Easy-to-Chew Meals

For breakfast today I had quinoa flakes made with banana. I've never tried them with banana before because when I tried making oatmeal with banana a couple months ago, I really didn't like the taste.

But oh what I have been missing! Quinoa flakes with banana tastes so good! And it smells divine while cooking. I'll have to try oatmeal with banana again sometime to see if I like it now.

For lunch I made a thick veggie omelet and had a piece of toast (GF) on the side. (After the pic I prettied the toast with raspberry jam.)

My omelet made with Eggbeaters included shredded rice cheeze, cut up zucchini, green bell pepper (from our garden!), tomato, and spinach. Not bad!

Tomorrow I go back to the dentist to have my stitches taken out.

Oatmeal with Granola Plank = Yum

This was the last real breakfast I had before going to the dentist:

Oatmeal made with oats, soymilk, and ground flaxseed topped with a banana and part of a maple almond crunch granola plank

It was dee-licious! Since these granola planks are becoming so popular with food bloggers lately, I decided I just had to try them.

They pleasantly surprised me. They weren't too crunchy as in hard-crunchy. Instead they were more chewy-crunchy. Definitely a keeper. Once my mouth heals I want to try them with yogurt, and maybe even on soy ice cream.

A Not-Hungry Kind of Morning

This morning I woke up around 6ish and kept opening and closing my eyes, trying to rest, but not fall back asleep. Last night I stayed up later than usual reading in bed. Not good, but I knew I had to get up, so I did and did devotions.

I finally got out of bed at 6:25 to take a shower. But instead of going downstairs afterwards, I stayed in my room getting ready for the day and listening to a sermon mp3. I didn't feel hungry for breakfast.

See, if I eat too late at night after dinner, I'll wake up in the middle of the night with a tummy ache. That's what happened last night. Sigh. In the morning my stomach will still be bothering me, hence the not hungry feeling.

At 7:30 I finally went downstairs and had something easy on digestion: a peeled nectarine. (I peeled it after the photo.)

By about 8:45 I knew I should have a real breakfast, even though I still didn't feel hungry, so I made quinoa flakes. Only as it turned out, we were completely out of bowls. They were all in the dishwasher. After searching the cupboards, I finally found our Bunnykins bowls! My sisters and I used these china bowls when we were toddlers! Such memories...

I just might have to use it every morning from now on.

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Here are some more food pics from yesterday that I just uploaded this morning:

Soy mint marble fudge ice cream with vegan chocolate pound cake (from Whole Foods)

Soy yogurt with fruit (bananas, blackberries, and grapes) and honey:

That's all for now!

Catch Up Pics

On Tuesday this week I had to have one of my wisdom teeth removed rather unexpectedly. Owww. That means I'm still in recovery mode, so I have a lot of catch up posting to do.

Lately I've been surviving on dairy free Jamba Juice smoothies (Mega Mango and Pomegranate Paradise), plain soy yogurt, vanilla soy ice cream, mashed banana, and butternut squash soup. I can barely open my mouth wide enough to fit in my medicine.

This afternoon I made the banana cocoa smoothie recipe in this month's issue of Vegetarian Times that my sweet mom got for me. It was good!

Here are a few pics that I was going to post before this whole incident occurred:

Breakfast on Sunday morning (I think this was from Sunday): banana oatmeal with a little cashew butter. I didn't really like the banana cooked into the oatmeal, but I ate it anyway. Next time I'd rather have it sliced on top.

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Lunch on Sunday after church and Sunday school - a quesadilla made with soy cheese, salsa for dipping, and apples on the side.

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In between services I had a corn muffin to tide me over. At our church they used to have doughnuts in between the first and second hour, but they don't anymore. Know why? Because some of the parents who had kids on healthy diets complained that it was too hard to say "no" to their kids when other kids DID get to have doughnuts. Um, hello? Be a parent and say no anyway.

Not that I could eat doughnuts, but they cut out food between services altogether. So I bring my own now. And everyone else can just watch me eat and listen to their own stomachs growl. So there.

Mid-Morning Snack

Half a Kinnikinnick tapioca rice bun (found in the refrigerated section at Whole Foods) with dairy free spread, cashew butter, and banana slices. Mmm.