Eating For 7 Days Straight

Here is my eating for the next 7 days 4/10-17th. If you need a visual of what I eat search my blog because I usually photograph everything I eat. I tend not to deviate to far. I must admit if I have what I have for lunch for dinner also I might add a side of some steamed veggies most likely some red cabbage I have in the crisper or I'll sauté some spinach with onions, garlic, mushrooms and red and Italian peppers.

Sunday:
Breakfast: 1oz shredded wheat, 1 oz raisins, .5oz teaspoons milled flaxseeds, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 banana

Snack: 2 granny smith apples (One between breakfast and lunch, one between lunch and dinner)

Lunch: 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites

Dinner: Veggie burger with egg whites on dry wheat with lettuce, tomato, pickle. Baked potato (plain).


Monday:
Breakfast: 1oz shredded wheat, 1 oz raisins, .5oz teaspoons milled flaxseeds, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 banana

Snack: 2 granny smith apples (One between breakfast and lunch, one between lunch and dinner)

Lunch: 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites

Dinner: Steamed fish, broccoli, side salad.


Tuesday:
Breakfast: 1oz shredded wheat, 1 oz raisins, .5oz teaspoons milled flaxseeds, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 banana

Snack: 2 granny smith apples (One between breakfast and lunch, one between lunch and dinner)

Lunch: 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites

Dinner: Steamed mixed vegetables w/ tofu and cashew nuts, brown rice, black bean sauce.


Wednesday:
Breakfast: 1oz shredded wheat, 1 oz raisins, .5oz teaspoons milled flaxseeds, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 banana

Snack: 2 granny smith apples (One between breakfast and lunch, one between lunch and dinner)

Lunch: 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites

Dinner: Salmon, mushroom w/ spinach, baked potato, side salad.


Thursday:
Breakfast: 1oz shredded wheat, 1 oz raisins, .5oz teaspoons milled flaxseeds, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 banana

Snack: 2 granny smith apples (One between breakfast and lunch, one between lunch and dinner)

Lunch: 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites

Dinner I will have either:
A) 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites
B) Veggie burger with egg whites on dry wheat with lettuce, tomato, pickle.
C) Steamed mixed vegetables w/ tofu and cashew nuts, brown rice, black bean sauce.

Friday:
Breakfast: 1oz shredded wheat, 1 oz raisins, .5oz teaspoons milled flaxseeds, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 banana

Snack: 2 granny smith apples (One between breakfast and lunch, one between lunch and dinner)

Lunch: 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites

Dinner I will have either:
A) 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites
B) Veggie burger with egg whites on dry wheat with lettuce, tomato, pickle and plain baked potato.
C) Steamed mixed vegetables w/ tofu and cashew nuts, brown rice, black bean sauce.


Saturday:
Breakfast: 1oz shredded wheat, 1 oz raisins, .5oz teaspoons milled flaxseeds, 1 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 banana

Snack: 2 granny smith apples (One between breakfast and lunch, one between lunch and dinner)

Lunch: 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites or Steamed mixed vegetables w/ tofu and cashew nuts, brown rice, black bean sauce.

Dinner I will have either:
A) 1 baked yam, salad with 5 colored peppers, arugula, baby spinach. red & green lettuce, alfalfa sprouts and baby kumato tomatoes, cucumbers, crunchy sprouts, beans and quinoa, 2 slices wheat bread, 2 egg whites
B) Veggie burger with egg whites on dry wheat with lettuce, tomato, pickle and plain baked potato.
C) Steamed mixed vegetables w/ tofu and cashew nuts, brown rice, black bean sauce.

Seems kind of dull to you? Not to me. I switch up my quinoas and beans and lettuces and tomatoes. I can even get different sweet potatoes if I desire. There are some places I may eat similar stuff at For example I'll have the Yogis Choice (of quinoa, black beans, seitan and steamed Kale with a simple salad) @ Jivamukti Cafe or The Dragon Bowl (brown rice, beans, tofu, sea vegetables and steamed vegetables) @ Angelicas Kitchen.

What's Grosser Than Gross?

Warning: do not read this if you get easily grossed out. It makes me sick just thinking about it.

