New Food Experiment

For the month of September, Chris and I are trying a new food-experiment-type-thing. All the meals for the month are all thought out for us, the shopping lists for each week are all pre-planned and all we need to do is make sure we have the food and prepare it correctly. I'll explain it more as the month goes on but that's the short, short version.

My initial impression when reading the meal plan was how easy it seemed. Most of the meals were simple and filled with really diverse healthy foods. There's minimal cooking too which added to my thinking how simple it will be to do this for a month...a month of healthy food and I don't have to cook?? I'm in!

Well, day one was anything but simple. First of all we woke up at noon and still hadn't gone shopping for any of the first week's food. Peapod wasn't delivering the normal/non-produce foods until 3:30 PM. We also had to go to Whole Foods to get the more obscure foods that we knew we wouldn't find anywhere else and then had to go to Stop n Shop afterward for produce (I'd rather pick out my own produce than have Peapod pick it out for me...plus it's cheaper than the produce at Whole Foods). So breakfast was a wash...we just had Corn Flakes instead of the pumpkin oatmeal I was looking forward to.

So besides not having all the food we need to actually prepare the food till 6:00 PM, I also realized not cooking much this month will be replaced with an equal amount of time spent on chopping up fruit and vegetables. By 6:00 PM we were absolutely starving and still didn't even have our lunch let alone snacks or dinner. The kitchen counters were filled with non-refrigerated ingredients and tuperware I've been too lazy to put away in cabinets yet which made finding room for all the chopping and cutting difficult. As you can imagine it wasn't a good day at all as far as eating or crankiness was concerned.

We finally made it through all the preliminary food prep and had lunch. Then I preped a little for the rest of the week and then had dinner and finally finished around 10:00 or 1o:30 PM. 10:00 PM is a time I'm ok with eating dinner but a lot later than Chris likes to eat.


Quick impressions of today...

Food Prep: Took way too long. Not completely the plan's fault...mainly our lack of foresight to blame.

Variety: Good variety today. I'm excited to see what I'm going to be eating next.

Taste: Todays food was really tasty! Walnuts, coconut curry chickpea salad, and veggies and grilled tofu with a spicy apple dressing...yummy! Sorta kinda made the hastle worth it...but not completely.

How do I feel: I feel great. I feel full (I was worried it wouldn't be enough food), I had no urge to snack and my skin feels a little tingly from all the fresh veggies... mainly the onion...that I had for dinner.

Gym: Didn't make it to the gym today so I can't determine whether or not I had enough calories to handle a workout.