That would be how I would describe eats for today…we really need to go to the store, but have been really busy this week.  But I have some yummy things I plan on cooking for next week, which should add a little excitement here…instead of just salads and randomness.  I’m wanting to do some baking as well and since it’s a long weekend, I don’t see why that can’t be accomplished.

This morning, my day started off in a little panic mode, but turned out ok. Every night I set the alarm on my iPod touch and discovered that if you set it go off on certain days, well that’s exactly what it will do, despite the fact that you hit the on button. If you don’t have that day added, even if you hit the alarm button, the alarm will not go off. Well, lesson learned!  I had planned to get up pretty early and hit the gym, but then I woke up like 30 mins late and was so upset.  I debated like 10 mins – should I go to the gym or should I stay in bed….should I try and do it after work…but I’ll only have 30 mins….well, I said suck it up and go – you’re already up – just do what you can. And that’s what I did.

Workout:

10 min warm-up, walking on treadmill

Arms – 2 sets of 15 reps

• Chest press – 10 lbs
• Tricep dips
• Bicep curs – 10 lbs
• Military press – 5 lbs
• Dumb-bell bent over row – 10 lbs
• Push-ups

Abs – 1 set of 15-20 reps

• Alternating side crunches
• Weighted ball crunch-ups
• Standing side bends with weighted ball

5 min cool-down, walking on treadmill

Onto today’s eats…which are kind of random, but hey it worked for me today.

Breakfast: 1/2 cup raw oats, 1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1 Tbsp AB, stevia, cinnamon

Oats Cereal

All done

Isn’t my Hello Kitty bowl the most precious thing you’ve ever seen…ok, lie to me anyway.  My boss got this for me after finding out about my little obsession with the kitty in pink!

Snack: S’mores Luna Bar – Another favorite flavor of mine (180 cals)

Love S'mores

1 hard-boiled egg white (17 cals)

Hard-boiled egg white

Work was busy again with our little marketing projects were planning and then there were the errands that needed to be ran.  So, once that was done, I made it my way back to the office and grabbed my lunch – I was starving since it was nearly 2:00pm – yikes!

Lunch: 1 hard-boiled egg, 2 stalks of celery + cucumber slices w/ a side of Whole Foods Goddess dressing and 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce

Hard boiled egg, celery & applesauce

Lunch was really good and I felt good that I was getting in veggies, carbs and protein – all healthy forms!

Dinner: Quesadilla – cheese and leftover kidney bean mixture from last night, with kale, salsa and cucumber – I can’t tell you how long it’s been since I’ve had a quesadilla…long time that’s for sure.  This was so delicious.

Veggie Quesadilla

Keepin it veggie-fied that’s for sure!

Alright, I am beyond tired…so I’m crashing out!

Peace out y’all….

Here are today’s eats, again – lots of veggies in here which makes me feel great!

Breakfast: I started the day with a new kind of smoothie and boy was it yummy - Coffee-Spiked Smoothie (204 cals)

coffee-spiked

So good that I almost finished it before snapping a photo.

• 10 oz Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
• 1 instant coffee packet – like Folgers or via
• 1 Tbsp Nutribiotic Brown Rice Protein Powder
• 1/2 banana
• Crushed Ice
• Stevia

Snack: Peanut Butter Cookie Luna Bar – this was the first flavor I ever tried back in the day and I still love it! (180 cals)

Love me some peanut butter

Lunch: 1/2 sweet potato, Kale salad, watermelon and unpictured celery sticks (274 cals)

1/2 sweet potato

Kale salad w/ fixins

• 2 cups kale
• 1/2 cup shredded cabbage
• 1/2 cup sliced cucumber
• 1/4 avocado
• 1 Tbsp Whole Food Goodess dressing

last of the watermelon

Snack: Brown rice cake with 1/2 Tbsp TJ’s raw almond butter and a drizzle of maple syrup

sweet treat

Dinner: 1 egg + 2 egg whites, 1.5 pcs of Ezekiel bread, 3/4 cup steamed broccoli (254 cals) + Peaches & yogurt  w/ a little almond butter (129 cals)

protein, carbs and veggies - check!

Wine Soaked Peaches & Yogurt

The hubby and I are watching Where the Wild Things Are – the hubby even made homemade popcorn – I just had a little (28 cals)

popcorn

Total Calories: 1215 cals

No gym tonight, but back to it tomorrow.  Hope you guys have a great night.

