Breakfast, 6:45 a.m.

Peanut butter on wheat toast and peach yogurt.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.

Turkey sandwich, Baked Doritos, strawberry applesauce, and a granola bar.

Snack, 3:30 p.m.

Blueberry Special K bar. Yum, yum, yum. I think these are my new favorites.

Snack, 7:45 p.m.

Dried berry mix -- it's got cranberries, blueberries, and cherries. Not bad.

Dinner, 11:00 p.m.

Good: Eating whole grain pasta. Bad: Having a big plate of pasta late at night. Worse: Covering it in Parmesan cheese -- we're talking tons...you can see some of the gobs. I haven't done this in a long, long time...but ohmygod. So yummy.

Announcement: I am participating in a student-led dietary study at my college. The school is really big on "Student as Practitioner" projects, meaning that students don't just sit in the classroom and learn out of books...they actually do stuff. This means that the faculty often get recruited to be the guinea pigs. For this study, I'm going to be paired with a student who is taking a nutrition course taught by a basketball coach, and this student is going to have access to my diet for a week. Then this student, who I probably know (or who at least knows half of my students since the school is so damn small), will know just how poorly I eat and will try and tell me how to fix my diet. Bah. At least it'll be something to put in my tenure file: "Encouraged college's SAP objective by participating in student study for Nutrition 101." Of course, that means I'll have to do a paper version of this blog for that week too, because no way am I giving a student this URL. AND, I'll have to record all of my diet sodas, too. How embarrassing. Anyway...

Breakfast, 9:45 a.m.

Peanut butter on wheat toast and strawberry yogurt.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.
It was faculty meeting day, which meant eating a food services-catered lunch with my colleagues, and not photographing it because I don't want them to know that I'm neurotic. I had a tiny little bit of salad (the lettuce was kinda wilty, and since I don't like salad in the first place...well...ick), a cup of vegetable soup, two breadsticks, and a cookie.

Dinner, 5:30 p.m.

It was a long day. Faculty meeting, meeting with the Great Lakes Writers Festival director, mentor meeting. I was starving by the time I finally left school and drove back to Sheboygan -- way too starving to wait another hour to eat, which is what would have happened if I had cooked. So...I had Culver's. Again. This is a bowl of chili and an order of onion rings -- a delicious and filling meal for under $5. Gotta love that.

Snack, 8:00 p.m.

Freeze dried apples. Yummy, but about as un-filling as it gets.
Snack, 10:45 p.m.

I was really hungry, so I ate almost this whole container of my mom's home-made applesauce. It was in my freezer from when she came to visit.

Breakfast, 6:45 a.m.

Peanut butter on wheat toast and blueberry yogurt.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.

Strawberry applesauce, honey oat granola bar, turkey sammitch, and Baked Ruffles Sour Cream & Cheddar. (Yum!)

Snack, 5:00 p.m.

I was real hungry by the time I got home from school and standing in line at the City Clerk's office for half an hour...so I ate the leftover pizza.

Dinner, 8:15 p.m.

Costco lasagna. Very yummy, very bad for me. At least I banked over an hour of Wii Fit exercise today...

Snack, 10:30 p.m.

Apple. I kind of forgot to photograph it until I was almost finished with it.

Breakfast, 10:00 a.m.

Peanut butter on wheat toast and peach yogurt.

Lunch, 1:30 p.m.

Baked Lays, strawberry applesauce, yogurt granola bar, and a turkey sammitch.

Dinner, 6:30 p.m.

Mushroom pizza from Papa John's -- Tuesday is 50% off night as long as you order carryout. We are *so* lazy about food. This pizza-once-a-week thing has got to stop. I will say this, though: living in Sheboygan, we eat out far less than we did in Anchorage...mostly because there's no place worth going here. :(

*There must have been a snack somewhere in here, but I don't remember what it was or when it was. Oops.

Breakfast, 6:45 a.m.

Strawberry yogurt and peanut butter on wheat toast.

Lunch, 11: 30 a.m.

Pretzels, turkey sammitch, granola bar, and apple crisps.

Snack, 4:00 onward

I ate a handful of candy corn, put the tub back in the cupboard, and...then I ate another handful a while later. And then another. I couldn't say for sure how many times that happened.

Dinner, 8:00 p.m.

Grilled cheese, and organic creamy tomato basil soup from Costco. I don't really give a shit about whether or not it's organic...but dang, it was good. There's more in the fridge, and I am excited to eat it.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.
No breakfast today, because I met Kelly the Exercise Scientist for lunch about 45 minutes after I rolled out of bed. We went to Two Rivers, not quite an hour north of Sheboygan, for a Special Edition Sons of Norway Meeting. The speaker was a professor from Marquette, and she gave a really good talk on the Kensington Rune Stone.

Anyway. No breakfast, and we went to Chili's for lunch before the meeting. I really, really wanted the shrimp alfredo pasta, but I resisted. I think that's a first for me. I had chicken instead, with black beans and rice.

