So far so good. Last night when I went to bed it felt a little like Christmas Eve as I anticipated my first delivery of The Fresh Diet. I was a little worried because sometimes delivery people get confused between my house which is on a STREET and a neighbor who has the exact same house number and street name but lives on a PLACE. I was also worried because I changed my delivery location to my back gate rather than my front door since I didn't want my loud, overprotective dog to wake the house up at 2:00AM if that's when my delivery person arrived.
Delivery went off without a hitch. When I woke up in the morning I went outside and there was my cooler bag right where I was expecting to find it. Excitedly I brought it back inside and inspected the contents. The cooler bag, which is provided by The Fresh Diet, is seriously heavy-duty. The zipper on each bag is zip-tied which I wasn't expecting but it makes since in that it assures you that no one has tampered w/ your food since your bag was put together. I would think this would be especially important to people in apartment buildings or condos where others could possibly access your bag.
Once I opened my bag, I took everything out to look at . In hindsight I should have taken photos which I will try to remember to do tomorrow. Each meal is packed in nice quality plastic take-out containers. The Fresh Diet provides you with breakfast, lunch, dinner, a snack (sometimes called an hors d'oeuvre), and dessert. Also in the bag are 3 good-sized, hard plastic, ice packs. A menu for the day w/ any instructions for re-heating is also included.
For breakfast Day 1, I selected Whole Wheat Cinnamon Waffles with Fresh Banana & Pineapple Cottage Cheese. I was also given a little container of syrup. There were 2 waffle pieces which combined would be slightly larger than a typical frozen waffle. They were thicker than a frozen waffle would be though. The banana almost made me laugh b/c it was seriously a chunk about 1/4-1/3 the size of a whole banana. The downside to the banana is of course that they turn brown when they've been cut up. It didn't affect the flavor too much so I went with it. I will say I didn't eat the cottage cheese. I went into this with cottage cheese on my list of foods I don't eat which The Fresh Diet solicits from you. I ordered this breakfast even though it had cottage cheese because I was trying to be open-minded and I thought that having the cottage cheese mixed with pineapple which I love would help. I fished out a piece of pineapple from the container of cottage cheese (which is maybe about the size of a shot class or so) and tasted it...yeah, cottage cheese is not for me. Too salty or something. And I don't think it helped that the pineapple was obviously canned pineapple. The waffles were excellent though although it would have helped if my morning hadn't gotten so hectic that I only had time to eat about 1/2 my waffle...I saved the rest and had it with my lunch. I know that's not the way the food is supposed to be eaten but what else is a busy mom supposed to do? ;) I don't know if I would order this again just because I would be missing out on a substantial portion of the meal since I don't eat cottage cheese but the waffle itself was good.
Lunch was delicious. Seriously. I ordered the Grilled Wild Mahi Mahi on Whole wheat Ciabatta Bread with Lettuce, Tomato, & Thousand Island dressing. It was about the size of a 1/2 sandwich. The bread was very thick and studded with seeds and such. The piece of fish though was nice. I'm from Hawaii and I take things like fish quality seriously and I was pretty happy with this fish. I choose to heat the sandwich as suggested on my menu card but I could totally see eating this as a cold sandwich. I drizzled the dressing on the fish and on the lettuce. YUM. It did feel weird not to be eating the sandwich w/ a side like fries or chips but I persevered! :)
A little while before picking up my daughter from the school bus I decided to eat my Hors D'Oeuvre which was Mushroom Crowns filled with Cajun Shrimp. The afternoon time is usually the time of day when I eat the most b/c I often have to skip breakfast (which I hate doing but having to get 3 kids out the door takes a lot of time!) and I often can't eat lunch until almost 2:00PM or later. I heat the mushroom caps (there were 2 of them) in the microwave according to directions. I was a little skeptical since the filling looked a little like mush but I have to say that those mushrooms were really tasty! And the mushrooms were surprisingly filling as well. In the same container as the mushrooms was a few pieces of spring salad, arugula mix. I ate those w/ a little of the dressing I had leftover from my sandwich. Again, yum!
By the time dinner rolled around I was pretty hungry. I was a little worried that the Fresh Diet dinner wouldn't be enough. I selected the Flounder Fillets with Mango BBQ Sauce. The 2 sides I selected were Spanish Style Brown Rice and Sauteed Mushroom Medley (can you guess that I'm a fan of mushrooms??). Heated the fish and sides not at 100% power but at 50% power. I've found that doing so makes food, especially protein, less likely to dry out. I drizzled the sauce all over the fish and ate. There was a moment early on where I was worried the fish would be a little too fishy tasting but I think it was just an off bite. The rest of the fish was very nice and the mango bbq sauce was very tasty. I don't know how "Spanish" the rice was---could have used some more spice!---but it was a tasty brown rice dish. The mushroom medley didn't look beautiful but it was really flavorful and meaty.
I have to confess that I "cheated". I supplemented with some hummus and whole wheat pita. I was really worried that it would be too much of a shock going from what I had been eating to the amount of food provided by The Fresh Diet without doing so gradually. I wonder if it was necessary though because I feel overly full now and I still have my dessert to eat.
The dessert was Honey Almond Cheesecake and it was just awesome. Really really awesome. I think the idea was to make the dessert small but intensely flavored so you really felt like you were getting something decadent. It was seriously yummy.
Overall, I'm pretty pleased with my Day 1 choices. I would definitely make some of them again. My husband read my post though and laughed and told me never to write this much again for a blog post though! Will do better I swear! Stick with me!
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