Busy Food Diary

In the last few weeks I have been so busy!  I often eat late, after Baby has gone to bed, and have been making a big salad almost every night.  I add seeds or nuts and feta or Nutritional Yeast, and I dress it myself with either a lemon dressing or a balsamic based one.  In a pinch I have bottled balsamic in the fridge but it contains pineapple juice which doesn't suit my tastes.

Baby is eating pablum, so after I got him used to the brown rice cereal from a box I tried mixing it with applesauce or peas from a jar, which he really liked.  I was gifted a Baby Bullet blender system and have moved into millet boiled with a piece of ginger and puréed with applesauce.  That is very popular and I'll be adding carrots from a jar later this week.

I recently made an Iranian stew called Khoresh Gheymeh and it turned out excellent!  It contains split peas and beef.  That recipe was followed by an Indian Dal of black Urad beans.  I was surprised that it had milk in it, and although I burnt some of it it tasted pretty good.  I am preparing to make the beef stew again, but instead of plain rice a rice with cranberries and onion in it.  Hooray for leftovers I can heat up quickly!

Lastly I would like to point out three packaged foods that I love.  First, I constantly eat Beanitos pinto flax flavour.  They are tortilla chips with no corn, and are non-GMO.  Good alone or with hot salsa - I am hooked on Mrs.Renfro's habanero mango.  Lastly, I was looking for a healthy fast food late at night and discovered Amy's brand vegan burritos from the freezer.  I usually avoid cheese and they have one with simply rice and beans.

Intro

I find that I often have long conversations with people about food, so this blog is a place for me to continue these discussions in more detail.
Am I a vegetarian? No, but I'm into 'health food', whatever that means.  I eat meat and dairy.  I prefer less-processed foods with short ingredient lists even if they are higher in calories (such as butter).
I have mild Polycystic Ovaries, so my new thing is to try to follow some guidelines:  no soy, less meat and dairy, organics, and dark greens like kale.
I like to go to the farmers market and plan meals around what I find there.  I have a baby who will soon eat solids, so I hope to make his foods, and my husband rarely eats my cooking because he doesn't like veggies.  I eat lots of salads and lots of beans.
Looking forward to sharing further!