Lighter Portions

Wow, update that coordinates with the day that the eating actually occurred. I feel like this hasn’t happened in a while! Okay, so maybe it’s only been a few days. But still.

This morning I wanted to finish off the last of one of my peanut butter jars, so I mixed it (which was about 1.5 Tbsp) with some SF maple syrup and spread it onto an apple and a few slices of banana. This held me over for a couple hours until I had a small snack of 1/3 cup of cottage cheese.

Lunch was a nice big salad made up of spinach, cabbage slaw, zucchini, tomato, avocado, chicken, salsa, sour cream and a bit of balsamic vinaigrette. This was accompanied by a small piece of rye with baba ganoush and salsa. This lunch held me over for many hours without any needs to put anything else into my stomach, other than a coffee at Timothy’s when I went shopping later in the afternoon. And I got the coffee basically for the heat since I was freezing inside the mall, not for its stomach void filling abilities.

Dinner post shopping trip started off with several bites of leftover pasta, which led to me making a microwaved baked potato topped with sour cream and chili sauce. LOVE it with the chili sauce, it has a wonderfully sweet and subtly spicy kick to it, which went perfectly with the sweet potato.

I followed this dinner up with a few bites of FF chocolate cappuccino ice cream, and then a bowl of yogurt, blueberries, raspberries and frozen banana slices topped with Corn Bran Squares. Now I’m stuffed.

Sorry I have been MIA for TWO days now. This isn’t even a weekend, when I usually do the two day round up. But I’ve been pretty much nonstop on the go or so it seems, so I just haven’t had the chance to update! Let’s start with:

Wednesday

Breakfast was a bowl of Raisin Bran and Corn Bran with frozen banana slices, vanilla yogurt and skim milk. I seriously love this breakfast. The cold mushy banana and yogurt mixed in with the crunchiness of the cereal and the chew of the raisins…the perfect mix of food textures and tastes.

I worked at the bakery so lunch was packed. A wrap, baby carrots and an apple. The wrap had hummus, avocado, salsa, spinach and red peppers inside. Sorry I couldn’t get a pretty picture of the innards but I was in a rush so I just rolled it up and snapped a quick shot.

I had my lunch at the same time as the owner of the bakery, Richard, and it was hilarious because the entire lunch time he was sitting and drilling the other guy we were eating lunch with about the nutritional values of his white bread sandwich and fruit juice. I was lucky I had a completely healthy self-packed lunch with no processed foods. His wife eats nearly all raw and she’s really got him into it as well, so he knows pretty much everything there is to know about nutrition and food, down to the specific acids in fruit and what benefits or nonbenefits they offer. Interesting coming from a guy who owns a bakery eh? Haha

And on the completely opposite note, he gave me some mini cheesecakes to bring home. I may have had a couple bites of these…

Dinner was Chicken Cacciatore. I topped mine with feta and had a small piece of rye on the side. It was pretty stale but I ate it anyway. I also had quite a bit more noodles than this, picked straight from the pot. Pasta is one of those can’t stop addiction foods for me. Hence why I try not to have it too often.

I knew I needed vegetables and I was still kind of hungry so I had a bowl of spinach with light cucumber dressing and a few mushrooms with dijonnaise.

Then soon after I had a bowl of yogurt with mango, blueberries and frozen raspberries.

I wasn’t allowed to eat anything after that because I had the fast since I had an ultrasound appointment in the morning for some stomach issues. This was fine though because I don’t often eat anything into the pre bedtime hours anyway.
I was so exhausted though that I was ready for bed hours earlier than usual, but I had to stay up to do my course registration for fall, which opened up right at midnight. And if you don’t get on and register right away you will have a much harder time getting into the courses you want to. So I had to stay up much later than I wanted. But I ended up just setting my alarm for near midnight and having a nap of sorts while I waited to register.

And now onto….

