I know that school contributes heavily to my migraines. I’m super stressed all the time, I’m in my car three hours every single weekday, and I don’t really enjoy the work I’m doing anymore. It’ll all be over in May (if that thesis gets written). And in the meantime, I have a wonderful husband who makes me dinner and rubs my feet when I’ve had a really long day.

Tonight he made breakfast for dinner. I’m not allowed to eat any processed meats like bacon and sausage because they often contain headache-inducing nitrates. So I made my own using ground beef and this recipe. I took several of the little patties out of the freezer this morning, so they were all thawed out by the time he started cooking. I walked in the door at 7:30 tonight to the smell of sausage and eggs frying on the stove. Not the healthiest dinner, perhaps, but heavenly to come home to!

After dinner I whirred some sunflower seeds in the food processor with a little canola oil. I’m having sunflower seed butter on toast for breakfast tomorrow, and I can’t wait to try a sunflower seed butter and jelly sandwich. I was too full after my breakfast dinner to really sample it, but I hope it’s good. It looks a little thin, but I’m hoping that is because the spinning metal blades of the food processor warmed it up while I was making it. Also, I may have added too much canola oil. We’ll see what it’s like after a night in the fridge.

Breakfast and midmorning snack: American cheese toast

Lunch: Leftover roast chicken, applesauce, grapes, spinach pinwheels

Dinner: Breakfast! Eggs, grits, grapes, and homemade beef sausage