Evening guys! How are y’all today? As a co-worker put it, it’s Friday Eve…woohoooooo!
We started this morning off with a delicious smoothie that Nate made. This bad boy had 1 banana, 5 fresh strawberries, 1/4 cup fresh blueberries, 1/3 cup plain yogurt, 1/8 cup milk, and some splashes of juice. It ended up being about 2 cups of smoothie and super yummy!
At work I made some coffee with hot cocoa powder in it. I wasn’t really a huge fan of the mix today, but I wanted my caffeine, so I drank it anyway. Sorry guys, no shapes like Kath’s!
I’ve decided that really the only thing that holds me over through til lunch these days is oatmeal. Around 10 or so my tummy was rumbling away! I had this instant soup as a snacker:
Here are the ingredients (click to enlarge). Not too bad, eh? 180 calories, couple grams of fat, and 50% of my daily fiber intake 🙂
A few hours later I was hungry again, so I decided to do a Boca mushroom burger and some leftover pasta from last night’s dinner. I’ll be honest, the patty is kinda slimy, but the flavor is SO good! I could eat these every day!
And then it started to snow. HARD. So I didn’t end up getting my walk in today (boooooo!!!) My plan is to do some abs in a few minutes and just chalk it up to a rest day, even though I did 25 minutes of yoga this morning. I ended up going to Whole Foods and just browsing the aisles. I got some more salt (we were out) and canned beans and whole spelt. I’m not real sure what I’m going to do with that, but it’s mine all mine, so look for something in the future! Snack was similar to yesterday’s, sans the cranberries:
The cranberries are SO good in this combo (yogurt, coconut, chocolate chips, GrapeNuts, and dried cranberries). I’ll still eat it without them, but they definitely make it.
We decided to do fried rice tonight, so I roasted a head of cauliflower and a head of broccoli with 1.5 Tbsp olive oil and some salt at 400 for 20 minutes:
While that was roasting away, I sauteed a red onion and some carrots in 1 Tbsp olive oil and 1 Tbsp of butter. When they were done, I added some frozen peas, and then some eggs. I don’t know if you count eggs as meat, but I figured for my Lent purposes I’m going to eat them from time to time! When it was all done I layered the cauliflower/broccoli and then the rice mixture on top:
And, since it’s Friday Eve, I had 1/3 cup vanilla bean ice cream topped with some strawberry jam 🙂
It hasn’t necessarily been a hard day; work was fine and pretty slow, but we took my car in to get some work done and found out that the dealership was going to charge more than the car is actually worth to fix it! I mean, really? So we ended up having to pay for the diagnosis and now we’re going to see if a friend can fix most of the issues, at the very least to up the trade-in value should we get another car. That whole situation really stressed me out though!
Initially we thought we were just going to be buying a new car today, and I seriously started crying! My car (a 2002 Toyota Corolla) was my second car, and I got it brand new. It’s been with me through a LOT of really huge changes in my life, and just thinking about have to say goodbye to “Rolly” made me really sad! Isn’t that strange how we become attached to some material objects so closely? Do you feel the same way about your car? If not your car, anything else?
I hope you all have a fabulous evening, and I can’t wait to celebrate Friday with some Coconut Pecan Cake!
Aww sorry about your car! I know mine needs help since it almost didn’t start Saturday night. Yikes! I hope it doesn’t cost much. Good luck figuring it all out.
I have never really been attached to any of the cars in my past and my current car is not really on my good side either. I really like many things about it but would prefer to have something else. The only reason I hang onto it is because of the gas mileage. I drive a Prius and my commute is almost 40 miles one way so it is the best financial choice.
I LOVEEE those veg burgers too!!! To make them less slimey, I defrost them in the microvave them toast them in the toaster over. Perfection imo 😉
What kind of coconut do you use? I’m a coconut addict!!!!!!! I reeeeally want to try your concoction 😉
Have a FAB weekend
xoxox
Lauren
So, how do you stick to 1/3 cup of ice cream :).
I use REALLY little bowls that the ice cream overflows from so I feel like I’m eating a LOT more than I am!
I definitely don’t feel that way about my car, but for some reason I get really attached to clothes that I wore on important days. I kept the sweater that I wrecked my car in for years after it fit!
I am on the verge of having to say goodbye to “Celeste” – my Explorer. I don’t know if I will miss her or miss NO CAR PAYMENT more! She is totally on her last leg but I am hesitant because I don’t want that payment….eeeek. I know it is coming soon though and I am just going to have to embrace it.
I love the mushroom boca burgers too, all of your eats look great!
I love my car! I bought it new when I graduated from college and we have already been through so much together on road trips, commutes, and cross country trips. I’ll be sad when Bones and I have to part ways!
Its hard to break away from your first new car buy. I still have mine. It’s a 2001 Honda Civic. I bought it all by myself and its traveled across the country with me. My husband uses it as his commuter car 🙂
Yay for Friday!!!
Oh my goodness I just got a new car in December— it took me forever to get used to the idea and I’m still upset over it. I’d had my other car since I was in high school!
haha, every time I drink a cup of coffee now I look for shapes and think of Kath. and coffee+hot cocoa powder=heaven!
every photo in this post is drool-worthy! your food looks awesome! and I loooove grape nuts in yogurt. so good.
as for the car thing, I don’t have my license so I don’t have a car, but of course it’s totally normal that you have all these memories associated with your car so you’d get emotional! I’d probably feel the same way.
I don’t think eggs are meat personally 🙂
As for my car, I wasn’t sad to see my last one go nor would I be sad to see this one go-I’m not too attached to my car. I DO feel that way about my house though!