I’ve been giving away cookies like crazy, a plate to work on Monday, and 2 big foil pans to the food pantry on Tuesday.
Leftover cookies that went to work on Monday
But, now’s the time of year when I worry the most about gaining weight. I’m not as active as during cookie season when I’m baking till all hours of the night; I’m more sedentary in the evening, reading or watching TV.
Plus this year Mark’s home full time, a big change to the schedule we’ve had for the last 5 years. He’s more likely to eat nothing much during the day and want a real dinner where I prefer more eating in the day time, and less at dinner time. Of course he’d be the first to tell me that I don’t have to make dinner on his account – but it’s nice to have dinner together, so I like to do it. But I’m sure it’s better for my health to skip dinner once in awhile.
Case in point – today so far: for breakfast at home I had an eggnog latte, the last of the second carton of eggnog I bought over the holidays, then for second breakfast at work I ate a bowl (plastic container actually) of the Ashure cereal with a 1/2 cup of whole milk that I brought in a bottle from a Starbucks mocha, and a small apple cut up into it. For a snack later today I have 2 clementines. My diet & exercise app tells me I’ll have about 880 calories left for dinner = not really enough, plus if I go buy another latte or snack, or typical for this time of year, break into the leftover cookies, I could easily blow it. I was going to bring a bagel to eat, too, with some of the peanut butter I have on my desk – but if I did that I’d be down to around 450 calories left for dinner.
The math is pretty harsh.
The pictures are better:
Flattened eggnog carton
(leftover) Milk & cereal
And here’s what I ended up having for dinner Wednesday.
Radish-carrot-cilantro slaw with lime juice (made to go on our fish tacos on Monday) & microgreens, topped with avocado & bread crumbs. Peanut butter bagel with apricot jam on the 2nd half.
The diet and exercise app says I’m OK on calories today. Whew.
Monday for dinner we had our leftover fish from Friday fish fry made into tacos with that slaw, above, and avocados. Leftover Hoppin’ John on the side. The app says I was OK that day. Tuesday we decided to try out a new neighborhood restaurant, Cadre. French food using WI ingredients, and I decided, rather than Bouillabaisse or beef bourguignon, or even moules frites – or steak frites for that matter – to have the soup of the day, and a bread, Brie, and olives platter. It was cream of celeriac, and the calorie app say 76 calories over that day.
And this is too wide for Insta, so I’m sticking it here, though not much of anyone will see it.
hmmmm … the Shapiro is strong with this one