What is not to love about this roasted beet-goat cheese-walnut salad? This is yet another photo brought to you courtesy of Google Images. My plate did not look quite this attractive...close, but not quite.The daily report:
B: Whole wheat toast w/spinach and ff cheese = 2
S: Chai latte venti, banana = 6
L: Chicken vegetable soup with tortilla strips, green salad = 9
S: Zucchini stuffed with tuna and a drop of cheese = 3 (The cooks prepared this for my one vegetarian student for lunch today. She refused to eat it because she has decided she does not like tuna nor zucchini so I ate it as my snack. Delish...)
D: Roasted beet salad with arugala, goat cheese and chopped walnuts, 2 Mexican wedding cake cookies = 8
Total: 28
Exercise: Pool 40 minutes - 30 minutes laps and 10 minutes water aerobics
6 comments:
I'm impressed with the variety of your menu. The salad does look scrumptious. When I get away from salads then start eating them again I always think how tasty they are why do I talk myself out of them? The time factor - I know how much time does it take to make a salad? But it does if you're gathering additional ingredients etc rather than just grabbing a handful of lettuce from a bag...
My beet secret is that I buy them already roasted from a nearby market. I buy a roasted chicken each week from the roasted chicken stall that is next to the roasted beet stall. I buy baked sweet potatoes from the sweet potato vender who comes through my neighborhood around 8:00 each the evening. I pick avocadoes off my tree. My mid-day meal I eat at the college house where we rarely have the same meal twice throughout the semester. Makes life much easier...
I'm learning a new way of cooking now that we know Lauren has celiac disease. We have eliminated all wheat and gluten products. Salads are the way to go, and chicken pre-cooked is a breeze. Quinoa and buckwheat have been added to our menu.
Val, you're doing great!
Roasted beet stall!? Sweet potato vender strolling through the neighborhood!? With baked sweet potatoes!? Oh what pictures you paint. And here I'd been thinking that your mani-pedis were the ultimate indulgence. How marvelous to have so many sources of help in reaching your goals.
remind me how you thought you could live in Des Moines.....
Hi, DP,
Good to see your name pop up. I am looking forward to catching up...see you soon.
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