WIAW #5...

My WIAW post this week will be What I Ate Monday.

Sunday was a glorious day.  I had no plans.  I went to the grocery store on Saturday (that hasn't happened in weeks!), I got my work out in Saturday morning (yoga, spin and a trip around the gym lunge-style) so on Sunday I could barely move. 

Josh and Carson headed up to Edmond to get some work done on the damaged car, and Camy decided to stay and hang out with me.  I think she thought it was going to be exciting.  What I got done on Sunday contributed to What I Ate Monday.

Breakfast:

I made a fresh batch of English muffins, and I really think I am getting the hand of them.  You know, if you grease the English muffin rounds it works much better.  Next time will be awesome!  I also made a batch of spinach and mushroom individual fritatas.  So my breakfast sandwich had that, a fake sausage patty and some Laughing Cow cheese.

I also had a glass of this yumminess I found at Target on Saturday, Silk Fruit & Protein.  I love Silk Almond Milk.  The Dark Chocolate is amazing, and I use the unsweetened instead of milk in everything.  Camy and I spotted this Saturday and just had to give it a try.  It was so good!  Tastes like a smoothie, kinda creamy and kinda fruity.  I will definitely keep this in my fridge.  I think it could be a great after workout beverage too.

Lunch:

Leftover orzo with veggies that I made the end of last week.  I also had an apple and a piece of cheese and one of my new White Chocolate Chip Nutella cookies.  I did this experimental cookie baking on Sunday as well and the white chocolate chips really cut through some of the richness of all that chocolate in a good way.

Afternoon Snack:

Of course I had pistachios.  I can't say anything more about it.  I also had a Luna Bar before spin class.  I am glad I did, I don't think I could have made it through that class without it.

Dinner: 

I started with a salad.  I even made one to have in my lunch today, in case you were wondering what I was eating on Tuesday.  I bought this Archer Farms Raspberry Acai Vinaigrette Salad Dressing a while back and have been having it on all salads ever since.  It's really good.

Camy requested mac and cheese for dinner so instead of leftover spaghetti from Sunday I decided to make some from scratch.  I almost forgot to take a picture of it.

In all it was a pretty yummy day.  Clearly I was carb loading for some unknown race I must be doing. 



WIAW...

I am well aware that it is now Friday and I am just getting to this post.  It's been a rough week for me.  I left my phone at home on Monday (I could claim marathon hangover, except I didn't actually run the marathon.), and again on Wednesday.  So my WIAW post is actually What I Ate Thursday and Posted On Friday Post. 

I feel like my eating habits have been insanely boring lately.  I blame Sams.  Buying in bulk, it turns out, makes you have greater quantities of the same thing in your kitchen.  Who know?

So here's my recap.

Breakfast:

I got bored with the same yogurt that I had to scoop out of the big tub each day so I bought some Oikos at Sams this week.  I added some Chia seeds and homemade granola to it.  I didn't put any chocolate chips in this batch of yogurt, someone in my house is participating in a Biggest Loser competition.  I really miss the chocolate.  I had a banana a little later, and I drank 60 ounces of water by 10 am.  I spent the rest of the morning in the bathroom because I had to pee about every 15 minutes.

Lunch was leftover Simple Sesame Noodles from the Pioneer Woman.  I love this recipe.  I made it with rice noodles this time, and if I had thought about it I could have added some edamame or broccoli or something.  As I said before, it's been a rough week.

 

And in other insanely boring photos, I also had an apple that looked like  areal apple before I got to it, some Chipins popcorn chips, and one of my double chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.

I was a little disappointed in this batch of cookies.  I swear it's the humidity, but they were flatter than I like them.  Damn Oklahoma weather.

I almost forgot my afternoon snack!

A little background for this snack.  I have recently discovered Twitter, you can find me there @oubeckyc.  I love it when I get a mention or a retweet.  I mentioned @lunabar in a tweet last week and I got selected to try out one of their Luna Fiber bars.  You can't even get them in stores yet, that will come later this month.  I picked the peanut butter and strawberry bar and it came in the mail on Wednesday.  AND they sent me some lip balm, in my favorite flavor, Chocolate Peppermint Stick.  I have refrained myself from actually eating the lip balm, it really doesn't taste like my favorite bar, but it sure smells like it. 

