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A sandwich BUILT for Hummus

August 26, 2010 4 Comments

It’s Thursday, and I am one happy lady. Thank you to those of you who commented on yesterday’s tell me something happy post. Each one of your comments resulted in a big smile on my face, and I thank you again and again for sharing your happy thoughts with me!

Breakfast #1

Today I planned on eating the last of the scrambled eggs I cooked up on Sunday, but I was in the mood for something a little different. Something with a little kick. And when I’m in such a mood, I turn to my friend Frank. Frank’s Red Hot that is 🙂

Come to think of it, I can’t leave out my good friends George and Mama Lupe either! Frank, George, and Mama Lupe all contributed to my yummy breakfast wrap.

Leftover scrambled eggs + several shakes of Franks atop a Mama Lupe low carb tortilla:

Then I wrapped it up burrito-style and grilled on the George for about 5 minutes, until the eggs were hot and the tortilla was crispy.

I also heated up the broccoli in the microwave… Unfortunately my microwave doesn’t have a human name… Frank, George, Mama Lupe, and Emerson (I guess Emerson could be a last name).

I swear the George Foreman grill is one of the most amazing kitchen gadgets on earth–or at least the most amazing one in my kitchen!

Stats on B#1: 208 Calories, 15 g carbs, 8g fat, 24g protein, 6g fiber

Breakfast #2

Overnight oaty goodness:

It’s getting cold in the mornings now… I have a feeling pretty soon I’ll be saying farewell to cold oats and heading back to the warmth the traditional hot oats. *Sigh*

Stats on B#2: 233 calories, 44g carbs, 5g fat, 6g protein, 7g fiber

Lunch

Ive blabbed my Trader Joe’s sob story on this blog many a time.. Sooooo far to drive (~1 hr away) to the nearest TJ’s… So sad. Luckily, my mom picked me up some Trader Joe’s Hummus on her last trip to TJ’s! WOOOOOOT!

The hummus was not an afterthought for today’s sandwich, not a mere condiment to go on the bun. No. Today’s sandwich was BUILT specifically for Trader Joe’s Cilantro Jalapeno Hummus.

This sandwich consisted of a Pepperidge Farm 7 grain deli flat & a four ounce grilled chicken breast:

That I topped off with sliced tomato, onion, and the STAR of the show: Trader Joe’s Cilantro Jalapeno Hummus

Then I added some fresh spinach and some sprouts. Excessive veggies? Perhaps.

Check out the height on this sucker:

I also had some leftover roasted cauliflower on the side. Cauliflower might looking boring, but trust me. It was fab.

Layers of FLAVOR.

Stats on Lunch: 364 calories, 35g carbs, 5g fat, 46g protein, 11g fiber

QUESTION: What did YOU have for lunch today? I’m always looking for ways to shake up my lunch routine!

What I ate

The great salad extraction…

August 2, 2010 3 Comments

Before we get into my salad debacle, let’s recap breakfast!

Breakfast #1

While getting ready for work this morning, I realized I wanted NEEDED eggs for breakfast. I was already crunched for time, and considered passing on my fav B#1, but then it dawned on me. EGGINS.

“Eggins” are baked eggs that I cook up in a muffin tin. Get it? Egg + Muffin = Eggin 😉 (bear with me… it is Monday after all).

I had 9 eggs in the fridge, so I decided to go with 2 whole eggs and 7 egg whites. I mixed these up with S&P, Frank’s Red Hot, and a splash of water, and then evenly distributed them into 6 regular size muffin tins. I also threw 2 cups of broccoli into a pan that I had sprayed down with cooking spray. I seasoned the broccoli with some S&P, then threw everything into the oven at 350 degrees for 25 minutes while I continued getting ready for work.

2 breakfasts in < 5 minutes prep. Bada bing, bada boom 🙂

I had 1/2 of the above ingredients at work today with some ketchup, of course:

Stats: 171 calories, 12g carbs, 5g fat, 21g protein, 2g fiber

Breakfast #2

Blueberry Chobani + Strawberries:

Mixed into a fruity frenzy:

Tasty!

Stats: 163 calories, 26 g carbs, 0g fat, 14g protein, 2g fiber

Lunch

Now we get to the salad debacle. Yesterday, I went to my sister’s for a cookout and brought a huge salad. There was a ton leftover, which meant lunch for today 😀

Sad story: the lettuce in the salad was EXTREMELY wilty and soggy this morning. If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s soggy lettuce (and olives–not that there were any olives involved in this story but I just want to make sure we are clear 👿 ).