I was just discussing with my homegirl Maya Bidiya the virtues of veganism. Personally I eat salad to keep my food pretty much cruelty free. Yesterday I chopped open a red pepper to see that not only had I had successfully chopped the top off said pepper but also cut some sort of tiny caterpillar in half. We sat there looking at each other for a bit. the lil' feller was a gonner and he didn't even know it. So I just made him comfortable putting him in the bag with all the vegetable trimmings where he could eat his fill while the food kept pouring out the other side. I cleaned my pepper and pressed on. This hearkened me back to days in the Bronx as a child and roaches would get into the box of Golden Grahams and I would have to turn on the kitchen light, wait a minute. enter the room. grab the box, open the box, smack the box three times on the table, leave for a couple of minutes as a courtesy for them to get out of the box. Gingerly I'd pour cereal into the bowl. inspect it for any dead roaches or stragglers. Then pour the milk, eat, repeat. Any roaches alive or dead that would float to the surface I'd just remove with my spoon and keep it moving. Disgusting, I know but this is how it was. I am grateful that I don't ever have to experience any of that again on many levels. It is a fantastic life. Now without flinching I'm going sit, pray and fully appreciate my shredded wheat, banana, raisins and milled flaxseeds measured out perfectly with eight ounces of silk unsweetened soy milk. cruelty free of course. Have a great morning. Eat a good breakfast it's the most important part of your day.

It's Supper Time

95% of the time I eat the same exact dinner every day with small deviation. I don't use menus ever.

Diner Dinner: Veggie Burger on toasted wheat bread, lettuce, tomato, pickle and a baked potato

Should I deign to eat fish (on rare occasion) I will have Salmon, side salad, (w/o onion) with a green steamed vegetable or on occasion lightly sauteed spinach with mushroom and a baked potato.



Chinese food: steamed vegetables with tofu and black bean sauce on the side with cashew nuts and brown rice.

Empire Schezuan "Design your own dish": steamed broccoli, spinach, green beans and soft bean curd (tofu) with black bean sauce on the side with cashew nuts and brown rice.

My "Standard Lunch" but for dinner: I prepare a salad with lettuce, cucumber, tomato and 4 different color peppers, cucumbers and alfalfa or broccoli sprouts, chopped radish with balsamic and extra virgin olive oil, adobo and capers. top it off baked yam or sweet potato. two slices wheat bread. For protein I will add beans or beans and quinoa

Shopping List

I just did a compra. that's grocery shopping for those of you that weren't brought up Hispanic. All the stuff that I usually buy is right here. On the left is Dr. Bronners Peppermint Castille soap good for people and vegetables, A new toothbrush, dental floss and toothpaste. A pack of kumato tomatoes (delicious) 4 colored peppers, a jar of capers, Granny Smith apples, a container of alfalfa sprouts, unripe bananas. a half gallon and carton (you can store it unrefrigerated for a year!) of Silk unsweetened soymilk (sorry to tell you if you like the plain one: cane juice = sugar), Traditional and Inca Red quinoa (I just couldn't choose so I got both) Yams and a bag of Bob's organic milled flaxseeds.

Things that I'm missing from this picture: Original (red box) Post spoon sized shredded wheat, Sun Maid Raisins, beans of all types, Lettuces of all types, Wheat bread made without high fructose corn syrup, tofu, seasonings like extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar, Goya Adobo, sea salt, Tabasco sauce, Bragg liquid aminos and a bunch of vegetables that I add to salads or steam like spinach, mushrooms, Kale, radishes, and many many more. I also take a daily multivitamin.

That is pretty much all I eat. As for drinking I only drink water. no bubbles, no flavors or vitamins just water. sometimes I go nuts and have some ice with it but that's as far as I go.

It's a very simple structure that works for me. Personally, I can complicate a glass of water if you let me. My ultimate choice is no choice.

Mercury Rising

Safe among the vegetation: Jason Trachtenburg from the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and the Pendulum Swings strikes a pose with me and my Mercury t-shirt at the 4th street Food Co op.


