If I'd been a bit of pork...

[thistlechaser]

me that I don't want
to think about maybe if I'd
been a bit of pork

(From snowcalico's haiku-meme thingie. If I ever write an autobiographical book, it will be called If I'd Been a Bit of Pork.)



I shopped till I dropped, almost literally! Those who have been following my LJ a while know that if I don't eat on a semi-regular basis, I sometimes get dizzy. Well, half of a salad is apparently not enough to hold me past dinner time. When almost done with my shopping I just totally lost my "focus". I stood there and stared at the milk for minutes (long enough for someone to come by and ask if I needed help), just trying to decide if I should buy a container or not. Silly me.

But the story has a happy ending, and I got home with the groceries. Lots and lots of them. I got a couple ears of corn on the cob for dinner (they were very, very good -- crunchy and sweet, just two bad I couldn't finish two), and some fresh french bread which I'm going to sample when done posting. But best of all.. blueberries were on sale! I got a giant container (2.5 pounds!). I think blueberries are my favorite fruit. I got whipped cream to go on them, but they're too wonderful by themselves to add anything. I also bought "dinosaur eggs" (which I believe is a type of plum, but they do look just like dinosaur eggs, just smaller). I've had them before, they're good.

I got some salad and some eggs and some pastas for later in the week. Oh, and two giant honking chunks of cheese. Some other fruits as well. I looked at the veggies for a long time, but had already spent longer in the fruit/veggie section than I ever had before and lost patience before picking something to take home and cook.

(Oh, and I know tonight's dinner isn't balanced, but I'm too hot and tired to care much. :) Hopefully tomorrow will be better.)

Comments

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

Did you put yourself on a diet?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

A diet is sort of part of it, but almost more indirectly. I'm going to try to do some major cutting back on meat intake, so that means more fruits and veggies and such, which is better for the diet... but I bought some cookies and such tonight too, so it's not a total diet, but this *is* a run-on sentence! :P

More protein!

[tersa.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention eggs as a good protein source, too. :) And cheeses are okay, although again high in fat so you want to be sparing with it. Yogurt is also not too bad on the protein scale.

Re: More protein!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm not too big of a fan of cheese (except mozzarella, mmmmm), so keeping it light on that won't be a problem. I probably have little chance of eating what I bought before it goes bad(but it was on sale 2/$5, so I got two).

I pondered yogurt, but that was at the end of the store and I just got tired and checked out instead of going through dairy/bread as well as I might have.

Since I decided I should have gotten milk, I might pick up some next time.

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

Hey, a start's a start. Be proud of what you've done and don't worry so much about what you didn't do. Eating corn and French bread for dinner along with snacking on blueberries is lacking in protein but it's probably healthier than some other things you could be eating, you know?

Man, cheese is so unhealthy but I love it to death. If I could deal with lo carb I would since you don't have to restrict your cheese so much. *sighs dramatically*

Oh, and Dannon makes these yogurt smoothies sweetened with Splenda called Light and Fit (I think) and the peach flavor is AWESOME.

This reminds me I should finally make a salad out of the stuff I got.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eating corn and French bread for dinner along with snacking on blueberries is lacking in protein but it's probably healthier than some other things you could be eating, you know?

Especially since the alternative is likely fast food, yeah! Woo!