Wednesday, May 20, 2009

potatoes, squash, corn, broccoli, pizza, mushroom rice

breakfast potatoes. with spaghetti squash. warm bread roll with margarine. 

veggie dog. ritz crackers.
cinnamon candied almonds. dried apricots. chocolate. apple. 

corn on the cob with olive oil marjoram and oregano. garlic powder. sauteed broccoli and carrots. sun chips.  wine. pizza from stephanies bakery.

went shopping: 2 eggplant, 2 zucchini, onion, acorn squash, celery, bananas, nectarines, plums, canned olives, white button mushrooms, portobello mushrooms.  $15

ate a banana. sauteed 6 sliced button mushrooms til they began to carmelize and stuff. fried up some leftover rice with split pea stuff with like 4 cloves of garlic. ate that for dinner.

oatmeal, rice and lentils, split pea, turnip

oatmeal with walnuts raisins flax seed oil

rice and lentils. carrots. split pea with turnip.

flour tortillas with margarine and salsa
kombucha. crescent rolls with veggie dogs (like 5 of them) spinach salad. ritz crackers. raisins. walnuts


pancakes, split pea, turnips, pot pie

pancakes and grapefruit. green tea.

split pea mash with turnips and carrots over rice (leftover pumpkin seed stuff). yam. tea.

made a pot pie. forgot to take pictures. but you mix flour with margarine and dill and garlic salt til smooth, then add water until its dough consistency. add flour if its too wet. roll out 2 pie sized pieces, for top and bottom. boil a couple diced potatoes. fry some spinach with carrots and french style green beans and garlic and onion italian seasoning. preheat oven to 350. press dough into bottom of pie dish. prebake only dish with bottom dough for 15 minutes. mash potatoes, mix with vegetables, add water to smooth creamy consistency. add salt and pepper and spices to taste. fill pie dish and pack cooked lentils on top of the potato mixture. cover with other dough piece like a pie. cut a hole on top. bake until dough is done. i didn't make or buy any gravy. i just ate it out of the pie pan with some flax seed oil. it was really really good!

then i ate ritz crackers til my stomach wanted to blow up

pancakes, bbq food, rice and eggplant, sandwich

pancakes with blueberries and bananas and cashews. syrup. ginger snaps. tea. grapefruit.

v8 with cayenne.
rice cooked with ground pumpkin seed, and grilled eggplant on top. flax seed oil.

sandwich on ezekiel bread with vegenaise dijon spinach and some sort of fake meat slice (raided husband's work fridge)

bbq stuff: boca burger grilled with some beer, eaten on a hot dog bun with relish mustard and bbq sauce. chips. pasta salad. green tea.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

grapefruit, beans, lentils, collards n ramen

grapefruit. carrot. tea. 

kidney beans and corn tortillas. yam. crackers and salsa. pistachios. oreos. 

lentil soup. more pistachios.

top ramen with onion, garlic, and sauteed collards added. (the top ramen oriental flavor is vegan)
wine. ginger snaps. kombucha


Friday, May 15, 2009

grapefruit, curried rice and yam, "chicken" chipotle sandwich with guac

grapefruit. tea. banana. frijodilla made with mashed kidney beans between 2 oiled corn tortillas, fried. good. 

yams. more curried rice with vegetables: broccoli, kale, carrots, onions, etc. flax seed oil added.

chai tea.

spicy "chicken" chipotle sandwich with guacamole (vegan seitan pattie) from natures express by balboa park! sooooooooooooooooooo good. also got a raw burger. never tried it before. its a dehydrated hunk of seasoned veggies and nuts and seeds, topped with a nut cheese, tomato, onions, sprouts, served in a cabbage leaf. its pretty good too. and then i had a chocolate chip cookie.


leftovers banana, yams, curried veggies, mex food

breakfast, grazing leftovers in the fridge: saffron mushroom rice, mac n cheez casserole with collards, banana, mango kerns nectar.

