Day One Hundred Nineteen

Lunch

• hamburger on potato roll with ketchup
• grapes

I went to visit my parents this weekend, so I started the day with the lunch meal. I ate the grapes later in the afternoon, though I forgot to eat a vegetable... perhaps I will have to do like my school board used to and count ketchup as a veggie.

Breakfast

• Special K Red Berries with almonds & skim milk

We went grocery shopping, where I was able to pick up almonds to have with the cereal my mom already had. They did not have wheat germ (though really, do you know a lot of people who ordinarily do?), but I forgot to get any, so I ommitted it.

Dinner

• grilled T-bone steak, sauteed mushrooms
• mesclun salad with fat-free Italian dressing
• tater tots

My father grilled up some delicious steaks - it was difficult to only take the few ounces I was allowed. I did indulge in mushrooms (sauteed in butter & salt), but since I'd gone hiking in the afternoon I figured it was vaguely permissible.

I know that tater tots do not equal healthy fries or a baked potato, and I completely forgot to have a fruit... but at least I tried to eat within the meal plan. Heh. Yeah it sounds as lame in writing as it did trying to rationalize it in my head.

As it happens, my mom is on NutriSystem, my brother is on Atkins, and I'm doing my diet, so we had four versions of dinner served that night. Quite an interesting preparation scene in the kitchen.

Snack

• Triscuits with spicy three pepper hummus
• skim milk

They had my very favorite kind of hummus at the grocery, so I picked up a tub, figuring I can leave it at my parents' and have it when I'm there to visit. My father repeatedly gave quizzical looks at it and pronounced it "you-muss," as in "you-muss?? what's this stuff made of?" It occurred to me that there is a whole spectrum of healthy foods that some people never have, or are never exposed to, especially if they write them off as "weird vegetarian hippie stuff" the way my father did with this.

However, the snack was fabulous and just what I wanted in the late evening. Unfortunately, I didn't look up the serving size online and ate 5 Triscuits instead of the alotted three... I think I've been doing this recently, so I will have to be careful and not assume I know all the portions.