18 June 2012

eating habits.


my favorite food is the cheeseburger.  mas' is split between cheeseburgers and spaghetti.  there was a time in our lives, a good chunk of time even, when we were eating meat only once a week (mostly in cheeseburger form).  but something happened.  we moved, mas started travelling, we came across good meat available for purchase just down the street, we live in a city where the food is actually delicious and the variety great.  we started eating meat every other day.

and now we both kind of feel gross.  so we are taking a break.  we've gone vegan for the week.  we say we're going to do things like this all of the time.  so far it's never worked out.  but we're on day one point five and so far i haven't dipped into the challah we bought on friday and stupidly didn't finish over the weekend, i consider this a win.

tomorrow morning it's muesli and spiced strawberry syrup from my new roots.  tonight is't black pepper tofu from ottologheni's plenty.  two recipes i'm fairly certain i wouldn't have gotten around to making if we hadn't cut out butter and cheese and yogurt.


i know it's not a lot, but now it kinda seems like it, and maybe it'll change our piss poor eating habits ... at least for a while. 


{image of tomorrow's breakfast from my new roots}

10 comments:

  1. i have the black pepper tofu flagged in my copy of plenty too and haven't gotten around to it. let us know how it turns out. also the green couscous is amazing.

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  2. We're doing grain free this week, following a pretty disastrous weekend (wedding Saturday, where I ate more bundt cakes and cookies than I would like to admit, Father's Day Sunday, where we had three meals with three different fathers back to back, all with dessert).

    Sometimes the quick re-set can be just what you need.

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  3. good luck! looking forward to seeing how it turns out

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  4. Re-sets can be the best (after, you know, the first two days of hell). Currently doing one meself. Good luck!

    (And I totally need to try that tofu. I have 2 blocks just hanging out in the freezer. Let us know how it is?)

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  5. Very inspiring. As I eat my leftover pepperoni pizza (albeit homemade) for breakfast.

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  6. Cutting out meat? And butter/cheese/yogurt? Yeesh. Do yourself/your bod a favor and bring those nutrient-dense foods back in. It's the bread--yes! that challah--you'd do well to nix once and for all. Try it--you'll (soon) see.

    Love your blog, btw.

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  7. i've been trying to nix the bad food habits this week, too. my new roots is such a good source for yummy + healthy things. so is roost!

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  8. My mom always tells us about eating before bed . This is strictly prohibited in our house, and I think that influenced me to become a vegan..

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  9. I decided to change my eating habits when I started having sleep deprivations, even though I have comfortable bedding and a cozy bedroom, I still can’t sleep at night. Good thing a friend of mine advised me to change my eating habits and try to be a vegan, it worked and I’m no longer experiencing insomnia.

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