Welcome to my early morning kitchen. The sun hasn't come up. I haven't had my coffee yet. I haven't eaten. I might still be in my pajamas. And I'm certainly grumpy.
But it's time to pack my lunch, and you're all invited to watch under the glare of my camera flash. The photos aren't pretty. Making lunch is hard enough pre-coffee and breakfast. There's no way I'm up for staging pretty photos.
Along with photos and descriptions of the food, I'm going to include carb counts and insulin doses. November is Veganmofo month, but it's also American Diabetes Month. And I don't make a single food decision without consulting the 'betes.
Monday. Leftover lo mein (whole wheat lo mein noodles, green beans, carrots, red onions, cabbage, tofu). I never can get the vegetables fully incorporated into the noodles, so the leftovers are 75% vegetables. But there are a few noodles on the bottom there. Pineapple. A few dark chocolate covered dried blueberries.40g carbohydrate, 4 units humalog
Tuesday. Imagine Foods tomato soup. Salad of lettuce, golden raisins, and almonds with pomegranate vinaigrette on the side. A frozen chickpea cutlet from a bulk cooking session. The cutlet defrosted by lunch and I tore it up and added it to the salad.45g carbohydrate, 4 1/2 units humalog
Wednesday. Leftover noodle soup (vegetable broth, whole wheat noodles, soy curls, carrots, celery, onions, and celery leaves). Whole wheat crackers. Soymilk (made from black soybeans, but it doesn't taste any different.) Two dried strawberries.40g carbohydrate, 4 units humalog
Thursday. I forgot to make my lunch until 2 minutes before I had to leave, and it shows. So Delicious strawberry-banana coconut yogurt. A toasted slice of Rudi's part-whole grain cinnamon-raisin bread (I was so excited to find vegan cinnamon-raisin bread). Pineapple.60g carbohydrate, 6 units humalog
Friday. Whole-grain vanilla cereal (I can't remember the brand). Ancient grains milk (This is new. I can't remember all the grains, but it includes quinoa.) Cole slaw.50g carbohydrate, 5 units humalog
6 comments:
I salute your camera flash. I have to use that if I take any indoor photos too.
I can't believe you can take pictures so early in the morning. I have trouble even remembering to grab my lunch!
I'm gonna be honest, I'm a little surprised I was able to do it, too.
I really wish I had some sweet raisin bread right now, mmmmh.
I'm surprised you REMEMBERED to take photos every morning. Operating a camera? Doable. Remembering to actually take a photo? Nuh uh, I'm always all over the place in the morning.
I couldn't even tell these involved flash! I always love looking at people's lunches.
You CAN'T get raisin toast in Scotland. Fact. (Sad fact.)
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