What did you eat today?
Breakfast: Oatmeal with blueberries and nibs
Lunch: Leftover fettuccini alfredo
Afternoon snack: Leftover sandwich from AG Ferrari. I don’t know what was in it, but it was good. Diet coke
Dinner: US Senate Bean Soup (from Joy of Cooking) made with leftover ham bone, frozen a while ago
Dessert: Experimental mini chocolate cream pies. We even did a couple of pie-by’s Cute and Tiny!
Breakfast: Oatmeal with nibs and raspberries
Lunch: cup of pumpkin soup and half a roast beef sandwich at STEM cafe. Diet coke
Afternoon snack: Iced tea
Dinner: Lemon arugula pasta with asparagus on the side
Dessert: Tessa made chocolate cupcakes with raspberry frosting for Valentine’s party. Awesome.
Breakfast: Bismark (custard filled) from Johnny Doughnuts in San Rafael. Very good doughnut, with home-made pastry cream.
Lunch: Rice, beans, leftover taco meat, and cheese
Afternoon snack: Ice cream from 31 Flavors. I had peanut butter and chocolate. It wasn’t clear that Tessa had ever heard of Baskin Robbins, so we fixed that. Did you know that on the 31st of any month, Baskin Robins sells scoops of ice cream for $1.31? Neither did I, but it’s awesome. Also a Coke Zero.
Dinner: Went to Eliza’s violin recital, and they had an impressive spread of cheese and crackers and cookies, so we had a lot of those. Went home and opened a can of minnestrone soup from TJ’s
Lunch: Leftover sausage-noodle soup and arugula pasta
Afternoon snack: Lebkuckens, sampling as grandma taught the girls how to make them. Diet Pepsi
Dinner: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, green salad
Dessert: Haagen-Dazs ice cream bar. Some chocolate covered almonds
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Morning Snack: Sourdough cheese bread
Lunch: Leftover lemon arugula pasta
Afternoon snack: Leftover cake, chocolate covered peppermint Jo-Jo’s. Coke zero
Dinner: Leftover tortilla soup
Dessert: Christmas cookies and some of the mini M&M’s for decorating them
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cocoa nibs
Morning snack: A mini cupcake
Lunch: Burger with bacon jam and french fries at the Berkeley Freehouse. Diet coke
Afternoon snack: Cake, coke zero, more cake
Dinner: Tortilla soup
Dessert: Ice cream from iScream. Vanilla and Mexican chocolate
Breakfast: Oatmeal with frozen raspberries and cocoa nibs
Morning Snack: Breakfast burrito, salsa, sausage, fruit, salad, gingerbread, orange juice, hot tea. Seriously. There was a staff appreciation event at work. All the portions were very small.
Lunch: Not so much.
Afternoon snack: Coke zero, a few potato chips and the end of a sandwich that looked lonely on a banquet table
Dinner: An amazing sausage noodle soup from Sarah Foster’s Casual Cooking
Dessert: Chocolate covered peppermint jo-jo’s
Breakfast: Oatmeal with chocolate nibs
Lunch: Half a ham sandwich, bag of chips
Afternoon snack: Mocha whatever they call them from Pete’s
Dinner: Leftover vegetable soup and dinner roll
Dessert: Experimental chocolate mousse cups
Breakfast: Granola, cranberry juice
Lunch: Half a roast beef sandwich and a cup of corn soup at the STEM Kitchen. Also a flourless chocolate bomb. Diet coke.
Dinner: Cheeseburger at Mission Bowling Club.
Dessert: Lots of dough while making chocolate chip cookie dough bars
Breakfast: Applesauce
Lunch: Corn chowder soup from Yali’s Cafe
Dinner: Chicken breast stuffed with ham and grueyere. Artichoke. Rice Pilaf. Special dinner for a 50th anniversary.
Dessert: Experimental chocolate mousse with nib-infused whipped cream