Canada, Greece, Repeat.
Around the world and back again in three short meals 🙂 Geesh, I need a vacation… Luckily, only two weeks til my Char-Char-cation!!! (Charlotte/Charleston/Vacation 😉 )
Breakfast #1 = Canada
Canadian Bacon Eggins! Last night, I decided to whip up some eggins and use some of the Canadian Bacon I picked up at Trader Joe’s over the weekend.
I sprayed a muffin tin down with cooking spray, and plopped one piece of the Canadian bacon in each of 6 muffin tins.
Then I mixed together 9 egg whites, splash of water, S&P, red pepper flakes, franks red hot and poured it evenly into the 6 muffin tins. (Word to the wise – if you use a container with a spout it makes life A LOT easier 🙂 )
I cooked them for about 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
I had three of these little guys for breakfast with a dollop of ketchup.
Stats for 3 Canadian Bacon Eggins & ketchup: 147 calories, 6g carbs, 1g fat, 26g protein, 0g fiber
Breakfast #2 = Greece
1/2 cup Trader Joe’s nonfat vanilla greek yogurt with 1/4 cup each strawberries and blueberries.
Trader Joe’s greek yogurt was so tasty. It’s not overly sweet, which I really liked. I think I could have ate about 3 more servings of this 🙂
Stats: 133 calories, 23g carbs, 0g fat, 9g protein, 2g fiber
Lunch = Repeat
Leftovers from last night’s Chicken Couscous Salad!
So tasstttyyyy… 
Last night’s smoothie
Since lunch was a repeat, I thought I’d showcase the lovely little smoothie I made last night. Everyday, I have a mid afternoon snack and a late night snack, each of which are around 100 calories. They are usually something simple like an apple or a bowl of low-cal cereal and almond milk, and don’t typically make it into the blog.
Last night, I was feeling up for a smoothie so I put the following into the blender:
- 1/4 cup Oikos nonfat plain yogurt
- 1 packet Truvia (Stevia)
- 1/4 cup unsweetened Almond Breeze Vanilla Almond Milk
- 1/4 cup each of frozen fresh blueberries, strawberries, and black raspberries
All blended up:
This lil guy was quite tasty, and he is quite the looker too 😉 !
Stats on the berry smoothie: 92 calories, 18g carbs, 1g fat, 6g protein, 4g fiber
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Running in the Rain
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
Sunday Sum-up
Whelp, I didn’t do much cooking this weekend. I did get a new digital camera and new (free replacement) iPhone though! WOOOHOO!
I contemplated getting a digital SLR camera, but in the ended I decided to go with the Fujifilm Finepix S2550HD, which is a higher end point and shoot camera. Down the road I may invest in a digital SLR camera, but I felt I needed to learn more about photography before taking such a big (financial) leap. Ok, I’m cheap. 🙂
Here’s some random pictures I have taken so far with the camera. I’m still learning how to use all the functions but I especially liked how these turned out. I’m looking forward to my free class at Van’s Camera to learn everything!
This weekend was pretty action packed. And by action packed I mean lots of shopping, driving around, nonstop errands, and eating foods that I didn’t cook 🙂
For breakfast this morning I had a Mama Lupe’s low carb tortilla, blueberries, and Trader Joe’s Crunchy Almond Butter that I cooked up on the george foreman grill:
Tried the Vanilla Almond Luna Bar and the Nuts over Chocolate.
Both were pretty tasty (Luna never lets me down apparently), but I wouldn’t rank either of them at the top of the pack because I wished the flavors were stronger in both bars.
Also tried a Pecan Pie Larabar… I ate one small bite and tossed the rest. Bummer. I’ve got some good feedback from you guys though, and it looks like Key Lime Pie, Cherry Pie, and Coconut are the flavors I need to keep an eye out for!
After getting my iPhone replaced, we headed to Tropical Smoothie Cafe at Legacy Village for lunch. I ordered the Jerk Chicken Wrap, apple, and a Very Berry Green Tea Smoothie. Jarrod got the buffalo chicken wrap and a Muscle Blaster smoothie.
We both loved everything we ordered and definitely want to try the cafe out again since their menu had a lot to offer.
After lunch we hit up Trader Joe’s! Here’s what I picked up this time:
I had one of the chicken sausages for dinner along with some of Jarrod’s special oven baked cajun potatoes:
Delicious!
Ooey Gooey Love
This week is just F-L-Y-I-N-G by. Can’t believe tomorrow is Friday already!
Breakfast #1
This morning I was craving something warm and peanut-buttery for breakfast. I pulled a Mama lupe low carb tortilla out of the freezer to let it thaw out. Then I topped it with 1 tbsp Trader Joe’s Crunchy Almond Butter and some sliced strawberries.
