Lunch was eaten in stages. First, a full cartoon of Dr. McDougall’s Minestrone Soup.
It was good, but a bit brothy.
I had a Zevia Twist along the side.
Second, was a fantabulous salad.
This salad was socks-rocking; lettuce base, shredded carrot, lite blue cheese dressing, dried fig, chopped pear.
My goal tonight is bed before 9, so this will be quick. I don’t have much to say anyways. I am so disgusted with myself that I haven’t been taking care of business. I used to be someone who thrived on pressure, but now I feel like I completely shut down if I have more than one thing to do. Plus, why the frick am I so tired?!? Is it jet-lag? An oncoming cold? What??
I have some goal-setting to do in the morning, so I’ll do a quick food recap for now. I tried a sample from Annie Chun’s for lunch.
I bulked it up with some shredded carrots.
And had a Zevia (x2),
and finished with chocolate chips.
And later in the afternoon Adam and I took a note from last night’s dinner and ate a humungous bowl of popcorn.
Blegh.
I need advice What do you do to get motivated?
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.
I have not gotten near enough done today (unless you count the huge stack of magazines I powered through as an accomplishment) so this post needs to be quick. All of my food choices have been unbelievably random today.
“Breakfast” was the last serving of Food Should Taste Good Lime Chips.
For lunch I followed last night’s theme and did some more using up. The last Flat Out wrapped around the last Boca Spicy Chik’n Patty, with lettuce, carrots, cheese, and buffalo sauce.
For fruit I made a smoothie – 1C passionfruit pulp, 1 fat free plain Oikos, big splash oj, drizzle honey.
And I snacked on a Healthy Hazel Boomi Bar sample.
I’ll be back after class this evening.
Tell me one random thing about yourself. I’ll go first – My middle name is Helen.
Fabulous day alert! After so many weeks of being a lazy blob I am seriously relishing my productivity. Post office, studying, dinner; check, check, check! Plus I rocked two of my grandma’s old necklaces which always makes me happy.
The line at the post office was redonculous, but a very sweet package from my mommy was a nice reward at the end. Lots of excitement ensued; I got a bunch of magazines, new book,
a baggie of my favorite candy of all time ever (I ate one of these without photographing), fruit gels,
and a P.E. T-shirt from my old high school!
After my not ‘rain nor snow’ing I met up with a friend from Chemistry to study. We got in a solid 5 hours! As much as we accomplished, I didn’t do so hot on the practice tests so I know I have my work cut out for me this week.
I got home around 8:30 and got right to dinner. My goal was to use up leftovers, frozen food, and my Annie Chun’s sample.
The end result was seriously socks rocking! I was in absolute heaven eating this plate.
I heated chipotle pepper oil over medium high heat. Added 2 chopped Apple Maple Sausages (I froze these a few months ago) and 2 big handfuls spinach/arugula and a small handful shredded carrot. Next I added leftover roasted butternut squash from yesterday and 1/2 of the black pearl rice. Then I stirred in a splash each of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame seeds. Finally I broke in 1egg and stirred.
I couldn’t get over how good this was! What a mix of flavors and textures, lots of sweet/savory which I love.
For dessert I tried some of my new candies.
They were good, but the Sunkist ones are the best.
We started watching “Glory Road” while we ate and I’m enjoying it. See you tomorrow!
Have you made any good mish-mash meals lately?
I haven’t gotten much work done but the rain was the perfect atmosphere for watching some “tv.” In the hours after breakfast I was starving so I ate a Cookie Dough Balance Bar.
These are seriously the best things on Earth!
Lunch was inspired by leftover pizza ingredients and these guys.
I was excited about these Boca Spicy Chik’n Meatless Patties, but a little concerned by this warning –
I read through all the ingredients and have no idea what this is about. Does anyone else know? I combined spice + pizza for one super sandwich.
I rolled a patty in a Flat Out with ~2T each pizza sauce, shredded carrots, 2% colby jack cheese, and Anchor Bar Buffalo Sauce.