Snack, 4:00 p.m.
Lots of good Norse baking -- those old Sons of Norway ladies really know how to put on a good lunch. I had two krumkake, a rosette, and...a brownie. A really, really good brownie. I'm sure my arteries hate me -- but these are usually Christmas-only goodies (apart from the brownie of course).

Snack, 7:00 p.m.


I probably should have eaten dinner, but I didn't. I was in the middle of grading papers, and knew that if I stopped to make something I would have a really hard time getting back into the grading. I had Baked Lay's, and then a while later, some candy corn.

Dinner, 9:30 p.m.

Four Cheese Rice-a-Roni. The grading sapped all my energy, so I couldn't bring myself to do anything more complex than a boxed dinner.

Snack, 11:30 p.m.

I'm a masochist...I decided to grade "just one more paper" before bed, which turned into two, then three...which led to a snack. At least it was healthy-ish...I had a handful of Oat Squares directly out of the box.

Breakfast, 11:00 a.m.

Peanut butter on wheat toast and blueberry yogurt.

Lunch, 2:30 p.m.

Leftover alfredo.

Snack, 4:00 p.m.

Grading fuel: honey oat granola bar.

Snack, 7:30 p.m.

No, I did not eat gigantic cheese spread. :) I went to a Milwaukee Admirals game (think Alaska Aces-caliber hockey) with Kelly the Exercise Scientist and Season Ticket Holder. While there, I had a pretzel with cheese. I do not have a picture of the pretzel...but Kelly sent me this after the game, and I figured, eh, what the hell. I'll post it. So, what is this picture? Well...between periods, I shit you not, all the flavors of the Merkts Cheese Spread came onto the ice to have a speed skating contest. Beer Cheese won. Welcome to Wisconnie.

Dinner, 11:45 p.m.

A can of Healthy Request vegetable beef soup. Ingie is so right -- the healthy stuff isn't worth it, because you just end up salting the hell out of it anyway. May as well buy the regular. It's cheaper.

Breakfast, 6:45 a.m.

Peanut butter on wheat toast and peach yogurt.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.
I don't remember exactly what I had, but I'm sure it was some variation of the usual sammitch and granola bar and other prepackaged foods bought in bulk at Costco.

Snack, 3:15 p.m.

Chips -- my favorite flavor of the Baked variety pack.

Snack, 4:00 p.m. - ?

These things are addictive. I meant to have just a few, but I kept coming back to the container and grabbing a few more....

Dinner, 8:00 p.m.

Cheeseburger, scoop of black forest ice cream, and a bowl of chili. The ice cream just sort of happened. I didn't intend to get it, but it sounded good -- which is odd, because I'm not a big fan of chocolate ice cream. It was the cherries that enticed me...and the cherries were good. The chocolate? Not as much.

Breakfast, 9:45 a.m.

Peanut butter on wheat toast and strawberry yogurt.

Lunch, 1:30 p.m.

Crackers and leftover chili.

Snack, 5:15 p.m.

Asian Pear Crisps. Yummy but worthless.

Dinner, 7:45 p.m.

Frozen alfredo and a slice of wheat bread. I thought about microwaving a vegetable, but...that seemed like too much work.

Snack, 10:30 p.m.

Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia frozen yogurt. I was pleasantly surprised -- it's almost as good as the ice cream.

Breakfast, 6:45 a.m.

Strawberry yogurt and peanut butter on wheat toast.

Lunch, 11:30 a.m.

Turkey sammitch, blueberry granola bar, apple, and Baked Lays.

Snack, 4:00 p.m.

Leftover pizza.

Dinner, 7:30 p.m.

Tacos and rice. OK, the tacos look pretty sorry...but really. There was lettuce and meat in there along with the tomatoes and the cheese.

Snack, 10:45 p.m.

Banana ice cream from the Factory.

Snack, 12:30 a.m.

We got a big bucket of candy corn at Wal-Mart. I had a handful of it.

Breakfast, 10:00 a.m.

Blueberry yogurt and peanut butte on wheat toast.

Lunch, 1:45 p.m.

I ran out of bread, so no sandwich. I had freeze-dried apple crisps (so not worth the money -- good, but it's like eating apple-flavored air that doesn't fill you up; if you see these at Costco, do not buy them), a granola bar, baked cheddar & sour cream Ruffles, Quaker Oat Squares, and blueberry applesauce.

Snack, 4:00 p.m.

Strawberry yogurt granola bar.

Dinner, 7:45 p.m.

Turkey chili and Saltines. Very good.

Snack, 10:30 p.m.

My f*cker fish likes applesauce! (I call him the f*cker fish because he ate his tankmate...which shouldn't have happened. They're the same species and supposedly play well with others. Mine is just a murderer, I guess, so he's not allowed to have friends anymore. Funny thing is, he's a big wuss. He just hides in that little log thing all the time and only comes out to eat.)