Looking Forward to the Weekend

Happy Friday, everyone! I wanted to start this post by thanking all of you who commented on my “junk” food dilemma from yesterday’s post. All the comments truly meant a lot to me and went a long way towards re-building my confidence that I do indeed feed my child well and what the teacher thinks just doesn’t matter. After all, she doesn’t see what he eats at home, right? So, THANK YOU for taking the time to voice your opinion on the matter!!

-1 cup coffee
-1/2 cup rye flakes
-frozen raspberries
-Enjoy Life Foods trail mix

I have to admit to a mini melt down before leaving the house this morning. It was one of those days where the kids were at each other, the cat was howling to go out; I was trying to pack lunches/make breakfasts/load the dishwasher all at once. Clearly, not activities that a non morning person should attempt. On top of all this I’m calling out DS’s spelling words and he’s deliberately spelling everything wrong. Example: DS, how do you spell “always”? DS “Alzlvjowshtg”. Are you kidding me? Melt down time. Once I had my rant, ate my scrumptious bowl of oats, I was calm enough to proceed again….and he spelled all 10 correct. Imagine that. The lesson here? Do not try to do 100 things at once when you KNOW you are not a morning person. And eat your oats….they calm you down! :D

Pre workout snack;

This delicious confection was spotted on another blog today! Great minds think alike?? :)

The workout;

Time: 45 minutes on the treadmill
Avg Hr: 160
Max Hr: 206 (pretty sure I did not hit this while running. This morning? Probably!)
Calories Torched: 464
Distance: 4.54 miles

This run felt really good today. It made me happy and calm. Perfect attitude for a paperwork filled afternoon. My most awesome lunch helped out, too!

I rescued a grilled chicken breast from last night’s Mexican chicken bake and paired it up with green beans and a scoop of Manon’s raw sunflower seed pate. The fact that I forgot a knife didn’t not dissuade me. I simply ate it with my hands like a caveman. Luckily my cubicle is in the corner!!

Tonight was pizza night at our house. I had bought some Pillsbury pizza crust to try and it was passable. Definitely good in a pinch! I made one big pizza and used the second can to make mini pizza’s. I topped mine with some pizza sauce, goat’s cheese and basil. One pizza had some deli turkey on it, too;

I made some of Manon’s raw chocolate pudding for dessert;

Yabba, yabba! This stuff is GREAT! After clean up was done DD and I made a trip out to the mall. We haven’t been in a long while so it was time. We went into Old Navy because they have all their winter coats 50% off and I wanted to check it out. I didn’t find anything that caught my eye, but DD found one that she fell in love with. She picked a scarf to go with it, too;

Then I used my 25% off coupon to buy her a book to use for her book report that’s due later this month. After much window shopping we popped into William’s Pub for some latte’s. I also had a coupon for a free specialty drink so it was cheap-o. DD wrestled with a Rubix cube while we waited for our order;

Here we are enjoying our beverages!

LOL! I still owe you guys a good photo of my new spec’s!! I’m currently parked on the couch in my pj’s chugging back some water. DS has an 11am game tomorrow, but there’s not much else on the agenda. I’m looking forward to relaxing a bit!

Candy confession time…

Bye for now!!

A Smooth Day

This morning was one that I definitely would have liked to have devoted a wee bit more “under the comfy covers” time to! It was raining again and I was so comfortable and warm! But alas, there is always much to do and once I’m up and showered, sleeping is the last thing on my mind!

Today’s breakfast was one of those bowls that I was sad to see the end of. It had the perfect mix of chewy and creamy.

-1 cup water
-1/2 cup Old Wessex 5-Grain cereal
-2 Tbsp wheat berries
-1/2 cup blueberries
-splash of vanilla hemp milk
-dash of cinnamon



It was nice and thick which is how I like my oats best! Yesterday’s bowl was a little too soupy for me. I should mention that every morning I make a big travel mug of green tea for the road. I don’t photograph it because it would be the same thing everyday (and my cup is ugly!)

My lunch run today was AWE-SOME!! I must have had some serious built up energy because I felt like I could have run forever. I was playing with the speed as I went along today so I ran a little more than 3miles (5km) in 30 minutes. Did I ever feel revived!!

Today’s lunch was the rest of last night’s asparagus and some Baked Tofu. I love the texture of tofu once it’s been baked! It reminds me of mozzarella cheese. I also packed a blueberry Vita Muffin which I ate around 11a.m. and a pear.





I brought a box of chocolate bars to the office today to see if I could sell some. Well, of course they were calling my name ALL day! I could hear them from down the hall… ”Krista, Krista, you know you want me!” So at 2p.m. I went down to the kitchen, walked right by the chocolate and bought myself a small hot chocolate from the coffee machine. Cured my chocolate craving and the little voices finally stopped!



For dinner tonight I tried a new recipe from Chatelaine called Moroccan Braised Chicken with Zucchini. I only made one change/omission. I had to leave out the raisins and apricots which is a shame because I think they would have been great additions. Unfortunately, my daughter hates raisins and anything resembling raisins. So great is her dislike that picking them out is not even an option for her! I've had to alter many a recipe due to this aversion! The only other change was Agave for the honey/brown sugar.



This dinner was superb! The boys had theirs over whole wheat pasta and the girls had theirs over quinoa. This is a dish that you will see more of in the future! YUM-O!!
My dessert tonight was berries...strawberries, raspberries & blueberries... over fat free vanilla pudding. I’m feeling the pressure to eat as many fresh berries as possible because the season for them is almost over. Then I’ll be back into frozen fruit in oats and baked items! I quickly made the pudding using a half cup of skim milk and a Jello single serve pack that I got when I was in in the States last.



And here's my bowl of pleasure!



After dinner I put some video's on the TV and hopped on the treadmill for an hour long walk. I'm just a machine today! I still have to make lunches and my breakfast for tomorrow because my son has another early morning appointment. All in all, it was a pretty smooth ride today!

Bye for now!