Thirsty Thursday!

Last night was busy, so here is Thursday....

This morning I had two of the blueberry-oat bars I made earlier in the week before leaving the house. I really can't get enough of these, and plan to make them again soon.


I had packed a different breakfast, but wasn't feeling like it after the oat bars, and I felt really thirsty and overheated so I decided I wanted something cold and went to Starbucks and got an Iced Venti Mocha Light Frap. I always take a picture empty because I start drinking it on my walk back to the office.


For lunch I threw some left overs into a container. I had a little brown rice leftover, some broccoli, cauliflower, and frozen vegetarian dumplings from whole foods. I topped it off with some reduced sodium ginger soy sauce. I was actually so hungry that I was eating this at 11:45.


With lunch I had green grapes and pineapple. Isn't this mug cute? Steve brought it back from a business trip to Hershey, PA.
At 3pm I decided to go to the gym for a quick run, I only got 2.3 miles in, but something is better than nothing. I was feeling hungry before I went, so I stopped at the GNC that is right outside my building. My lucky day because they had 3 Key Lime Pie Larabars on sale. I bought all three but only ate this one:) I never had this flavor but really liked it. It was great at calming my hunger and giving me energy to run.

I had made muesli for breakfast (which I didn't eat then) with 1/3 oats, 2/3 unsweetened chocolate almond milk, 1/8 cup dried fruit, 2 tbsp flax meal, 1/8 unsweetened coconut, 1 tbsp sliced almonds, and some fresh berries. These blackberries were huge! Because I had some shopping to do right after work and I decided to eat dinner at 6pm before I left the office. This was really good, and enough to hold me over until I could get home for something else.

When I got home at 8pm I was hungry so I had some left over couscous in the fridge (sorry no picture).

I have a super busy Friday, Sophie has a vet appointment and tonight at 6:30 a group of my girlfriends from high school are coming over for a pot-luck. We get together once a month, usually at a restaurant, for a girls night out. This is our first pot-luck.

Turns out Sophie is a fitness guru too, look at her getting ready to go to the gym!!

Have a wonderful Friday!!!

13 hours at work!

Last night I had to call my friend and tell her I had to cancel our evening out. We had a great double date planned, with dinner and then seeing Richard Lewis at the Improv. At first I started by just canceling dinner and saying we would meet at the Improv but then it was clear I couldn't even leave at 8pm. So here are my eats for Friday and why I am so glad I pack meals, because today I wouldn't have had time to go buy something.

I stopped at Starbucks on the way to the office, because I knew it would be a long day. I pack my breakfast to eat at the office and today it was muesli with 1/3 oats, 2/3 unsweetened chocolate almond milk, 1/8 cup dried fruit, 1/8 unsweetened coconut, 1 tbsp sliced almonds, and a ripe peach.

For a snack I had some green grapes.

Lunch still while working hard, I had some carrots, tomato, soy cheese, pb pretzels from Trader Joe's, and a Meatless Vegan Jerky Strip from Whole Foods. I'm not sure how I feel about these strips, they have a lot of protein for only 80 calories, but they were so chewy and I'm not sure how I liked the taste. I have different flavor left in my pantry to try, so hopefully that one is a little better.

The day I needed something the most, I didn't have any emergency snacks in my office. At 5:10pm I got really hungry because I hadn't had lunch since 12:30. I didn't have time to leave the building, so I ran to a vending machine to find if there was anything healthy. The best thing I could find was a Nature's Valley Oats and Honey Granola Bar. I usually don't buy these because I don't like the ingredients, but no Kashi bars were in sight!


I didn't leave work until 9:40pm and was very hungry, Steve picked me up from work and we went to Mad Mex which is such a great Mexican restaurant (but they are only in Pittsburgh, State College PA, Philly, and Columbus OH). They offer so many vegetarian and vegan options.

I needed a drink after my long day, so we got a carafe of white sangria:

For a starter we shared a Pizzaveraprima which was a new addition to their menu and the menu described it as "Grilled flatbread with Colorado sauce, cojita and Jack cheeses, chickpeas, cucumber, jícama, roasted corn, cherry tomatoes and peppers. " We asked for all the cheese to be soy cheese. If you can notice the tortilla chip that fell on our appetizer from a basket of chips the waitress had in her hands, you can get the idea that it was pretty small. I guess the size of a pita pocket. I ate half of it. We opted for this instead of chips and salsa.

For dinner The Mad Mex Quesadilla with marinated tofu, soy cheese, grilled peppers and onions. Although I usually like my entrees at Mad Mex, this was a little bland. The tofu didn't have much flavor. I had tofu sour cream, salsa, and guacamole on the side.

Well I hope the rest of my weekend is a little more relaxing than Friday was. Enjoy your Saturday!!