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Generally, I don't make New Year resolutions. So, my decision to eat a bit healthier this year isn't exactly a resolution, but it did coincide with the beginning of 2008. I actually don't eat all that horribly to begin with. Being a vegetarian limits my options and ensures that I never eat at fast food restaurants simply because there's nothing on their menu I can have except a dinky side salad. However, I could be better about my meals, like eating more veggies and less cookies.
I dragged Jason to the farmer's market yesterday. His job was to hold the basket while I bought healthy things. I ran out of room in the basket, and we ended up leaving with $25 worth of fruits and veggies. This made our trip to the regular grocery store much less; it was only $20. All I had to pick up was cereal, yogurt, bread, milk, and a couple canned items.
The high bill at the farmer's market was because I needed all the veggies to make a delicious Tuscan Vegetable Soup.
While the garlic and thyme was sitting happy in some olive oil, I chopped up a load of green cabbage, carrots, and celery.
I dropped that bowl of goodness and some stewed tomatoes into the pot and let it saute for a few.
Then I attacked the zucchini with my trusty knife.
Next came the chopping of the potatoes and fresh basil. They can be seen here with the white kidney beans.
The last step was to dump the zucchini, potatoes, basil, and beans into the pot with eight cups of vegetable broth. You can you use chicken broth, but I can't. Eww, chicken. I let it simmer for about an hour until it looked like this...
Mmmm... yum. Because no soup is complete without some sort of bread, I made wheat dinner rolls. You're supposed to brush melted butter on top, but I'm being healthy, and they still taste wonderful without.
I have a neat microwavable thermos that I'm going to use to tote a serving of the soup to work for lunch. It will be the perfect meal with a wheat roll on the side. You can find the recipe for the soup here and the recipe for the wheat rolls here. Both are very tasty. Oh, and they both made a huge amount of food. The pot of soup will feed me lunch for two weeks. I'm going to keep this week's in the fridge and freeze next week's portions.
Other than taking Ferguson on a couple walks and watching a couple movies, I didn't do anything else this weekend. I'm definitely not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Boo to that.
Oh, and isn't my Jean Havoc icon the cutest thing you've ever seen?
I dragged Jason to the farmer's market yesterday. His job was to hold the basket while I bought healthy things. I ran out of room in the basket, and we ended up leaving with $25 worth of fruits and veggies. This made our trip to the regular grocery store much less; it was only $20. All I had to pick up was cereal, yogurt, bread, milk, and a couple canned items.
The high bill at the farmer's market was because I needed all the veggies to make a delicious Tuscan Vegetable Soup.
While the garlic and thyme was sitting happy in some olive oil, I chopped up a load of green cabbage, carrots, and celery.
I dropped that bowl of goodness and some stewed tomatoes into the pot and let it saute for a few.
Then I attacked the zucchini with my trusty knife.
Next came the chopping of the potatoes and fresh basil. They can be seen here with the white kidney beans.
The last step was to dump the zucchini, potatoes, basil, and beans into the pot with eight cups of vegetable broth. You can you use chicken broth, but I can't. Eww, chicken. I let it simmer for about an hour until it looked like this...
Mmmm... yum. Because no soup is complete without some sort of bread, I made wheat dinner rolls. You're supposed to brush melted butter on top, but I'm being healthy, and they still taste wonderful without.
I have a neat microwavable thermos that I'm going to use to tote a serving of the soup to work for lunch. It will be the perfect meal with a wheat roll on the side. You can find the recipe for the soup here and the recipe for the wheat rolls here. Both are very tasty. Oh, and they both made a huge amount of food. The pot of soup will feed me lunch for two weeks. I'm going to keep this week's in the fridge and freeze next week's portions.
Other than taking Ferguson on a couple walks and watching a couple movies, I didn't do anything else this weekend. I'm definitely not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Boo to that.
Oh, and isn't my Jean Havoc icon the cutest thing you've ever seen?
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