Sadly a Carbaterian
Changing some habits to be [slightly] less of a carbaterian. I'm doing crazy things like drinking more water, adding in exercise, and eating 5 smaller meals a day. FANCY.
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Woo! Life has been busy! I’ve been adding in a lot of fun activities since getting home from PAX. [PS PAX was totally amazing!] I start school in a week and I have a job interview tomorrow morning [fingers crossed!] so I’ll need a solid menu plan. Plus my allergies are in overdrive so I’m trying to get them under control too.
Monday
- B: Homemade pumpkin cranberry muffin^* + homemade pumpkin spice latte^*
- L: sliced apple, peanut butter honey toast, tomato with vinegar
- D: Homemade veggie chili^* with 2 pieces homemade cornbread^*
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookie^*
- W: Cleaning up the house!
Tuesday - Interview!
- B: 3 Pumpkin spice pancake biscuit^* + homemade pumpkin spice latte^*
- L: curried egg salad sandwich* + apple slices
- D: Homemade veggie chili^* with 2 pieces homemade cornbread^*
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: Chai tea^* with homemade pumpkin spice syrup^* + carrot sticks with homemade hummus^* [made with homemade tahini^*!]
- W: Cardio + lower body
Wednesday
- B: 1 slice homemade whole wheat bread^ + 1 egg plus 1 egg white over easy + homemade pumpkin spice latte^*
- L: Homemade veggie chili^* with 2 pieces homemade cornbread^*
- D: curried egg salad sandwich* + apple slices + steamed broccoli with garlic salt and red pepper flakes
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: Chai tea^* with homemade pumpkin spice syrup^* + carrot sticks with homemade hummus^* [made with homemade tahini^*!]
- W: Cardio + abs
Thursday
- B: Oatmeal with pumpkin topped with homemade granola^* + homemade pumpkin spice latte^*
- L: curried egg salad sandwich* + apple slices
- D: Homemade veggie chili^* with 2 pieces homemade cornbread^*
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: Chai tea^* with homemade pumpkin spice syrup^* + carrot sticks with homemade hummus^* [made with homemade tahini^*!]
- W: cardio + yoga
Friday
- B: Homemade pumpkin cranberry muffin* + homemade pumpkin spice latte^*
- L: curried egg salad sandwich* + apple slices
- D: Homemade veggie chili^* with 2 pieces homemade cornbread^*
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: 1/2 grilled cheese sandwich on homemade whole wheat
- W: Cardio + upper body
^ = vegan
* = recipe to come!
As you can see I make a big batch of stuff and eat it throughout the week. It doesn’t bother me at all. If I get tired of the egg salad or the chili I have homemade burritos^* in the freezer or empanadas^*! Plus that hummus^* freezes beautifully!
Upcoming recipes:
- Burritos
- Empanadas
- Tahini
- Hummus
- Pumpkin Cranberry Bread
- Pumpkin Spice Syrup
- Chai Tea blend
- Veggie Chili
- Cornbread
- Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
- Pumpkin Spice Pancake Biscuits
- Curried Egg Salad
- Homemade Granola
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Monday - Substantive Law FINAL
- B: pancakes with natural peanut butter and pumpkin butter
- L: leftover sloppy lentils, 1 piece of homemade bread, salad w/ homemade basil/lime dressing
- D: tofurkey wrap, carrot sticks, corn chipz/salsa
Tuesday - Law Office Management FINAL
- B: poached egg + 2 egg whites, 1 piece toast
- L: salad w/ homemade basil/lime dressing
- D: stir fry [make extra brown rice]
Wednesday - COOK FOR PAX
- B: oatz with wheat germ, coconut, and strawberry jam
- L: egg/veggie fried rice
- D: tofurky hot dog, steamed broccoli, salad w/ homemade basil/lime dressing, leftover lentils [if there is any]
Thursday
- B: homemade granola bar
- L: peanut butter sammich, bean salad, apple
- D: BBQ/party
Friday
- B: cottage cheese, half granola bar
- L: bean salad, other half of granola bar, carrot sticks, half of a PB sammich
- D: boy picks
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This week is going to suck for me healthwise. I overindulged on the weekend [like usual hence why I don’t meal plan for the weekend plus the boy [who is vegan] is usually over and we just kind of meal plan on the fly]. I woke up this morning and remembered all the junk I ate on the weekend.
