For breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus snack, here were my top three eats for this week…
breakfast{1} The 2nd best* thing I ate all week – Vietnamese iced coffee.
Café du Mondé coffee with chicory from our trip to NOLA with sweetened condensed milk. Yum City.
b{2} A killer smoothie.
How pretty is this purple?? Frozen soursop and blueberries with cow’s milk and vanilla pudding mix.
b{3} Double chocolate oat bowl.
Oats, chia, freeze-dried strawberries, chocolate chips, and chocolate-covered cacao nibs.
b{warning} Do not recommend: this oatmeal drink box.
The flavor was way too artificial. Adam tried a plain one and loved it so it’s probably the caramel flavor that’s the problem.
lunch{1} Cafeteria sandwich.
Turkey and cheese. I mostly prefer to pack lunch for work but I hate trying to pack sandwiches so this is a great cafeteria option when I’m in the mood.
l{2} Yogurt bowl.
Coconut Greek yogurt with pink grapefruit is this year’s new favorite combo! I snacked on the vanilla granola and chocolate coconut milk on the side.
l{3} Baked potato bar.
I topped my spud with cheese sauce, salsa, black beans, bell peppers, red onion, jalapeño, and cilantro.
snack{1} Caffeine overload.
Iced latte with chocolate-covered espresso beans. Full disclosure – I drank a sugar-free Red Bull around this same time and spent an hour or two pretty sure I could hear colors.
s{2} Cheesy bagel.
I toasted half a poppy seed bagel with butter and cheddar-gruyere/parmesan-gouda. Eaten while prepping dinner because I just couldn’t wait.
s{3} Yogurt bowl with my favorite citrus.
Maple yogurt with Heritage Flakes. Plus a Sumo Mandarin.
dinner{1} Let’s be real, the very best* thing I ate this week was nachos.
Four-cheese nachos with black beans and roasted garlic salsa. Duh. But no photo because we ate them in bed in the middle of the day (<–fabulous) and my main focus was on keeping them away from the dog.
d{2} Gojuchang turkey rice bowls.
Brown rice with cilantro, lime and butter / roasted cabbage / ground turkey sautéed with spring onions and cilantro and a sauce made out of gojuchang, brown sugar, soy sauce, and rice vinegar / black sesame seeds and lime juice on top.
d{3} Cheesy eggs.
A scramble with cheddar-gruyere and parmesan-gouda. Plus baby carrots for a quick veggie on the side.
d{warning} Do not recommend: the altered quinoa soup I blogged about last weekend.
I see why Cooking Light only used a quarter cup of grains, by day 2 our leftovers were very well-hydrated quinoa with not a drop of broth to be found.
