Day 288: Pounds of Salad

I am once again in a breakfast rut, although happily so. The Balthazar bread is so good it barely needs toasting and I want to bring it with me and give it out to the world. A friend of mine (who does not need to go on a diet) told me he was going to start next year by "giving up bread." I said, "no, no" don't give up bread—just give up the bad bread—empty, white calories, sugar-laden and useless white bread. When I think about it, the only thing I've really given up that was a STAPLE of my diet is Subs, which when I was growing up, were called "heroes." Naturally, they are also called "grinders" and "hoagies" but I for all around general usage I prefer the term "Sub", especially since it seems to be the term of choice in New England. The truth is, I'm so much better off without them, because they contain the aforementioned bad carbs; because they were more often than not not very good; and because their portion size is more than I should be consuming. Last, but not least, they nearly always necessitated a bag of salty, yummy chips.

Breakfast
Two Slices Balthazar Bread
Peanut Butter
2 oz 50% Jalapeno Lite Cheese
Tea

Snack
12 oz Coffee (half decaf)
1/4 cup almonds/cashews
4 dried apricots
15 pistachios
1 Cameo Apple

Lunch
Pounds of Salad:
Greek Salad with Chicken (from Christos)
(I did not explain this but this salad is so big that I really should split it with someone but always eat the whole thing, by myself).

Dinner: Blue Ribbon BBQ
Ribs
Burnt Ends
Sausage
Red Cabbage
Baked Beans (Most fed to Magnolia)
Cheezy Cauliflower
Beets

The great thing about Blue Ribbon BBQ is that as long as you avoid the corn bread, most everything there is SoBe friendly; you just gotta watch the volume. Watching the volume is hard, but again, my advice to anyone who wants to go South Beach—load up on foods you can eat in your house and eat when you're hungry (but not after 8:00pm if you can help it). If you're going to have a lot of protein in your diet, you'll be needing a lot of floss.