal, so I try and keep my ice cream intake to moderate amounts. I don't even feel that guilty when I eat the coconut ice cream! I mean coconut milk is way better for you than real milk (or cream) right? Right.
Time: 60 mins
Day 12 (1/17/2015):
Breakfast: Granola and soy milk. Coffee with whole milk and cocoa powder (I was picking up my bi-weekly ground coffee beans and they give you a free small coffee but had no soy milk... so I just decided to go for the whole milk and add some cocoa powder as well - pretty tasty!)
Lunch: Banana bread... and a banana.
Dinner: this evening, I homemade some chicken and rice soup. I love soups because they are SO easy to reheat on the stovetop and can have everything you need in a meal. Easy. Peasy. I also picked up some pita crackers (Trader Joe's crackers made from pita and seasoned with sea salt. Actually SO addicting. I am obsessed.).
Time: 2 hours 30 mins (lots of chopping and preboiling and baking the chicken halfway... it was a lot).
Day 13 (1/18/2015):
Breakfast: Granola and soy milk. Coffee black with chocolate chips (I read about this somewhere online - I just used some leftover Nestle semisweet chocolate chips... it was okay. They didn't quite melt as I had hoped they would but it wasn't bad either! I think next time I would go for dark chocolate or milk chocolate).
Yes, I am boring. No I do not have fun waffles and or french toast (although I would like some) I just keep it simple in the morning because I love a routine :).
Lunch: Reheated broccoli with pumpkin seeds in my Pyrex pan.
Snack: I was at the zoo for the afternoon so I snacked on some pretzel sticks with cheese and a coca cola (I almost never drink soda as you can tell).
Dinner: Chicken and rice soup reheated.
Dessert: chocolate coconut ice cream
Time: 35 mins
~~ WE ARE ALMOST THERE!! ~~
Day 14 (1/19/2015):
Breakfast: Granola and soy milk. Coffee with soy milk. Banana.
Lunch: Chicken and rice soup reheated over the stove.
Snack: Pita chip crackers.
Dinner: Kale with garlic and lemon juice sauteed in a pan with red quinoa and banana bread.
Dessert: finished off the chocolate coconut ice cream. I'm sad it's gone already...
Time: 65 minutes.
Day 15 (1/20/2015):
Breakfast: OATMEAL. DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID?! So oatmeal was my gateway into using the microwave. It really was. I used to have oatmeal with brown sugar and some raisins (and sometimes a banana too), every morning, and I just LOVED it. It was so great. I would microwave it for exactly 2 minutes 45 seconds and it would be perfect. Well, no more microwave so I hadn't braved oatmeal. But recently while staying at a friend's house she made me some oatmeal with just her tea kettle water (she's refusing to get a microwave and I am SO on her bandwagon), and so I thought I can do that too!
False. My oatmeal was not very good. Perhaps I need to let it sit longer? Tests will ensue.
Lunch: NEW SALAD THANK GOODNESS.
Spinach, quinoa, almonds, and roasted golden beet and carrot (beet and carrot roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper, and rosemary). Also had the last of the banana bread, and some celery and peanut butter.
Snack: apple
Dinner: Reheated soup and some pita crackers.
Sidenote about the soup - after making 5 days worth of soup, I realized that it was only good for two days. SO after the second day I placed the rest in three equal sandwich bags and froze them... this evening I had to defrost a bag because I forgot to do that this morning :(.
Time: 45 mins.
If you read all the way to the end, thank you! :)
Labels: a year without a microwave, Health
