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WIAW {Avocado Lovin’}

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I’m back and happy what I ate Wednesday! Sorry for the quick post yesterday, on Monday night I realized that my analysis assignment was getting to be too big for the project and had to scale it back a bit. In the process I needed to scrap a lot of work I had already done. So frustrating! But the good new is that I managed to make some serious progress on it last night. It’ll feel so good to turn it in tomorrow!

Anyway, here’s a recap of Tuesday and don’t forget to check out Jenn’s blog Peas and Crayons for more information on wiaw!

I started my day at 5:45 a.m. with date and some kefir for pre-run fuel. I went out for a much needed stress-relieving run and surprised myself. It was my fastest run post-injury. I averaged a little over a 7:45 min/mile.

Breakfast was a new-to-me product, Holly’s oatmeal.

I whipped in banana and then added blueberries and white chocolate wonderful peanut butter after it was done cooking. I liked these oats but they didn’t wow me, maybe I made them wrong?

After breakfast I headed off to work for an almost full day. Unfortunately, I took a weeks worth of hours off for my trip to Boston so I can’t afford to take anymore off finals week (I’m actually making them up next week). No extra time for me to work on my assignment! Thankfully, work has been crazy so I had plenty to me busy and before I knew it my stomach was gowling for lunch.

Whenever I go to Whole Foods (rare now), I always pick up some of their 2 for $5 packaged foods. They make great lunches! Today I brought a Health Starts Here Asian Salad (added avocado to this)

And smoked mozzerella pasta.

Unfortunately my eyes were larger than my stomach and I could only eat about half of the pasta. It was really tasty though!

The afternoon went quickly and before I knew it, I was sitting at my counter working on my assignment. By 6 p.m. I had made significant progress so I took a break for a quick dinner.

This was the ultimate scrounge in your fridge and throw stuff together meal. I mixed cooked risotto with arugula and hummus and microwaved it for 45 seconds. Then I added roasted brussels sprouts, roasted tempeh, and avocado sauce. It may not look pretty but it tasted good.

I worked for another hour before my sweet tooth took hold and I had dessert.

Brown rice cake, crunchy sunflower seed butter, cottage cheese, chocolate covered espresso beans, and pretzel M&M’s. It was awesome.

I spent the rest of my night working on my assignment and in full disclosure when I called it quits around 10:30 I snacked on a small cup of cereal while I relaxed on the couch.

Not the best in terms of stress eating but it could have been much worse!

And that’s Tuesday for you!

Do you stress eat? If you do, do you have any tips on how to prevent it?

Tri Plans & a Relaxing Saturday

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Congrats to everyone running the Chicago Marathon next year! It’s a fun race (see my recap here) and I look forward to hearing all about your training and eventually racing :) .

However, this week while everyone else was signing up for the marathon, I had my eyes on something else.

I signed up for my first tri!! It’s not until June but it should give me time to get back my swimming endurance (definitely fell to the wayside due to marathon training) and get re-accustomed to my bike.

I’ll need all of the advice I can get (when the time to train comes), but I can’t help being so excited to try something new!!

Anyway, I started my day off with a lazy Saturday breakfast of pancakes.

For the batter I just used Kodiak Cakes mix and added some cinnamon and vanilla. Super easy. It does look like I need to work on my flipping skills though :P .

Toppings included carmelized banana, fig jam, granola, and peanut flour mixed with almond milk, greek yogurt, and agave. Mmm who needs syrup anyway?

I plowed through homework this morning like nobody’s business. I was being so productive that the time just flew by. Around 12:30 or so I called it quits and headed out for a speedy run.

Because this week is a cut-back week (only 13 tomorrow!), I let myself push the pace today and busted out 4 miles in 27 minutes and change. Sub-7 min/mile? I’ll take it!

I was ravenous when I got home and threw together the quickest lunch I could.

Arugula, millet (it’s in there somewhere), tomatoes, sausage-less sausage, dollop of hummus, and Bone Suckin’ Sauce.

And a side of pickles from last night!

Ian and I had a couple of “errands” to run and decided to take care of them this afternoon instead of tomorrow before the Superbowl.

First stop, Anti-Cruelty.

The Anti-Cruelty Society is an open-door animal shelter that does not place time limits on animals in their care. I know that a lot of people have mixed opinions about the organization but it is where I adopted my furball and the organization is helping animals in need.

Every so often Ian and I stop over to play with the dogs and cats. We really want to get a dog but we both know now just isn’t the right time. So for now, visiting the shelter will have to suffice.

Isn’t she cute??

We also made a stop at Sprinkles to take advantage of their buy one get one free deal.

