An avocado gives you 4 grams of protein with a perfect amino acid score

Had to go downtown today, so I stopped at Trader Joe's.

out-of-the-ordinary shopping list

3 avocados
1 lb. of oatmeal
2 lbs. 4 oz. of pancake mix
8 oz. maple syrup
17.5 oz. strawberry preserves
1/2 dozen English muffins
80 Irish breakfast teabags
and
dish soap

total: $27 and change

Avocados are expensive, but they are $1.29 at Trader Joe's and $1.99 at Milk & Honey.

An avocado gives you 4 grams of protein with a perfect amino acid score.

So I grabbed three, figuring I will eat one and Mark will eat one and I will use the other for sandwiches.

Things I can have now that I couldn't have before these groceries:

pancakes (with syrup or jelly)
English muffins (with syrup or jelly)
mushroom scramble on English muffin
an avocado, lettuce, & onion sandwich with mustard
an avocado
a bowl of oatmeal (with or without maple syrup)
iced tea
hot tea

We're out of bread and the stores are closed but I had a mushroom, lettuce, & onion sandwich earlier, will get bread tomorrow, and will have the avocado sandwich for lunch Friday.

Shortly: pancakes

For breakfast tomorrow: English muffin with strawberry jelly, oatmeal

For lunch tomorrow: not sure

Dinner tomorrow: baked potato, steamed asparagus & carrots, miso soup

Breakfast Friday: grapefruit, oatmeal

Lunch Friday: avocado, lettuce, & onion sandwich with mustard

Dinner Friday: pancakes

How's that?

Saturday Market

2 lbs. asparagus
12 fat orange carrots
1 baby green leaf (curly) lettuce
1 baby purple leaf lettuce
1 large green leaf lettuce
8 red potatoes
1 big white potato
5 small yellow sweet onions
1 pint white mushrooms
1 portobello mushroom cap
2 bulbs garlic
23 oz. jar of homemade apple sauce
1 oz. black pepper
1 loaf multi-grain bread
one plain bagel

Total: $36.72

Sauteed 5 of the white mushrooms with fennel seeds, onions, and pepper, piled onto a bagel with the green curly and purple lettuces and vegenaise.

Then steamed some asparagus and carrots with olive oil, Old Bay seasoning, salt and pepper. They are perfect, steamed for 6 minutes. (pictured above)

I've been baking sweet and white potatoes in the oven in the cast iron skillet, at 400 degrees, for about 35 minutes. Cut the potatoes and coat with olive oil, then toss with salt, pepper, and Old Bay seasoning, and include some crushed cloves of garlic. Makes a great side for a sandwich.


Asparagus is plentiful at the market all of a sudden, and so far we're not tired of just steaming it. But there is also this great, quick, lazy meal. Steam the asparagus for six minutes, and during the last three minutes, cook some Thai Kitchen Garlic & Vegetable rice noodles. Sprinkle some garlic powder either on the asparagus, the noodles, or both, throw the two components together in a bowl and be amazed. It's really unusually good.

Birthday Saturday Market

2 lbs of asparagus
a dozen small yellow potatoes
2 sweet potatoes
1 head green leaf lettuce
2 heads baby purple lettuce
~1 lb. of small little fat orange and purple carrots
23-oz. jar of apple sauce
1 pint white mushrooms
1 portobello cap

$27 at Clark Park

1 loaf rye bread
4 tomatoes
1 whole wheat bagel
1 lb. rice-buckwheat hot cereal

~$12 at Milk & Honey Market

Total: ~$39

I didn't post last weekend, but we got chives and fresh herbs and pretty much everything we got this weekend. The groceries pictured above are actually last week's. I'm trying the rice-buckwheat hot cereal for the first time. It sounds ridiculously good with berries. I don't have any berries, though. Might be good with apple sauce. I've been running out of oatmeal every few days and decided to try this for a change. Finally getting enough grains in my diet because I discovered how amazing a few grains of sea salt will make oatmeal taste. I can't wait to have the brown rice and buckwheat cereal with a little salt and a little sugar. I can't wait to have it with blackberries.

I'm thirty-one today. There's a flea market on at the park. The neighborhood is beautiful but full of pollen.