I’ve been MIA all week! Has it really been a week since I posted? Whoopsh.

Life has been pretty uneventful for the past week. I’m just counting down the days until I leave for Hawaii – for the record, there are five left with only one workday! Yay!

You know how knowing you have a day off makes the days before go so much slower? Well, considering this is my first vacation all year, the slow day feeling has been times a million this past week. I leave on Wednesday!

On another note, I’ve been eating out more than I should considering I’m about to go on a week and a half long vacation to Hawaii that costs a little bit more than chump change. But it’s been delicious!

Last Saturday, I ate at Qi in Times Square. It’s a Thai restaurant with good food, fast service, and reasonable prices! Total win. I got the tofu pad thai and loved it. My dad and I may be going to the one in Union Square tonight.

On Wednesday, I went to Raaz in Newport for dinner. It’s one of my favorite Indian restaurants, but I usually go for the lunch buffet which is a good deal. For dinner, I ordered the Veg Jalfrezi, a mix of veggies cooked in a tomato-based curry. We also had a basket of naan for the table. I’m still working on those leftovers!

I had two spectacular lunches at work this week. The first: romaine lettuce with corn, bell peppers, quinoa, hummus, and grilled chicken. Loved this combination!

Second: tofu with a sweet chili sauce, hummus with toasted pitas, and roasted zucchini. The tofu was especially good!

At home, I’ve been eating some good stuff too. The other night, I made a veggie burger and roasted zucchini hummus wrap for dinner. Definitely a combination I will have again! And some Rainier cherries on the side, which I recently realized I’m no longer allergic to. I can’t get enough of them now!

Lots of corn. It’s so sweet this time of year! Though I read that the prices will be going up soon due to the drought.

And yogurt bowls whenever I eat breakfast at home. I had this one this morning! Greek yogurt, blueberries, homemade granola, raisins, chia seeds, and peanut butter. I need to figure out a way that I can have this breakfast at work too.

And finally, I have been staring at this picture of my baby Cissie that my mom sent me two days ago. So precious! I miss her.

Tonight my dad and I have our advanced photography course from 6 to 8:30 in Central Park. Can’t wait!

Happy weekend!

I have a gloriously lazy day planned today. My only plan for the day is to clear out the fridge and get some cooking done.

Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten started yet despite waking up bright and early at 7 am. My roommate doesn’t usually get up until noon or so on weekends and I try to respect that by staying out of the kitchen since her room is right next to it. In all honesty, it can be a little annoying when all I want to do is get up and at it, but it’s also nice to lounge around in bed all morning. I’m not minding at all today!

I don’t normally wake up hungry but today, I was starving the moment I opened my eyes! I’m always inspired by Lauren‘s gorgeous yogurt bowls and I have a ton of fresh fruit right now, so I put together my own.

In the bowl: half of a blueberry Chobani, blueberries, strawberries, homemade granola, a drizzle of peanut butter, and chia seeds. Yum! I think I’ll be recreating this one tomorrow.

Enjoy your day!

Today was one of my slowest days at work in a while. Some days I’m really busy and want nothing more than one of these slow days, but then when it finally rolls around, I can’t stand it. Having little to do is so much more boring to me than keeping busy! But I think that may just be my type A personality talking.

I meant to write a WIAW yesterday, but never got around to it. I had pictures ready to go and everything, but I was just beat after running some errands after work. So I thought I’d share today!

Breakfast

Love Grown carrot cake granola (so good!), strawberries, blueberries, and a Chobani. Here it is all mixed up!

I’m especially excited to share this one because for once, I had something other than overnight oats for breakfast! My parents just brought two Costco-size boxes of strawberries and blueberries and I’m determined not to let them go bad, so I washed and cut a bunch the night before. I should do this more often.

Lunch

My boss found a place called Energy Kitchen on Hoboken menus and man, was I excited when I saw the menu! Nothing over 500 calories and it all looked delicious. I had a California wrap (hummus, guacamole, roasted red peppers, and cucumbers). Yum! I want to try making this combination at home sometime.

Snack

My building’s cafeteria just put in a Wicked Spoon froyo machine. Mmmmm. This may require a lot of self-restraint.

Dinner

I went for one of my favorite post-workout dinners: veggie protein nachos! I just throw veggie protein crumbles, black beans, and salsa in a bowl and heat it all up. I love that it’s easy and healthy too.

In Hawaii prep news, I just bought an underwater case for my camera online and I think I’ve found the perfect dive shop for my sister and I to go scuba diving with. Off to give them a call back and hopefully book our dive! I’m so excited.

Happy Wednesday!

I thought I’d share my eats from yesterday for today’s What I Ate Wednesday. I usually don’t make any effort to eat vegan or vegetarian, but sometimes I realize at the end of the day that it’s happened inadvertently. Yesterday was one of those days. I love when this happens because I used to be so reliant on meat that I couldn’t imagine a day without it.

Breakfast

Breakfast was my usual batch of overnight oats! I’ve finally gotten my overnight oats down to the perfect consistency, which I’m loving. I mix in a bit dollop of sunflower seed butter when I get to work too. Yum!

Lunch

Lunch was a boring one. Our building cafeteria usually has a lot of great healthy choices, but not much yesterday, so I went with one of my usual combinations when I can’t find much: spinach, tofu, dried cranberries, and sunflower seeds. I also threw some roasted sweet potato slices on the side, but they had way too much cinnamon for me so I didn’t finish them.

Snack

I got hungry pretty quickly after lunch. I grabbed a honey Chobani from our caf and threw on some of Wild Harvest’s organic cherry vanilla granola and strawberries. So good!

Dinner

For dinner, I went for my one of my recent favorites. Spinach with a portabello veggie burger, roasted red pepper hummus, and goat cheese.

Yes, it looks kind of nasty when all mixed up, but trust me when I say it’s delicious! Super quick too.

Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday!