Hungry Eyes

by Emily

Good evening all! I know I said I was doing a lunch post, but I was supposed to do a lot of things, and instead I slept. 🙂 I did get some of my to do’s finished, but all my kitchen work got pushed back in favor of a nap.

For lunch I did a replay of the best salad ever.

Did I mention that I microwave the whole thing? I think that is what makes it so fantastic. I used bit little bit more hot sauce, salsa, and cheese than the last time 🙂

I was still super hungry after my first lunch (I told you I get ravenous when I’m feeling sick!) so I made a Flat Out, stuffed with melted cheese.

Mmmmn, cheesey.

Class this evening went pretty well, I’m pretty psyched that I still understand everything she is talking about! When I got to campus I was still starving so I stoped at Jamba Juice for a 16oz smoothie. I got a Caribbean Passion, and it tasted like apple juice. Apple juice wasn’t listed in the ingredients and I hate apple juice, I had to throw it out 1/3-in. I hate that! I find it very stressful to make the “wrong” choice with food. Food court situations send me into a tizzy.

On the drive home I suddenly felt much better so I took advantage of the random burst of energy and went to the gym. I had 3miles scheduled so I cranked up the treadmill. Today I put the incline on .5 to (slightly) approximate running outside. With warm up/cool down I did 3.5miles and 35minutes. Afterwards I did some abs (70reps) and stretching. All total: 43minutes, 441calories. I am loving my great playlist, I listen to it in the car everyday too!

After my intense hunger all day now that it’s finally dinnertime I’m not even hungry! If the feeling strikes after my shower I’ll make something, but either way I’ll see you in the am!

When you are under the weather do you end up eating more or less? I feel like my hunger is always the opposite of normal, sickness makes me ravenous! Plus I get way more hungry in the heat and have no appetite when it’s cold.

16Sep2009

Pie(ish)

by Emily

It’s Wednesday! I woke up feeling pretty awful this morning (exhausted, sore throat, headache) but I had preplanned breakfast last night and was too excited not to push through (yes, I realize I wake up at 8:45 and most bloggers are up hours before the sun!).

This

Yum. Dannon Nonfat Plain yogurt, sprinkle cinnamon, crumbled Apple Pie Lara Bar, chopped Zestar apple, Justin’s Nut Butters Cinnamon Peanut Butter packet. The pb made this bowl, it actually did taste like pie!

I’m actually (amazingly) feeling a little hungry still, I get ravenous when I’m sick(ish). Today I’ve got lots of to-dos, some studying, and I’m hoping to make it to the gym. I think I’m going to do my baking and prepare dinner this morning, I have a night class so I’ll set everything up so Adam can just put it into the oven. I’ll be back with lunch.

What is your favorite way to eat nut butter? Other than the awesomeness that is these Justin’s squeeze packets (straight into my mouth), I think I like it best in yogurt.

15Sep2009

I Think I Found My Motivation

by Emily

Woot! Woot! My to-do’s finally got off-schedule for good reasons. I’ve been so unmotivated the past week, everything feels like I’m moving in slow-motion and I got behind on my work, training schedule, life! Now I am not only caught up, but slightly ahead 🙂 I had to push back my kitchen time but it’s a small price to pay.

After my 5hrs at the coffee shop I did 2.5more here. I am halfway done with the online work due Monday. While I worked I fueled up for the gym.

Stoneyfield YoKids Lowfat Strawberry/Vanilla yogurt, sliced black plum, Justin’s Nut Butters Honey Almond Butter packet. So satisfying.

Around 8 Adam and I headed to the gym for some treadmill time. My training schedule had 2miles for today and I decided to work on speed.

I did Mile 1 in 8minutes 11seconds
Mile 2 in 8minutes 35seconds
with warm up/between miles break/cool down I did 27minutes
and burned 287calories

Since cooked dinner got cooked back (but mostly because we had a coupon which is exciting to me) Adam convinced me to get Pizza Hut for dinner. We did green peppers, green olives, and mushrooms.

I had this x3 (that’s a small plate).

To drink/for dessert I made this hottness –

I’ve been mulling this idea over for a week and I think it was a success: 2 So Delicious Dairy Free Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches + 5cubes ice + big splash skim milk + blending = cookies and cream inspired milkshake for ~200calories.

I’ve still got to shower (we ate slowly and watched a Bones rerun online) so I’m out for the evening, peace!

