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The great salad extraction…

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Before we get into my salad debacle, let’s recap breakfast!

Breakfast #1

While getting ready for work this morning, I realized I wanted NEEDED eggs for breakfast.  I was already crunched for time, and considered passing on my fav B#1, but then it dawned on me.  EGGINS. 

“Eggins” are baked eggs that I cook up in a muffin tin.  Get it?  Egg + Muffin = Eggin 😉 (bear with me… it is Monday after all). 

I had 9 eggs in the fridge, so I decided to go with 2 whole eggs and 7 egg whites.  I mixed these up with S&P, Frank’s Red Hot, and a splash of water, and then evenly distributed them into 6 regular size muffin tins.  I also threw 2 cups of broccoli into a pan that I had sprayed down with cooking spray.  I seasoned the broccoli with some S&P, then threw everything into the oven at 350 degrees for 25 minutes while I continued getting ready for work.

2 breakfasts in < 5 minutes prep.  Bada bing, bada boom 🙂

I had 1/2 of the above ingredients at work today with some ketchup, of course:

Stats:  171 calories, 12g carbs, 5g fat, 21g protein, 2g fiber

Breakfast #2

Blueberry Chobani + Strawberries:

Mixed into a fruity frenzy:

Tasty!

Stats: 163 calories, 26 g carbs, 0g fat, 14g protein, 2g fiber

Lunch

Now we get to the salad debacle.  Yesterday, I went to my sister’s for a cookout and brought a huge salad.  There was a ton leftover, which meant lunch for today 😀

Sad story:  the lettuce in the salad was EXTREMELY wilty and soggy this morning.  If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s soggy lettuce (and olives–not that there were any olives involved in this story but I just want to make sure we are clear 👿 ). 

Wilty and yucky:

I’m not one to waste food, so I decided to perform a salad extraction.  In preparation for this procedure, I brought a bag of lettuce from the fridge at home.

My saviour:

Piece by piece I sifted through the salad pulling out any of the soggy pieces.

Icky bits:

Icky on the left, crispy on the right:

So fresh and so crisp, crisp:

I also had a Jennie O Turkey Sausage on the side with some mustard:

I may or may not have spent some time playing in the paint program over lunch…

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Oats worth waking up for

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Yesterday was a fully-loaded Saturday.  I had a wedding shower and a housewarming party to go to, and I felt a tinge of tiredness all throughout the day.  So when I got home around 11pm I was really looking forward to hitting the hay.  I layed down, closed my eyes, deep breath in, deep breath out….  Deep breath in, deep breath out…. and then my eyes opened and I laid on my back looking up at the ceiling.  I was wide awake.  Completely, 100%, ready-to-go awake.

I contemplated watching TV at first, but then decided to put my newly found energy into getting some work cranked out.  So I sat typing away on my laptop until 3:30am when I decided it was time to pull the plug.

Needless to say, I was less than enthusiastic about waking up this morning.  9:30 am rolled around (which is about 2-3 hours later than I usually sleep on weekends)… and suddenly a glimmer of excitement washed over me.  I remembered the amazing overnight oats I had prepared the night before.  Now I was more than amped to get up and tackle my interval training.  All I had to do was keep visualizing the cool creamy oats….

Check this out:

These are not your ordinary overnight oats.  This jar of JIF had about 2 tbsp of peanut butter left in it, so I mixed up my usual overnight oats in the jar and left them to hang out in the fridge overnight.  This morning, I topped the oats off with some blueberries and strawberries:

I COULD NOT WAIT to dive in to these:

Jealous??

Worth waking up for:

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Friday Theft?

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It’s FRIIIIDAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!  Do you know  what this means?!?!  It’s our first Gionino’s Friday in many weeks!  Alas, that will have to wait til after work…..

I was having technical difficulties while working on last night’s post — but good news! I was able to add the video I wanted.. Check it out if you want a laugh!

Just for fun this friday, I used snapshots of my personal myfitnesspal page to show the stats on my meals.  Yes, that qualifies as “fun” in my mind 🙂

Breakfast #1

Fun fact about me:  I steal…. Um… let’s call it “hoard.”  Yes, hoard.  I hoard the Smucker’s Blackberry Preserves from our free office breakfasts.  “Steal” is too strong of a word for single serving preserve packet…  Right???

I love these blackberry preserves…  They have little bits of seeds and taste awesome:

Today I brought a Sweet Wheat Alternative bagel from home, and then we ended up having free bagels from Panera at work!  I stuck to my guns, and went with my Alternative bagel topped with about 1 tbsp of Panera’s low calorie walnut & honey cream cheese, and 1 packet of Smucker’s blackberry preserves:

Check out the comparison on the sweat wheat Alternative Bagel and a whole wheat panera bagel:

Sometimes, life is just about compromises!   It’s crazy how different those stats are, and the Alternative bagel actually tastes like a real life bagel (unlike bagel thins).

Sad news though.  I only have 1 of my blackberry preserve packets left…. I hope we get some more soon!

Stats:

Breakfast #2

Was the breakfast I accidently left at home yesterday!  It consisted of some dannon vanilla greek yogurt and slice up strawberries:

Perfection!

Stats:

Lunch

In anticipation of having PIZZZZAAAAAA for dinner tonight, I figured I’d go with a healthy salad for lunch.  Today’s salad consisted of:

  • 1/2 bag romaine lettuce
  • 2 ounces chopped up grilled chicken (heated up in the microwave)
  • 1 hardboiled egg
  • 1/2 a green pepper
  • 1 roma tomato
  • 1/4 cup red onion
  • 2 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Italian Romano Dressing

Giant salad:

Stats:

Delicious lunch, but lets be honest.  All I can think about is pizza now….. 

