A couple of days ago I was watching YouTube and found a video called Nutmeg Notebook with Tammy and Tom. Tammy was making a chopped salad. I had a chopped salad at Subway once and was not impressed. When I saw Tammy's salad, I could only think it was a good idea.
So we had chopped salad for supper tonight.
What I put together for this salad:
a handful of baby carrots
2 stalks celery
1 mandarin orange
1/4 of a pink lady apple
a few slices of red cabbage
a few dried cranberries
a handful of pumpkin seeds
some poppyseed dressing
This is the leftover chopped salad. I put it into the refrigerator. I expect tomorrow it will be nothing but mush but we are trying. Foolishly I had eaten a sandwich about an hour before supper so I could not eat very much salad, though I did eat more than Dear One, in case we were in competition! Which we are not.
My mind is pretty much set on going back to salads for two meals a day and oatmeal of some sort for the other meal. This salad had a commercial salad dressing but in future we will probably used our flavored balsamic vinegars. We have raspberry and maple on hand. Honestly, I used the poppy seed dressing because I wanted Dear One to eat the salad and I know he likes that dressing. Next time though...!
In fact, I am thinking of ordering one of the bowls Tammy was using from Holland Bowl Mill. I called them yesterday. The bowls will be back in stock Monday. I am going to transfer money from my savings account so I will be ready first thing Monday. The chopper comes with the bowl! That is really nice. I had ordered an OXO chopper, a two-bladed affair. It DID NOT WORK!! So disappointing. I pulled out the chopper from Dear One's mother that you use to make waffle fries. That worked okay but I am looking for a high grade one to come with the bowl and will REALLY work.
By a fluke I saw that Chef AJ was Live on Instagram tonight. She was talking with a very healthy-looking girl who has been eating raw foods exclusively for some time. She lost 70 pounds and has beautiful skin. I would not mind my skin looking up. Plus weight loss is always in the back of my mind.
Two days ago I joined (late!) a swim challenge at the YMCA. We are to swim 15 miles in April. Well, I managed 0.51 mile the first day, yesterday I had a bad belly and could not swim, and today I swam 0.64 mile. Do you think I will make the goal in the fifteen days left when I can swim? No, me either, but I am going to give it the old college try! For the first time I swam in the cold pool...81 degrees. It was really lovely. The warm pool is always 89-91 degrees....
Today when I had been swimming for 47 minutes my right knee began to call my name. I decided to keep going for a while to see if it would ease off. After three more laps my left leg developed a very nasty cramp and I became vertical in the water trying to knead the cramp into oblivion. I still had almost a whole length to go to get back to the ladder to get out of the pool. (That is the bad thing about this pool--ingress and egress are rather rugged for this very, shall we say, large and awkward, older lady?! I was not sure I would be able to get out of the pool when I got in. With both legs giving me fits, it seemed impossible. HOWEVER, Heavenly Father knew I needed help to get out of the pool so by the time I managed to make my way to the ladder the pain in my knee was only a shadow of its early unpleasantness and the cramping was totally gone.
As a chaser, I went over to the warm pool for about six minutes--until all the people who had made reservations for that pool started arriving. It really was nice to warm up a bit, even though I was not that chilled. Not like the pool I used in Vermont which chilled me to the core and took hours to warm me up afterwards.
One other nice thing about this swimming today, besides the exercise and the hopefulness for reaching a goal: tonight I am almost totally certain I will sleep well!!!
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