I’m home! And a salad challenge update.

I’m participating in Leng’s Salad Challenge – eat one salad a day for 2 weeks, starting yesterday (Sunday the 16th).  So far I’m doing well!  Yesterday I started out the day (in the early afternoon – we slept in) with a plate of delicious leftover salads and some fresh green tea:

• crab and mango salad
• hijiki seaweed, mushroom, and konnyaku salad
• wasabi potato salad
• fruit salad with lemon juice – apple

I snacked on more apples and persimmons throughout the day.  Then we went to dinner:

• seafood soup
• papaya salad (seconds)
• shrimp pad thai
• volcano shrimp (seconds)
• veggie brown fried rice

And of course after dinner I had more fruit salad – apple, persimmon, and lemon juice.  I think I had another persimmon at some point.  And I had 2-3 clementines.

Around midnight I had a carb attack and ended up eating about half a baguette dipped in whipped real butter.  I don’t know what possessed me to do this, but it sure was delicious.  The baguette was whole wheat and it was so soft and flavorful.  Bobby was making ramen and I was bored and feeling munchy, which is how I started.

This morning we were up at 4am eastern time (which is 1am pacific time, which is where I am currently!).  I didn’t eat anything til we were on the first plane, at which point I had a nice first breakfast/snack:

• apple
• apple cinnamon Zbar

On the second flight they had better food and I ate this:

• total cereal (I actually had 2 of these because I saved mine from last week’s flight)
• about 6 ounces of lowfat milk (I had some of Bobby’s)
• a sliced banana

When we got home I tried to replicate Bobby’s mom’s hijiki/mushroom/konnyaku salad and I got pretty close.  The recipe’s not quite ready yet; it needs tweaking.  I’ll post it when I have it right.  So this was my lunch spread:

• hijiki/mushroom/konnyaku salad
• 2 crisps with smart balance
• an apple with lemon juice

We’ve been napping for the last couple of hours in an attempt to return to normalcy – traveling is so exhausting!  I think we’re going to head out and do some grocery shopping (I’ll update you on the Thanksgiving Challenge later tonight) and possibly use our meal out this week for dinner.

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