lunch packed: yams. leftover casserole. red grapes. 3 cuties oranges. ginger snaps. tea. 

vegetables and curry rice

spinach pattie torta, lentil avocado burrito, from ranchos in north park

ginger snaps and soygurt

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

fruit and stuff, tator tots and broccoli, mac n cheez casserole squash

dried apricots, tortilla chips fire roasted salsa. 
banana. carrot juice

tator tots, cocktail sauce, garlic sesame broccoli. pan fried plantains. carrot juice. acai blueberry juice, vitamin water. oreos. strawberry. fresh white button mushrooms. chocolate. pepperocinis

macaroni and cheez casserole with collards and toasted corn on top. with acorn squash and pepper and flax seed oil and a salad with raspberry vinegarette. lemon mini pie. yerba mate tea. v8. vitamins.
i used nutritional yeast for the cheesy sauce. to make the cheezy sauce:
1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup nutritional yeast. tsp salt. i used some of that chicken seasoning you see in the picture. its salt, paprika, garlic, and onion.  i used a couple teaspoons of that. 

mix up dry ingredients. then add 2 cups of water. i used vegetable broth. mix well, add fresh onion and garlic if you have it. turn on heat to medium, and whisk until it begins to bubble and thicken. 
stir 30 more seconds. then add 1/4 cup 
margarine and 1 tsp dijon
 mustard. should be a kinda thick cheezy sauce. put in a casserole dish add cooked noodles, cover with frozen greens and ground tortillas or bread. broil 10 minutes or until top is toasting brown.

i use the nutritional yeast sauce for grilled cheese or quesodillas too. each recipe makes about 2 1/2 cups of cheezy sauce.









carrot, macaroni, acorn squash leftovers, pizza ginger snaps

carrot.  leftover macaroni. matcha green tea

packed leftover stuffed acorn squash with saffron rice

raisins. pistachios.

large vegan pizza pie from luigi's pizza in golden hill. sauce, thin crust, onions, spinach, olives, tomatoes, garlic,  with pepper, garlic powder, nutritional yeast, red chili flakes. and beer.
pizza and beer. yum. ginger snaps and soygurt.

went to whole foods. bought soyogurt, nutritional yeast and flax seed oil. $30 ($20 for the flax seed oil, 3.69 for the soygurt, 3.20 for the nutritional yeast)

then to the local food market for potatoes and mini fruit pies (lemon and cherry) $3.27

Monday, May 11, 2009

carrot, banana pancakes, split pea soup, macaroni, squash

carrot. peach tea. banana pancakes with peanut butter and raspberry sauce. (pancake recipe in beginning of blog)

split pea soup with roasted carrots. leftover macaroni with collard greens added.

coffee with chocolate syrup mixed in... really good.

after work:
Shopping trip

shopping trip: ready to eat salad bags, bacos, raisins, ginger snaps, pancake syrup, lentil soup, acorn squash, mushrooms, top ramen, seasoned rice packets (husband wanted me to use a coupon, so i bought them, but then forgot to use the coupon), nucoa margarine, pistachio nuts, grapefruits, eggplant, turnip, onion, yams. $42
Dinner used one of the seasoning mahatma rice packets, in a rice cooker i put 1 grated carrot, some onion, diced garlic, chopped mushroom, margarine. 


baked acorn squash til soft. served squash with fluffed rice cooker stuff serve with salad and bac-o's (totally vegan!) top with ground walnuts. also snacked on ginger snaps. bac-o's. and stuff.

matcha, banana, boca, sandwich, macaroni

matcha green tea
banana. v8. pomegranite blueberry juice. guacamole with mango and red bell peppers and fire roasted salsa. tortilla chips. dried apricots.

sliced tomato with steak sauce. peas with olive oil and pepper. tater tots with sesame oil. boca burger. vitamin water. nutter butters. apple

sandwich. vegenaise spinach guac dijon mustard spicy 3 pepper hummus calcium set tofu, on ezekiel bread. white tea and stawberries.

