Distractable Me

by Emily

The range of activities today mean that I have very few pictures, but considering the late hour it’s just as well. We did a lot of indulging today too, but since we move on my 1/4 of a century I’m basically declaring it Birthday Week! 😉

Yesterday I had breakfast for lunch, and today I had lunch for breakfast.

I ate the 2nd half of my tasty turkey sandwich,

alongside three carrots.

We ended up not moving at all today, which was great because moving yesterday was even more of a workout than I had thought; I’m so sore! My legs practically feel like they did after my half marathon, which is I guess is what living on the top floor without an elevator will do to you. I’m always glad to squeeze in the incidental exercise, and today I was glad to squeeze in more time finishing my paper.

The main reason we switched our plans is that we were off being *movie stars!* Some of our friends are involved in shooting an orientation video to show to first year medical students and they called this morning to ask us to help out. Adam and I got to shoot a library love scene ❤

Afterwards we were in a movie frame of mind and we ended up heading to the theatre to watch Despicable Me. The husband and I split a big tub of popcorn but it was too dark to photograph. Poor nutrition aside, the movie was a good decision; it was so cute! We highly recommend it, even to grown ups (although it’s also worth noting that it is a great kid’s movie, it was funny without relying on inappropriate adult humor).

When we got home I made myself a sliced Gala apple with 2tsp of TJ’s Sun Butter.

Dinner got out of whack because of my paper writing, but we did make a trip to DQ for (16oz) Oreo Cheesequake Blizzards.

What can I say, it was another bogo birthday week coupon! I did manage to control my spoon and only eat half though, the rest is in the freezer waiting for me for another day.

When I did finally finish my work the husband threw me together a quick dinner.

Nobody makes sunny side up eggs like Adam does! The bread is from a thin sliced loaf of rosemary and olive oil; we tasted a sample on Saturday and it was so good we knew we had to buy it.

Can you keep it to one day or do you celebrate a Birthday Week as well?

11Jul2010

Watermelon in a Smoothie and Beans in Some Soup

by Emily

I hate doing all these drive-by posts but things have just been so busy. A little rush is worth it though, it was wonderful getting to meet our new niece.

We got in the car around 10 this morning and I was thrilled to see a Sheetz where we could buy fresh food in time for lunch.

I got a chicken burrito with fire roasted tomatoes, rice and beans, colby cheese, diced tomatoes, lettuce, green peppers, diced onion, and salsa.

And ate an apple packed from home on the side.

We pulled back into Buffalo around 5:30 and I immediately got to work unpacking and heading to the grocery store. Once I was home for good, the husband helped me whip up some delicious soup. More specifically, White Bean Consomme with Almond Milk, from SELF magazine.

I ate a serving of Salt and Pepper Sommersalts on the side.

It ended up being the perfect quick meal.

I also made a huge smoothie to drink.

Tons of frozen watermelon chunks blended with a Simply Raspberry Lemonade.

Pink!

We didn’t finished dinner until 9:30 but I knew I’d be happiest if I got in some sort of a workout. 10minutes of stretching and strength moves later, my day is complete and I’m on my way to shower and sleep.

What is the most unusual application of watermelon you’ve tried this summer?

22Jun2010

Rainy Daze

by Emily

Today’s weather was a strange mix of torrential downpour and beautiful blue skies; on the whole it left me throughly confused. I felt like I muddled about in a bit of a daze all day. The only thing I didn’t muddle through was my sociology test – 24/25 😀

Breakfast, on the go, was delicious.

Applemon Funky Monkey. It was like a grown up version of those caramel apple chips that used to be around when I was a kid.

After class I did ~1mile of my walk home, stopping at the Spot to study. While I was there I ate a vegan peanut butter chocolate chip muffin for lunch.

It was during that time that the skies really opened up. Fantastically, Adam randomly got off work early and came to pick me up in the car. When we got home we had to plan a couple of things for the rest of the week and I begged him to lay on the bed and cuddle with me while we talked. —> enter 2 and 1/2 hour nap! It was way too long to be asleep in the middle of the afternoon and left me totally disoriented; still worth it though.

