Michelle and I are followers of a blog called Kath Eats Real Food. We sorta make fun of her (like "why won't she just eat a bag of doritos or drink a whole bottle of beer for once?"), but we will also be the first to admit that we are kinda in awe of her too. She's always upbeat, sunshiney, eats well, exercises all the time and her house is immaculate. This morning, while I was google-chatting with my sister, we speculated that maybe the reason she's so upbeat all the time is that she eats well, exercises and has such a clutter-free house. So, to test it out, we've decided to take the Kath-challenge for one week.
Here are the rules for the next week:
1. no junk food for a week (or just little bites)
2. lots of good food, especially raw food
3. clean our houses and keep them clean
4. 1/2 hour of exercise every day
5. blog about the food we eat every day
6. use place mats and buy fresh flowers
Number 3 is no easy task. Here's a picture of my living room pre-Kath-cleanup.
But I'm up for the challenge. So here goes, the rundown for the day (in Kath style): Today, I woke up at around 7am, made myself a bowl of oatmeal (no pics because this was pre-Kath challenge), chatted with my sister and then ran out to Target to buy cute bowls. Kath always eats out of cute bowls and they may just be the secret to her happiness.
When I got home, I helped Gus make a birthday card for a birthday party he was going to. Then I had a lunch of some leftover pumpkin (it was really butternut squash but they call it pumpkin here) potato soup and some bean salad. (check out the cute bowls, which actually did make me pretty happy)
Vic then dropped Gus off at the party, and he helped me get into the spirit of Kath, by cleaning the bathroom and bedroom while I cleaned the kitchen and living room. When we were done, we watched Twilight (I know Kath would have gone out for a run at this point - but Gus was at the birthday party and what better time to watch a girlie-teen-flick about vampires??) and had this snack of oranges and ryvita crackers.
After the movie, I made supper, a big veggie stir fry, some basa fillets and basmati rice. I also had a glass of wine, but only drank about 2/3 of it, then gave the rest to the husband to finish.
The day is slipping away from me, and to do this right, I'm going to need to work on my to-do list, fit in some exercise and pick up some fresh flowers. I'm thinking I might just get to those first two, but the fresh flowers will have to wait till Day 2 of the Kath challenge - it'll have to go on my to-do list for tomorrow!
Number 3 is no easy task. Here's a picture of my living room pre-Kath-cleanup.
But I'm up for the challenge. So here goes, the rundown for the day (in Kath style): Today, I woke up at around 7am, made myself a bowl of oatmeal (no pics because this was pre-Kath challenge), chatted with my sister and then ran out to Target to buy cute bowls. Kath always eats out of cute bowls and they may just be the secret to her happiness.
When I got home, I helped Gus make a birthday card for a birthday party he was going to. Then I had a lunch of some leftover pumpkin (it was really butternut squash but they call it pumpkin here) potato soup and some bean salad. (check out the cute bowls, which actually did make me pretty happy)
Vic then dropped Gus off at the party, and he helped me get into the spirit of Kath, by cleaning the bathroom and bedroom while I cleaned the kitchen and living room. When we were done, we watched Twilight (I know Kath would have gone out for a run at this point - but Gus was at the birthday party and what better time to watch a girlie-teen-flick about vampires??) and had this snack of oranges and ryvita crackers.
After the movie, I made supper, a big veggie stir fry, some basa fillets and basmati rice. I also had a glass of wine, but only drank about 2/3 of it, then gave the rest to the husband to finish.
The day is slipping away from me, and to do this right, I'm going to need to work on my to-do list, fit in some exercise and pick up some fresh flowers. I'm thinking I might just get to those first two, but the fresh flowers will have to wait till Day 2 of the Kath challenge - it'll have to go on my to-do list for tomorrow!
6 comments:
Too funny! We've read so many Kath posts we can pretty much copy her exact style!
I just checked out Kath's blog and watched her making an oatmeal pancake.It looked really good.
I assume the basmati rice was BROWN basmati! Kath's would be. Also, it wouldn't just be brown basmati, it would be insert-brand-name-here brown basmati rice. Do you think she's a paid blogger from all the brand-name dropping she does?
She's definitely a paid blogger. That's a good point about all the brand-name dropping - if we're to be true to Kath, we'll need to be more specific about which brands we're using. Maybe we'll get our own sponsors!
Hi Michelle and Mags: I was hoping no one would notice I used white basmati rice. And, for sure - about the product placement, in my second post I put a couple in there. Maybe product placements could pay my way through school!
Hi Sylvana: Yeah - there's actually some pretty good recipes on Kaths blog.
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