Day 1!

Fhew. Made it through day 1. Though some may say barely... Turns out Alex and I both have a bit of a tummy ache this evening. Was it the tuna salad? Our bodies yearning for sugar and grains? I sure hope not on that second one.

So first things first- check out the fridge. Pretty impressive, right? Especially considering two days ago it was filled with beer, wine and smirnoff ice. Classy. Now it smells real nice in there too.

To recap the day, let's start with the morning. I can only hope it gets easier and easier to find something filling and satisfying to eat for breakfast. I'm usually one who could wake up, eat a few bowls of lucky charms and turn around and eat a bacon and french toast feast for brunch. Needless to say, this morning was a little rough. The berries and almonds held me over until 10 or so when I managed to force myself to stop thinking about food.

At lunch I had our homemade (which sounds sweet but really everything is now going to be homemade) tuna salad on top of a lettuce salad. Decent I guess but possibly made us feel sick so maybe we'll stay away from that for awhile.

Now dinner was impressive. So this book we're following and getting recipes from gives us basic ingredients and all that but doesn't really help with directions. "Saute this, brown that, stuff chicken and bake" is basically all we are given. Fortunately I'm resourceful so I took matters into my own hands and learned how to skin and stuff a chicken, improv style.

We look good together, I know. We stuffed the bird with apples, celery, raisins, white wine (oops, didn't have red), onion and CHICKEN LIVER. Yuck... chicken liver. Overall the dish turned out really well and despite upset stomachs we had a nice little juicy dinner!

Things of note as I wrap up the day:

1) Chicken skin does not get ground up in a garbage disposal. And it's disgusting to reach down and get it, so just don't put it down the sink in the first place, but DO take it off. I realized as I was cutting it off that it's pretty nasty that we eat that stuff.

2) We may be paying a visit to Ms. Betty Crocker in our near future if these recipes continue with basic instructions like "skin and stuff chicken." Hardly basic.

3) Always check expiration dates. Chicken liver is questionable to begin with so you don't want to be stuck with some that are 20 days expired (which probably did not help the stomach ache).

4) Probably a good idea to check and double check for the proper utensils and ingredients. First dinner recipe and we already missed red wine, flax seed oil and a covered baking dish. Oops.

And now for a goodnight smoothie...