Hodge Podge
Posted: November 22, 2009 Filed under: Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, dates, peanut butter, roasted veggies, savory oats, sweet potato, vitatop 21 Comments »Can you believe another weekend has come and gone?!
It went quickly, and I didn’t take pictures of all my meals, but here are some highlights…
Saturday morning – savory oats. One egg, ½ sweet potato and ½ avocado – dotted with siracha. I told Meeker this was my tribute to his Irish heritage. The colors of the flag…in the wrong order.
More fruit cereal: 1 pear, 1 kiwi, pomegranate arils and a spoonful of granola – all with almond milk.
A spoonful of crunchy peanut butter and a date. The best combo ever.
A fudgy Vitatop with peanut butter – this was breakfast numero uno today. Plus some frothy café –
To achieve the froth – I put ¼ cup of almond milk (with cinnamon and allspice) into a glass jar, and shook it until my arm was tired (that’s not very long: 20 seconds max) – and then microwaved it for 20 seconds and poured it into the black coffee. It was almost like a latte! I drank it en route to church this morning – where I worked in the nursery playing with babies. They make me feel so maternal and squishy inside.
Afterwards, my in-laws took us to my desayuno segundo at Village Inn…
Multigrain pancakes with strawberries and pecan pieces. I ate about ½ this plate.
Around 3pm, I was craving veggies – so I went all out.
Here is the tray pre-roasting. Carrots, zucchini, asparagus and mushrooms. Drizzled in evoo and sprinkled with salt and garlic powder. The best meal.
I topped my half with 1 piece of chicken and a spicy mustard/balsamic vinegar mix. All pictures of the final product were blurry and ugly – so just use your imaginations on this one. Thank you.
I actually felt more hungry after this meal (my hunger is unbelievable sometimes), so I had a sandwich – of sorts.
Two slices of ww bread, one with PB and chocolate chips, the other with pumpkin butter. A delicious end to a speedy weekend.
Good news: tomorrow is essentially a Thursday because I only have a two-day-week coming up! And one of those days includes an in-classroom Thanksgiving feast – Lord help me! Aaaand then it’s THANKSGIVING! My very favorite holiday of the year! The countdown is on…
What is your favorite holiday?
Oh my gosh – what does a third grade Thanksgiving feast look like? That sounds like chaos. Fortunately we are not allowed to “share food” at my school so I don’t have to do anything crazy!
Haha, it WILL be chaos. I will try to get some pictures that I can share on the blog (without students faces). Not sharing ANY food sounds like a BIG hassle! My kids are CONSTANTLY swapping snacks and trading lunches.
I love Thanksgiving as well! And two day weeks!
That tip for making a froth is a great idea. I’m going to be trying that out soon!
those savory oats look ridiculous. i am pondering if i have enough ingredients to make something as delicious tomorrow morning. yay for short weeks – i am SO excited!
i think my fave holiday is christmas – i just love the ritual, cheer and fun. my birthday being then doesn’t hurt either
i love huge roasting pans filled with veggies of all shapes and sizes. i seriously think those are the best meals! glad you had a great weekend girl! i have a super short week too! sooo happy about that!
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Never roasted cucumber…interessante! Does that work well for a watery vegetable?
Christmas or Halloween – I only like things with theme colors!! Yay for a 2day week!
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I love Halloween, but Thanksgiving is in second place! Your savory oats look so good! I almost want to take the plunge!
Katie – you should try putting roasted peanuts into the dates…YUM!
That would be THE BEST! I can’t even wait to try it…
Love the irish pride featured in this post! I love christmas and I can’t wait to start getting into the festive spirit!
Hey! I just found your blog.. i love it! you are adorable. and i love the way that you eat! i cant wait to read more
Thanksgiving is also my favorite holiday- mainly because we tend to do less for Christmas, and we get to see my favorite extended family, that I don’t get to see any other time. So much fun! and PIEEE.
Loving your eats, I have yet to try savory oats, I’m thinking this Friday. I’m PLANNING AHEAD.
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Dates and pb are the best snack ever, so addicting.
I love the avocado addition to your oats, yum!
Where is my lovely avocado? It’s been too long.
My fav holiday is Christmas because it’s like a month long with all the festivities. Such a warm, happy time of year.
im buying dates today-DONE AND DONE!! omg I need to try this date/PB combo and also want to try to make my own lara bars!!! thank you for reminidng mehow much I need them in my life
looove thanksgiving toO!!!
That sandwich at the end looks positively divine! I need one.
I’ll have to try your way of making froth!
I am totally loving your eats over the past few days. I especially like your date and peanut butter, I haven’t tried that yet and am wondering why!?! I think my favorite holiday is Christmas, it’s just so awesome in every way but Thanksgiving definitely holds a top spot because after all what kind of a foodie would I be if I didn’t love Turkey Day!
Loving those pancakes missy! I had some chocolate chip ones tis weekend. I understand the tummy shock too- I’m basically a bottomless pit most days.
Turkey Day is most definitely my fav holiday too! Food and fam? What could be betteR? Hope you’re having a wonderful Monday!
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things that i loved from my catchup sesh:
FUDGE BABIES! i want twelve (thousand) of them.
fruit cereal with POM arils. smart!
savory oats with avocado.. um, yum.
vita shipment!
tomorrow being thursday! my friends and call it “tuersday”
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