Oh the delicious junk. I made a very small batch of vegan snickerdoodles [like 7 tiny cookies], then I made sloppy lentils, I baked bread, and made the best vegan brownies in the land. I still have a ton of them as well. Girl time started they won’t last the week.
This week is also going to be hard healthwise because I’m going to a videogame convention on Thursday and I’m dead broke. I’m bringing my food with me. I’m taking homemade bread, homemade granola bars, easy bean salad, cottage cheese, peanut butter, carrot/celery sticks, cheddar bunnies, and apples. I’d LOVE to pick up some wine, but I don’t think I’ll have the money. It should be fun, but I’ll be eating about 10,000 carbs a day. I know that the boy is planning on taking me to Cyber Dogs [a vegan hot dog place that is AMAZING in Seattle] for like every dinner/drunk snack since he’s in love with it. I’m hoping to make some veggie conscious choices there.
Oh and about those weight fluctuations. I went from 124 to 132 over the course of the weekend - REALLY. Thanks body! So terrible. So chubby now.
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Easy Sardine Salad adapted from Bread & Honey.
- ½ cucumber
- 1 carrot, diced
- 1-2 celery stocks, diced
- ¼ very small red onion
- ½ tin sardines
- ¼ Olive oil
- ½ rice wine vinegar
- salt/petter
- stone ground mustard
- 2 cups cold cooked whole wheat pasta
- handful fresh basil
Chop up all the veggies all about the same size. Mix up the Olive oil, rice wine vinegar, salt/pepper, and mustard [I put it all in an old jam jar and mixed it up]. Combine the veggies and the pasta. NOW this salad makes 2 [GIANT] servings so divide in half. So if you want to store it [like I did] put half the tin of sardines on the salad, and put the rest in a bag and put it in the fridge. Dress the salad. Add the basil to the top. Store the rest of the salad in the fridge for the next day. To assemble the following day dump the dressing and the sardines on the salad. Chop up some more basil and toss everything up!
This salad is super delicious and very cheap to make.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.Aristotle
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Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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bread & honey : a food blog.: summer salad.
This was the basic recipe that I used and adapted for my lunch today. I found that it serves 2 so I will have to make more again soon. It was delicious! I’ll post my version of it tomorrow along with my thoughts on sardines.
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So I worked out today. I kind of stopped working out on Friday. I am going to hurt tomorrow! No more abs! I’m about to go make up a sardine salad. I need to eat lunch early so I can work on a project for school that is due tonight! I’m also a procrasterterian.
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Monday
- B: Savory oats
- L: Sardine Salad + 2 wasa
- D: Burritos with Spanish Rice
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: sliced fruit + almonds
- W: cardio + abs
Tuesday
- B: spinach scramble + 1 piece of toast
- L: sardine salad + 2 wasa
- D: burritos with spanish rice
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: celery + nut butter
- W: cardio + yoga
Wednesday
- B: quick oats
- L: sardine salad + 2 wasa
- D: empanadas
- S1:1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: hummus + carrot sticks
- W: cardio + abs
Thursday
- B: peach smoothie
- L: empanadas
- D: burrito with spanish rice
- S1:1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: pop corn or leftover sardine salad
- W: cardio + lower body
Friday
- B: breakfast sammich
- L: tofurky sammich
- D: leftovers or burger with the fixin’s + sliced fruit
- S1: 1/2 c. cottage cheese
- S2: cut up fruitz + tomato/vinegar salad
- W: cardio + total body
For more menu plans check out OrgJunkie!
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- Breakfast: 1 soft boiled egg + 2 hard boiled egg whites + 1 piece of homemade wheat bread with earth balance + black tea
- Lunch: Leftover stir fry
- Dinner: Date night!
- Snack 1: cottage cheese [post workout]
- Snack 2: peach smoothie [peaches + soy milk + wheat germ + nutmeg + ice]
- Workout: cardio + abs
