Rush, Rush November 25, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Wednesday.Tags: waffle
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Good Morning and Happy Maine Day!!!!
I am rushing around getting things finalized and heading out the door super early because I am scarred of traffic, long term parking and security! Ah! Last year I got their early and was able to drink about 3 beers before boarding…yeah I would rather just sit at the gate! And there is free wi-fi for the holidays! Perfect.
I woke up and did 15min of yoga flow. I would have done more except my mind was racing and I couldn’t concentrate on the breath. I then set off to make coffee and a waffle sandwich.
In the batter went 1/4 cup waffle mix, 1/4 cup pumpkin, wheat berries, milk, egg whites and honey. In the middle mirco apple and peanut butter.
OK time to get dressed and out the door!
See you in Maine…well maybe if I can find wi-fi.
Have a great Turkey Day!!!!
Good Eats November 24, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Tuesday.Tags: apple, yogurt, tofu, veggies, wheat berries, squash
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Hey y’all! Welcome to the end of Tuesday!
I am rushing around trying to get packed, Sissy all set up (she will be alone on Thursday and Nick will be home with her on Friday), do laundry and try and clean up the place a bit. I hate coming home to a dirty house!
As for the eats of the day…
Morning snack was the other 1/2 of my apple from breakfast.
Yes, I took a bite before the picture, or maybe someone took a bite out of it while it was in the break room fridge??? How many people bring reusable lunch boxes to your work? It is embarrassing how many people bring plastic bags to a place dedicated to the environment. I guess this shows that the place may be environmental, but that doesn’t mean the people are.
And my lunch? Well it was a bunch of all different sorts of things. I am trying to use things up before I leave.
All of my Tupperware to combat all of the plastic bags at the office.
Brown Cow greek and the remainder of the pom arils, peanut butter and celery sticks.
Leftover buttercup squash mouth.
Lots of crunch and ubber filling.
We had our usual Friday crisis. How do they know we are off for 3 days?!?!?! Those Fates are tricky!
I slowly made my way through my PM snack for the last hour of work.
Clementine, shredded wheat, mixed nuts.
After work I went to the gym for a quick workout so I could be home to say good bye to Nick! I did 25 min of the hill and then 30min of negative splits.
Dinner?!?! What to make????
Tofu. Roasted Veggies. Wheat berries. Check, check and check!
Tofu mixed in maple syrup, EVOO, salt, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg.
Wheat berries cooked normally with a little goat cheese mixed in.
Roasted onion, broccoli, mushrooms and carrots in EVOO, oregano and S&P.
Wow, I did not realized how full this would make me feel! I also must admit I had a few (yes really only a few) Kashi crackers while I was waiting for my food to cook.
OK it is time to get crackin’! Biggest Loser is on in the background I have some on MamaPea’s maple chick peas to take out of the oven!
See you bright and early!
Yay Maine!!!!!
Fall in a Jar November 24, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Tuesday.Tags: oat bran, oat in a jar, poegranate
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Yay Tuesday Friday! 8 hours of work until “Thanksgiving Break”! I just need to figure out long term parking at the airport, and I need to make sure the lots will not be full tomorrow AM! I am thinking not, they weren’t last year.
Oats in a jar were on the menu this morning!
I now have zero almond butter in the house! I guess I will have to make the trip to Trader Joe’s on Saturday upon my return. Hopefully most people will be so full from Thanksgiving they won’t be thinking about grocery shopping.
In my jar:
- 1/3 cup oat bran
- 1/3 cup h20
- 1/3 cup skim
- 1/3 cup pumpkin
- 1/2 baby apple chopped
- drop of maple syrup
- pumpkin granola
- last of the pomegranate arils
Yummy! I don’t think I needed to add the maple with the sweet arils in there! I can’t wait to get to the bottom of this jar.
I am not feeling any serious soreness this morning from BodyPump!!!! Finally figure out how to not be a crazy lady like the teacher and still get a good workout. She was doing the class with a strained abductor yesterday. Let your body rest lady!
OK time to get things together and head out into the dark, damp day…this can’t bring me down, I will be in Maine tomorrow!!!!!!
Bubbly November 23, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Monday.Tags: bodypump, rice, sausage, spaghetti squash, squash
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Another Monday bites the dust! The best part? Tomorrow is my Friday!!!!
