happy new year!~

i have not been very good at documenting my eatings as of late. i think i've acquired 50 trillion extra pounds this semester which carried over to the holidays. i really wish i could bike everyday like i did this summer. what a stress reliever. anyway. here is my x-mas eve dinner: a little guac, a little sweet potato, a little carrot and a glass of chianti.


this is from awhile ago--somewhere near the beginning of december. it was not very delicious. it was the box of sloppy joes but i used tomato soup instead of tomato paste so that could explain some of it. i think a better hypothesis would be that i just don't like pre-packaged food items. or that i am picky about fake meat b/c i try not to eat it often. either way i won't be buying it again.


this beauty is a sweet potato from my dad's garden. we have a billion lying around here. they are abnormally huge. some of them like the size of my head. this is a small one.

i tried the fry option--baked (not fried!). but i like it steamed, mashed, and plain much, much better!


this week i've been eating lots of salad w. steamed portabello mushrooms. YUM!

i hope everyone has had a very happy beginning to the new year.

end of the semester relief

this is actually one of the most recent food items. i am mad that grad school requires a certain reward for making it through another hour (let alone a day). so, this is my fulfillment of a cookie craving. it's cookie dough with melted ghiradelli chocolate [twilight delight, yum!]. of course, it took me two days to eat it all and i had a stomach ache after each serving. ugh. it was delicious in the process of eating it though.


this looks close to revolting, but is delicious. it's avocado w. black bean and corn salsa and mushrooms. it was fabulous.



frozen black raspberries berries left over from summer picking. blended in the food processor w. OJ. lots of OJ. i seriously would rather have this than ice cream. it was perfect.

a variation of the bagel w. guac. it's a whole wheat tortilla w. guac and black bean and corn salsa from target. i love that stuff, can't get enough of it.


progresso lentil soup w. my own addition of extra spinach. arnold's whole wheat or whatever bread-yummy. i ate this for about 2 weeks straight i'd say.



this picture is the definition of my favorite meal and that is all that needs to be said about that.