Day 7

Woo hoo I made it through an entire week of no meat, dairy, McDonald's sweet tea, Chick-fil-A lemonade or my all-time favorite beverage of choice, ice cold Coca-Cola. Nope I haven't had any of that. Right about now I sure could use a large sweet tea from Mickey D's. That's the craving talking. :-)

Day 7 is almost at an end. Let's see what did we do. I was working today from the house. For breakfast I had the last of the potato and green onion fritata. I will miss that dish. Delicious to eat but holey moley it takes forever to make. Lunch was leftover bean and rice casserole. I've had 3 servings out of that pot and it looks like I haven't made a dent :-)

On to the main event, dinner. I had an inkling for stir-fry vegetables. I picked up a green bell pepper, which is DELISH when it is stir-fried and mushrooms. I must ask my mom if she ate these when she was pregnant with me because i love them in all forms. I will eventually try portabella but they are $$$. I used a recipe from the website for stir-fry veggies with brown rice. My experience with brown rice, start it going before everything else because it takes 45-50 minutes to cook. You start the recipe with sauteeing onions and ginger. This was my first time working with ginger and I've discovered it has a KICK. After the onions are going for about 5 minutes, I add the carrots, green beans, broccoli, mushrooms and bell peppers. The wok is so full it's about to burst. The colors look so good. Like my co-worker told me the other day, I might find my inner chef on the fast. I had pulled out about 2 cups of kale and turnips to go with the rest of the veggies but i could barely get them to cook down so I left them out. Right now I am happy and full.