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Breakfast: 1/4 cup (when uncooked) steel cut oats, one poached egg, plain, 24 oz water with lemon…220 cal

Snack: one sm. apple, 2 tbs flax seed PB. 24 oz water….249 cal

Lunch: salad with tomato, carrots, 2 boiled eggs, 1/2 pkg of smoked salmon, 1 oz lean turkey, 1 tbs. yogurt/blue cheese dressing, 24 oz water with lemon, cup of ginger tea…420 cal.

Snack: 2 cups coffee, black

Dinner: Shrimp, basil, cherry tomatoes, 1/4 part skim ricotta cheese 24 oz water w/ lemon….300 calories

snack: protein shake – plain kefir, 1/4 cup mango chunks, 1/4 cup goji berries, tsp. agave nectar. 350 calories.

1540 calories so far, I may eat another snack later.

petit déjeuner:
café au lait at the café Gay-Lussac (the coffee here is exceptionally smooth and tasty)

après-midi:
drinking chocolate again at Angelina’s, and plenty of it, knowing I would be howling for it, aching for it, once I returned home
an “Olympe” – the rose macaron filled with fresh raspberries and whatnot

soir:
we meandered about Sacré-Coeur, and I left a tiny billet-doux in a tucked-away corner of a smooth stone wall

up in Montmartre, we found the oldest bistro in Paris, Chez la Mère Catherine (fondée a 1793)
beaucoup de pain Français
moules marinières, et frites
beaucoup de ketchup (French ketchup and French tomatoes and French raspberries are very delicious, I shall say)
some of Lulu’s boeuf bourguignon

we split a bouteille of Côtes-du-Rhône

we took a lovely ride back down to Café des Flores, where another billet-doux was etched onto a tree, tableside, while we drank jus d’abricots and mused

oopsie – I forgot to turn the photo

ante meridian:

1 banana smoothie with wheat germ, yogourt, oh, gee! milk, honey from disgruntled bees, and They Might be Giants; “There’s electric cars, there’s electric trains, here comes a robot with electric brains..”

1 cup of Lipton tea (so very almost civilized, thanks).

2 pieces of whole-fucking-wheat toast, baby – with butter, and iSnack2.0 which is the new dorky name for the new Vegemite.

1 hot donut with a hot jam enema (the unlucky donut) at the Sunday market with LL.

.5 toasted sandwich with ham, cheese and tomato and a latte (LL’s chai latte was better though).

1 plate of yam and potato mash and lightly killed chicken in herbs and olive oil with steamed carrots.

6 digestive biscuits.

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ante meridian:

1 Happy Friday roll in the hay
first thing [yay!]

1 cup of Lipton tea with raw sugar.

20 ounces of banana smoothie with
wheat germ, whole milk, honey, and
oh, gee! yoghurt.

2 not-quite-as-snobby-as-my-normal
snobby-endurance-athlete vitamins.

1 demitasse of espresso with a smidgeon
of hot water and a raw sugar.

_{Oh, crap! Better run to meet LL
for lunch so we can laugh and generally
act goofy. Lamb kebabs hopefully!}

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petit déjeuner:
café au lait x 2 (we are already regulars here at this bustling little café in the Latin Quarter)

après-midi:
Ladurée for some of the best macarons known to humankind, including an enormous one for lunch that was rose-flavoured, filled with fresh raspberries, and strewn with rose-petals

several bites of a silky omelet filled with what seemed like a million whole morels

a glass of muscadet at Les Deux Magots, at the outermost sidewalk table… across the pond billets-doux and thinking Life is short. Make it sweet.

another macaron, from Pierre Hermé

soir:
shared rumsteak
soupe a l’oignon
soupe aux poissons with rouille and toasted baguette and grated cheese
a demi carafe of bordeaux, shared
frites

a long long walk along the Seine, looking for the Panthéon

we found another little café that sold Berthillon ice-creams, and shared a trio of wondrous sorbets: poire, passion, and abricot
(hard to choose a favourite)

orangina

Hey, WTF?! They put grapes
in their wine, honey!

_{I try very hard to
make her laugh; It’s
not hard – she laughs
at me often.}

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Cabernet/Shirazzzzzzzzzzzzz..

_{Yum. Good with canapes.}

petit déjeuner: I think this place is called Café Gay-Lussac
café au lait x 2 (patrons sit at the tables if they have dogs, or at the bar if they do not.. everyone is helpful and wonderfully kind when I ask about food I intend to hunt down during the day)
bread of some merit at Eric Kayser
yogourt d’abricots

après-midi:
these wild caramels made by monks from the south of France… we spent an hour with the charming proprietor of a shop called Le Bonbon au Palais… he let us sample jellies of bergamot and anise, sea-salted caramels, and wonderful pâtes de fruit with cassis liqueur in t’middle
the caramels were of burnt sugar… he instructed us to allow them to melt in the mouth for ten minutes, at which time a secondary kind of caramel, coffee-flavoured, would emerge and blend flavourwise with the first

soir:
we were too late for L’As a Falafel, so we walked to le Petit Bofinger
we both ordered fish soup, soupe aux poissons, rather like a bouillabaisse but clearly not comprised of the correct fish to be labelled a proper bouillabaisse
rouille and butter-toasted baguette slices
grated cheese
(one wipes the baguette with the rouille, sprinkles it with cheese, then drags the bread through the soup. bon!)
eau de vie – framboise
not at all petite salade aux gisiers (kind of a preserved duck gizzard), jambon fumé, confit de canard, et foie gras… with a tangle of frizzled greens, wonderful tomato confit and the lightest vinaigrette possible
plain eau
vin de maison

oh la la

I tend to agree with Peter Rabbit on this one.

I had a gorgeous bowl of freshly picked baby lettuces for lunch today, about 4 cups worth at least, tossed with Pink Lady Apple, Carrot, Blue Cheese and some yogurt dressing. I now need a long sweet nap or a big cup of coffee.

Breakfast smoothie – goji berry, blueberry, kefir, omega 3/6/9 oil

grapefruit, I forgot I ate a grapefruit. They make me think about Venus. :D

I’m craving red meat, so I’m thinking about grilling for dinner, drinking some wine, eating more of those lettuces and sleeping until Saturday comes.

Mahinui, that’s my version of a plate of shredded kale. ;)

but when I’m bad, I’m even bettah. ;)

Yesterday, I raised some nutritional hell, just because I could.

breakfast, a nice healthy smoothie with mango and kefir, Omega 3/6/9 oil and some goji berries.

snack:
liter of water with lemon and an apple

And that’s where the clean stuff stopped, haha

Lunch:
A big bacon cheese burger and chili fries. a large diet coke

Snack:
A liter of water and a grapefruit

Dinner:
Spinach, Ricotta, red onion and mozzarella hand tossed crispy pizza, 3 slices, and an ice cold Hoegaarden on draft with a wedge of lemon.

Dang, now that I read it, I’m disappointed. Its true, I guess now I’ve finally, truly crossed over from the Nutritional Darkside, into the light. My worst nutritional days are still pretty decent. I’ve come a long way since eating entire pints of Ben and Jerry’s after a dinner of Taco Hell.