The sugar craving was starting to make me crazy, so I decided to make some more banana bread for breakfast, and load it up with chocolate. Good plan! This time, I took the recipe from a few days ago and exchanged whole wheat pastry flour for the white flour, and added 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder to the mix, along with 1 1/2 cups of pecan pieces and 1/4 cup of semisweet chocolate chips. Nirvana! Seriously, there was no sugar in this recipe (I know there is sugar in the chips, but 1/4 cup in a whole loaf is very minor) and yet it tasted like chocolate cake. It really hit the spot!
After yesterday's menu, I was a bit concerned about a lack of protein. For lunch, we remedied that concern. Lunch was a sweet potato hash with onions and black beans, seasoned with turmeric and curry powder. I was going to use cumin, but we didn't have any. I severed it in a whole wheat wrap loaded with lettuce. That should help with the protein for the day, especially when we count the pecans from the banana bread.
Dinner was pizza, with no meat and no cheese. Unfortunately, it was also made without the salt, quite by accident. Note to self: flavoring is very important. VERY important. We ended up sprinkling salt on as a topping after it was cooked. The other toppings were spinach, onion, and bell pepper. We'll just consider this as a trial run and give it another go later. The crust was 1/2 white flour and 1/2 whole wheat pastry flour. It would have been great, with a little salt.
After the pizza, we had a thin slice of the banana bread for dessert. It was excellent. There was plenty of sweet from the bananas and applesauce (you couldn't taste the honey at all), I felt pretty good about using that to satisfy the sugar craving, even if it was twice in one day.
So, as you can tell. today was a pretty dull day, but not a bad one. The key lesson we'll take from this day is: the salt of life is salt.
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