#whole30 WholeLent, Day 20.

Sleep: so good. So tired after skiing. Followed pre-bedtime routine & was in bed by 9:30 PM. Slept through until almost 7 AM. My legs are a little bit stiff, but compared to other post-skiing days I feel like a million bucks. Still hate Daylight Savings Time though. So disorienting.

Breakfast: tuna cake, kim-chi, blueberries, black Constant Comment tea. Forgot the avocado, so I was hungry pretty soon.

I went to Whole Foods.

Snack: banana.

Lunch: one-quarter of a Colorado cottage pie & a bunch of steamed broccoli (spiced with coconut aminos & powdered ginger), kombucha. I should remember that spice combination - it was fast, easy, & tasty.


Who doesn't like fast, easy, & tasty?

Dinner: Holy cow, I made Nom Nom Paleo's Madras Chicken Salad with chicken I had stripped off the roasted whole chicken I made a couple of weeks ago (it's been in the freezer). It was super-fast to prepare & SO FREAKIN' GOOD. I'm trying not to eat the entire 1-lb. batch in one sitting, but it's hard.

I made a batch of sweet potato quiche. I think I've almost got that recipe memorized.

Snack: slice of sweet potato quiche.

"Slum Lords" by John Updike.

The superrich make lousy neighbors—
they buy a house and tear it down
and build another, twice as big, and leave.
They're never there; they own so many
other houses, each demands a visit.
Entire neighborhoods called fashionable,
bustling with servants and masters, such as
Louisburg Square in Boston or Bel Air in L.A.,
are districts now like Wall Street after dark
or Tombstone once the silver boom went bust.
The essence of superrich is absence.
They like to demonstrate they can afford
to be elsewhere. Don't let them in.
Their riches form a kind of poverty.

From Americana: and Other Poems.