I prepared this evening’s dinner and will be eating it en route to my class group project meeting. 

A very gourmet meal it is…whole wheat bread with soy nut butter and honey

Plus some red pepper and carrots – for some veggie power

Think About/Take Action Tuesday is now going to be renamed Think About/Take Action Thursday.  Kristen, someone I follow on Twitter, had tweeted this article about making your Superbowl Food vegetarian and with local ingredients.  Something to think about before you set your final menu!

What are your plans for Superbowl?  Have you set your menu?

Today’s lunch is nothing new – a salad with basically all the usual toppings.

Boring…

The star of my lunch was my Tomato Florentine soup.  Holy Moly for cafeteria soup, this was amazing.

It wasn’t too salty, it was hot and it was full of vegetables.  Big chunks of carrots, onions and tomatoes.  Loved it.

Another PSA for our blogger meet-up on February 6th…we will be meeting at Grezzo in Boston’s North End.  As soon as we have a definite head count, we will make reservations and let you know the time.  Let either Melissa, Melissa or me know if you are interested.

I start my first class tonight so I don’t know if I will be posting again.  The class is from 6 – 8:40 pm and its called “Introduction to Public Institutions and Administration.”  I am considering working towards a second master’s degree in Public Administration with a focus on Sustainable Community Development…should be interesting.  Because it is the first class, I have a smidge of hope the professor will let us out early….

Also…its Think About It/Take Action Tuesday! 

I found an interesting article on my local NPR station.  Ignorantly, I thought air quality and global warming were considered together – air quality impacts global warming. 

What do you think should be done?

For dinner I met a fellow Boston area blogger at the Whole Foods in Dedham.  A food lover’s paradise, that Whole Foods is amazing – and has food available to meet both our dietary needs. 

Who did I meet?  Shannon from Lessons to Learn!  Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of my new friend but head over to her blog and learn more about her – she is a great person. 

For dinner, we both picked up some things from the salad bar.  Here is my container

A little bit of eggplant parm, grapes, mandarin oranges, salad with roasted garlic!), and a few bites of Caesar salad.  

On the side, I got edamame

I ate about 1/2 of these.

What a great dinner! 

Shannon and I spent close to 2 hours talking – we have so much in common – we even got married the same week!  I have been reading Shannon’s blog for a few months – it was so good to get to know some more.

After Shannon and I parted ways, I walked the aisles of Whole Foods and picked up a few things.  Whole Foods is a dangerous place.  I should not be allowed to meander up and down the aisles.

Today is Tuesday so you know what that means:  Think About It/Take Action Tuesday!  

I found this great article on How to Eat Less Meat.  There were some great suggestions – I really love the idea of using ground porcini mushrooms for flavor. 

Check out the ideas.  Do any sound appealing to you?

A few weeks ago, we purchased the ingredients to make a pumpkin smoothie again – yet never got around to making it.  Today was the day – I opened a can of pumpkin yesterday for oatmeal and decided to see how much more I could use.  In the blender went:

I did not go for a run this morning.  My left knee has been sore the past 2 days and I decided to take a break – I don’t want to injure it worse.  Instead, I woke up this morning and iced it.  Hopefully that will help and tomorrow I will be able to resume my training schedule. 

Today’s edition of Think About it Tuesday:

The Runleangreen household subscribes to Newsweek magazine.  Although Matt reads it more than I do, I was pleased to see Al Gore on the cover of last week’s issue.  Gore, as you may know, has recently published a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth.  His new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Save the Climate Crisis was released on November 3rd. 

In the November 9th Newsweek, Gore wrote an article titled “The Plan That Saved the Planet.”    The first two paragraphs struck me:

“Not too many years from now, a new generation will look back at us in this hour of choosing (talking about climate change) and ask one of two questions. Either they will ask, “What were you thinking? Didn’t you see the entire North Polar ice cap melting before your eyes? Did you not care?”

Or they will ask instead, “How did you find the moral courage to rise up and solve a crisis so many said was impossible to solve?”

How do you think these questions will be answered?  Do you think question 1 or 2 will prevail?