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!

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!

The perfect word to describe my lunch today? Scrump-diddly-umptious!

I pulled this together from my company cafeteria:

Roasted butternut squash, roasted broccoli, beets, cherry tomatoes, and a delicious Greek-style quinoa salad with olives, sundried tomatoes, and goat cheese over a bed of mesclun greens. Mmmmm. This was one of my favorite lunches in a long time! Rarely does our caf have quinoa but when they do, I’m like a fly to a light.

I ate this lunch sitting at my desk. And then I saw this vaguely terrifying article on Blisstree about people who have say they almost never eat lunch away from their desks… Gah! Unfortunately, I’ve gotten into the habit of eating at my desk. I always figure that I might as well multitask and eat while powering through my email or something, right? But I never want to be one of those people that almost never eats lunch away from their desks.

So I’ve decided to consciously try to eat lunch away from my desk at least twice a week. I know that three times a week would be better but you have to start somewhere, right? And if I’m being honest, I’m definitely still struggling with this work-life balance thing. But I’m still hoping this effort to actually break for lunch will help. Better hours would too, but can’t have it all I guess!

Here’s to a real lunch break tomorrow.

I’m generally someone that likes routine in my life, but since I started working in August, a lot of that has gone out the window. One thing heavily affected by this insane irregularity? Lunch!

Things at my job have always been very day to day. Some days, I find myself looking for things to do and others, we’re so packed that I don’t even stop to breathe. Lately, it’s been more of a happy medium. I’m lucky enough to have an awesome boss that I get along spectacularly with, so we’ve been leaving the office for lunch at least once a week. Those are my favorite days. Other days, we don’t have enough time to leave the office for lunch so we grab something in the cafeteria and eat at our desks if we’re busy or in the dining area if we’re not. And my least favorite type of days are those when we’re so packed that I barely have time to eat and end up gobbling something down at my desk.

Today started out as an average day. I wasn’t hungry around noon so I decided I’d wait to grab lunch and eat at my desk after a meeting at 1. But when I got back to my desk with my trusty salad, someone had thrown a meeting at me for 2. So I gobbled down what I could before rushing off to the meeting and then finished the rest of it after the meeting. I swear, my stomach was about to eat itself by the time that meeting ended around 3. And now I’ve decided that an interrupted lunch is my least favorite of lunch variations!

Anyway, I grabbed this from our cafeteria’s salad bar. I couldn’t quite decide what I wanted so I first grabbed a few tongs-fuls of a pre-made strawberry and goat cheese salad. Then I topped it with some corn, craisins, couscous, roasted butternut squash, and mushrooms and threw a breaded turkey cutlet on the side. Lots of different flavors in there but I liked it!

That’s it for now! I’m thinking about sharing today’s outfit later but I think I’m wearing the same shoes as my last fashion post. Hm… Don’t know how I feel about that! We’ll see.