Refuse

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As in trash. Not as in I won’t do it. Today is trash day in my neighborhood. On the way to the gym, I passed a giant rat and a toilet. Awesome.

I did arms on the step and the StairMaster at the gym. Stats: 1 hour, 7 mins; 424 calories, 131 average hr, 177 maximum.

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For breakfast, I had my first serving of the pumpkin pie crockpot oats I made yesterday, along with the vanilla creme tea from Vani and soymilk:

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I topped the oats with 1/2 cup yogurt, 2 crumbled graham sticks, 1 crumbled Earl Grey Biscotti Bite, cinnamon, and nutmeg:

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I’ve got class tonight after work, so it’s going to be another looong day. I’ll be back at the end of it with a full report!

Life on the farm

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In other words, I’ve been grazing all afternoon! Have I done any more work for school??? NO!!!

How does this happen every Sunday? I start cooking one thing, and then it is suddenly five hours later and bedtime.

As usual, I snacked all afternoon long as I cooked. I ate the peel of the sweet potato that I used for making Pumpkin Kibbi from a recipe my coworker gave me.

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I also ate some of the clusters of amazingness from the top of my new box of Kashi GoLean Crunch, the best cereal ever. Three in my palm and two in a capful of soy milk:

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2 with a capful of soymilk

I made pumpkin pie crockpot oats (nibbling plenty along the way, too) and ate the scrapings from the crockpot bowl:

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Plus half a piece of the kibbi (again, in addition to “taste-tests” as I cooked!):

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And a dark chocolate Godiva peppermint patty:

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And then I was still hungry, so I had my last vitatop (tear). Dark chocolate pomegranate VitaTop with peanut butter and a chopped date:

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And now I need to quickly pull everything together for tomorrow and get my behind into bed!

Are you ready for the week?

Breakfast + breakfast

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I finally got down to business this morning with homework. I still have lots more reading to do, but I finished a paper proposal that I need to turn in tomorrow, yay!  While I worked, I had soymilky chocolate caramel enchantment chai and 1/3 of the seedy bagel I rescued from work last week toasted with a tbsp peanut butter and 1/3 sliced banana:

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With cinnamon sprinkled on top of course:

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After I finished the proposal, I went out for some errands and stumbled into several cheese samples and this bite of cherry pie, mmmmm:

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I didn’t mean to do a big grocery shop and actually went into the store just for one thing, but I found all sorts of sales! Here’s the haul:

img_3428Two boxes golean crunch, unsweetened Silk (free with $8 purchase of the 2 goleans), 2 white grapefruits, pitted dates, morningstar asian veggie patties ($3.50 sale), grapes ($.99/lb!), asparagus ($1.99/lb!), 2 boxes frozen spinach ($.86 each!), yam, green beans, nonfat cottage cheese ($1.99), mints to refill Belkis’ candy jar, sugar-free mints for me (I’m hoping that the chemical sugar-freeness of them will slow me down on the candy consumption!).

Total: $26!!

Once home, I put together a quick lunch (or breakfast part 2) around 2:30. I had done some freezer maintenance earlier this morning and found tons of frozen fresh herbs that we’ve had in there for at least 16 months. So I made an herby scrambled egg with dill, basil, rosemary, and sage; the grape tomatoes I rescued from Hunter last week; and some freshly grated homemade cheddar and ground black pepper:

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I also made butternut squash fries with the remaining 1/4 squash from last night. I tossed the pieces of squash with olive oil, chili powder, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, coarse sea salt, and fresh ground black pepper and roasted them for 15 minutes at 425:

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I enjoyed my meal with more tea and more “studying”:

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Back to work!

Question: Are your Sundays for productivity or for relaxation??

Sweet dreams

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I decided it was time for dinner about an hour after I had lunch. I’d been formulating a plan to make a variation of the Date, Feta, and Toasted Nut Stuffed Butternut Squash that my mom submitted for last week’s BSI. Of course I didn’t have her exact ingredients, so I improvised as usual.

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I used 3/4 of the baby butternut squash that I bought at Fairway last weekend (the other 1/4 is for butternut squash fries tomorrow!). For the stuffing, I mixed the remaining half cup of ravioli filling with some of the squash and with the spices recommended by mom. I topped it all with five chopped toasted almonds, two chopped dates (the end of my supply), and some of the squash’s seeds (I seasoned and toasted them in the oven while the squash was roasting). Ahhhh, it was soooo good. Not a surprise since my mama’s a genius in the kitchen :-).

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If you didn’t notice already, I had the squash over a bed of 1/4 cup Vianni’s vegetable rice and 1/4 cup brown basmati rice:

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After dinner, I headed out to meet up with the ladies: Gina, Kate, and Pam. They’d gone to a Thai restaurant for dinner, but my bank account couldn’t handle that so I skipped the meal and joined for them a movie after. We saw He’s Just Not That Into You, and I actually liked it! I laughed, I cried … the whole thing. It’s been ages since I’ve enjoyed a movie, so I’m glad this one came through. When we finished with the movie, we went across the street for dessert at Sweet Melissa, a local patisserie of which I am quite fond. Here we are displaying our treats:

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Gina and Kate each got the Chocolate Peanut Butter Indulgence (layers of rich chocolate cake, peanut butter, and ganache):

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Inside:

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I had two bites:

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Gina got vanilla ice cream for the side, and I ate many bites of that:

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My dessert was the Toasted Lemon Meringue Tart (sweet tart lemon curd in a pate sucree crust topped with a dollop of toasted meringue):

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Mmmmm, it was deeeeeelicious. The crust was so buttery and crumbly and shortbready:

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I’m back home now and setting up a new batch of yogurt for overnight incubation. My roommate’s boyfriend is eating this Chipwich and it’s killing me:

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So I’m going to eat this Godiva dark chocolate:

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With a cherry inside:

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And quickly brush my teeth so I don’t eat any more. Night night!

Run for your lunch

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My favorite part of a long run is eating after it :-). Kate and I did 7.5 miles (two loops of Prospect Park + the jog there from my apartment), and I spent pretty much the entire time envisioning my lunch. Stats: 1 hour and 15 minutes, 654 calories, 155 average heart rate, 181 highest heart rate. After the run, I did my 20-minute Gentle Hatha #1 yoga download for a good stretch. And then it was lunchtime!

I had half of a toasted pumpernickel bagel with another tbsp of peanut butter, the other 1/3 banana, and a sprinkle of cinnamon AND a cup of kale and date curry with a dollop of plain yogurt and an extra sprinkle of curry powder:

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Mmmmmmm.

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And mmmmm again.

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I have a feeling that dinner is going to be happening very soon!