I ate some leftover peppers from last night alongside.
Quite a good lunch.
Dessert was pretty good too.
Purely Decadent Non-Dairy Blueberry Cheesecake ice cream with Crofter’s Superfruit North America Spread.
The skies are looking a little less foreboding so I might make it to the gym today after all. My other focus of the day is chemistry. See you for dinner.
For Funsies – What is your favorite animal? In no particular order, I love duckbilled platypuses, spiny echidnas, otters, and pigs.
I actually got in bed before 10pm last night, but when we wake up 8bazillion times a night you kind of are tired no matter when you go to bed! I wouldn’t have mattered when I woke up today though, I let my sadness over my foot kind of take over my whole day. Not good, Emily, not good.
For breakfast I made 0% Fage with a heaping teaspoon TJ’s Sun Butter.
And lunch made tasty tasty use of leftovers (and made leftovers for tomorrow!).
I chopped up cooked lasagna noodles and stir fried them with broccoli, carrots, seitan, evoo, soy sauce, and chipotle oil. It was super tasty, but I don’t think I like seitan as much as I once did. I used this package from West Soy, and it just tasted a little off.
All in all the plate was still pretty good though.
Adam came home early from school (a class was canceled because of a big test this week) and we watched “Boogeyman” together. It was a strange movie, but the eating of 4squares of this greatly upped my enjoyment.
I got to school in time to print off class notes and purchase a stuffed buffalo for my niece. We are visiting Adam’s brother in Ohio this weekend. I also gave Jamba Juice a second chance.
Much better. When I got home from class I supplemented “dinner” with these pretzels.
Tomorrow is a big day, I have my first lab, my first quiz, and hopefully my first day back at the gym. Wish me luck!
What are you crossing your fingers for this week?
I’m back! I’m still pretty pissed about my foot, but at least I am calm about it now. It’s not just that my foot hurts, it’s mostly that the hurting is making me unable to walk normally, which is making my knee and hip really hurt. Even if I ignore the pain I physically can’t make myself walk normally and I’m worried that once I can run again I’ll have messed up my hip or knee. Argh! I’m going to take one more day off and then attempt to go to the gym tomorrow.
Moving on. I didn’t sleep well last night (shocking right?!) so I slept in until 9 and then got up and got organized for volunteering. I ate a PB&J Lara Bar on the walk to the hospital.
I love this flavor! When I put my shoes on at home I seemed ok, but by the time I was a block away I knew it wasn’t going to happen. My ward (dialysis) didn’t have anything seated for me to do so I offered to help in the volunteer office. I spent an hour or so on the telephone helping people get appointments for free heart health screenings. There wasn’t much else for me to do so I got home much earlier than usual.
I took advantage of the found time to make dinner for tonight.
I have night class, so Adam can just throw this in the oven when it’s time for him to eat.
Then I got started on noon eats. For lunch I made my Easy Peasy Peanut Noodles (click the link for the recipe).
I used a Justin’s pb packet and added baby arugula and shredded carrots.
Delish. I love reheating pasta in a pan so it gets all nice and crispy.
I have class from 6:30-7:50 tonight but I’ve got to leave before 3:30 so I can go to the pharmacy to pick up my foot medicine. We have our first chemistry quiz (and our first lab!) this week so I’ve got lots of studying to squeeze in today. I’m glad dinner is done with 🙂
There are three reasons for the end of this post: 1) Caitlin’s brilliance this morning reminded me, 2) I’ve been planning on posting some inspiration ever since I found out that today is The International Day of Peace, 3) my attitude has been pretty negative lately, I would like to put out some positivity. That said, here is a list of some of my favorite quotes –
“A man is what he thinks about all day.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” ~Edmund Burke
“People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.” ~Douglas Yates
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life – it goes on.” ~Robert Frost (I actually have part of this one engraved on the back of my i-pod)
“This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.” ~Scott Reed
“Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.” ~Josh Billings
“For all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those ‘it might have been.'” ~John Greenleaf Whittier
What is your favorite quote?
Eating Chalk 