Day Five and Ready to Jive!

Sorry bout the title, I like to rhyme.

So here I am at Day Five and doin' alright. Due to my former diet similar to a mouse in a candy factory I am definitely feeling a difference. I've gotten used to my meal schedule instead of just randomly eating random amounts of random foods all day. 

Breakfast this morning was an omelette with leftover roasted cauliflower and a bit of basil. Definitely a lot more flavorful than I was expecting. If I were a vegetarian I feel that this could be a great regular thing to make if you also regularly roasted cauliflower. I however, know the joy that is meat in an omelette. This won't be making it into my normal rotation of breakfasts but it was good. I just like meat with my eggs too much. 

It was a heavy omelette and broke when I tried to flip it :(

Now for lunch I had a weird combo. Chickpeas, blueberries, leftover roasted fennel root, quinoa, and mint leaves all doused in lime juice. Weird, right? Well it tasted weird too. The fennel wasn't nearly as good the second day and I'm not too big of a fan of blueberries unless they're cooked in something. I tried throwing it in the microwave for a bit and that helped a little but I only ate about half. Thank goodness the snack today was carrots and hummus again! (also thank goodness for the half tube of thin mints I discovered in my desk when I went to get gum)

It even looks weird

Tonight's dinner I was pretty excited for. Sounds normal and completely reasonable, not at all like super "clean" diet food. It was oven roasted (everything in this challenge is roasted apparently) salmon on a bed of steamed green beans and lentil quinoa. Totally normal food, finally! 

Roasted with lemon on top, I added it for the picture because it was just so gosh darned pretty

Well I think I got not-so-good salmon because it wasn't very good. Which was a bummer. But I was able to fill up on green beans and quinoa so not all was lost. I only ate half of the salmon that I cooked today. I threw the other half back in the oven to cook a little longer as the oven cooled down to hopefully make it less weird. We will find out how that worked tomorrow. 

Snack tonight is raw blueberries and almonds. Yeah, I'm not having that. I don't know what my snack will be. Maybe Oreos, maybe that pear I was supposed to have the first day, maybe no snack if I don't feel like getting off the couch.

GOTTA GO TIME FOR GREYS!!!!!