Whats for dinner pt 2: Food diary

Tuesday 6.6, family had half grapefruits, cinnamon toast, and orange juice for breakfast. I had that plus coffee with honey in it.

For lunch I had a boiled egg, hand and cheese sandwich, corn chips with salsa, and raw carrots, and reeses peanut butter cup.

Family had dinner of spaghetti (some w sauce some without), shrimps with soy sauce, and a plate of fresh vegetables with miso ginger dipping sauce. This last one was kind of a special thing, as the boys like ginger and miso flavors and cherry tomatoes and carrots, and it's not something we've had before. The third vegetable on the plate was broccoli. For desert we all had ice cream stuff, kids had milk shakes and we had ice cream, me vanilla w maple syrup and blueberries.

Dinner was incredibly easy to put together and done at the end of a late little league night. Boil water for pasta, steam the shrimp, cut up some vegetables, then throw the adults' shrimp in a pan with some oil and garlic just for a little flavor.

Wed 6.7

Family had pancakes with honey and green apple slices for breakfast and lemonade.

Lunch: pasta with homemade (frozen from garden pesto) and cherry tomatoes, carrots, potato chips, pop tart and a snickers bar

Dinner: family had chicken fingers and fries at the little league field, and then pasta and sauce with carrots back home as kind of a second dinner, and homemade milkshakes. I had pasta for lunch, so I made a weird salad with surimi, carrots, celery, and vinaigrette dressing instead. Then I had ice cream with blueberries and maple syrup for dessert.

Reflections on my audit/diary. I would do well with less sugar. Looking this over my weak meal is lunch - but I notice it only happens at work - Im extremely unlikely to buy a snickers or reeses at home or over the weekend, but at work I do. To give myself a little treat I guess.

PHOTOS TO FOLLOW: Our family is in the middle of little league playoffs, at two levels. As a result dinnertime has not been what it usually is around the house, it has been rushed and at times half the family at a time. So I owe some photos and will get the posted, but am behind right now I recognize.

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  1. Lifestyle ModeratorJune 7, 2017 at 6:10 PM

    Thinking about the dinners you've had over the past two days, is there anything that would have made you happier about these options (other than lowering the sugar content)?

    What does having a pasta two nights in a row say about your family's dinner habits?

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