What I Ate in a Day #51

 I got a COVID vaccine the day before this and found myself feeling pretty rotten, so this was a weird day.

I started things off with a bowl of oatmeal cooked in soy milk, topped with banana slices, plum chia jam, and non-dairy yogurt, all garnished with chia seeds. It was good, but I found it hard to finish this. My appetite was not cooperating.

Lunch didn't go according to plan, but it was pretty good. I made a recipe I'd found for lemon poppy seed cucumber salad with pickled onions, which was a bit odd but tasted okay, and I had that with some garlic toast made from a garlic dinner roll I picked up at the grocery store and some red lentil pastina soup. This had a lot of vegetables and felt soothing and supportive, somehow. My original plan had involved using up some potato soup I'd been sent by accident and had forgotten about in my pantry, but it turned out that it had gone bad somehow and thus I threw that out and had to cook something. This is a very easy soup that I enjoy, so it worked out fine. It also had more protein, so I didn't have to have the planned glass of soy milk afterward.

I'd picked up some of this sipping broth as an alternative to my usual herbal teas, and feeling bleh made it appeal to me. I had a cup of this as a snack and enjoyed it, but I recommend making it with six ounces of water rather than eight--with the recommended eight ounces, it just didn't taste of much of anything.

Not pictured, I also took my usual supplements (a multivitamin, DHA, Vitamin D, and turmeric) and had a big tumblr full of sparkling ice water.

Dinner sounded...I just did not want to eat at all. For some reason, though, after a long conversation with myself about whether or not I could manage any food whatsoever and reminding myself probably I should, I wanted some peach cobbler with ice cream, so made a small cobbler with a can of peaches I took from my friends who were moving away and I had a bowl of that instead with a glass of soy milk for more protein.

It was so good. I may not have been feeling great and having cobbler for dinner may not have helped support my immune system, but at least it got me to eat. If it was "food" or "no food," I think my immune system prefers food.

Incidentally, I wasn't prepared for as bad as the COVID vaccine made me feel this year, but I would still get it even knowing. Given how things have been going in the United States, it may be the last one I am able to get for a while.