Can't resist TJ's!

Hi bloggies! How are you?! Last night while running errands I realized I was like across the street from Trader Joe's! I of course had to stop in. I barely had any time, but still managed to find a few goodies! I came home took pictures of everything, put stuff away started making food and then realized NOOOOOOOOOOO I didn't have my memory card in my camera!! Whenever I take it out and put it into my card reader to upload pics I am bad at remembering to put it back in! So I will just have to take pics as I start eating my finds over the next few days.

One thing I bought was their frozen spinach and artichoke dip. I zapped this in the microwave and fiance and I ate some on multi-grain tortilla chip while drinking some white wine and watching my fav. show THE OFFICE! The dip was actually pretty good and super easy to make. All I had to do was zap it in the micro. for about 4 mins. My kind of cooking!

After awhile I made some dinner which was CRAB CAKES! I have tried to make some from scratch, but they never ever turn out. I saw some in the frozen section of TJ's and decided we should eat them tonight!

I just ate 1 crab cake with a side salad.

These cakes were actually really good! Full of flavor and quick and simple to cook! After dinner we relaxed and watched Step -Brothers. This move is HILARIOUS! I was seriously laughing almost the entire time.

I had to go into work this morning since I had yesterday off. I wanted a big bowl of oatmeal to get me going! The stars were these two babes I picked up at Trader Joe's yesterday! My oatmeal had 1 cut up banana in it, 1 handful of the pumpkin spice granola and a few pecans. OH YUM!
This granola is amazing! I had seen it around in other blogger's meals and knew I just had to get some.

Now I am eating this pear and to last me through my remaining hr. at work!

This afternoon I am planning on doing a little bit of yoga and relaxing now that I am officially done with my classes for this semester!!!! Tonight we are off to fiance's holiday work party. Happy Saturday!!!

TGIF!

hi! I hope everyone is having a fab. friday! Last night after running TONS of errands Fiance and I decided that we wanted to watch the bears game so we went to Union Jack's. We ended up getting a chicago style pizza with pepperoni. I swear this pizza has to be like the worst thing for you. There was in insane amount of cheese on it and literally stack of pepperoni. (i know this doesn't sound appetizing, but it was AMAZING!) I ended up eating 2 pieces since I was STARVING by the time it arrived. OOPS! I don't have a pic since I thought we were getting chinese and eating it at fiances (where I left my camera!) 

This morning I got up and headed straight to the gym to burn off some of those pizza calories!! I ate 1/2 of a whole wheat bagel with pecan pumpkin butter for fuel. 

I hadn't been to the gym in a while since I was super busy finishing stuff up for my classes and it felt awesome to get a good workout in.  I biked for like 45 mins doing speed intervals and then did arm and ab work.  

Once I got home I had worked up quite an appetite! I made a SUPER yummy bowl of oatmeal. This one will def. be repeated. ASAP! I made a regular bowl of oatmeal and topped it with a tiny bit of brown sugar, some pecans and 1/2 of a kashi pumpkin spice bar. SO YUMMY! I also had a cup of coffee and some peaches. 

AFter breakfast I cleaned and did laundry like a mad woman! I have been putting it off for quite some time so there was TONS to do. After all of that I was ready for lunch and wanted something light and yummy. I roasted 1/2 a small zucchini and 1/2 a sweet potato in the oven and ate them with the leftover 1/2 of my bagel from the am with some laughing cow and 2 pieces of lunchmeat.   Delish.


Now I am off to try and finish my Christmas shopping! Later all!

thursday.

Hola ladies! My day is flying by. I only have 2 more hrs. of work and am off tomorrow! :) woo hoo! Tonight I am running 1,000,000 errands (well not really, but you get the point!) with fiance and doing some christmas shopping. We are getting chinese for dinner tonight cause I have been CRAVING it like crazy!

This morning as I was flying out the door late I took my b-fast to go! I had a whole wheat bagel with honey nut cream cheese. Ok, this was amazing. There were actual chunks of nuts in it! The flavor was sooooooooooooooooooo good!
Once I got to work I was FREEZING! I made a cup of super rich hot choc. I can't remember what brand it was. It wasn't very good for you, but at least it was only about 80 cals.

My breakfast stayed with me for quite a while and around 10:30 I ate a choc. chip z-bar. YUM!

For lunch at work I made another toasted sammy and luckily didn't burn it today!!! It had cheese, chicken lunch meat and pickles on it. I forgot to bring my camera to the break room so no pic! I normally try to photograph my food before I leave since our break room is TINY and almost always full of people running in and out. I also had a stonyfield. These are SO creamy! And an apple

Oh my gosh!!! After I had finished eating and was reading in the break room another employee came in and asked me if I wanted any of the leftover food from student appreciation day. I said oh no thank you (normally when my work caters something it is all fried chicken, rolls, mashed potatoes, etc.!) She then said oh, are you a vegetarian? I said no. And she said there is cheesecake! I said something along the lines of Oh I've already ate enough. And she goes You're not anorexic are you Jill??? Oh my gosh I was so shocked I nearly fell out of my chair!!! I said no, I just meant I already ate my lunch and am not hungry! I just couldn't believe it! Either I eat the really bad for you food or I'm an anorexic vegetarian. What about just living a healthy lifestyle crazy people???? I just had to share!

