blue artichoke

Some people live to eat and some eat to live. I've always considered myself to be the former, but wished I were the latter. I love to cook, to shop for food, to think about food and to eat food, but sometimes I think about how much easier it would be if I didn't care what I ate as long as I got the proper amount of calories and nutrients.

It seems that since I moved to DC there has been a dramatic shift toward the eat-to-live lifestyle. Having a job with irregular hours coupled with an inconvenient city makes it impossible to plan out and shop for a week's worth of meals, much less to find time to cook every night. For these reasons, and also because I'm not in my own kitchen (yet!), I have stopped cooking. But not eating.

I eat efficiently. I eat a well-balanced meal, blended together and eaten with a spoon. Fats: coconut milk, avocado. Carbs: canned pumpkin, frozen cauliflower, frozen broccoli, frozen spinach. Protein: protein powder. Add one or more of the following flavors: frozen blueberries, frozen strawberries, frozen raspberries, half of a frozen banana, cocoa powder, almond butter. Blend. Nutritious, delicious smoothie.

Sounds weird, right? I was put off by it too when I first heard of these concoctions from Blue Bacon, but in the short time I've been in DC, I've gone from disgust to daydreaming about what kind of shake I'll make next. I just ate a chocolate-blueberry-pumpkin-avocado-coconut milk-cauliflower-spinach shake. Yummy! It might be the best yet.