Day 41

Meal #1 10:45am
two eggs
sauteed vegetables
four slices of bacon
glass of orange juice*



Comments:
I waited too long to eat this morning. By the time I got around to food I was famished. These busy weekends are kicking my ass and I never feel productive. Today I've spent most of my time cleaning and getting my tornado'd house back in order, yet it's still a minefield.

As it is, it's 2:30 right now and I'm just getting around to typing today's food. I haven't even started a new post for yesterday yet and I should be eating again soon, which I've yet to start preparing. It's fun, hectic times in the life of me right now. I need the chaos so I can make it calm, but I need the time to make everything calm. It's a double edged sword.

Mondays are my favorite day because I can make everything my own again after a crazy weekend. I need to make this not so. It doesn't fit within my needs. I can't be paleo during the week, and then sabotage myself every weekend. My goal for next weekend, despite the bad timing, is to stay within my means.

*Not to be confused with bacon juice.

Meal #2 3:15pm
leftover spicy citrus cod
salad with all the normal stuff
half glass orange juice



Comments:
Last night's cod was more my style, but still not 100%. I need to eat this before it goes bad though, so leftovers it is.

The orange juice is to counteract the spicy cod.

Meal #3 6:45pm
burger (amazing freaking burger)
avocado slices*
sliced peppers
sauteed asparagus and mushrooms
couple small slices of Muenster





Comments:
A few photo edits. One. I didn't get to eat much of that avocado—maybe a half of one slice. The munchkins stole it and since I'm advocating paleo for them, I let them eat it since I knew I could get a fat source from elsewhere. Two. The burger in the second picture? Imagine the second half there as well, as I immediately ate that after finishing what was pictured. Amazing burgers tonight. I mean, they are normally good, but these were exceptional.

Meal #4 10pm
can of tuna in oil
apples with almond butter





Comments:
I reheated last night's cod, but it tasted so much of white wine, I couldn't eat it. I guess next time I'll need to cook it on a lower temperature in hopes of the alcohol burning out a bit more.

I'm trying tuna in oil for the first time. I'm a tuna in water sort of girl, but this way is good for me (as long as the oil is olive oil and not vegetable oil) and it eliminates the use of mayo. So...we'll see how it goes.

eta:
I eat a lot of tuna. One out of of seven cans of tuna is amazing. The rest of the time, it's just normal tuna. I don't know if this can of tuna happens to be a one out of seven or if I should expect this type of quality from all of this "in oil" tuna but my freaking god, this is the single best tuna I have ever eaten. No really. Ever.

Meal #5 11:45pm
carrots and hamburger



Comments:
So I had those apples and was still hungry, but didn't want to snack on anything. Steamed carrots sounded good, but I had to wait for them to steam. At this point, I should just eat something else. So another meal it is!

EotD Comments:
(These eotd thoughts will not make sense until I post yesterday's meals. I apologize for this and will get yesterday's up sometime tomorrow.)

Today was an amazing food day. I felt great and I didn't want for food and it was really the perfect day.

I was having a conversation with myself...essentially thinking up comments for yesterday's dinner post and I came to a realization. The most important thing I can do in regard to weekend fare is only eat something if I've photographed it. I never snack on things out of the bag/box and hell, 95% of the time I don't even have things to eat out of a bag or box, but yesterday I did and I find it unacceptable. So that will be my weekend rule. It's not something I ever think about during the week, as my eating habits are always impeccable during the week. I think it's a good place to start though to kill this issue I have with the weekend before it gets worse.