gongxi facai

Happy Chinese New Year y'all!


It's the Year of the Rat. Hope you're prosperous and lucky and all that jazz.

Breakfast 350

Grapefruit, banana smoothie, BBQ pork bun

A.M. snack 100

Wheat Thins with Laughing Cow Swiss cheese wedge (I'm out of the Swiss, so I'm going to have to think of some new snack to bring)

Lunch 310

Lean Cuisine herb roasted chicken, banana

P.M. snacks 200

Kettle corn, Kung Pao chicken sample from Trader Joe's, skinny caffe mocha from Starbucks

Dinner 500

Beef, chicken with green onions, bamboo

Tofu and vegetable soup, salmon

Post-dinner snacks 250

Papaya, pineapple

Homemade sugar cookie, navel orange

Total 1710

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year of the rat

Breakfast 440

Muesli with apples oats, raisins, cinnamon, almonds and yogurt (I'm so into this right now), ground walnuts with sugar, chocolate covered almonds

A.M. snacks 100

Wheat Thins with Laughing Cow Swiss cheese wedge

Lunch 340

Lean Cuisine honey dijon chicken, navel orange

Pistachios!

P.M. snacks 320

Chocolate chip cookie, donut hole, brussels sprouts

Dinner! 600

Soymilk, dan jiao (egg dumplings, for prosperity), steamed fish (for abundance)

Chinese New Year's Eve hot pot! Mmm.

Late P.M. snacks 100

Lemon-ginger frozen yogurt, candy cane Joe-Joe

Total 1900

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chauffeur chauffeur come and take me away

EDIT (March 2, 2008)
I've been getting a lot of hits from Google searches along the lines of "chauffeur chauffeur come and take me away," so I thought I'd tell y'all what song it's from so you can stop searching.
The lyrics in the title are from Lupe Fiasco's single Superstar, featuring Matthew Santos. It's amazing. See here for a video.

Breakfast 440

Scrambled eggs with tomato, toast with soybean butter and blueberry preserves (morning PB&J)


Soymilk, ground walnuts with sugar, Reese's peanut butter cup

A.M. snacks 180

Wheat Thins with Laughing Cow Swiss cheese wedge, navel orange

Lunch 300

Lean Cuisine salmon with basil, mini Fig Newtons (so cute!)

P.M. snacks 80

Prep kitchen chocolate chip cookie

Dinner 800

Mixed sauteed squash, soup with bamboo shoots and huang cai (veggies)

Yes, I made pizzas. They came out pretty good ... thin and crispy.


BBQ pizza with corn, red onions, mozzarella, smoked Gouda and cilantro


Mushroom, red onion, and corn pizza


Shanghai-style cao nian gao, corn

Post-dinner munchies 200

Navel orange, Grandma's nian gao bars (for Chinese New Year)

Reese's peanut butter cup, chocolate covered almonds

Total 2000

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