Do you ever reformat foods? I was pretty proud of my sandwich to shake idea.

15Sep2009

I Would Marry Mike

by Emily

‘Afternoon! I can’t believe it’s Tuesday today, it simulataneously feels like it should be Monday and Friday to me! Sleeping last night was, once again, ridiculous. I was having the strangest dreams, and they were dominated by this girl I haven’t seen since high school, weird! Tossing and turning moved my wake-up from 7 –> 9:30, but I still managed to make it to The Spot for a study session by 10:30.

I started with a medium iced Americano to which I added “skinny moo.”

And for breakfast brunch I ordered a Mike’s sandwich. That is bagel with pan fried egg, provolone cheese, bacon or ham, and cream cheese.

I modified mine to have turkey on an everything bagel. End result? Gah, too good for real words! Look at that sexy close-up –

I studied Chemistry from 10:30 to 3pm. About halfway in there I ordered a cinnamon plum iced tea.

This flavor is so awesome, I don’t know the company but if you see it in your area order it! And it must have some sort of magical motivational powers because I rocked it out on the studying.

The rest of today is looking pretty busy still. On the agenda –

working on homework problems online
a trip to the gym (2mile run is on the schedule)
making dinner
baking fun

I would also like to put away the clean laundry from this weekend but the likelihood of that is so low it didn’t even make it on the agenda! See you this evening.

What is your feeling on bagel sandwiches? I love love love them. My favorite food item on Earth is a bagel/turkey bacon/cheese/coulis/cream cheese/more yuminess sandwich from a place back home. My bridal party and I had them the morning of my wedding!

14Sep2009

Bulimic Taco

by Emily

My class went well and I got all of my campus to-do’s completed. My San Fransisco trip is causing me to miss a test so I have to complete some forms to be able to get a make-up date. When I was looking at my day planner I realized that that trip is actually the weekend right after I am flying to Ohio for my grandma’s birthday; it’s going to be a busy fall!

Adam called me on the way home to say he was out of printer ink so I pushed baking back until tomorrow and picked him up to go to Target. I had been pretty excited about my sweet endeavor so he really didn’t have to twist my arm to get me to agree to Anderson’s.

I got a chocolate and cookie dough Arctic Swirl. I’ve been obsessed with cookie dough lately, I don’t know what it is! This hit the spot, I loved how custardy the soft-serve was. Plus I liked that the sizing was slightly more reasonable than some other places.

I ate about 3/4 of this.

When I got home I need a speedy meal so I thought of salad. The resulting bowl is what would happen if a taco threw up 🙂

lettuce base
1/2C low sodium black beans, rinsed
3T sharp cheddar
2 shakes Chipotle Tabasco
3T medium, chunky salsa
1serving Garden of Eating Blue Chips

It was shockingly good, I’m pretty sure I’ll be making this again soon.

As soon as I shower it will be time for bed. I’m hoping to really dig into studying tomorrow, so I’m going to head to a coffee shop in the morning. I’ll post at lunch time. Sweet dreams.

Mexican food is often the same thing in a different package, what’s your favorite? I don’t really like tacos, but I loved this taco salad! My favorite is usually burritos or nachos 🙂

14Sep2009

The Buzz

by Emily

Good afternoon all! I hope everyone is having a painless Monday. As you know, I didn’t go to bed until after 2 last night, but once in bed I didn’t fall asleep until after 3! I don’t know how on earth I managed to wake up at 9am but I think my excitement over breakfast was a factor.

I pan-heated two chicken apple maple sausages.

And put my leftover oven-roasted root veggies into eggs. I heated 1T SmartBalance Light in a pan, heated the turnips and parsnips, cracked in two eggs, scrambled, and added a small handful of sharp cheddar at the end.

Very tasty! I will officially say that turnips and parsnips (and whole okra) are a success, they will be entering the regular line up!

After breakfast I hurried to the hospital for my 4hour volunteering shift. At 20’clock I clocked out and apparently became a cereal magnet. I used my lunch voucher to buy some granola and skim milk to eat later this week,

and when I got home I found a Kashi coupon and sample in the mail.

You can click here to get your own sample, I said “surprise me!”

In spite of its abundance, I knew that cereal was not going to cut it for lunch. I spent most of my volunteering time delivering blood and medicine, which means I took the stairs a ton! (when I am taking patients places I obviously only take the elevator) I decided to give Flat Outs a try with another sandwich.

