We’ve had a helluva week. We’re moving! The whole process has been fast and furious, probably embarrassingly so…but I am happy for the change and praying praying praying for contentment once we’re settled in our new home and all the fun and excitement of the past couple weeks calms down. However, we have some anchor reasons we are choosing to move that will still be true regardless of how I end up feeling. On to the food, here are some snapshots of food things:

With the intensity of moving (read: a bunch of waiting to hear back from buyers agents, our agent, etc.) my appetite was limited. Nutella crepes sounded good and felt easy to digest so I had those for a breakfast, a lunch and a dinner at points throughout the week.

When I am stressed, the hardest part about eating for me is that food doesn’t make me feel better. A good way to approach eating is that you should feel better after you ate than before – this pleasant and natural phenomenon of going from hungry to full and going from having the desire to eat towards having that desire turned off. When I’m stressed, I don’t feel better or worse after I eat – I just feel the same amount of bad/stressed and that bad/stressed overrides the pleasantness of having just eating and feeling content.

I have noticed in the past I would think of food as fuel in these moments and just have something basic and bland, however that would always leave me with a feeling of “but what if eating something comforting could have helped?!” And that unknown eats away at me. So when I’m stressed, I prefer food that is highly palatable, not eaten in a binge fashion, rather just eaten in an amount that makes sense and then moving on. Works for me.

Lunches were the land of turkey sandwiches. So many sandwiches eaten at home and on the go.

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The above was a snack/lunch packed for the day: sandwich, oranges, carrot, yogurt w/ dried cherries and walnuts. As I’m looking at this I’m like, “hmm. I didn’t eat that carrot. I have no idea where it is. I hope it isn’t in my car rotting.” Only time will tell.

Leah carried the peanut butter pretzels with her nearly everywhere this week. Made for easy snacking for all.

Turkey + cheese roll up + PB pretzel snack.

Torchy’s = taco + chips + queso. This ended up being such a nice family dinner date! Leah was willing to stay on Andrew’s side of the table without screaming bloody murder for me, so I was able to really enjoy this meal. We also got a call at this dinner that our offer on our new house had been accepted, so that was a great relief.

A lunch of pulled pork + roasted cauliflower + leftover mashed potatoes my Dad had made us.

One night, pulled pork + roasted cauliflower.

And, say hello to my new obsession…Liquid I.V. I’m wondering if it’ll be able to break my draw to Diet Coke. I don’t mind having a Diet Coke when I want a Diet Coke, but there are times I choose to have a Diet Coke when I don’t want a Diet Coke and that bothers me and confuses me a bit. In those moments water makes sense to have, but I don’t want water, I want something more fun, but I don’t want wine/beer, lemonade, tea. Enter…Liquid IV. I think they taste great.

Another dinner was leftover mac n’ cheese that my Dad sent us home with and pulled pork.

With selling our house we did one late night showing and it was totally annoying because the people stayed for the *entire* hour, stared at us as we pulled back into our driveway, then submitted feedback that they didn’t like *my* blue paint in our kitchen nook (to quote Kelly Kapor, “Number one: how dare you?”), and didn’t submit an offer. Like, doesn’t everyone move in and immediately get new carpet and paint? I thought it was such weird feedback. Everyone hates everyone else’s paint choices…this doesn’t need to be said out loud lol. This was a super minor thing…but we were over that and the rest of their feedback and cut off showings at 5pm the next night so the kids could have a normal bedtime routine. Our current neighborhood is pretty highly desired, so our house is going to sell very, very quickly.

We went for dinner that night and it was mostly a great night even though Andrew and I were totally fried from how fast the move has gone/we’ve had the move go.

Chocolate sorbet.

Looking back now at pictures, we did a few ice cream snacks this week:

Lemon curd from Jeni’s. This was great. I was zero percent hungry, but I had a sample of it and it was so refreshing, so I got a cutie, lil’ scoop.

Froyo with Leah while we were killing time trying to stay out of the house during showings. Do you have a Menchie’s near you? I will die on a hill that their cake batter froyo is the best cake batter in the game.

I tried to make cinnamon rolls, they rose great (so pretty!), but then they baked extremely unevenly and were super dry. I’m not sure what happened.

Phew. It was a week. Today will be a fun day though, if all goes as planned, we’ll be accepting an offer on our house and I can start to get more of a timeline around what our life for the next 1-2 months will look like.

Hope you have a good one :)