{"id":7434,"date":"2009-08-03T14:15:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2009-08-03T14:15:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:15:57","slug":"august-3rd-2009-regroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/08\/august-3rd-2009-regroup\/","title":{"rendered":"August 3rd, 2009: Regroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys!\u00a0 Rocky let me sleep in until 8am this morning! :o\u00a0 Now only if I had been getting awesome sleep, that would have been perfect.\u00a0 Ah well.\u00a0 I got up and got him taken care of, and then it was time for coffee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7436\" title=\"Coffee \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_coffee-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_coffee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_coffee.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which I was only luke warm about this morning.\u00a0 In fact my body sort of seemed like, &#8220;Hey sister, we don&#8217;t really want this today.&#8221;\u00a0 It left me blah and more blah.\u00a0 And those few sips of that really bad wine I had last night put me over the blah edge.<\/p>\n<p>I said to Scott as I was making my breakfast, &#8220;Now is the time where I wish I had a juicer because I could really go for some juice goodness right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where did <em>that<\/em> come from?! I don&#8217;t know but my body was screaming for some raw produce up in the hizz-owse.\u00a0 Is it something worth exploring further or looking into?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure about that either.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to get back to you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7435\" title=\"OJ and an apple with yogurt \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_breakfast-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OJ and an apple with yogurt \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_breakfast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_breakfast.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To satisfy my need for produce, I had a red delicious with yogurt, crushed walnuts, and some rhubarb blueberry sauce.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry, the sauce is almost kicked so you won&#8217;t have to endure it much longer. :p\u00a0 And some OJ for the juice fix.\u00a0 Mmmm this breakfast was fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>Then I got dressed and took my punk out for his walk.\u00a0 When we got back I started some laundry and other life organizing bidness.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t too much later that I proclaimed to no one but myself that I was ready for a salad and some smoothie action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_salad.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7438\" title=\"Salad \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_salad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Salad \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_salad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_salad.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mixed greens<\/li>\n<li>Shredded carrot and parsnip<\/li>\n<li>Beet<\/li>\n<li>Cucumber<\/li>\n<li>Leftover salmon from last night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Topped with mustard balsamic dressing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_watermelon.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7440\" title=\"Watermelon \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_watermelon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Watermelon \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_watermelon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_watermelon.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juicy pink melons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_smoothie.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7439\" title=\"smoothie \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_smoothie-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"smoothie \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_smoothie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_smoothie.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smoothie with loads of changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.5C 1% organic milk<\/li>\n<li>1C US cranberry juice<\/li>\n<li>.5C POM<\/li>\n<li>2 kale leaves<\/li>\n<li>1 carrot<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 parsnip<\/li>\n<li>1 banana<\/li>\n<li>Frozen mango<\/li>\n<li>Frozen blueberries<\/li>\n<li>Leftover crushed walnuts<\/li>\n<li>1 small spoonful of vanilla almond butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix, mix, mix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7437\" title=\"Smoothie, salad, and fruit \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_lunch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Smoothie, salad, and fruit \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_lunch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-03-09_lunch.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want the nuts going to waste so they got included into the smoothie.\u00a0 I also have a container of milk open that I don&#8217;t want to turn without using.\u00a0 So many people add nut butters to their smoothies, I decided to give it a try.\u00a0 In short, yuck.\u00a0 The smoothie was drinkable but not preferable.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to stick with juices from now on, they taste so much better.\u00a0 Even soymilk in smoothies tastes a lot better than regular milk.\u00a0 And no more nut butter.\u00a0 I&#8217;m keeping that paired with oats or oatbran.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of lunch was fantastic though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys!\u00a0 Rocky let me sleep in until 8am this morning! :o\u00a0 Now only if I had been getting awesome sleep, that would have been perfect.\u00a0 Ah well.\u00a0 I got up and got him taken care of, and then it was time for coffee. Which I was only luke warm about this morning.\u00a0 In fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1VU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}