(good) Case of the Monday’s

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

nice and gray 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!).

PB & J? Strike that. AB & P!

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.

Mary

Hello! I’m Mary, a self-proclaimed fervent foodie and carbohydrate connoisseur. This blog is about my life—my passions, adventures, and failures—through food. I’m a bean counting CPA by trade, but my true passion is food. It is the unabashed soul of my being. The history, the culture, the taste, the experience–I am fascinated and enchanted by it all. I devote my free time almost entirely to scouting out delicious restaurants and cooking up new recipes. It makes me especially happy when I can take a recipe and “healthify” it. By this I mean turn it into something healthy and nutritious that still tastes friggin’ delicious. I love to connect with readers, restaurants, and those in public relations, so email me and let’s talk food! Google