macaroni with olive oil, marinara sauce, tapatio hot sauce and spices mixed in.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

toast, pizza, pb&J, tortillas, hummus, pancakes

finished off the last of the cream o wheat i cooked yesterday. ate a slice of pizza. toasted some cinnamon raisin bread. ate 1 piece with jam. drank some kombucha

packed lunch:
sauteed diced mustard greens with collard greens and squash and garlic. put on top of a few pieces of leftover pizza. yum.

peanut butter and jelly on cinnamon raisin bread.
carrot. vitamin.

raw cashew hummus 

3 large whole wheat pancakes with raspberry sauce. 3 corn tortillas with black beans.

cream o wheat, mex food, pizza

breakfast: cream o wheat. with strawberries and walnuts. yerba mate tea. b12 sublingual

lunch i got from a mexican food restaurant near work: bean plate and fries and a sprite. bean plate has seasoned rice, beans, burrito tortilla with beans, salsa fresca, lettuce, tomato, guacamole.  usually dont drink soda or eat fries. felt kinda heavy.

snack. jicama pieces.

dinner: papa johns pizza. onions, olives, roma tomatoes. extra garlic sauce, and pepperocinis. fried up some garlic collard greens.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

snacks all day. zucchini pasta at night.

visited the relatives today. so i ate a bunch of nonsense:

about 1 1/2 packages of ritz crackers dipped into chopped avocado. a few prunes. an apple. a banana. apricot juice. tortilla chips and salsa. orange.
canned bean chili with green chilis added cause it wasn't spicy enough. cranberry juice. dried apricots. candied cinnamon almonds... that might be it.

got home and dumped a can of mushroom pasta sauce into a pot on medium heat. chopped like 5 cloves of garlic and dumped maybe a 1/2 cup of oil into the sauce with a cup or so of collard greens and 1 grated carrot. let that cook for a while. while i spiralized 4 zucchinis. the spiralizer is a kitchen utensil that turns vegetables around in a circle to cut them into noodles. i put the spiralizer on angelhair pasta setting. and put all 4 of the zucchinis into the pasta. yum. i'm going out tonight. so i'll have a few drinks.

oatmeal with figs, rice n beans, green beans jicama and more rice n beans

oatmeal with chopped frozen figs into the cooking water. topped with vanilla sugar.

packed for lunch: rice and red beans seasoned. also had a carrot. a bread roll. and a bunch of fresh sunflower seeds.

peanut butter cookie

veggieburger (made from black beans seasoned and mixed with stuff pressed into a soft pattie?) on a ciabatta bun from hamiltons with fries and coconut curry sauce. beer.

carrots dates, tacos brown rice, mushrooms rancheros, tamale

carrot. date. left for work.

lunch: i packed lentil tacos i made. sauteed onions spinach cauliflower broccoli garlic lentils corn tortillas salsa topped with papa john's garlic sauce

tea. brown rice with oil and hot sauce. jicama

mushrooms rancheros with nopales, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, yumminess. whole wheat tortilla, beans. spanish rice. pineapple tamale


Sunday, May 3, 2009

tortilla, veggieburger, tomato soup

ran out of the house really fast, grabbed a flour tortilla and dipped it into garlic margarine sauce from papa johns.

had a veggieburger and fries and fruit punch for lunch

went shopping for food on the way home
bought jicama, frozen spinach, frozen french style green beans, corn tortillas, carrots, can tomato soup. $13 then went to the Panchitas bakery in golden hill, and got some bread rolls, 10 for $2

for dinner i made tomato soup, adding corn and garlic. sauteed some green beans, and ate that with a couple bread rolls. 

cereal, lentils burrito, pizza

cereal (grapenuts) strawberries, apple juice, b12

burrito with lentls corn mango salsa guac

pizza from papa johns with tomato and onion no cheese, covered in their garlic margarine 
wine and peanut butter cookie