I set my alarm for 7 am to beat the heat and go for a run. I ended up snoozing until 8 and then deciding against the run – for no particular reason other than I was tired. A relaxing breakfast sounded MUCH more appealing.
For breakfast Matt and I made fruit salad with yogurt and egg sandwiches.
In the fruit salad was 1/2 mashed banana, blueberries and 1/2 a kiwi plus some Oikos Vanilla Greek Yogurt.
While I was working on the fruit and yogurt, Matt was working on the Egg and Cheese Sandwich with tomato (from the farmer’s market last week).
To make, he cooked 1/4 cup egg whites in a bowl sprayed with Pam. Cooked them for 30 seconds in the microwave, stirred and then cooked the eggs again in 15 second increments until set. The roll is a Whole Wheat Pepperidge Farm Deli Flat.
Nothing completes breakfast for me like a cup of tea.
After breakfast, I sat down at the kitchen table with my monstrous binder of recipes I have collected over the years (most ripped out from magazines), a new cookbook I got for Christmas and the Hannaford sales circular to make my grocery shopping list for the week.
I have planned dinners for the next few days – this way I don’t have to think about “What’s for Dinner” during the week.
Our first stop was the Farmer’s Market. The Farmer’s Market is much bigger on Saturday’s then during the week. This year there is even a Seafood truck.
We left the Farmer’s Market with
Cherry tomatoes (picked this morning!), blueberries, two cucumbers, 2 onions, a bag of mixed greens, fresh eggs and 1 lb of scallops. All of this for about $32 – not bad!
Green Fact: According to Sustainable Table, each food item in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles to reach your table. Furthermore, according to Sustainable Table “…small, sustainable farms help reduce the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels is by selling their products locally. The less food has to travel, the less fuel is needed to transport it. But sustainable farming practices also have the potential to reduce fossil fuel dependence by eliminating wasteful production practices.”
To find a Farmer’s Market near you, check out this website. I highly recommend them (especially if you can’t grow your own produce like me!)
