…I’ll be back. Class went well, I didn’t do much work but I did enjoy a long phone call with one of my best friends. Adam and I are vegging out and watching Hulu and I’ll be back in the morning.
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Hitchin’ a Ride
Volunteering went well and now I’m making a quick stop home before I head to school. I have to wait for Adam to come home with the car so I figured I’d do a quick lunch post.
Small cup vegetarian chili –
Dang this was an interesting post!!! 😉 See you this evening.
How do you get around? If you have a car, is it yours alone or do you share? Here in Buffalo I am 80% car 20% walking and I share a car with my husband. In NYC it was 70% walking 30% subway, I miss that!
Healthy Cheese Eggs
Morning Monday! I know most people have to go to work (I wish I was going to work!) but I feel much better now that the sun is up. Even though Adam and I tend to stay up pretty late day to day, there are times when we are tired that we both get completely punch-drunk. Last night was one of those times for sure. It was only midnight when we were getting ready for bed but we were both shrieking laughing and bouncing around all over the place! We’ve had a few similar experiences throughout the years, one time we stayed up all night before a flight and we laughed so hard I peed my pants!!! That is actually one of my favorite memories 🙂
This morning pie was on the brain. Maybe because I totally took two bites straight from the pan when I got to the kitchen? But mostly because the recipe had called for 4 egg yolks and I had 4 whites leftovers to use. I put the eggs to work for breakfast.
Along with the whites I stirred in 4T of fat free whipped cottage cheese, and seasoned with salt and paprika. Then I cooked it all in 1t of Smart Balance Light over medium-high heat. It was pretty yummy, Adam came up with the egg/cottage cheese idea yesterday and I think it works out while.
Alongside I had some fresh cut pineapple.
It was a good start the week breakfast.
I’m heading to the hospital for volunteering now. And I’m going to campus early to see if I can get some help with the lab report (I’m trying to write one for the lab I missed). I hope everyone’s work week is off to a good start!
What sort of things have you put in eggs?
Tastes of Fall
Another productive day, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the streak continues! Plus, I’ve full-force started eating “October food,” another trend I hope to continue 🙂 After my breakfast post I attempted to do a little work, but Adam and I realized we were way too distracting to each other at home,
so we packed up our stuff and went to a coffee shop to work!
All my diet soda talk in the last post got me craving one, so that’s what I had!
The husband got a fancy shmancy hot chocolate.
We were at The Spot, so you know I wanted a Mike’s Sandwich, but when I thought about all the food fun I had planned at home I decided to resist. We studied for 4hours and I got a huge chunk of Chemistry work done.
On the way home I had the husband drop me at the gym. It was not so fabulous. My foot still hurts and my calves were really really tight. I really need to talk to a professional about strength-building/stretching exercises for my calves, knees, and hips. In the end I did 2.83 miles on the treadmill, and tons of stretching, for 36minutes and 361 calories.
After my shower we closet swapped our summer stuff for winter duds. Folks, we need to go shopping. I have almost no winter wardrobe. In NYC I dressed inappropriately and just dealt with being cold and uncomfortable, but that is not going to fly here in Buffalo (I’ll die!). We scheduled in a big mall trip for next weekend – p.s. we budgeted for this already.
Then, the foodie fun began! I made my first pumpkin pie through a straw of the season.
1/2C 2C “>Stoneyfield Farms Lowfat Vanilla Frozen Yogurt, 1C pumpkin puree, 1T maple syrup, 1/2C skim milk, dash cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice.
So good!
While I was drinking “pie,” I started baking pie! I made a Maple Spice Pie from one of my favorite cookbooks, Pie, Pie, Pie: Easy Homemade Favorites, by John Phillip Carroll. I used a Wholly Wholesome Organic Whole Wheat Pie Shell.
Small blip, apparently you need maple syrup for a maple pie, who knew?!
After an emergency run to the store things were back on track. It had to set, so I started dinner before diving into dessert. This combo came (basically) from the September issue of Health (recipe here). Tofu and eggplant with cabbage over soba noodles.
I swapped tamari and worchestire (sp?) for miso and sesame seeds for sesame oil, but other than that I followed the recipe. It was wonderful, I loved the soba noodles and the texture of the tofu was great.
I had more pumpkin alongside dinner, Wolaver’s Organic Will Steven’s Pumpkin Ale.
And then finally it was time for dessert!
The pie was good, but super messy. The inside tasted like caramel apples to me!
I took a huge slice and actually made myself a bit sick 😦 Now it is time for bed, I’ve got to get my sleep if I want another productive day!
What fall foods have you enjoyed this year?
The Change You Won’t See
Good morning! The movie wasn’t as good as anticipated (it was much sweeter than we were expecting but not as funny) but I loved my Halloween Dots. I also snagged half of Adam’s small popcorn and drank a huge diet coke. I think my favorite part of the entire experience was the soda!
