Woman in Real Life

The last couple of weeks have been very busy and eating on the run isn't always the healthiest kind of eating. Add to that a few rum and cokes and my irritable bowel is...well, irritated. So I've been trying to eat well this week - less sugars, less breads and more veggies. My overall plan is to ensure that everything I eat has nutritional value.

Prior to our trip to Niagara Falls this weekend, though, there wasn't much food in the house. As I complained this past Friday on Instagram, I had some trouble putting together breakfast and lunch. Come Friday, there's often no fresh fruit in the house and very few groceries in general. But breakfast was pretty good anyway. I topped some Nature's Path instant flax oatmeal with ground flaxseed, pecans, dried cranberries and almond milk.

I am a self-described cookbook addict. I love to read them more than I even like to cook from them. Now, I adore veggies, especially when someone else cooks them, but my knowledge of vegetables cannot compare to that of cookbook author Lora Krulak.

She kindly sent me a copy of her lovely book "Veggies for Carnivores: Moving Vegetables to the Center of the Plate." Don't be fooled by the word "carnivores." This book is all about vegetables.

Friday is here again. We are looking forward to celebrating my father-in-law's 75th birthday tomorrow. Then, my son has a soccer tournie on Sunday. What does the weekend look like for you?

Here is a Friday look at the past couple of weeks, in simple, sweet cell phone photos. We haven't had many chances to go to the local Farmer's Market this year. Actually we have only gone once.

We enjoyed the fresh kettle corn, above.




We also enjoyed fries AND sweet potato fries.



At one of the stops on our road trip to Cape Cod, my son was delighted to find this digital pop machine, with LOTS of choices. Or should I say soda machine? Americans say soda, right?


In a quirky shop in Provincetown, we saw these signs. This one reminded me of my sister's husband, because he thinks my sister and I are witches.




I loved this view from under my beach umbrella.



Beach eats. Craigsville Beach, Centerville, MA.


The sun and my skin don't get along so well.


They had one healthy option on the beachside menu: hummus, lettuce and pita chips.


Even vacation allowed for some thrifting.


Early in our trip, we got the kids to start writing down what license plates they saw. We offered $5 for a California plate. My son looked for DAYS before he spotted this in Cape Cod.


Back at home, my boy and his dad made a quick trip to Canada's Wonderland.

How was your week?

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With the Internet problems we had in Cape Cod last week, I didn't manage to get my "What I Ate Wednesday, Cape Cod edition" up until Thursday. So, I missed linking up with Jenn at Peas & Crayons. If you want to see our Cape Cod eats, you can find them here.

We took a day trip to Boston last Friday, before we headed back to Canada on Saturday.

We picked up these delicious rosemary fries at one of Boston's handy Clover Food Lab trucks. We washed the fries down with some iced tea, perfect for a very hot Boston day. We were a bit surprised to find that it is basically cold tea, because we are more accustomed to the sweetened variety.


My son selected (and enjoyed) this barbecued seitan sandwich.


I had this "BLT" in which the B stands for tempeh.


We did a quick visit to the chaotic Faneuil Hall, which has a busy food court with many, many selections. I went for the veg sushi.


The family went for pizza. Boy it would have been nice to have a table to sit at. We ended up moving to an outdoor bench.


Among the items I found at Trader Joe's (which we don't have at home) was these frozen banana slices covered in chocolate. They were nice to sample, but not my favourite treat.


Before we left Cape Cod on Saturday, we stopped at Trader Joe's in the morning for some snacks. I got this noodle dish for my husband.



And this super spinach salad for me. This way we could avoid picking up lunch at the dismal rest stops.


A delicious Trader Joe's treat...these chocolate covered nutty bits. Yum.


Back at home, we are doing laundry, cleaning up and eating easy meals, like this salad, nachos and (Daiya vegan) cheese and hummus lunch.


Dinner: some simple pasta in an olive oil sauce along with breaded and fried tofu and salad.

Happy What I Ate Wednesday!

 Welcome to another What I Ate Wednesday!

And that’s it! What foods have you enjoyed recently?

“Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.”—St. Thomas Aquinas

Sometimes it is dinner, re-heated the next day. Those are my favourite lunches—a nice warm meal with almost no effort at all.

In search of better health and wellness, I continue with my gentle cleansing routine.

My breakfast is still mainly quick quinoa flakes or quick cooking steel cut oats with fresh blueberries, sliced banana, 1 tbsp ground flax and vanilla almond milk.

Because, as we know, one of life’s essential pleasures is food, I am still enjoying little treats along the way:














By the way, I did throw in a couple of rum and ginger ales on Sunday. Apparently that’s a gluten-free combo!