The new bar is super yummy, it sort of had the consistency of a cereal bar, with all the yumminess of a PB&J.  What's not to like about that.  Plus it's packed full of fiber so it's a win win snack in my book.  I can't wait to try the other flavors.



For dinner I was in the mood to do a little cooking or baking, so I decided to make English muffins.  It's not just one meal in this bowl full of dough, it's multiple meals.  Gotta love how super efficient I was being last night.

I went with a hot and fresh English muffin with a fake sausage patty, one of my frozen mushroom and spinach frittatas and some Laughing Cow cheese.  I threw in some pretzels, but they were a little stale.  I suffered through it, mostly because I was too lazy to get something else.  We were watching this week's episode of Modern Family at the time. Hate to have to pause everyone's good time.

After dinner I had some of my salt and pepper pistachios.  Seriously, we have got a huge problem at my house.  We are all addicted to these little yummy nuggets of goodness.  I might have to head back to Sams to stock up on those.

Happy Friday!  I sure hope I can get my WIAW post done in a more timely manner next week.  Maybe I'll even be able to change it up and have some more interesting foods in my diet.

WAIW...

Well it's Wednesday again so I'll do another WIAW post.  In case you forgot, it stands for What I Ate Wednesday.  So here we go...

Breakfast was yummy!  I had a homemade breakfast sandwich, with one of the English muffins I made on Sunday, a little Laughing Cow garlic and herb cheese, a Morningstar maple flavored "sausage" Patti, and one egg white with some Chia seeds...

 Looks pretty yummy, right?  I just made it and wrapped it up and brought it to work with me.  I love a breakfast that can be portable if you need it to be.

I was going to go with my usually Greek yogurt with Chia seeds and homemade granola, but I woke up starving this morning.  Might have something to do with the two Flirtinis and a heavenly chocolate dessert at Blu.

The flirtini just called to me from the drink menu:

flirtini

vodka/triple sec/spumante/pineapple juice

I had two, and on a school night!  But since this isn't What I Ate Tuesday, let's carry on...

To go with my breakfast, I went for what I am trying to make part of my usual morning routine.  A cup of dark chocolate almond milk.  I could go on and on about this, it's so yummy.  My cholesterol likes it too, which is always good.  Plus it's got twice as much calcium as regular milk and in light of my recent (and never ending) tibia stress fracture, I am really making an effort to get my calcium every day. 

Now I am just working on my water bottle, which has some NUUN in it.  Triple berry flavor, so good.  I am hoping it'll make me feel less like I had a couple of drinks on a school night.  I am hoping to get in 40 oz of water before lunch time.





So for lunch today we walked over to Iguana Mexican Grill.  Well the girls I went with walked, and I crutched my way over there.  If that is not a word, then it should be.  I didn't get a picture of my lunch, but here's what I had:

  I, of course went with the spinach and mushroom, and I chose the black beans as my side.  I was a little disappointed in the black beans though.  I thought they would have a bit more flavor.  Overall it was very yummy.  They have the best salsa there.

I drank a ton of water, and I'm working on my second 20 bottle of water at my desk.  It's kind of a pain to have to pee so often though, the two doors that I have to go through to get to the bathroom are heavy and it's not so easy on my crutches.

I headed from work to the Y where I did 15 minutes on the arc trainer, and then my new favorite class, Donna's hour long spin class. 

On the way I had this Luna Bar, I love Luna Bars!  When I got home I ate the rest of these Everybody's Nuts Pistachios.  Some were salt and pepper, some were sweet chili flavored.  Yum!

For dinner we had Vegetarian American Chop Suey.  It was leftover from Monday night.  I changed it up since I didn't think there was enough pasta in the dish the first time.  We ended up adding cheese tortellini to it, so it felt more like a pasta dish.  With a salad and some garlic bread I was stuffed.

I had one chocolate chip cookie and at 8:45 I just had to go to bed.

So that's it.  Sure seems like alot when I put it all down.