February 2025 - Calling All Freggie Hunters! πππ ππ₯π₯πππ₯π±πΏ
mkksemail
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I'm not sure why I haven't started a Feb challenge yet! I think b/c it's snow season here in Maine, plus I've been busy with my Hogwarts challenge, and buying journals for my goals for this year, and getting back to the gym, and lining up PT for my injured (chronic, not acute) knee, and also signing up for some classes IRL - wellness classes (Functional Fitness Tuesdays and Thursdays), and Excel & Powerpoint classes at the local college. Plus reconnecting with an old online buddy who I bumped into on Facebook, during my Prolon FMD Fasing weeks (the only time I go to FaceBook, heh). AND learning about and starting a few Conqueror Virtual Challenges!
Anyways, my attention has been split, but I've still been taking pix of my hunts for freggies. Unless I actively think about it, I don't eat them π€·ββοΈ.
So here's a post I made in another group, just copy/pasting to get February started!
Showered, and cozy clothed! Sipping my 2nd protein tea of the day. I got a good snow clearing workout in. I downed 18z of water when I came in, and a plate of fruit (banana, orange, kiwi). Then I hit the shower. Eric is making us onion - red pepper - shaved steak - provolone cheese flatbread rollups. He picked out a movie for tonight, Companion. I haven't read what it's about yet.
We missed the matinee (too bad, I do love a deal, lol) b/c of snow clearing, and doc appts for hubby. (Lab - Vit D check, and eyes - he's T1 Diabetic, so it's important to get them checked every year. All good, no diabetic retinopathy!)
I'm over 20k steps for today. Good thing it's a Quidditch week~! lol We have more snow coming Wed into Thu, and Sat into Sun. Still have more to clear up tmw, but most of it is done. Hubby did 2 snow clearing sesh's this am.
Fruit plate! ~
I already ate the banana ... heh
Shaved steak, onion, red pepper, provolone cheese flatbread! ~
This is from last week, but the same thing is cooking right now ...
Snow clearing workout, and steps so far today (it's only 4p, lol)! ~
Anyways, my attention has been split, but I've still been taking pix of my hunts for freggies. Unless I actively think about it, I don't eat them π€·ββοΈ.
So here's a post I made in another group, just copy/pasting to get February started!
Showered, and cozy clothed! Sipping my 2nd protein tea of the day. I got a good snow clearing workout in. I downed 18z of water when I came in, and a plate of fruit (banana, orange, kiwi). Then I hit the shower. Eric is making us onion - red pepper - shaved steak - provolone cheese flatbread rollups. He picked out a movie for tonight, Companion. I haven't read what it's about yet.
We missed the matinee (too bad, I do love a deal, lol) b/c of snow clearing, and doc appts for hubby. (Lab - Vit D check, and eyes - he's T1 Diabetic, so it's important to get them checked every year. All good, no diabetic retinopathy!)
I'm over 20k steps for today. Good thing it's a Quidditch week~! lol We have more snow coming Wed into Thu, and Sat into Sun. Still have more to clear up tmw, but most of it is done. Hubby did 2 snow clearing sesh's this am.
Fruit plate! ~
I already ate the banana ... heh
Shaved steak, onion, red pepper, provolone cheese flatbread! ~
This is from last week, but the same thing is cooking right now ...
Snow clearing workout, and steps so far today (it's only 4p, lol)! ~
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PS - ended up with 25,123 steps for yesterday! ππ and the movie was good
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And here's bringing the fruit plate and steak/freggie flatbread rollup out from the spoilers ~
I already ate the banana ... heh
This is from last week, but the same thing is cooking right now ...
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Brunch today! Avo toast (1/2 avo, 1/2 tbsp each olive oil, lime juice, smoked paprika), olive oil fried diced tomatoes (canned, 1/2c) & egg (1); romaine lettuce 2c, 1 svg each walnuts, feta, chopped pitted dates, coconut vinegar drizzle ... are you guys bored of seeing my avo toast & greens yet ππ€£
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Happy Freggie Feb @mkksemail !! And all everyone in team Greens π!
Itβs been a rough few weeksβ¦ thanks for making a Feb board! Need to get back on track.