Apparently a lot of other people had the same idea! Fortunately, the line moved quickly and after maybe 20 minutes of waiting we walked out with one Salty Caramel and one Raspberry Chocolate Chip.

We then went to the Gold Coast Trader Joe’s (sooo much busier than the one we normally go to) before finally heading home to call it a day.

Dinner is going to be a little bit later than normal so I’m snacking on some warmed frozen strawberries, cashews, sunflower seed butter, and almond milk {don’t knock it until you try it!} to hold me over.

Have a wonderful Saturday night!

Have you ever competed in a triathlon?

What’s your favorite flavor cupcake?

Snacktastic

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As predicted in my last post, about 5 minutes after hitting publish, I went looking for something to clean my palate get rid of my cilantro breath.

After rummaging a bit in the freezer, I found the dark chocolate mini pb cups I had stashed there after Christmas. I figured a taste test was in order, you know, to make sure they didn’t have freezer burn or anything ;)

No worries, they’re still good!

I did homework for another hour or two until I started to feel hungry.

I topped a small white corn tortilla with sunflower seed butter and fig jam and then put it in the toaster oven for about 3 minutes. I dipped the triangles into some plain yogurt topped with some sugar, chocolate, & coffee bean grindings. I also had a clementine.

My snack powered me through a couple of hours of good homework AND some race searching. Let’s just say I have the rest of 2012 pretty much planned out in terms of racing ;)

Dinner
I made my taco soup recipe for dinner. I went on a whim and added frozen peas to mine. It was a nice switch up! I also tried a new cornbread recipe but both Ian and I thought it was bland so I won’t post it for you guys. Now what do I do with the leftover cornbread?

I topped my soup with some tortilla chips and shredded cheese.

Yumm!

After a hot dinner I wanted something cool for dessert. I mixed pumpkin, greek yogurt, peanut flour, and a little maple syrup and topped it with granola (+ two cereal squares) and raisins.

It hit the spot.

I have a little more homework to get to and then I’m calling it a night, finally.

What’s the best thing you ate today?

Breakfast Sunflower-a-dilla

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Good morning! I have a new favorite breakfast to show you :)

Can you figure out what it is?

No?

A breakfast quesadilla sunflower-a-dilla.

Ingredients
2 small tortillas, I used white corn
Sunflower seed butter, peanut butter, almond butter, etc.
Banana
Raisins
Cinnamon or Sugar, Chocolate, & Coffee bean grinder (I used the latter)

Spread nut butter on one tortilla, be sure to coat the entire side. Thinly slice banana and arrange slices and raisins on the tortilla. Sprinkle cinnamon or grind spices over the nut butter and bananas. Place other tortilla on top and cook in a pan or on a Foreman/griddle.

Mmm the sunflower seed butter was melty and the bananas carmalized a bit giving this breakfast not only a great taste but also amazing texture!

This is the perfect, comforting, Monday morning breakfast. Especially when served with some coffee and an adora disc. Coffee is a must on Monday mornings ;)

Do you have a go-to Monday breakfast? If not, what is your favorite comforting breakfast?

Workin’ for the Weekend

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Happy Wednesday! How is everyone holding up? Only three more school/work days until the weekend :)

Dinner
Last night, I made Jenna’s Orange Peel Shrimp. I know a couple other bloggers have bookmarked this recipe and all I have to say is make it ASAP ;)

Ian and I may have gotten a little carried away with zesting though and our shrimp were a little on the bitter side. But it was nothing a little rice couldn’t handle.

I had about 5-ish shrimp with some white rice (leftover from Joy Yee) and a glass of Chardonnay.

Dinner was early so a couple of hours later I mixed some pumpkin, peanut flour, almond milk, and pumpkin butter in a glass and topped it with granola and raisins.

Workout
I woke up this morning extremely achey and lethargic. I somehow managed to motivate myself to get ready to run and headed out for my mid-week 10 miler. Almost a mile into the run I started to feel better, my muscles loosened up and running became easy. My body felt so good this morning, I almost wish I could have knocked out my weekly long run today!

Breakfast
This morning I tried Lilveggiepatch‘s version of Oatless Oats. I followed the recipe pretty closely except I added raisins, pumpkin pie spice, and maple syrup and used unsweetened almond milk instead of flax milk.

I topped mine with a sliced banana and a sunflower seed butter drizzle. Yum!

Random
Around 10 p.m. last night, Ian and I realized that we hadn’t seen Sonic in awhile. We looked all around the apartment but still no dice. Finally, out of the corner of my eye, I saw this little head peeking out of Ian’s backpack.

“Daddy is it take your son to work day?”

Have a good one guys!