Today was super busy as predicted, but I enjoyed it because I knew I could get everything done AND it would go by fast!
Lunch came in no time flat!
I didn’t go to the grocery store this weekend as to have no food that would go bad over the holiday so today was another something from the freezer!
Leftover spaghetti squash pancake on top of the remaining spinach, all topped with Newman’s own black bean salsa! Ole!
Along with my cake I had some carrot sticks and a clementine. Yum scrum and gone in about 20sec…whoops. I tend to do that a lot with my lunches.
I still felt pretty sick for most of the morning…I thought food might help because the 4 Tums did not, but that only cured my hunger. It was one of those belly pains that hides your hunger??? I think it ended up being a huge gas bubble (TMI?) that had accumulated from me over eating this weekend. OK lesson learned, cinnamon rolls + high fiber lunch = huge gas bubble in one’s insides.
As the bubble chilled out I think I got hungry for my snack? I found that walking around really helped so I did a lot of that today.
Snack Time
apricots, mixed nuts, Kashi H2H (which got kind of squishy?). I really didn’t think my stomach wanted chocolate today when I was packing my lunch…why I thought it would like salsa is beyond me.
Today was BodyPump day…maybe today I finally figured out how to not hurt myself. I did 30min on the elliptical to warm up and was a little late for the warm-up track. I think I might be able to bump up my weights next week, but we will see how I feel tomorrow.
For dinner I wanted something simple and comforting. Que the rice is nice. When I am stick or something happens in my life, all I wanted was rice with salt and butter. I know healthy, but I made me feel so much better! Thanks Mom 
I pulled some garlic, spinach and fontina sausage from the freezer, cut up some buttercup squash and cooked up some Arborio rice. Nick proclaimed his his favorite rice ever! I still need to make some risotto from it – it was the reason I bought it!
My belly is full and I am happy to report I am not felling sick anymore…knock on wood.
No need for something sweet. I had an Adora while I was cooking, and I want to honor the belly.
Ok time to go cuddle with my boy and girl. He is leaving tomorrow for North Carolina 
New Yogurt November 23, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Monday.Tags: cereal, smoothie
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Good Morning! Welcome to my Monday Thursday! Yay for 2 day work weeks.
Last night I ended up having my smoothie and grape nuts.
I used a new Greek yogurt and give it a 10!
I have had Brown Cow regular yogurt and have really enjoyed the flavor so I thought I would give this a try because the store I went to did not have Oikos. No artificial growth hormones and they give back to the planet!
Smoothie with Brown Cow Greek yogurt, skim, frozen berries and heated grape nuts.
This morning my belly was still feeling a little off…this better be fixed by Thursday…so I fixed myself a bowl of cold cereal with pomegranate arils instead of heavy oats.
Shredded wheat, Go Lean Crunch, Uncle Sam, a little Bear Naked granola and arils.
Let’s get this day started!!!!
Stuffed to The Gills November 22, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in weekend.Tags: cinnamon rolls, hiking, pumpkin, running, salad, wine
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Another weekend is coming to an end. At least the coming work week is only 2 days long, and I have plenty to do!
After my second breakfast and cleaning I had to figure out what to make for dinner.
I had some open pumpkin leftover from prep for Sunday morning so I tried to use up some of that.
I settled on Pasta with spinach, mushroom and pumpkin topping. Sounds good right? Well, while I waited for Nick to go pick up a bottle of white to put in the dish I had about a serving of Kashi crackers and then 2 pieces of Halloween candy, which totally ruined my appetite
I went ahead and made the meal, because Nick still needed to eat and I thought I might be hungry by the time it was done.
I poured myself a glass of vino while I cooked.
Nick and I are quickly making friends with the local wine shop workers, one of them is from CT!
By the time dinner was ready, I was still not very hungry…I plated Nicks with pasta, chicken and the above mentioned topping with goat cheese.
I had a small bowl of the onion, spinach, garlic, white wine, pumpkin and mushroom topping with goat cheese and another glass of wine.
We rounded out the night with a round of R&R trivial pursuit, which took forever! Those questions are really hard! We went through the whole deck once and that is 100 cards! When there are categories like “dinner and drinks” you would think I would be ok…yeah not so much!
