24 Hour Food Journal

Woke up and drank a glass of filtered water. I usually do this while looking out the window and sitting on the couch.

Made a smoothie - almonds/flax-seed/banana/strawberries. Drank a glass of that. I often drink that while checking email and the weather before going to work.

Ate a blood orange there and drank water. Ate a prepared vegan burrito while teaching - I don't notice the flavor that much and I felt heavier and not-hungry. Those burritos are 500 calories and a lot of that is palm fat, which sits heavy in the stomach.

Didn't eat more at lunch because I was going swimming later in the day and didn't want to have more food sloshing in my belly. I did drink another 3 glasses or so of filtered water from my steel canister. When I got home after swimming I made a quick couple open faced sandwiches with arugula, vegan mayonnaise, organic whole grain bread, and tofu. I ate that quickly because I was hungry and I needed to prepare some food for my friend Heather to take to work with her for her overnight shift.

I walked her to the train and then ended up taking the subway to our community garden to make sure the little sprouts didn't die for lack of water. Talked to a couple people there so when I got home I was real hungry again. Made a salad of arugula, lettuce, tomatos, and a pasture-raised egg, with some flax-seed oil and white wine vinegar. I ate that while sitting on the couch by myself and looking out the window. I felt good doing that, since it was healthy food and I was in no hurry and didn't have to be interacting with anyone or with electronics. I had a glass of water a half hour later.

Later I ate a couple sandwiches of vegan sausage, mayonaise, tomatos, and arugula while sitting at the computer. For about a year or more I was good about paying attention to my food and not reading or web browsing while eating, but I have backslid in the last year. The food was good but I mostly was unaware of it while I plotted strategy for reforming the coop building where I live.

Around 9:30pm I had another glass of the morning's smoothie.

Around 10pm I made a dessert of some of the chocoloate birthday cake I'd made for Heather plus some pasture-raised goat milk yogurt, plus some bilberry jam. That tasted pretty good and I felt full but not stuffed.

This morning when I woke up I had my glass of water and made a smoothie - same almond, flax, banana, water blend but this time frozen acai, acerola, and wild blueberries as the flavor. And after I'd filled my steel canister with some filtered water and threw an orange in my backpack I was on my way to work.

All of the above food was from the Park Slope Food Coop and 98% of it is organic. I'm still vegetarian after all these years but not vegan at home, since this winter, after 16 year of being vegan. I am now willing to buy eggs and yogurt at the food coop as long as the animals are allowed to run around in a pasture and aren't given hormones and unnecessary antibiotics, etc. I still eat vegan for most of the day, and when I'm at restaurants because of habit and because I don't want to buy or consume the products of cruelty to animals.