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!

Happy Hump Day!

A new goal I’m adding to my June goal list is to participate in WIAW every week this month. I’m hoping it’ll keep me much more accountable for my eats, especially switching it up because I am absolutely a creature of habit. This month’s theme is sensible snacking!

8:30 am: Breakfast

Breakfast was my usual overnight oats. I’m not too adventurous with my breakfasts, sadly. Occasionally, I’ll try something different and like it, but the oats are just so easy to make and so delicious! Ah well. I do change it up on the weekends though.

I enjoyed them with a big blob of Peanut Butter & Co’s Mighty Maple. I finished off the jar today so I get to have overnight oats in a jar for breakfast and start my new jar of sunbutter tomorrow!

11 am: Snack

I brought some pineapple chunks to work today! They’re so delicious. It’s like eating candy, which I don’t mind one bit.

1:30 pm: Lunch

For lunch today, I had another awesome salad from my building’s cafeteria. I’ve been loving their healthier choices lately! They’ve had a lot of beans, quinoa, barley, and other grains, which I love throwing on top of my salad.

Today I went for spinach and romaine with some tofu, roasted sweet potatoes, grilled chicken, mediterranean-style orzo, and spicy feta. Yum! I also had a few more pineapple chunks for dessert.

2 pm: Tea and snack

I decided to try some of my friend Angela’s loose tea around lunchtime. She got it in Switzerland! Neither of us could read the package, so I have no idea what was in it, but it was good! Really fruity, but also a bit tart. Perfect with some agave.

I also finished off my pineapple chunks a little later, around 5 pm or so.

8 pm: Dinner

I just bought a new package of Al Fresco Buffalo Style Chicken Sausage, which I haven’t tried yet. I was so excited to today! I was in the mood for something lemony and had half a bunch of broccoli left over from the other night, so I threw this together.

I started out cooking my penne in a pot on the stove, while also chopping up half a chicken sausage and microwaving it. When the pasta was almost done, I threw in my broccoli and let it boil with the pasta. Then I just drained it all and threw it into a bowl along with the chicken sausage, a little bit of olive oil and lemon juice, and some grated parmesan cheese. So good and easy! I’ll be making this one again.

So overall, a pretty good eating day! Though my snacking wasn’t so sensible… I should work on that. Have a nice night!

I’m playing TV catchup tonight! I’m especially excited for the Survivor finale and Celebrity Apprentice. What can I say, I’m a total sucker for crappy reality TV.

Anyway, I had some seriously yummy food today! And I just realized that I use the word “yummy” a lot on this blog. On top of “delicious” and “tasty.” Whoops. But what are you going to do when you write a food and fitness blog? I guess I need to brush up on my thesaurus use!

Now, here are two of my YUMMY eats from today!

Lunch

For lunch, I hopped over to Hi-So Thai with my boss and two work friends. It’s a great little Thai place with a pretty good lunch special and within walking distance from work. And therefore, the perfect lunch spot.

My boss and our friend Steve ordered their usual, the pineapple fried rice.

I ordered the drunken noodles with chicken, which were a little more oily than I would’ve liked, but super spicy and good! And the portion was a lot smaller than what you normally get at Thai restaurants, so I didn’t feel too guilty clearing my plate.

And our friend Brian ordered the chicken pad thai, which I didn’t manage to get a picture of.

Dinner

All I snacked on the afternoon was some fruit, which wasn’t quite substantial enough. I got home from work a little before 6:30 and was huuungry!

My mom is seriously incredible at Chinese cooking and she brought me some of her Chinese-style empanadas when my family came up for Mother’s Day dinner yesterday. I don’t actually know if they have a name in Chinese, but we just call them “bing,” which is sort of a blanket term for lots of pan-fried things. I think the technical translation would be “pancake” though.

On the side, I had some of my leftover roasted grape, walnut, and goat cheese quinoa. It was still good!

Inside these empanada-type things is egg, scallions, Chinese vermicelli, and some tiny dried shrimp. It was hard to get a good photo, but trust me, it was YUMMY! And yes, I’m now embracing my overuse of that word.

One of my goals for this year is to get my mom to teach me how to make some of the amazing things she does! Her Chinese breakfast bread and homemade scallion pancakes are famous among our family friends. And she doesn’t even use recipes for most of it – she just manages to experiment in the kitchen and get what she wants in one or two tries!

As for my own cooking journey, I actually didn’t really learn how to cook until last year when I lived off-campus my senior year of college. My mom has always been impatient and unfortunately, I inherited the trait from her. So her attempts to teach me how to cook were somewhat disastrous! But now that I know the basics and a little more, I’m hoping it’ll be easier for us to get along in the kitchen.

Sleep tight!