Strawberry Days

Mom just bought a tub of imported strawberries. They were wonderful! Large, plump, and sweet. Strawberries are also rich in vitamin C...which my explain why my cold and cough went away after a few days.

Over the weekend, I made some steel-cut oats and sweetened it with muscovado sugar (slightly fewer calories than table sugar), mixed in some milk, and topped it with fresh strawberries. Much better than that Quaker instant strawberries and cream oatmeal.

And this morning, I topped French toast with fresh strawberries, after hearing Nigella on the Asian Food Channel say that that's how she eats French toast (while her kids have French toast with ketchup). I usually put either strawberry jam or syrup on my French toast, so this was a real treat!

I really need a new digital camera.

Tuesday's and Thursday's workouts
- 30-minute brisk walk/jog/run

Saturday's workout
- 1,800 on the jump rope
- 3 x 10 weighted double leg lifts

Sunday's workout
- 45-minute brisk walk/jog/run

Tuesday's meals
Breakfast: Peanut butter on 2 slices of 100% whole-grain bread, coffee with low-fat milk
Lunch: Broiled liempo, ginisang togue, brown rice, ponkan
Snack: Baked tortilla chips
Dinner: Grilled tilapia, broiled liempo, pork siomai, brown rice, tomato with salted duck egg

Wednesday's meals
Breakfast: Banana pecan cake, coffee with low-fat milk
Lunch: Vegetable lumpia, brown rice
Snack: Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar, unsweetened green tea, 1 Fita cracker, 1 baked tortilla chip
Dinner: Grilled red paprika salmon medallion, brown rice, lettuce with Italian vinaigrette, cream of mushroom soup
Dessert: Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting

Thursday's meals
Breakfast: Peanut butter and blackberry preserves on 100% whole-grain bread, coffee with low-fat milk
Mid-morning snack: Baked tortilla chips
Lunch: (at Burger King) Whopper Jr. without mayo, onion rings, hot-fudge sundae
Dinner: Chicken roulade with spinach and cream cheese, brown rice

Friday's meals
Breakfast: Fried egg on 100% whole-grain toast, chocolate lava cake, coffee with low fat milk
Lunch: Chicken roulade with spinach and cream cheese, brown rice
Dinner: Calamari fritti, vegetable lumpia, misua soup, brown rice

Saturday's meals
Breakfast: Chocolate chip-bacon pancakes with butter and real maple syrup, coffee with low-fat milk
Lunch: La Paz batchoy, pan de sal
Snack: Siomai
Dinner: Pork barbecue, brown rice
Dessert: Cassava cake

Sunday's meals
Breakfast: Steel-cut oatmeal with fresh strawberries, muscovado, and low-fat milk, coffee with low-fat milk
Lunch (Brooklyn Pizza delivery): Spicy shrimp pasta, spaghetti with meatballs, pepperoni and mushroom pizza, buffalo wings
Dessert: Chocolate lava cake, coffee with low-fat milk
Dinner (leftovers): Deluxe pizza, calamari fritti, garlic-cheese breadstick with olive oil and balsamic vinegar