Dinner was one of those meals that was so simple and so tasty.

I went ahead and made leftover for tomorrow as well so the amounts listed are for 2servings – 2cups frozen okra, 1.5cups frozen corn, 1cup black beans, paprika, s&p. Perfect. I topped today’s bowl with green salsa pinched from Moe’s.

On the side I had one of my favorites, beer bread.

My mom always makes this (and save the ends for me!) when I’m home but this was my first time making the recipe on my own. Also definitely the first time it was made with a vegan butter substitute 😉 It was so fantastic I ended up going back for a second hunk, spread with a bit of Smart Balance Light.

This bread seriously takes less than 5minutes to put together, make it!

What is your favorite food recipe that involves booze?

21Jun2010

Full of Fruit

by Emily

So far my meals today have been about the lower half of the food pyramid. I tallied it up and realized that I’ve eaten six servings of fruit via breakfast and lunch!

Breakfast – eaten on the drive to school – was a tasty waffle sandwich.

1/2 a sliced banana, ~1T smear of sun butter, and a drizzle of maple syrup sandwiched between 2 Van’s Buckwheat and Berries waffles.

This was my first waffle sandwich and I think I’m a fan. It could have used a bit of jelly though.

After class I got in my 2.5miles of incidental exercise walking. I stopped at The Spot halfway to read and eat the first half of lunch there. A bag of Apple-2-the-core Peeled Snacks,

and a bag of Carnival Mix Funky Monkey.

It was kind of an unorthodox snack, but the fruity mix of chewy and crunchy helped to keep my full while I worked.

Once I got home out of the steam I made a bowl of my new favorite.

A plain Whole Soy yogurt topped with watermelon chunks.

I want to give you guys an opportunity to od on fruits as well!

Peeled Snacks has graciously offered to send one of my readers an Organic Fruit Picks Variety Pack. The giveaway runs from today until Friday (June 25th). To enter to win –

Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite type of fruit.
For a 2nd/3rd entry – link back to this post from your blog and/or Twitter account and leave a comment telling me you’ve done so

29May2010

Best Day in Boston

by Emily

Today has been our best day of vacation yet! We’ve done all sorts of Boston things and did lots of walking. We’ve been doing some serious eating too.

After everyone was showered and ready this morning it was almost noon by the time we left the apartment. The late hour makes it far less strange that we started the day with froyo. I think I’ve found my heaven –

The flavor choices, oh the flavor choices! I went with oreo, cookie dough, nutella.

It was amazing but I still only managed to eat half of it. We’ll be back tomorrow!

Then we headed into the city to wander through Quincy Market.

We did some people watching and walked around the piers,

before setting on the Barking Crab for lunch.

Check out the view from our table –

It was a great choice, I finally got my seafood fix!

I ordered the fresh lobster roll, which came with fries and cole slaw.

Everything was fresh and wonderful. My lobster roll had huge hunks of meat in it and I drowned my fries in malt vinegar. I ate everything except for my bun.

Next we hopped on the T and headed back up to Harvard Square, where I spotted a Ben and Jerry’s truck.

Free ice cream?!? Who turns that down.

I only ate half of it but it was still pretty exciting.

Our friend Ian rejoined us (with his roomate) and that point and we ended up in an outside cafe with a pitcher of sangria.

We took the party to an (inside) bar so the boys could play pool once the rain threatened our fun. FYI – other than what I show in booze I stuck with diet coke and water for most of the day. I also munched on an apple I had in my purse.

Doesn’t everyone do that when they’re in bars?

For dinner we headed to Deep Ellum, our friends’ favorite spot in their neighborhood. They had an impressively innovative drink menu, lots of absinthe and elderberry liquor. I went with the Vanilla Flip.

Brandy, vanilla syrup, egg, bitters. It was shockingly good, it tasted just like Christmas!

For an appetizer Nikki and I split a soft pretzel.

And apparently I was hungry for dinner because I was halfway done before I remembered to take the picture!

