This week (or last week, since I am posting this in the wee hours of Monday morning) has been a difficult one. I have been inundated with homework and all the things necessary to find an internship/job/graduate college. This has left me with little time to go grocery shopping or to plan many meals out.
Due to this fact, my goals have slipped slightly.
I have been able to keep up with my meatless meals, though they consisted of pb&js this week (but I don't mind, I have some yummy blackberry jam to spread on). This has been easy for me to keep up with because pb&js are easy and quick to make. Also, when I do make a full meal without meat (meatless tacos or spaghetti), the only difference in cooking is just not cooking meat. What an easy and effective way to make a difference!
The area where I have slipped this week is in purchasing organic produce. Like I said, I haven't had time to go grocery shopping, so I've been purchasing things as I need them. This week, I only bought one piece of organic produce and that was a couple apples for a snack/lunch. I hope to get back to where I was and successfully accomplish my goal.
On the plus side, I have been able to resist the temptation for mac and cheese! Yes, there are days when I feel stressed and tired, and I just want to eat my favorite comfort food, but I have stayed away from the blue box fiend for another week.
And now we've come to the energy conservation goal: turning off my computer's power strip for 3 nights a week. I have made a minor slip in this goal this week. I was able to turn off the power strip for 2 long nights this week, but the 3rd night that I turned it off, I went to bed at 4 a.m., and I wasn't able to save a full night's standby energy usage. Although I was able to turn the strip off 3 nights, I didn't save as much power as I could have, and this feels like a slight failure to me.
Making these tiny steps back makes me feel more determined to achieve my goals next week!
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