Eating Better

Well, now that my life expectancy has yet again moved out to the horizon (See Postcard from Tucson), I have no excuse for eating badly.

Well, no excuse except that the Tykerb kills my appetite and exercise is still a test of will--I'd much rather nap than walk.

However, I'm pretty self aware, and I know that eating right is important. So I'm paying attention to my eating patterns and to my energy levels at different times of day. For example, I rarely feel like cooking dinner. I have more energy earlier in the day, so I am now eating my biggest meal of the day in the early afternoon.

For the past couple of days, this has been Japanese fried noodles (yaki soba), made with lots of vegetables (cabbage, carrots, mushrooms) and cut-up vegi burger and a fried egg for protein.

Then in the evenings, I drink vegetable soup. The brand I like (Pacific) is organic, and right now I'm hooked on the creamy butternut squash soup. I drink it at room temperature or cold.

And even though it's only February, I'm getting motivated to get out my vegetable seeds and start some plants indoors. When I reread my posts about gardening last summer, I realize that I ate so much better at that time of year because homegrown produce is such a treat.

Gobbling strawberries and cherry tomatoes and pea pods right out of the garden ... Eating good food because it tastes good--that's the way to go.

See: Gardening

@ Jeanne Sather 2008.

Comments

[Amorette]

Gardening sounds wonderful, and the homegrown veggies will be excellent. You can become inspired to eat a tomato when it's hanging there, juicy and red, right in your own backyard.

I'm very depressed at the idea of not having a garden this year. I planted flower bulbs in the fall, but I live for my vegetable garden and was hoping to put in some Korean sweet potato slips in May.

Now that I'll most likely be stuck abed this late spring and summer, there's no point in planting something I can't tend. Even if I wanted to, the neighbors' unattended cats try to use my growbeds as toilets and it's too dangerous.

I'm trying to get my mom to agree to tend my strawberry and mint garden. I'm expecting the strawberries to really take off this year, since I pinched blooms so carefully last year and let them get established. Hopefully, there should be lots of tiny, sweet strawberries in June.

[jeanne]

The strawberries sound lovely! Guess you'll have to get other people to grow food for you this summer--certainly homegrown, organic food would be best for you while pregnant. And it does taste the best!

[Amorette]

It definitely tastes the best. Wish the strawberries were ready by March so I might have the chance to give you some! Oh, well.

I do have a store you MUST hit if you're in the area:

www.junglejims.com

(hint: bring an empty suitcase, you'll need it)