Veggies with Hummus:

Bulgar Salad:

Fruit – YUM!

Chip Buffet – Katie’s Favorite

Dessert Tray

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We had a crazy busy week, again! Last night I had book club here, Mexican theme! And tonight I went to Brady’s soccer game(it went well, they won by a ton) and then helped a neighbor make a diaper cake.

People at school often ask me how I have the time to make such healthy lunches and I think it’s pretty easy as long as you have planned ahead.

This week’s lunches were leftovers like usual but I thought I would show how easy it is to take healthy leftovers. It’s great if you take the time to make a healthy dinner. We always try to get at least 1 dinner and 2 lunches out of a meal, and sometimes we get more!!

This is leftover cucumber/tomato salad with added jicama rice (jicama zapped in the food processor):

To get some carbs and protein I added a Flat Out wrap filled with Naturally More PB and banana slices: I had to sample it 0 hence the bite

Since I eat breakfast around 7:30-8ish and lunch at 11:15, I am STARVING by 2:30 – 3ish. Luckily my kids had special at 2:40 each day this year, so I was able to eat a snack then. Usually I would have a piece of fruit with something else to fill me up but not make me stuffed before dinner.

Many times this year I made this “breakfast cookie” dip for my fruit.

Breakfast Cookie Dip

• 1 smashed banana
• 1 tbs. pb or ab or nautrally more
• splash of chocolate soy milk light
• 2 scoops choc. protein powder
• 1/3 c. of rolled oats

Mix all together and store in the fridge until ready to eat!

Soooo good and just the right amount of full.

More packed lunch ideas to come!

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1. The first job was the hallway going up our stairs and into the upstairs that we had patched and just needed to repaint the whole thing – same color as before.
2. The second job was our guest bedroom. It was two colored blue and cream room – not horrible, but not my style. This took a lot work and a lot of KILZ! That blue was deep!!

Before:

After

When we needed a break yesterday, paninis were the first thing we thought of!

Hers:

• apple slices
• spinach
• feta
• hummus
• avadodo

His:

• chicken
• colby jack cheese
• apple
• spinach
• hummus
• avocado

YUM! They gave us just the energy we needed to finish the jobs (and run 6 miles!).

Then it was off to dinner with good friends and the best food! My dinner was a hummus sandwich with tons of veggies!

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At the gym, I did an hour of run/walk/weight intervals. It was a great sweathy workout and I ended up running over 5 miles and burned over 500 calories. It was much needed. Now I need to stay on track this week so I can feel better than I have been. I can attribute most of my yucky feelings to sadness, but regardless I need to shake them and working out is the best way.

So my breakfast consisted of a clean and large container of fruit! Cantelope, banana, and pear with a packet of GoLean oatmeal sprinkled dry on top. I eat this almost everyday for breakfast! It’s so good!

Lunch: Leftover whole wheat pasta with veggies. I didn’t eat the chicken. For some reason I am not able to eat chicken that is not cooked right before I eat it anymore. I used to have no problems with it – but not anymore. I took it out and threw it away.

Plus my snack:

My dinner was a black bean burger on a ezekial roll with lettuce, tomato, avacado and relish.  I had a side of kale chips.

Any my desser!  Thanks for the great idea Angela!!

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This morning I was planning on going to the gym around 8:30 so I made an “egg mcmuffin” around 7:30.  I heated some fresh broccoli and mushrooms then added 3 egg whites and a pinch of parm.  While that was cooking I toasted a multigrain English muffin.  The end product:  delicious, filling and fresh!

Since Brady had already eaten and headed to work, I shared breakfast with my book, Second Chance by: Jane Green.

L= Lunch

For lunch I made a big bowl of mush.  It consisted:

- 1/2 c. rolled oats

- 1 tbsp. ground flax

- 2 tbsp. wheat bran

- 1 big tbsp. wheatberries

- 1/3 banana sliced

- 1/3c. skim milk – 1/3c. water

- 1 tbsp. Fage 0%

- 1 handful blueberries

- 2 tsp. almond butter

I warmed up the oats, banana, milk and water.  When it was done I added everything else!  It was soo good!

S = Snack

For a snack, around 4:00pm I had a bowl of fruit!  It included: watermelon, 1/2 white peach, blueberries and strawberries.  I thought to hold me over until dinner, around 7, I needed a little more so I added 1 tbsp. of granola.

That worked for a while.  Then around 5:30pm, I was either hungry or most likely bored, so I had the rest of my greek bulgar salad.  There was like 5 spoonfuls left.  Now I am off on a run/walk with a teacher friend!  We are having dinner after but I have no idea what that is going to include yet.  Brady is golfing tonight so I thought we would just see what we felt like!

I will let you know

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I fell asleep for about an hour and a half.  I did some things around the house then.  Around 4:30pm I was hungry so I had a little bowl of fruit to tide me over.

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After the gym, I ran some errands.  I was starving around 1pm while I was at the store so I picked up a box of my favorite popcorn.  On the way home I stopped to visit someone and at the bag of 94% fat free kettle corn.  It was great and held me over for a while.  I snacked on some plain yogurt mixed with applesauce with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

That was around 2, but it did not fill me up very much.  I decided to make a little  Corny Coleslaw to fill me up.  It did the job!

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- lentils: steamed from Trader Joes

- broccoli slaw

- arugula and spinach

- grape tomatoes

- alfalfa sprouts

- special sauce

Simple, Easy and Fresh

For my sweet treat I am sticking with the blueberries:

- 1/2 Fage 0%

- 1/2 blueberries

- 1 tsp. with almond butter on it

Always so good!

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