Lunch

I have been quite lazy about making smoothies this week. Part of the issue is I can't seem to get a banana to ripen fast enough or to stay in that middle ground before it gets spotty and brown. The bananas I bought this week went from green to BROWN in the matter of 2 days. I still eat them, but they are not smoothie material. I like some body to the banana and not more mush than substance. Does anyone else know what I mean?

Tuesday I woke up to no electricity and rather than stumble around the house with a candle I laid in bed for a while. I needed it. My allergies have been kicking my butt since Saturday and they are exhausting little buggers.  I eventually called the power company and found that low and behold they were aware of the outage and gave an ETA of 5:30am. I am supposed to be at work at 5am. Oh well I work in an office where these things are allowed. You are allowed to occasionally sleep late, miss your alarm, or have other mishaps and it is not a big deal. You usually make it up within the week staying late anyway. If I ever wonder why I stay...that is why. Because I can be human. Being able to be human in a work place is HUGE to me.

Anywho I did end up showering by candle light. That was an experience. Shaving your legs by candle light is even more of an adventure and I will be happy to say I did not miss many hairs! The power came back on and I was able to get ready, use a hair dryer, and get my lunch together. I took my time getting it together this morning. I was already going to be late, it is not going to make a difference if I am there at 6:30 vs 6:40 so why rush?

So what did I spend an extra ten minutes on? FOOD! Glorious food. I sliced up cucumbers, red pepper, carrots, packed a few Romaine lettuce leaves, an avocado, put some hummus in a jar, a little feta in a baggie and a multi grain piece of flat bread. I also put some watermelon and strawberries in a container and poured myself some mint green tea . I was excited about wrapping it all up and eating it. And while there is some animal product in there, it is minimal.  However I left the flat bread on the counter and didn't realize it until I was sitting down to lunch.

I am glad I forgot it! I just wrapped it up in the lettuce and grazed the vegetables that did not fit in the lettuce leaves. It was the best damn lunch I have had in at least a week. I wish I had taken a picture. There was a lot of  food and funny enough I was not able to eat all of it. I do love this lifestyle change. I love being aware that my body is more fit to consume veggies and fruits than meat.

I also had some Raw Chocolate Bark it was delicious! The stevia was left out due to the aftertaste and Mango was added. It was so tasty!