What I ate today

To start with, I served myself a Yoplait vanilla yoghurt cup and a banana, washed down with a glass of water.  Thus fortified, I had the strength to make myself some coffee, using my roommate’s Italian espresso maker.   While I savoured this coffee, I could not resist also tucking into two tasty slices of toast and cherry jam.  A sheer delight!  Polish jam is exquisite, and I’m indebted to my girlfriend, Monika, for introducing me to it.

During my morning class, there was a fifteen minute break.  As I hovered in front of the cafe on the main floor of the communications building, I debated whether or not I should buy a large chocolate chip cookie.  This debate was resolved in favour of the cookie.  I also enjoyed a cold Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail.  I like cranberry juice, make no mistake.

For lunch, I had almost an entire head of brocolli — just like that.  That’s because maintaining healthy iron levels is important to me.  I also devoured two small sandwiches, both of which were made up of cheddar cheese, cucumber, and tomato.  I had prepared these at home earlier.  It’s good to be prepared, foodwise, for a long day on campus.

Dinner… well — no messing around with a fancy dinner — I just made myself a gigantic spinach salad.  It was so gigantic that it filled the entire salad bowl.  Complimenting the main ingredient (spinach) were onions, red pepper, feta cheese, dill, and parsley.  And of course, olive oil and red wine vinegar.  So as to entirely satiate my demanding tummy, I also had a few slices of toast along with some Vegepate.   For dessert, I helped myself to another Yoplait vanilla yoghurt cup.

Before coming to the computer lab just now, I had another encounter with the infamous chocolate chip cookie, with which my conscience must wrestle often.  Not one large cookie this time, but rather, four small ones, accompanied by a delicious glass of cold milk.   These were baked by Teena.  It was very nice of Teena to make these for Ed and me.  Food bringing people together — that’s what life’s all about, eh?

All in all, today constitutes a fairly enjoyable day from a food standpoint.  True, there have been better days.  But it behooves me to remember that there have been vastly inferior days, too.  Roughly fourteen years ago, I was living in the Arlington apartments in downtown Edmonton when I was foolish enough to leave some ground beef out on the counter for several days. After the ground beef had aged appropriately, I came home from work one evening and made chili out of it.  After eating this, I became very nauseous.  I proceeded to vomit about twice an hour for the following fifteen hours.  I had a high fever and slipped in and out of a delirious doze. 

As one can tell, the diversity of one’s potential food experiences is no less than the diversity of life itself.