eggins – Fervent Foodie

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…

Carb tooth strikes again

Happy July!!!!

Can’t believe it’s already here… There is so much going on over the next few months (my birthday, vaca, parties, get-togethers, HLS!!!), I’m sure they are going to fly by! Psst… don’t forget to comment on the PB2 giveaway by Sunday!

The first day of every month my firm brings in a “Birthday Breakfast” to celebrate all the employees whose birthdays fall in that month. The spread always consists of fruits and a variety of carblicious goodies to tempt me:

I really wanted to toast up one of those bagels and smear it in cream cheese and hot sauce (if you haven’t tried it and you like hot food, TRY IT NOW). Something about baked goods and breads make my mouth water…. I wish I could get past it, but my body is head over heals in love with these unhealthy treats!!! Darn you, carb tooth!

Since my birthday falls in this particular month, I allowed myself a tiny sliver of a blueberry muffin. Ridiculous. I just picked up some Bob’s Red Mill low-carb baking mix, so maybe I’ll try and make some healthified baked goods this weekend 🙂

Breakfast #1

For breakfast today, I had the leftover Canadian Bacon Eggins I made earlier in the week.

Just as tasty the second time around 🙂

Stats: 147 calories, 6g carbs, 1g fat, 26g protein, 0g fiber

Breakfast #2

For breakfast #2, I had 1.5 cups Trader Joe’s Vanilla greek yogurt with 1/4 cup blueberries.

I love all the fresh fruits and berries this time of year! Cannot get enough.

Stats: 171 calories, 28g carbs, 0g fat, 14g protein, 1g fiber

Lunch

My sandwich yesterday was so frickin delicious, I decided to make a similar one today. I took a 3.5 ounce chicken breast, 1 cup spinach, 1 tbsp Trader Joe’s Spicy Hummus, tomato, and onion and smashed it into a Joseph’s Low Carb Pita.

Also had some sliced up red pepper on the side. I looovvveeeeee hummuss…. mmmmm…..

Stats on stuffed pita & red pepper: 240 calories, 25g carbs, 7g fat, 28g protein, 9g fiber

Snack

I tried the Trader Joe’s Mocha yogurt, but was NOT a fan.

It had a weird tartness about it… and overall was just different than I was expecting. First thing I’ve purchased from TJ’s that I didn’t enjoy!

QUESTION OF THE DAY: What are your favorite healthified cookout recipes?

The great salad extraction…

Carb tooth strikes again