Thursday

Today I worked as well, but for my dad this time. Before that though I started the morning off with my ultrasound appointment so I couldn’t eat anything before that. Luckily my appointment was early so I wasn’t even hungry when I woke up. I was pretty hungry by the time I got home though. I had half an english muffin with white chocolate pb and banana slices. Looks like a small breakfast but that’s because I didn’t take a picture of the cottage cheese or leftover pasta that I ate as well…

Oh and the iced coffee.

For a snack at work I packed some red pepper slices and baby carrots.

Then we went out for lunch with my dad (my brother and I both work for him). We went to a little sports bar place called Sammy’s Rec Room. The menu is ridiculous. Basically everything on it is fried and/or coated in mounds of sauces or cheeses. And the food itself is served in mounds. Heck one of the dishes on the menu was called ‘The Cardiac Arrest’ or something along those lines. Half the descriptions of the food included the words “deep fried”. It’s terrifying. I’ve been there before but not for a long time. Luckily they had some salads so I went with the mandarin orange salad. It was great!

Look how much dressing they give along with it…I hardly used any, only a few fork dips. I also picked off some of the almonds. But I did eat ALL of the pita bread. I can’t resist pita bread. Or fries apparently because I picked a bunch of them off of my brother’s and dad’s plates. Ah well though, I managed to have a pretty healthy lunch in the land of the deep fryer so I can’t complain.

We had a pretty lunch so I wasn’t very hungry come dinner time. But I ate because a) I was going out later and knew I wouldn’t have the opportunity to eat when I was actually hungry, and b) I FELT like eating. That is such a bad reason and I could have eaten a lot less than I did because I didn’t need all the food I ate but once again, all I can do is shrug it off. It really wasn’t THAT much food anyway. Just picked at a bit of bread, some cottage cheese, a little more leftover chicken cacciatore and then a bowl of salad and some yogurt with mango and cereal mixed in.

Then I went out to Caesar Martinis for some drinks and dancing. Drank probably a little more than I should but I practiced a little restraint. The night was… interesting. I won’t even bother getting into it. I just can’t seem to have a normal night going out.

Sorry this post is late, but yesterday was Canada Day! and by the time I got home from watching fireworks I was exhausted so I went straight to bed.

I had the day off yesterday (because of Canada Day of course) so it was a pretty lazy day for me. I did a lot of sitting, which included making up my course timetable for the fall and catching up on other computer related things that I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while now.

Breakfast was random: a bowl of pumpkin, yogurt and mango, then a bowl of frozen banana, Weetabix, yogurt and a couple PB Puffins, then a small bowl of Puffins to finish off the box.

Lunch was more randoms, mostly just a whole lot of snacking:
- Half a yellow zucchini
- Piece of tortilla with hummus and salsa
- Piece of the farmer’s market focaccia (sadly this looks a lot tastier than it actually is)
- Bowl of random veggies with light cucumber dressing
- Bowl of spinach and cabbage slaw
I’m pretty sure there was more snacking on some bread and/or rice crackers in there as well.

Then my sweet tooth hit. I did a terrible job of trying to satisfy it. This included a little bit of peanut butter straight from the jar, then half a frozen pumpkin chocolate chip muffin, then a couple cookie things that I kind of ate and then threw away. I think I ended it all with a maple chewy candy.

Dinner was lots of food, and lots of satisfying. I enjoyed it all. I had a Sundried Tomato & Basil Gardenburger (first time trying this flavour and I quite enjoyed it) topped with goat cheese and sundried tomatoes on a bed of spinach, with some broccoli and a small piece of chicken on the side. Then I went back for a little more chicken and broccoli, plus corn on the cob with light margarine and garlic powder. All so good, especially the corn. First time having corn on the cob in quite a while, and even longer since it’s been fresh off the grill. SO good with the garlic powder too.

Then my “dessert” was some Sugar Free Cherry Kool Aid with frozen raspberries and frozen mango thrown in. I love love love frozen fruits in drinks. This was so refreshing. I had two big glasses.