Since we’ve been doing some celebrating this weekend, today’s eats were all about keeping it light and fresh.  I love the summer for that.  In the winter I crave more comfort foods, heavier and warm ones, but in the summer, it’s great to be able to eat fresh, crisp fruits and veggies. And doesn’t it just make you feel good inside and out when you eat this way – I know it does for me.

Last night we brought home the remaining half of the watermelon we brought to the cookout, so while the hubby fixed us breakfast again this morning – what twice in a row?! – I got busy cutting up the watermelon into semi bite-sized pieces.  LOVE.

= Summer

Breakfast: 1 Piece of Ezekiel Toast w/ TJ’s raw Almond butter & 1/2 banana sliced, sprinkled with cinnamon (184 cals) + 1 cup of watermelon (40 cals)

Fresh Breakfast

We sat outside again this morning and it felt so good out there – overcast morning and a cool breeze – could there really be an end in sight to this hot humid weather we’ve had all summer? I sure hope so.

Then, it was off to church.  In a few weeks they will be starting up their Community groups and the hubby and I are really looking forward to getting connected to other people in the church.

Lunch: Huge Green Salad (174) + 1 slice of Ezekiel bread, toasted w/ a little butter (92 cals)- out of Earth Balance at the moment.

Gettin my veggies on

In my huge salad:

• 3 romaine lettuce leaves
• 1.5 kale leaves
• leftover sautéed okra, red bell pepper and onions
• 1/2 diced cucumbers
• 1/4 th avocado sliced
• 1 Tbsp Whole Foods Ginger Soy dressing

Love toast

I spent most of the afternoon working on blog stuff and doing research and the hubby spent the afternoon next to me on the couch reading.

Snack: 1/2 Chocolate Chip Peanut Odawalla bar (115 cals)

So good!

Dinner: Since I was on a roll today with the fresh veggies, I opted for another salad for dinner – this time, I made it a little heartier than the one I had for lunch.  Here’s my take on the taco salad (203 cals). I also had 4 oz of Riesling with my dinner (96 cals).

My version of a taco salad

What’s in my salad tonight? Well, glad you asked…

• Romaine lettuce
• Shredded cabbage
• 1/2 of a leftover chicken tender
• leftover refried beans
• Avocado
• tomato
• Fage 0% Greek yogurt
• 5 TJ’s Soy Flaxseed chips

Dessert: I’ve been trying to think of what I wanted to make all day today – I wanted it to be sweet, but healthy – I’m trying cut back on my “desserts” – but I got these peaches on Thursday at the Dekalb Farmer’s Market and I’ve been itching to use them all weekend.  So, tonight’s dessert is based on one I found in the September 2010 Runner’s World Magazine pg. 58, although I altered it a bit:

Drunken Peaches (that’s what I’m calling them)

• 6 peaches – peeled and sliced
• 1.5 cups of fruity white wine, I used a Riesling from TJ’s
• 1/3 cup of Sucanat
• 1.5 tsp cinnamon

Beautiful Peaches

First, I peeled the peaches and then sliced them into rustic pieces.

Sliced up

Then I added the Riesling wine and the Sucanat and mixed until fully dissolved. Sprinkle the cinnamon over the peaches.

Peaches - bathing in wine

They need to absorb the flavor, so put them in the fridge for 30 mins to 2 hours.

Here’s how I served mine up – I placed 1/4 cup of Fage 0% Greek yogurt in a bowl and poured the mixture over, making sure I added a good amount of the liquid and topped it off with a sprinkling of cinnamon.  Very different dessert for us, but really good. (107 cals)

Wine Soaked Peaches & Yogurt

Side Note: The original recipe called for 3/4 cup of sugar, but I didn’t think that was necessary, but in cutting back on the sugar, I could’ve probably cut back on the amount of wine.  However, I liked how it turned out.

Total Calories: 1011 cals

I’m going to sign off and read a little before calling it a night. hope you guys have a great night!

Peace out y’all….

Check out what he whipped up for us yesterday morning.

Breakfast: Ezekiel bread topped with 1 egg + 1 egg white, baby swiss cheese, fresh tomato, salsa and Thai basil from our garden.  This hit the spot and was so pretty to look at!

