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Making More Salads

2024-07-22 - [53] 5:4

I have gotten back into making and eating more salads and drinking less alcohol. My motivation was getting fitted for a tux 2 months ago for a wedding in middle of this October... After eating a lot of prepared processed foods and drinking quite a few cans of busch light a day, I can guarantee those measurements have gotten a little snug. My solution, at least for a bit, is to eat more whole foods and mostly stop drinking wheat beers!

My grocery bills are cheaper now, which is nice. I can make very big salads that fill my stomach and satiate my hunger and figured out that yellow mustard and a bit of vinegar makes a tasty very low calorie salad dressing. Also had quite a few cans of beans I haven't had the motivation to eat, so adding those to salads to add protein. It's also an excuse to eat through the fermented cauliflower I made a few months ago.

While I'm not a vegetarian currently, I was a vegetarian for about 7-ish years back about a decade and a half ago. Making tasty veggie dishes was fun, nice, and easy for me, didn't take too much time, and in my opinion was tastier than most of what I was eating before. Along with that, after I would eat a meal, I actually had energy rather than feeling like I needed to take a nap.

While my grocery bills are cheaper this way, the spendiest part ends up being tomatoes. Thankfully though, there are a lot of veggie gardeners around me that grow tomatoes. The thing I have noticed in particular with tomato gardeners is that they go from 0 tomatoes, curious as to why they didn't grow, to wayyyyyy too many tomatoes and having to pawn them off to everyone they can. I'll gladly take some of those tomatoes!

With any luck, this diet will inspire me to add more recipes to my site. Maybe.