Getting through the leftovers!

I hope everyone had a great Monday! It is always so hard to come back after time off, but I think I was relaxed enough that I was able to get through it well!

Steve and I were running too late for me to get breakfast at the house so I had a large skim latte in the car. Sorry for the horrible picture! I took this in the parking garage right as I was getting out and going to throw the cup away.

With my latte I had a Chocolate Coconut Chew Larabar, that was amazing!! I don't remember having this flavor, but I am going to buy it again!

I did 30 minutes of cardio at the gym during lunch and came back to leftovers. I think I have had enough Tofuky for a while, but I still have half of a roast left! I was the only one eating it! With the loaf was some veggies that we roasted with it, stuffing and mashed potatoes. I may have to eat this again today, only because I don't want to be wasteful.

Around 4pm I had a Jonagold apple.

Dinner included the products below. I love love love these Gardenburgers! The Trader Joe's Bruschetta is amazing too. We buy several jars when we get to Trader Joe's. I reviewed the Cranberry Fig Hummus a few days ago, and the english muffins I always rave about.

I put the hummus on one side of the muffin and I cooked the Bruschetta on the Gardenburger for the last 30 seconds of cooking. I loved all the flavors! I also had a carrot and some broken pretzel pieces.

I was still very hungry after dinner, so I had a z-bar and a Smart Ones dessert.

Well I am running late again! Have a wonderful and happy Tuesday:)

Where did the weekend go?

I'm feeling a lot better and feel refresh after a 5 mile walk with Steve and Sophie (Sophie didn't really do much walking, she pretty much slept in my arms). So here is Sunday and Monday.

Sunday

We have so much fruit, so for breakfast I had a fruit salad and two of the Blueberry-Oat Bars I made last week.

For lunch I had some leftovers from Sunday's party. Some of the roasted red pepper hummus I made, some guacamole, a tomato, some baked tostitos, and pretzel crisps.

I started feeling stick, with a huge migraine a little after lunch and the day went down hill from there. I was supposed to go on a long bike ride with Steve but I felt so exhausted that I needed to lay down. I told him I would go after a small nap. Well I ended up sleeping from 2-4 before Steve came to check on me. When he woke me up, I had a full blown migraine and told him to go without me. I tried to have a snack of 1 cup of cereal and 1 cup of skim milk.

I then fell back asleep from 4-6:15pm. We had made plans to have dinner at another couple's house who live down the road. We told them we would be there at 6:30, so even though I had a migraine we figured we couldn't cancel. They were making homemade Belgium Waffles with a mix from Williams Sonoma (Sorry no picture). They had the most heavy duty waffle maker I have ever seen. It made two Belgium waffles at one time. I had mine with a little maple syrup and a side of cantaloupe. We stayed there talking until 9:30 when my headache had come back strong.

Monday

Unfortunately a night of sleep didn't rid me of my migraine and I felt horrible this morning. Because I felt like crap last night, my husband was great and packed my Monday meals. He made this beautiful fruit salad for breakfast. I didn't eat breakfast until close to 9am, and even then I thought I was too sick to eat.

I had packed my gym bag to take a lunch time spin class, but my migraine was still around and I felt too weak. Even at lunch I didn't feel very hungry. I really didn't feel in the mood for the wonderful taco salad my husband made, but I convinced myself to try to eat it. I'm glad I did because it really did taste wonderful. In one container I take a chopped romaine salad and then in another I have one serving of Baked Tostitos, 1/3 cup Morningstar crumbles, salsa, and 1 slice of soy cheese. I microwave the taco mixture at work and then put it on top of the salad.

At 4pm I decided to eat the Fiber One Bar that was a sample in our Sunday newspaper, that my husband packed in my lunch. It was a little too sweet for me today, but other times I've had these I liked them (although I do not like the list of ingredients). I have never bought a box of these, but I have purchased them in an emergency from a gas station or from a vending machine.

I got home around 6:30pm and decided to try some frozen Indian food that Steve and I bought at Whole Foods last week.

Here is my Ethnic Gourmet dinner out of the box with the Naan Bread. The Ethnic Gourmet meal tasted pretty good, although I don't think that it was quite as good as the Amy's Frozen Indian Meals. The Korma had 300 calories and one piece of the bread had 182 calories. The Naan bread was actually really good and I'm sure we will buy it again.

I split the third piece of Naan bread with Steve.

The walk made me a little hungry so I had a handful of Trader Joe's mini meringue.

I am super tired and am hoping that my headache doesn't come back, so I better get to bed.

Hot Weekend!

The last two days have been busy and have flown by so here is a recap of Friday and Saturday:

FRIDAY


I was working from home today, because Sophie had an appointment at the Vet at 3:30.

For breakfast I had a bowl of cereal with peanut butter granola and Trader Joe's High Fiber Cereal, with unsweetened chocolate almond milk and berries.




Lunch I tried some of the homemade hummus and orzo salad I made for the potluck I had Friday night. Along with some pretzel crisps, kashi crackers and soy crisps. This plate looks huge, but it was a small salad plate. I made the Orzo salad with whole wheat orzo, tomatoes, capers, olives, peas, EVOO, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. The hummus recipe is from the Veganomicon cookbook.




With lunch I had some TJ meringue and a spoon of Peanut Butter & Co.'s Dark Chocolate Dreams.



As a snack before my friends came over, I had some grapes.


Once my friends came I started gossiping with them and didn't take any pictures. I the same stuff pictured in my lunch, plus some fruit, and my friend brought some vegan flat bread that I tried.

My husband made us dessert. Although he went to the movies because it was a girls night. I asked him to make Veggie Girl's Cookies and Cream Muffins. These were so good. I love cookies and cream things, so these looked so good to me. Steve even decorated them. I had one of these with dinner. I am so amazed on what a great job he did, because I'm the baker in the family.

While I didn't drink at my pot luck, when Steve got home from the movie, we went out with my girlfriend Sarah and I drank two small gin and tonics.

SATURDAY

Today we were rushed to get out the door because Steve had a playoff soccer game an hour away. We decided to take Sophie and planned to be gone all day. I wasn't hungry at all, so I just grabbed a Ginger Snap Larabar. This tasted great and actually filled me up more than some of the other flavors.

After Steve's game ended around 1pm, we were really hungry and because we didn't have time to pack lunch we had to get something to go. Steve watched Sophie in the air conditioned car and I ran into Eat n' Park. I had wheat toast (no butter) and egg beaters. I was so hot, so I also got a sugar free mocha milk shake.

We had a 3pm birthday party near where the game was, we were there until after 6pm. I drank three bottles of water because it was so hot. I also snacked on a few pretzels and tortilla chips until dinner. There was not one vegetarian think at dinner, so Steve and I told the hosts that we had dinner plans and we left. Because it was after 6pm and home was an hour away, we decided to stop to get Whole Food's Salad Bar/Hot Food Bar. I filled my with a lot of romaine lettuce and then sampled a little of many things on top.

With dinner (because we were outside all day and I was really hot) I got a Mocha Light Frap from Starbucks.
When we got home I was still a little hungry, so I indulges in two of these cupcakes.