Hello everyone!
Okay, I am back. No I was, again, not off using a microwave. One more month down and NO microwave use! I am no longer counting days because honestly I have lost count, but I'm in the 60 range now so I'm pretty excited.
I composed this post a while ago, so here's a list of what I ate a month ago! And I will hopefully return to regularly scheduled blogging! Instead of listing what I ate for those other two weeks in between, I will be spritzing in my favorite cooking recipes I have made in the past couple weeks! In the mean time:
Day 18 (1/23/2015):
Breakfast: granola + soy milk; coffee with soy milk and pumpkin spice
Lunch: spinach salad with red quinoa, roasted beets and carrots, celery and peanut butter, and blood orange.
Snack: second blood orange
Dinner: leftover soup, kale sautéed with garlic, olive oil and salt and pepper.
TIME: 40 mins
Day 19 (1/24/2015):
Breakfast: granola + soy milk; coffee with soy milk and pumpkin spice
Lunch: spinach salad with red quinoa, roasted beets and carrots, celery and peanut butter, and blood orange.
Dinner: frozen pizza
Dessert: strawberry concrete from Ted Drewes
In case you haven't heard of Ted Drewes, it's a St. Louis tradition! A frozen custard is somewhere between frozen yogurt and ice cream. They come in tons of flavors and mix ins!
TIME: 30 mins
Day 20 (1/25/2015):
Breakfast: oatmeal, brown sugar, and cinnamon
Lunch: spinach salad, quinoa, almonds, 2 blood oranges, and an apple.
Dinner: leftover half pizza and kale, garlic, lemon, olive oil, salt, and pepper sautéed.
TIME: 30 mins
Day 21 (1/26/2015):
Brunch: ham and cheese from Starbucks and a soy caramel macchiato.
Snack: soy hot cocoa; blood orange
Dinner: chocolate coconut ice cream (yes, I had ice cream for dinner)
TIME: 15 mins
Day 22 (1/27/2015):
Breakfast: oatmeal
I blogged last week about how I tried to make oatmeal with just boiled water from a kettle and it turned out HORRIBLY. Well. I decided to follow the stovetop directions instead and it went SO WELL. So well. Because I only use a cup of water for the oatmeal, it boils really quickly, I put in my half cup of oats, let it boil for maybe three minutes, and it's ready to go! The microwave used to take me about 2 minutes and 45 seconds, to make my oatmeal, BUT it was so hot when it came out, I had to let it sit for a while before I could eat it. But the oatmeal out of the pan actually cools down much faster! So any extra time I use to make the oatmeal is totally offset by the fact that I can eat the oatmeal faster.
Lunch: spinach salad with beets, carrots, and almonds; pita crackers. But seriously, if you haven't tried these pita crackers, you need to. They're AMAZING.
Snack: banana
Dinner: roasted chicken, pasta with olive oil and salt and pepper, sautéed kale with parmesan cheese, garlic, and salt and pepper. Tonight I made roasted chicken for the entire week, so I was cooking chicken for a while!
TIME: 2.5 hours
Day 23 (1/28/2015):
Breakfast: stovetop oatmeal
Lunch: spinach salad with beets, carrots, and almonds; pita crackers.
Snack: banana
Dinner: roasted chicken, sautéed kale with parmesan cheese, garlic, and salt and pepper; scrambled egg.
Dessert: coconut chocolate ice cream, chocolate chip cookie (home made).
I see on Pinterest the great ideas for single serve cookies, which are almost always made in the microwave. I was craving some chocolate chip cookies, but I didn't want to make the entire 24 that the recipe called for.
TIME: 1 hour
Day 24 (1/29/2015):
Breakfast: stovetop oatmeal
Lunch: spinach salad with beets, carrots, and almonds; pita crackers.
Snack: banana, two blood oranges
Dinner: roasted chicken, sautéed kale with parmesan cheese, garlic, and salt and pepper; scrambled egg.
TIME: 1 hour
Day 25 (1/30/2015):
Breakfast: stovetop oatmeal, coffee with soy milk and pumpkin spice, banana
Lunch: spinach salad with beets and carrots
Snack: 2 cookies, blood orange
Dinner: Qdoba - ground beef burrito bowl with three-cheese queso, fajita veggies, white rice, sour cream, and cheese.
TIME: 1 hour
Day 26: (1/31/2015):
Breakfast: [late breakfast/brunch] starbucks soy latte; bacon gouda breakfast sandwich.
Lunch: blood orange
Snack: coffee with soy milk
Dinner: gluten free penne pasta with ground beef and marinara sauce. Roasted sweet potato and onion.
Dessert: two chocolate chip cookies
TIME: 45 minutes
Day 27 (2/1/2015):
Breakfast: stovetop oatmeal
Lunch: bacon and sausage and cheese deep dish pizza
Snack: small decaf americano with half and half, blood orange
Dinner: gluten free penne pasta with ground beef and marinara sauce.
TIME: 40 minutes
Day 28 (2/2/2015):
Breakfast: stovetop oatmeal, banana
Lunch: spinach salad, almonds, black beans, farro; blood orange, apple. LaCroix lime flavored sparkling water. I am currently obsessed with these sparkling waters!
Snack:
Dinner: Gluten free penne with meat sauce, kale sautéed in garlic and olive oil with lemon juice and salt and pepper and some parmesan cheese.
TIME: 45 mins
Day 29 (2/3/2015):
Breakfast: stovetop oatmeal, banana
Lunch: spinach salad, almonds, black beans, farro; blood orange, apple. LaCroix lime flavored sparkling water.
Snack:
Dinner: Gluten free penne with meat sauce, kale sautéed in garlic and olive oil with lemon juice and salt and pepper and some parmesan cheese.
TIME: 45 mins
Day 30 (2/4/2015):
Breakfast: stovetop oatmeal, banana
Lunch: spinach salad, almonds, black beans, farro; blood orange, apple. LaCroix lime flavored sparkling water.
Snack:
Dinner: Gluten free penne with meat sauce, kale sautéed in garlic and olive oil with lemon juice and salt and pepper and some parmesan cheese.
TIME: 45 mins
Labels: a year without a microwave, Health