smucker – Fervent Foodie

Running in the Rain

June 28, 2010 1 Comment

I started this lovely Monday morning off with Day #2, Week #2 of interval training. It looked pretty grey outside, but after consulting the local radar on my weather channel app, I determined I could definitely get 30 minutes in before any rain approached.

Whelp, I was about 15 minutes off on my calculation… Half way through my normal route, a torrential downpour started to erupt from the sky! Running in the rain is actually pretty fun, and I would have kept right on going had I not JUST got a new iPhone to replace the iPhone that suffered water damage last week. So, I threw my iphone in my sports bra to keep it dry and took shelter under a nearby tree for about 15 minutes until the rain let up. Standing under the tree in the rain was actually pretty peaceful and relaxing! I’m sure I looked like a creeper though 🙂

Breakfast #1

I’m really loving the grilled fruit and nut butter wraps I’ve been making for breakfast. Today, I made one with half of a banana and Smucker’s Organic Peanut Butter atop a Mama Lupe’s low carb tortilla. I wrapped everything up and threw it on the george foreman for about 5 minutes.

(I’ll have to post the pic later.. left the stinkin cord for my old camera at home!)

Soooo delicious!

Stats on B#1: 218 calories, 23g carbs, 11g fat, 10g protein, 7 g fiber

Breakfast #2

I was still pretty hungry after B#1, so I decided to overload my overnight oats. Last night, I put 1/2 cup quick oats, 1/2 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze Almond milk, 1 tsp brown sugar, and some cinnamon in a bowl in the fridge. This morning, I overloaded the oats with blueberries, strawberries, the other 1/2 of my breakfast banana, and some Barbara’s Bakery Peanut Butter Puffins for crunch.

Yum-o.

Stats on B#2: 308 calories, 61g carbs (hello excessive carbs), 6g fat, 8g protein, 10g fiber

Lunch

After all the carbs at breakfast, I was glad I packed a salad for lunch! Today’s salad consisted of romaine lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, a sliced up Trader Joe’s Spinach Fontina Roasted Garlic Chicken Sausage, with 2tbsp Hidden Valley fat free ranch dressing.

Couldn’t get the flash to go off for the life of me… haha… need to spend some time playing with the camera! 🙂 I’m really liking the Trader Joe’s sausage! I wish I would have picked up more than one kind… oh well, guess I’ll have to go back 😉

Stats on Lunch: 239 calories, 22g carbs, 8g fat, 19g protein, 6g fiber

Ramblings

Eggplant makes me ralph

June 15, 2010 8 Comments

So I woke up this morning and was absolutely sick to my stomach. Ralphing was involved.

While laying on couch trying to fall back asleep, it dawned on me that my body was rejecting the eggplant I ate yesterday!!! Even typing the word makes me queasy. 🙁

For you purple veggie lovers out there, definitely give yesterday’s recipe a try. For all you sane people out there, such as myself, try the recipe again using lasagna noodles.

I don’t know about you, but when I’m feeling sick I crave processed carbohydrates. Pizza, mac and cheese, PB&J… mmmmmm……

So when I finally felt stable enough to try and eat something, I decided to make some healthified bisquick waffles. I mixed up the following:

1/3 cup bisquick
1/2 cup almond breeze unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1 egg white

I poured the batter onto my little waffle maker ($8 at Target, boo ya). The waffles seemed to take longer to crisp up than normal unhealthified waffles. I topped them off with 1/8 cup sugar free smucker’s syrup and some strawberries I had sliced up yesterday.

It was d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s. And it seems to be agreeing with my belly, so I’m heading into work shortly. Not sure what to do about lunch. Seriously contemplating a stop at Wendy’s….. Hopefully my brain wins this war over my belly!

Stats on the waffles: 216 calories, 35g carbs, 6g fat, 7g protein, 2g fiber

What I ate

(good) Case of the Monday’s

June 14, 2010 1 Comment

It’s Monday, and I am surprisingly cheery today! Even despite the gray and dreary weather we’ve got going on outside.

Maybe my good mood is due to the delicious Trader Joe’s coffee I had this morning on the way to work… That Trader Joe… Sure knows how to put a smile on my face 🙂

Almond butter sounded good this morning, so I went with a toasted Pepperidge Farm Deli Flat (that I had leftover from the turkey burgers) with Trader Joe’s crunchy almond butter and a little smear of Smucker’s Blackberry preserves (my favorite! love the seeds!).

Motivational poster I drew for the BF:

For breakfast #2 I went with a barley breakfast bowl again, which consisted of Stoneyfield Farms Greek Yogurt, Barley, and Red Raspberries:

I still have some leftover barley, so I think I’ll try and incorporate that into dinner somehow…

Today for lunch I had a very special treat 😀

Jarrod made me a GINORMOUS salad with romaine, grilled chicken, black beans, tomato, onion, cucumber, and carrots:

He has an uncanny ability for chopping things into perfect shapes 😉

As I’m eating my lovely salad, I realize that I haven’t really planned anything out for lunches this week. Do you ever fall into sack-lunch-doldrums? I know I do. I’ll have to do some brainstorming and see if I can spice things up this week.