To get my greens started; a mini smorgasbord from the last few days. π±
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Love SafariGal Food Porn so much!! Xx
I have some food pix from the last couple weeks I'll post 'em tmo. They're not as purty as yours, tho ;-).
Hugs on the rough couple weeks! Δ°t's the dog days of winter, the days are only getting brighter π, right?
Cheers!
PS - knee PT starts tmo ...2 -
Shake to go today, itβs going to be a long work day and I have to be a dragon.
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Kale
Bok choy
Sweet pea greens
Spirulina
π Nature mades:
Lions mane
Chaga
Blueberries π«
π strawberries
Pomegranate
Elderberry
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That is a rock star dragon start to the day! Conquer on~! πͺπ²
Lion's Mane, Chaga, Sweet Pea Greens, Spirulina, Pomegranate AND Elderberry! Your market is truly da bomb .1 -
Pumpkin Spice Cheerios, Banana, Naval Orange, and Hoolie Cat! π€
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- Jumbo Flame Raisins after workout today;
- 2 veggie sides with dinner (French Meat Pie, Frozen Teriyaki Veg Mix, Frozen Sweet Corn)
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Thursday!
Avo toast, diced tomatoes, egg, romaine, dates, walnuts, feta, coconut drizzle ~
Also today,- Red Beans & Rice, w/ Rotisserie Chicken
- Green Bean Chips, w/ Ithaca "Everything Bagel" Hummus
Cheers~!
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Morning greens π₯¬
π± kale
Spinach
Spirulina
Bok choy
π³ Nature Mades:
π« Blueberries
Blackberries
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I just renewed my 4-wk "Unbreakable Vow" for my Hogwarts challenge:Last four weeks of challenge:
I'm renewing my previous vow ... this remains a focus / 'area I don't do unless I'm intentional about it' for me, so ~
"I solemnly swear .... to get at least one full servings of GREEN freggie at least 4 days per week."
~ mk
I did meet/succeed in my "Unbreakable Vow" for the first four weeks, but just by the skin of my teeth! If I'd gone up to 1 full serving of greens 5 days a week, I would have failed. I was just updating my tracking spreadsheet, b/c you have to 'claim' your points tomorrow, full points-partial points-no points, depending on how you did. The tracker isn't complete, b/c today is the last day of the challenge, and I still have to eat my freggies and nuts
, but I'll make sure to get a Green, an Other, and a Nuts, etc today .
I don't know if this will be too small to see, but I did take a screen shot. It kinda/sorta looks like there might kinda/sorta be a pattern emerging. At the beginning of the week (starts on Mon), it seems dodgy as to whether I'll get a green serving in. Towards the middle of the week, I 'buckle down'. Then I seem to miss Saturdays, and come Sunday, I am def trying to make it to my 4 serving goal by the end of the week
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It may appear as tho 'Other Freggies' and 'Nuts, etc' are not an issue for me, but that's misleading. I was as unlikely to eat any color freggie as I was to eat a green freggie, before this challenge, and the same with nuts (except, I did always like beans of any kind, and often did eat those). It just seems like I'm more resistant to adding in anything green than I am to adding in any other color, or a serving of nuts. π€·ββοΈ
So, what I really want to do today, Miss @SafariGalNYC , is to express my appreciation for you again, for this challenge, and for your inspiration. Without you and this, it'd be an ugly mess, that's for sure π¬π£ππ€£
Anyway! π So, today will be an avo toast/diced tomato/egg/greens/walnuts/dates/feta/coconut vinegar day. It's an easy way to get FOUR servings of freggies in! Then I just have to find one more, to hit my real goal, of getting in five freggie servings a day.
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Monday check-in! ~
I did not wait until mid-week to get my first green freg π! I had avo toast, diced tomatoes, egg, pitted dates, walnuts, and feta .... buuuut, we're out of greens! π¬. I had a grocery order set to pick up this morning, but we've been snowed/iced in since Sat night. Two plowguys blew us off! (My husband calls them plow dicks, lol). One of them was a full-service, national (regional?) super expensive ($279!) all the bells and whistles deal that we pre-booked on Sat night, for Sun 9pm. (PlowzAndMowz.com)
They promised a path to the side door, a path around the back, clearing off 2 cars, and salting to boot! Never showed. Quite polite updates a few times, saying, sorry, job's not been farmed out to a provider yet, we'll update you when we have a contractor to do the job!
