Into the Double Digits! Days 10 & 11

I cannot believe I have been doing this for 11 days now. It feels like way way longer. And I'm practically done, that's crazy. I'm going to need to actually think about what to eat!

Yesterday: Day 10

Breakfast was supposed to be roasted cauliflower hash and fried eggs. I didn't feel like chopping onions first thing in the morning so I just made myself another roasted cauliflower omelette. 

Lunch was supposed to be an arugula salad with leftover roasted eggplant, leftover roasted chickpeas, avocado, and feta all with a balsamic vinaigrette. I had tossed all the roasted eggplant because it was super nasty nasty so that was out of the salad but overall it wasn't bad. I ate all the greens for once and just had some chickpeas leftover. Not bad, not gonna make it again. 

Snack was supposed to be red pepper and hummus. Ha ha ha, good one BuzzFeed. No way was I going to eat that. Instead I had some ritz bitz cheese cracker sandwiches from the snack closet! We don't have those often so it was a treat. They recently told us the snack closet options were going to become weirdly California style healthy (seaweed chips were mentioned) but instead they gave us the Ritz, I'm not going to complain. 

Since I messed up breakfast and lunch I stuck with dinner. A bowl of shrimps with kale and collared greens and some mushrooms. Kinda like another stir fry bowl but cooked in less of a stir fry manner. Not bad, I ate almost everything and was so full I could only lay down. Sitting up was too uncomfortable, I think the food expanded in my stomach or something. 

The avocado wasn't radioactive, the lighting was just bad

For night snack I had raspberries instead of blackberries because they were on sale this week. Overall, for day 10 I think I did pretty good! Not too much dirty eating mixed in with the clean stuff but I guess the ritz sandwiches are like the epitome of dirty sooooo........

Then came not as good of a day: Day 11

For breakfast they wanted me to make another banana kale smoothie like on the first day where I could taste the green. That didn't happen. Instead I got an egg mcmuffin complete with irresistible hash brown patty. I savored every moment of today's breakfast. There is no beating the egg mcmuff.

Lunch was supposed to be little leaf boats filled with a tuna/egg salad type thing. I didn't have this for two reasons. First: because canned tuna is nasty and I refused to buy it while grocery shopping. Second: I forgot to check what prep I needed to do yesterday night and I did not boil the eggs. Instead I got a chicken cesar salad from Wendy's. Much tastier than nasty canned tuna. 

Then came the afternoon snack, the only thing I ended up actually preparing and eating today. Whoops? It was a "pudding" of blended frozen banana and frozen avocado with some almond milk. It definitely jiggled like a pudding would but the consistency was just like runny, warm pudding. So odd. But it didn't taste horrible. I had about two thirds before it got too warm and runny.

This picture doesn't show the every so slight green tint that makes you think it's gone bad but is really just the avocado. 

While that carried me throughout the day, I was oblivious to what awaited me when I got home for dinner. I was quite displeased to find a stinkin salad was on the menu tonight. There are just some nights when you need meat and tonight was one of those nights. I'll make the salad again in a couple days and have it for lunch so I'm not worried about missing out on the experience of missing a new dish.

Instead I had a healthy choice cafe steamer for dinner. Rosemary chicken and sweet potato, one of my favorites when sprinkled with a little bit of garlic salt. Thankfully that hit the spot and I didn't feel as bad about it as I would have if I had substituted ice cream for a meal again.

I didn't have the snack tonight, didn't get hungry although writing about food is making me hungry again. I do have a nectarine that is in it's prime so that may be my next target.

Thanks for reading, only a few more days of the challenge to go! As your reward for making it all the way through, here is a picture of the random herd of sheep I passed by on my way home today. I do not live in an area you would think sheep would graze in but alas there they were.

This is just open land for sale...with sheep apparently. I wonder if they're a package deal?