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Girl loves coffee

June 7, 2010 3 Comments

This morning, I literally sprung out of bed before the alarm went off because my body was subconsciously excited to try the coffee I picked up at Trader Joe’s yesterday. Just the smell of coffee beans makes my mouth water and instantly improves my mood.

Trader Joe’s French Roast didn’t disappoint!

Breakfast #1 today was a 3 egg white scramble seasoned with my go-to seasoning combo: salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes.

I served the egg whites up in 1/2 a Joseph’s low carb pita, and a bit o’ ketchup.

Stats: 86 calories, 7g carbs, 1g fat, 14g Protein, 2g Fiber

Breakfast #2: 1/2 a Thomas’ Whole Wheat Bagel Thin and 1 tbsp Trader Joe’s almond butta with Trader Joe’s pomegranate Greek Yogurt!

Both the almond butter and the yogurt were DELICIOUS. I’m now officially obsessed with Trader Joe’s!

Stats: 265 Calories, 27g carbs, 10g fat, 21g Protein, 5g Fiber

Lunch = Big ole salad with 2 tbs balsamic dressing and a Turkey/Ham Lettuce wrap with 1/2 a Laughing Cow french onion cheese wedge with some leftover Gionino’s hot sauce!

I think it’s safe to say I have mastered the lettuce wrap 😀

Side note — how weird is this?? http://www.sushipopper.com/default.aspx

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Trader Joe’s & Melt. Mmmmm.

June 6, 2010 2 Comments

Today I made my very first trip to Trader Joe’s, and I was pretty impressed. Everything in the store looked edible … drool worthy … delicious but I narrowed my purchase down to:

Jalapeno & cilantro hummus
pomegranate greek yogurt
French Roast Coffee
Almond butter!
Salmon Patties

While in Cleveland, we also had lunch at Melt and devoured the blackened chicken gourmet grilled cheese and 3 bean chili with chicken AND hand cut fries with malt vinegar. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……….

Even though Trader Joe’s has a ton of delectable goodies for me to try, I was a little sad that they didn’t have more low calorie or low carb options. I need to find a store in the area that sells the crazy healthy items I’ve thus far only been able to find on the internet. I just put in my next Netrition order, so that shall fill the void in the meantime.

Some recipes I’d like to attempt this week (or sometime soon):

Also searching for some healthy tapas recipes for the jewelry party I’m hosting Wednesday evening. The BF thinks these jewelry parties are like cults, I however enjoy them because it brings together a random group of women for a fun female-only evening. That sounds like a cult worth joining 🙂

Some thoughts of the tapas:

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Lunching

June 6, 2010 No Comments

I always find it hard to stick to a good eating schedule on the weekends. There always seems to be a ton going on and a ton of good eats tempting you at every corner!

I woke up at about 7 this morning, downed a small bowl of cereal and went back to bed shortly after. That’s pretty unlike me on the weekends (the back to bed part, not the cereal obviously), but today it’s pretty gloomy outside and it doesn’t look like I’ll be making a big dent in the yard work today. Instead I’ll be working on cleaning up my pigsty of a house before heading to Cleveland for a slumber party with friends.

For lunch today I made a turkey/ham wrap using a lite Italian Flat-Out wrap.

I still got my mad burrito lady skills! Only thing that could make this wrap taste better is a little grillin’

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Too many onions to be P.C.

June 4, 2010 1 Comment

Last night it dawned on me that I consume more onions than is socially acceptable. I don’t know when this obsession with onions started, but you’d be hard pressed to find a day in any given week where I don’t incorporate onions into at least 2 of my meals each day. And I’ve also been known to indulge in the occasional onion sandwich…

I <3 Onions

Breakfast #1: ONIONS!

😉 maybe that will be tomorrow’s breakfast. Today’s breakfast #1 actually consisted 1 egg, 3 egg whites, whole grain toast

Side note = almost out of flax pita… need to get my next netrition order together pronto! Any suggestions?

Breakfast #2: Oatmeal with strawberries/blueberries

Lunch: “I’m in a hurry tuna salad”

1 can drained tuna
1 tbs ken’s steak house lite ceaser dressing
A few shimmy shakes celery seed, black pepper, red pepper flakes
A big ole handful of ONIONS (I may be in a hurry, but there’s always time for a lil onion choppin’)

I think I need to invest in some decorative plates and placemats for my photo shoots. Maybe I can get my talented sister to contribute to this cause… 😉 jmnpottery

Man… I am craving cookies.

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