What I’ve Been Eating This Week

I’ve been taking pictures off and on this week and thought I would share some of them tonight because I wasn’t falling asleep on the couch, was in the blogging mood and I miss blogging.

On Monday, I went to my sister-in-law’s Pampered Chef party. She was celebrating a beautiful new kitchen remodel.

We had some kind of cinnamon bun with apples, guacamole and chips, bean salsa, brie and preserves with toasted baguettes, and cream cheese/preserves with crackers. I also had a glass of margarita mix.

My mom bought two items and I bought a 4 qt. collapsible bowl with a lid. This will be perfect for potlucks, parties, and for storing food in the fridge. Plus, with a tiny kitchen (wish I had a remodel like my sister-in-law and brother, but that would take expanding our house), I need all of the collapsible items I can get!

source

This morning’s breakfast was Love Grown Granola Apple Walnut Delight and a cup of coffee.

I liked the dehydrated apple chunks in this flavor!

Lunch was a turkey wrap with lettuce, goat cheese, and tomatoes. I wasn’t too keen on the goat cheese flavor. Yuck. I have had it before and it didn’t seem to irritate me so much. Oh well!

I ate it while reading on the kindle and some blogs on my Google reader.

Snack before the gym tonight was a whole wheat tortilla with chunky Barney Butter and a banana. This actually ended up being my dinner because it filled me up and after the gym, I wasn’t very hungry.

I’ve been reading Eating Animals on the kindle.

I am finding aspects of it quite grotesque and yet, very educational. I keep thinking about eating meat and finding it grosses me out. Even getting a turkey wrap today was difficult, but I needed some protein.

I’m watching Modern Family right now and never got into it last season, but figure I’ll give it a chance this fall.

Can’t believe it’s Thursday already tomorrow! Hooray for the week almost being over!

Swimming + me = disaster

I hit the gym this morning and went swimming (if you want to call it that). You see, swimming and I don’t have the best history/relationship. I used to have a major fear of the water when I was a little girl. I still am not a good swimmer and today’s attempt at doing laps proved that. At first, I tried to do laps and get my head in the water. After all, I bought prescription goggles and I thought I better use them. After I sucked at that, I did the backstroke a couple of times. I finally got out and looked for a kick board. That didn’t even help. I gave up, got out of the lap lane and settled on running in the pool. Oh well, I tried for a full half hour to do something in the water. Don’t think I will be putting my swimsuit on for a while. I’ll stick to weights, cardio machines and classes.

Breakfast was Special K Protein Plus cereal with fresh blueberries.

I bought this particular flavor after reading a recent post from A Better Bag of Groceries. She said that it rated a 60 (out of 100) on the NuVal system, which is really good for a cold cereal. Haven’t heard of NuVal? Check out their site–I love the concept and wish we had Nuval scores in Milwaukee area stores.

Before swimming, I had half of a banana and finished the other half when I got home from the gym. I tend to get very bad charley horses when swimming, so I figured some potassium right before might help.

Lunch was my leftover wrap from last night, a pink lady apple, which I dipped in almond butter, and a few pieces of Super Dark Newman’s Own Organics Chocolate.

After lunch, we ran to every hardware store possible looking for the appropriate d-rings and hooks to hang our pictures above the couch. We finally found some and realized that not every store carries d-rings, where they might have the hooks, etc. What a pain! I ended up with some cute new place mats at Target though and they were even better because they were on clearance! One was a mere 98 cents and the other was only $1.98.

Oh and while out shopping, we got a grande Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate at Starbucks to share. YUM!

Dinner tonight was at my mom and dad’s to celebrate my brothers’ birthdays this past week. One of my brothers (below) turned 40 and the other turned 51. I am 30. Quite the age difference, huh?

For dinner, I had salad, German potato salad, a piece of rye bread and some jello salad thing with fruit in it.

Dessert was chocolate cherry cake and two types of custard-Kopps red raspberry and Culver’s vanilla. Love custard!

It was a good, productive Sunday for us!

Ooh, my main man Matt Damon is on the Golden Globes, must pay attention.

Now I have to get ready for bed and try to fall asleep by 9:45. Back to another week of work!

Peppers for immunity

It was just a pretty normal Wednesday for me today. I can’t believe it’s already Thursday tomorrow!

Breakfast was Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with skim milk and a coffee.

My snack was about 8 almonds and a chai tea, which was from a packet, so it was kind of too sugary for me.

Lunch was basically what I had for dinner last night, minus the tomatoes. That Swiss Rye cheese made the sub taste so good! I also had a Brown Cow Maple Yogurt, which is ultra creamy and dessert like. I know the nutritional label doesn’t display the best stats, such as that it’s higher in calories coming in at 170, but it’s such a nice treat to have a creamy yogurt once in a while.

Last night, I chopped up some green and red peppers and put together a little container of hummus to dip them in. That made grabbing my lunch and getting ready to go this morning so easy! I just had to make my sandwich, which is less complicated than chopping veggies. The peppers really filled me up! While at the gym tonight, I read that red peppers are better for immunity boosting than an orange. They contain more Vitamin C. I feel like I may be getting a cold, so I needed the pepper to help fight off anything that may be coming on in my body.

I left work a little early to go to the eye doc to check on my trial contacts. All clear with the new pair and I ordered a few boxes. Love getting that kind of stuff over with.

Dinner was just an egg sandwich with Swiss Rye cheese on a whole wheat English Muffin. I wasn’t that hungry before hitting the gym. I think lunch filled me up today.

At the Y, I did about 30 minutes on the elliptical and then 6 minutes on the rowing machine. I also lifted arm weights, but no legs. I figured my legs could still use some rest from the pain they have been through this week. I wanted to stay there longer to do more, but then again my workout ended at 7:30 and that was just too late. I need to get up earlier tomorrow and didn’t want to be lying in bed tonight all wired!

Once home, I followed the advice of my co-worker’s personal trainer. My co-worker and I discuss healthy food and habits. She’s 60 something and in great shape and eats so healthy. Today, she gave me a post-it note with the following post-workout snacks recommended by her trainer.

• soy nuts & fruit
• hard-boiled egg whites (3-4)
• 1/2 cup cottage cheese or yogurt
• apple wedges with almond butter
• 2″ square-baked oatmeal (my co-worker is going to give me the recipe for this and I’ll share it with you too)

I had one of her recommended snacks after my workout tonight.

Almond butter and an apple. This was delicious!

I can’t believe it’s already 9:20, I better get off of here and get ready for bed!