Day 35: Football Saturday

Let's just say that my food day mirrored the game play by the UGA team and the UCLA team.  Poor, poor, poor.

Breakfast was a banana and two peanut butter pretzel bites from Trader Joe's.  Brian and I planned on grabbing some breakfast at the Beaverton farmers market, but there really wasn't anything there we were interested in.  We stopped by a bakery to pick up some bolo rolls, and that is where the bad plays really started.  They had these beautiful croissants, just sitting there, next to the bolo rolls.  We bought two.  Brian and I shared one on the way out of the market.

More poor plays happened after that - kind of like #5 (Swann) allowing the ball to get intercepted right near the 25 yard line (on a punt return!). We decided to stop by the store to get some tea, and ended up buying tea, guacamole, chocolate sorbet, a bag of frozen pierogi and some pesto.  That wasn't so bad, but we then decided to go to Trader Joe's to get some "game day snack food".  That was kind of like Murray's not taking any risks in the last 2 minutes of the game when they were only down 6 points.  BAD IDEA. 

Trader Joe's is like the snack crack store.  You can find all sorts of veggie and vegan snack foods.  Just because something is vegan, it doesn't mean it is good for you.  Things like: veggie burritos, veggie gyoza, sweet potato tots, veggie pakora, vegetable bird nests, fish bites, and spicy shrimp bao... all of these things are better than corn dogs, nacho cheese dip and pizza, but they are not better than real food. And, because all of the foods are snack size, it is really, really, really easy to overeat. 

The rest of the food day was pretty much like the UCLA plays against Standford.  Nothing worked.  Brian popped almost all of the snack foods into the oven and we had bao, pierogi, tater tots, fish bites, pakora, and birds nests.  Later, we had a scoop of chocolate sorbet with an oatmeal cookie, each.  Then a boy scout came by selling bags of crazy sweet popcorn, and we each had some of that.  UGH.  Seriously, nothing UCLA tried worked against Standford.  And nothing made this food day any better.  We DID take the dogs out for a 3 mile walk after the game was over, so that helped. 

Except, that once we got home, we were a little snacky (while watching Mission Impossible 3), so we had the other croissant and a small slice of cheese. It was sort of like watching the post game reviews - over and over... watching those poor plays happening again and again.  Now I'm sitting here hoping that we're done with the day of poor food choices. We made a poor movie choice, but I can handle that.  No more food!!!!!

See you tomorrow.  Be happy and healthy!