The Final Day!

After two surprisingly short weeks, I have finished the BuzzFeed Clean Eating Challenge. I overwhelmingly failed at the challenge but I did it. Mostly.

Day 14, in two parts:

This day was done in two parts because yesterday my friend from high school, Lia, was in town for a conference so I went into the city and hung out with her in the evening. Therefore, part one, Saturday, was breakfast and lunch while part two happened today, Sunday, and is the dinner dish. 

I was so happy when I saw what breakfast was for day 14. Instead of making me slurp down a kale-chia-flax-whatever smoothie I got to have the green onion and feta omelette! Yum yum yum

I will definitely keep eating this post-challenge

Lunch was roasted mushroom caps with roasted tomato and feta. It was just eh, and it looked even more eh. 

This may have been my saddest looking meal.

That also left me hungry and I wolfed down the apple snack before heading downtown. 

INTERMISSION: Girl date with Lia!

Lia was in town for a conference over this weekend so I met her at her hotel and we got pizza and frolicked around the classic touristy places. After getting pizza near the hotel we took the Powell-Hyde cable car all the way to Ghiradelli Square. I've lived here for 9-ish months and still hadn't ridden a cable car! Finally got to knock that one off my SF bucket list, we even rode standing up on the outside!

And even had a lovely woman photobomb us

Once at Ghiradelli Square we walked around the shop, got our free sample, and got some snacks. Lia had an ice cream cone as big as her face and I got salted caramel hot chocolate. From there we walked along the warf and went into a museum of old coin operated machines. You may remember it from Princess Diaries.

It took the two of us to beat it on the easiest level

We walked a little farther down to Pier 39 to check out the sea lions and all the touristy shops over there. Then we walked back to the cable car turn around to ride back towards Lia's hotel. On the cable car ride back we were sitting (lots of walking made us tired) but we had the most fun operator guy ever. Every time we passed another cable car we shouted and cheered! And we made sure to sit on the side that looked down Lombard Street as we passed and had a great view of the Bay Bridge.

It was so fun to get to hang out with Lia and I learned I know a lot of random facts about San Francisco now that I was able to share. I should have charged for the little tour haha! It was so nice to just hang out with an old friend and be my weird self, not need to pretend to be normal around new people. Thanks for visiting, Lia!

END INTERMISSION!

Part two: dinner of day 14

Dinner tonight was a weird sorta stir-fry, that seemed to be the theme of this past week. Weird sorta stir-frys almost every night. It had toddler bok choy, carrots, red pepper, garlic, mushrooms, zucchini, and a comically small amount of chicken. I did make a small substitution with the zucchini, it was supposed to be snap peas but I must have used all the of them not thinking I had more things to make...whoops

The chicken marinated all morning in a sauce of olive oil, honey, and tamari. The chicken was quite good and I think i'll marinate chicken in that again but it was just such a small amount of chicken for the massive amount of vegetables that there was.

Nice and colorful!

I did eat around the red peppers and most of the bok choy. It was alright but not my favorite dish of the whole thing. Snack tonight is supposed to be chunks o chocolate but I believe I'll be having some popcorn instead.

And just like that my mission of the past two weeks is done! Its so strange. I need to go grocery shopping again but this time without direction. I'm a little terrified of falling back into eating just crap food again but I already am planning to remake a few things I liked from this dealio. I guess I'll just start there and see where it goes.

Thanks for sticking with me if you've been a regular reader. While I've been told this experience was quite comical from the reader's perspective I just tried to give my honest opinion. I can't help if I'm hilarious (chuckle chuckle chuckle)