Color=Healthy

Somehow, this has been one of the longest and one of the shortest summers I've ever had. It feels like I've been on summer vacation for ages, yet it also feels like I just got out of school so I don't see how I'm going back in a little over a month. I've seen so many of my friends this past week, which has been really nice. Hopefully I'll see more of my friends in the coming weeks, as quite a few of them are jetting off (or driving off) to college. Oh silly schools on the semester system. The quarter system is where it's at.

Another thing I've been working on this summer is trying to cook meals for myself. Mostly, I can manage breakfast pretty well. Admittedly, things like oatmeal, eggs, or pancakes isn't that hard, but I can cook those things well at least. I was proud of the oatmeal I made this morning, so I took a picture.

Yum! I like how the strawberries instantly made it more colorful. I feel like there's a part of me that believes that the more colorful a meal is, the healthier and more delicious it is. I'm sure there are foods that can prove me wrong (like Fruit Loops or something) but I always have more fun eating food in happy colors.

So when I made lunch (two scrambled eggs and vegetables because I'm tired of grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas which are the only two lunch foods I seem to make) I decided to add celery (green) and carrots (orange) so my meal wouldn't just be an off white, yellowy sort of thing.

For dinner we went out and ate at California Pizza Kitchen, because it's hot and no one wanted to cook. Admittedly, it's not ridiculously hot, but it's hot for Western Washington. It got into the 90's, which makes me sound like a wuss to some of you who grew up/live in hotter climes, but whatever. No one has air conditioning here, so it's too hot to use the oven. Anyway, I ordered an Italian Tomato and Basil pizza with thin crust. Yum.

So there you have it, the foods I ate today. I think there was a peach as a snack in there somewhere too, and lots of water. I'm not entirely sure why this blog turned into an episode of "What I Ate Today", but I hope at least the colors were entertaining.