Then I headed off with some friends to catch the fireworks show.
But before that we decided to have a dance party in my friend’s kitchen. Yeah, that actually happened. (I’m the super cool one on the right…)

I tried to get pictures of some of the fireworks but my camera doesn’t do that so well.

Us chillin on some blankets and enjoying the show.

Yeah so I failed at getting pictures of 95% of what I ate today.
I got breakfast. That’s it. So here it is:

A bowl of oatmeal with wheatberries, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, frozen banana slices and a strawberry-banana SF maple syrup combo. Deelish and super filling.

Lunch was a mixed vegetable salad with light cucumber dressing and topped with avocado and baba ganoush + an apple. I also had two tiny dessert samples at work: tiramisu and strawberry mousse slab. Amazing.

Dinner was sushi with a friend. I got a garden salad that comes with amazing dressing (not sure what kind it is but I just can’t get enough of it, probably some kind of sesame dressing or something along those lines), a plate of edamame in the shell and a california roll.  I haven’t had sushi in a little while now so this was a cherished dinner. 

On the way home I stopped to get gas, which was insanely way too expensive I might add *sigh sigh*, and I had a coupon for a free coffee that was good until today so I used it up. It was at 7/11 and they have the whole do your own coffee dealio so I got a columbian coffee with a splash of fat free vanilla latte stuff, one milk and some sugar free vanilla syrup. I love their coffees. I drank half hot and made the other half into an iced coffee at home. It was delicious.

I also had this strange craving for the old cheddar that we got at the farmer’s market on the weekend, so although I wasn’t really hungry, I felt the need to satisfy the craving. I had a few teeny slices of cheese on some bread.

And that was that. Sorry about the lack of food pics. But just for fun, you can enjoy the lame pictures I took of the rainbowy reflection that was in our living room from the suncatcher that hangs in the front window. What can I say, I’m amused easily. And yes, I realise I have wrinkly old lady hands. No amount of hand cream can fix this misfortune.

This weekend was just a whoooole lotta eating. It sucks but at the same time I’m not super torn up about most of it. I enjoyed pretty much everything I ate and it’s not like it was all double chocolate fudge cake or anything within that vicinity of food types for the most part so it’s all good.

Saturday

Because I knew I had eaten quite a bit the day before, I wanted to keep this morning’s breakfast light. So I had a bowl of fruit with yogurt, along with an iced coffee.

I must have made my iced coffee pretty heavy on the caffeine though because shortly after I was shaking so badly. I think the combo of the light substanced breakfast plus the large caffeine dose was overkill. I knew I had to get something more substantial into me to stop the shakes so I went for a pumpkin chocolate chip muffin. Perfect. It did just the trick and I was feeling fine almost immediately.

Look at that beauty basking in the sunlight.

I didn’t work this Saturday, which is a first in a long time, so my mom and I went to the local farmer’s market, which we haven’t done in ages. This place is packed with food, oh so much food. So much delicious food at that. The danger zones are the inside food vendors and the big long tables filled with fresh baked goods. We were dangerously close to buying a gigantic raspberry roll thing covered in thick gooey icing but I forced myself away from it. This is part of what we picked up there.

We’re bread junkies. I cannot resist fresh bread. So we got a lot of bready items.
The first picture includes:
- A big doughy loaf of some of the best bread I have ever tasted. I don’t even know what kind it was but the loaf was huge and chewy and great and is now almost gone only one day later
- A small loaf of veggie bread
- Flax Plus Pumpkin Raisin Crunch Granola Cereal (Only $2! This stuff is usually $4-5 at the grocery store)
- Chili Sauce
- Red Pepper Jelly
- Baba Ganoush
- Extra Old Cheddar (I hardly ever eat cheddar but I just had to have this one. I’m a sucker for old cheddar and the samples they had out were delicious. So I’ll try to eat this one sparingly…)
- Focaccia Bread with greek toppings
- An apple square
We also got that bag of mixed peppers, tomatoes, plums and nectarines. But the majority of our haul is not the healthiest… but gee was it all tasty stuff.

