Friday, August 22, 2008

Day 8: Meal Plan Mishaps a.k.a. My Belly Hurts!

So we messed the new diet plan up. We weren't prepared at all, we didn't even think about what we'd eat this morning. So we improvised breakfast. We made a big salad with mixed greens, bell peppers, cucumbers, onions and corn. Bell peppers, cucumbers and corn are all fruits, so we kind of cheated. But they are vegetable fruits, and we didn't have anything else. We ate the salad naked (no dressing), it was very interesting. Definitely could taste each individual ingredient. We also both ate two pieces of lightly buttered whole wheat toast, and subbed milk for yogurt. We're wondering if it would it be all right if we had honey with our yogurt.

Around 6:15am Emiko ran off to work with half her salad in a tupperware for later, and half her slice of bread. It was a really busy morning, so she had to try to eat the rest of breakfast during a little 15 min. break around 10am. She gagged on her salad because she tried eating too much at once. The salad was never finished, sadly. There does happen to be a digital scale at Emiko's work, so she measured out her fruit for her morning snack, which was more like "noon snack."

We went grocery shopping after Emiko got home from work around 3:30pm. So we ended up missing lunch all together. We had our meal prepared around 7pm.

Two sandwiches with broiled turkey patties, roma tomatoes, cabbage, onions and cilantro on whole-wheat bread. Not pictured - a side of steamed broccoli.

Gus ate an egg yolk. He is very clever, and after feeling it out and realizing he wanted to eat it, he used his claws to break off little pieces and then licked them off of his paws. Good Gus, help us not to waste food!




We also prepared a simple salsa to eat with baked pita chips for tomorrow. The salsa consists of tomatoes, onions, cilantro, half a green chile pepper, and a bit of apple cider vinegar.

We're checking out a screenprinting class tomorrow (PCP t-shirts, anyone?) so we have to get up extra early and prepare food to bring to school. The salsa will be a handy snack.

We're also pretty excited about trying the new exercises.

Goodnight everybody and good luck tomorrow!

Quotes of the day:

Adrian (after tasting a chili pepper that was to go into the salsa): "AAAAAH! I feel like I just got punched in the tongue!"

Emiko: "I feel like someone pissed on my tongue...with acid rain."

7 comments:

Patrick said...

That salsa looks awesome. Also, don't eat salads with no dressing, that's just nasty. A low cal dressing or vinagarette (sp?) is fine.

Yes, I was going to tell everyone that cats really like egg yolks. All part of my plan to win over the 9 out of 10 cats who HATE the PCP.

Nate said...

Guys you are all hilarious. Awesome post and funny comment ^^

That salsa does look really good too by the way. And those sandwiches. Hmmmm I will be stealing your recipes . . . . >:)

Amy said...

I totally want a PCP tee shirt!

Nate said...

I want one too amy I forgot to mention that!

Patrick said...

If you're serious about PCP T-shirts I'll send you guys the graphic.

Tim said...

A big thank you for raising the issue of "dry" salads. I had been sloshing vinegar on but a nice vinegrette (my spelling!) will be so much nicer.

Adrian and Emiko said...

I don't know why I didn't think we could have salad dressing. Thank the lordy it's okay! And Gus is going to love the PCP just for the egg yolks, although the fatty needs kitty PCP.

-E

p.s. We are hella going to make t-shirts! Actually, Adrian already drew this really hilarous and awesome illustration for the front of a shirt. But maybe we could put the official graphic on the back or something?