Delayed Gratification

by Emily

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.

6Oct2009

Mish Mash Meal

by Emily

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?

5Oct2009

Borrowed

by Emily

I made it to campus in time to print off my materials and reschedule a study session with my chemistry friend. Class went well, we got out 10minutes early which is always exciting 🙂

When I got home the husband and I did a photo shoot to show off our new produce.

Check out our funny sized apples! The small one is called a “Mini,” but that pregnant Kate Gossling of an apple is actually just a Honeycrisp.

Adam and I split the biggie (in fact he did lots of sharing tonight, thanks hubby!), I ate my portion on a salad.

It was quite a good salad, it had arugula, chopped apple, shredded carrots, a few peanuts and ~1T of Adam’s creamy italian salad dressing.

I ate dinner in courses, each item alone, but it all added up to be a great meal.

After the salad was a tropical smoothie.

~1/2C Goya passionfruit pulp, ~1C frozen tropical fruit blend, ~1/2C oj. It was tasty, but a little too tart, I only drank about 2/3 of it.

Next Adam was the sweetest bear ever and shared 2 chicken nuggets with me.

And finally I ate some roasted butternut squash.

I spritzed it with evoo; sprinkled with salt, pepper, cinnamon, and nutmeg; and roasted for 20minutes at 475*.

Actually, finally was dessert. I prepped this Chocolate Peanut Butter Quick Bread my mom sent awhile ago while I drank my smoothie.

I did a lot of spoon-licking while I made it, but I saved room for a small piece.

It was good, chocolate bread with gooey peanut butter chips.

I’m heading to bed so I can get up early tomorrow. This week is off to a good start!

What foods do you like to “borrow” from your significant other? In general Adam’s food choices are a little less healthy than mine, but I usually don’t have any junk-envy. However, those frozen chicken nuggets are to die for!

1Oct2009

I Didn’t See Its Shadow

by Emily

A successful evening, all around! Lab went well and I got back my quiz from last week – 100%, woot! That makes me feel much more confident about next week’s test. Plus I made plans with a friend from class to study this weekend, so I know I won’t slack off. And on the way in we made a new friend, my very first groundhog sighting!

During lab recitation I snacked on this Perfect Pumpkin Boomi Bar.

This was nice and crunchy, and perfect for the first day of pumpkin month!

When I got home I had a gourmet dinner in mere minutes –

Moo Shu Stoup leftovers from August. No one ever wants soup more than twice in a row and it freezes well so it is the perfect thing for long-term leftovers. Plus it is easy peasy:

Measure portions into ziplock baggies
Lay flat on a baking sheet and put into the freezer overnight
In the morning, remove the sheet and you have perfect frozen soup stacks

All we had to do tonight was make new veggie dumplings, and Adam did that so for me it was easy 🙂

I’m still super hungry, but I’m trying to have a drink and see if it passes. We are watching Cold Mountain, so it’s possible I’ll get a snack in a bit. ‘Night.

Do you make long-term leftovers? What dishes work best?

*****Updated – We stayed up waaay to late watching Cold Mountain (which was super sad and sort of disappointing) and I did have a snack.

When I made cookies the other day I reserved 2 pieces of dough and tonight I crushed them into some Purely Decadent Coconut Milk Coconut Ice Cream. Good idea!

29Sep2009

Pizza Party Part Deux

by Emily

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.

28Sep2009

Rain Check

by Emily

The intense torrential downpour all day mucked up my plans, but I did find some fun substitutes! I had so many crazy dreams last night that I ended up pressing snooze on the alarm this morning until after 9. I ate a Cashew Almond Boomi Bar on the way to volunteering today.

I liked the flavorbut I was running late so I only ate 3/4 of it.

For lunch at the hospital I used my voucher to get a sandwich from the cafeteria.

Chicken salad in a jalopeno wrap with spring mix lettuce, bell peppers, banana peppers, sundried tomato and pesto sauce. I ate 85% or so.

Adam had the day off from school (Yom Kippur) so he picked me up at the hospital to save me from the rain. I had planned on going to the gym but once I saw the sky it didn’t take much convincing to get me to see a movie with him! We went to a 3o’clock showing of “Surrogates,” which we both enjoyed. We hit up Dairy Queen at the mall.

