In an effort to not only eat better to be more healthy, but to also be a bit more environmentally conscious and because holy crap meat’s getting expensive, I’m on the prowl for good meatless recipes.
No, we’re not going completely vegetarian by any means, but I realize that there are certainly ways we could cut back and improve our eating habits. I know if I go and stand in a bookstore and stare at the wall o’cookbooks, it’s going to intimidate and overwhelm me. Some of the dishes in there will seem way too fancy/complicated/involved and it’ll just languish on my bookshelf.
So, tell me what you eat. Are there brands/products I should always have on hand? Are there ones I should run screaming away from at the store? I am certainly open to suggestions from the carnivores here, too - my goal is to collect healthy recipes in general, so they don’t all have to be meatless.
And if your’e curious, this weekend I decided to kick my ass back into gear and get back on track with Weight Watchers. But, rather than filling up this blog with food-oriented posts, I started up a google doc and published it for anyone who cares to follow along. I’ll toss a link over there in the sidebar, but for now, you can find it here.
Because I thought it would amuse him, and because cannibals share some similar dietary preferences with zombies, I sent Marty a quiz I spied over in John Scalzi’s Whateverettes section.
It turns out he could feed 12 zombies cannibals.
Sadly…
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Yeah. I can feed one more cannibal than Marty can.
This is not okay with me. Not ruined-my-day not okay, mind you. Just more of an “ugh.” And, coming on the heels of seeing a particularly horrible picture my coworker managed to sneak of me at conference, I have a new goal.
11 cannibals or less by July.
To hell with “I want to lose 20 pounds.” I want to starve two cannibals.
I am far from what anyone would call a fashionista. Chances are, were I to be featured on the back page of Glamour, it’d be as a Don’t rather than a Do.
One thing I have learned, however, is that boot cut pants look better than most other styles on me. I went looking for a pair of warm dress pants in my closet this morning and, because I was lazy last night and didn’t do laundry, the warmest ones are an old pair of grey ones that I bought a hojillion years ago.
They are not boot cut.
I am at least comforted that they’re straight-legged rather than tapered, but they’re still terribly unflattering. Actually, everything about them from waist to ankle makes me not want to get up from my desk. Sure, they’re better in this 30-degree weather than anything else I had on hand, but now I remember why they were buried at the bottom of a drawer.
It’s days like these that I really, really hope no one ever signs me up for What Not to Wear. Because they’d definitely be secretly filming me in these pants (and never show footage of me in the other ones I have that I bought on their advice to women of similar builds.) Besides, the US hosts would make me cry.
If any of you smartasses ever sign me up, let me move to London first so I can get a makeover from Trinny and Susannah.