For the past couple of years I had cut out all meat except for fish. this was going well i was feeling healthy (with the exception of a strange lung thing that wasn't going away and and an itchy feeling all over that my doctors could not find the origins of or proof I was even feeling this.) was I going nuts? then it dawned on me puritis is a symptom of mercury poisoning so is insane thinking. so I got tested. I got a phone call from my doctor while i was on my way to buy more white albacore tuna in water for i only had 7 cans left an was in constant fear of running out (insane thinking) He asked how much fish do you eat. I said 7-12 servings a week over about a year. He asked if I could pare it down to 2 times a week and not eat tuna. (I was still trying to figure out ways I could sneak in some tuna into my diet until I realized that was insane thinking) .5 nanoliters of mercury in your blood is ok I had a whopping 29nl in my blood I received a letter from the Department of Health and spoke to the person in charge of Mercury. They also have one for Lead and other elements he informed me. He said when I got tested, anybody who hits over a 25nl of mercury on their blood sets off a red flag and he interviewed me to see if I had been exposed to anything like neon lights and other things. i told him how much fish I ate and he ran down a list of what I was not to eat

HIGH MERCURY Eat three servings or less per month:
Bluefish, Grouper, Mackerel (Spanish, Gulf), Sea Bass (Chilean) Ive had it, Tuna (Canned Albacore) a staple to my eating, Tuna (Yellowfin) no more sushi!,

HIGHEST MERCURY Avoid eating:
Mackerel (King) holy mackerel!, Marlin, Orange Roughy, Shark (I had it in Hawaii), Swordfish (I had it twice), Tilefish, Tuna (constantly)

this list can be found http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/guide.asp plus a list of fish you can eat (Wild caught salmon is ok farm ones has PCBs) but considering the current oil situation maybe I will stick to advice from Jason Trachtenburg of the 4th street food co op. (open to the public) and roll cruelty free. Here is a list of top 10 vegetarian protein sources. http://www.womenfitness.net/protien-option.htm

Personally, I enjoy quinoa (Inca red or plain) with beans is considered a complete protein.

Incidentally when I stopped messing with the mercury laden items, the itching and lung thing both went away. the insane thinking is still up for debate.

What exactly do I eat anyhoo?

Salutations all. It's been a hot minute since my last post. As of 3/1/10 I weighed in at 169.2 lbs, which begs the question: What the heck am I eating? I'm posting this now so I will never have to answer this question ever again. I can simply refer any curious person to this blog entry and their questions will be answered and the world spins.

Keep in mind I am a little ocd. Even as a child I categorized and stacked items like baseball cards and comic books in many different configurations. I do the same with food. I don't have to understand 'em, just rope 'em, throw em, brand 'em.


Breakfast: I eat the same thing 99% of the time 1 ounce of spoon sized shredded wheat (usually around 27 squares) 1 ounce sun maid raisins (approximately 63 raisins) .5 ounces milled flaxseed. 8 ounces (one cup) of unsweetened "Silk" soymilk (the green container, the regular has cane juice!) 1 banana and one centrum multivitamin. I use a polder travel scale to precisely weigh everything. I make at least 7 to 9 breakfasts at a clip so I dont have to do this every day like I did when I started this routine.


A friend told me there was a sale on shredded wheat so you can guess what I did: (My roomate walked in and said "Um.. What's this cereal display doing in the house?")












Dude! it was a dollar a box at Wallgreens! You woulda done it too except I cleaned em out!

Snacks: between breakfast and lunch and lunch and dinner I have one handheld fruit. I can have an orange, apple or pear. at this moment I prefer apples. I enjoy, honey crisps, cameo, pinova, galas, and golden delicious. I hate mealy apples like mackintosh and jonagold. Waxy apples like the incorrectly monikered red "delicious" super sweet ambrosia and winesaps. I am currently into Granny Smiths. The Iron Gym handbook extols the virtues of this apple so I'm holding that down. (Note all apples are face up, face down, face up...)



Lunch will be a salad of lettuce (I dig romaine, red, green, curly leaf and boston. I hate frisée and iceberg lettuce) Tomatoes (Vine ripened usually, heirloom when available) and 4 different peppers, cucumbers and alfalfa sprouts if use dressing it's balsamic and extra virgin olive oil, a lil' adobo or some sea salt. I mustn't forget the capers

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I always like a baked potato. sometimes a yam or sweet potato. Tho I find yams sweeter than sweet potatoes, can you belive it?



the golden sweet potato is in the center then the yam.

Next I make a yum yum bumble bee salmon sandwich (in water) and I use veganaise. just read the ingredients and you'll never return to mayo again.




Dinner: actually I'll finish this later because this blog has reminded me it's time to eat! More later!