I ordered a small oreo cookie dough blizzard.

I was very glad that Adam drove me to class because the rain was so bad you could barely see. We ended up taking the (slow) main road home instead of the highway because it was so bad.

When we got home we made the perfect rainy day dinner – pizza! I would say it was super veggie, but by the time the husband got done with it it was super cheesey!

On a store bought crust we piled

12oz pizza sauce
2C reduced fat mozzarella cheese
1 chopped red bell pepper
1 chopped yellow bell pepper
3/4pint mushrooms
1/2 sliced yellow onion

We precooked the veggies for 15minutes at 475* before we put them on the pizza. Look at how sweet our pizza sauce was –

It was very tasty, but we definitely bought it because I fell in love with the can!

After it came out of the oven I ate 1/4 of the finished product.

Yums. We watched the new episode of “Bones” while we ate and towards the end I had a half serving of Lindt Sea Salt Dark Chocolate.

Yums x2.

I’m disappointed that the gym didn’t happen because I have to go back to the doctor on Thursday, but such is life. I always appreciate hang out time with the husband. Have a great night everybody!

What do you like to put on pizza? My favorite toppings are green olives and broccoli. I also really like cheeseless pesto pizza.

28Sep2009

Travel, Treats, Time

by Emily

Today was frustrating but fruitful (oh man, continuing with that alliteration!). Everything took longer than planned and I have been crazy hungry all day but we did have fun and most of my to-dos are done. I feel bad for the string of recap posts and/or quickie posts, but it’s almost midnight so I gotta do it.

I woke up early this morning to pack up so I could join my sister-in-law for church. I ate half of this Lara Apple Pie Bar on the drive there.

After some reflection, we met the boys at Shoney’s for breakfast. This spot would not have been my pick, but my eating style is pretty different from my husband and his family. We all did the breakfast buffet.

I ate a plate of fruit,

and potatoes, scrambled eggs, and a biscuit.

I was annoyed by the lack of healthy choices, but the food actually did taste pretty good. I haven’t had a biscuit (w/honey!) in years so that was fun.

After breakfast we set out – in the pouring rain – for home. We stopped on the way for gas and I spotted this –

I’m sorry, I realize I’m 24, but I’m not from the states and I think stuff like this is frickin’ thrilling! I totally had to make myself a milkshake.

Cookie Dough was tasty and I grinned for the next 80miles 🙂

Once we got home I started (still have to finish, whoops!) unpacking and snacked on a 100calorie Popchips sample.

I think salt and vinegar is my least favorite flavor.

Adam and I ran out to Wegmans for a grocery mission around 5. That meant I had food, but still no time, so we decided to get dinner on the drive home. Husband’s choice was Boston Market.

I got a half bbq rotisserie chicken sandwich on multigrain bread,

and a side of green beans.

I had never tried Boston Market before but I was pretty darn impressed. The options were healthy (my meal had 475calories total) and tasty but quicker than you could do at home. I thought the beans were delicious.

I had a serving of Lindt Sea Salt Dark Chocolate for dessert.

This is my new favorite chocolate, the saltiness adds so much depth to the flavor.

And then I spent 7-11:30 working on my Chemistry homework. Yes, you did read that right: it took me 4.5hours to complete one homework assignment. This class is kicking my butt! I was starving again during my work so I made a quick snack.

I sliced a small potato, spritzed with evoo and sprinkled with dill and salt, and baked at 500* for 20minutes. With ketchup.

Yums. Homemade oven “fries” beat real fries any day!

The husband stayed up until 3:30 last night playing x-box with his brother so I am super excited to snuggle tonight! Sweet dreams.

What is your favorite brand of chocolate? Do you prefer milk or dark? I don’t mind milk chocolate but I like dark a lot better.

23Sep2009

Crossing My Fingers and Toes

by Emily

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?

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Tag Archives: sweet

Delayed Gratification

Mish Mash Meal

Borrowed

I Didn’t See Its Shadow

Pizza Party Part Deux

Rain Check

Travel, Treats, Time

Crossing My Fingers and Toes