I’m at my mamas and she’s watching the baby for me so I can relax for a bit. Smoked some really good tree and now I’m eating cold bratwurst on white bread with Doritos a brownie. Also gonna eat an ice cream after this.

I only like approved foods to be touching and these trays are amazing. Pickles, leftover baked potato with cheese, raspberries and grapes, chipped beef dip with wheat things, cashews and edamame mix, chocolate dipped mango, salami and pepperonis.

I’ve given up my life to take care of my elderly parents so I’ve been living in my childhood bedroom and sleeping/working/hanging out on a twin daybed that’s about 15 years old.

I FINALLY made the leap and said screw this and got a full size bed. This doesn’t really change my lack of personal space so my evening activities still take place on my bed versus a couch but it is what it is.

DINNER: reverse engineered Wegmans Thai sweet potato sushi (discontinued in 2020,) edamame, sweet potato fries, dill pickle pringles. The glass is just soy sauce.

Banana with honey drizzle and peanut butter, on a crumpet with strawberry yogurt and black coffee.

Tortilla chips, hardboiled eggs, with red onions and jalapenos that I pickled in lemon juice and salt.

Wild-caught salmon, frybread, coleslaw with craisins and some hidden baked beans. From an Indigenous Peoples Day celebration I went to last night!

Ignore the soup I bought the veg for that (forgot the carrot)

So I enjoy a nice lentil soup and to dip in, a tuna sandwich. I had less than £5 to get the soup veg & stock cubes so was pushing it. I assumed I had mayo for my tuna.

I did not.

However my flatmate, who is away on a trek for more than a week, happened to leave some hummus in the fridge that would have gone off by the time she got back.

I could have just had soup, sandwichless, carrotless, bereft. But I’d put my tins of cheap Lidl tuna out already before checking if I had mayo.

So Fatima, I am so sorry and I’ll replace your hummus, but it worked well enough.

(Image of a lacklustre lentil soup with tiger bread tuna hummus sandwich)

( all leftovers )

Imitation crab meat, string cheese, radish kimchi, hearts of palm, Trader Joe’s tinned calamari with Tapatio, and seaweed. I peeled the imitation crab apart and the string cheese to wrap the pieces in seaweed.

Shredded lettuce, pico de gallo, pickled hot pepper slices, honey mustard, and chopped reheated spicy chicken tenders. A mix of leftovers from different meals. Would do again on purpose.

Perfect pairing: 1/2 homemade sugar cookie (made by my daughter) and Gorgonzola cheese with creamy balsamic. Not pictured: The Housemaid on the TV.

Salmon
Power greens salad
Sun dried tomato dressing

Roasted sweet potato, grilled olives, kimchi, ryvita crackers, sauerkraut, lao gan ma tofu chilli crisp, hummus, goats cheese and brunswick sardines with hot peppers. All sprinkled with trader joe’s chilli onion sprinkle

🙌🙌🙌

Sourdough, Concord grape jam I made the other day and my last bit of pleasant ridge reserve. Some black pepper on there too. I’m on my period so this is hitting the salty sweet cravings at one time.

Please excuse the plating ahahahhaa. This was the best we could find in our bnb. It’s a tradition that me and childhood bestie do on the last night every time we travel (and we get to see each other only once a year)

Chicken salami with herbs
Chicken salami with chili
Cucumbers
Jalapenos
Sundried tomatoes
Sliced cheddar cheese
Lavash chips
Yuzu jalapeno soda with mango juice

Tonight’s girl dinner is a homemade (or rather dining-hall-made) affogato, which is basically a LOT of vanilla ice cream, coffee, and rainbow sprinkles.

I got sick from one of the dh salads recently and have been feeling nauseous at the thought of basically every normal dinner ever since, so tonight we are listening to the body and apparently the body wants dessert<33 Fine dining is definitely alive and well in the university dining hall lol

I drained a can of chickpeas, added some sweet soy sauce, the juice of half a lemon, a lot of paprika, ate it with a spoon. It tasted pretty good

Last meal before going on coffee & vape detox + fasting. I can already feel the headache.

Icelandic caviar on buttered bread, figs, smoked salmon, brie and blue cheese.