One thing eating food that contains lots of fresh vegetables is that you are constantly going to the grocery store. I'm not the biggest fan of the grocery store, but there is one right on my way home, and a few short trips really is better than one massive trip with 20 bags full of stuff. You have to eat the food you buy sooner because it doesn't have the shelf life of, say, a Twinkie.
You also spend a lot more time in the kitchen cooking. Most of the stuff you can just pull from the fridge or freezer and throw in the microwave isn't particularly good for you. And it's certainly not as delicious as the stuff you can make with a little more effort.
Sunday night, we tried a recipe for a salad that contained corn, shallots, sweet peppers, bell peppers, avocado, black beans, all together with a lime-cilantro vinaigrette. We are pretty sure the recipe was wrong in its measurement of olive oil. It was basically oil soup. Next time, we'll start with the raw ingredients and see if we can adjust the recipe to fit our tastes.
On the plus side, we've discovered two restaurants that have good food
we can eat on this program. Chipotle, and Yellow Dog cafe. At Chipotle you can get a veggie burrito or burrito bowl with guacamole, rice, beans, salsa, grilled onions and peppers, and lettuce. It's pretty awesome, actually. Yellow Dog had some great wraps to pick from, packed with all kinds of different flavors. There are
some other joints around here that look promising, but we haven't tried
any of them yet.
On the sleep schedule side of things, I've pretty much gotten used to getting up at 6 am-ish. It wasn't too bad once I started going to bed around 10pm. The hardest part is that, until we leap ahead, the sun hasn't quit risen yet when I'm rolling out of bed, rubbing the sleep from my eyes.
Peace!
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