This food challenge has really brought to light the fact that I am a true creature of habit. Every morning I eat two scrambled eggs with my coffee (with vanilla creamer of course). Sometimes I'll add in toast or a bagel with cream cheese. But always scrambled eggs. And I LOVE them. Could eat scrambled eggs every morning for the rest of my life and still delight in them.

For lunch I usually eat a tuna or turkey sandwich with bbq chips (because they are the best...right after blue doritos, but I feel too guilty eating those regularly...they probably have the same nutritional value. But the bbq chips I buy from Whole Foods. Therefore, they're better for you. Sound logic). Pellegrino. Fruit. And a treat.

Dinner is usually some variation on white meat, quinoa or brown rice, and green beans or broccoli. And wine. Or beer.

Day 4 was pretty great. I'm enjoying the smoothies far more than I thought I would. This one I even macgyver'd because I don't own a blender (Santa's on it), so I made it in my food processor. HA. A little chunky, but still worked.

I made the dinner a little differently and substituted brussel sprouts for the leeks. It was also the first time I had roasted radishes. Not horrible, but I definitely prefer them raw on a salad or sandwich.

Day 5 was a bit wonky...I do not like chia pudding, so for breakfast I made two hardboiled eggs (recall the aforementioned love of eggs?). The pear and almond butter was a great combo and surprisingly was the first time I had put those two things together. Left over veggie salad was great. And instead of the dinner above, I had tamales from the St. John's craft fair.

Day 6 I made my smoothie (in the food processor again)...Did not make the carrot salad because I was running around all day getting errands done. So I had cucumber and carrots with hummus, then a little later an apple with almond butter. The turkey burger for dinner was great! Sans the collard green "bun." When I make regular hamburgers I usually leave the bun off and just eat it with knife and fork anyways.

That night was the Zuda Yoga staff holiday party. SO.HARD. to resist the alcohol, bread, and dessert. But I was really impressed with myself for doing so. And not just because of the challenge. I was proud of myself for going to a social event and not relying on a glass of wine to calm my nerves.

And the dates stuffed with almonds instead of pistachios (had a bad experience with pistachios as a child and haven't had one since!!) and coconut flakes was really yummy.

Half way mark! Sweet potatoes were AMAZING. And what's even better is that I resisted going to Cafe Bernardo for a bunless hamburger with sweet potato fries while I was at The Pavillions shopping at The Paper Garden. YAS will power.

I was a little weary for dinner, since I am new to sea food. I had only tried shrimp once and they were the really tiny ones. Unfortunately, my same thoughts exist today: the taste is pretty good, but the texture is just too chewy for me. But again, this challenge is also about me trying new foods, and I at four of the six shrimp I had prepared.

My last day of the challenge will be this upcoming Sunday. Which is perfect because the bestie comes to town Monday for the week. And you know we're all about pizza and wine and cheese. So there's that...

xxo