by Dissolution » Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:11 pm
It was a good day...
Woke up at 5:30am this morning to get the wife to the dentist. She's pretty phobic about them.
B: Oatmeal with Flaxseed meal and maple syrup. Coffee.
Wife get's finished quickly, have to be back at dentist at 3pm. So we went shopping. Stopping at Panera Bread, I had coffee, wife had coffee, danish and muffin. Get a call from #2 son, he is off work today, decide to go hang out at his house since he lived closer to the dentist than we do. I asked if he had anything for lunch (cause I was getting hungry), he said he did.
* #2 son has always been 20-40 pounds overweight most of his teen and adult life (25 now). After seeing my results he decided to try a vegan diet. He picked up the Engine 2 diet book. I haven't read it so I'm not sure how close he is following. While he has lost close to 10 pounds in the past month, he seems to be eating a lot of vegan junk food (lots of fake meat products from the freezer section).
We get to his house and he hasn't had lunch either. He offers me some of the fake meat stuff, which I politely declined. I noticed that the container of quinoa that he purchased when he started the diet was still untouched. So I offered to cook lunch.
Cooked the quinoa in his rice cooker, added chili powder, onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper. Then stirred in half a cans of black beans (rinsed), corn (drained) and tomato sauce. Let in simmer for a while and then served him quinoa "chili".
S: Apple
L: Quinoa "chili"
Back to the dentist, in and out pretty quick. Wife wants steak to try out her new dental work. We find a "gourmet" butcher shop. She bought a $35 steak! I was kinda nauseous, not sure if it was being in a butcher shop or spending that much on a steak.
More shopping...Oh a blood pressure machine, check blood pressure.
105/66 Pulse 67. Starting to consider dropping another blood pressure medicine.
We start heading home, need to stop for gas and her weekly carton of cigarettes. She starts talking about the electronic cigarettes. #4 son switched to them about a month ago and seems to like them. Wife buys electronic cigarette starter kit!
** I know the electronic cigarettes aren't healthy, but they've got to be better than normal ones. One step at a time for my wife.
Once home she starts cooking for her and the two sons and #4's GF
(the steak was 2.3 pounds so it's enough for all of them). I slice up a butternut squash and toss it in the oven. Then I fix a veggie wrap; fat free flour tortilla, hummus (home made), spicy mustard, carrots, radish, onion, tomato, pepper and kale. 3/4 of the way through the squash baking time I sprinkle a little bit of brown sugar and cinnamon over the top. The squash tasted awesome, wife and #4's GF both liked it a lot.
D: Veggie wrap, butternut squash