Ali and I moved into a new house, and our security deposit is $2000. Split between four people, we each paid $550 last month and this month, which means since we turned in rent, we are all super, super broke. Like miserably broke. Example: I paid for the bus with pennies this morning and thought about walking almost 30 blocks home so I could save the $1.75.
Luckily, I made a little tip money this morning, so we could grocery shop a tiny bit. To be honest, being this broke gets me really, really depressed, so all I want is a fucking bag of Doritos and a gallon jug of Cherry Coke, but LET’S BE REAL, that wouldn’t be good for anyone. So I got as close to comfort food as possible without eating a stick of butter:
Baked spicy tofu, mashed sweet potatoes, and collard greens with onions and garlic. Sorry for the terrible cell phone photo, but you get the idea.
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masonkristen asked: what are your favorite sources of protein?
- whole wheat bread with peanut butter (easiest way to a complete protein without actually trying)
- almonds
- beans and rice
- tempeh (one cup can have up to 41 grams, w h a t)
- broccoli/spinach (both contain 4-5g per cup, cooked)
Also, if you are into breaking down your nutritional needs and stuff like that, you can figure out how many grams of protein you should be eating daily by multiplying your weight in pounds by 0.36! Having this information can be kind of intimidating, but if you think about it in terms of what you should be incorporating into your diet throughout the week, it’s not so baaaad.
Yesterday I invited Christina over to ‘cook with me.’ I forgot that my kitchen is two feet wide and so are my hips, so it ended up that I just cooked for Christina and two other people, which is WONDERFUL AND FINE, because I usually only make food for myself and Ali. That’s fine, too, but this weekend I mentioned that I would like to start having people over for dinner so I can find out if I’m actually a good cook or not, based on the reasoning that Ali is ‘blinded by his love for me.’ This is also acceptable, but regardless, I made sweet potato/black bean/tempeh burgers yesterday afternoon.
When everything was over, they looked like this:
They were kind of labor intensive, especially since we only have like four kitchen utensils.
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decameters asked: this is so genius / i am so excited for this / post things post things post things!!!!!!! / i can't wait to food blog together / i got a group of judges (laura, jon, and travis) who are interested in judging the nacho-off which we have to think of a really funny name for involving like "not-your nacho off" or something
I am excited, TOOOO. I have like two or three pages of ideas for posts! I wanna have this nacho contest A S A P.
“It’s Nacho Fight: Our Nacho-Off”
moderntimesart asked: what is the best brand of peanut butter and why?
The best brand I have found is MARANATHA. It basically tastes like the inside of a Reese’s peanut butter cup. They have a few kinds, but the one I usually buy is their organic, creamy, NO STIR version. It’s kind of expensive, but it’s also on sale a lot if you keep an eye out for it.
The ‘no stir’ part is notable to me because the oil in most organic peanut butters separates and then sits on top. This sucks because you have to stir the oil back in before you use it, and that grosses me out super hard for some reason. You can also open a jar too quickly or too hard and have oil spill everywhere. If you’re me.
ANYWAY, peanut butter is also a well-known source of protein, and you can tell by the taste of this brand that you’re not getting a bunch of weird processed shit mixed with it, unless you’re eating it on a Cheeto or something, in which case, you probably have bigger problems.
P.S. MaraNatha also makes an almond butter with a ‘hint of sea salt’ and it is like the greatest fucking thing ever created. The oil thing happens with this, but it’s totally bearable in this situation. It’s like $10 for a tiny jar, so when I bought it (on sale) and it was almost gone, I was like one step away from smashing the container on my kitchen floor so I could lick the unreachable remnants off the broken glass.
