Category: Whole Family Likes

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10.3.2014 | TI8

FRIDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 3 strawberries

Morning Snack: Pear

Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly. True to form, I had to go buy some potato chips. Buffalo Bleu from Kettle.

Afternoon snack: Some Hershey’s miniatures… Coke zero.

Dinner:  Split a shawarma plate from Adam’s Mediterranean. This was delicious. The girls, predictably, ordered hamburgers, and I was glad they did… even though they got them “kid style” (i.e., with absolutely nothing on them) it was a fantastic burger… very flavorful meat, almost like it had some lamb in it… delicious.

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10.1.2014 | TI8

WEDNESDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 3 strawberries

Morning Snack: Banana bread. Sure, it had chocolate chips in it, but it’s still healthy, right?

Lunch: 1/2 a burrito from Burrito Express. Carne al pastor.

Afternoon snack:  A couple of little Hershey’s Special Dark bars. Halloween candy season is here. Regular Coke.

Dinner:  Rice and beans.

Dessert: Turtle custard from Lexie’s Frozen Custard food truck. This was incredibly good, as was the peanut butter cup one. This is described as the richest, creamiest soft-serve ice cream ever, and that about sums it up. I’ll be looking for this truck again, for sure. Appears to be at the El Cerrito food truck event every other week.

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9.29.2014 | TI8

MONDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 6 strawberries

Lunch: Leftover butternut squash rissoto

Afternoon snack: Chocolate cake. Thanks Hayley! Coke zero

Dinner:  Junk food extravaganza: Hot dog, pizza, and bbq beef sandwich. At Costco.

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9.28.2014 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Cinnamon waffles a la Eliza

Lunch: California crepe from Crepevine. There are a lot of great spots around Berkeley, but I always have a soft spot for this one since the original opened up right where we used to live in the City. This worked out to be a good choice, since they had a broad menu with hamburgers for the kids.

Afternoon snack:  Gelato from Caravaggio in Berkeley. Very fresh and tasty.

Dinner:  Butternut squash risotto

Dessert: A leftover cookie and a Nordstom caramel (thanks, Papa John)

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9.12.2014 | TI8

FRIDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries. There will be a lot more tomorrow.

Lunch: An amazing array of food from a work potluck. Hard to capture it in words, but this video helps…

Afternoon snack:  Still recovering from lunch, but had a bite of the s’mores tart I was taking home from the potluck.

Dinner:  Split a burger at Barneys

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9.7.2014 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 3 or 4 strawberries… lots of them these days!

Lunch: Pork burrito from Rubio’s

Dinner:  The ham & cheese stuffed chicken… along with tomato bread salad that was amazing with fresh tomatoes and fresh bread

Dessert: More nibby shortbread.

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8.31.2014 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Grapenuts, cranberry juice, 2 strawberries

Lunch: Pork tacos from the cafe at The Exploratorium. They are quite good… not spicy, by any means, so could be better, but I was quite happy to eat them.

Afternoon snack:  Ice cream. From the place at Ghiradelli Square. This was a nice streetcar ride from The Exploratorium, but then a bit farther a walk than I remembered. I actually love weaving through crowds on Fisherman’s Wharf, but it’s a bit trying with little ones who alternate between wanting to buy everything at every tourist shop, and wanting to just be there already. The ice cream is from Dreyers, which I would call great, but not special. Trying to get into the soda fountain I remember as a kid would have required a 45 minute wait, so we opted to hit the to-go spot… they have all the same stuff in plastic cups and it only took a minute.

Dinner:  Ceasar salad and Pyramid burger from Pyramid Alehouse. This is a great burger with bacon, bbq sauce, and onion rings. Thank god we split it.

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8.30.2014 | TI8

SATURDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Homemade granola, cranberry juice, 3 strawberries. A couple of warm days and we’re getting quite a few.

Morning Snack: Red cheese

Lunch: Leftover pizza

Afternoon snack:  Dutch chocolate chip ice cream from Fenton’s

Dinner:  Filet tips, green beens, potatoes, salad.

Dessert: Dense chocolate cake with ganache.

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8.17.2014 | TI8

SUNDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Still feeling the cheeseburger, actually.

Morning Snack: Hummus

Lunch: Picnic sandwich at Kordness Park. Street slide awesomeness.

Afternoon snack: Gelato from Lush. First time going here, and it was pretty amazing. The flavors were interesting and the gelato was intensely creamy, with no iciness at all. The mint stracciatella was a little earthy (from real mint instead of extract) but some love it that way. The chocolate was amazing.

Dinner:  Rice and beans

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8.16.2014 | TI8

SATURDAY I ATE

Breakfast: Pancakes. Eliza was at a sleepover, so Tessa got to chose.

Lunch: Pork chile verde burrito from Cactus

Dinner:  Quite possibly the best burger I’ve ever had in my life. I have no idea what made this particular burger so good… I didn’t even have a hand in making it. I suspect, though, that it was just a confluence of good things. First of all, I think Ginny just buys really good meat from a real butcher. Lee Iacocca wrote in his biography about trying to get the secret to the world’s best burger out of Henry Ford’s personal chef. Eventually the guy showed him: he started by grinding up a USDA prime New York steak. I don’t think this was that good, but nice meat helps. Then there was the tomato. And boy howdy, but was it a tomato. Homegrown, ripe, juicy, 1/2 an inch thick and as big as the burger. Come to think of it, the meat may have been superfluous in this meal. Anyway, it was a damn good cheeseburger.

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Dessert: Chocolate whiskey cake. The final version for flourarrangements.