Homestretch!

It's here people!  We'll be in week 4 (yes, bonus week) before we know it.  We've almost completed a 21 day cleanse!  Nice!  Even though Whole Living sometimes only calls this thing a 21 day cleanse, since they give recipes for the 4th week, I'm going to try my best to keep this going until the end of the month. 


I went shopping yesterday and made the sweet potato soup vegetarian style (we made it with chicken prior to the cleanse starting and we thought it would have been just as great without the chicken).  I forgot to take a pic before I froze it.  I keep forgetting to take pics of my food lately.  


This weekend was a long weekend for me (yay Presidents' Day!).  On Friday we made the rice noodles with broccoli almond pesto.  It was kind of bland, but I did think the rice noodles were a nice substitute for regular pasta.  I had to work all day on Saturday but thankfully the location where I was working is attached to a Whole Foods so I got a mixture of stuff from their salad bar for lunch.  I happened to be by another Whole Foods yesterday so I stopped in again for dinner.  We had a late dinner at a steak house.  A steak house!  I know, how on earth did we have a cleanse meal there?  We did our best.  4 out of 11 of us at dinner were actually on the cleanse, but it was a special occasion (my sister got married!) so we all allowed ourselves to stretch the rules a bit for a night.  I had a salad, the salmon, mashed potatoes, and strawberry sorbet.  


We've made a couple of great recipes lately from this website.  Specifically this green bean and quinoa is great.  We've made it twice.  I made it with red quinoa because it was cheaper.  I definitely like red quinoa better than white quinoa.  And tonight we made these springrolls.  I substituted honey for the brown sugar.  Mine didn't look quite as nice, but they were really delicious.  


Finally, Jennifer, my solution this coming week to the not-wanting-to-get-up-earlier-to-make-breakfast-dilemma was this fritatta that I made this morning.  I plan to eat it for the next few mornings.  All I did was throw some veggies in a skillet with some oil until they were pretty much cooked.  Then I poured 4 scrambled eggs in there, let it cook for about a minute, then put it in the broiler for another minute or two until it was fully cooked.  When I'm not cleansing, I usually put some shredded cheese on top.  It puffs up nicely and then falls down.  Today I ate a quarter of it with some sliced avocado on top.  
So that's about it!  Tomorrow I'm going to do some yoga!