Wild Things October 21, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Wednesday.Tags: adora, animal crackers, apple, cottage cheese, meatloaf, pear, prunes, waffle, wrap
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No not that movie!
W went to see “Where the Wild Things Are” tonight. Lets just say I would not let my child see it if they were under the age of 10. It moved slowly at times and got really violent! I did not enjoy it. I think I liked the illustration the most about the book. It was a little to artsy for me?
I am beat so here is the rest of my day in a nut shell, I’m in a nut shell!
Prunes, ounce for ounce better than apples! Had about 5 around 10:30.
Sweet potato, tofu, spinach and guac on a WW wrap. Cottage cheese with a balsamic river and a pear.
Snack was interrupted by a visitor so I forgot to take a picture…but it was a classic apple slices and PB cinnamon raisin swirl. I am thinking of having ants on a long tomorrow, and I am really excited about it!
I did remember my Adora disk right before I was leaving!
After work I went to Target to try and find some things for my Halloween costume, cat litter and birthday cards. Leggings are $5 in all colors, but of course they did not have my size! I might try looking at home this weekend.
I rushed home and packed up some dinner to take with us…while packing I had a handful of granola (damn Bear Naked for being so moist and delicious! and some sun chips garden salsa flavor).
Wait hold the phone…when I came to the door I had a present from mommy!
Woohoo! Guess what I am having for breakfast tomorrow morning??? Thanks mom!!!
Back to the food…
leftover BBQ lentil meatloaves from a while back, pita to be stuffed, veggies for dipping in yogurt lemon sauce, animal crackers that were supposed to be split with Nick, but he said no and I happily gobbled them down.
Now we are watching the Wire and hittin the hay!
Night all!!
Is Soda Needed to Sustain Life? October 12, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Monday.Tags: goat cheese, pear, soda, spinach, tea, tofu, wheat berries
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So I was having a grand old day, getting things done hanging out with Sicily, until I saw an interesting soda ad…
If you can’t open the link it is a mother complaining that the government is going to start taxing juice drinks and sodas. I don’t know if this is due to the direct correlation of obesity and soda or it is another pro corn ad, but I thought it was ridiculous! You do not need soda and juice to live, ever heard of water?!?!
Here is the website list of supporters. There you will find major soda manufactures and petroleum producers. I am not really surprised by this. These are the same companies that made soda so cheap in the first place but using corn syrup and subsidizing it in the first place. Now they want to keep their product cheap so that they can still make money through other people.
OK that is enough of my rant…these are just my opinions and I do not try and put these opinions on other people.
One last tid bit. Did you notice the bags she was carrying were plastic and not the reusable type that the world is pushing for?
So for dinner I had no idea what to make, and then Nick asked me “what’s for dinner?” on the way home. I guess I had to hop to that!
I sliced up some tofu and put some honey S&P over them before entering the oven. I also threw on some butternut squash. I also had some wheat berries with spinach and goat cheese. I sort of burned a single piece of the tofu.
I really liked this wheat berry mix.
Nick and I are not settling down for some How I Met Your Mother and pear with tea.
Night! Night!
Lara Let Down October 2, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in weekend.Tags: kashi, larabars, pear, salad, tempeh
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My cat is insane! She keeps leaping off the ground on all fours. I wish I could get a picture of it but a snap photo really wouldn’t work so well. So here is one of her sleeping.
I can’t believe one week from now I will be preparing for my 1/2 marathon!!! Where did 12 weeks go???
Friday went down with only a few slight hitches during the day. That seems to be the story of Fridays at my J-O-B.
The cold cereal bowl didn’t seem to hold me, mental again?
I had the last 
of my nature’s candy to hold me over.
And soon after came lunch!
Salad with leftover 1/2 piece of almond crusted chicken, tomatoes and 2x hummus. Last pear and LC wedge with the last of a box of TLCs. Yes I did use the bag from the box to carry my crackers. Why waste Tupperware or a bag? Saving the planet here!
I had to apply my LC wedge with the end of my work because I forgot my knife, but hey it worked!
My snacks came two told today…
First
Last spiced pear muffin with seltzer. Does anyone know what that symbol is????
The second 1/2 of my snack happened when I arrived home before going for my run.
I had heard so much about the PB&J Larabar that I saved it for last to taste.