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When hunger calls

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When I woke up this morning, I was STARVING.  I thought that was pretty odd, since I didn’t eat dinner til around 8pm last night.  Regardless, the grumbling monster in my belly needed food.  STAT.  I wanted something to hold me over til breakfast #1, so I downed 1/2 of a Thomas english multi-grain english muffin with 1 tsp JIF peanut butter in about 2 seconds flat. 

My crazy hunger pangs reminded me of the Wanda Sykes comedy show I caught over the weekend on TV.  She named her belly “Esther Roll,” and apparently Esther loves bread, beer, and cheeeeeessseeeeecake.  Sounds like my kind of girl 😉

Take a look!

Breakfast #1

Fruit and nut butter wrap!  1 tbsp JIF with 3 medium strawberries atop a Mama Lupe’s Low carb tortilla:

Wrapped it up burrito style and grilled on the George Foreman for about 5 minutes til nice and ooey gooey and the tortilla was crispy:

I wrapped this little guy up and took him with me to work:

Yum yum yummmmmmmm 🙂

Stats on the FNBW:  167 calories, 14g carbs, 11g fat, 9g protein, 6g fiber

Breakfast #2

I was planning on having yogurt with strawberries, but I somehow left the yogurt at home!  Lucky for me I had a blueberry bliss Luna Bar in my desk at work:

I LOVE this flavor

Lunch

Nothing really sounded good for lunch today… Don’t you just hate when that happens? 

I decided to make some healthified buffalo chicken.  This time I used 3 ounces chicken, 2 tbsp Plain Fat Free Stonyfield Farm yogurt, 3 tbsp Franks red hot, garlic powder, and some black pepper, all atop a Mama Lupe’s Low Carb tortilla:

I also added some lettuce, tomato, and onion and had some carrots on the side:

Even though I wasn’t craving it, the wrap sure was tasty!

Stats on the Lunch:  298 calories, 27g carbs, 6g fat, 34g protein, 8g fiber

Dinner

Whelp, even though nothing sounded good at lunch by the time dinner rolled around I had a serious craving for pizza and salad.  I love the pizza salad combo!

I ran to the grocery store to pick up some light mini babybels, but they didn’t have any!  Ughhh… sometimes I hate living in a small town!  I looked around the store and ended up with these guys:

I used a Joseph’s low carb tortilla as my base and topped it with 1/4 cup Classico Fire Roasted Tomato and Garlic sauce that I doctored up with Black Pepper, Red Pepper Flakes, Garlic Powder, and Onion Powder.  Then I added 1/2 of a sliced up Jennie O’s Hot Turkey Sausage, 1 chopped up Sargento light string cheese, and some thinly sliced tomato and onion:

I baked this in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, then chopped with some sliced up fresh basil that I plucked from the backyard.

Voila!

And on the side I had a huge delicious salad with romaine, cherry tomatoes (from the back yard 🙂 ), onion, tomato, banana peppers, and 2 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Italian Romano dressing:

Stats on the Pizza & Salad:  340 calories, 30g carbs, 16g fat, 25g protein, 10g fiber

 

Finished dinner about an hour ago… and I’m already getting hungry!  What’s up with that?!  I see a green monster smoothie in my future 🙂

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I put ketchup on my ketchup

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While on vacation in Charleston, we came across several touristy shops selling t-shirts with funny sayings.  Jarrod seriously contemplated buying me this T-shirt:

Hahaha… I do use ketchup quite frequently.  I’m just a class act like that 😉

Breakfast #1

Last in the trio of eggwhite/turkey sausage scrambles I made Sunday night… Served up with a dollop of you-know-what 😉

Stats on Scramble, Broccoli, & Ketchup:  180 calories, 10g carbs, 5g fat, 24g protein, 2g fiber

Breakfast #2

I started breakfast #2 off with some Blueberry Cho-cho-chobani:

Then I added some strawberries (in my hunger-tinged excitement, I forgot to use my flash…)

MMMMMMMM…. Come clooosssseeerrr:

So darn good.

Stats on B#2:  157 calories, 24g carbs, 0g fat, 14g protein, 1g fiber

Lunch

 The turkey meatloaf I made last night was so yummy, I immediately had a craving for a meatloaf sandwich!  Needless to say, I was SUPER excited about my lunch today.  

I sliced up one of the turkey meat muffins:

I placed the cold slices of meatloaf on a Pepperidge Farm 7 Grain Deli Flat, and then added the star of the show:  KETCHUP.

That’s what actually made me think of the ketchup on ketchup T-shirt.  Even though my turkey meatloaf had ketchup mixed in and was thoroughly basted with ketchup before baking, I still needed to put some ketchup on my leftover meatloaf sandwich 😀

Match made in heaven:

Heinz — if you’re looking for a new “face” for your ketchup, have your people contact my people.  ferventfoodie@gmail.com 😉

On the side, I also had a cup each of roasted cauliflower and broccoli:

One AMAZING lunch:

Makes me feel like a kid again 🙂

Side note

Over the weekend I made the BF a beautiful banana granola parfait.  Apparently he liked it so much, he decided to recreate it in my workweek absence:

I love that he even went the extra mile and put it in a pretty glass.  Sometimes ya just gotta treat yourself, am I right? 

QUESTION:  What is your FAVORITE condiment?  OR do you like ketchup on your ketchup? :mrgreen:

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