4/30/10--Breakfast and dinner

Simple breakfast this morning--oatmeal with a little brown sugar and some raisins. With a little milk. (155 cal, 2g fat). I also made some crackers using this recipe to eat for snacks or pack with lunches. The recipe calls for a mixture of whole wheat and all-purpose flour, but since I don't have any whole wheat flour I substituted some bulk seven-grain cereal I'd gotten for making some multi-grain bread. (I have plenty of the cereal to make the bread too, later on.)

I had thought of packing lunch and dinner, and not going home in between the various things I had scheduled for today. But part of what I was planning required the chicken I was thawing, which was still frozen this morning. Actually, it's still kind of icy even now. So I'll probably start using the chicken tomorrow. Anyway, I changed my mind (or rather, hadn't made another decision by the time I needed to run out the door to go to my voice lesson) and didn't pack anything. So after spending some time on campus trying to work on my thesis, I came back to my apartment to eat a lunch/dinner sort of meal.

I'd gotten an idea while I was on campus. I used half of half of the french bread loaf I had left. I cut it in half and spread it with some mayonnaise mixed with dried basil. For the past two years, I've grown fresh basil on my balcony, and had forgotten I had dried basil at the back of my collection of herbs and spices. Due to my plans to move, I didn't plant a garden this year, and I've already been missing having basil around. The dried stuff isn't quite the same, but it works! So. Bread spread with basil mayonnaise, which I then topped with shredded cheddar and monterey jack cheeses and broiled. While it was cooking, I pulled a little bag of last summer's green beans from the freezer and cooked them in the microwave, then sprinkled them with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Some of the jello I made last night rounded out the meal. (Estimated total 555 cal, 28 g fat)
The green beans tasted a little freezer-burned, so I don't think I'll want to use them straight again. Next time I use some, I'll cook them into something with enough flavor to cover. The broiled bread and cheese was fantastic! I'm toying around with the possibility of eating a little of the lemon ice cream I made yesterday morning before I dash off again, or putting together some snack I can eat while I'm off gallivanting around tonight. I've gotten in the habit of getting strawberry limeade from Sonic to drink while I'm on long, late drives, but I need to avoid that and find another way to keep myself alert while I'm driving home tonight!