Eat (real) food, not too much, mostly plants

Today I cooked breakfast: oatmeal with homemade vanilla sugar and homemade butter. (Those last two sound impressive, but they aren't.)

Lunch: shrimp with mango and fresh basil, and rice. I cheated and had packaged apple sauce on the side, though.

Dinner: Portobello mushroom sausage with spinach with shallots, mustard, and vinegar on the side. I'm OK with including packaged sausage, though I've made my own in the past. I had part of a perfectly-ripe galia melon for dessert.

I made this almond pesto from scratch (but used boxed pasta... No odd ingredients though.)

Almond Pesto

Boxed pasta? It doesn't count as real unless you mill your own wheat.

Last night I concocted a... thing. I stewed chicken in a crock pot with carrots, onions, and chicken stock. I also added turmeric, cumin, coriander, and a few other random spices. (I meant to add garlic, but forgot.) When it was done, I shredded the chicken.

When it was done, I cooked rice and red lentils and added them to the mix. My goal was to get a sort of stew, but it wound up being less liquidy than I'd planned. I could have fixed that, but it was late and I didn't care enough. I'll do it again, but next time less chicken and more lentils/rice.