A day sans meat
April 4, 2010
Good Friday, a day to skip the meat. I’m not really a believer in all the “skipping certain food” rules – as I tend to feel that they’re pretty made up and don’t really bring you closer to whatever is you’re supposed to feel closer to. But yesterday, in a last ditch effort to keep my toe in the Catholic pool I decided to refrain from meat. It was a little harder than I thought it would be. Breakfast was matzoh with butter and cheese -natch. Lunch a spread of linguini with clam sauce, fried fish and fish francese. Good god, you’d think we were dying of starvation. I mean, we really could have had a bit of grilled salmon or something, but instead it’s “Let’s make the fish as unhealthy as possible.” I enjoyed the meal, but by dinner time I was coming up blank with plans. Can’t have more pasta (can I?) for dinner. Decided on a pizza half with pepperoni for Ran and half with black olives for me. I had no trouble staying away from pepperoni slices – but I felt like a the goodyear blimp afterwards. So much carbs, and cheese and carbs! Thank god I never tried to go vegetarian, I would end up 300lbs. I didn’t do much better today, as I was running around NY all day seeing plays and playing with my little cousins. I had pizza AGAIN – oy. This time with the pepperoni.
I friggin’ hate holidays. All the stress and craziness leads to all the eating I shouldn’t be doing. Tomorrow, I get to have two Easter meals – one with mom, one with dad. I just hope I can squeeze in a plate of vegetables at some point! Oh right, I’m tasked with bringing the salad course, so at least I know that will be there. I just pray no one sticks a plate of antipasto in front of me. Or even worse (better?) I hope my step dad didn’t make the pizza rustica. Cheese pie with sausage bits floating in a ricotta crust. I realize it sounds gross, but it’s awesome – especially cold. And it only gets made once year, so you have to indulge in a slice.
Time for bed, having enough sleep leads to NOT overeating, so sleep is important.
Good luck with your holiday eating. I don’t want to end up like the good year blimp again. Maybe this time I will have the grilled salmon.
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