The first time I saw Nix, I got the vibe that it was some crazy heavy metal bar. A biker bar perhaps. Well, at least a place where short skirts and sleazy guys might hang out.
I mean, they DO have FLAMES in their logo:
Waffles in mah belly
I woke up bright and early this lovely Saturday morning to head to Day #4 of Body Pump. Apparently, sometime between Thursday and today the Y got new weights, which are LB weights as opposed to kilograms… Needless to say, I was thrown off by this ABSOLUTELY INSANE change, but I managed through the class 
When I got home I wanted something a little special for breakfast. Something delicious but balanced…
After some foraging in the kitchen, here’s what I came up with:
That’s
- 2 Eggo Light Whole Grain Waffles
- 1/2 cup Trader Joe’s vanilla fat free Greek yogurt
- 3 sliced up strawberries
- 1/4 cup of blueberries
- 2 tbsp Smuckers Sugar Free Syrup
And that, my friends, was a whole heck of a lot of deliciousness.
This may be my new Saturday staple
Mmmmmmmm…
Stats on breakfast: 286 calories, 54g carbs, 3g fat, 14g protein, 5g fiber
What’s on the agenda today? I’ll be running some errands, hopefully grabbing a tasty lunch, then spending some quality time with the condo *hopefully* making a dent in the pile of boxes I now call home
Weekend Fail.
Going into the weekend, I had one goal: to find the new Luna Bar flavors and devour mass quantities of them. For those who aren’t maniacally obsessed with luna bars …. For those who have been living under a rock!!! … ahem… for those who aren’t aware, the new flavors are Chocolate Chunk and the highly coveted Chocolate Dipped Coconut.
Saturday afternoon I was out running errands when I got wind of a winter storm a brewing. So I decided to high tail it to Whole Foods in Cleveland so that I could snag the new Lunas. I even called the store ahead of time to make sure that they had the new flavors in stock. As an added bonus, I planned to swing by Trader Joes which is right down the road from Whole Foods. It’s not often I make this trip up to Cleveland, so I had already started mentally drafting a lengthy list of goodies to pick up.
About 20 minutes into my drive the freezing rain started. No worries I thought. I’ve got this. Zoom zoom Mazda, zoom zoom.
A few miles passed.
Ok Mazda, perhaps a little less zoom.
Let’s creep like a turtle instead, shall we?
The closer and closer I got the Cleveland the WORSE AND WORSE the weather got. At one point traffic was stuck at a dead stop for a good 15 minutes, which I soon realized was due to an accident that had resulted in a car completely flipped over on the snow embankment. I counted four accidents on my journey north. And I’m not talking fender benders. I’m talking the kind of accident you drive by and say “holy cow! how the heck did that happen!??!?”.
Perhaps this was a bad day to go to Cleveland…
When I finally arrived at Whole Foods, I was literally shaking. I bolted inside and headed for the Luna Bars. I quickly spied the Chocolate Chunk and grabbed two with gusto. As I reached victoriously into the Chocolate Dipped Coconut box I realized, to my utter horror, that the box was empty. They were sold out. They were sans coconut goodness, if you will.
I had just risked my life, and they were sold out.
I stood in front of the Luna Bars motionless as defeat washed over me.
As I turned to leave, I remembered that I was also super excited to try out the new blueberry muffin LaraBar. Just as I headed to grab one, an old lady swerved her cart into the aisle and picked up the ENTIRE last box of blueberry muffin Laras and dumped them into her cart.
I kid you not. It was like a scene from Walmart’s toy aisle on Black Friday.
I turned away concealing my internal rage, bought my 2 chocolate chunk bars, and headed to the car.
I immediately tore into the Chocolate Chunk Luna Bar.
This Luna Bar was definitely tasty, like a big chocolatey chewy graham. It reminded me of the smore Luna a little too much though….
After all that nonsense, I decided to just go home. No TJ’s shopping spree. That’s right. I drove all the way to Cleveland in an ice storm for 2 Chocolate Chunk Luna bars.
Fail.
Seriously. Make this. Now.
Last weekend, I posted a super simple super quick recipe for the Ahmygawd Breakfast Sandwich.
Today, I made a repeat of that masterpiece with the addition of some Frank’s Red Hot:
I swear to you, this breakfast sandwich is eyes-roll-into-the-back-of-your-head delicious.
If you are a yolk lover like me (and a sausage lover for that matter) do yourself a favor and make this for breakfast. Immediately!
Stats on the life changer: 255 calories, 24g carbs, 10g fat, 20g protein, 3g fiber
Ahmygawd Breakfast Sandwich
Yesterday morning, I was the picture of perfection and actually woke up at the time I had intended and did NOT sleep through my alarm for a solid hour. Let’s hope I can keep this up all week!
I rolled out of bed, and headed straight to the gym for a 30 minute round-and-round on the hamster wheel… elliptical. Then, straight from the gym (in all my sweaty glory) to the grocery store to buy all my foods for the week. Silly me forgot to pack a Luna bar or nourishment of any variety for my grocery conquest.
Bad news bears.
Needless to say, I was FAMISHED by the time I got home, and I was unfortunately facing a dilemma. Issue #1: I wanted eggs. Hot and dippy with ooey gooey smooth-as-butter yolk. Issue #2: I was also craving sausage…. as in Mary’s special eggs. I wanted yolk, but I wanted sausage. And I’m not talking sausage on the side. I’m talking sausage all up in my yolk.
It was at this precise moment that I concocted my PERFECT breakfast sandwich. The best of both of my worlds.
The Ahmygawd Breakfast Sandwich.
First, I sautéed half of a Honeysuckle Hot Turkey Sausage link (casing removed) in a pan:
Hello sausage! Ima eat you.
THEN I cracked an egg right on top of this mound of sausage:
The egg white dribbled down around the sausage and formed a glue to hold the whole shebang together. Once the underside was cooked, I flipped her over:
Whattttttt????? Insane.
And once that side was cooked (though not TOO cooked –we’re going for oozy yolk here) I slid the egg/sausage combo onto a toasted whole wheat English muffin:
World = Rocked.
Ah.my.gawd.
Stats on the life changer: 255 calories, 24g carbs, 10g fat, 20g protein, 3g fiber
What you’ll need:
- 1 link turkey or chicken sausage, casing removed
- 1 egg
- 1 English muffin
- 5 minutes to eat your face off