I know it looks unassuming, but he’s just being modest.

1 Flat Out
homemade honey mustard (1T dijon mustard, 1t honey)
6 thin slices turkey
~1/2C shredded carrot

This was very satisfying. I still found the wrap a bit chalky but overall the taste combo was fantabulous. I totally only ended my lunch with almond butter straight into my mouth for the protein.

It was 100% the 6g of protein in the packet, not that it was maple flavored almond butter, and certainly not that I like squeezing it straight into my mouth 🙂

I am feeling very lucky to have received Justin’s samples, 2 thumbs up!

In just a bit I am going to head out to campus. Class isn’t until 6:30 but I need to print off the class notes and pick up some forms. Dinner will be something thrown together because Adam claimed the tofu leftovers, but I am planning on doing some baking tonight!

Foodbuzz Excitement

I couldn’t wait to tell you guys about the excitement I mentioned yesterday – it’s official, my friend Camile and I will be attending the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival in November!!! We booked our tickets and hotel room yesterday and we are both so excited! Do you know anyone else who is attending?

Also, I forgot to mention before, but one of my photos was featured on the main page of Foodbuzz the other day. It’s clearly not a big deal, but the husband was so proud of me he took a screenshot.

foodbuzz

14Sep2009

Unhappy Owl

by Emily

It is 2o’clock in the morning, holy frick holy frick holy frick! Let me just add that I am not even caught up with all my work yet. I am at least, completely finished with the assignment that is due tomorrow (I got 102.2%, woot). Clearly, this will be a speedy post; I took a few walks, did something very exciting I will mention tomorrow, etc. but I will focus just on eats.

Snack = Justin’s Nut Butter Honey PB packet, squeezed straight into my mouth.

Justin’s was so sweet to send me a box of samples, and I will be doing a full review tomorrow.

Lunch = tried some new veggies, i.e. turnips, parsnips, okra.

Okra is actually not new to me perse, but I kept it whole this time. Oven roasted.

I ate all the okra and put 1/3 of the rest into the fridge for tomorrow. My tasty dipping sauce was – buffalo wing sauce, ketchup, maple syrup, chipotle tabasco.

Dinner takes forever = 5 salt water taffies.

Actual dinner =

Orange Tofu from Eat, Drink, and Be Veganby Dreena Burton. It was good, but I had to sub some ingredients and I imagine it could be better.

Oven roasted white asparagus.

Broccoli, keeping with the citrus theme I sauted chopped broccoli and shalots in some clementine olive oil.

Yums.

Studying hurts my brain snack = packet of Rolos.

Nighty night! I probably will skip the breakfast post tomorrow, but will be back after volunteering at 2.

What’s the latest work usually keeps you up? When I was a teacher I would often sleep 2-3hours a night and still be behind! Nyc’s standards from English teachers were out of control.

13Sep2009

Identity Crisis

by Emily

This post is having an identity crisis! I ate at 10:30 last night and at 10:30 this morning. What do you call those meals? Are they still dinner and breakfast? And a post that encapsulates both of them, mind-boggling. unfortunately I don’t have time for semantics.

For 4th meal (I realize that 1. I did not eat 4 times yesterday and 2. I’m copping a Taco Bell term) I had some of Adam’s fancy nuggets.

They were delish, especially when paired with homemade Russian dressing.

I might have also eaten 1/2 of Adam’s medium fry he bought at Wendy’s when I got a fountain diet coke, whoops.

For morning meal not otherwise specified I had a sandwich wrap burrito more semantics.

I’ve been reading about these Flat Outs on other blogs and when I got a chance to see the nutritional stats I had to try them.

I was fairly underwhelmed. They had a nice texture but the taste was pretty chalky, I’ll give them a try again tomorrow though. The combo was still pretty tasty though, I used two Chicken Apple Maple Sausages and the savory sweet taste went very well with 2T of sharp cheddar.

The tastes also went nicely with a sliced black plum.

I ate while I studied, and frankly I should still be studying!

I’ve got to skedaddle because I have beyond tons of schoolwork to do today (apparently doing nothing all week was a bad idea?). Hopefully I can fit some fun in too. Enjoy the end of your weekend!

Have you tried Flat Outs? What did you think?