Tuesday 9/13/2011

9/13/2011
Breakfast (8:15 AM)

This is a great looking breakfast!  I tend to prefer blueberries and blackberries to raspberries, but these were on sale and ended up being quite ripe and delicious. This is exactly the type of breakfast I like to eat and makes me feel the best throughout the morning.

• Raspberries and Quaker Oatmeal Squares stirred into Chobani Strawberry 0% Greek Yogurt.

• Black Coffee

• Total Estimated Calories: 300

Lunch (12:15)

Ahhhh, Cafeteria lunch.  Most options today were a bit nausea-inducing.  This is mexican lasagna, a dish that sounds promising (and I've had good versions elsewhere) but ends up tasting like someone just got confused and used salsa instead of tomato sauce...a bit confused, but edible.

• "Mexican" Lasagne

• Salad with honey mustard

• Cookie

• Black Coffee

• Total Estimated Calories: 500

9/12/11

9/12/11

Breakfast (8:15 AM)

• Oatmeal Squares with 90 calorie Silk Pure Coconut Milk 

•  Coffee with light cream.

This is a very average breakfast for me. I love Silk Pure Coconut cause I finally have something to pour on my cereal.  I'm not lactose intolerant, but I have always hated milk.  This provides a nice low-cal substitute that isn't so thick and gross to me. Coffee is a given.  

• Estimated Total Calories: 300 

Snack (11:00 AM)

Couldn't hold out.  Too many good snacks in the office.  I chose carrots and hummus, one of the healthier ones at least.

• Carrots & Roasted Red Pepper Hummus (about 160 calories)

Lunch (12:30 PM)

The negative side of my 11:00 AM snacking is  that I wasn't really hungry come lunchtime and nothing looked appetizing. Didn't finish the salad, but put a decent dent in it.  Probably should have opted for something healthier than honey mustard, but a little can't hurt (right?).  I hope I remedied at least some of those calories with the apple in place of dessert.

• Small salad with Honey Mustard dressing

• English Muffin with butter

• Green Apple

• Total Estimated Calories: 400

Snack (4:00 PM)

Yeah. I ate so many more of these than are pictured.  Work-related busy snacking.  I shouldn't ever keep food of my desk.  I was hungry when I started eating, but not so much so that I should have inhaled so many of these suckas.  What should I say?  They're damn good and can't possibly be that awful.

• Athenos Whole Wheat Pita Chips

• Total Estimated Calories: 250

Dinner (7:45ish)

More soup yum-o! this was totally a two- part dinner.

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• chicken tortellini soup
• chiobani strawberry 0%
• raspberries
• mini milky-way
• Total Estimated Calories: 450

9/2/11

Breakfast (8:05)

I didn't realize how yellow this breakfast looked until I saw the picture just now.  I think if I would have used one of my cobalt blue fiesta bowls it would have looked a bit better, but still, fruits & grains out the wazoo.  These are Kroger brand blueberry mini-wheats, and they're pretty goddamn delicious.  I don't usually eat cereal "wet", but this coconut milk might become a permanent addition to my breakfast.  Bananas are a fruit that I don't often reach for on their own but high in potassium and what not.  

• Mini-wheats with Coconut "milk"

• Banana

• OJ

Snack (11:00)

Leftover Cookies!  Couldn't resist.  Coffee good since I'm sleepy and  didn't drink any this morning. I'll have to skip a dessert at lunch

• Coffee & Cookie.

Lunch (12:30)

• Salad with chickpeas, tomatoes, carrots, green peppers and olive oil & basalmic

• Chicken Stir-fry

• two plums

9/1/11

9/1/11
Breakfast: (8:25)
Wow, I woke up late.  Still, I try to eat something 'cause I know it's good for me, my metabolism, etc.  Luckily I still had some blueberries left over and soymilk in the fridge.  I slap some peanut butter on a waffle and call it a day.  No coffee until I get to the office (we'll see...maybe no coffee there either.) 

• Silk Chocolate Soy Milk Light

• Multigrain Waffle with Peanut Butter

• 1/2 carton of Blueberries

Lunch (12:15ish)

It's Chili day (holler!)  D&E Chili is notably decent.  You may notice my salad has no lettuce:  I do this on days when the salad mix is predominately iceberg, which is great on sandwiches but completely tasteless in salad form (nothing makes my stomach churn quite like an iceberg salad with ranch dressing...ugh, so white and gross). Black plums are underrated, and I'm always excited to see plums on the line with the apples, oranges, and bananas and other "normal" fruits.  

• Chili with cheddar cheese and corn chips

• green pepper & carrots with honey mustard

• 2 plums

Snack (5:30)

because nothing compliments delicious roasted red pepper hummus like barbecue chips.  Not my best choice (in taste or nutrition.)  I wanted hummus and the Barbecue chips were the only quasi-acceptable vessel for the hummus that I had in the house.  Separated out about a serving so that I didn't end up binging on chips on my way to a BBQ.  At least the hummus has a lot of protein.

• Barbecue chips and hummus

Dinner (6:45)

Theatre Department cookout, and Becky Hackman can do some serious cooking.  This is plate one of two that were pretty similar.  Spinach dip is my kryptonite.  I go back for seconds, and eat some peaches dipped in chocolate fondue.  I give myself a B+ for choices and a C- for portion control.  Oh yeah, and a big 'ol (much needed) Glass of red wine.