I wrapped it up into a little burrito and put on the george foreman grill until it was hot and the shell was crispy. Then I wrapped the little guy up in foil and stuck him in my purse.
I got to work about 20 minutes later, and the wrap was still nice and hot and gooey.
This was just delicious. So simple, and so delicious!
Side note: If you are obsessed with freezing things like me, before you freeze the tortillas put a piece of parchment paper or wax paper between each one. That way you can easily grab 1 tortilla from the freezer at a time (and they won’t all be frozen into one tortilla blob).
Stats on Breakfast #1: 172 calories, 13g carbs, 12g fat, 9g protein, 7g fiber
Breakfast #2
OO! That’s right, Overnight Oats!
I typically use quick oats when I make overnight oats, but this time I tried them with Bob’s Red Mill Thick Rolled Oats instead. Last night I threw the following into a bowl in the fridge:
- 1/2 cup Bob’s red mill thick oats (uncooked)
- 1/2 cup Almond breeze unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- cinnamon
This morning, I topped the oats with strawberries and blueberries:
The rolled oats have a different consistency than quick oats. They really keep their oat texture and are somewhat chewy:
These were sooooo yummmy. If I had to choose, I’d pick quick oats over rolled oats, but I’d be happy to eat either one 🙂
Stats on breakfast #2: 258 Calories, 45g carbs, 6g fat, 8g Protein, 8g Fiber
Lunch
Healthified Tuna Salad Lettuce Wrap! This was one of those times were I just kept adding things to the bowl until I found something tasty:
- 1 can tuna
- s&P, rpf, celery seed, dill weed
- 3 tbsp greek oikos
- 1 big squirt wasabi mustard
- couple drops lemon juice
- 1/4 cup chopped white onion
- 1 chopped pickle (that’s how my dad makes it!)
I made a lettuce wrap out of the tuna salad and also had some cucumber salad on the side, which was leftover from last night’s gyro dinner.
Stats on lunch: 211 calories, 19g carbs, 2g fat, 29g protein, 6g fiber
For dessert, I had a little unsweetened applesauce with some cinnamon. When I say little, I mean about 2 spoonfuls.. 🙂 (Leftovers from the big fat flop protein cakes I made)
Good news! I think my phone is almost fully recovered! 🙂
DAY #3 OF INTERVAL TRAINING TONIGHT! LET’S HOPE FOR NO KNEE PAIN!
Taco salad does the trick
This morning started off on the right foot: Trader Joe’s coffee for the road as I headed to a breakfast meeting for Akron’s Knowledgeable Network of Women.
Check this guy out, he thinks he lives at my house:
I also have a stray cat who calls my side porch home. I’ll take these guys over the possum who had a brief stint in my backyard :-/ Ugh, possums are so creepy!
On my way to the breakfast meeting, I started to recall the days where I loved breakfast/lunch work meetings. The more the better! Bring on the free food! Pass the rolls! Dessert? I’ll take one of each, thank you! Nowadays I dread them. It’s so hard to make healthy choices when you have no idea what the restaurant is actually putting in the food. Unless I’m at a chain restaurant that posts the nutritional data online, I have thee hardest time picking out the healthy choices on the menu. It can be downright frustrating!
Today’s meeting was at a small locally owned restaurant, so I was left to fight the battle on my own. I went with a plain english muffin (no butter, thanks) with blackberry preserves and a bowl of fruit. What I REALLY WANTED was the strawberry stuffed french toast… Maybe I’ll attempt a healthified version this weekend 🙂
Check out the KNOW by clicking here. I always encourage people to get involved and do something that is outside their comfort zone. That’s exactly why I joined the KNOW a few years back. I HATED networking events and always felt uncomfortable entering a room full of unknowns. I’ve made drastic improvements since then.
For breakfast #2 I decided to go with my newly declared indulgence: Dannon Vanilla Greek Yogurt, blackberries, and 1/2 a serving of Bear Naked Maple Pecan granola.
Stats of B#2: 190 calories, 31g carbs, 2g fat, 15g protein, 3g fiber
Lunch
I really didn’t have a plan of attack for lunches this week. While scrounging around in the freezer looking for hidden treasures, I found some frozen lean ground beef I had cooked up with taco seasoning a while back. So I decided to make a taco salad using romaine lettuce, tomato, onion, banana peppers, and black beans (STILL trying to use these up from the stuffed peppers I made last week!). Topped it all off with some hot sauce and some fat free breakstones sour cream.
The best part of eating salads for lunch is you can consume an enormous amount of food and still feel good 😀
Stats for the taco salad: 326 calories, 32g carbs, 10g fat, 29g protein, 9g fiber