Eat a salad (and one fruit) a day

Apple eaten for breakfast.

tons of cut-up fruit (the library provided breakfast with training)
and after work, a small home-made salad. now am meeting a friend for dinner…

today.
ate em. the first one cuz i felt i had to. the second one (with organic greens and made at home by me) because lo and behold, i wanted to.

not necessarily feeling calm yet, but i logically know that eating salad is a way to take good care of myself, and i know (again, logically more than emotionally) that if i continue to do this, i will eventually feel better.

yay!

need to get back to it…

1: fruit: mcintosh apple salad: small salad

2: -

3: 2 mcintosh apples. ^miniscule salad

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5: 2 mcintosh apples.

6: some steamed/sauteed veggies

7: tiny salad

8: a few carrot sticks + one banana
(sheesh. I need to get better at this!)

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25: salad! yes!

26: salad! yes!

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1 – Big salad composed of fresh spinach and other greens… Umm… I think those greens were meant to be cooked. Oh well. Ate ‘em raw. Plus I think I’ll have a kiwi later.
2 – pineapple… a few stray veggies at Thai place
3 – no
4 – ?
5 – small spinach salad
6 – no
7 – spinach salad
8 – ate a `tiny` salad and a bunch of baby carrots
9 – no
10 – HUGE bunch of baby carrots. They are now coming out of my ears. And all because i shook too many into my bag for the day!
11 – handful of baby carrots. Small bite of spinach.
12 – salad – yes; fruit, yes, (in the form of tomato soup!)
13 – salad – yes; fruit? does orange-infused vodka count?
14 – salad – yes; fruit? hmm… i Bought some fruit. hmm…
15 – salad – yes
16 – yes to fruit (lots and lots of tomatoes)
17 – salad – yes; fruit – once more, lots of tomatoes!
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24 – salad, yes
25 – salad, yes (stuffed into my almond butter sandwich!)
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27 – salad, yes
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21 – big plate of greens with almonds, cheese, tiny amt of tomatoes, and balsamic vinaigrette. Plum.
22 – grapes. greens with walnuts cheese balsamic vinaigrette.
23 – BIG handful of baby carrots. greens on sandwich.
24 – SUPER big handful of baby carrots. small salad at a Thai place.
25 – nothing
26 – nothing
27 – nothing
28 – ?
29 – ?
30 – big salad + carrots
31 – big plate of fresh spinach salad + carrots

I’m finally doing this consistently again. When I was working, I just packed a salad in my lunch and had no problems. Now that I’m at home, I wasn’t doing so well. What changed? I made a game of it! (yeah, I know, I’m 10).

The object of the game is to eat five colors of fruits and vegetables before supper. As you can see from the picture, I usually manage four colors at lunch and another fruit at breakfast (today it was dark purple grapes). My colors took up so much plate real estate that I had to put my chicken thigh and slice of whole wheat zucchini herb bread on another plate to complete my lunch.

This was a fast meal for me, btw—chicken and green bean salad left over from last night, veggie dip left over from who-knows-when so I thought I should eat it, bread made in bread machine a couple of days ago.

Salad – yes (though small)
fruit – yes (my coworker gave me a banana)