This morning Nick and I woke up early to go for a hike/walk around the reservoir. It was chilly, but a nice fall morning.
Before we left I had a clementine and a piece of butt bread with PB&Co. Cinnamon Raisin Swirl.
I also maybe have had a dip straight into the jar.
And when we returned…
I put the Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls inspired by MamaPea into the oven to bake at 350 for 30min (mine took a bit longer than her’s) I followed the recipe exactly except I used skim milk instead of almond milk and Smart Balance instead of Earth Balance. Oh and I also used pumpkin butter for my glaze and pecans.
These were delicious, but I could tell they were a healthier version. Not as much buttery-cinnamon in the middles and maybe my pumpkin butter icing was not the best choice.
This did not stop me from having 2 before lunch time…:( Again not so hungry when lunch time rolls around.
I headed to Grawel’s (a local grocery store) to grab a few things from their salad bar and make it my lunch.
1/2 way through another Raven’s loss I opened up my salad.
Mixed green, spinach, beets, sprouts, carrots, chickpeas, mushrooms and pickles.
This made me unbelievably stuffed. I had a huge cinnamon roll salad baby in my belly for the rest of the afternoon and it seems to be continuing into the night. I think I am actually getting a little heart burn. Where are the Tums?
Even with my food baby I was able to get in a 9mile run that actually started a little late and ended in the dark. Whoops. My bad people, sorry, please don’t flash your high beams at me!
I don’t really know what I will have for dinner…I am thinking maybe some warm grape nuts and a fruit + yogurt smoothie, but as of now I need the burn to settle down.
Damn you delicious cinnamon rolls.
Breakfast x2 November 21, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in weekend.Tags: apple, banana, eggs in a hole, pancakes, poegranate
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Thank you blog world for reminding me about Pandora radio! I have been listening for the past few hours while I have been cleaning the apartment and resisting the temptation to put on the Christmas stations.
Today has been a day of breakfasts so far.
First breakfast was…
Pomegranate pancakes! Along side some banana and PB.
I mixed some arils into the batter along with my mix, honey, apple sauce and milk.
Topped with more arils and dipped in syrup!
Best combo in life. Banana and peanut butter. Magic.
After breakfast I dashed off for the 3 hour ordeal of getting my hair did.
I seriously need some length taken off and my color fixed.
Before…
After…
Me likes! Much better! I have a cleaning glow to my face here, ha! Like the world map? Great way to cover a wall and educational. We always study up before going to trivia.
When I got home from my 1/2 day in a chair that really hurt my bum I could not figure out what to make for lunch. I am trying to use up the things I have in my fridge before I leave for Thanksgiving on Wednesday, but I really wanted eggs in a basket. So that is exactly what I had. I really should have had some veggies in this, but that is what dinner is for!
2x toast, 2x egg, cheese, extra bread circles with smart balance, apple with cinnamon raisin crack.
Perfect combo! It was also really nice having natural light for my photos. Ugh the gripe of winter. It’s coming so soon, only a month and 4 days until Christmas!!!!
Are you planning on shopping on black Friday? My mom and I are going to hit the outlets in Freeport, ME. Probably the least crowed outlets you will ever find on black Friday. J.Crew is ours and I can’t wait for our peppermint mocha treats from Starbuck! It’s tradition!!!! Can you tell I am excited?
OK time to figure out the dinner plan…we were supposed to hiking this afternoon, but football “ran late” so maybe tomorrow
Yippee Dippy Friday! November 20, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Friday.Tags: clementines, enchilada, food should taste good, pita
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It’s the weekend, the freakin’ weekend!
Nick and I are heading downtown for a World Series of Beer Pong…I will be keeping stats and driving I may bring Catch Phrase and see if I can get anyone else to play that instead with me. I could always just play with myself!
I ate the other 1/2 of my oatmeal around 9:30AM, but it was not as pretty as this morning so I am going to skip the pic. Just picture this!
Today flew by because I was super busy working on stuff that needs to get done before the close of business on Tuesday before Thanksgiving!!!!! Ah I cannot wait until Maine and my family!
Lunch was something I slapped together this morning and it came together pretty well if I do say so myself!
