September 22nd, DAY 22

Sooooo, I finally broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years... yikes, long time. I need time for myself for the next few days. Paleo will be out the window until this weekend.

After doing the WOD, I wandered off to Vancouver for some random but delicious food!

Letsee, for lunch I had the following:

- Bread with olive oil and vinegar to dip

- Bocconcini salad with BUFFALO CHEEEEEESE - ohmygawd, delicious!! I need to find this vinegar glaze to use for my own cooking because it is so thick, sweet and marvelous!

- Minestrone soup with tons of beans!

- x1 chocolate cookie!

Later on I wandered over to Commercial Drive and treated myself to a Malt drink and a cream horn from an Italian bakery

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Moving on! Dinner time was dinner out at Viva City for the Mid-Autumn Festival! Mooncakes and lanterns!

To start off, I brought a bottle of Barolo wine - highly recommended if you like dry red wine!

And like every traditional Cantonese meal, we had traditional soup to start... today's special was fish soup with roots and pork meat

The next cold appetizer was spicy BBQ pork, cucumbers and those fried little numbers were DEEP FRIED MILK balls! You have to dip it in sugar and mmmmmm, yummy!

Next on the menu was deep fried chicken (chinese style) with dragon puff chips

- PEKING DUCK on the menu! So for those of you unfamiliar with this dish, it's basically duck cooked in two servings...

For the first, it's duck skin wrapped in flour wraps served with the below chive and special sauce

(duck skin)

(flour wrap)

The result of it all together!

Sweet and sour filet mignon with onions, Chinese style

So what happens to the rest of the peking duck... well it gets converted to this little kick ass number... peking duck wrapped in lettuce!

Yes!

This dish was steamed soy sauce tilapia! Notice how the fish is being cut up? In Chinese culture, we never flip the fish... it's bad luck (almost like flipping a boat over)

The veggie dish was beancurd with sauteed pea tips! (my favourite chinese veggie)

Dessert = coconut cookies and in the middle, those were "smiling" sesame cookies

Aaaaand traditional red bean soup

Dear paleo... see how delicious real food is? I enjoyed this meal. HAHAHA

September 21st, DAY 21

Okay, that night shift is over. Time for a nap!!

Breakfast pre-WOD:

- x1 smoothie - strawberries, bananas, orange juice

- x1 hard boiled egg

- x1/4 slice of avocado

Did the morning WOD. Couldn't do V-Sit ups for the life of me because I look like a dying animal.

Post WOD:

- x a zillion vegetable straw chips (daamn you costco!!)

- x 2 cups almond milk

- x 2 handfuls of raw almonds

- x half a jar of chocolate covered almonds (costco again)

In preparation for the next little while, I thought I'd make some sort of curry soup.

- x2 yellow onions

- x6 celery

- x1 zucchini

Cooked those down in olive and canola oil with oregano, granulated garlic and black pepper and added

- x 3 roma tomatoes

- x1 can of coconut milk

- curry powder

- x1 head of broccoli

- x1 can of chicken (rinsed out in water beforehand)

Bedtime

Woke up at 20:30 and ate x 2 huge bowls of my curry soup

Followed by globe grapes

- x1 can of pike eel

Screw you, paleo... I'm eating dessert!!

- x1 triple chocolate mousse cake :D

September 20th, DAY 20

SWITCH OVER!! From Days to night!

Woke up early this morning after a hectic night of barely eating anything... my WOD performance was really weak because of the lack of substantial food in my tummy.

Breakfast post WOD:

- x 1 banana

- x 1 bunch of steamed broccoli

- x 1 dobble of yummy delicious fantastic beef stew

- x 1 dabble of mashed potatoes (sorry paleo... I think I deserve it)

- x 1 spoonful of lemon flavoured omega-3 fish oil

- x 1 herbal energy drink

I sorta slept.. not really for the rest of the day. So in preparation for tonight's night shift, I made myself a huge dinner which was comprised of:

- x1 huge steamed fennel bulb with olive oil and lemon juice and pepper

- x1 huge broccoli bulb (with the above stuff)

- x1 banana

- x1 can of smoked oysters... so oily and delicious!

So off to work I go with a cup of black coffee (thinking I'd be fine!)

Ohhhhh shiiiii..... I'm hungry. I didn't pack anything for the night shift other than a little bit of almonds. My co-workers brought in SUN CHIPS... SUuuuuuuuuuuuun CHIPS and chili and lime flavoured cheeeeeetos! I partook in the madness.

