Breakfast
Item: Plain Bagel
Portion Size: 1 bagel
Ingredients: Unbleached high gluten enriched wheat flour, water, brown sugar, invert sugar cane molasses, malt flour, salt, yeast
Nutrition info: plain bagel and bagel with cream cheese
This type of label is taken off the Internet to be the closest match
Maker/Producer: Whole Foods bakery
Geographic origins: Local*
*means I'm guessing
Where purchased: Whole Foods
Packaging: N/A
Notes: Tastes great toasted in the oven, that Andrew turns on when he gets up as well as making coffee, while I try to drag my butt out of bed. Then I toast a bagel for myself and heat up some pastry for Andrew and pour coffee while he shaves.
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Item: Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Portion Size: 2 tbs
Ingredients: pasteurized nonfat milk and milkfat, whey protein concentrate, cheese culture, salt, whey, stabilizers (xanthan and/or carob bean and/or guar gums), sorbic acid as a preservative, vitamin a palmitate
Nutrition info:
Maker/Producer: KRAFT
Geographic origins: Glenview, IL USA
Where purchased: Fred Meyer
Packaging: 8 OZ plastic tub
Notes: I only like Philadelphia cream cheese. I tried organic ones from Whole Foods and they all taste “wrong”-wrong texture, density, taste.
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Item: Rugulach cinnamon-Walnut pastry
Portion Size: 1 cookie
Ingredients: Unbleached wheat flour, cream cheese, butter, white sugar, etc
Nutrition info: Calories 160
Maker/Producer: Chewy’s
Geographic origins: San Diego, CA
Where purchased: Whole Foods
Packaging: Clear plastic round tub
Notes: Tastes and looks a bit like European pastry I’m used to. There were three kinds of filling: Cinnamon-walnut, Fruit and Chocolate. I didn’t like the chocolate one at all-I never understood chocolate in pastry.
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Item: Banana
Portion Size: 1 banana
Ingredients: um…banana?
Maker/Producer: Organics Unlimited
Geographic origins: Mexico
Where purchased: Whole Foods
Packaging: N/A
Notes: I love sweet bananas and this one was close to it. I usually prefer Chiquita brand bananas, because they are very sweet.
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Item: Brewed Coffee
Portion Size: 1 cup
Ingredients: coffee beans, water, 1 tbsp half and half
Nutrition info: Calories 20 (including crème)
Maker/Producer: World Market (coffee) Horizon Organic for half-and-half
Geographic origins: amaica, Brazil, Hawaii; Illy, Lavazza, Ghirardelli (coffee) Boulder, CO (crème)
Where purchased: World Market, Whole Foods
Packaging: Black foil bag, one pint milk carton
Notes: I chose it because we usually get coffee beans from Starbucks and we wanted to try something else. Tastes good.
The half and half I prefer from Horizon. It has the right thickness and doesn’t flake in coffee.
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Lunch
Item: California Turkey and bacon sandwich
Portion Size: 1 whole sandwich
Ingredients: Wheat bread, turkey meat, bacon, avocado, lettuce, mayonnaise, swiss cheese
Nutrition info: Calories 510
(this table is based on Turkey Club sandwich, the closest match)
Maker/Producer: Olympic Deli
Geographic origins: Local*, California
Where purchased: Olympic Deli
Packaging: Plastic wrap
Notes: I love this little lunch place near my apartment. The owner and the cook is a Serbian woman, she makes fantastic sandwiches and soups that bring her plenty of customers. She always complains that there are too many of them, it’s hard to handle for her alone.
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Item: Corn Chowder soup
Portion Size: 1 cup
Ingredients: 1 onion, chopped, 1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped, 2 tablespoons butter, 3 cups potatoes, diced, 2 cups water, 1 can cream style corn, 1 can evaporated milk, salt and pepper to taste (cook.com)
Nutrition info: Calories 283
Maker/Producer: Olympic Deli
Geographic origins: Local*
Where purchased: Olympic Deli
Packaging: Food container
Notes: I’m generally not a big fan of chowders, but there are exceptions. Seems like this week especially.
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Item: Nespresso coffee
Portion Size: 1 espresso cup
Ingredients: premium blend coffee, water
Nutrition info: Calories 1
Maker/Producer: Nespresso
Geographic origins: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Togo, Kenya and Ethiopia
Where purchased: free from work
Packaging: individual capsules
Notes: I never drink espresso, just Nespresso. The taste is phenomenal, I got so addicted I had to force myself to limit espresso intake to 1 cup (compared to 3-4 before)
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Other lunch foods: banana, Chiquita brand, Equador
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Drinks:
Item: Hansen’s soda
Portion Size: 1 can
Ingredients:
Nutrition info: Calories 180
Maker/Producer: Hansen’s
Geographic origins: Corona, CA USA
Where purchased: free from work
Packaging: aluminum can
Notes: A bit too sweet for my taste
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Item: Talking Rain Sparkling water
Portion Size: 1 can
Ingredients: water
Nutrition info: Calories 0
Maker/Producer: Talking Rain Beverage Co
Geographic origins: Preston, Washington USA
Where purchased: free from work
Packaging: aluminum can
Notes: Too sparkly. I have to air it for a while.
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Dinner (at TechCity bowling party)
Item: Hawaiian Pizza
Portion Size: 1.5 slices
Ingredients: ¼ cup bell pepper
• ¼ pocket pita pocket, whole-wheat
• 2 tsp parmesan cheese
• 4½ slices ham, lean
• ½ tsp oil, olive
• 2 Tbls tomato sauce
• 1 tsp garlic
• ¼ cup pineapple, chunks in juice
• ½ oz cheese, non-fat
• 1½ slices onions, red
Spices / Flavoring
• ¼ tsp black pepper
• ¼ tsp dried basil
• ½ tsp italian seasoning
Nutrition info: Calories 239
Maker/Producer: unknown
Geographic origins: unknown
Where purchased: free from party
Packaging: cardboard box
Notes: Eh, didn’t taste that good. Didn’t even finish my second slice. The dough was too thick and I dislike thick dough.
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Item: Stella Artois beer
Portion Size: 0.3 l
Ingredients: water, malt, rice groats, hops, ascorbic acid Density - 12%, ABV - 5.2 +/-0.2%
Nutrition info: Calories 102
Maker/Producer: local distributor
Geographic origins: Belgium
Where purchased: free from party
Packaging: draft
Notes: Draft beers always taste better than packaged
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Item: Chocolate cake
Portion Size: 2 pieces
Ingredients: chocolate, flour…
Nutrition info: Calories 340 per serving
Maker/Producer: na
Geographic origins: na
Where purchased: free from party
Packaging: na
Notes: It’s European-style cake, someone from our party might have made it
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Approximate total calories for the day: 2683
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