I started off with some fresh bread and cheese. Then I had more fresh bread dipped in the baba.

Then I had some of the focaccia with some chili sauce for dipping.

Then I had some of the apple square, which I soon decided to heat and put into milk. It was good but a little too sweet. It reminded me of an apple crumb pudding that my mom makes, but I like the one she makes a lot better.

Yeah, that IS a heck of a lot of food. When dinner rolled around I was only slightly hungry and very carb full, so I opted for a bowl of veggies. But I’m pretty sure I also had some bread while getting this together.

Then I wanted to try one of the lovely looking fresh plums we bought.

Lovely looking but not so lovely tasting. It was mushy and unflavourful. I ate a few bites and then tossed it. I hope the entire batch isn’t this bad but I have a feeling they might be.

Later on I had a friend’s birthday to go to. It started off with a barbecue and I wasn’t hungry so I resisted the meat skewers. I did have a couple tortilla chips dipped in peanut sauce. And some alcohol. And then later when the raspberry cheesecake was introduced I was in trouble. A giant plate of cheesecake plus a lack of resistance from alcoholic influence = trouble. I had several large bites of cheesecake. And then I dug into the crappy McCain frozen cake because it was sitting there. And then I decided it would be wise to dip pretzels into the cheesecake. Yeah. SO wise.

We didn’t even end up making it to the bar we were planning on going to because by the time we actually got up and moving from the backyard the night was almost over. I did get some walking in though which might have burned off a couple of the cake bites… ugh. I also did a good doubled up workout in the afternoon though to compensate for some of the bread consumption. And as I said, most of the stuff tasted great, so I can’t sit here with too much regret.

Sunday

Today I wanted to try eating really cleanly because of yesterday’s carb and junk overload. So breakfast was about a 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and a big plate of fruit: an apple, a nectarine, grapes and strawberries.

Then I remembered my newly purchased cereal, so I had a couple small handfuls.

And I had a half coffee/half light hot chocolate drink.

A little while into the morning I was about to do a workout but was feeling a little hungry. I tried to ignore the hunger but it, combined with a pb and banana craving, overpowered me. So I had half a frozen banana mashed up with some white chocolate peanut butter.

This tasted MUCH more appetizing than it looks.

I did a really good hour long Tae bo bootcamp workout. Then I had lunch, which was a bowl of veggies with Goddess dressing, and a piece of the focaccia with baba ganoush and chili sauce on top.

Then my mom and I went and did grocery shopping. Like we really needed MORE food, but whatever. We also did a quick bulk food store run because my mom wanted something chocolate. So she got Clodhoppers (chocolate covered granola things) and we snacked on a few of those in the car.
Then I finished up the last of an old hummus container with some bread. I also had some slightly thawed frozen berries.

Then dinner time arrived so I finished off the last of some tofu in half of a small tortilla with chili sauce, dijonnaise and spinach. I also had some baby carrots with dijonnaise.

We bought these vanilla flax cookies at the grocery store, so I tried half of one. Slightly crunchy and slightly chewy at the same time, with a very subtle vanilla flavour. I was decently impressed.

Enough so to go back for the second half. That I topped with a raspberry.

Then, because I noticed the raspberries were nice and big with holes perfect for stuffing, I decided to be brilliant and stuff em with some fat free capuccino ice cream. I think I had two stuffed. Plus a few more bites of ice cream all on its own.

And once again, lots of food was eaten today. At least there were slightly less carbs than yesterday though, and the majority was pretty healthy.
What a weekend.

K seriously, wordpress is being a total jerk with my pictures. I’ve read about a few other people having this problem of it inserting the wrong pictures where they show up correctly when typing the post but then end up being the wrong pictures when published. Anyone know how to fix this or why it is happening?

I got the pictures I was having trouble with inserted. But that was way too difficult. Geez wordpress.

