Arete

• Brekky: Oatmeal w/bit of soymilk & maple syrup; 2 cups Tazo Earl Grey tea; Fruit: kiwi, papaya, strawberry, apple, banana; slice honey-bran bread w/bit o’ butter + grapefruit marmalade
• Lunch: Leftover vegetable soup; small salad w/Romaine, celery, red & green bell pepper w/squeeze of lemon; 2 slices Acme Bakery Ciabatta w/bit o’ butter
• Dinner: 2 soft corn tortillas; 3-4 oz. red snapper, cabbage w/lime juice; mango salsa (jicama, mango, red & green bell pepper, red onion, cilantro w/lime juice; leftover beans; Mexican rice
• Dessert: Good Earth tea (2 cups), 3-4 oz. dark chocolate

• Brekky: Oatmeal w/soymilk, 2c. of Tazo Earl Grey tea, fruit=kiwi, apple, papaya, strawberry; slice of honey bran bread; bit o’ butter+grapefruit marmalade
• Lunch: Leftover vegetable soup w/salad=2 leaves Romaine, red & green bell pepper, celery w/lemon juice, salt, & pepper
• Dinner: Chicken baked w/onion; spinach sauteed w/garlic, boiled Russian fingerling potatoes
• Snacks:  Tea w/fruit in PM; 1 Bellam Afrika gaufrette (20 calories), bite of  Lindor truffle

• Brekky: 1/2 serving hot oat bran w/bit o’ soymilk & maple syrup; 1 slice honey-bran toast w/bit o’ butter & grapefruit marmalade; Tazo Earl Grey tea (2 mugs) instead of coffee (yeah!); fruit consisting of papaya, gala apple, kiwi, & strawberry slices
• Lunch:  In “the City”, so had to eat out.  Went to Mel’s Diner near the Metreon. Had a veggie burger on a whole wheat roll w/grilled mushrooms & cheese; and a side salad w/onion, lettuce, tomato and lemon juice for dressing + 2 cups of tea w/honey & lemon.
• Dinner: Happily avoided eating the beef stew I had prepared the night before. Had a bowl of my leftover vegetable soup, water (not wine) to drink, and 2 tangerines for dessert.

Taking care of a friend who’s recovering from surgery this week.

• Brekky: Not the greatest, just had a few bites of a slice of honey bran bread, a bit o’ grapefruit marmalade, a teensy bit of butter, and some coffee (made by friend’s hubby) w/soymilk–but, all on the run in the morning frantic rush for everyone to get out of the house.
• Lunch: 1-1/2 leftover hamburgers, with toasted small hamburger buns, a few tomato slices
• Snack: 2 gingerbread/spice cookies w/chocolate things in the middle, slice of honey-bran toast w/grapefruit marmalade, coffee w/soymilk (coffee from morning stored in friend’s hubby’s thermos from college that still works and keeps coffee hot!)
• Dinner: 2 bowls of home-made minestrone soup w/ some garlic bread. Glass of French Chardonnay.  Learned from friend’s hubby that California Chardonnay has the toxic chemical, diacetyl, added to it  to give it its “buttery”/”complex” flavor–same flavoring used in movie theater popcorn’s butter.

• Brekky: 2 slices home-baked honey-bran bread toast w/a little butter, coffee w/home-made, fresh soymilk (made yesterday), bit o’ fruit: apples/strawberries, and, of course, home-made grapefruit marmalade.
• Lunch: It was a rainy day, I had to drive to Fiesta market and to Andy’s Natural Foods to shop for dinner, so went to Farm House for lunch, and ordered only a salad and coffee.  Took my own bread, marmalade, soymilk, and 3 eggs for poaching. Had ranch dressing with the salad (lettuce, tomato and avocado slices, bits o’ cheese, dried cranberries).
• Dinner: Made a huge pot of home-made, vegetarian minestrone soup with onion, potato, carrots, celery, cauliflower, pinto beans, cabbage, home-grown pumpkin (small), zucchini, and elbow macaroni, flavored w/fresh rosemary and Italian parsley from our garden.  Had 2 bowls + a bite of leftover spaghetti w/tomato sauce from last night + some sips of Forestville Sangiovese Chianti.
• After dinner snack: At my friend’s, in Berkeley, joined them for their dinner. I just nibbled: 2 asparagus spears, about 4-5 small boiled potatoes, a few sips of prosecco, a couple of bites of crackers tasting my friend’s husband’s home-made orange marmalade (made without pectin! but took 2 hours to gel!!!) and my own grapefruit marmalade.