Wilty and yucky:

I’m not one to waste food, so I decided to perform a salad extraction. In preparation for this procedure, I brought a bag of lettuce from the fridge at home.

My saviour:

Piece by piece I sifted through the salad pulling out any of the soggy pieces.

Icky bits:

Icky on the left, crispy on the right:

So fresh and so crisp, crisp:

I also had a Jennie O Turkey Sausage on the side with some mustard:

I may or may not have spent some time playing in the paint program over lunch…

What I ate

Saturday eggs, smoothies, & tuna salad

July 24, 2010 2 Comments

This morning I woke up bright and early to try and pick up on my interval running (even though I had already decided to take a week off of high-impact excercise)… I was able to get 1.5 intervals in before my knee started hurting 🙁 Looks like I’m going to be in the walking group at the Healthy Living Summit.

Breakfast of champions

After my disappointing run, I wanted a delicious breakfast to perk me up. I cooked up 1 egg sunny side up, and had a piece of Country Hearth 12 Grain bread with sunflowers and a half a cup of oven baked potatoes:

Why are egg yolks SOOOO delicious tasting? I find them oddly decadent!

Stats: 250 calories, 37g carbs, 7g fat, 12g protein, 2g fiber

Soon after downing this delicious breakfast, I was already feeling hungry and decided to make a fruit smoothie.

I threw the following into the blender:

1 container Yoplait Strawberry Greek Yogurt
1/2 cup Almond Breeze unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
1/4 cup fresh blueberries
6 medium strawberries
1 cup fresh spinach
1/2 cup ice

This puppy definitely filled my belly up!

Stats on my smoothie: 199 calories, 32g carbs, 2g fat, 14g protein, 4g fiber

After watching me down my smoothie, Jarrod got jealous and decided he wanted a smoothie too. So we threw the following into the blender:

1 scoop optimum nutrition whey chocolate protein
1/2 cup frozen sliced bananas
1 tbsp JIF peanut butter
1/4 cup ground-up quick oats
1/2 cup Almond Breeze unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
1/2 cup ice

This doesn’t look like much, but I tried a sip and it was AMAZING:

Tasted like a shake you’d get at a hamburger stand. I’m going to try and make a lower-calorie version sometime!

Stats on Jarrod’s chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie: 377 calories, 39g carbs, 12g fat, 33g protein, 6g fiber

Lunch

A little before lunch, I headed over to my mom’s house for some quality time with the fam. Just as I was about to leave, I locked my keys in my trunk… 😯 What am I, 16 again? When I was younger, I had the joy of consistently locking my keys in my car. Actually, the day I first got my license I locked my keys in my trunk and had to have my dad come rescue me…. Oh joy….

Once I got the key situation all worked out, I headed home to make a tuna wrap for lunch. Here’s what went into the tuna salad:

1 can chunk light tuna in water, drained
1/4 cup red onion
1/2 a chopped roma tomato
1 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Creamy Ceaser Dressing
S&P

Then I added a few slices of a ginormous banana pepper I grew in my backyard garden:

I put the tuna salad atop a Light Flat-out Italian wrap with 1 cup of spinach:

Then I wrapped everything up burrito-style and grilled on the george foreman grill for about 5 minutes:

DELICIOUS.

Stats on the tuna wrap: 282 calories, 28g carbs, 9g fat, 32g protein, 12g fiber

I’m hoping to try out a new recipe for dinner tonight.. I have a few ideas in mind. Maybe a nap will help things come to fruition 🙂

What I ate

Saturday eggs, smoothies, & tuna salad

July 24, 2010 2 Comments

Breakfast of champions

Why are egg yolks SOOOO delicious tasting? I find them oddly decadent!

Stats: 250 calories, 37g carbs, 7g fat, 12g protein, 2g fiber

Soon after downing this delicious breakfast, I was already feeling hungry and decided to make a fruit smoothie.

I threw the following into the blender:

1 container Yoplait Strawberry Greek Yogurt
1/2 cup Almond Breeze unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
1/4 cup fresh blueberries
6 medium strawberries
1 cup fresh spinach
1/2 cup ice

This puppy definitely filled my belly up!