Enjoy the rest of your Thursday! :)

Burnt sammy.

Good  evening! Whew....hump day is finally over! I always feel like a week flies by after wednesday :)

At work I had a sammy on whole wheat bread with some chicken lunch meat and mustard. I tried to toast it during my break in the toaster over at work and accidently burnt one side.  All during the rest of my break people kept coming in and asking what was burnt and complaining about the small. OOPS! I just scrapped off the burnt part and ate the rest :)

I also had a pear
and some carrot chips!
At around 7 I had a pumpkin spice bar for a snack.
When I got home from work I decided to make a veggie pizza. I used a whole wheat tortilla and put some pizza sauce, sliced zucchini, diced tomatoes and green peppers, mozz. cheese and some basil. I then cooked it for about 7-10 mins. in the oven at 400. This was a FAB flavor combo. 

I also had a piece of whole wheat toast with Nutella on it. I am seriously addicted to that stuff!! Have a good night!

Nutella Oats!

Good morning bloggers! Last night I slept A TON! [almost 9 hrs :)] I have always been the kind of girl who needs her full 8 hrs of sleep to function well during the day! My fiance NEVER seems to be tired and ALWAYS get way less sleep than I do! I don't understand how he does it?!? How much sleep do you need?

Since I ended up just eating snacky foods at work yesterday I was STARVING when I got home! I made a quick meal of blanched green beans, couscous and salad with carrots and croutons. I hadn't really ever made fresh green beans before! I always thought I didn't like them, but had some on Thanksgiving which were REALLY good and have been craving them since then. I decided to blanch them. I washed the beans and cut off the ends. I then heated a pot of water to boiling on the stove. I added the beans and left them in the boiling water for about 4 minutes or so. I really like beans cooked like this because they still have a bit of a crunch. I topped them with a bit of salt and pepper. 

My couscous had cheese and tuna in it. 

This morning I woke up well rested and craving some OATMEAL! Looking back over my posts I realized I actually hadn't eaten it in a long time! This morning I made a bowl of plain oats with equal parts water and milk. I added a cut up banana and topped them with some cinnamon and a spoonful of nutella! These were SO yummy! I feel like nutella makes every meal delicious. :)
I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Rainy day.

Good afternoon bloggers! It has basically been raining ALL DAY LONG! For such a dreary day outside I am in a surprisingly good mood!! This morning I had a big, warm and filling breakfast to get me going. I had 2 whole grain waffles with light syrup. (I like A LOT of syrup!)

I also had a glass of milk and a banana on the side. After breakfast I listened to Christmas music and did some decorating. I am officially in the holiday spirit!!

I just ate some food at work. I had an apple and a chocolate underground stonyfield. This flavor was also really good, but I think next time it needs some granola in it for a bit of crunch!

I was planning on eating the leftover part of my california chicken wrap that I got on Sunday night. However, after a while it seemed to not taste very good and part of the wrap was kind of soggy so ate about less than 1/2 of it.

Luckily we were having a pitch-in in our break room so I had a handful of BBQ chips and 1/2 of a piece of chocolate chip bread. Not the healthiest options, but at least I didn't go hungry until 9pm!!

Well I hope everyone has a good evening! I'll see you for dinner later tonight! :)

Nutella :)

GOOD EVENING! Last night I did not sleep well and today just seemed to crawl by! This morning I woke up kind of early and went grocery shopping. While there I bought NUTELLA!!!

During my jr. year of college I studied abroad in Germany and ate it ALL the time over there. It is much more expensive here, but I saw it at the store and just had to buy it and use it ASAP! For breakfast I made some scrambled eggs, 1 banana, and a whole wheat bagel with pecan pumpkin butter on 1 half and nutella on the other. This was such a good and filling breakfast! 

At work I had some leftover margarita pizza. 

I also ate an apple and tried my first ever stonyfield farms yogurt! It was VERY good. Really creamy with yummy flavor! It was very smooth !
After work I had a quick meal of a salad with carrots, pea-pods, radishes, light ranch along with some pork and bbq sauce for dipping!

Oh and while blogging I got a craving and had a piece of whole wheat toast with nutella on it :)

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT!

Weekend fun!

HI FRIENDS! I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! Mine was really busy, but so fun! 

Here is a quick recap:

Saturday morning my sister picked me up and we went to my parent's hotel. I grabbed a raisin bran muffin for b-fast! After we picked up my mom we went bridesmaid dress shopping! I found one that I REALLY like. I am still thinking on it, but will let you guys know once I make a decision! 