That’s the last 1/3 of my vegan seitan burger and fries. Again, I ate everything minus the bun.

We did a lot of “vacation eating” today; fries and ice-cream x2!? As I mentioned before, I’m not going to miss out on fun foodie chances in Boston, but I did try to keep things in check by doing lots of walking, not drinking too much booze, and skipping the caloric items that don’t excite me (like sandwich buns).

We are actually heading back out in an hour or so because Ian’s friends are having a party, but I’d rather not deal with my camera this evening. You can assume I’ll have 1-2beers and then stick with water. Tomorrow we are squeezing in as much as possible during the day and then driving back to Buffalo in the evening. I’m not sure when I’ll get a chance to post again.

Are there any items you always skip when eating out? I love bread bread – bagels, our sourdough loaves, or naan – but since sandwich bread doesn’t rock my socks I’d just as soon skip it.

16May2010

Sheetz Envy

by Emily

The weekend is coming to an end, and it’s been a long but fun day. I have a lot to do before bed so I’m going to try to keep this short and sweet.

As predicted I did some snacking last night; the boys were eating jalopeno poppers and they sounded to good to resist.

It was 1am though and I wasn’t even really hungry. All of which is yet another testament to why I should stop doing things like staying up until 2:30 in the morning!

This morning I got off to a healthy start with some from-home-food; 1cup Kashi h2h with skim milk.

We slept in, and my almost 5 year old niece of course did not, so lunch came very soon after breakfast. Her choice was Arby’s, so I went with a turkey bacon ranch sandwich.

I wasn’t all that hungry so I ate half of my food and gave the rest away.

We went out in the yard for a game of catch and some bubble blowing and by the time Adam on I were on the road at 2:30 I was finally feeling my lunch hunger. I did some nutritional sleuthing online before we left and found that my brunch (cereal + sandwich) had ~400 calories so I aimed for a 500ish calorie car snack. I do NOT count calories, but I do think they are usefull data for abnormal eating situations.

Can I just say, I am sooooo jealous of anyone who lives near a Sheetz! I managed to cobble together an amazing, healthy meal for the car. A Naked coconut juice box.

A Sabra hummus and pretzel pack.

And a small fruit and cheese plate.

I can’t even explain how thrilling it was to find this type of food at a gas station.

By the time we rolled back into Buffalo it was after 7pm so we stopped in at Moe’s to pick up dinner.

Jr sized burrito with pino beans, a smidge of rice, cheese, pico, guacamole, and cilantro.

The texture was good, but this was actually a little bland 😦 I’m feeling hungry still and I’m going to be up late so I’ll almost definitely eat something else later. My camera needs to charge so no pictures, but I’m eyeing my CF spicy chicken leftovers. Hope everyone else’s weekends got wrapped up nicely!

5May2010

Fluffernutter x10billion

by Emily

Do you remember when Brangelina had a kid (a biological one) and everyone knew that it would grow up to be the hottest thing ever?

Do you ever think about what it would be like if your two favorite bands collaborated?

My two favorite things mated –

Oh yeah, that is a sunbutter and vegan fluff sandwich. Think fluffernutter x 10billion.

I toasted two thick slices of country white bread, smeared them with sunbutter and ricemellow creme, and heated the whole thing in the oven until it got nice and gooey.

Alongside a small gala apple.

Eat More Fruit Tip # 5 – If you slice an apple in advance, keep it from getting brown by sprinkling on a little lemon juice.

It made for a perfect, grade-school-esque lunch, all I needed was an apple smile or some bumps on a log!

Other things happening today?

I dipped my spoon into the stewed tamarind at least 3times
I’ve been nibbling at the edges of the mac and cheese too

Fruit eaten so far today: 1.5cups

24Mar2010

Equations of Sorts

by Emily

It’s 9:20 and I would kill to already be in bed so I’ll keep this short and sweet. My day went lab –> people watching on campus –> doctor’s appointment/waiting for the husband’s doctor’s appointment –> eating junk whilst watching tv –> this super lame post.

Breakfast = green.