Even though I love my routine, after such an exciting weekend, I wasn’t ready to completely go back to normal. As I headed out of the office this afternoon, I knew I wanted a salad and fruit/cottage cheese combo - but with a twist. PS. Today is GORGEOUS outside - I should be up on my roof sunbathing right now with a stack of magazines. Le sigh.
I ran some errands (bank, Organic Market, drugstore) then thought about lunch. I was originally going to go to Guy and Gallard, but then I remembered that the Whole Foods salad bar was much better. So I headed over there. I had intended on getting a salad with fresh veggies, but then I saw all the delicious looking salad medleys they had. So I had a taste of all of them on a bed of spinach and carrots:
There’s a little of everything in there: grilled veggies, orzo, quinoa, squash, black beans, cauliflower, feta, and more. It was so great to taste all the different flavors. So satisfying. By the time I got to the little deli to pick up a mini cottage cheese container, it was so late in the day that they only had 4% milkfat or 1% with pineapple! Booooo. Well, after pouting for a while and contemplating forgoing cottage cheese altogether, I thought ‘come on, granny! what’s so wrong with pineapple and cottage cheese?’ So I got it. It actually tasted really good with the blueberries I picked up at Whole Foods - a little artificially-tasting, but still good.
All together:
Yum. Lunch was estimated at 571 calories, 61g carbs, 2g fat, and 30g protein.
Plan for this afternoon is to hit up the gym first thing, pick up the laundry and then relax! I’ve been feeling the baking bug lately, so maybe I’ll do that. Have a great afternoon guys!
I know what you mean, sometimes I find myself beating myself up mentally about eating too much fruit, then I’m like, “wow, it was just fruit, it could have been so much worse.” Sometimes I think we must get used to our healthy eating that sometimes our visions get skewed. I have to sometimes bring myself back to reality and remember how I used to eat- which was completely terrible! Then I pat myself on my back for making healthy choices, or small splurges instead of disastrous ones.
The Whole Foods salad bar is ALWAYS exciting - so many great, fun choices!!
Oooh yes, do bake today!! It’s very relaxing :0)
Oh man, I really wish there was a Whole Foods here, mainly because that seems like the most amazing salad bar I’ve ever seen. There is NOTHING like that around here, at least not that I know of. Although you know, maybe that’s for the best because there’s a good chance I would blow all my money getting lunch there multiple times a week.
Ashley - You’re so right! I’ve come along way from eating entire tubs of icing or boxes of cereal!
VeggieGirl - WF salad bar = heaven.
Kristie - It definitely is a delicious drain on the wallet.
- Kate