Today wasn’t overly exciting. I worked at the university in the morning.
Prior to work my breakfast was a bowl of PB puffins with frozen banana and skim milk, and a half piece of toast with the last of the rhubarb jam.

The morning dragged on forever because I was doing a whole lot of standing around at work, so it felt like a full day of work when it was actually only half a day. Lame. I also got pretty hungry and the snacks they had set out were just juice and some slightly sketchy, unappealing muffins. Clearly that didn’t deter me because I had two plus some strawberry kiwi juice. The muffins were fairly small just for the record.

When I got home I “snacked” on some cottage cheese, rice crackers with hummus, and tofu while making my salad. So I basically ate two lunches. The salad was topped with sweet onion vinaigrette and some shredded feta.

Then I had a refreshing glass of Crystal Light blended up with some ice and some frozen raspberries thrown in.

Later for a snack I had some honeydew melon. I was totally not in the mood for a workout but I knew I had to do one and I just could not decide what to do. Then I remembered my DDR mat that I hadn’t used in a while so I pulled that out and played on workout mode for nearly an hour. Apparently I burned 400 calories. I don’t know if it’s completely accurate but I sure worked up a sweat so I was satisfied. I also did squats in between every song and then did some abs and biceps later on.

For dinner I had some rice with broccoli, zucchini and tofu, and some egg whites with salsa and goat cheese.

Finished it all off with a bowl of mixed pumpkin, plain yogurt, maple syrup, cinnamon, some of my burnt homemade granola and some pb puffins. Sounds like a big mixture but it was only a small bowl. I definitely threw in several more puffins after the picture though.

And that pretty much sums up the day’s eatings up to this point. The night may or may not involve something more, only time will tell.

Clearly I’m a slacker. I ended up going out again last night and it was pretty last minute so I didn’t get the chance to do the day’s update. So here’s yesterday’s food stuff, and I’ll get to today’s later on.

Starting with breakfast because that just makes sense, I woke up to find a box of these babies sitting on the counter.

Freshly made Apple Fritters from our local farmer’s market. My mom went out and bought a bunch that morning because she was bringing them to the staff at work for their last day (she works at a school and school just ended). But she just had to bring home a box for us too. So I had to have a taste of one. That taste evolved to eating probably almost two full ones over the course of the past two days, but I stuck with only about half of one yesterday morning.

Yeah, I ate more than just this small piece I cut off initially.
Then my actual breakfast was a bowl of Raisin Bran, Corn Bran Squares and PB Puffins with some almond milk, yogurt and banana slices.

I didn’t have to work so I met up with a friend a bit later in the morning who is gone for the summer but back for a brief period of time for a family wedding, and we had a day of shopping. It was good fun, I bought several items of clothing. All the stores seem to have tons of sales on right now which is nice, I really want to go out and buy some more stuff now haha.

I didn’t really eat lunch while out but I did have half a Cliff bar that I bought on sale at the grocery store. This was my first experience with Cliff bars and I had some peanut butter chocolate chip flavour I think. It was pretty good, I’d probably buy it again.

Then when I got home I somewhat binge snacked on cottage cheese and guacamole and miscellaneous other things in the fridge prior to dinnertime. Not sure why this happened considering I wasn’t overly hungry but whatever.

Then by dinnertime I still wasn’t that hungry, probably from the snacking, but I made myself a salad with some tofu and guacamole on top.

I was completely full after this but dug into the big chocolatey fat free ice cream tub in the freezer anyway. The intention was to just have a couple spoonfuls and then make myself an iced coffee, but the couple spoonfuls turned into a few too many and I just ditched the iced coffee idea after that.

Then a couple friends told me to join them at Caesar Martinis, which is a somewhat fancy restaurant turned bar with dj and dance floor on prime nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday), so I first met them at our local pool hall, Dooley’s, where we played a couple rounds of pool, then we headed to Caesars. I got one drink there but that was it since I was driving and also working early this morning.

