Friday, March 23, 2007

The following makes me want to vomit:

Yes, it's just squash, but everytime I cut a squash open, I want to retch. This is because I spent a year working in plant breeding, working to breed disease resistance via strategic crosses. When you breed squash, what you really care about is the seeds. I spent so much time de-seeding squash of all kinds that I can't stand to smell raw squash; I have flashbacks. It was especially fun when you finally get to the squash that has sat out far too long, waiting for you to get to it... there came a point where I had to tell my boss I just couldn't do it, when the pumpkins were collapsing on themselves and smelling putrid. Oh I'm nauseous just thinking of it!!

Anyway, I had a lovely breakfast today...


This is Bob's Mill 10-Grain cereal (whole grain wheat, corn, rye, triticale, oats, soy, millet, barley, brown rice, oat bran, and flaxseed) mixed with organic peanut butter, sliced banana and raisins. Yum!

For lunch I whipped out some of the frozen egyptian lentil soup and added some of the steamed squash (hence the bit about squash). No pictures because I was too busy going bonkers at my desk today.

Nearly every day when I come home, I am starving, so I make myself a smoothie. I tend to always make the same one - frozen strawberries, frozen tropical mix (mango, papaya, banana and pineapple), soymilk and flax seeds. If I'm feeling cheeky I'll do blueberry banana. Today I used rice milk instead of soymilk and it came out a little oddly colored:

At least, that's not my normal smoothie color. It tasted different too. This is why soymilk is good for some things (smoothies) and rice milk is good for others (cereal). I was still hungry after the smoothie but not ready for dinner, so I had some hummus and my favorite crackers, Back to Nature Crispy Wheats. I don't care what I'm dipping in, as long as I'm eating Crispy Wheats. Okay, that sounds wrong (but oh so right).

Dinner is still up in the air... I am feeling quite lazy. It might just be time to whip out the Amy's mattar tofu paneer meal I've been saving for just such an occasion. I just thought of making Thai hot and sour peanut sauce from Saucy Vegetarian for some rice noodles but I realized I brought my peanut butter to work yesterday. Bummer. Maybe tomorrow.

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