Unless I don’t post at all for the day, I show you pretty much every single bite I put in my mouth. I know some bloggers have a bar here or there that they don’t post but that’s not my style. The only things I don’t show are –
- if I take a bite or two of the husband’s food
- vitamins – I take Flinestones Gummy Vites (shut up) 4-7 days a week
- non-caloric drinks; water and diet sodas
Previously I was having at least 1 (sometimes many many many more) diet sodas a day. I realize that many people think diet soda is unhealthy, but I do most things healthy and it makes me deliriously happy which I think is a good trade-off. I’ve thought about “quitting” diet soda over the years, and I’ve always decided that my happiness is a big part of my health too and therefore, for me, the diet soda is healthy.
However, as you know, I don’t have a job. And in this economy (especially in Buffalo) I could not have a job for a while. I’ve always been a big saver, so we actually are fine living off our savings and Adam’s loans for the next year, but we do have to be more careful with our money. We made a budget last weekend and I decided that ultimately, it’s not worth the money to pay to have diet coke in the house. So now I have to really really enjoy it when I buy one when I’m out 🙂
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Today is another busy day. I have some fun things I want to do this afternoon, but I’ve got to get all of my not so fun stuff out of the way first. I have Chemistry work, a quick trip to the gym, and today we finally need to switch out our closets for our winter duds. For breakfast I had 1/2C whipped cottage cheese with 4oz fresh cut pineapple.
I’ll see you for lunch.
What is your take on diet sodas? Do you have a favorite? Mine is Diet Cherry Coke.
Delayed Gratification
It was another productive day, I’m on a roll! I stayed up way too late last night so the roll didn’t get started until 10 this morning. I posted my uncooperative blog post first thing, and then did 10minutes of stretching and strength training – including 70reps of abs, 50reps of arms, and 30reps of legs.
Then I got straight to work on my Chemistry homework. And worked. And worked. And worked. And suddenly, my whole day was gone! I hate that it takes so long, but I am thrilled to be done, I think this is the first thing I’ve done in advance all semester.
I was so focused on enthalpy changes that I forgot to eat, but once I arrived at the grocery store at 4 I promptly remembered! I managed to stay focused enough to get our food for next week – and save $20 in sales/coupons, yay! – but I was definitely rushing. Good thing the meal (lunch/dinner) I prepared when I got home was worth waiting for!
I seriously loved every single component of this. I was in foodie heaven. Honey mustard tuna salad.
This recipe (click here) just came to me, and I’m so glad it did. So tasty.
Apple slices and 1serving+ Food Should Taste Good Jalopeno Chips for dipping.
The chips were the perfect spice level to go with my salad.
And finally a glass of POM Nectarine juice.
This was better than kiwi, it will be coming to store soon, look for it!
In just a bit we are heading out for a date, to see “Couples’ Retreat.” We’ve decided to cut back on the movies this year (we were going 1-3times a week in Brooklyn!!) but this was definitely on my worth it list. I am so excited about my movie snack –
My first Halloween candy! I packed 1 serving each of Candy Corn and Ghost Dots. 
I hope everyone else has a good evening!
Have you had any spook candy yet? What is your favorite kind? My favorite is mini York patties.
Pretend You Saw This Last Night
*****NOTE***** This was written last night and would have been posted if WordPress didn’t suck so bad.
What a difference a day makes; I am in such a better frame of mind! Nothing stereotypically exciting happened today, but my nerdy self was in heaven 🙂
My doctor’s appointment went great; she thinks my next appointment might be my last! I can’t even image having an uninterrupted training schedule, so exciting. I went straight from the doctor’s to school, meaning I was at school from 2-8. I snacked on my Sahale Ksar Blend while I studied notecards.
The bag had two servings, but was a perfect larger snack.
A couple of hours later I ate my Cashew Protein Plus Boomi Bar while doing practice problems. It was delish.
My test was 6:30 – 7:50. I actually think I did pretty well. There is one problem I know I messed up, but overall I knew what I was doing. I will not, however, be cramming for test #2, it would have been much less stressful to just study properly in advance.
Adam was with friends studying future doctor stuff so I met up with them. I had a great time watching them practice taking vitals, and I also managed to somehow do more chemistry; I read a whole chapter! Plus our friend Benji made fabulous roasted eggplant soup for dinner.
I had a small bowl with a slice of bread. We got home around 11:30 and the productivity continued; the planned out our meals for the next week! I am definitely proud of how much I accomplished today. Tomorrow will be busy as well, there are a lot of to-do’s on the agenda. I’ve got to go rest up, see you tomorrow!
Why are you proud of yourself today?
Running (Late)
I have a doctor’s appointment for my foot which means Iwill be barely walking, let alone running, for the next few days so I needed to make my workout count. I fueled up with a healthy breakfast and Rockstar this morning, brought my i-pod with my 60minute playlist, and wore my new P.E. shirt for good luck.
I did the Galloway method (2run/1walk) on the treadmill. In total I did 5.6miles / 59minutes / 686calories. I wanted to do more but I was way behind schedule. In fact, I was running so late I didn’t get to wash my hair in the shower, leading to this sexy look.
Today is going to be a loooooon day. I have a doctor’s appointment for my foot at 12:30 and then I am driving to school and studying there until my test at 6:30. That’s a lot of time on campus but I’m nervous about this test (I have Not been studying enough) and hopefully I will focus better there.
I’m not sure what dinner will bring but I’ll give you a lunch noon – 8pm meal preview:
Gotta dash!
Eating Chalk 