Anywayyyy, I had some asparagus in the veggie drawer, so I sliced up 4 spears and threw that in with the diced tomatoes, to olive-oil char/fry. It was a totally different 'vibe' without the greens, and with the asparagus, but that's okay. I'll take it.
And! Some rando guy knocked on the door this evening, and offered to do the plowing for $55. Score! Saved $225, and we can get out!
I can go pick up my grocery order (with my greens!) tmo, thankfully.
It's gonna be cooold here this week. Super windy today, and single digit (F) lows all week.0 -
Oh! And rotisserie chicken, more diced tomatoes (2 svgs), and ricotta/parm/provolone/cheddar (mild & sharp) cheese flatbread pizza tonight for dinner. Hit my five, and got 2 green freg in, to boot. Plus walnuts! π
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I just renewed my 4-wk "Unbreakable Vow" for my Hogwarts challenge:Last four weeks of challenge:
I'm renewing my previous vow ... this remains a focus / 'area I don't do unless I'm intentional about it' for me, so ~
"I solemnly swear .... to get at least one full servings of GREEN freggie at least 4 days per week."
~ mk
I did meet/succeed in my "Unbreakable Vow" for the first four weeks, but just by the skin of my teeth! If I'd gone up to 1 full serving of greens 5 days a week, I would have failed. I was just updating my tracking spreadsheet, b/c you have to 'claim' your points tomorrow, full points-partial points-no points, depending on how you did. The tracker isn't complete, b/c today is the last day of the challenge, and I still have to eat my freggies and nuts, but I'll make sure to get a Green, an Other, and a Nuts, etc today .
I don't know if this will be too small to see, but I did take a screen shot. It kinda/sorta looks like there might kinda/sorta be a pattern emerging. At the beginning of the week (starts on Mon), it seems dodgy as to whether I'll get a green serving in. Towards the middle of the week, I 'buckle down'. Then I seem to miss Saturdays, and come Sunday, I am def trying to make it to my 4 serving goal by the end of the week.
It may appear as tho 'Other Freggies' and 'Nuts, etc' are not an issue for me, but that's misleading. I was as unlikely to eat any color freggie as I was to eat a green freggie, before this challenge, and the same with nuts (except, I did always like beans of any kind, and often did eat those). It just seems like I'm more resistant to adding in anything green than I am to adding in any other color, or a serving of nuts. π€·ββοΈ
So, what I really want to do today, Miss @SafariGalNYC , is to express my appreciation for you again, for this challenge, and for your inspiration. Without you and this, it'd be an ugly mess, that's for sure π¬π£ππ€£
Anyway! π So, today will be an avo toast/diced tomato/egg/greens/walnuts/dates/feta/coconut vinegar day. It's an easy way to get FOUR servings of freggies in! Then I just have to find one more, to hit my real goal, of getting in five freggie servings a day.
@mkksemail - π€ β€οΈ!! Thank you!
So glad youβve gone on the greenie journey with me!1 -
Current recipe Iβm trying:
Broccoli chips- smash the broccoli π₯¦ on a thin bed of cheese and bake.
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Breakfast: π³
Celery juice w lemon
π³ scramble, liver, sweetbreads with π₯¬ sweet pea greens, spinach and baby bok choy.
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SafariGalNYC wrote: Β»Current recipe Iβm trying:
Broccoli chips- smash the broccoli π₯¦ on a thin bed of cheese and bake.
omg those broccoli cheese chips look fantastic !
EatingWell pushed out a notification for a roasted parmesan-crusted parmesan a couple weeks ago that looked fantastic, but I haven't tried yet. Yours look even better. How were they?SafariGalNYC wrote: Β»... So, what I really want to do today, Miss @SafariGalNYC , is to express my appreciation for you again, for this challenge, and for your inspiration. Without you and this, it'd be an ugly mess, that's for sure π¬π£ππ€£
Anyway! π So, today will be an avo toast/diced tomato/egg/greens/walnuts/dates/feta/coconut vinegar day. It's an easy way to get FOUR servings of freggies in! Then I just have to find one more, to hit my real goal, of getting in five freggie servings a day.
