What Is Left To Eat? -- a Food Journal by Laura Bracken

So another Friday night recipe.  This is where I veer slightly from my strict whole-foods concepts.  I still try to make wise and healthy choices, but there are a few processed foods that make Friday meals easier (but it's still vegan and my choices for the processed foods are still thoughtful). The processed foods in tonight's meal included a jar of peanut butter (only ingredients were peanuts and salt) along with some coconut aminos.  Oh, and I guess tofu and rice vinegar are processed foods too.  Still, not dreadful on the scale of possibilities for processed foods. I prepped everything earlier in the day so at dinner time it's mostly a matter of warming up the foods and setting out the additions. I make the sauce on the stove, and before you ask, sadly this is one of the times where I didn't measure anything so I can only tell you what I put in but not how much. SAUCE I took a saucepan and warmed up: Peanut butter (no ingredients other than peanuts...

The other day as I was making a smoothie, I got to thinking... during the summer I make maybe five smoothies in a week.  And while I vary some of the ingredients (some days it's bananas, strawberries, and spinach, while other days it's blueberries, pineapple, and sunflower seeds, I always put in flax seed, hemp, turmeric, and pepper. I'm one of those people who is always trying to "improve the system".  And it dawned on me that I could streamline the addition of those last four ingredients. After some consideration, I settled on my method.  I purchased from Amazon an " extra large pill dispenser ".  I filled each of the seven compartments with 1 T of hemp, 1 T of flax seed, 1 t turmeric, 1/4 t pepper.  I pop this into the fridge and it's way easier to open one at a time and dump the contents into my smoothie compared with opening four different jars and measuring each time. Now, a word about the whole turmeric and pepper thing.  I do realize...