This is embarrassing to admit.  Sometime early May before our last frost, I found a packet of gourmet lettuce seeds in the cupboard.  The kids were driving me nuts, so I handed them the seeds and told them to fill one of our raised beds with them.  It took them all of 10 minutes, but it was a nice and quiet ten minutes for those of us left in the house :).

Last year it was so hot and dry that if I didn’t water my plants in the raised bed every day they wilted up and threatened to die.  It didn’t matter much because the wild rabbits came and razed the bed to the ground in the middle of a sad night. And that was the end of that.

So Saturday, when I was watering my hanging baskets on the back deck, you can imagine my surprise to see a raised bed full of lovely lettuce plants down below. (We just ignored it after that first day.) And I’ve been eating that tired yellow stuff from the inside of Romaine hearts for a week?! I sent Heidi out to pick as much as she could and she came back with this:

Breakfast:  1 cup Fit and Active protein cereal; 2 Tbs Hemp seeds; 2 Tbs craisins and 1/2 cup almond milk

Snack1: Homemade protein bar (No produce)

Lunch: Asian Chicken Chef’s salad: 2 cups lettuce; 2 oz canned chicken breast; 1 orange, sectioned and chopped; 1 Tbs sliced almonds; 1 Tbs craisins (for color) and 2 Tbs Fit and Active Sesame Ginger dressing.

Snack 2: 1/3 of a mega crunch protein bar on the way out to buy new shades and produce at Aldi.  1 oz almonds.  No produce.

Dinner:  Planned Indulgence: Grilled Pizza from Aldi’s Deli.  We are making do without a kitchen until mid-August while we remodel. So it’s a real treat to buy something ready made.  We ate it on the back deck.

I just put my pizza stone on the grill, preheat it for 10 minutes.  Then flop the pizza on top.  It’s ready in 8 minutes.  Longer than that and the bottom will burn…..Trust me.

I also had a big salad from the garden with light Italian dressing. And snacked on baby carrots while I waited for the pizza to cook.

It’s Sunday morning now, so I can reflect on how I feel after the PI for dinner.  Not great.  I’m a little bloated up from the extra carbs.  It sure tasted good, but probably not worth it.  I need to plan ahead better so I have an alternative easy to go that is equally enticing to me.  If I had thought about it when I was at Aldi, I’d have bought some mushrooms to grill with onions and peppers and Italian sausage.  Yum!

So for Saturday:  Wins:  I read my scriptures first thing; I was under my calorie goal; I found a garden; I stripped the wallpaper off my kitchen–ready for drywall repair and then paint! Grant started potty training.

Losses:  No workout 🙁 (Unless wallpaper stripping and cleaning counts–I know it doesn’t, but it was a good amount of N.E.A.T) Not enough produce.  PI that makes me feel lousy. Heather has stomach flu.