Back for dinner!
Around 6 PM I threw a tray of raw falafels into the dehydrator for a couple of hours.
And whipped up a batch of Ani’s Phyo’s
I cut a mini whole wheat pita in half and stuffed each half with 1.5 falafel patties, spinach and raw hummus.
I also baked some yukon gold potato slices in the oven with olive oil, black pepper, garlic powder, dill and sea salt as a side dish with ketchup.
Evan couldn’t stop saying how good the falafel pitas were. He said the flavors of the hummus paired really well with the falafel and I definitely agreed. Decadent and savory.
For dessert, I taste tested some nicobella organic dark chocolate truffles that were sent to me to review here. All of these were really flavorful and wonderfully creamy! (I didn’t eat them all at once, but have tested over the last few days). These are the six different flavors, I was sent. My favorite was the ginger green tea. Yum. I recommend them!
All or Nothing?
Evan and I talked about how we are all or nothing people over our dinner tonight. I take this approach when I blog. I either blog on a schedule or I don’t blog at all. Or cleaning – we either clean everything perfectly or we don’t want to clean at all.
This is especially true of our eating habits. We tend to think that if we’re going to eat raw foods, we’re going to eat a whole raw meal (or it doesn’t count – which isn’t true at all). We’re changing our frame-of-mind to mesh raw and cooked foods together into a healthier meal than cooked alone would be. For example, the hummus tonight could have been loaded with chickpeas (which are totally fine, by the way), but we got in extra veggies by using raw zucchini instead. The falafel patties could have been fried and greasy, but I made them light and delicious without the stomach ache that follows. And the baked fries? They add a delicious, substantial side to a meal.
Are you an all or nothing person? Sometimes I am easily discouraged if I can’t give something my all, but I have to remember than smaller pieces really do add up to something big eventually.
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I never thought of making falafel out of almonds, thanks for the link! I think I’m a little bit of an all or nothing person, mostly with cleaning as well! Have you seen the show Hoarders? A few people who were on it said they would like everything extremely organized but they couldn’t do it properly do the massive amount of things, so they didn’t even try. It seems kind of silly now that I think of it.
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I’m an all or nothing guy. I’ve been trying to change that and at least on the food front it’s working. I’m trying to not be all or nothing with my exercise this time so I don’t burn out. If it wasn’t for snow today it would have been an “all” day exercise why!
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I’ve found that as I’ve gotten “older” (I’m 31!) that I tend to be less “all or nothing” and more moderate about things. But moderate can equal boring sometimes
On a different topic … I really need a swim coach and it sounds like you are quite the swimming guru. I live in Rochester, NY … do you know of anyone up here who might fit the bill?
Thanks, Ryan!
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Oh man – I wouldn’t be able to function if I was a ALL OR NOTHING person. Being a mom has made me treasure the time I am able to get ANYTHING done. I strongly believe that even something small can make a big difference.
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Haha this is probably random but I am an all or nothing person with 2 things:
1. School work. I either give it my all and do my best or don’t do it at all. I don’t like to turn in half-finished things because I feel like it gives off the impression that I don’t know how to do quality work, or am uncapable of it. Random…
2. Back to food… I tend to be all or nothing with food+exercise. I either eat healthy and workout, or eat unhealthy and don’t work out. It’s kind of like the harder I exercise, the better quality of food I want to put into my body.
Sorry for the novel. Your post just brought up a lot of stuff in my head!
PS- I’m going swimming at 6 am tom. if you wanna join?
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I am SUCH an all or nothing person. Especially about cleaning. My apartment is such a wreck and it’s actually more about being too ocd to organize little bits at a time, so it’s easier mentally for me to just leave the mess. And the gym! It’s a mindframe I really need to break.
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