Eggs + Toast

While the hubby made us this yummy breakfast, I put on a pot of coffee and brought everything outside so we could sit on our balcony and enjoy the morning.

Table for two

I wish we had time every morning to sit out here before having to scramble off to work.  But I guess that’s another reason why I love Saturdays because we get to spend more quality time together.  I love having  any meal outside on the balcony and enjoying great company and most of all, great food.  The hubby even impressed himself with this breakfast and will probably be making it in the near future.

Going

Gone

Compliments to the chef – I cleaned my plate!

I also like the fact that we are able to have Bentley out on the balcony and don’t have to worry about him because he’s pretty chill.  He loves to sit under a folding chair we have sitting against the wall and it cracks me up because it looks like we’ve put him in time out. I think it must make him feel safe. Silly kitty, you are so funny.

Safe and Secure

After breakfast and coffee, we spent a few hours online looking at our budgets and looking up the points we’ve accumulated on our credit cards.  Soon we will not be using these so we decided to go ahead and use up all of the points we have.  Unfortunately some points couldn’t be used because they were too few, but for the most part, it’s all taken care of.  Excited about our “purchases” .  I’m loving the fact that they are letting you turn your points into cash and will transfer them into your bank account.

Once all of the points were spent, we made our way to the Chamblee Library to return books and get some more.  I love the library – such a treasure!  I even brought a list of what I wanted to check out, which I never do and then I usually spend hours roaming aimlessly through the shelves in search of the perfect book, but only end up checking out the book with the best looking cover.  I tell you -I’m a Marketer’s dream…just put it in a pretty package and I’ll buy it!

Unfortunately, I didn’t find a single book on the list I put together – most of them are checked out and have huge “hold” list.  But I managed to find a few cookbooks and a few others.

By the time all of this was completed – 3:00pm, the hubby and I were STARVING and after talking about what we wanted for lunch, decided to make homemade tacos.  We made a pit stop and picked up a few items and then headed home to make us some grub.

Lunch: Crunchy Tacos – 1 chicken taco + 1 bean taco

Tacos

What were in my tacos you might be wondering?

• leftover shredded chicken – in 1 taco
• green chilies & lime refried beans – in one taco
• sautéed red bell pepper and onion
• shredded cabbage
• freshly diced tomato
• sliced avocado

I also snacked on a few tortilla chips while preparing lunch.

After doing somethings online, we had to get ready to attend another birthday function this weekend.  August is a busy month for birthdays we realized last night.

Last night’s birthday was for a friend of friend’s wife and they were having a big cookout to celebrate it.  The hubby and I hurried to get ready and then he went and picked up a few items to bring with us.

We also brought a watermelon to have with the meal – it was so red and juicy and sweet.  I don’t know what it is, but to me watermelons=summer – maybe it’s all of the watermelon my dad would pick up on the weekends and holidays when we’d grill out, but it’s just bursting with sweet juiciness!

I didn’t snap any pics…but we had an incredible spread:

Beverages: Sinless Margaritas (the sweet/sour mix was made with stevia – along the same lines as Skinny Girl Margarita), White Sangria and beer – I did partake in some of the sinless margarita and the sangria!

Appetizers: blue corn chips with salsa and guacamole, cherries, crackers with soft goat cheese and fig preserves (myfave!), assorted veggies with ranch.   I mainly stuck with plain veggies, but I did have a couple of crackers with goat cheese and preserves – amazing combo!!

Dinner: Dinner included 3 grilled meats – steak, pork sausage and turkey sausage and lots of yummy sides – watermelon, potato salad, caprese salad, kale and mango salad.  No meat for me tonight, well except for the bite of steak I had off the hubby’s plate.  I had some of the sides though!

Dessert: Rustic Apple Pie with Ciao Bella vanilla gelato.  I wish you could’ve seen this mammoth of a pie from Southern Sweets Bakery in Decatur – it must have weighed about 10 pounds and it was beautiful.  They placed candles around the pie and we sang happy birthday and then the pie was cut.  I thought about sharing a piece with the hubby but then quickly changed my mind as I saw how great this pie looks – not for the faint of heart.  I had to have my own slice!

Here’s a pic from their website so you can see what I’m talking about!

