My Week in Food

Started off Monday with a trip to the market to stock up on fruits and vegetables for a week’s worth of lunches including pre-shredded carrots. Yes, I could peel and grate my own carrots, but this sort of convenience is hard to pass by.  Also for lunch, I’m hooked on making wraps out of ordinary sandwich bread: set a slice of bread on your work surface, use a rolling pin to gently flatten it, lay on all your fixings, roll up tight, and cut into pinwheels.

I wanted to be sure some of the granola bars I made would be around for when I really need them (lunch boxes and after school snacks), so set aside half the batch to wrap in parchment, stow in a sealed bag, and keep in the freezer for grab and go convenience.

Hello, old friend. Honey crisp apples are back! It must be (almost) Fall.

More Fall favorites this week: homemade applesauce and grilled sweet potatoes. Took a short cut by first microwaving the sweet potatoes until tender, splitting them down then center, rubbing with olive oil, and then putting them on the grill for just a few minutes as the chicken apple sausages sizzled. A hit

I’m not sure what I love more: these cute-as-pie ceramic containers or the fact that my friend Kate found them on vacation and hauled them across continents for me.

Snack food find of the week: Roasted chick peas with Indian spices discovered in Whole Foods. We had to restrain Mr. Mom’s Kitchen from taking down the whole bag.

Trying to take my own advice and make myself a lunch when I do one up for the kids. Here Chick Pea Paninis were on the menu.

Sometimes I plan to write about a specific nutrition topic , but then someone else does it so well, I don’t have to. In this case, Ellie Krieger gives the lowdown on Agave: healthy or harmful.

Free labor is certainly a compelling reason to have kids…. here’s Virginia pitching in with one of my book events this week.  More to come: Omnivore Books on Sunday and 18 Reasons on Monday. Join me!

How was your week in food?