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Feb15

What I Ate Wednesday! Mexican Food, Fruit and More!

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What I Ate Wednesday! Mexican Food, Fruit and More!

Happy Wednesday Guys! I hope you all had a lovely Valentine’s Day and spent some time loving yourself, with your friends or with your special someone.  Michael and I had dinner before his curling match and I stuck around to watch him and cheer him on.  It wasn’t the most fancy or elaborate Valentine’s Day but it was nice to spend time together! I feel like this week has a lot of action going on.  Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, today is the What I Ate Wednesday Party and tomorrow and Friday I have dinner plans with some girlfriends and this weekend I’m visiting my family.  It’s all good stuff and has me smiling! Shall we get this party going? I think  so!  As always a big thank you to Jen at Peas and Crayons for hosting!

We are still loving our vegetables this week and I tried to showcase a meal that uses lots of veggies in a very fun way!

Breakfast.

If you recall Michael and I decided to skip yoga on Sunday to sleep in, and let ourselves recover.  I was thankful for this since Saturday’s 16 mile run really wiped me out and these sore and tired legs are just not going away.  We laid in bed til almost 10am dozing, reading and chatting.  Perfect.  Even more perfect is having a delicious cup of coffee, scrambled eggs with Provolone cheese and an Everything bagel with veggie cream cheese! Delicious!

Scrambled Eggs, Everything Bagel and Coffee

The sunlight was pouring into the kitchen and it was the perfect way to start the day!

Lunch. 

I love when I can bring leftovers because it is easy and delicious. But dinners have been quick and easy with things like veggie burgers and steamed broccoli and they don’t make great leftovers.  So I’ve been eating sandwiches for lunch.  This week I’m keeping them simple with some of my favorite toppings…banana peppers and honey mustard!  I bought turkey, American cheese and whole wheat bread.

Turkey Sandwich, Chobani Yogurt, Orange and Strawberries

On the side I had a Chobani Greek Yogurt in strawberry flavor, oranges and strawberries.  I also packed some Nuun to mix into my water.  Healthy, simple and delicious.

Dinner. 

Saturday afternoon Michael and I went and did some errands.  I had been craving Mexican food all week so we decided to make steak tacos, homemade guacamole, Spanish rice and re-fried black beans.  I sliced up some lettuce and tomato and we had some cheese too!

Steak Tacos, Re-fried Black Beans, and Spanish Rice

Of course we had some whole grain Tortillas to dip in the guacamole and salsa too! The highlight of this meal was the steak.  Michael made a rub for the flank steak with cocoa, chili powder, cumin and other delicious spices and grilled it outside on the grill! Mexican food is so good, I could seriously eat it every night!

There was lots of sweets to be had over the weekend but I never took a picture of any of them! So sorry!

Really though, everything I ate I was so good this week! Never a bad meal for this girl!

What did you eat this week? What’s your favorite Sunday morning breakfast? Do you love Mexican food? What is your favorite Mexican dish?

Oct19

What I Ate Wednesday! Some weekend eats…

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What I Ate Wednesday! Some weekend eats…

Can you believe it is Wednesday already?! Where has this week gone? Last Saturday Michael was busy with work and was out for a guys night.  I was grateful for some time to myself.  I spent the day baking, shopping for 2 blissful hours at Macy’s before heading to Trader Joe’s to stock up on my favorites.  I bought far more than I needed and if the label said pumpkin, it likely went into my basket.  Pumpkin pancake mix, pumpkin cream cheese, pumpkin butter…I think you get the idea.  I spent my night making some homemade soup, sipping wine and watching movies.  I’ll share my eats from Saturday with you all today!

I started off the morning with a cup of coffee.  I LOVE putting some pumpkin spice into my coffee grounds.  It adds some delicious fall flavor to my coffee! I whipped up a few eggs with some skim milk and added some cheese.  Scrambled eggs are the best.  I also had a whole wheat english-muffin with some strawberry preserves. It was a perfect way to start my day!

Scrambled Eggs, Whole Wheat English Muffin with Strawberry Preserves

Since I’m not marathon training right now and am getting over a cold my appetite has been much lower.  This held me over throughout the day so I didn’t have any snacks or lunch.

For dinner I made a Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup.  It is an Ellie Krieger recipe so it’s pretty healthy and full of veggies, chopped boneless chicken breast and orzo! It’s really easy to make, and it comes together in less than hour and is really delicious.  On the side I made mini grill-cheese sandwiches on ciabatta bread…it was Saturday night after all!  I had some blush wine from Cape Cod, MA too.  I’m not much of a blush wine kind of girl but this was actually pretty tasty.  It was a little sweeter and kind of mild but it had nice flavor.

Lemon Chicken Soup, Grilled Cheese and Cape Blush Wine!

Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup!

I think it’s important to use up ingredients that are remaining in different ways so that they don’t go to waste.  This can be challenging for me since I live alone and there can be ALOT left…no one likes to eat the same thing all week!  I used some of the remaining bread and cheese for dinner on Monday.  I combined them with some sautéed Portobello mushrooms and red onions.  On the side I made a romaine salad with tomato drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette.  It was delicious and the left over soup and bread is making some easy, healthy and satisfying lunches at work this week!

Grilled cheese with Portobello mushrooms and red onions. Side Salad.

 What is your favorite soup?  Are you obsessed with all things pumpkin like me? What is your favorite way to eat grilled cheese?  How do you use up left over ingredients?