Rustic Apple Pie

(source)

Old fashioned double crust pie filled with 5lbs of granny smith apples. The top crust is sprinkled with crushed sugar cubes

We then moved into the living room and placed several rounds of  the game Things.  The hubby loves playing board games, as do I, and it’s great to hang out with others that share that same interest – not everyone grew playing games and don’t have that same sense of fun.  But this game had us all rolling with laughter.  Then everyone packed up to head home for the evening.   Definitely a great time last night with some great people!

Later y’all!  Enjoy you’re Sunday afternoon!

Breakfast: I’ve been eyeing this all week and decided I couldn’t leave Texas without trying it for myself….a Texan-sized waffle – I actually went all the way back up to the room just so I could get my camera and show this to you.

Texas-sized Breakfast

As the saying goes – everything is bigger in Texas.  This was pretty darn good, I poured a little honey over it.  Not overly sweet, but too thick for my preference, I like the thinner, crisper waffles.

The plan for Monday was to be low-key…we didn’t set any really timelines for the day, but we did plan on going to Breckenridge Park, which is supposed to be the “Central Park” of San Antonio.  The hubby and I were very interested in seeing the much talked about Japanese Tea Garden while the other half visited an onsite museum.

However, this play didn’t really come to fruition and we ended up just hanging out a lot and then meeting up for a last Mexican meal before each family went their separate ways.

The hubby and I lounged around in our hotel room watching movies and free cable!!  We watched Away We  Go – overall good movie with a good message. Around early afternoon we managed to get our butts in gear and decided to keep it indoors by checking out the local mall that was a few blocks from our hotel.

Snack: Luna Bar

White Chocolate Macadamia

While walking around the mall, I spotted these Britto suitcases that I absolutely want!!  They are so fabulous!!

I <3 you!

After walking around the mall a bit, we grabbed a bite to eat at Chick-fil-a.

Lunch: Since I’m participating in Meatless Mondays, I went with a side salad and a side of fruit.  I also snagged a few french fries from the hubby.

Toss Salad w/ fruit

Then we did a little more walking around the mall and on our way home we stopped at the closest frozen yogurt shop to get our fro-yo fix.  So good!  I had the usual original flavor with blueberries and a few cookie dough bites, but they also had a flavor I’ve never tried before – yellow cake batter!  And that’s exactly what it tasted like.  The hubby liked it too!  The customer service was a little lacking, the front counter person talked on the phone the entire time we were there and while she rang us up.  Crappy!

Fruity Frogurt

Happiness in a bowl

After getting our yogurt, we headed back to the hotel to hang out and then meet up with everyone later on for our last dinner together at Mi Terra.  We only ate 1/2 our yogurt and saved the rest for later.

When it was time to meet everyone, we headed downtown to “Produce Row” – I snapped a few pics before we went into the restaurant for dinner

He's a Master Puppeteer

Muchacho

Playing his guitarra

Dinner: We had to have Mexican for our last meal in San Antonio and chose this place based on a recommendation.

Entrance

Bar Area

Inside Decor

More Inside Decor

They brought us chips and salsa and the hubby and I ordered a Dos Equis to start out our meal.

Cold and Refreshing

For my entrée - it was kind of hard to find a meatless meal – thankfully they serve breakfast all day long, so I went with the Chilaquiles Famosos – Crisp corn tortilla strips scrambled with eggs, topped with ranchero sauce and aged melted cheddar cheese. Served with refried bens.  You could also choose a type of meat to go along with this, but I didn’t since it was Meatless Monday.

Chilaquiles Famosos

Dessert: we finally found a place that served Sopapillas for dessert, which you find everywhere in New Mexico, but hardly anywhere else.  I was more than ecstatic to see this on the menu. This is served with cinnamon and then you pour honey over it and enjoy!

Heavenly Bread

While having dinner, we also enjoyed a nice serenade

Being Serenaded

After dinner, we walked around “produce row”, looked in a few shops and then called it a night.  We said our goodbyes and then headed back to our respective hotels.

Produce Row

Produce Row Shops

The hubby and I chilled in the hotel room and I was actually able to finish my book – Sarah’s Key - which you should definitely read – I didn’t want it to end.

This trip to San Antonio was great…lots of great company, lots of great food and lots of great adventures!  I hope you enjoyed seeing a little of San Antonio.