First thing, someone tell me why the packaging is so much larger than the bar? Second, I really think after trying 5 Larabars I have concluded they are not worth the money nor the high caloric value for the size. I may be the only one that feels this way, but I honestly think I liked my own better and think I will continue to work on my recipes. Thank you Larabar for sending me the samples, I really was happy to eat them and review, they just weren’t for me!
After my disappointing Larabar I went out for a run. This is my second to last long run before the 1/2. For some reason I wasn’t feeling it so I went with music. The music ended up stressing me out so I turned of off after 2 songs and it settled into a MUCH better run! I ended up doing 9 miles with two major hills. 10 miles Sunday and then it is Taper Week!
Nick went out to play poker tonight so I was free to make a non Nick approved meal!
BBQ tempeh! Along with a large amount of broccoli with S&P.
I just warmed the tempeh in BBQ sauce and some spicy brown mustard. It was actually pretty good at masking the fermented soy bean flavor it naturally has.
I also had a side salad with organic greens, last red pepper from the garden , tomatoes, cuc and feta.
I was craving something sweet after this dinner and I went for a Vitamuffin Pomegranate brownie with fresh pomegranate seeds! (Pain in the butt to get out and the red juice dyes…yeah I used one 1/2 and called it a day)
I love these little brownies!
Sissy and I are now just chillin on the couch and I am leaving the dishes for the AM!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Don’t forget to donate to the animals!
Layers September 25, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Friday.Tags: almond butter, banana, kashi, peach, pear, Sicily, Uncle Sam, yogurt
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Happy Purple Friday!
Sissy (Sicily’s Nick name that Nick gave her) is running around like a crazy person, but now she decided to chill on the couch and watch me type. She actually watches you like she knows what you are thinking not with a blank stare like doggies.
This is her last night…no she is not dead!
Shortly after I took this pic, I snacked on a flattened banana with almond butter. I think Allison started this? and it was delicious!
Now back to breakfast!
I call this fruit bowl o’ layers
It started with yogurt…check out this lid! (hmm guess you can’t really read it, but it says “more yogurt for your dollar and less plastic in a landfill” or something like that)
I posted a while back about how I was going to start buying large plain yogurt and make my own flavors and I guess Stoneyfield jumped on that too. Pat on my back 
After the yogurt many a thing was added…
Layers = plain yogurt + banana + flax + pear + Uncle Sam + Kashi H2H + peach + almond butter + skim.
I swear all of those layers are in there.
OK time to get my duck boots on and head out the door, we are having some showers this morning. Fingers crossed there are no accidents on the highway!
HAPPY FRIDAY!
ANY GOOD PLANS FOR THE WEEKEND???
De-Stress September 24, 2009
Posted by lilybeans in Thursday.Tags: granola, pear, salad, Sicily, tofu, wrap, yogurt
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Hello! Welcome to Thursday night! It actually isn’t a super night because we lost at kickball, and the team was not in so much of a chipper mood when I left. At least I had my lady to greet me at the door!
This is her current position and we are watching Bones! Reminds me of Kelly (but I am sure she knows they get is all wrong!)
Before I could get home to my girl I had a seriously stressful day. The EPA is coming for a visit soon and we have quarterly reports due so the day was seriously crazy!
I had to scarf down my lunch in between after calls with Region III.
WW wrap with avocado, spinach, egg, hummus (could have seriously used some hot sauce!) I also had plain yogurt with pumpkin nola and a pear that got a bit beat up in the lunch box.
Still tasted good!
On the to kickball I had two of my apricot carob oat rounds (yes there are still a few kicking around).
I had planned on doing sprints before kickball, but due to me forgetting my clothes at home and tons of traffic, I did not get to the field in time. I was seriously stressing out about this and I know I really shouldn’t be because it is one run! Just one training run! It will not kill me! I know Megan has talked about this and Caitlin (Congrats to Caitlin again!). I just tried to channel Nick the whole time and kept telling myself “I can’t change it, just roll with it”. Love his calm outlook one time, sports are a different story. 
Even though we lost our game I still had a good time hanging out with some good people.
When I got home I heated up leftovers that I had planned on eating and made a side salad.
3 min total. Left over baked tofu and butternut squash.
Side salad with romain, garden mater, snap peas and feta.
Off to finish Bones, play with kitty and watch the new Office!
Good Night All! Tomorrow is Friday!
