Buying the cow, Weigh in and Daily Menu for June 16

This morning's weigh in reflected another successful week: I was down another 3.2 lb. for a total of 11 lb. in four weeks. Now I just have to stick with it even when I'm not feeling as I am right now!

After Weight Watchers, I made a mad dash to the farmer's market to pick up my CSA box and some tofu, then scrambled home so we (me and M) could hit the road and pick up the beef! We made good time to the butcher in Cotati, despite traffic through San Francisco, and loaded up the truck with organic, grassfed beef. A cow and a half, wrapped up in tidy, frozen bundles wrapped in butcher paper, takes up the entire bed of a full sized pick up truck!

We met up with the dozen or so people in the coop who collected their portions of the huge order, had lunch at the Marin Brewing Company listening to live music in the courtyard, and drove back home to put our beef in the freezer - our quarter, with all its roasts, steaks, stew meat, stock bones, and hamburger, takes about half of our 5 cubic foot freezer, leaving plenty of room for pork, chickens, and lamb, and even vegetables later in the season.

I'm a little sunburned, quite tired from moving hundreds of pounds of meat, and glad that the order is done and there is meat in the freezer whenever I want it. We're having a barbecue tomorrow to try out our grassfed sirloin steaks.

Today's CSA box includes:
Apricots
Green Beans
Carrots
Lettuce
Onion
Potatoes
Summer Squash

If you know of any good apricot recipes, please pass them on to me! I have a LOT of apricots. :) Next week we start getting peaches, yum!

Daily Menu

Breakfast
1/2 c. plain fat free yogurt from Strauss Creamery
1/8 c. oatmeal (not local, but organic and purchased locally)
1/2 banana (not local, but fair trade organic)


Lunch
at Marin Brewing Company
Spinach salad with kalamata olives, hard boiled egg, and goat cheese, dressing on the side (omitted bacon) - 3 Points for the goat cheese, 3 Points for the dressing
1/3 slice of bread - .5 Points (I just didn't need the rest of it!)

Dinner
Quinoa salad with green beans and carrots (produce from Full Belly Farms)
Beets with olive oil and balsamic (beets from Full Belly, vinegar from Hare Hollow)
milk from Clover

WPA (Weekly Points Allowance) points used today: 6.5
WPA points available: 32.5
Activity points today: 4
Activity points this week: 4

Daily 8 - the 8 Healthy Guidelines
1. Fruits and veggies - 5
2. Whole grains - quinoa
3. Milk - 2
4. Healthy oil - yes
5. Protein - yes
6. Limit sugar and alcohol - yes
7. Water - 8+
8. Multivitamin - yes