Day 9

I did my first big grocery shopping of the new year today. I bought some stuff at H.E.B. last week, but today I went to the co-op and dumped a pile of money on them. It ain't cheap to eat well, but I believe healthy, sustainable food is a worthwhile investment. I actually like that natural, humanely raised meat is so expensive because it forces me to limit my meat intake and to be conscious of the life that was taken for my meal.

For breakfast I had a bowl of Kashi GoLean Crunch cereal with organic skim milk.

For lunch a PB&J sammich, some Kettle Fully Loaded Baked Potato chips and my roommate's homemade lentil soup again. The roomie's stepmom made the raspberry preserves used on my sammich from her garden - it's an annual gift he gets.

This time I asked the roomie what's in the soup and he said it has carrots, onion, celery, red lentils, garbanzo beans and cannellini beans. Like I said before it's a bit weird tasting but good. I'm re-using the picture because I didn't see any point in taking another one.

I bought a new wok today so I made Chinese beef and broccoli for dinner. Unfortunately the wok broke while I was cleaning it (don't ask, it was cheap) so I used my flat-bottom, non-stick poseur wok by Joyce Chen. The beef was from Niman Ranch and pre-sliced for stir fry, but I would've sliced it thinner. I marinated it for 30 minutes using the first recipe I found in an online search basically soy sauce, water, sugar, rice vinegar, corn starch, and for the seasoning sauce I used a recipe from a YouTube video. Basically oyster sauce, sherry, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, pepper, corn starch. I served it on brown rice.

I came up with a dinner menu for the week:

Monday: Chili w/ Rice, salad
Tuesday: Salmon w/ Pilaf, spinach
Wednesday: Chicken Cutlets w/ Mashed potatoes, green beans
Thursday: Mac & Cheese w/ Ham & Peas
Friday: Stir-fried Veggies w/ Soba noodles