@mkksemail - π€ β€οΈ!! Thank you!
So glad youβve gone on the greenie journey with me!
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Your egg scramble and green juice look fantastic, too ... !!
Yesterday: broccoli, tomato sauce, macademia nuts, jumbo flame raisins, green bean chips, ithaca garlic & lemon hummus βΊ
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@mkksemail - the broccoli chips came out great!!
Thinking about getting a dehydrator to make broccoli crisps without the cheese.
Another recipe I found:
Broccoli Egg
Broccoli- 1 cup
Peas - 1/2 cup
Corriander to taste
Red chilli powder - to taste
Onion - 1 whole
Pepper - to taste
Eggs 3
Make a base of pulsed greens/broccoli - mix with egg whites to hold together - drop yolk in the center.
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A local place makes the best baby arugula pizzaβ¦.
The fresh greens are so fragrant π₯¬
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Needed a boost.. made a green juice.
πΈ Greens π₯¬
Kale
Spinach
Celery
Cucumber
Romaine
Parsley πΏ
Salmon Avocado on flaxseed bread with greens
FrisΓ©e
Parsley
Red oak
Red leaf
Radicchio
Basil
The fresh parsley πΏ was so nice!!
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Those look amazing, one and all! And the Hippocrates quote is balm for my soul.
Sorry so quiet this week. I went into bear mode. The last two storms here were snow-sleet-freezing rain (in quantity!) that froze when a cold snap set in on Monday night. I haven't gone out of my house since last Saturday π³. The cold beat me down (or more specifically, all the no-show plow dicks and excessive repeated snow clearing wore me out π).
I have taken a few freg pix tho, even tho they're not as pretty as yours. I love SafariGal food porn !!
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Apparently I'm still a toddler when it comes to freg .... those pix that might not look like they have freg in them all have 2-3 servings of freg. I specialize in hidden, smuggled, roasted, and buried freg π€£.
The three soups were a Potato Bean, and 2 kinds of chili that were more like soup than chili. All good. The big pot of onions (8 sweet onions) and red peppers (9 field red peppers) caramelized down for about 2.5 hrs and became 16 servings of freg and whole grain pasta, after I added a few tablespoons of garlic, some pepper, basil, and salt, 28 z tomato puree, 28z crushed tomatoes, 14.5z tomato paste, 68z water, most of a 2 lb container of lowfat ricotta cheese, 12z shredded fresh parmesan cheese, a jar of grated romano & parm mix, and 2 boxes (16z whole grain penne).1 -
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Woops ! The pic of the onion and peppers isn't there! And when I went to find it, I saw 2 others that I skipped, b/c I flooded the zone lol.
And here's two bonus pix of the formerly-feral brothers - Chance, the Tuxedo, named for the character in Being There, who watches everything, has awkward social graces, a heart of gold, and doesn't say much π; and Hoolie, the Tabby, short for Hooligan, b/c he's a hilarious always-up-to-mischief-but-can't-stand-to-be-alone Hooligan (see the way he horned in on Chance's sleeping time? He has to sleep in a pile, which our other cat, the few-years-older-also-rescue-gray-and-white Ralphie Cat, isn't a fan of ;-).
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Woops ! The pic of the onion and peppers isn't there! And when I went to find it, I saw 2 others that I skipped, b/c I flooded the zone lol.
And here's two bonus pix of the formerly-feral brothers - Chance, the Tuxedo, named for the character in Being There, who watches everything, has awkward social graces, a heart of gold, and doesn't say much π; and Hoolie, the Tabby, short for Hooligan, b/c he's a hilarious always-up-to-mischief-but-can't-stand-to-be-alone Hooligan (see the way he horned in on Chance's sleeping time? He has to sleep in a pile, which our other cat, the few-years-older-also-rescue-gray-and-white Ralphie Cat, isn't a fan of ;-).
Awwwwwww πββ¬ πΎ π
Luv the veggie inspo!!
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Last day of February Greenie team!
Started the day with greens-celery juice and a shot of turner-ginger juice.
Breakfast/ π³ a bed of broccoli slaw, purple kale and eggs. I picked some fresh baby rosemary. π
Spring is around the corner! π± π©°
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