Big Bad Bucket

I forgot to mention that while in getting my inaugural Pumpkin Spice Latte the other day, I might have perused the sale shelf and bought another mug.  For those of you that haven’t been reading long, I seem to have a Starbucks mug addiction collection.  I said to FH this weekend that it’s getting harder and harder to choose which mug to use each day.  tee hee.

This one goes with the red one that Angie got me for my birthday and I love them both!

Along with my blue mug coffee I had two of my Choco-Cran-Almond bars and a bowl of fresh strawberries for breakfast.  I just wasn’t in the mood to cook or mix anything so this did the trick.

Lunch was just a quick bowl of yogurt, blueberries and hulled hemp seeds.  The yogurt is strawberry Silhouette which I normally wouldn’t buy anymore, but FH bought the strawberry for himself by accident so rather than waste it I’ll eat it up. 

We decided to go to the movies tonight so I knew I wouldn’t have time for the gym (and I didn’t get there for noon…the noon plan isn’t working so well this week!) so I went around 4:00 when there was a lull in work (the whole sales team was en route to Vegas so a nice break in emails and such for a little bit).

Today was elliptical day…so 20 mins of cross-country, with a 3 minute cool down.  Followed by ab/core work:  2 sets of 15: back extensions, regular crunches, bicycle crunches, and reverse crunches.  Also 2 sets of hamstring curls on the ball and a one minute plank.  Sweat is beautiful…haha.

Post gym snack was just a quick multigrain tortilla rolled up with Cinnamon Raisin PB.

FH was busy running around trying to pack up his bike and get ready for his trip to Winnipeg.  He’s making an impromptu trip for a week to take his son to his first day of school (yes, insert awwwwwww here).  :)  So I just made up a quick dinner for myself.

My meal plan says tortilla “pizzas”…but I took that pretty loosely.  I didn’t have any open tomato sauce and didn’t want to open anything for just a couple of tablespoons, so instead used hummus.

I roasted up some fresh veggies with just EVOO and s&p in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes (turn at 5 mins).  Yellow zucchini, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, red onion and a big clove of garlic.

Put those on top of two small multigrain tortillas spread with lemon dill hummus, sprinkled lightly with parmesan cheese and put back in the oven for about 3 minutes until melty.

 

Definitely not pizza by any stretch of the imagination but it still tasted awesome!

I saved room in my day for some movie popcorn.  Yum!!  Um, but I kind of went overboard.  I got a bucket because it was the best deal to get a big drink with (for FH…I bring my own water) but then I proceeded to eat it all.  Sometimes I should just pay for the big drink and not get the deal!  Oh well.  It was totally worth it taste wise…that was the tastiest, freshest movie popcorn I’ve had in ages.  :)

Oh, we saw Inglourious Basterds.  It was pretty good.  Brad Pitt’s lines are laugh out loud funny throughout the whole movie.  It got a little slow in the middle and they could have sped through some stuff, but other than that I liked it.  Totally Tarantino with ridiculous gratuitous violence…I had to cover my eyes A LOT!! 

Halibloggers Eat Atlantic

Lynn, Angie and I have spent the morning exchanging emails about what lovely Atlantic foods we can procure for our impromptu Friday night dinner in support of the Eat Atlantic Challenge.  I have been trying hard not to drool on my keyboard at the thought of fresh fish, local chicken (we hope!), corn, potatoes, salad, berries and more!!

 

What is the Eat Atlantic Challenge?

The Eat Atlantic Challenge is a promotion aimed at encouraging Atlantic Canadians to eat only food produced in Atlantic Canada for a day, on September 4. The primary goal is to promote the economic, health and environmental benefits of eating food that is produced here in Atlantic Canada.

Challenge your friends!

Make the pledge to participate in the Eat Atlantic Challenge. You could win a $250 gift basket, filled with made-in-Atlantic products. Challenge friends, family members to earn extra chances to win!

Tune in tomorrow night to see what fun, local, healthy eats we put together and enjoy!  :)

Too Much Produce

Yes people, it is possible to have too much produce!  I know…coming from me that seems weird because I plow through the fruits and veggies at a pretty good rate sometimes…but I tend to overdo it on the shopping.  Tonight I had to throw out a lot of stuff.  This is my unimpressed with myself face.

I get overly excited at the thought of zucchini AND broccoli AND beans AND spinach AND lettuce AND AND AND.  And you know what?  I can’t eat that fast!  The biggest disappointment of the waste? Okra!  Booooo.  First time I ever bought it and I waited too long and it went off. 

I’m so buying more this weekend and cooking it right away!! 

So dinner was…you guessed it…a bigass salad!  Gotta use up some veggies! 

In the big bowl tonight:  romaine, cherry tomatoes, yellow pepper, cucumber, radishes, and matchstick carrots.

I decided to make a weeeee quesadilla so the obvious choice for dressing was a shot of Ranch mixed with salsa, because that’s how I roll. ;)

Topped with avocado and fresh ground pepper. 

In the quesa:  old white cheddar and fresh minced jalapeño.

 

Oh did I mention this delightful dinner was at 9:30?!  Yup.  Because I went to the gym after the long-ass work day because I’m a good girl and I wanted my sticker!

20 minute treadmill run, a set of lunges/reverse lunges/crossover lunges, mini-abs, and Eurydice’s bum exercises.  Should have been two sets but this was all I thought my back should handle today.  Still nice and sweaty.

Pre-workout I ate the other half of yesterday’s Coconut Cream Pie Larabar and one of my Choco-Cran-Almond Bars.  No photo of either but you’ve seen ‘em before.

No lunch today because breakfast was really late but I did eat a bowl of grapes during my marathon weekly conference call, and then heated up the tiny piece of leftover steak I found in the fridge with the ridiculously small dish of leftover rice.

A mish-mosh of stuff today but in the end it all worked out.  :)  In fact, I decided it worked out so well that I am now enjoying a little serving of the yummy Hoof Prints ice cream (although I’ve just noticed I got totally jipped on the PB cups tonight!).

Night all.