Yesterday we wanted a lighter breakfast after having such filling breakfast and lunch. So we all just brought fresh fruit to work with us. I wasn't looking forward to going to work because my job brings in Friday treats, and usually it's some delicious junk food like doughnuts or cinnamon twists. To my surprise, they sent out an e-mail that they were making fruit smoothies! I went over and got a smoothie of fresh pineapple juice, banana, frozen strawberries and mixed berries, and pineapple. It was so satisfying I only wanted one banana for the rest of my breakfast.
Lunch was the rest of the sunflower-seed hummus and guacamole with veggies and crackers. NT said he loosened his hummus up with a bit of warm water and it was even better, so I did that. Yum!
For dinner we threw together a stir-fry of sorts, with a sauce of balsamic vinegar, sugar, soy sauce and toasted sesame oil over thawed frozen tofu, mushrooms and onions sauteed in ginger and garlic, and some steamed carrots and snow peas. We had it over brown basmati rice. Oh yeah, and we oven-toasted half a cup of sesame seeds and tossed them in. I'd never had that many sesame seeds in a dish, but the nutty toasted flavor was great! That one's a keeper once we work out the cooking times (the veggies weren't as crisp as we'd have liked).
AS and I had plateaued when we weighed ourselves this morning, but NT had dropped another pound. Well, he walked home from work and we didn't, so that makes sense. Overall, I've lost 3 lbs, he's lost 4 and AS has lost 6.
Eight days to go!
Mostly raw: day 6
July 12th, 2008 at 04:07 pm
July 12th, 2008 at 04:22 pm 1215879734
Ok: My "raw" trick for yesterday: Opening a bag of sugar snap peas at dinner. I wasn't sure whether or not my crew would like them, but surprisingly they all loved them and the small bag didn't go very far.
This AM: Fruit Daughter and I had pineapple for breakfast. Canned, but at least fruit.
I'm thinking BIG salad and fixins for dinner tonight. We are still sticking to store-bought dressings which sound good and croutons. Can't do salad without the crunch and haven't come up with suitable alternatives.
Snack for tonight will be vanilla yogurt-fruit smoothies.
Way to go on the weight loss!
July 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am 1215909232
July 13th, 2008 at 02:04 am 1215914670
And to further be inspired - DD10 and I bought our first mango - decided to try one! And we did dine on fresh fruit and salad for dinner!
Might you add a separate page with some of your recipes?
July 13th, 2008 at 07:25 am 1215933942