Productive Wednesday

I was on fire at work today! I got so much done and feel so accomplished about it now. I hope to continue the memento tomorrow because I’m off Friday and then again on Monday for Canadian Thanksgiving.

• 1 cup coffee
• 1/3 cup sunrise blend with quinoa
• carob chips
• chocolate honey
• almond butter

Here’s the honey I used;

So, so good!

Before the gym I snacked on one of the two bars in here;

The other was eaten after lunch.

Can you believe that the part of Rach today that I was most excited about, the Hungry Girl segment, was the one that I missed? It was aired during the 15mins that I had to get cleaned up and back to my desk. Boohoo!

• Time: 45 minutes
• Avg Hr: 163
• Max Hr: 179
• Calories Torched: 485
• Distance: 4.6 miles

Lunch was pretty much the same as yesterday’s supper. I sandwiched an Yves burger between 2 corn cakes. I also added some chipotle mustard for some pizzazz;

See those sweet little nibblets? They were a great contrast to the spicy mustard. Later in the day I ate another container of monster grapes;

Some of these babies were 2 biters! A co worker noticed them as she walked past my desk and thought that I was eating a bowl of plums! :D

When I got home from work I tidied the house up some and then got to work on some pear sauce. I took home a beautiful bag of pears from the farm on Sunday and used 8 big ones for the sauce. Here’s my method for the sauce;

1. Peel and finely chop 8 large, ripe pears
2. Put into a heavy bottomed sauce pan with 1 tbsp of cinnamon, 2 tbsp of agave, a 1/4 cup of dried currants (or raisins) and a splash of water
3. bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for a 1/2 hour
4. lightly mash pears until you get the consistency you want. We like our chunky
5. remove from heat and let cool. It will thicken a bit as it cools off
6. ENJOY!

I eat this straight up, mixed into yogurt or oats, as a muffin/loaf topping (or add in). My hubby enjoys it with a big glob of Cool Whip or over vanilla ice cream.

Dinner was baked salmon, mashed butternut squash (with some butter and cinnamon) and steamed baby carrots;

A very orange plate, indeed! I ate the last piece of peach blueberry pie for dessert in my classy Tupperware container;

I was lucky to get this!! Out of the whole pie I ended up with 1.5 pieces. My boys LOVE pie so it doesn’t last long around here. I likely eat some of that pear sauce later on. Straight up….nothing added to change the flavour, me thinks.

I’ll be off now to read all your fabulous blogs! Have a fun night…

Bye for now!!