Food habits challenge update #2: Fall down seven times, get up eight
Monday, June 09, 2008
Okay, so I didn’t fall down seven times this week, but I did eat out a few times. These were mostly planned occasions, with the exception of Sunday brunch, which wasn’t even that great for the cash, honestly, and Sunday dinner, General Tso’s Fake Chicken, ordered from my favorite Chinese place. It was delish, as always, and the packaging is reusable.
The Sunny Way is a self-flagellation-free zone—just keep trying, right?—so I won’t dwell on my slips. Instead I want to talk a bit about the stuff that is working great.
Last week we had a pounding middle-of-the-night rainstorm in New York, in which I laid awake in my bed praying for the survival of my seedlings. They all came out okay with the exception of the beets. I figured out why—the beet pot was under a broken part of the rain gutter—so I moved it and am hoping they will bounce back. If not, I still have time to replant them—they are ready to harvest in about 60 days.
Otherwise, everything’s growing wonderfully. My spring mix lettuces are even turning different colors—it’s such fun to see the little red and light green and dark green leaves start to form.
The worms are happy as well. Every few days I push aside the bedding in their bin to find them happily wriggling around making useful soil out of my fruit and veggie clippings. I see a few fruit flies here and there, but have heard about some great tips for battling them, and have started freezing my scraps before putting them in the bin, so I hope to have that managed.
This week I have a couple of meals out planned—tomorrow night The Sunny Way will be at Greendrinks New York interviewing people about their fabulous environmental projects and there will be food there (included in the cover price). Wednesday I have lunch with a dear friend. Friday I will be hanging out and having dinner with some other friends.
Other than that, I have a fridge full of fruits and vegetables and a pantry full of Indian foods so I should be good to go. I’ve been really fond of green smoothies lately—just throw some frozen fruit and some fresh greens in your blender with a little water. Bananas + spinach is my favorite. It’s a great way to get some nutritiously dense stuff into you while also cooling off.
How are you doing with your challenge?
(image by faster panda kill kill via flickr)
I’ve almost entirely given up eating out. We did get some bagel sandwiches at the farmer’s market on Saturday and dad took us out for ice cream after Zach’s fifth 14 hour workday in a row, but that’s it.
An old friend of mine is in town this week and we had him over to our house instead of going out. It was nice. The girls would have lasted maybe an hour if we had gone out to eat, but we were able to spend six hours together at the house.
We did make it to the farmer’s market this week, so we are eating a lot of local stuff now. I’m going to make some rhubarb torte this week, which I love. I also got lettuce, spinach, napa cabbage, asparagus, scallions, basil, eggs and smoked trout. Yum!
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