Earlier this morning, I came across a post by with a Side of Sneakers on the topic of getting good pictures without having a fancy camera.  I bought a new camera a couple months ago, and am STILL learning how to use it.  It’s not even a dSLR!  I’m camera inept I guess.  The post had some really cool ideas that I’m looking forward to trying out.  Also there’s a photography session at the Healthy Living Summit this weekend (which I’m pumped to attend)… So look out blog readers–better photos will be appearing on the blog very soon!

Breakfast #1

8AM breakfast time… and I was STARVING.  Today’s B#1 was a repeat of yesterday’s egg white scramble with roasted broccoli:

You know what I love about this breakfast (besides the fact that I’m obsessed with eggs.. and roasted broccoli… and ketchup for that matter)?  It took ZERO effort since I had cooked a double batch Monday night.  Love that.

Stats on B#1:  163 calories, 12g carbs, 5g fat, 19g protein, 2g fiber

Breakfast #2

I had about 2/3 of a cup of Stonyfield Vanilla Fat-free yogurt leftover from yesterday’s yogurt cheese parfait, so I brought that to work for B#2 along with a few sliced up strawberries, 1/3 cup blueberries, and 1/2 a bag of mashed up 100 calories oreos (also leftover from the yogurt cheese experiment):

I took these pics using tips from the article (well as best I could at work anyway):

YUM. 

This tasted like dessert to me — must have been the oreo crumbles!

Stats on B#2:  202 calories, 42g carbs, 1g fat, 7g protein, 3g fiber

Lunch

Keeping on my use-up-all-the-leftovers roll, I brought some leftovers from last night’s dinner to work today for lunch.  I topped a Mama Lupe’s low carb tortilla with 2 ounces of the grilled chicken, added the grilled peppers, onions, and zucchini and then topped with a little fat-free Breakstone’s sour cream (about 1 tbsp). 

Lunch-time fajita!

I also had some grapes on the side:

And a pickle spear:

Somebody needs to work on her plating skills…. Just sayin.

This is the kind of lunch I LOVE.. delicious, satisfying, AND healthy 🙂

Stats on Lunch:  257 calories, 33g carbs, 5g fat, 24g protein, 7g fiber

2 more work days til the Healthy Living Summit!  I can barely contain myself 🙂 I think I might actually be able to get my business cards after all!!!  I’ll post pictures when I actually have them in my possession.

Breakfast #1

Last night, I made up a double batch of scrambled eggs.  These consisted of:

• 2 large eggs
• 6 egg whites
• S&P
• Red Pepper Flakes
• a splash of water

When the eggs were almost finished cooking, I tossed a little Frank’s Red Hot on top:

I also roasted up 2 cups of broccoli.  I had half of this for breakfast this morning with a dollop of Heinz ketchup:

Stats on B#1:  163 calories, 12g carbs, 5g fat, 19g protein, 2g fiber

Breakfast #2

Overnight oats!!!  How many times can I photograph the same exact bowl of overnight oats??  Geesh.

I wonder if overnight oats are considered a “liquid.”  Would like to take some of these guys with me to the airport 🙂

Stats on B#2:  229 calories, 42g carbs, 5g fat, 6g protein, 7g fiber

Lunch

Last night I mixed up chicken salad consisting of:

• 2.5 ounces grilled chicken breast
• 1 stalk celery, chopped
• 1 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
• 1/4 Stonyfield Farms plain fat-free yogurt
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1/4 teaspoon curry powder
• 1/4 cup red grapes, halved

I made a similar chicken salad a while back, and really liked it.  Today’s was just ehhh ok though.  I think it was the addition of the celery.

I served it on top of a bed of romaine lettuce:

I also had two pickle spears, and part of a Joseph’s low carb pita… Anyone else ever experience “low-carb” headaches?  I’ve heard about it before, and a little while ago I started noticing the correlation between headaches and the Joseph’s low-carb pitas!  Today I had half of the pita before I started to notice a headache coming on.  So odd… but I think I’m done with these pitas… Hopefully Mama Lupe comes out with a low carb pita soon 🙂

Stats on Blunch (blah-lunch):  231 calories, 27g carbs, 2g fat, 30g protein, 7g fiber

Plans for dinner:  Having two of my lovely friends over for dinner tonight 🙂 I have a special dessert project for them… hope they’re ready to be guinea pigs!

First thing first, check out this video of Caitlin on The Today Show for her project Operation Beautiful.  I cannot wait to meet Caitlin at the Healthy Living Summit next week!   Super excited 😀

Last Friday, I made a confession on my blog.  I indeed hoard the Smucker’s blackberry preserves when there are leftovers from breakfasts at work.  For some reason, the catering company we go through hasn’t been bringing blackberry preserves the past few months!  😥  We have an abundance of strawberry and grape jelly in the break room–but no blackberry preserves.  I’m not a big fan of jelly….  I love the seeds and tartness of the preserves.  Jelly just tastes cheap to me.  I guess I just have a high-class palate 😉 

To make this situation worse, I was down to my last blackberry preserve packet, which I have been hoarding for quite some time.

The other day, I got this photo via text from my friend Jaci, who happens to work for the jelly company in question:

Are you kidding????????  Tim (jaci’s BF) dropped the preserves off to me today, and I now have a total of 54 single-serve blackberry preserves in my possession!  AMAZING

Breakfast #1

Day #4 of eggins & broccoli (with reduced sugar Heinz Ketchup):

This is what happens when I get super busy… Same foods day in, day out.  Good thing they were tasty!

Breakfast #2

You guessed it – overnight oats 😀

Every time I eat overnight oats I am momentarily awe-struck by how amazing they are.  I just love LOOOOVEEEEEE them!  So creamy and the absolute perfect complement to any berry!

Lunch

I got home pretty late last night, and was having trouble finding something to pack for lunch.  I did some freezer diving, and found some taco meat I had cooked up and frozen a while back.  HELLOOOOOO Taco Salad!

This salad consisted of 1/2 a bag of lettuce, 1/4 lb 92% taco seasoned ground beef, 1/2 a roma tomato, 1/4 chopped red onion, banana pepper rings, and 2 tbsp breakstone’s fat-free sour cream in a ridiculously large bowl:

I don’t usually put carrots in my taco salad, but this was the lettuce mix on sale at acme this week so I just embraced it:

Ready to chow!

TASTTTTTY.

Stats on lunch:  285 calories, 25g carbs, 8g fat, 27g protein, 12g fiber

Inspirational quote of the day:  There are no unreasonable goals, only unreasonable timelines.