Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Happy 20th birthday to my sweet son, Sam! (at
Pensacola) Mom misses you!
This is my first day of giving myself a bit more freedom.
You’ll see very soon why I gave myself such stringent guidelines before I even
woke up today. Discipline is not my strong suit. So let’s see how today went.
Until my coconut milk is gone, I’m planning to mix it ½ and
½ with cow’s milk. This is a continued sacrifice, but I don’t see how else to
motivate myself to finish the coconut milk off. Once I go to cow’s milk alone,
I would find it very difficult to go back and finish off the coconut milk. So I
enjoyed a glass!!! of milk (mixed) with my apricot breakfast bar from the
Daniel Fast book for breakfast. It still had a strong coconut flavor, but it
was more of a pleasant taste than the overwhelming dirty-sock flavor of coconut
milk alone. Since I drank the milk instead of using it with cereal or granola, I
didn’t make my every-other-day cup of coffee today, so that I’ll be able to
enjoy it tomorrow.
After the girls had left for school, I faced the same
challenge as last week, but with new freedoms, the temptation was even
stronger! My first thought – let’s order from Sarpino’s (an incredible Italian
fast-food place that delivers) for lunch! But I didn’t…. The fridge is full of
healthy leftovers, as well as full of veggies that need to be turned into
healthy meals. So I know I can’t spend money to get “yummy” food. But the
leftovers just didn’t light my fire today. :-) Finally, my eyes lit on the jar
of natural peanut butter I picked up at Sprout’s. Delicious!!! I’ve always been
a sucker for PB! I used the multi-grain bread that my mother-in-law brought to
me last week (when I was off of yeast products) to make Peanut butter toast,
and made a cup of decaf hot tea to go with it. Yuuummmmm Yuuummmm! What a
delightful treat, after so many days of staring at that bread with longing!
When I got up from my nap (eat your heart out, tired
mamas!), I poured the last few ounces of tea over ice to make a half cup of
iced tea that lasted me through my afternoon, until I was making dinner. I did
a good job NOT snacking all afternoon. This was probably helped by the fact
that I didn’t have the dehydrator running with something yummy in it all
afternoon. :-)
For supper, I made the flatbread pizza with Macadamia Nut
cheese from the Daniel Fast book. It was plumb wonderful! However, because I’m
off the first ten days, I did make the following modifications: I used veggie
sausage crumbles on my portion, and I added a tablespoon of parmesan and a
tablespoon of mozzarella to mine. This recipe necessitated making the flatbread
recipe first, which has to sit for 30 minutes and bake for ten minutes before
assembling the pizza. Then I had to make the spinach artichoke dip from the
cookbook (I made a half batch, and added about a ¼ cup of mozzarella to this,
too) and bake it. I cut the flatbread into four portions (for me and my three
kiddos) before baking, then let each person top his or her own. They chose from
sliced veggies, cooked chicken, and whatever else they could find. For the most
part, they enjoyed all of theirs, although I LOVED mine! I even saved a little
of it for a leftover another day, and am looking forward to it! I served it
with the remaining white bean salad from yesterday (yeah, that did NOT improve
with age!) and it made a filling, healthy dinner.
The miracle of miracles for today was that I MADE IT TO
CHURCH at Eagle Heights! I haven’t been able to attend a Wednesday night service in forever, partly because by that time of
day, things are pretty rough in my fuzzy little head. Malachi was driving,
since Dan was at work till 8pm, so he had the privilege of walking his dizzy
mama all the way down the hall to the adult service, then coming back for me
afterward. :-) What fun! He’s a sweet guy, though, and teased me the whole way,
instead of grumbling or mocking. :-)
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