I also had another half of an apple fritter when I got home. Sigh.
Sorry for the lack of pictures to document a good chunk of the day’s food, but honestly most of the stuff was not worth seeing.

Sorry about going missing all day yesterday. I was on the go basically all day. I slept over at my friend’s the night before because we work together so we were just going to have a chill night, go for a walk etc and then go in to work the next morning. Well I got there and her sister insisted on dragging us out to Martini’s(even though we were completely tired and had to work early) for food and, well, martinis. I tried my absolute best to refuse a martini and to refuse half the food they ordered, but her sister practically shoved the stuff down my throat. So I couldn’t really escape it. I have no pictures unfortunately but this place was so neat and so fancy. I hadn’t anticipated going out anywhere that night so I was pretty dressed down but luckily since we went so darn late it wasn’t too busy. Her sister and her sister’s friend even paid the entire bill of over $100. It was a nice treat. I think I would have enjoyed it better though if I knew a bit in advance that we would be going there so I could have tried to eat a later supper or something…
Here’s a list of what was ordered. I basically tried a bit of everything since she put everything on my plate. Haha.
- Wildberry martini
- Bread with oil and herb dipping sauce
- Goat cheese and mushroom tart
- Oysters
- Pig tails with sweet potato frites and three flavoured mayo dipping sauces
- Vanilla Creme Brulee
- A three flavour sorbet dish
Yeah. It was a crapload of food. It all tasted delicious but I seriously tried so hard to say no to her. Oh well though, I had relatively tiny portions of most of the food.

Anyway, this was all Tuesday night. Then I worked all day yesterday. Then I got home and had dinner and suddenly got this absolutely terrible stomach ache. I could hardly stand up straight. And I have no idea what triggered it because I didn’t eat anything out of the ordinary. I lied down for a couple hours and it eased up a little, then my mom got me some Pepto Bismol which seemed to help a bit.

I really wanted to get better because I had planned on going out dancing for Hip Hop Night at one of our local bars with a friend and another guy from work and I didn’t want to bail. So I sucked it up and forced myself to go anyway. The pain was constant so it didn’t go away throughout the entire night of dancing, but it was tame enough that I could dance and somewhat ignore it.

Then I got home, went to bed, slept it off, and now I feel pretty much all better. I’ve had stomach issues before that were way worse than last night so I was really afraid that it would end up much worse than it did. I think I was lucky. I have to go get an abdominal ultrasound soon, I’m pretty sure I already have the appointment booked.

Anyway, that was a lot of rambling. Here’s the single food picture of the day, the dinner before the storm.

It was just a whole bunch of vegetables cooked in a pan with Dijonnaise, balsamic vinegar, a tiny bit of hot sauce and some vegetable broth, with a little bit of chicken and some whole wheat noodles thrown in, then topped with some goat cheese.
I eat all of these foods on a regular basis so I don’t think any of them really could have triggered the massive stomach attack. Who knows. Sigh.

I worked hard running the pound cake show today at the bakery. I was basically left to do the entire thing myself so I felt like quite the good little worker running around finishing all the pound cakes that needed to be finished, packaging them all and organizing them in terms of their respective recipient companies. It’s a pretty repetitive task but I kind of enjoy it. It’s a pretty decent workout too lifting tray after tray of pound cakes and practically running all over the place to get stuff to prep them, get carts to hold them etc. I totally earned my deliciously fancy dinner that I’ll get to in just a minute.

First things first, breakfast. I made some overnight oats using 1/3 cup of mixed rolled oats and oat bran, and then about 1 Tbsp of wheat berries. I also mixed in a leftover fruit smoothie that I had sitting in the fridge that I think just had some banana, raspberry and yogurt in it, and I threw in half of a frozen banana. It got nice and thick overnight, and I just threw in a bit of protein powder this morning because I don’t think I’ve been getting much protein lately. That’s the area where I probably lack the most.

I also had a few small slices of mango.