:(

By 4 am I was still ravenous. Desperate, I started looking through old patient trays and stumbled upon this sad little number below... "squash soup"... so... sad.... :(

September 19th, DAY 19

Okay, another day shift which means CRAP. I didn't prepare any food whatsoever the night before = potential day for starvation.

So for breakfast:

- x1 banana

- x1 cup almond milk

- x1 black coffee

- x2 slices of dijon turkey (cheating I know)

Lunch:

- x1 can of tuna

- x1 kiwi (I had to throw out the other two because they were rotten)

- x1 HUGE CANTALOUPE (it was hella over-ripe and sorta moulding on the side but I ate it anyway because there was no food otherwise)... I unfortunately stunk up the nursing station with the smell of too ripe cantaloupe, lol

- x1 small handful of nuts

By the late afternoon I was still feeling ravenous so I ended up going through old patient lunch trays and ate x1 sad navy bean soup.... it wasn't too salty but was hospital food nonetheless :(

By the time I got home, I had a bunch of personal issues come up. I think I ended up drinking more almond milk and snacking on veggie chips (I'm starting to slip on paleo)

September 18th, DAY 18

Day shift which means:

- x1 black coffee

- yesterday's zucchini, tomato and crushed up turkey patty for lunch

- x 3 bananas

- x 3 baby cucumbers

- x 2 cups raw almonds

- x 3 cups almond milk

- x 1/2 chocolate bar

There's probably more but I'm back posting so I've forgotten much.

September 17th, DAY 17

Breakfast:

- x 1 yerba mate tea

- x 2 small prunes

- x 1 banana

Lunch:

- x 1 banana

- leftover bok choy from yesterday

- x 4 leftover steamed turkey patties from yesterday

.... and this is where it gets messed up. I've run out of food to munch on for the rest of the day... I ended up eating a small serving of bean soup from one of my chucked out patient trays (I know, sad)... :(

By the end of my shift, I was growing increasingly hungry and just when I was about to leave guess what decides to hit the fan.... CODE ORANGE (aka MASS freaking CASUALTIES).... aka Jane can't go home and has to stay behind to help out.

I seriously didn't get home until 22:00 and by then I was feeling ravenous! I quickly made:

- x1 mushroom and egg white scramble

- x 1 cup of almond milk

- x 1 cup of acai berry juice (I know, sorta cheating because it contains cane juice for flavouring)

- x 1 handful of roasted almonds

- x 1 small handful of chocolate covered almonds (guiiiiilty)

- x 2 turkey patties (baked)

- The leftover raw zucchini shreds were destined to be my substitute pasta but I had no time to make any sauce so I cooked it down to be for tomorrow's lunch.

- The finished product below for tomorrow's consumption... basically cooked down baby grape tomatioes and x 4 turkey patties

Knowing me, I felt that deserved at least one small dessert. I opened up the freezer and this is what I fooooooound!

- Haagen daas, mousse shooters and mini mousse cakes!

I couldn't help it and ate x1 mini mousse cake. Ohhhhh lordy!

It's wrong to eat so late but I can' really do much. G'nite!

September 16th, DAY 16

Breakfast:
- x2 bananas
- x1 glass of almond milk
- x1 pear
- x1 chicken piece (the rest of that left over chicken was turned into a fabulous chicken and cheese omelette with bits of salami... unfortunately it was ultimately not for my consumption ... I took a few bites anyway!)
- x1 handful of roasted almonds
- x2 handfuls of banana chips

I did the 5 km run WOD today... boy, was it refreshing! I gotta kick up the notch for next time though. Running long distances just ain't my thing.

When I got home I just boiled a bunch of bok choy (and x2 zucchini hearts) and ate half of the below batch. The rest will be destined for tomorrow's lunch.


I also cooked up x6 turkey burgers by STEAMING. So chinese... I really miss steamed pork and salted fish on rice... so this'll have to do. The blurry picture's from all the steam. I only ate 2 patties... the rest will be for tomorrow's consumption.


Following the above epic dinner-ness, I drank x2 glasses of almond milk and 4 small chunks of dark chocolate.

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EDIT: Oh gawd, I've cheated on paleo by eating leftover bbq pork and chicken in the fridge of the Chinese variety... crispy skin, salty meat.... *salivates*