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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??

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!

New woman

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Last night’s bedtime snack:

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A dark chocolate Godiva heart filled with chocolate goo!

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YUM!

Onto today! Not only have I been taking pictures with my very own camera again (Erin, thanks again for sending the battery to me!), but I am also blogging from my very own computer! That’s right — my new adapter arrived today, so I could finally charge my latop again. My roommate Brigitte’s camera and computer have valiantly kept me afloat this past week (thank you, Brig!!), but it’s so nice to be back to my own gear. I feel like myself again!

I started this morning with my favorite 5am workout — 5 minutes jog to the gym, 15 minutes arms with free weights on an aerobics step, 30 minutes stairmaster, 10 minutes abs/stretching, 5 minutes jog home. Stats: 1 hour and 12 minutes, 422 calories, average heart rate 126, max heart rate 157.

Breakfast was more gingerbread spice crockpot oats:

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For this morning’s oats, I actually stirred in the egg yolk that was left from ravioli-making last night and then baked it at 375 for 40 minutes. Nothing goes to waste around here! With 1/2 cup healthy cream cheese icing, two crumbled graham sticks, and more powdered ginger:

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I love love love gingerbread oatmeal. I would make it every week if I could. Come to think of it, why can’t I??

I ate lunch around noon, right before the parents’ group. Kale and date curry with brown basmati:

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Yogurt with apple, banana, raisins, cinnamon, ginger, and grumbled graham stick:

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Orange:

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I ate the equivalent of one more orange in the group :-O.

Jessica restocked Belkis’ candy jar, and it was suddenly full again today:

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I found (and ate!) some pretty crazy stuff. I had the standard three pillow mints of course:

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And a wild apple bubble-gum lollipop and a tootsie roll:

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Jujyfruits:

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Fangs:

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And … wait for it … a chicken lollipop!!

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So weird, right? It actually tasted like canned peaches with a bit of heat to them. Here’s another angle:

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I might die tonight from the ingredients, but I think I’d be ok with that since at least I got to experience candy chicken on a stick first:

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After my final visit of the day around 4:30, I dug out my broccoli trees and hummus:

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And my apple:

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And with that, the week was over!!! Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh …

After work, I met Vani from Fit for Free briefly for a little impromptu tea exchange. She stopped by to pick up her participation gift from the BSI: Dates contest I hosted last week (Kath and I decided to split the tea portion of her winnings amongst the participants since she’s drowning in tea as it is!). Vani was so sweet (and beautiful!) in real life, and she brought me a little treat, too:

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Inside the package, I found an array of very useful tea types considering my frenzied pace lately. Calm bedtime tea, peppermint tea, pink lemonade emergen-c, organic Indian vanilla creme tea (wicked excited for this one!), and TJ’s pomegranate white tea:

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Thanks, Vani! I’m so excited to try these new flavors:-).

For dinner, I had the other half of my BSI Spinach entry: Citrus-Berry Spinach and Goat Cheese Ravioli with Balsamic Glaze:

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SO.

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GOOD.

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Thanks for choosing spinach as the ingredient, Brandi! Eating this was so fun :-).

Dessert was a chocolate fig vitatop with peanut butter and chopped apples:

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What a satisfying food day!

Tomorrow’s going to be a busy one, too … but fun busy (finally!). Among other things, Kate and I have a 7-mile run planned as part of our Brooklyn half marathon training, though HangryPants Heather has passed a rumor my way that the Brooklyn half is no longer happening??? I am off to go check into this now!

Sunlight!

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Good morning! I’m in such a good mood — I love my Thursday morning time with daylight :-). I went for a quick little sunrise snow run outside this morning in the 11-degrees-but-feels-like-negative-1 weather (about 2.5 miles) and then came home and did the 20-minute Gentle Hatha #1 from yogadownload.com. Once again, I’m not a yoga person at all, but I really enjoyed this class — such a relaxing and thorough stretch! Total workout stats, including “transition” time:  56 minutes, 281 calories, average heart rate 115, highest heart rate 171.

