{"id":7470,"date":"2011-09-28T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/2011\/09\/28\/what-i-ate-with-one-hand\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T07:05:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:05:47","slug":"what-i-ate-with-one-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/what-i-ate-with-one-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Ate With One Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears our \u2018usual\u2019 morning nap isn\u2019t happening this morning, so I\u2019m attempting to blog this out with a 13 day old baby on my lap.&nbsp; It isn\u2019t as easy as one may think.<\/p>\n<p>Know what helps? Playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitenoiseplayer.com\/\">this<\/a> through my computer speakers. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Know what else is challenging? Feeding yourself with one hand, but that\u2019s exactly what I did yesterday when I was home alone for a full day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breakfast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026was easy enough. Go Lean Crunch with 1\/2 a banana, chia seeds and almond milk.<\/p>\n<p>A spoon only uses one hand. Easy Peasy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GoLeanCrunchwithChiaandAlmondMilk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Go Lean Crunch with Chia and Almond Milk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GoLeanCrunchwithChiaandAlmondMilk_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Go Lean Crunch with Chia and Almond Milk\" width=\"470\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently being a mom now entitles me to say lame things like \u2018easy peasy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026was a bit more challenging.&nbsp; The turkey sandwich was easy enough, but surprisingly the salad was not.&nbsp; I needed an extra finger to scoop up some of the salad goodies, and may or may not have resorted to just licking my plate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"IMG_1683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1683_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1683\" width=\"470\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026was snacky.&nbsp; Crackers, hummus, a prune (what? They\u2019re actually tasty!) and a chocolate chip cookie bar (DANGEROUS!) brought over by a friend from our church mom\u2019s group.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"IMG_1684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1684_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1684\" width=\"470\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>I also chowed down on an entire steamable frozen bag of edamame.&nbsp; A great one-handed snack! A not-so-great picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/edamame.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"edamame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/edamame_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"edamame\" width=\"470\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dinner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026this week is brought over daily by friends from the mom\u2019s group at church.&nbsp; How nice, right?? Yesterday Tamara brought chili over macaroni. It\u2019s so nice to not have to think about dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"IMG_1689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_1689_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1689\" width=\"470\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>I know I usually do the calorie count, but I have no clue how many I ingested yesterday.&nbsp; I\u2019ll get to that at some point, but for now I eat when I\u2019m hungry and try to add in some greens when I can.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still in survival mode, people! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of eating, Hailey turns into a little caterpillar after she gets a tummy full of milk. It\u2019s really freakin\u2019 cute!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Photo Sep 27, 9 55 28 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/PhotoSep2795528AM_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Sep 27, 9 55 28 AM\" width=\"470\" height=\"356\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever had to do everything one-handed from an injury, baby, etc?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the most challenging task?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far I can do laundry, empty the dishwasher and feed Koda all with one hand, but I cant fill up my water bottle from the filtered water in the fridge- so frustrating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears our \u2018usual\u2019 morning nap isn\u2019t happening this morning, so I\u2019m attempting to blog this out with a 13 day old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1483],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}