Month: November 2009

A More Typical Day

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Yesterday was sort of a fluke since I had a group meeting, but today’s breakfast is more the norm.

Breakfast for me is the most important meal and probably one of the largest (I aim for about 400 calories).  This doesn’t work for everyone but I’ve found that if I have a large breakfast, I tend to eat less throughout the day.

Breakfast is a two part process.

Part 1: Yogurt.

1/2 Greek Yogurt either plain or jazzed up a bit.  Right now I’ve been on a Pumpkin Butter kick, so I add a bit of that.  Then I leave a little less than 1/4 of a cup in the bowl so I can have some creamy oats…

Part 2: Oats.

1/2 cup of oats, 1 banana, water and 1/2tbsp nut butter (today I used peanut butter with flaxseed).

Today is another long day.  I have class from 9:00am-3:00pm, then I plan on staying in the lab and working on my Statistics project.

Coming up tonight:  A post of Food Security!

First Attempt at Thai

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So a little bit of background… I’m obsessed with Trader Joe’s.

Last time, the lovely fella came to this coast to visit me and his family, I drove down to Pennsylvania.  On the way home I had the bright idea of stopping by a Trader Joe’s because upstate NY doesn’t not have a single Trader Joe’s.

Well anyway… I stocked up on ridiculous things that I probably didn’t need.  One of them being coconut milk.  After having it sit in my cupboard for a month, I decided to do something about it.  So I bought some red curry paste and decided that I was going to make a thai meal!

I chopped up some fresh broccoli and tofu put it in a pan with the coconut milk and about 2 tablespoons of the Red Curry Paste, then added some stir fry vegetables then let it it simmer for about 15 minutes.  Then I paired it with some Harvest Grain Mix.

Pretty darn delicious, but sadly not as good as the Yellow Curry at Berkeley Thai House.  I miss California!

What the World Eats

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A while back, Time Magazine had a really interesting photo essay based on Peter Menzel’s book Hungry Planet: What the World Eat.

I thought I would share it here because I thought it was extremely interesting.  It shows 15 families around the world with a week’s worth of food spread out on their table.

Click the picture or here for the link!

In my opinion, some of the most interesting parts of this photo essay were:

1. The amounts of food and quality of food.  Certain countries/cultures had more fresh produce than others, as well as the most obvious… different quantities of food.

2.  Take note of the living space.  Most of the pictures are taken where the family eats.  It’s interesting to try to guess how people experience food based on their environment. Who has a TV in the room?  Who has a table?  I think a lot of this is also based on income but still kind of interesting to think about.

3.  The family unit.  Not necessarily food related, but it’s interesting to see what different cultures consider to be the immediate family.

I should also say that I understand that this is by no means representative of countries or cultures.  Every household is different but I think it’s useful to get a glimpse into the way other people live and eat.

Any other thoughts?

Busy Day

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Today is one of those busy days.  I got up at 6am and made it to a 6:30 spin class, which was great!  Then I came home and made breakfast and lunch.  I knew I had a 9am group meeting so I took my breakfast to go.

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I made some oats in a jar (1/2 cup oats, 1 banana, cinnamon, fage and probably about a tbsp of pb).  Luckily I was pretty much done with this peanut butter because it turned out to be a great way to transport my breakfast.

Lunch is also ready to go.  I combined some left over roasted tofu, eggplant, and zucchini from dinner two nights ago with some left over spaghetti squash and pasta sauce to make a great combination (hopefully… I haven’t tried it yet)

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I don’t plan on being home until late tonight so I packed snacks too (an apple and a Kashi bar)

If I don’t pack snacks, I know I’ll eat junk the rest of the night.  Some people get drunk and make bad decisions, I get hungry and make bad decisions!

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Have a great day!

Welcome to Foodologie!

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I read a lot of blogs, mostly, about health and fitness.  The past few months I’ve been mulling over the idea of starting my own blog, so I did.  I moved from California to upstate NY for grad school and started my personal blog.  Then I realized my blog was becoming somewhat of a food blog.

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Then while talking to the lovely fella (the boyfriend whom from now on will be referred to as such), he suggested I write a blog about food.  But there are already a million and five food blogs out there.  What can I possibly write to make mine different from others?

Why not write about what I like, know and would like to know more about: food. By food I don’t simply mean just what I eat, rather everything about food: food consumption (my own and that of others), cooking, food policy, food politics, food production, etc.   So that’s what I’m going to do.

I hope you find this interesting and exciting.  Feel free to e-mail me(foodologie00@gmail.com) if there’s anything you’d like to hear more about (I’d be happy to research if I don’t know about the topic!).