Pita wiches, remainder of my carrot and two clementines all wrapped up in the empty deli cheese bag. Recycle!
Inside the pita was avocado, shredded carrots, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, jalesburg and mustered.
Great combo!
I had the usual snack around 3:30PM.
Today’s trail mix featured blueberries, which kind of got lost in the other flavors. I think I like them better plumped up in oats.
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Today was personal spin day at the gym! The 6pm class was canceled so I was able to get a good hour spin in! I miss actual spin classes so much, but I think I do a pretty good job by myself and am a total puddle afterwards. After an hour of biking I did some core work before heading home to make a quick dinner.
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Something from the freezer. Veggie burger, burrito, enchiladas? All things I have for quick easy dinners.
I went with the Amy enchiladas.
I added a bit more to them. On top of a spinach bed with avocado, salsa and cilantro. Plus some multigrain food should taste good chips + more straight into the salsa.
This was great! I don’t think it would have been as good without my additions though.
Alright got to jet!
See you in the morning for French toast, waffles or pancakes?
So many lovely options in the weekend!
Have a great first night of the weekend!!!!!
Superfood November 20, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Friday.Tags: almond butter, oat bran, oats, poegranate, Uncle Sam
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When I turned on the news this morning the water cooler question of the day was, “should school nutritionist cut out chocolate milk from school lunches and only serve plain milk?” This made me think. Chocolate milk is much better than soda or most juices, but it is still chocolate. Overall I think I would be in favor of keeping the C. Milk because it could be the only way you can get students to drink the calcium rich dairy product. If they see a spike in soda consumption in the schools we will know why. I think I always had Apple&Eve juice boxes as a kid. What did you drink?
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Onto the food!
Superfood breakfast!
~1/2 cup mixed oats and oat bran, 1 cup h20, banana (1/2 mixed in 1/2 on top), scoop of Amazing Grass Superfood Meal, pomegranate arils, small amount Uncle Sam, 1tbs almond butter.
This is hugely filling! I think I have to pack up the second 1/2 to bring to work!
Goooooo Superfoods!
Green is good
Happy Friday everyone!
What’s With Thursday and Rain? November 19, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Thursday.Tags: apple, bear naked., chobani, clementines, Peanut Butter & Co.
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It’s almost Friday! Woohoo!!!!
I am watching My First Place on HGTV right now and some of these people just make me laugh. It is like buying a house is just a flick of the wrist for them! They have no idea what it really involves. Not like I should really be talking because I am not a homeowner, but when I am I think that I will be much more informed then some of these class acts.
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Today was crazy at the office! I think it will be pretty insane until after the new year. Good old Stimulus keeping me employed.
My leftovers from last night was delicious and crazy filling!
Carnival squash, lentils, goat cheese, cran-apple chutney, everything crackers.
Just as good as it was last night!
I wasn’t extremely hungry when I left work, but I knew I need to eat something before hitting the gym so that my belly wasn’t growling while I was on the mill.
I had to make a new trail mix.
Ever had chocolate cover apricot? I stuffed the chocolate chips into one of these and that is exactly what it tasted like. I think I will cut back on the number of appies I put in the mix, but otherwise it was a good sub for the cranberries.
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Kickball was still up in the air so I wanted to get in a good run. I busted out 30min of hill level 6 at 6.2mph and then I did 30min of “flat run” 1.0 incline with negative splits and bumping up .1 mph for every min of the last 10min.
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Kickball was canceled due to the rain again It seems to always rain on Thursday.
I had no idea what to have for dinner plus I still wasn’t extremely hungry. I made Nick some pork tenderloin with potatoes, spinach and onions.
I ended up eating exactly what I was craving. Fruit, yogurt, granola and nut butter.
I used the rest of my Chobani plain tub and my bowl, added a clementine, small gala apple, heated frozen black raspberries, pomegranate arils and some Bear Naked granola. I also had a butt piece of bread with PB&Co Cinnamon Raisin Swirl (yes it needs caps!). With a tall glass of iced tea.
Now it is time to settle in and watch last night’s Top Chef! It is getting so close to the end! Do you remember Jessie? Ashley? Matine? The season seems like it has been going on soooooo long!
See you all for Friday!!!!!!!
