Day 8

I was grossly unprepared for today. Lesson learned: if you can't eat 90% of the food around you, do NOT fly by the seat of your pants. Plan, plan, plan or be hungry, hungry, hungry!

This morning I had a fasting blood draw. The appointment was scheduled for nine which meant I was RAVENOUS. My one shining moment of the day was that I remembered to pack myself some breakfast. I had other appointments and errands after the blood draw and since the drive-thru was out of the question, I borrowed my son's Angry Birds lunchbox and packed a coconut yogurt, berries and almonds. I scarfed it down in the parking lot of the doctor's office.

By the time lunch rolled around, I realized that I didn't have any dinner leftovers thanks to last night's Orange Chicken Fail. In fact, the fridge looked pretty bare. I ended up scrambling two eggs with two slices of peppered bacon and topped the whole mess with green chili, followed by a handful of cherries. Green chili counts as a vegetable, right?

I tried another recipe today, this time from the blog Elena's Pantry. Another big fat fail. I made almond flour biscuits which, straight from the oven, tasted pretty good. But they didn't rise and resembled hockey pucks rather than the fluffy biscuits pictured on her website. I have come to the conclusion that my baking soda is dead. Time for a new box! I still ate a couple of them smeared with peanut butter. My daughter came home from school and ate three!

For dinner I made sloppy joes, courtesy of the Pioneer Woman. That woman is a genius. Every one of her recipes is just delightful and her take on sloppy joes was no different.  A can of Manwhich is easy but it is also has corn syrup in it making it a no no food for me. Besides, these were SO much better than any 'ol can of Manwhich. Initially, I crumbled some of my hockey pucks, er, biscuits to pour my sloppy joe over but the coconut oil flavor in the biscuits clashed with joe so I picked it out and just ate my meat. No veggies. The crisper is empty except for a sad, wilted head of lettuce.

I have to go shopping tomorrow!