Tomato Tuesday!

Breakfast: Blueberry Greek Yogurt and a Peach:

Lunch was a salad with corn, carrots, mushrooms, and romaine lettuce.

A piece of left over Vegan lasagna:


1/2 cup oatmeal with 100 calorie YoCrunch and today I was craving sweets so I cut up and added a honey graham z bar.

I also ate my last two chocolate pieces hidden in my desk:

Tonight's dinner is my tomato recipe for Hangry Pants' challenge. The start of dinner is a Baked Potato fan. So I take a raw potato and clean it and then I cut slits into it and then I brush it with some olive oil and sprinkle it with salt. I then bake it at 400 degrees for about 40 minutes.

In a pot I cook two large diced tomatoes, about a cup of morningstar crumbles, and about a cup of diced mushrooms (I microwave the mushrooms in some water for a minute first). I add Mrs. Dash Italian Seasoning and some salt, and I then cook until the topping is warm. (this is for 2 potatoes)

I then put the tomato topping in between the potato fans. This is such a tasty and filling dinner. I started making it a couple years ago, and when tomatoes are not in season I use canned diced tomatoes.

Cycling Saturday

Yesterday morning I had two Thomas' Mini Bagels with a variety of toppings. I used PB&Company Chocolate Dreams on one and PB&Company White Chocolate Peanut Butter on the others. Two were with jelly and one was topped with some banana. This breakfast was so good and filling. In total I used 1.5 tablespoons of peanut butters.

While I blogged I had my normal iced coffee.

Steve and I took out our road bikes and biked 25 miles. We averaged a pace of 15 mph but we have a lot of hills in Western Pennsylvania and sometimes I was biking at 7 mph up hill. My heart rate monitor said I burned 950 calories in 1 hour 35 minutes. My average heart rate was 159 bpm. On flat road I go at a rate around 19 mph. At mile 15 I pulled a fruit strip from my jersey to give me a little sugar. One of these has 45 calories and they are very tasty. They are from Target and come in several flavors.

I felt so good after, but it was up in the 90s temperature-wise so I was happy to come home and cool down. Because of the hot weather I decided a fruit plate with yogurt would be a great lunch. I added some lite cool whip to my peach yogurt. This was the perfect post-biking lunch.

I had another iced coffee to give me some extra energy, because husband decided we were going to start painting our office. We are waiting for office furniture that we ordered and need to get the room painted in anticipation.

Also before painting we gave Sophie a bath, the poor girl looked so sad...

Around 4pm I had one serving of trail mix. This is also a Target find. The Archer Farms trail mixes were on sale at Target last week, so I picked up this one. Which I would buy again, I liked the mixture a lot.

For dinner I made Corn and Bean Stuffed Baked Potatoes from Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites. These are vegan and the only ingredients are baked potatoes, corn, pinto beans, and salsa. These potatoes take about an hour and a half to make, so I started dinner at 5:30 to eat after 7pm. I really love these potatoes and have made them several times already. I also had a Dr. Praeger's California Veggie Burger and a salad on the side.

We opened a bottle of Chateau St. Michelle Riesling and I had a glass.

I had to do some shopping at the mall, and around 9pm I stopped at the food court and had a small frozen yogurt. Sorry didn't bring my camera to the mall. I also snacked on some trail mix and cereal when I got home from the mall.

I'm sad it is Sunday, I enjoy weekends too much especially with summer coming to an end!! See you all tonight!