June 5, 2008

100th Post!

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This is my 100th post! Woohoo!  Thank you to all my lovely readers and commenters.  As I told a reader who emailed me recently, this blog as been such a blessing in my life.  Thank you all for being a part of it! :D   Sorry, I’m a cheeseball!

Today is New Product Day, apparently!  After my new cereal discovery this morning (love) I wanted to try more new stuff for lunch.  I ran some errands this afternoon (bank, post office, etc) and found myself outside of the Organic Market!  You know what that means!

After perusing the isles for a while, I decided to try an Amy’s Burrito.  I’ve always wanted to give them a whirl, but was nervous about a whole frozen/microwave thing – I thought they would taste fake.  I tried the Black Bean and Veggies Burrito:

Which turned out like this:

This was sooo tasty and filling!  Great nutritional and ingredients lists too!  Definitely a huge success.  Along with I had some nonfat cottage cheese and street raspberries.  They had blueberries, but these raspberries were speaking to me.

Don’t those raspberries look INCREDIBLE??? Too beautiful to pass up!

All together:

Lunch was 464 calories, 61g carbs, 10g fat, and 35g protein.

While I was at the Organic Market, I picked up a little treat for myself!  It’s kind of humid today, and only going to get more hot (summer in the city, you know).  So I grabbed a box of the Coconut bars to have in the office as an occasional afternoon treat for myself.

I was skeptical and almost didn’t get them, but then I thought, ‘come on, why not, granny?’  OH.MY.GOODNESS.  These things are heaven on a stick.  Literally.  They are soooooooo good.  The best coconut flavor and a really good nutritional.  I never used to care much about coconut, but in the past 4 months I have just gone coconut CRAZY.  After I let my stomach settle, I had a bar:

If you look closely in the picture, you can see that about 75% of the bar is actually made up of real shredded coconut.  So delicious.  Such a find!  Snack was 90 calories, 16g carbs, 4g fat, and 0g protein.

This afternoon the plan is to pick up my first CSA bounty!  :)   I’ll be sure to snap a photo for you guys.  Then hit the gym.  I think I’m alone for dinner tonight – hopefully I’ll be inspired my new fruits and veggies to make a delicious dinner!

 

June 2, 2008

Granny’s Gettin Crazy

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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!

 

May 13, 2008

Organic Market Trip

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Hey guys,

Since I was running late this morning, I had to buy my lunch again – not my favorite thing, but it did give me the opportunity to go to the Organic Market!  The Organic Market is a vegan- and vegetarian-friendly grocery a few blocks from my office.  I went there a few times in the beginning of my weight loss journey and was totally intimidated and a little grossed out in some cases!  But I thought so much as changed in the past few months as far as my exposure to vegan and vegetarian eating and cooking, that it could be a pleasant experience.  Boy was that an understatement!  I felt like a kid in a candy store.  So many of my favorite brands and hard-to-find products!  Now I know exactly where to go when I need one of my ‘weird’ grocery items, as P says!  I found this baby in particular, which I was really excited about:

Ezekiel CEREAL??!!!??? So I decided some yogurt and cereal needed to be in my lunch, ergo:

Then I headed to Guy & Gallard and got a Gruyere, Avocado, Sun-Dried Tomato sandwich with alfalfa sprouts on a whole wheat baguette:

And about 2 cups of watermelon, yum!

All together: (The white cup is the Ezekiel cereal)

Well, as soon as I got through the sandwich and watermelon, I had no room for more!  Which is just as well, because it would have been a very caloric lunch if I had eaten everything seen here.  Lunch, minus the Ezekiel cereal and yogurt (I’ll have them for snack later), was 568 calories, 93g carbs, 18g fat, and 17g protein.

I’m heading into a lunch coma – maybe an iced coffee will be in the cards!