Day 2 challenge

It started out with DH hankering for pancakes and eggs.  He usually likes to do this in the local diner, whose inspiring standard of excellence is emblazoned on their menu: "Food that doesn't suck."  I don't think it's so much the ambience (although it's always nice to walk in on a life-size cutout of James Dean when entering the ladies' restroom) or the culinary superiority so much as liking not to have to deal with cleanup (let's see...that's 1 mixing bowl & 1 skillet...pretty rough...) It's not like I mind awfully trying to coax salads out of restaurant staff at breakfast, but I can get fruits, vegies, and nuts for days for what one meal costs eating out.  And it's not such a peak experience munching iceberg lettuce while inhaling the vapors from his flapjacks foundering in syrup.

In any event, economy prevailed and we bought organic spinach, apples, grapes, bananas and almonds at the grocery, along with some "cage free" brown eggs for him.  He made egg sandwiches while I grazed on nuts, raisins, grapes & apple, along with a lara bar (I'm assuming they're not cooked, but actually don't know for certain.) Biggest temptation was boiling potato wedges for his b'fast homefries - the steam from them rose up into my face and I couldn't resist smashing one up with butter & salt.  I guess that's my 10% cooked for the day!

 For dinner, I made a "blended salad" of cucumber, onion, spinach, pesto, mint & bell pepper w/ Bragg's salad dsg - whizzed it briefly in the blender so it was mostly finely-chopped, partly pureed and partly intact leaves & cuke chunks, and ate it with a spoon like cold soup.  Very refreshing and filling enough.  I don't seem to get as hungry eating this way, and I also sleep more soundly.  Just being able to sleep for 4 hours instead of 1 1/2 is worth forgoing eggs & homefries.