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Almond Butter Toast Banana, Cage Free Eggs Peppers Salsa, Daiya Dairy Free Cheese Shreds, Eating Right Plan, Healthy Eating 2014, Mestemacher Pumpernickel Bread
This was my ‘front-loading’ breakfast this morning. While I mostly like plant sources of protein, I do love my cage-free egg with peppers and spinach and salsa. (Daiya cheese shreds too!)
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Day One of ‘doing the right thing food-wise’ has come and gone.
I woke up feeling ‘clear’ and ready to take on DAY TWO.
I’ve been asked, ‘What I’m doing with this food-thing?’
Hopefully, sharing this adds some value.
So, I thought I’d review yesterday…
Loaded in as many green vegetables as I possibly could.
(More good stuff means less room for bad stuff.)For breakfast, this included spinach with my eggs and salsa.
For lunch I made a huge salad for me and George with shredded broccoli and steamed kale and spinach.
For dinner steamed kale with black beans and salsa. (I guess you can tell I love the kick of salsa.)
Stayed away from packaged Lara Bars — and the like — including those lovely little individually-packaged fig bars in the bulk aisle at HEB.
Take sprouted bread and toast and use 1 TB almond butter and four thin banana slices. Voila! (George loves this treat any time of the day.)
(Ate an apple for 2p snack with a piece of pumpernickel and almond butter — only a tablespoon of almond butter.)
My mid-morning snack had been the piece of health bread with 1 tablespoon of almond butter
(yes…almond butter has lots of fat calories, but right now I’m all about moderation and I think a total of 2 tablespoons almond butter per day is fine.)
I attended yoga class and worked through half the postures in the Ashtanga primary series.
After heading home I had for an evening snack a bowl of plain popcorn — and drizzled over it about a tablespoon of Daiya cheddar cheese.
Yes. This YEAR I want to eat RIGHT and FEEL GREAT and USE food as fuel.
But of course making sure the experience is pleasurable.
Do you have a new eating plan for the new year? If so, I’d like to know about it.
Leave a post or shoot me an e-mail. Thanks! And Happy New Year!!
Yard and Plate 
I love your food philosophy and posts, Danielle! Very helpful in inspiring new healthy dishes, snacks etc. Cheers to healthy, delicious eating!
So good to hear from you!!
How are you??
Thanks for writing here…
love, d.
Love this post! One of my food-oriented goals this year is to eat consciously. Before a meal I sit down and take several deep, slow breaths, then one bite at a time, swallowing completely before the next bite, taking a slow breath in and out between bites, and paying attention to how my stomach feels and when it’s full. I’ve spent my whole life eating fast, shoveling food in like there’s no tomorrow, and consequently overeating because I have no awareness of what I’m eating, how I’m eating it and how much I’m eating. I’m just generally slowing the whole process down. My mantra: “we are HOW we eat.” 🙂 Bon appetit!
I can’t thank you enough for writing what you wrote here…and sharing this …I wanted to share that I have watched my father do this … I asked him about it and he said he had been working on it…he said he had noticed that he was quickly eating his food — at first he said to himself, ‘count 20 chews.’ After telling himself this for a while it became automatic…and now it is quite a site for me to watch, since he is usually the last one finished and he savors every morsel and gets so much satisfaction from it. Please keep me up to date on your progress!! Go gettem! Very inspiring!!
Dee….that is one good-looking egg breakfast. I do eggs too, and of course they must be cage free, free-range, no hormones or anti-biotics. Happy chickens….healthy eggs.
Hello Linda! thank you!! I agree. Cage free is the way to go!
It all sounds delicious. I love almond and chia spread on toast and similarly have to make sure I don’t go through the jar too quickly!
Thank you! I just looked at your raspberry and pear muffins…will have to try those 🙂 I’ll have to try the chia with the almond butter…YUM!
🙂