What I Ate in a Day #36 (With Plant Counter)

 This was an ordinary work day. (Or at least, ordinary in the sense of food.)

We begin with leftover baked oatmeal (blueberry lemon poppy seed baked oatmeal) topped with some almond milk yogurt and an arugula orange juice smoothie. I may resent the approach of hot weather, but I do like smoothie weather! It's so much easier to sneak some green leafy things in that way.

Plus, in spring, you still sometimes get oven weather, so I can have both the baked things and the smoothie. Spring has its moments.

For lunch, we have more leftovers. There is a serving of leftover mashed leek and potato salad (the one with the tofu-based mayo, for the protein), a little mushroom cup with salt and pepper in it, carrot sticks, mini rice crackers, olive hummus, and cucumber-tomato-avocado salad. This was good! I wouldn't change a thing. Avoiding adding salt to the salad until I eat it makes it a lot easier to pack, too--less watery.

Dinner was leftover polenta fried into squares, a mushroom and spinach stir fry, and some Field Roast maple apple sausages. I had forgotten to take the photo until after I had eaten a little, but maybe you don't mind that. And yes, I am a fastidious person who uses a steak knife to delicately cut my polenta...sometimes. I needed the knife for the sausages so it got called into other service, but otherwise I probably wouldn't have needed it.

In the dark and terrible lighting, I had my final food of the day, a cup of herbal spice tea with some soy milk and a dessert I have recently fallen in love with. Basically, you take 1/4 cup of vanilla almond milk yogurt and mix it well with a tablespoon of dark chocolate salted tahini, then top it with some mini chocolate chips and mini Dandies marshmallows. It has a consistency similar to chocolate pudding and the salted chocolate flavor mixes so well with the sweet things, while the marshmallows and chocolate chips give it a textural element. Am I weird? Yes, but sometimes, in the best way...

Not pictured, I had some herbal tea, a multivitamin, a DHA supplement, and a Vitamin D supplement.

Are you curious about my plant counter? Let's see:

1. Blueberries
2. Lemons
3. Oats
4. Poppy seeds
5. Maple syrup
6. Soy
7. Bananas
8. Oranges
9. Chia seeds
10. Arugula
11. Potatoes
12. Leeks
13. Carrots
14. Rice
15. Chickpeas
16. Olives
17. Sesame seeds
18. Parsley
19. Black pepper
20. Tomatoes
21. Avocadoes
22. Cucumbers
23. Onions
24. Corn
25. Mushrooms
26. Spinach
27. Wheat (in the sausages)
28. Apples (in the sausages)
29. Almonds (in the yogurt)
30. Cacao

There are more, in trace ingredients, but I pretty easily got to 30 today, so I won't bother to list the others (like the herbs in the tea). I know the goal is meant to be 30 plants in a week, and I'm not even trying here, but it's been fun when I do these posts to add them up like that. This is a diverse diet, although it's seen as restrictive in many circles.