Thursday, April 4, 2013

Veg-Tastic!

I crammed in a boatload of nutrient-filled veggies yesterday, people. I'm pretty impressed with myself, mainly because ever since returning from San Francisco and experiencing a mediocre apple fritter, I've been tempted to do a mini-donut tour and find a better fritter here in Boulder. Instead of seeking out lumps of fatty dough, however, I ate a lot of green and red and orange stuff. And I'm not talking about the Kool-Aid my grandma used to make either. (BTW, did you grandmother do stuff like put pats of butter on her mashed potatoes? I don't mean in the potatoes--everyone's grandma did/does that--but on top of the potatoes as well, like once they're on the plate and ready to eat?) (Guess that's why she liked wearing voluminous moo-moo like shirt/dresses too.)

Um, anyway. Vegetables. Yesterday's lunch was at Whole Foods, again. Right now I'm still having a hard time eating some foods, so I'm _still_ indulging in my Whole Foods lunch habit. Post-baby we are not going to be able to afford that luxury, so I guess I'm soaking it up while it lasts?

Salad:




Who knows why I've been wanting this lately, as I usually find salads unsatisfying. This one had some channa masala and butternut squash on the side, as well as kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, and garbanzo beans. I inhaled it.

After lunch I lounged around for a long time watching Teen Mom 2. Now that I'm knocked up I can't even imagine how terrifying it must be to be a teen mom.

Speaking of mom stuff, I went to Target in the afternoon and bought two baby outfits! I'm trying to get more happy happy happy about baby, and this kind of did it:






After my shopping outing, I met David at our friend Adam's house for dinner. He made us a North African stew with some tahini-lemon chard.




It was tasty--even more so because Adam knows how to use spices correctly and he also cooks quite healthful foods.

Rounded out by a few bites from David's bowl of strawberry greek frozen yogurt:




All in all, a very good day of healthy eats, right? Too bad I'll probably use it as an excuse to eat leftover Easter candy when I see my family this weekend:-)

*Do you have any leftover Easter candy (that you could send me)? Holiday candy is just better than the same candy eaten the day after a holiday, right? I know the special wrappers don't change the candy, but still...it's just better!

4 comments:

  1. Some parents shamelessly exploit that their children are helpless. Evidence here:

    http://www.stylefull.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/stylish-baby-clothes-13.jpg

    But I know you won't be like that. You've basically already succeeded as a mother.

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    1. Oh my that is disgusting. I seriously grimaced when I saw that. Our baby won't be wearing any stupid headbands and the all-pink wardrobe will most definitely not be happening. The depressing thing about girl baby clothes, however, is that many of them just have sayings about how pretty the wearer is...blech

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  2. This one is pretty classy too:

    http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/baby-essentials-baby-set-baby-girls-ruffled-shirt-and-shorts?ID=801180&CategoryID=48692&LinkType=#fn=sp%3D2%26spc%3D773%26ruleId%3D74%26slotId%3D59

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