Day Nine

Day nine was a tough one, I am not sure why but today was the first day I actually felt like I was missing something.  CHOCOLATE!!!   What I would have done today for a nice chocolate ganache anything.  I am glad the opportunity never presented itself, thank god the two girls in front of me at the basketball game  had  a pink colored yogurt from Yolikities, because I would have cried if it was chocolate with chunks of cookie dough.  I will probably dream of fountains of chocolate (I have been daydreaming about this all day ).

So lets talk about food a little bit since I am obsessing about chocolate today. One thing that really surprised me since we started this is the amount of crap that is out in our everyday food products.  On one of our recent shopping trips we needed to pick up lemon and lime juice (there are so many recipes that call for either one).  We promptly went to the juice aisle to get the 100% REAL Lemon and Lime juice picked it up off the shelf to check the label and was shocked to see that it was not 100% , there was other things listed on that label that were not lemons or limes so how could they say it was 100%!  I put the $1.99 bottles back on the shelf and went to the organic section and picked up the $4.99 bottles of lemon and lime juice (the only ingredient was lemons or limes).    This is just one example of some of the things I found, I will definatly walk away from these 30 days with a better awareness of the crap I put into my body.

The leftover brussels spouts came wih me to work, it was just as awesome the next day!  Dinner was shrimp sautéed with broccoli and cauliflower.  I asked Michael to make it because I really want to like shrimp but I just could not do it, so I had a couple of eggs for dinner.   Thank god I like eggs, but I may turn into a chicken before this 30 days is done. Maybe if he sautéed the shrimp in chocolate I would have liked it. :-)

It was another good night at the gym, lots of people talking about new recipes and how they are getting through the month.  Makes the days like today with the chocolate cravings much easier.  OK I admit it I was thinking about chocolate when Craig was telling me about his mushroom goulash recipe, I kept saying how good that sounded and all I was thinking about was chocolate.  Seriously his recipe sounded great!!

When this is done we have to figure out how to do a whole 30 and include chocolate .:-). 21 days until chocolate!!