OBSERVATIONS
1. Our blog is helping all of us stay steady.
2. Eating healthy, whether vegan or not, means more fresh fruits and vegetables which means more work. That's not a complaint, though. So far, cutting up salad vegetables in advance is really working for me. (The price of a single cucumber shocked me yesterday) I look forward to salads again. And have re-found arugula.
3. In school we all learned about homo sapiens discovering the first tool--a breakthrough of massive proportions. That's how I feel now about the lowly measuring cup--the 1-cup measuring cup. It's brought some longed-for sanity to my eating. One cup of my cranberry-rice, say, in a bowl. Not as much rice as I can pile into a bowl or, worse, eating it straight out of a Tupperware container, the only limit being however much is there. With a 1-cup serving, the temptation to go back for a second exists but, so far, the pause after finishing a single-cup serving helps to assuage the pull toward another.
4. I guess 1 cup of peanuts at a time is out, right? (Yesterday, I also bought a jar of dry-roasted peanuts--not going to be doing that again for a while).
5. Last night the most beautiful, ample apple pie you've ever seen was sitting on the serving counter at my AA sponsor's house. I didn't have a piece but had to leave the room.
Love, M