blizzard

Beautiful amazing hot sunny Sunday!

Had a caramel chip blizzard, with big chunks of cheesecake, on the drive back from Squamish, where we rode about 3 hours of the next week's Gearjammer route. I half-ate, half-drank the melty goodness, talking about bikes and road-trips, windows down and wind roaring in Trudi's little Honda.

Later, at my dad's place in Coquitlam, in the lush garden, barbecued steak, garlic bread, corn on the cob with lots of butter, a few carrots and peas, and plum pastry for desert - with a big scoop of neapolitan ice cream.

Thinking about it gives me the munchies... I'm going to go grab another handful of trail mix.

blueberries with extra blue

At coffee on Friday, Elisa had blueberries. They looked good to me, but she was picking most of them out.

Elisa is notoriously picky (so I tell her). I picked up one of the blueberries, said "This one looks fine! Nothing wrong with it" and popped it in my mouth.

Well, I guess she can see better than me 'cause that blueberry was totally mouldy.

Blech!

tuna burgers

Pajo's tonight, birthday fish-n-chips for my Mom.

I LOVE Pajo's.

I shared a large fish & chips (mmmm halibut), eating the chips slowly so I didn't eat too many. Was still hungry afterwards, so I went back and ordered a tuna burger and ate that too.

It was so good I wanted to go back for another. But that seemed excessive - plus, I'd brought cake as well (two kinds!) - so I held back.

After two pieces of cake I STILL wanted another tuna burger, but by that time they were closed.

That was three hours ago and I'm STILL thinking about the damn tuna burger.

tuesday, wednesday

yesterday - marginally better

• soy latte
  instant oatmeal (plain Quaker instant oats, full of extra crap) with blueberries and the usual
  
• banana
  
• egg on toast
  
• toast with non-hydrogenated margarine, Skippy peanut butter (probably full of trans fats, but it was one of those little single-serving packages that has no info) and brown sugar
  
• a little home-made trail mix (nuts, chocolate chips, and raisins)
  
• cherries and grapes from the Handsome and Gorgeous corner store
  
• mandarin iced green tea (not so tasty)
  
• veggie burger at 3rd beach (with tomato, onions, lettuce, pickle, relish, mustard, ketchup - no cheese or mayo)
  
• apple juice
  

Today...

• Nescafe and soy milk
  
• soy latte
  
• instant oatmeal (plain Quaker instant oats, full of extra crap), no blueberries - forgot them at home
  

Things were looking up 'til 11 a.m. when Kari IM'd me to come get a piece of Laura's home-made carrot cake with cream cheese icing. Laura makes the best carrot cake I've ever tasted. She cut me a huge slab (no protest from me).

Back at my desk, I cut the slab in two and gave the bigger half to Jean.

4 big bites later I am still contemplating whether 1/2 slice of carrot cake counts as a half serving of veggies.

harder than I thought

The first few days of the cholesterol-lowering, heart-healthy eating plan have not gone as well as I envisioned.

I start off so well every morning, with a soy latte, and slow-cooked oatmeal with apples and blueberries, topped with cinnamon, chopped toasted nuts, and a little organic fair-trade cane sugar.

Yum.

Lunch over the holiday weekend has been hit and miss.

Yesterday was egg on toast, with lots of sea salt and non-hydrogenated margarine instead of mayo. Only one egg!

Monday's holiday lunch (eaten high above Buntzen Lake on the Diez Vistas trail) was rotisserie turkey breast sandwiches, on a multigrain bun with mustard, sprouts, avocado, tomato, and lettuce. One sandwich had mayo, one didn't.

Sunday lunch - cocktail sandwiches, hors d'oeuvres (french for lots of mayo, cream cheese, and pastry) and cake, at Aunt Lil and Uncle Ed's 50th anniversary party.

Saturday lunch - pesto pasta salad (loads of oil) over romaine lettuce, with a few of those deadly delicious little cocktail sausages on the side.

And then there's the snacks. Ice cream, ice cream, and more ice cream!
caramel oreo mcFlurry on Saturday
cake, brownies, and pecan squares on Sunday
2 scoop vanilla ice cream cone and several handfuls of "dog chips" (my nephew's word for cheesies) on Sunday
even bigger butter pecan ice cream cone on Monday (from the lady at the Anmore corner store who declared that Jane and I were too skinny, which was exactly the right thing to say to us after our 4 hour hike)
4 birds nest cookies from Capers on Monday(second ingredient - BUTTER)

At least my two dinners were reasonably healthy - marinated veggies, and a chickpea salad with tomato and avocado, with a little home-made apple cider vinaigrette.