Day 2 (Superbowl Sunday)

Breakfast:

• 1/2 cup oatmeal (5 cents), 1 cup water, pinch of salt; microwave in bowl for 2:30 minutes, then clean up the mess, add a tablespoon of brown sugar.
• 1 cup coffee, 1 tsp brown sugar, 1 tsp non-dairy creamer

Comments:

• Don’t cover the bowl (even with a hole in the cover).  What a mess; oatmeal ended up on top of the cover (lol).  Cleanup took 10 minutes.
• This takes much more time than microwaving a poached egg but is cheaper.

Lunch: (3PM):

• 1 cup already cooked pasta and one cup of Holita’s meaty pasta sauce.
• 1 cup coffee.

Comments:

• Weight: 214 lbs.
• I know this is a kind of minor moral adventure but I don’t yet know if this will become a diet.   Eating Holita’s scrumptious pasta sauce doesn’t feel like one.
• I don’t know if it’s temporary or what but I’m not snacking  as much.

Superbowl snacks:  Two new friends came over to watch the second half of the Superbowl.  I put out a sizable bowl of  tortilla chips, a bunch of grapes and a bowl of almonds.  I ate:

• Three handfuls of chips
• 8-10 almonds.
• 15 grapes

Dinner (7:30 PM):

• 10 oz. of sauer kraut (unusual but there was a quart of sauer kraut sitting in the frig.

Day 1

Mahesh Grossman’s blog at Authorsteam.com described teachers Christopher Greenslate and Kerri Leonard blogging their experiment of eating on just a dollar a day. It inspired me to think in a different way about the overabundance of food that many of us have in the US. So I have shuffled ever so slightly in the direction of eating less and paying more attention.
There’s an “insidious” part of the mind and body at work in this area that disregards conscious effort and marches to the refrigerator to grab a quick snack. I’m not trying to starve it out but will write about efforts to curb it.

Day 1 food so far:
Breakfast: 1 poached egg (used one of those microwave egg poachers, inexpensive, found at your local food store).
Mid-afternoon lunch: 1 $1 double cheeseburger from Burger King and then one 1/8 sized slice of combo pizza my daughter baked int he oven.
Dinner: That’s going to be the challenge: my wife is cooking and her cooking is darn good.

But so far this is not too extravagant. We shall see.

Dinner:  1 full bowl of Holita’s  delicious pasta with meat sauce.   6 almonds.