Food Rut

While I know people who can enjoy eating the same thing every day, I am definitely not one of those people. Well. Scratch that. Partially. Once upon a time I made myself a quesadilla every other day. But that was pretty much the exception. That was also before I realized I felt even better practically eliminating dairy from my diet than just limiting it.

onion image from nikkorsnapper on flickr

Anyway, here I am, feeling like I'm stuck in a food rut. I guess if you had to put a label on my current eating behaviors it'd be vegetarian with days of intermittent veganism and pecestarianism but will eat other meats if they are put in front of her and her choices are limited. I feel like I keep defaulting to the same vegetables for dinner though - bell peppers, onion, mushroom - sautéed on the stovetop.

Put them with black beans, avocado and tomato (I know, still not quite in season) in a whole wheat or multigrain tortilla and you have vegetarian fajitas. Put them over whole wheat or spinach pasta with some olive oil and you have a pasta dish. Spread some pesto and olive oil on a whole wheat pizza crust, add some artichoke or olive and you have a veggie pizza (cheese optional). These are just a couple of my recent food escapades (which I can put up here in recipe form if there's interest), but I still feel like I need to shake things up.

Sometimes looking for recipes in the bigger and well-known recipe repertoires online get discouraging. You can often find a lot of meat and a lot of dairy use. I already know plenty of recipes like that. Luckily I'm currently reading The Okinawa Program (a review will appear on the blog once I'm finished). I knew there were recipes featured in the back of the book and I knew I was interested in the east-west diet blend, so I flipped ahead and started reading them. And voila. I got excited about a lot of them and will be trying at least one this week.

Sorry internet, books win this round.

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