Daily Food Diary – Day 3 of 365

A new day, a new chance to start living my best life.  Since food plays such a huge part in allowing us (or keeping us) from living our best quality life, I am really enjoying starting my day by giving it some attention.

Yesterday was a pretty basic Friday for me, I did my morning aerobics, my afternoon strength building workout and just a lot of basic cooking, cleaning, and putting around in between.  I did spend a bizarre amount of time prepping vegetables when Dan got home from grocery shopping.  Cauliflower, radishes, green onions (a lot of green onions! 🙄). 

Daily Food Diary for January 3rd…

(1) c coffee  – black as always.  (I used to use cream and sugar but when I became a mother, I realized that I did not have the dexterity to hold a squirming infant while preparing the perfect cup of coffee.  Imperfection became the norm.)

(1) sausage patty

(2) eggs pan fried in olive oil ***

(2) potato patties – toasted to perfection in our toaster oven

(8) oz water

(1) cookie

(1) PC Nanaimo bars

(1) very small PC of lemon square

(1) c tea

(8) oz water

(2) hotdogs – no bun

(1 1/2) c macaroni and cheese with thinly sliced red onion

(2) cups potato chips w/ cream cheese dip

(1/2) sliced tomato

(1/4) sliced cucumber

(12) oz carbonated water

*** The easiest way to change a bad habit to a good one, is to make the good one easier.  One bad food habit that I have is using too much butter. (Which is beginning to become obvious in my cholesterol numbers 🤦).  For years, I have kept a dish of butter on our kitchen cabinet, while storing our olive oil in a bottom cabinet beside the stove. (Out of sight, out of mind).  Any time I went to pan fry, I would reach for the butter dish.  Yesterday when Dan went shopping, I asked him to pick up an oil cruet that I could keep on the counter – in sight and within easy reach.

That’s it for today! Take care and have a great day! 💞😊