I remembered to take a picture of my lunch beforehand this time! I had a salad with a mixed fat free sour cream, chipotle salsa, balsamic vinaigrette dressing and some tofu. I also brought along an apple and an All Bran bar but do those really need photographic evidence? They aren’t all that pretty.

For dinner I went to this little placed called Hannah’s Bella Bistro that has a tapas menu of small sized portions of all kinds of fancy food fare. It was so cute and schmancy inside. A little dark and I didn’t have my camera so I had to use my camera phone. Please excuse the horrible quality of photo as well as the darkness. I could hardly see any of the dishes through my phone camera, it was just too darn dark. I tried though!

I ordered pitas with salsa verde and spring vegetables with goat cheese, then later got potato frites with a brie fondue. Regretted the last one. I thought it would be a small plate of thick potatoey fries with a small amount of cheese drizzle but it was a huge plate of greasy fries with a puddle of liquid cheese. It tasted pretty good but it was an overindulgence. My friend and I shared and probably ate about 3/4 of that dish. The other ones were much smaller. She also got buttered broccoli with artichoke caponata (unimpressive), maple and shallot crusted nuts with truffle salt (delicious!) and angel hair pasta with veggies. I tried a bite of each of hers. At the end she got a berry gelato that I tried a few bites of as well. It seems like a lot and I was pretty full by the end but the portions were pretty small. Next time I’m staying away from any potato “frites” though, geez. Fries are one thing that I try to stay away from nearly always.

First pic is the veggies with goat cheese, and the angel hair pasta in the back, second is the pita and salsa with the nuts in the back, and third is the fries.

Okay, now time for a workout!

Okay, maybe not a crisis persay, but I chipped my tooth! I have a permanent wire on the back of my bottom teeth because I had braces and I had eaten mango and it was stuck in the wire. So I tried to dig it out with this pick thing. Next thing I know a piece of the back of one of my teeth has completely come off! So now I have a piece of tooth in a little bowl and I’m scared of what will become of my tooth with a missing back. Ugh. It feels funny in a bad way. I’m going to try to get a dentist appointment asap.

On a less exciting note, I worked at my university again today. I wasn’t all that hungry this morning so I opted for a bowl of cereal because cereal never really fills me up that much but I knew I had to eat something so that just seemed right. I mixed Raisin Bran, Corn Bran Squares and PB Puffins, topped with slices of frozen banana and unsweetened almond milk. I also had a few grapes and a few pieces of honeydew melon.

By late morning I was pretty starving so after trying to tide myself over with a coffee, I finally caved and cracked open my Ginger Snap Larabar. I ate a little less than half. Good flavour, but honestly, I just don’t think I am ever going to jump on the Larabar bandwagon like so many others have. I enjoy them enough, but there are many other things I think I would rather eat. Oh well! I’ll probably still get them to try out different flavours on occasion anyway.

Lunch at work was once again SUBS. That’s all we’ve ever had to eat every time I’ve been there. I would bring my own lunch but it’s kind of awkward pulling that out while every single other person is enjoying the lunch provided. At least I like subs though, and they are pretty safe. Now if it were something like PIZZA every time, then I’d be bringing alternate food, no doubt. I had a veggie sub on whole wheat with cheese. I ate half, but pulled about half the bread off because it was pretty dry and gross. I also had an apple.

Then when I got home I finished off the last of the cottage cheese, probably less than 1/4 cup.

Exciting.
I also had a piece of rye bread.

Then for dinner I had the other half of my sub, which I once again ended up ripping most of the bread off of. I also added about 1 Tbsp of hummus to it. I had some rice on the side as well as some veggies and a small salad with light cucumber dressing.

Post dinner I cut up a mango that was pretty ripe and had a couple small pieces plus ate the stuff off the pit. Also had a couple bites of yogurt and pumpkin straight from their respective containers.

There was also a couple other random snacking bites mixed into the day, but I don’t remember exactly what they were. Clearly the food today wasn’t all that exciting. I’ll try to pump it up a little for tomorrow.