Day 101 The Sneaky Garden Pumpkin

Today, I was surprised at work, with a homemade 100 day mile marker cake! It was delicious, I ate it for breakfast and for lunch....and for snack. I left it on my desk for fear that I would finish it for dinner and that's just unacceptable. After the cake, someone else gave me some really fancy sweet and spicy trail mix, it was a great day all around, gastronomically speaking. After all of the snack activity, I just had a grilled cheese with pickles for dinner and a glass of milk, sometimes less is more. So, this weekend is the weekend I've been waiting for, the Sand Springs Herb Festival! The herb fest has herbs of course, but also anything and everything you could ever wish to plant in a garden. The dirt is ready, now we need plants, we are, against my wishes, going simple this year. My mom says we will plant tomatoes, peppers, squash, and cucumbers, how boring is that? I of course get my choice of peppers, so I'm going to research and find the hottest pepper available in this area and also, I'm planting pie pumpkins for fall recipes. I'm going to plant pumpkins, even if I have to sneak them into the ground. By the time my mom finds them, it will be too late, muuhaha! I'm so disappointed, I wanted spinach and eggplant, and watermelons! At least we don't have to waste space on carrots, that would be a terrible move and just plain garden sacrilege.
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Day 90 Three Months Down Nine To Go

THREE MONTHS without fast food or soda! My mission continues, three months is only a trimester, if I were having a baby, I wouldn't even be past the morning sickness yet. I mean it's not even a third of a year yet, it's nothing in the grand scheme of things. Still I'm proud of myself for holding out this long, even in the face of meetings set in fast food joints, birthday parties, and the cruel, cruel slurp of soda straws all around me. My next few months will be all about garden food, tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans...it's not like I don't eat these things every day anyway, but these will be uber fresh and pesticide free. OK, so it's not like things are changing really at all, but I think that digging for my food will make me appreciate what I eat in a more significant way.
I can't tally until this weekend, because I do not own scales and I will have to borrow my mom's, but I'm curious to see if I've dropped anymore weight or if I've leveled off. I'm pretty sure the initial soda ban, brought on most of what I've lost so far, dropping 1000 calories a day will do that I think. I'm also curious to add up my grocery bills for the month and compare it to my previous habits, it's too bad I've spent most of what I've saved on car repairs for three months in a row. Oh well, this is life, at least I'm not hungry!
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Day 86 Steal This Vegetable

Sunday is usually the day when my Grandmother makes me lunch, today, I made lunch for her, my aunt, and my cousin, because she wasn't feeling well. Grandmother sent me to the store with instructions to bring back stuff to make lunch, along with her credit card. I expected to come out with a few things, under 15.00, but apparently grocery prices have gone up since last week! I bought bread, tabbouleh, bean salad, chicken salad for my Grandmother, ham for my aunt, brownies for the kid, and milk, which came to 35.00! I am going to eat slowly and frugally until gas prices go back down or until the farmer's market starts up again, which could mean cheap eats for a very long time. My food plan for the next few days at least revolves around the black beans I have soaking right now. I bought tortillas, cheese, and .49 avocados for burrito lunches this week. I'm thinking about joining a vegetable co-op this summer, as everything is local and will not have heavy transportation costs added in, of course what my mom grows in her garden will be free aside from the manual labor of harvesting it, I don't mind slinging dirt for my dinner. I think, also I'm going to plant some things on my back porch in pots. Maybe some tomatoes or something, if people steal them, they steal them, in fact, maybe I'll put a sign on them, encouraging people to take them, everyone deserves a good tomato!
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