M:0 W:0 D:1

(This will be how I keep track of how many

months, weeks, and days I've been at this. M=months, W=weeks, and D=days)

 

GROCERY SHOPPING &

MONTH 1 PICS
 

 

I think there's a certain delusional quality that all

successful people have to have; you have to believe

that something different than what has

happened for the past 50 million years can happen.

 

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled

road to medioctrity.

 

What's the point of being realistic?

 

It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on,

but fortunately Edison didn't think so.

 

-Will Smith

 

 

Alright, so grocery shopping!!! I love grocery shopping :) So the basics I will be getting this week (I usually shop for a whole week's worth of food) include eggs, broccoli, tomatoes, frozen blueberries, thick sliced bacon, red leaf lettuce, seasoned seaweed (usually seasoned with olive oil and sea salt), rice, tuna, sesame seed oil and mayo. Foods I already have include green onions, mushrooms, fresh garlic, spinach, bell peppers, carrots, sweet potatoes, chamomile and peppermint tea, lemonade mix (which I use with the teas), honey, sweetened soy milk, basic spices, apples, and canned pineapple. I also have a few other random supplies like baking soda/powder, coconut, almonds, wheat flour, maple syrup, baking cocoa, and such that I use for baking, but I don't plan on using those (though I will fess up if I binge a little every now and then with some chocolate pancakes).

 

There are some recipes/meals I make multiple times a week. One of my favorites is smoothies. I just got a blender, so I'm going crazy with my smoothies. I stick with a 50/50 rule. 50% vegetables and 50% fruit. My main vegetable is spinach (I used to use kale as well, but I haven't been able to find that here in Korea). My default fruit is frozen blueberries, but I mix it up with apples or pineapple on occasion and every so often I'll do strawberries or kiwi depending on what's on sale at Homeplus. I usually use either plain water or sweetened soy milk as a base.

 

Coming to Korea, I discovered a new love: lettuce wraps!!! Koreans use everything from kimchi to garlic, to onions in their lettuce wraps. I usually stick with thick sliced bacon and red leaf lettuce. I need to start buying kimchi, but I'm sensitive to spicy food so I don't want to get a kind that's too spicy. For those unfamiliar with kimchi, it is a famous Korean food. It is basically spicy fermented cabbage (or sometimes radish or other vegetables). It doesn't sound too appealing, and yes, it is an acquired taste. I tried it before coming to Korea and it was certainly not my favorite thing. I could swallow it, but I never thought it would be something I would choose to eat. Now that I've been in Korea for a few months and since kimchi is a staple here (and by staple I mean you don't see a single Korean meal without kimchi), I've grown used to it and actually found a couple varieties that I can say I like.

 

I also love doing tuna rolls (rolls as in the asian kind of rolls with rice and seaweed). I generally cook up the rice and put some sesame seed oil in it, make up the tuna with mayo, then wrap them together in a piece of seasoned seaweed. Yummm!!! Hmm, it might be good with some kimchi too... Not the most healthy meal, and I try to stay away from too many grains, so I will be cutting back on this. 

 

The tomatoes and bell peppers I tend to eat raw. They act as my munchie snacks in place of chips and crackers. And I usually keeps some apples around to satisfy my sweet tooth (and boy do I have a sweet tooth).

 

So those are the basics for this week. I'll update with specific meals just to see if I actually stuck to the plan or not.

 

 

Today's meals:

 

Lunch (I was up really late so I slept in and missed breakfast, oops):

• blueberry/spinach smoothie with soy milk base
• one small sweet potato mixed with two scrambled eggs and a meddly of vegatables (mushrooms, green onions, spinach, carrots) with garlic and salt.

Dinner:

• apple
• popcorn

 

Snacks:

• canned pineapple

 

Today's exercise:

 

•  Zumba latin dance 15 minutes

 

*Just a forewarning: I will probably be having some cookie dough truffles this weekend because I'm making some treats for my coworkers because I haven't cooked anything for them yet which is kind of a shame becuase I love to cook for people (not to mention I love to show off my cooking skills). I will attempt to control my truffle consumption, though.

 

And now on to the pictures. I guess you could dubb these the "before pictures." I will apologize in advance. I only have my bathroom mirror and my phone camera, so please forgive the poor quality.
 

 

 

Well, I have to go study my Korean now. I've got class in just a few hours. And then I need to catch a couple more episodes of Supernatural. Loving this show!!! I just finished the episode with the rabbit's foot. Hilarious!!!!!!

***Because of uploading pictures and such (I don't have wifi at my apartment, so I have to wait until I'm at school to upload photos) the posts may be published a day or two after they were written.

 

 

It's the job that's

never started

that takes

longest to finish.

 

-Samwise Gamgee