Didn’t really do much today worthy of taking a picture of, but I did cook this “chicken fried quinoa” for dinner, a sort of fried rice using quinoa instead of rice.  Added some edamame and mung beans for even more of a protein boost.

I hit the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market today and found a few nice things… The couple vendors I’ve been hitting this summer have been good about making some deals with me. Most of the stuff is generally $2 for the container, or 3 for $5 – that’s a LOT of food for a single person to deal with, let alone someone like me living a post-weight-loss surgery type life style. So I pick and choose, and when I ask they’re pretty good about letting me get say a half-container for a buck.

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I really like my Jeep.

Put the bikini top on the Jeep yesterday. I think it’s in part cause I’m not crazy about the color of my soft-stop that I would rather have the bikini top on. Both are from Bestop, great products…but I shoulda gotten a darker grey or black. oh well. I should gt a temp top though for throwing on if it rains while I’m at work… or least get the neoprene seat covers I’ve been eyeing. Time to hit the Quadratec catalog again.

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I haven’t been around much this last week… We have some more articles coming here. Just need to get the time to finalize some editing and what not. What have I been doing? I’ve been running around like a … well, chicken’s with no heads are probably calmer than I’ve been feeling this week.

Part of it’s work.
Just dealing with some stress related to nearing the end of a $2.5million dollar project and dealing with someone we think may be doing some things that are a bit… well… at the least, unethical. At the worst… potential fraud. (wheee fun).

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Like I said a couple days ago… I am kinda cheating, and started on pureed foods last week, and over the weekend I moved on to “real” food. Frozen meatballs are a great thing. Pull a couple out, nuke for 30 seconds and you have the start of a meal. Sunday, I had a Tex-Mex sorta meal. Two meatballs chopped up and topped with a mix of fat-free sour cream and medium taco sauce, then topped with a sprinkle of shredded cheese. Instead of refried beans, I used some of the pureed baked beans from a few days ago, mixed in some chopped jalapeno pepper, taco sauce and another sprinkle of cheese. (some good protein going on here!) Then some strawberry yogurt to get my fruit/dairy in.

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I’m 18 days post-op… I’m supposed to still be in the liquid diet phase of things.

Early last week I broke down and started doing pureed foods. The cream soups and stuff just sucked. None of them had much flavor… or maybe it’s me… but it got to the point I was sucking on pickle chips to get some taste going. So… I started doing things like pureed tuna salad, baked beans, cauliflower, fruits, cottage cheese. I was doing one whole tablespoon of three different things for a meal. Like 1T tuna salad, 1T carrots, and 1T SF pudding for lunch one day.

Then yesterday, I cheated again.

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