It's "Love Your Veggies Month" over at Peas and Crayons, so I hope y'all are eating your veggies! I myself went a little salad overboard today but it just so happens that I love spinach!! I really love all veggies and it would be a struggle for me to think of a veggie that I don't love. Right now, I'm pretty obsessed with roasting veggies...mmmmm roasted brussel sprouts.
I started today with a solid breakfast of microwave mug egg whites, a Kashi blueberry waffle, strawberries, and coffee. I ended up getting an iced coffee on my way into work but used my special Silk creamer. I'm also really into putting plain almond milk in my coffee these days. Here's how I make my egg whites in a mug:
Spray a mug with cooking spray
Add your egg whites
Microwave for 45 seconds then stir
Microwave an additional 1 minute
Season with your favorite seasonings and devour
Look Doc! I'm taking my Calcium + Vitamin D! And don't worry, I had some delicious Chobani for a snack. Keep reading because this was a double Chobani day. This Spinach Harvest salad is my favorite. It has these cajun spiced pecans in it that are just amazing. Love it.
You want to know how to be my best friend? Surprise me with Starbucks. That's exactly what my new friend Kristin did. I met Kristin through our Memphis Moms Run This Town Facebook group. She is so sweet and is actually studying to become a pharmacy technician! Well I had the bright idea to let her come check out my pharmacy, and this girl got to work. Guess what?
I hired her.
And she brought me a Chai Tea Latte with Soy milk (so important) and a cake pop.
And she was really excited to be in What I Ate Wednesday. Perfection.
For dinner I had spinach salad numero dos. I put some black and green olives, cucumbers, feta, and Greek dressing on it. We also had what is known as "Princess Magic Wand Soup" around my house. That translates into Lipton Noodle Soup for those without 4 year old princesses. I also got creative and made tuna salad with plain Chobani instead of mayo.
Don't worry Josh. I made yours separate with mayo.
Back to my Chobani tuna...it was awesome! I highly recommend using Chobani to replace your fat sources!
I'm stuffed. All I have room for is a mini cadbury cream egg :)
What is your favorite vegetable?
Can you think of a vegetable I might not like?
I love grape tomatoes if your allowing fruit vegetables;) If not then brussel sprouts win. Hmm I know I really don't like bitter gourd. Yuck I bet you've never heard of it but they are SUPER bitter. I thought I loved every single vegetable out there but when I told my friend this she thought she could prove me wrong. Well she did and it was nasttt, I do not recommend it!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely never heard of bitter gourd! I'm staying away from that! Grape tomatoes are amazing! They are so sweet, almost like candy!
DeleteI am a big fan of aparagus. I hope to get a patch growing here this summer so I can have it fresh! Also love spinach and fresh greens, and cucumbers, and sugar snap peas.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to use Chobani!
OOOOOOh I love asparagus! I like to saute it with Greek seasoning! I can't wait to grow my veggies again this summer. We had our first garden last summer and I went 4 months without buying a single cucumber. It was heaven!
DeleteAwesome that you hired Kristin! Parsnips and fennel are pretty awful. Other than that, they're all fantastic. Especially beetroot. And pumpkin. Actually, all of the things. Chobani isn't a vegetable or that would top the list.
ReplyDeleteYum pumpkin. Is that a vegetable or a fruit? Never really thought about it! Love pumpkin in my steel cut oats!
DeleteThat spinach harvest salad is one of my very favorites too! Those pecans are to die for.
ReplyDeleteI know!!!!! I've gotten my whole pharmacy hooked on them!
DeleteI eat almost every veggie out there. So far there hasn't been one that I don't like... I'm not a huge onion fan, but I'll eat them. I don't know what I'd do without bell peppers, sweet potatoes, and spinach though :)
ReplyDeleteYum, all good choices! I like onions cooked, but not raw. I love roasted sweet potatoes. That was a new way to cook them for me recently and I fell in love all over again!
DeleteThe only vegetable I won't eat is brussel sprouts, yuck! I'm part of MRTT too :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE MRTT!!! I have made some great friends through our group! Moms who run just get each other ;)
DeleteI've tried so many times but I'm not a brussels sprout either. Your eats look great! Friends bearing coffee are keepers for sure!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite veggie changes every season. Every month? Every week? A lot. Right now, I'm on a cucumber kick - we get those long, skinny cukes (here they are called Japanese cucumbers, and are from - well, Japan) that are sooooo crispy-crunchy-delicious! Sometimes I make a salad JUST because I want an excuse to eat cucumbers!!
ReplyDeleteMy own personal veggie *ew* right now is winter melon. It's OK-tasting, but in Asia, it's (super super over) cooked in soups, leaving it a spongy, mushy mass. Ew. But I'm not sure whether anyone really eats winter melon in the US...