So, if anything good has come out of my otherwise fairly shite experience breaking my leg, it has been the relative mastery of several distinct types of organization-- work clothes, house shit, and eatins preparation aka meal planning.
So, it turns out that if you plan out some meals, and then make a grocery list, and then go to the store (or send your friend), and then make those meals (or have your friend do it), and then eat those meals (with your friend), you'll be totally organized in the eatins arena. Make all the meals! Oh, you have to make time to do all this btw, instead of doing other no-so-adult stuff non-stop, which is probably where I was going wrong before.
Weekend schedule before leg break: Breakfast, yoga, park, lunch, shop for sparkly things, hair, bourbon, breakfast, derby, lunch/dranks, park, yoga, laundry--maybe, sleep.
Weekend schedule now: Breakfast, park, lunch, shop for sparkly things...oh wait. This is almost the same. Well anyhow, I make time for meal planning now.
If you are curious, basically I brainstorm meals based on what I already have and would like to have, like any good writing teacher. Then I plug those meals into a umm...quick graphic organizer/rough draft wherein I plug meals in for dinner and plan to have the same thing for at least one more meal, most likely lunch the next day. Oh jesus...then I write a final draft.
Eatins, approximately anyhow:
Tues Sept 25th
Eggs + bacon
Lunch: Maybe Vindaloo? Not sure.
Dinner: Fresa's chicken with beans, two tortillas, and street corn. AND a side of Junot Diaz, the Pultizer Prize winner, who kissed me. That's right.
Snacks: Beer
Wed Sept 26th
Day off from work: Tacodeli and coffee!
Elevation burger-- lettuce wrapped burgers...with a few fries...cooked in olive oil.
Maybe something else.
Chicken Vindaloo...cooked for the next day...but I'm pretty sure I had a bit at night, as the burger was kinda early.
Thur Sept 27th
Egg Cups with chicken sausage and carrots and yellow tomatoes
Chicken Vindaloo
Tarka-- Chicken Korma with brown rice I brought there my own self. Why no brown rice world?
Fri Sept 28th
Sat Sept 29
Tacodeli-- 3 Ottos
Dinners: Sweet chili chicken with basil and brown rice, small portion. Then, rice paper sushi rolls from Whole Foods.
Sun Sept 30
The DAY OF EIGHT TORTILLAS...I see now that this week has way too many corn tortillas in general.
Tacodeli
Lunch: ?
Dinner: Fresas chicken with uh...tortillas, plus rice and beans, and street corn.
Mon Oct 1
2 eggs cups w oatmeal
Lunch:
Dinner:
Tue Oct 2
2 egg cups w oatmeal
Lunch:
Thai beef salad on greens--beef, sweet chili, basal, mint, greens.
Snacks: Larabars
Wed Oct 3
Three Eggs, Three Bacons, Oatmeal with berries almonds
Thai Beef Salad with brown rice-- beef, sweet chili, basal, mint.
Thur Oct 4
Three Eggs, Three Bacons, Oatmeal with berries and almonds
Thur Oct 4
Egg cups?
Lunch: chicken and greens?
Dinner: Chicken salad with Latin Quinoa Salad from Central Market
Fri Oct 5
2 Egg cups with oatmeal
Lunch: Crazy salad with chicken strips-- I think.
Dinner: Zen stirfry stuff
Snacks: Four Roses bourbon-- Eff You Teaching Career!
Sat Oct 6
Tacodeli Ottos--2 w coffee
Lunch: Big Daddy's bacon cheeseburger salad--meh
Dinner: Chicken salad with carrots and hummus and latin quinoa salad
Snacks: Bourbon and beer!
Sun Oct 7
Tacodeli Ottos--2 w coffee
Whole Foods Brown Rice Salmon Sushi
Mon Oct 8
Three Eggs, Three Bacons, Oatmeal with berries and almonds
Lunch: Can't remember...the schedule says it was supposed to be Chicken Vindaloo...but the dog ate that, so it can't be right. I think it was a crazy salad with salami.
Steak, Aspargus, Fingerling Potatoes
Tue Oct 9
Three Eggs, Three Bacons, Oatmeal with berries and almonds
Steak, Aspargus, and Fingerling Potatoes
Crazy salad-- Curry chicken salad, tomatoes, almonds, hummus, erething, greens, the kitchen sink.
Wed Oct 10
Three Eggs, Three Bacons, Oatmeal with berries and almonds
Lunch: Curry Chicken Salad with hummus and tomatoes and greens and berries- aka crazy salad.
Dinner: Beet salad with pork belly and one beer from Black Star Coop.
Snacks: Larabars
Thur Oct 11
Breakfast: Three Eggs, Three Bacons, Oatmeal with berries and almonds
Lunch: Curry Chicken Salad + Quinoa salad (both courtesy of Lushie aka The Duchess) on a bed of greens with tomatoes. Pickle.
Dinner: Half- serving of Zen, double chicken on brown rice with veggies and peanut sauce.
Snacks: Larabars
Friday Oct 12-- This was a weird, disorganized eatin day actually.
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon, iced coffee
Snacks: Two thunderbird bars
Lunch: Chicken salad and brown rice
Dinner: Latin Lushie Quinoa, Slice o brisket
Dinner: salami, hummys, Latin Lushie Quinoa
Sat Oct 13
Breakfast: Tacodeli--2 Ottos on corn, 1 Otto no tortilla
Lunch: uhh...breakfast was lunch
Dinner: WF pork loin, sweet potatoes, aspargus
Snack: Almond Delight smoothie
Note: I don't always note it, but a crazy salad could include any or ALL of the following: baked chicken, turkey slices, salami, avocado, boiled eggs, panchetta, bacon, hummus, tomatoes, greens, other hummus, berries.
Leftouts: It seems that I left out many Larabars, some bananas, some sweet potatoes, and some chicken tenders. And a whole bottle of bourbon. Actually, I know where that goes...so I'll edit. Well, I didn't drink it all myself, but I had a good amount.
Also, sometimes we follow the plan exactly; sometimes we don't...but we are always better off for having it.
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