Food log
This was super fascinating. To watch myself go through this exercise, to see how lifestyle choice (or sometimes just demands, location) affect the time we make for food, etc. I know I’m going to get into Michael Pollan and regret so many choices. ;) But I'm trying, Michael Pollan, really I am.
Day one
8am Breakfast at home
Toast (sourdough bread from New French Bakery)
Hope Butter (Hope, MN)
Rose Petal Jam made by husband Sean with roses from backyard
Coffee (from S. America?)
Why? Because toast and coffee are delicious.
Hope butter started as a joke long ago, but it really is delicious, local, and “affordable” as far as fancy butter goes.
Water
12:30 Lunch at home
2 organic free range eggs from Larry Schultz’ farm, Owatonna (purchased at co-op)
Scrambled with organic valley milk--Lafarge, WI
With micro greens--from co-op. Not sure where grown.
With Valley View smoked cheddar-WI
Lemon-lime sparkling water, in a can (possibly lined with bad plastic), bottled in TX
Orange--I think from FL or CA, I can’t remember. Shared with my dog, Skye, because he loves oranges and comes running from a mile away with a desperate look in his eyes when you peel an orange.
Why? Because I had time to cook this quickly before work and also saved me $$ since I already had these ingredients.
2:30 p.m. at work
Dark chocolate mocha
Why? Celebrating my boss’ return from a month in Uganda & hearing some adventure stories
Water
7:45 p.m. at home
Apple “lady alice” from Washington--purchased at Trader Joe’s (where I don’t typically buy produce. 49 cents. Tasty)
Why? Because I’m hungry and our oven takes a long time to heat up.
8:30 p.m. at home
Chicken enchiladas that were frozen from Trader Joe’s--cheap, hopefully delicious, I don’t know if I want to know where they came from, or how the chickens lived or the tomatoes were grown. They are in the oven now.
Red Wine from central CA. (also from T-joes, where I obviously stopped between 2:30 and 7:45)
Why? The why for both of these: because it’s getting late and because my husband is in his second year of law school and I am sooo tired of cooking and doing dishes. (partially kidding) (partially) I realize now that my mom was some sort of cooking and cleaning genius. Also, you have no idea how much more wine you start drinking once you work at a Prenatal Yoga studio. The Prenatal Yoga Paradox, perhaps.
Day Two
~8am Breakfast, at home:
Pretty much the same.
Toast: 1 piece of Sourdough (New French), 1 Sprouted Grain bread (Alvarado St. Bakery, CA)
Coffee, organic valley milk (WI)
Water
Why? This is what I do these days. Usually I only eat sprouted grain bread because it has more protein, but mainly because it agrees with me better.
Shared an orange with Skye again because we still have oranges in the house and it is like eating sunshine
More coffee, because I’m rebellious like that.
12:45 Lunch
Roasted some diced blue potatoes and yellow potatoes from my friend mike’s farm, with garlic from his farm and sunflower oil that his friend grew and pressed
Served under organic pinto beans (canned in NY grown who knows where.), salsa by salsa lisa (Mpls), and the same greens from yesterday
Also some of this tasty Greek Gods honey yogurt from the co-op. Made from cow milk. “manufactured in WA”
Why? I am home reading Fausto-Sterling before work and this I could do at the same time, pretty much. Also, this writing-down thing is totally encouraging me to cook here and not just grab something on the way to work. On a related note, usually I avoid canned foods (mostly) but I realized then I just end up buying out instead and that gets old real fast.
7pm? Dinner
Mediterranean tuna on baguette from France 44 deli and this amazing melty round brownie thing
Why? I didn’t bring dinner with me, it’s a block from work, they give us a discount and...yum. I hope no dolphins were harmed….
DAY 3:
8am Breakfast: a little bit of coffee, half a piece of toast maybe?
Why? I think I was nervous so not very hungry.
11:30 coffee & blueberry muffin purchased at Walter Library….meeting with friend.
3pm: Apple (same details as last apple)
Why? Running way late to next appt. So ate the apple while I stopped home to let the dog out.
4:15: tiny bit of dark chocolate between meeting and client because I was headed to a lecture and then a performance and knew I wouldn’t eat ‘til late. Water.
10:00pm
Lemongrass Noodles w/ vegetables and mock duck at Jasmine 26. Pinot Grigio.
Why? Late dinner after show at the Walker and Lucy Lippard talk at the U. Went to Jasmine because it was near my friend’s house...wine--why not?! Mock Duck--because who knows were there chicken comes from, but actually, who knows where their mock duck comes from for that matter……….
Done writing down what I eat. Hooray!
P.S. At the Lucy Lippard talk she pointed out a piece at the Nash right now about how many women don’t have access to water, or haul it miles and miles, while we have water at the ready and complain about having to clean. So now I feel lame for complaining about doing dishes. Sorry women water haulers of the world! I will enjoy doing dishes now. I promise.
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Totally random and unrelated note to the food log, but one of my good friends has a dog named Skye who apparently loves to eat oranges too. I just thought that was pretty cool/ironic haha.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I noticed you said you didn't eat much on day 3 because you were nervous. I'm a lot like that too. If I'm nervous/anxious/excited about something I generally don't eat or just can't eat because either my stomach just can't handle it, or because food just doesn't sound appealing. I feel so much better and more calm without something in my stomach than if I would eat something, probably because I know that if I'd throw up, there wouldn't be anything there! (gross, sorry..)
What's strange, however, is that I used to be a huge nervous eater, and found myself going to the fridge or the pantry to find something to continuously snack on whenever I was feeling uneasy about something (which often led me to feeling sick afterwards because food can't settle in an uneasy stomach, duh). I think my habits changed in college, because I realized that I was the one responsible for purchasing, making, and preparing my own meals, and it became a habit of mine to be more conscientious about my spending. Funny how I could eat to my little heart's desire when it was my parents' food that I was consuming, but when it comes to my OWN food, I'm way more stingy about it! In a backwards way though, it's helped me better my eating habits, because I don't want to pay for junk food, even though it is generally cheaper, and I want to make sure that the food that I'm eating is going towards energy that I need, rather than just to fulfill a desire to munch on something for hours on end.