So jury duty is finally over, the trial is finished, the verdict is in. The main reason I’m excited about this (because, really, I kind of enjoyed doing jury duty instead of going to work for two days and I enjoyed seeing the world before noon and seeing sunlight after “work”) but it was disheartening to forfeit my carefully planned eating schedule and workout habits for two days. It felt like an eternity passed and I was itching to get back into my routine again.
This is too much information, but I'm sure you're figured out by now that I’m never sparing in that department, but even my bowel movements were starting to become erratic and strange. On my schedule, I pretty much know when they are coming and what they will consist of, as strange as that may sound. I missed that, I didn’t like my world being turned pretty much opposite of normal. But now, I’m back into the daily grind, and although jury duty was a great experience, I’m intensely happy to be able to get back into the swing of things.
I’m going grocery shopping tonight, and I only have to pick up a handful of items for this week’s meal schedule. Granted, there are only two more working days and then the weekend left to this week, but I’m quite happy that I have only to buy a few things to make decent meals for those four days. I’m especially looking forward to the homemade pineapple and ham pizza I’m making on Saturday evening. I’ve been craving pizza, and I think making one myself will be slightly healthier than one from a restaurant, and I happen to have all the ingredients already to make it, save for the crust and sauce.
No fresh veggies, really, this week, but I’ve had an abundance of them the last few weeks. Next week, I will make sure to find more vegetable-heavy recipes to fit fresh, or at least grilled, vegetables into my meals. I try to find a good balance of a fresh fruit and a vegetable and a meat per day. The rest of this week sees no fresh vegetables, which is not a good thing, I know, but I need to get some of the frozen foods out of my fridge and also to use up the bread and eggs that could possibly go bad and be wasted. I’d hate to buy a bunch of fresh vegetables and ignore things that need to be eaten due to quickly approaching expiration dates, and then have to throw a bunch of wasted food away.
Plus, my fresh vegetable recipes are pretty scarce at the moment, relying mostly on grilled shish kabobs and stir fry dishes. My stuffed bell pepper recipe is amazing, but those three dishes are my main fresh vegetable staples. I’m no good at making salads, I wish I knew ways to put them together better, but I will become better at it with practice and with eating them more.
I need to find more recipes, though, so I don’t get tired of eating the same variations on a few recipes every week. It’s just intimidating sometimes to try whole new recipes, especially if they call for a spice or something that you have to buy a large quantity of (say, brown sugar) and you know you won’t use that particular ingredient in anything else for a long, long time. I don’t have a lot of cabinet space, so buying spices and sugars and other ingredients takes up room I don’t have. So I need to search for easy recipes that use fresh vegetables to add to my recipe folder, but that won't force me to buy too many new spices and other "extras" that I don't have room to store. That is my mission.
Day Thirty-One Stats:
Wake Up: 11:30 AM
Breakfast: Yogurt
Lunch: Baked potato with butter, salsa, ham, and cheddar cheese
Snack: Special K bar
Exercise: 26 minutes on elliptical with Arm Blaster mode
Dinner: Roast Beef Melt and potato salad from McAlister’s Deli (I got a five dollar gift certificate from work and was planning on Subway anyway because I didn’t have anything at home to bring for dinner).
My meal plan for the week:
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