snack attack

I wonder if it's going to be a habit to update this with the previous day's edibles... hmm. We will see.

Lunch: all beef hot dog with ketchup on a smushed bun. I don't have hot dogs very often.

As a snack later on I searched through the apples and found another relatively small one. It was a beautiful day outside, so I went outside to eat it.. and found box elder bugs and spiders everywhere. So after I took the picture I went back inside.. le sigh.

more snacks... I think I thought the hot dog would fill me up more than it did. Here we have some Ritz crackers with blackberry jam! I wanted to find some locally made jam, but I think I am past prime jam season now...

More snacks... eep. Dried mango! I love this stuff. It's a little sugary, but it's really hard to find dried fruit that isn't ridiculously oversugared. This kind isn't too bad. The only brand I have found that doesn't have tons of sugar are some of the Trader Joe ones. We don't have a Trader Joes near here, though. I have five or six pieces, which is about a serving.

I am trying so hard to not to snack like crazy but I was so hungry just a little while later... the Cheez-its make a comeback. I had five of these little guys.

Finally, dinner time has arrived. I went with some of my family to the pizza place down the street. They serve peanuts! The kind that you crack 'em open and toss the shells on the ground.

My brother ordered a "double decker" pizza that was half sausage, a quarter pepperoni, and a quarter cheese. A double decker pizza is pizza dough that has all the ingredients rolled up into it. It's a bit thicker than average pizza, and the dough is nice and soft. I am not one for hard, thin pizza, so this worked out great for me.

My piece! It didn't fit on the plate... the tip was tucked under. Whenever I eat pizza, I always take a few napkins and dab off all the grease. Cause grease is just gross. :( My favorite part about this was the doughy crust!

Later that evening I really wanted a dessert snack of some sort.. but we didn't have anything that I deemed worth the calories. I got the inclination to make hot chocolate, but right next to the hot chocolate was tea. So I opted to make cinnamon apple spice tea. Added a little bit of honey, sugar, and ground cinnamon, because I'm not a fan of straight tea. I have a bit of a sweet tooth. It was good! I want to go pick up some new teas at the store now.

First day

Alright, first [real] post! Since I came up with the idea to document what I eat after I had eaten lunch, there are no pictures of my apple and spinach salad... but I really enjoyed it, so I will probably make it again. And we have a ton of apples from going apple picking at local orchards. I love fall.

Anyway, there wasn't a terrible amount of protein in my lunch so I wanted a snack. I tried to make hard boiled eggs! Which... I had never done before.

I wound up overcooking them... the whites tasted okay, but the yolk was a little hard, crumbly, and dry. They weren't bad enough for me to toss the other two eggs, I'll probably save them and use them in a salad.

Look! A chocolate chip cookie. It looks so innocent, too. My mom bakes and then leaves goodies in the kitchen... sigh.

I drink water almost exclusively, but it's fall- that means it's apple cider season! This stuff was made at the local apple orchid a few miles from my town. Normally when I drink something at home that is not water, I literally only have an ounce or two just so I can get the flavor of it and not all the calories- and then I switch back to water. And then it lasts a long time! Which is nice, because I love this cider.

Late afternoon I was getting hungry again, so I delved into the large store of apples and added a little bit of peanut butter protein. I love the apples from the orchid, because you can get them in all sorts of sizes. The big ones are great for a salad or for baking. If I just want a little snack, I can find a little guy like this one. It was smaller than a tennis ball.

My mom rules the kitchen for dinner, so I basically eat what is made. I have recently convinced her to make broccoli, my favorite vegetable! It doesn't really go well with the meat, but it's healthier than other options. The meat and potatoes were leftovers, but the meat was actually really crumbly and tender. I'm not a huge fan of beef, but this was pretty good. Also, mashed potatoes are one of my ultimate weaknesses. I also caved and had a dinner roll. See, I must confess the good and the bad.

I had a brownie.. and a half.. afterwards. Brownies are another one of my ultimate weaknesses... I am pretty good about resisting lots of sweets, but the rules are out the window when it comes to brownies. One and a half is.... actually not terrible for me. I'm working on it.

For an evening snack I had a Special K 90calorie chocolate drizzle bar. I felt kinda blah after eating it, so that may not have had the best decision.

Introduction

A foodie blog for the foodie impaired? What does that even mean?

Let me be completely honest.

I don't know all that much about food. I'm in a transitional period, where I am at home with my parents for the next eight months before I move out, and the kitchen is stocked with high fat and high sodium foods without a lick of whole grain. Food is expensive for the college-aged, I don't know how to cook much beyond toast (and somewhat randomly, a mean spaghetti sauce), and my mom rules the kitchen- meaning, it's hard for me to get in there at times.

So this blog will be a visual record of my endeavors to try to eat more healthy and lose a little weight (especially before my wedding) given the obstacles. There will be ups and downs and plenty of experimentation, but hopefully documenting it all will help keep me on the right track.

Unfortunately I had the idea for this blog as I was finishing my lunch, which was an apple and spinach salad with a little bit of crumbled bacon and feta cheese, with a homemade dressing of white vinegar, olive oil, sugar, dijon mustard, salt, and pepper, so there are no pictures... yet. But there will be.