I haven't posted in a while, so needless to say, I've got some food pictures to share.

Friday was not a good food day!  The food I ate sure tasted good, but was NOT at all good for me... at all!  My son had a band competition away and after the competition, we all went to Canobie Lake Park for some fun, rides, and amusement park food!   Let's just say, my stomach is still angry with me.  Ok, I'll confess what I ate, the whole dirty truth.  I ate a whole fried dough boy with powdered sugar and cinnamon by myself, I ate my share of french fries (my second helping, the first was at lunch!), then to top it all off, I ate a soft pretzel.  This was all AFTER lunch.  For lunch we were all starving and stopped at Burger King.  I and my two youngest children had fish sandwiches and fries... my husband ate a whopper.  My youngest son was not happy and kept telling him to please not order it again, not to support factory farming... This out of the mouth of my 6 year old!

Today we are back on track, well, at least I am but believe it or not my body hurts, my joints to be exact!  Especially my knees and my knuckles.  Since being on a plant based whole foods diet, I've noticed that on the days I eat animal protein (the fish fillet and a piece of koofta on Saturday which is ground beef (NON factory farmed) and spices to be exact), the next day my joints ache!  The only thing I can think of is an inflammatory response to the "invading" proteins... hmmm.

Today I started my day with my favorite meal of the day, breakfast! I had two slices of sprouted grain bread toasted, with natural peanut butter and raw honey.  For lunch I cooked up some sliced tofu dredged in nutritional yeast, I call these tofu eggs because they taste like a slice of cheesy omlet, thanks to the flavor of nutritional yeast. I placed two of these tofu eggs on a whole wheat tortilla and topped it with some organic salsa.  It was good.  Then I ate some "tofu eggs" as is... they were even better.

Tofu egg!

Tonight for dinner, my husband grilled some left over chicken that we took to a pick-nick yesterday.  I was NOT having any of that so I made myself a pesto pizza on a whole wheat crust with mushrooms, yellow peppers, onions and Daiya cheese!  It was so good.  I ate a grilled ear of corn with it and I am stuffed!  That is until later when the pizza starts calling my name!

For my pesto recipe, I used a bag of organic basil.  I added the leaves to my food processor with a handful of pine nuts from my freezer and about 2 tablespoons of olive oil and a dash or two of kosher salt.  I pureed it until creamy and spread it on my whole wheat crust added the chopped veggies and sprinkle of Daiya cheese and baked in a 425 degree oven for about 20 minutes.  Any recipe for whole wheat pizza crust will do.  There is nothing special to mine, except I add about 1/4 scant cup of vital wheat gluten to up the protein and make it more chewier.

I almost forgot to take a picture, my grilled corn was halfway gone before I remembered!

Well, that is all for now.  I still have some more pictures to blog so hopefully I will get around to doing just that!