Breakfast this morning was yet another bowl of crockpot gingerbread spice oats. Only two more servings left after today — sad! With 1/2 cup healthy cream cheese icing, extra powdered ginger, and two cumbled graham sticks:

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Again:

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I could take pictures of oats all day!

I’m currently sipping on some soymilky black tea, and I’ve got class later this morning followed by a group field advisement meeting … but I could actually be home by 3:30 if all goes according to plan! Here’s the lunch I’ll be enjoying during advisement:

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You can probably guess, but just in case you’re stumped, the lunch includes 3/4 cup kale and date curry with 1/4 cup cooked brown basmati rice, an orange, and Greek yogurt with chopped apple, chopped banana, and ginger. I’ve got some work homework to finish up when I get home, and then maybe I can get moving on this week’s BSI (I bought spinach yesterday for $2, bringing the week’s grocery total to $33) because competition is fierce and I want to win those chocolates!

Sample day

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Today, I ate everything I packed … plus more! I was so munchy all day long. Both of my visits today were completely in Spanish, so I think the extra mental-energy-burning made me hungry :-).

When I ate my mid-morning orange, I decided to try something crazy that I’ve seen Meghann do: top it with peanut butter:

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It was ok, but I still prefer pb on apples, bananas, and carrots!

Inginia brought in tastes of a healthy-ish sweet potato pie she made, so I had some as mid-morning snack #2:

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And mid-morning snack #3:

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After my lunch (kale + date curry and yogurt/fruit, exactly as planned), I also tasted a bite of Mildred’s homemade lasagna:

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YUM!

At 3:30, I dug into the carrot sticks with my peanut butter and raisins:

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I’ve never been a fan of celery, so this is my version of ants on a log. While I was eating it, I kept thinking of the story that my sister Emily told me about her trip to the Amazon and eating ants from the lemon trees there. I wonder if it is anything like eating raisins stuck to carrots with peanut butter?

At 4:10, I couldn’t hold out any longer and finally broke into the Quaker True Delights bar that I’ve been carrying around since Monday!

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The nuts in this bar were plentiful and evenly distributed, and there were loads of cranberries … but only cranberries! Where was the rest of the berry “mix” implied by the title?

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Honestly, this bar tasted kind of on the blah-side. Your regular run-of-the-mill granola bar. My favorite of the three has definitely been the dark chocolate raspberry almond bar … even though it only had one almond. I stick to my initial analysis that Quaker should drop the “almond” from the bar’s title because that would leave nothing to be disappointed about when the eater notices that it is almond-less!

Just before I left work, Inginia heated up her dinner, and I had to go investigate. As my last official bite of the work day (except for candy #6 from Belkis’ candy jar that flew into my mouth next), I had a taste of her tilapia with sofrito, garlic, and lemon juice:

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I think I need to do a coworker kitchen tour. They keep bringing in foods for me to try with the most delicious seasonings! And I love days like this that are full of such a variety of flavors. It was like sample day at Whole Foods :-).

When I got home, I put together a pretty odd dinner (accompanied by sugar cookie sleigh ride tea!):

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I sauteed the rest of the yellow squash (rescued from Hunter Monday night) with minced garlic, cilantro, canola oil, soy sauce, 2 tbsp of Vianni’s rice from yesterday, raisins (!!), and a fun twist: wasabi paste!

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I was in the mood for spicy/sweet/salty all in one dish, but I was apprehensive about how this mishmash of random things would taste:

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It was kind of ridiculously delicious.

For the side, I made an open-faced Banana Fudge Vitatop sandwich (one vitatop sliced down the middle) with a tbsp of peanut butter and sliced banana. I oven-ed the whole thing for seven minutes at 400 to make everything melty together:

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I want another one right now!!

But I’m trying to restrain myself. I may need to have a bite of frozen carrot cake in a minute though :-). We’ll see!

Do you prefer days full of random bites or days full of separate and complete meals?