I decided I'd do another What I Ate Wednesday after reading Housewife Glamour's post on the benefits of WIAWs - mainly that tracking your eating habits for a day keeps you accountable. Again, most of the snacks I sneak in throughout my workday aren't photographed, because I'm busybusybusy and cannot take my phone out to snap a pic of my muffin like a freak. Today it was a green juice (kale, apple, cucumber, lemon) and crackers with a cheese stick. Specifically, these cheese sticks:
What would I do without these things? I eat at least one every single day. They've revolutionized snacking for me. Have I mentioned that each one has as much protein as an egg? It amazes me.
Breakfast #1 (before I left the apartment) was a whole wheat english muffin with PB:
Real breakfast during my break:
Breakfast cookie. Nuff said.
Lunch was a black bean burger with tons of guac. I wanted a salad, but honestly, what I really wanted was something I could eat fast. So I picked the burger.
I've pretty much gotten my workday fuel routine down. I have coffee + something small but substantial at about 5 am, before I leave for work. English muffins with PB have worked well these past few days. I eat my cheese stick with crackers at around 7, when my first task at work is done and I have a good opportunity to pause. My morning break happens at different times depending on a host of factors (which location I'm working at, who else I'm working with, how much I have to get done by a certain time, etc.). If I take my break at around 10 am, I usually don't need another snack before I eat lunch at 2. If I take my break earlier, like at 8:30 or 9, I typically need something at noon to get me through, like some pretzels and guac, a packet of almond butter or a cliff shotblok. I'm moving around constantly at work and it's pretty much impossible on an empty stomach, but I finally have a system that seems to work.
Before dinner snack:
Bare Naked cereal with a swig of kefir poured on top and vanilla coconut milk.
Dinner hasn't happened yet, but I'll probably eat leftovers from last night. My hubby made his third round of soup, and....it didn't turn out quite like we'd expected. The recipe was for eggplant parm soup, and it just did not look like the picture in the cookbook. Isn't that the worst?
I pureed the stuff in an attempt to improve it, then dumped several huge scoops of freshly cooked quinoa in the bowl and covered it in a blanket of shredded parmesan. We've since been calling the soup "cheesy quinoa helper". So that's the plan for tonight: a repeat of cheesy quinoa helper. Just in case, I have a giant sweet potato baking in the oven so we have another option.
That concludes this segment of What I Ate Wednesday. Tomorrow's my Friday (since I have Fridays and Saturdays off) and I'm excited to see a friend who's in town this week! She was one of my bridesmaids :)
xo
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