I really really wanted green food for dinner. Starch Solution’s Spinach Fettuccine with Pesto fit the bill! #vegan #pasta #spinach #mcdougall #starch_solution

Odd food craving Thursday: Johnnycakes (just cornmeal and water with touches of salt and maple sugar) with baked cinnamon apple over spinach. I don’t know why! It was very tasty, no syrup required! #vegan #corn #apple #spinach #breakfast

SPINACH PARTY!!!!!

harmonychan:

Guys I don’t mean to alarm you but I made spinach and ‘ricotta’ pastry puffs and they are perfect #vegan #fuckyes #Idwifeme #homemaker

I need this recipe so bad, it hurts!

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A whole wheat bagel with homemade spread, baby spinach & tea… good morning! #vegan #breakfast #bagel #spinach #whatveganseat #veganfoodshare #vegansofig (Taken with Instagram)

I know rest days are important for recovery.  I just have a hard time taking them.  Before my few-month period of non-exercising-nut-butter-overeating, I would run and step and body pump forever.  There were no rest days, not without guilt and anxiety.  

This may have been part of the problem.

Today, I’ve decided, without guilt or recrimination to take a rest day for my legs.  I’ve been going solid since July 16 (varying degrees of length and intensity, but almost always running, with walking and step in there as well), and likely I should really just let them rest.

Might go for a full rest day, or maybe will do yoga or just work out arms or abs.  I just may go for full rest though, as I haven’t permitted myself to just be lazy for a while, and I don’t want to get back to the burn out, non-exersizing-anything-overeating state again.

So the plan:  Waffles.  Avatar.  Reading all the books.  And slack.  A worthy plan!

Speaking of giving it a rest, it’s been about a week since I had spinach pie, until last night.  I ate them, and I enjoyed them but… well, they didn’t give me that feeling I’d get that I needed to eat more.  I declare the seduction broken, not likely to return until say early next year.  Hopefully by then I can actually figure out my own, healthier version.

Well, maybe not necessarily healthier.  But still my own. :)

I ran out of spinach pie and have decided… meh.  Go without for a few days.  Get a new lunch regular.

Wonder if I’ll go through withdrawal…

Maybe a stressful day, but the meals were good.

Breakfast - What is fast becoming a household usual, breakfast potatoes with peppers and onions.  A strawberry-kiwi cup and… a bit of unusual, a slice of toast with hummus and fat free cherry salsa.  It was okay.  Not great.  I remembered a cherry salsa we got apple picking last year, and that was very sweet.  This was not, but it was not inedible.  So I ate it!

Lunch - Spinach Pie &!  Today’s salad featured more of the cherry salsa, corn and some roasted black chickpeas (this time simply with salt).  Did you know that black chickpeas roast well, but look burned before you even start?  Trust me, they taste great roasted up with salt.

Dinner - Leftover beans and greens, courtesy of Post Punk Kitchen/Appetite for Reduction.  Did you know I used to hate collard greens and black eyed peas and non-fried-white-rice a lot?  It shocks me still the things I love and crave, and how different they are from when I was a child, or even 5 years ago. PS - HOT SAUCE!!!

Unpictured Snackage - A few grapes, a little water melon, and a small bowl of cereal.

Final Thoughts - Homemade Peach Salsa.  But not until tomorrow.

I feel streets behind.

Breakfast - A typical B’klyn<3 breakfast of oatmeal with apple, banana and berries.  Went steel cut on this one.  As always, delicious.

Lunch - Another fast favorite, spinach pie and salad.  Today’s featured grapes and leftover black chickpeas (kala chana!) from what you’ll see was dinner.  I roasted them with sriracha, which turned out to be an excellent idea.  A little balsamic to finish.

Dinner - I’ve been wanting to make FatFree Vegan Kitchen’s Curried Rice Salad with Black Chickpeas and Mangos for a couple of weeks now.  Now I have!  Now, I know she and the family were disappointed with the black chickpeas.  I was too when I first used them.  When I saw this recipe I thought, “This is how I will enjoy them.”  And I was totally right, the salad is amazing!  Served it over some spinach (saag) because this is how I roll.

Unpictured snackage - Day was pretty light, and I almost made it, but I did have a small bowl of cereal with banana to stave off hunger, and was still well within my caloric bank for the day.  Despite wanting to stress eat all over the place, I did not, so I was friggin’ proud of me.

Sunday Funday!

Breakfast - I was flipping excited about this one.  I am in search for the perfect corn-based breakfast pastry item.  (Yes, really.)  I’ve decided to go back to something so simple, even I couldn’t screw it up.  I came upon this recipe for Johnnycakes and, omitting the non-vegan bit, set to work!  These were fabulous, so now I know I can make a corn-based pastry.  I will build upon this foundation work towards my ultimate corn-based-breakfast-pastry-buahahahaha.  Check it out topped with apple sauce and berries with a touch of maple syrup and a light sprinkle of Happy Herbivore not-bacon bits!  

Lunch - My piefecta!  Zucchini Pie and Spinach Pie.  Unpictured - the second spinach pie I totally had, my SPs were ready before my ZP was.  As far as the Zucchini pie goes, I think the initial problem I had?  Not letting it set.  I may not need to adjust the recipe…

Dinner - Lovely pasta.  I did a quick saute of quartered grape tomatoes, onion, basil, parsley and spices.  Served it with a spinach salad topped with strawberries and some Just Corn corn kernels for crunch.  Wound up making the salad taste sweet between the berries and corn (natural sweetness, mind).

Unpictured snackage - a little banana with my ice cream.  

Final notes - I’d eat this day again.