entire personal sized vegan pizza from giordano’s in hyde park, in direct violation of my light dinner goals :(

exercise: ~15 miles biking, but it doesn’t count as that much because i had a wicked tailwind. 10 push-ups

leftover rice and bean mix with steamed broccoli

amy’s gluten free breakfast burrito

like 6 sweet potato tots at burger bar. they violate my rules, but they’re so special! gin and tonic.

exercise: mostly took today off because i was so sore from the last few days. biked a few miles and did 12 push-ups…

rice and bean mix from whole foods with smoked paprika and salt. roasted sweet potato slices. apple.

snacks at colloquium: hummus, carrots, cucumber, slices of bread, olives

snacks at art opening: grapes, cherry tomatoes, veggie chips

rice cake and clementines

exercise: ~3 miles biking, 30 min on elliptical, 30 min stretching (i’m sore from all of this activity!)

banana

hibiscus cinnamon tea

lentil soup with pita from cobb

hummus, a tiny bit of bread, and a huge carrot

exercise: biking to school and around campus (~15 miles)–i put my bike on the bus to go home. eventually i want to start biking to school and back twice a week (~30 miles), weather permitting. but i have to work up to it a bit.

also maybe you already know this, but watch out for heart-healthy tropicana orange juice. i happened to be reading the ingredients because i wanted to see what kind of vitamin C and B i was getting (i have a cold) and i saw that it contains 3 kinds of fish! gross

i thought i’d share a link to a recipe for tahini baked tofu. someone made it for me recently and it was really delicious, and also as it turns out very simple. i don’t know about you, but i’m always looking for good baked tofu recipes. at some point i settled into a tamari-and-balsamic rut, but it’s time to break free!

hope you’re both doing well!

-marcy

i went to minneapolis this last weekend for my society of music theory conference, and i had some good food. i wanted to share this especially with katherine, since i think you go through minneapolis somewhat often, right?

anyway, i had a late dinner at a cafe called the bad waitress. they have all kinds of vegan stuff specified on their menu. i ended up having the soup of the day (vegan split pea) and hash browns, but i could have probably done something a lot more interesting if i had been hungrier.

the other place we went that i hiiiiiiiighly recommend is the seward cafe. they actually had so many delicious looking vegan options on the menu that i got really panicky and stressed out (i hadn’t had any choices all weekend because i was eating with nonvegans in downtown minneapolis, so it was overwhelming to be faced with the better part of a menu). but it all ended well, i ate some delicious hashbrown scramble with veggies and daiya cheese and got a cinnamon blackberry muffin to go. my friends all got food that looked pretty awesome as well.

katherine, i will miss your presence on greader! let me know if you and michael figure out somewhere else to go so that i can join you.

zante pizza–indian pizza, and their vegan pizza pie is fuckin amazing
cinnaholic–vegan cinnamon rolls in berkeley

we went to millenium too, which was amazing but expensive. but the other two should be pretty affordable…i hope i see these places on the blog in a few weeks!

as you probably know, i’m studying for my comprehensive exams–they’re coming up on september 10, and are a pretty big deal. because i’ve been spending hours every day staring at a computer, i’m starting to experience all kinds of crazy and slightly scary eye problems, and as a result of this, i’ve been severely limiting the amount of time spent on my computer. so i think i’ll have to catch up with all of you on the blog (as well as current events and my stories) after my exams end late next month–september 20, to be exact.

wish me luck, and i’ll see all of you on the other side!

xoxo