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another what I eat in a day. Um this really should be
I feel like maybe called a food diary because it's not necessarily all
in the same day. This is basically what I would eat in a day
now keep in mind I am breastfeeding so that obviously is going to contribute to
what I eat in like a lot of different ways. I'm very excited because this video
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Alright I have a lot of different food to show you guys in this
video so with all of that being said let's hop right in!
So if you are an OG subscriber to my channel
then you know that my favorite food on the whole planet
is bagels...are bagels?... Is bagels? I love bagels I actually buy them by the
baker's dozen and then I cut them in half when I get
them home and I freeze them and then just
you know pull them out on demand bagels just make me so happy
so I made my bagel and dan had actually picked me up
some mango green iced tea from ugly mugs on this morning
so I poured that over some ice in a mason jar
and I just sat back, ate my bagel, drank my tea
oh and I pumped I mean honestly i'm pumping like most of my day
so I'll be talking about that soon by the way because i feel like i really
want to give a six-month breastfeeding update in a tea talk soon
so there's that so one of the other things that I like
to do when searching for ease of food as a new mom
is eat out yeah so there's this place in town called
chicago style gyros we decided on this day to hop in
the car go pick up the foods give Logie some sunshine
and on this day I got the falafel plate I honestly wish I had also gotten a
larger size of tabbouleh and grape leaves because I love grape
leaves but I don't want to discount how good
this was and then I just ate hung out was on my phone I think logan was
napping at this point usually when he's napping I'm
multitasking, eating, replying to text messages,
voice messages, calling people, all that jazz
the multi-tasking mom life.
For dessert I had one of my favorite easy go-to treats
and that's these newman o's kind of like oreos
they're so good they're organic so you feel maybe a smidge better eating them
and i just really like the newman's own company in general
so now we're gonna pause and take a trip out to my garden
because hopefully my garden will become more and more of a food source
for us so Logan did his blanket time on this day
in the garden. The chickens roamed and hung out they're usually outside a few
hours a day.
and I decided to water our garden while Logan soaked up the sun
then our cucumber plant which is sadly dead now we've actually uprooted it
since this video but I decided to take the rest of the cucumbers that were ripe
and edible and usable on this day um because i wanted to make them into
pickles which you will see in this video
i also pulled off a jalapeno i also pulled off
some beans we didn't get many beans it's a long story
but i pulled off the ones that we had.
i pulled off my first two tomatoes as well they look really pretty but
yeah they were not ripe i thought they were because i thought these were yellow
tomatoes they still might be but they did not
taste ripe so um then i decided to make a salad so i
chopped up some lettuce that i had on hand and then
i also chopped up a tomato that i needed to use
then i chopped up some cilantro and then i scooped in the
leftover egg salad that i had on hand
Then i threw on some goat cheese and then i also drizzled some homemade
mustard balsamic super delicious vinaigrette on
top of the salad and you already know i had
to drizzle some chunky sea salt on top too
oh i decided to rinse some cherries and have those on the side too
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all right so now we're moving on to pickles so i rinsed my cucumbers
then i used this white vinegar and i pulled out some dill
so i started off by putting two cups of white vinegar on
the stovetop in a pot then i added four cups of water.
then i added two tablespoons of manuka honey
oh by the way i was totally inspired to make these by my friend
Carrie..Carrie Rad here on Youtube and instagram. She's a very
inspiring human if you've never checked out her stuff she's influenced me
multiple times to make things in my videos so yeah then i added some pepper
and then i added i want to say like two tablespoons of salt carrie actually
has her recipe really detailed on her instagram in an instagram tv episode
of a show she does called harvest kitchen.
so i let that boil and then i took off my Elvie's because yes i was pumping
pumping all day every day guys then i went over to
our garden garlic basket this is all of the garlic we harvested this year and
this was our first time ever growing garlic
so i feel super excited and proud of it once the pot was boiling and i had
simmered it i don't remember exactly how long but i took it off the
heat to cool down while i proceeded to cut up
all of my veggies starting with my cucumbers.
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So once I chopped up all of my cucumbers I decided to take
my beans to add into the pickle mix as well and i just chopped off
the rough ends.
then i cut up the jalapeno that i had picked from the garden.
then i peeled a few cloves of garlic.
and once i peeled them, I chopped them up as you can
see it's pretty self-explanatory but yea.
so then i started packing my jars and i started off with my garlic.
then i dropped in some dill as well as my jalapenos
followed by my beans and then i stuffed the cucumbers into the mix as well.
So after I also gracefully arranged my cucumbers i added in some red chili
pepper flakes and then i took my solution that i had made that
had cooled down quite a bit and i poured that into the jar so i
didn't eat these for a day because they're supposed to sit like
overnight this was i want to say like the morning when i made this and they're
supposed to sit overnight but the next day i ate them they are so
good i actually consumed both jars in like three days so there's that
by the way i ended up taking my leftover cucumber because i could have made
another batch of pickles but i ran out of solution and didn't want to make more
but i turned this into a salad later and it was so good so yeah guys
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