I
am going to start a new way of blogging about my food. Instead of a
week's worth of most of the food I eat, I'm going to break it down
into one day. That will allow me to share more of what I eat in a
single day and also not feel so overwhelmed with taking food photos.
This week I have forgotten to take photos several times. I really
wanted to document a full day for you so I made sure to take photos
of my food on Thursday. I also want to show you days off vs work
days and how I eat differently.
Last
Thursday I was off work. Usually I sleep until 3pm or so but today I
was up earlier than normal. I had gone to bed earlier than normal
and I wanted to purchase tickets for the Dirks Bently concert that
had gone on sale at 10am.
I
prepped some overnight oats for the day before and ended up eating
eggs instead. So Thursday morning I had the overnight oats for
breakfast. This mixture is 20 g oats, 6 oz non-fat Greek yogurt, 1
Tbs chia seeds, and cinnamon. I also added some water to give it
some extra moisture. I made my oats in a left over peanut butter
jar. It is always a bit difficult to estimate the amount of peanut
butter left. After sitting in the fridge over night I sautéed a
chopped apple in coconut oil, 1 tsp brown sugar, and more cinnamon.
I added that to my oats along with some honey and a small drizzle
more of peanut butter.
I've
pushed off grocery shopping until payday so I'm making do with what
we have at home. I was going to have a fish sandwich for lunch but
we are out of dill relish. My attempt to make tarter sauce with
pickles didn't taste good. Plan B was a leftover black bean burger
served on a lettuce wrap with pickles. On the side I had carrots and
ranch dip made with 33 g light sour cream.
I
sipped on a decaf Americano from Starbucks while I ran some errands.
Dinner
was sort of interesting. I made 1 ½ servings of frozen spinach and
mozzarella ravioli. I added in 2 oz of turkey smoked sausage and
mixed it all together with some olive oil and a sprinkle of the
seasoning packet that comes with the frozen ravioli. While this
ravioli tastes really great, you only get a small portion for such a
large amount of points. This small dish of food was 12 PPVs total.
Not something I do often. If I'm eating 12 PPVs I want more food or
something with more volume.
I
knew I was going to a late movie and movie popcorn always sounds
good. However, I had just been to a movie on Wednesday night and had
popcorn. The sensible side of me told me I didn't need movie popcorn
two nights in a row. I also knew enough to have dinner beforehand
and not to go to the theater hungry! I was thinking I wanted
something sweet so I convinced myself it was one or the other:
popcorn or frozen yogurt. Frozen yogurt was less PPVs so I hit up
USwirl on my way to the movie. I had the No Sugar Added Praline
Pecan with fresh fruit. It was just what I was craving.
Once
I got home from the movie I did some cleaning and watched some TV. I
knew I would need something to eat before I headed to bed. I chopped
and re-heated the last of my turkey sausages from our breakfast on
Monday at LePeep (take-home leftovers), chopped up a bell pepper, and
scrambled one egg and one egg white. Even though I had fruit twice
already I added a chopped up apple on the side.
I
was feeling snacky so I popped some popcorn in the popper with some
olive oil. I had this size bowl x2.
This
is a pretty accurate day of meals for a day off work. I have more
flexibility when I am not at work for preparing my meals. However,
sometimes it can turn into an odd bit of this and that. I could have
used more veggies in my day.
