Monday, August 22, 2011

Vegetables.... for Breakfast???




I'm trying here people!


I've been eating pretty good for a while, and exercising pretty regularly. But I know I need to be eating more vegetables. I eat a ton of fruit, probably too much actually, but it's hard to get all those vegetables in, especially since I hate eating most cooked vegetables. Like them mostly raw, but you can only eat soooo many salads before you want to throw up!


Well, a lady from church said she started adding them to her breakfast, and that just seems WRONG to me! Not really big on vegetables, and I love my breakfast time, why would I want to add something gross to my favorite meal of the day and ruin it????


Ok, of course I'm probably exaggerating.... ok probably not. Anyway, I thought I would tryyyy...


It just so happened that when we dropped off Aurora last night, that her grandma gave us this massive zucchini fresh from her garden. I've never really eaten zucchini except for the few times I've eaten it when my mom has made chocolate zucchini cake! YUMMOOOO!!!

So this would be a new experience. I thought I would shred some zucchini- I find if I finely shred or shop things it's easier for me to eat instead of big nasty chunks of stuff. Then I chopped up some onion and some red peppers. This is sooo not me people, this does not look like breakfast food to me...


I put some yummy coconut oil in a pan and added the vegetables to start cooking. I also added some cut up turkey sausage... starting to look more like breakfast.... a little bit anyway...It did start smelling pretty good, but I'm still used to these smells at lunch/dinner time NOT breakfast time! Guess I gotta retrain my brain if I'm going to add more vegetables to my day. Then I added 2 fresh eggs from our chickens. Now it's really looking more like breakfast... also trying to trick my brain into thinking I'm eating alot of food by putting my food on a smaller plate- wow brain look at all that food you get to eat... sometimes it works LOL...So after adding some pepper and salt it did taste pretty good. Just weird. Breaking out of my comfort zone one little bit at a time. It's not even 9 AM and I've already had 3 different vegetables- I've never been able to say that before!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm proud of you Katie. You can get used to almost anything - even vegetables in your scrambled eggs. Love it!

Mindy said...

Wow girl! Good for you. It looked good!