Stats on my smoothie: 199 calories, 32g carbs, 2g fat, 14g protein, 4g fiber

After watching me down my smoothie, Jarrod got jealous and decided he wanted a smoothie too. So we threw the following into the blender:

1 scoop optimum nutrition whey chocolate protein
1/2 cup frozen sliced bananas
1 tbsp JIF peanut butter
1/4 cup ground-up quick oats
1/2 cup Almond Breeze unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
1/2 cup ice

This doesn’t look like much, but I tried a sip and it was AMAZING:

Tasted like a shake you’d get at a hamburger stand. I’m going to try and make a lower-calorie version sometime!

Stats on Jarrod’s chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie: 377 calories, 39g carbs, 12g fat, 33g protein, 6g fiber

Lunch

Once I got the key situation all worked out, I headed home to make a tuna wrap for lunch. Here’s what went into the tuna salad:

1 can chunk light tuna in water, drained
1/4 cup red onion
1/2 a chopped roma tomato
1 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Creamy Ceaser Dressing
S&P

Then I added a few slices of a ginormous banana pepper I grew in my backyard garden:

I put the tuna salad atop a Light Flat-out Italian wrap with 1 cup of spinach:

Then I wrapped everything up burrito-style and grilled on the george foreman grill for about 5 minutes:

DELICIOUS.

Stats on the tuna wrap: 282 calories, 28g carbs, 9g fat, 32g protein, 12g fiber

I’m hoping to try out a new recipe for dinner tonight.. I have a few ideas in mind. Maybe a nap will help things come to fruition 🙂

Ramblings

Foodie who is anti-food?

July 7, 2010 7 Comments

All throughout my life, I’ve been a big eater.

Eating minimal food throughout the day so that I could engorge at dinner was commonplace for me for many years. Family members would tease me about always being the first person in the cookout buffet lines, and the first person to go back for round #2. I’ve been a foodie for as long as I can remember. I just love food. Yes, my world basically revolves around it. Yes, that may mean I have issues… but I’m ok with that 🙂

Over the past year, I’ve changed a lot of my old habits. Nowadays, I take the time to plan my meals out in advance so that I’m sure I’m giving my body the fuel it needs to chug along throughout the day. And I try as hard as I can to not over do it in one sitting. I HATE that sickly full feeling you get when you overeat. (Despite other changes I have made, I am still always the first in the buffet line… watch out, I throw elbows 😉 )

Never in my life have I even been called a person who is “not really into food,” until today that is. I was incorrectly classified today after I suggested a place with “healthy options” for lunch, and then proceeded to only eat 1/2 of my ginormous plate of food. I must say, I was a little taken aback. Dare I say, I scoffed in the commenter’s general direction. I LOVE FOOD. LOVE, I say, LOVE! I just try to incorporate as many healthy choices into my day as possible.

Does that make me anti-food? I think not!

Breakfast #1

I had a leftover link of Jennie-O Hot Turkey sausage from the weekend I wanted to use up, so I decided to make a double batch of scrambled eggs.

I mixed up 8 egg whites, S&P, red pepper flakes, and some water and got my scramble on. Once the curds started to form (least attractive word ever), I added some splashes of franks red hot to the eggs and dumped in the diced up turkey sausage.

I also roasted up some broccoli to go along side.

2 days’ breakfasts & minimal effort. Love it!

B#1 Stats (1 serving = 1/2 of recipe above): 174 calories, 8g carbs, 5g fat, 24g protein, 1g fiber

Breakfast #2

As I was preparing to make my overnight oats last night, I stood in front of an open cabinet pondering what I could possibly put in my oats to mix things up. Then a little voice inside me said.. you know you want the same exact oats you made for Monday. And guess what, that little voice was right. 🙂

1/2 cup uncooked quick oats
1/2 cup unsweetened almond breeze almond milk
1 tsp brown sugar
cinnamon
fresh strawberries

Heaven.

B#2 Stats: 208 calories, 38g carbs, 5g fat, 6g protein, 6g fiber

Lunch

Lunch today was courtesy of Aladdin’s Eatery. I went with the Jasmine’s Favorite Plate (plain)–which according to the Daily Plate only has 400 calories. I find that hard to believe, given that the plate of food they brought me was overfloweth with food. What do you guys think of that website? Reliable? Not reliable?

Anyway, the Jasmine’s Favorite is “a fresh mix of cooked beans, vegetables and rice seasoned with a blend of herbs and spices,” and it was DELICIOUS.

I wasn’t able to take a pic of everything, but here’s some of what was leftover:

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