This is my daily breakfast, I didn't have the chance to take picture of it but this is it. Two slices of toasted bread with thin layer of strawberry jam. I usually eat this when I'm in a rush, if I have time I only have a bowl of cereal. Strawberries are my favorite fruit. They are usually sweet and are a rich red; one time I had fresh strawberries that were so sweet that they were sweeter than the jam. So instead I just sliced a couple of strawberries on my bread. The calories in this breakfast are about 300 calories. The website says I should have 2243 calories daily according to my height, age, my daily exercise and my weight. If I had time for a bowl of cereal (my usual Kellogg's corn flakes) I'd be in taking 200 calories. So you can see that the healthier choice would be a bowl of cereal but sometimes the amount of time you have to eat can also affect the food choices you make.
This is my lunch at times when I go to school. In the mornings I wake up early and make myself lunch, so that I don't waste my allowance on food but save it or spend it on other things I want. It is a sandwich with ham and Swiss cheese with some chipotle sauce and lettuce. And I also pack a bag with a handful of chips. I noticed from all this that I have a daily routine, where I eat at certain times and eat certain foods.
My dinner usually happens around 6 or 7, when my father has finally arrived and we all sit down at the table to eat. Today though most of my family was out, it was just me and my aunt. So I sat down at table by myself for once. It felt weird to eat at an empty table where no one is saying "pass the salt" or in my family’s case " salsa, please." A place where it's usually over crowded, especially when my brother and his wife come over. This is about 400 calories plus 25 calories from the broccoli. As you can see my meal is pretty balanced, I have spaghetti, meat and vegetables all in one plate. Like I wrote in a blog before, my mother makes sure we always have some sort of vegetable with our meal.
This is what my dinner was tonight and the minute my mother started cooking this, the smell of some type of seafood came all way to the living room where I was doing homework. I ran over to mom in the kitchen and like usual I asked, "What's for dinner?"Caldo de camarones she said, meaning shrimp soup. I love this soup! It contains shrimp (of course) pieces of carrots and potato and if you'd like couple of spoons of chipotle salsa. This is favorite spicy salsa, which you can eat with many different things like sandwich, quesadillas, soup, or use as dipping sauce. Even when I have friends over they ask me what it is because they liked it so much. It is made from a pepper called chipotle that is a smoked jalapeno pepper and they mix this with tomato sauce to make chipotle salsa. With this soup, you have the choice of eating tortillas with it or Ritz crackers. It makes you feel full after butdon't feel starving hours later or feel too stuffed and at the same time it's healthy, having only seafood and vegetables. This about 100 calories.
Today I had marble jell- o my aunt's specialty made with milk and water jell - o. The white is vanilla and the red is strawberry, it was delicious. I liked the way these two different jellos taste meshed together.
A snack I have sometimes is a piece of dark chocolate, but that is only 85%. To me it tastes better than milk chocolate. The sweet and bitter taste it creates on my tongue at the same time to me is more interesting than really sweet milk chocolate. It is also much healthier for you then regular chocolate, because it is more natural.
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