After dress shopping we wandered around Target for a bit and I sipped on a tall non-fat espresso truffle from starbucks. 
Before heading out for the wine trail I had a turkey subway mini sandwich on wheat bread.
and a handful of pretzels.

After lunch my fam set out for day 1 of the holiday wine trail event! At each winery we were allowed to sample a few wines and got a glass of wine and some treats! The first winery wasn't very impressive! I had a glass of raspberry wine and didn't really eat much food.

The second winery was much better! I had a nice white wine and some veggies, cheese and crackers.

The third winery was awesome! I had a glass of classic merlot, which was a REALLY good red wine. (I bought a bottle!) They also had these ground turkey and veggie barbecue bite things....not sure what the official name was!! I also had some potato salad!
We went to one more winery on Saturday. I forgot to take a picture there (I think I had a few too many drinks by this point!) I had another glass of red wine and snacks including: spinach and artichoke dip and a veggie egg-roll. 

After so much eating and drinking I wasn't really hungry for dinner until later. Fiance and I made a thin crust pizza margarita. It had cheese, tomatoes and basil on it. It was simple and filling!

This morning I decided to try this instant oatmeal. I just made it according to the directions on the container, but added a cut up banana. 

It had pretty good flavor, but ended up being really soupy! I would definitely add mess water in the future. 

On the way to wineries for today I ate 1 of the kashi pumpkin spice bars that comes in the package.

The first winery was def. one of my favorites! They had great food and I enjoyed a wonderful glass of white wine. Since I didn't eat a real lunch I went a bit heavier on the snacks! I went back for some more cheese and grapes.
The next winery offered small meat sandwiches for a snack. I had a glass or red wine there. 
At the final winery I had a glass of red wine, some grapes, bread with rosemary dipping oil and 2 meatballs. 
After all of the wine drinking the fam went to dinner at Union Jack's. I got a california chicken wrap. It had chicken, bacon, avocado, sprouts, tomatoes and feta cheese. I ate 1 half of it and some of the chips. 
I also chugged tons of water! after drinking so much wine I am just constantly feeling dehydrated.... It was a fun weekend, but now I am exhausted!! Enjoy your Sunday nights!

Holiday party!

Good evening bloggers! Sorry for no post until now.....today has been crazy busy!!! Here is a recap:

For breakfast I made 2 pieces of multi-grain toast. One with peanut butter and one with pecan pumpkin butter. I actually ended up putting all of the chopped bananas on the bread and eating it as a sandwich since I was running late for work!! 

I was in a meeting for most of the morning so no snack for me! At lunchtime I toasted a whole wheat bagel and put laughing cow, some ham and lettuce on it for a yummy sammy! I also had some carrot chips along with it .
Dessert was a chocolate z-bar!
So tonight was my work holiday party! I knew we wouldn't be eating until much later so after work I ended up eating a peach chobani. It was my first EVER and was really good!!

Right before heading out I thought my camera DIED! It wouldn't turn on AT ALL! I was in a panic! I took out the battery to charge hoping that was the issue and left for the party. It was actually really fun! We had a bunch of good food and I had a few glasses of wine (for free!) I felt like I made really good decisions on food (it was a buffet) and even though I didn't have my camera I was very conscience of what I was eating and forced myself to think about it instead of just filling up my plate! I was very proud of myself!

My plate had:

some fresh fruit

salad w. carrot slaw and ranch

green beans

fish

tiny bit of mashed potatoes

Luckily when I got home my camera turned on (after several tries!!!) Hopefully it will keep working, if not I will have to be investing in a new one! I hope everyone enjoys their weekend and I will update tomorrow after day one of the holiday wine fun! (fingers crossed the camera keeps working!)

GOOD NIGHT!

FP!

Good evening! Today was a LONG day! I was hoping to get out of class a tad early since it was our last day, but no such luck! AT least I am done with it :) Tomorrow I have to finish up some online posts and my final paper for my online class then I just have 1 more paper due next thursday and I am officially done until January! 

This morning at work I had a kashi bar for a snack:

Lunch was a roasted veggie pasta. I roasted some zucchini and carrots in the oven then tossed them with some olive oil, whole wheat pasta and topped with parm cheese.  (I opened the wrong side of the parm and accidently dumped a bunch on! It made it taste delicious!)

I also ate a banana!

During my break at class I went to eat the z-bar I thought I had brought with me and TRAGEDY it wasn't there! AHHHHH! I was starving and had to get something to eat so I headed to the vending machines. This was the healthiest thing I could find in there. I am normally not a fan of Nutri-grain bars, but this wasn't bad. The ingredients list was full of icky things...HFCS! ick.

For dinner I had a piece of pork which fiance cooked up in a pan with some seasonings. On the side I had some green beans cooked in a bit of butter with some salt and pepper on them and a piece of multi grain toast. YUM!

Oh and I just had a large spoonful of peanut butter for dessert :) Now I am relaxing with a glass of wine!

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