Let’s get serious.
This weekend I had my last super(s). Saturday Greg and I
went to On The Boarder and I had tacos, chips, salsa, cheese dip, and a
Margarita. My favorites!!! I love chips and salsa. Greg thinks I sweat salsa.
When I go to Margairta's the waiters bring me my own salsa. They sometime joke
about bringing the chip basket full of salsa and a straw. Okay people I get it,
you are aware of my favorite food.
Sunday we went to Olive Garden and had pasta, salad and
bread sticks. I could eat Mexican or Italian for every meal, everyday and not
get sick of it! I love pasta. So this also had to be a last supper.
After indulging in my obsessions, Sunday night I prepped food for this week. I have seen a few facebook
friends post pictures of their fridges or counters with their Tupperware with
the upcoming week’s food. Granted these
people are into fitness competitions I figured if wouldn’t hurt for me to try.
Even though I am not prepping for a fitness competition I am battling myself. I
baked chicken, cleaned and tore up spinach, cut strawberries, and pineapple and
separated them all into Tupperware portions. Confession I didn’t cut the
pineapple by hand. The future in-law's got me a pineapple slicer. It is
awesome!!
Saturday we spent a lot of time shopping getting soy milk
for protein shakes, spinach for salads, pineapple, zucchini, squash, tomatoes,
corn, strawberries, mushrooms, apples, chicken, steak, pork. Basically just
shopping the outsides of the grocery store.
My struggle right now is getting brave and trying other
green veggies. I look at my fridge and feel guilty for the starchy veggies and
sugary fruits.
The closest to green veggies I have eaten is lettuce and
cucumbers.
My meals growing up, like most Midwesterns , was meat and potatoes
with pizza and pasta nights. There are many veggies I never tried. If my dad
didn’t like it, I didn’t like it. His ideas of veggies are corn or peas. So
here I am at age 28 wrinkling my nose at the thought of a green veggie. I need
to get serious and get over it and learn to like them. So I will likely be
sitting at my kitchen table struggling to get the green veggies down since we
do not have a dog for me to feed the veggies off my plate too.
I now use baby spinach instead of iceberg lettuce in my
salads.
I have tried celery but it is a no go! GROSS. My coworker
saw me try it and my facial expression. She asked, “What do you think it tastes
like?” I said it tastes spicy! She about fell down laughing.” Spciy?” She
asked. I said, “ ya! Spicy!!” She thinks
I am crazy. I gave her my celery. So I goggled what does celery taste like. “Celery,
like some forms of lettuce, has a mild acid content that gives a tart, tangy,
flavor. It is sharper than a sweet pepper.”
So, in addition to prepping for the week and trying new veggies, I am going to try to eat though out the day. Try for every two hours. And to flip my food schedule upside down. I use to hardly eat anything throughout the day and then have a huge carb loaded dinner. Now I need to eat more throughout the day and limit carbs if not eliminate them after 3:00pm. This will be a HUGE challenge since it is pretty much the opposite of what I currently do.
If you have any green veggies you think I should try please
let me know!
Thanks ya’ll!
