Ready
Posted: February 7, 2011 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: apples, avocado, cinnamon toast, clif bar, green beans, I'm pregnant, mac and cheese, orange, sprouted grain tortilla 29 Comments »I can’t fathom my belly stretching any more than it is already stretched. And I have twelve weeks left of pregnancy…that’s three months of growing that Baby Cakes has left. Lordy, Lordy.
My stomach can handle about ten bites of food at a time – it’s being squished by a baby. So instead of my meals today – here is what I grazed on all day long.
First Breakfast
Cinnamon toast (made with millet bread and stevia) + an orange – which had far too many seeds for it to be enjoyable.
Second Breakfast
One of Jessica’s 5 ingredient granola bars…so easy, and so delicious.
Meals three, four, and five
Apples, cliff bar, celery, carrots, grapes, sprouted grain tortilla, avocado
I love these tortillas – especially with an avocado squished onto one and sprinkled with garlic salt.
Dinner
Mama Pea’s vegan mac and cheese + roasted green beans
This was so dang good. So good that during the eight bites I managed to stuff into my tiny stomach, I forgot about my throbbing feet. I forgot about the fact that I can no longer touch my toes. And I almost forgot about the ten inches of snow we’re supposed to get tonight.
In the 3rd grade world…
We have CSAP testing tomorrow. That’s our state’s standardized testing – required for all kiddos 3rd – 11th grade. (And it’s far more nerve wracking for teachers than it is for students – at least at my school.)
Being my 3rd graders’ first experience with standardized testing, I asked them how they were feeling about it today. I got a myriad of responses.
Some thought they might puke when the test landed on their desk.
Some wanted to perform well so that I didn’t get fired for being a ‘bad teacher’.
Some thought it would be really fun because they wouldn’t have ‘regular schoolwork’.
But my favorite response…
I’m so ready to show Colorado how my brain works!
50 Nifty
Posted: October 14, 2010 Filed under: Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, bean sprout, cucumber, red pepper, spicy mustard, veggie sandwich 23 Comments »
I’m on a veggie sandwich kick! This one had avocado, cucumber, red peppers, spinach, bean sprouts, and spicy mustard on toasted wheat bread.
In the 3rd grade world…
I’m teaching this song to my kiddos, and I’ve had it stuck in my head for 3 weeks straight. I thought I would share the 50 nifty joy with you all!
A guy in a class
Posted: October 13, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, baked potato, broccoli, cole slaw, fruit, panini press, pumpkin muffins, spinach, tattle turtle, wheat thins 20 Comments »I’m freeeezing and I want to go get in a hot bath – so I’ll make this quick!
Breakfast
Banana, apples, mixed berries, flax seed
Then I walked to work (in the dark..ugh) and was hungry again when I got there – so I warmed up with some tea and two baby muffins.
Sarah’s pumpkin muffins – so stinkin’ yummy.
Lunch
Baked potato, chives, bacon bits, broccoli salad, green salad – we had one of our monthly staff luncheons provided by the parents. Always a mid-week treat.
Snack
From my swag bag – so much better than I was expecting! Plus I ate an apple.
Dinner
Spinach with cole slaw on top (Kalen, thanks for the cole slaw!)
Avocado sandwich – 2 slices of bread + avocado + salt + a panini press
In the 3rd grade world…
My tattle turtle was literally overflowing today. Here is one little tattle nugget that made me smile.
A guy in a class threw a pencil.
Now, we’ve been in school for almost 11 weeks – I’m pretty sure you can be more specific than “a guy” in “a class” – especially if you want me take action against the offender.
Dryer Lint
Posted: September 4, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast | Tags: almond milk, avocado, chia seeds, crunchy flax cereal, dryer lint smoothie, frozen blueberries 16 Comments »Last night after dinner, I wanted something cool and sweet, so I made Heather’s Dryer Lint Smoothie. Oh my goodness, so delicious. In fact, I woke up this morning with only one thing on my mind…another one.
Topped with crunchy flax cereal.
In this bowl:
- 2 tbs. chia seeds soaked in 1 cup of water for 15 minutes
- ¼ cup vanilla almond milk
- 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
- 1 scoop sun warrior protein powder
- ¼ large avocado
- 3 ice cubes
Blended until smooth.
This is going to become a favorite breakfast, I can feel taste it.
I hope you all have fun Saturday’s ahead of you! Go Buffs!
Ocho Nueve
Posted: August 30, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: almond milk, avocado, BBQ, fruit cereal, garlic, hummus, pesto, rice, sweet potato 31 Comments »Hey pals! How was your Monday? Mine was just about as good as smooth as you could hope for. My kids were CHATTY, but otherwise, not too bad. I started with a walk with Punky, and some push-ups and sit-ups. An easy way to ease into this week.
Then breakfast.
Fruit cereal with a little extra crunch
My first time trying these little nuggets – I liked them!
1 peach, 1 banana, pecans, the above cereal and my favorite almond milk
Mmm, the bowl was so dang good. I felt like I was eating cold pie for breakfast – insanely delicious.
I also wanted to share with you guys the latest addition to my classroom…
I was so tired of being starving all day long – that I made myself a snack drawer. Dried fruit, nuts, bars, and tea. It worked perfectly. When I started getting that gnawing in-between-meal-hunger (which is usually at 10:30 and then again at 4pm) – I just reached into my snack drawer and had a little handful of food. It worked like a dream – I didn’t feel famished all day. I’m kind of sad it took me so long to think of it.
For my real lunch
Sweet potato with hummus +bbq sauce+ avocado
Sweet potatoes for lunch are perfect – they fill me up so well, but don’t ever make me too full.
On the way home, I stopped at the grocery store to pick up some basil for my dinner.
Garlicky Pesto Rice
I combined these ingredients:
- Fresh green beans (cut into 1 inch pieces)
- Canned cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
- 3.5 cups water
- 1 tbs. Roasted Garlic Seasoning
- 1 cup brown rice
And simmered until the rice was tender. Then I made a basil pesto with:
- 1 cup walnuts
- ¼ cup evoo
- 1 cup packed basil
- Salt
into the food processor. Then combined the two! It was so easy – and it made the creamiest, most flavorful rice. But warning: it was really rich. I couldn’t finish my bowl, but it was darn good.
In the 3rd grade world…
My kiddos had Spanish today – which the teacher comes to our classrooms for. Thus, I get to hear oodles of silly songs in español, and get to listen to them butchering and stumbling through all sorts of Spanish words/phrases. It’s really cute.
Today, when the Spanish teacher was leaving, she told the class: Hasta Luego! (which means “until later” or “see you later”) and one little boy in my class proudly waved his hand and shouted:
Ocho Nueve!! (which means “Eight Nine”) – it was precious.
Moovin’ and groovin’
Posted: July 8, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, millet bread, roasted broccoli, salad, smoothie, spring rolls 32 Comments »Hello Friends! My day was full of movement and I loved it. I started out this morning with a 6am spin class, followed by a nice long walk with Punky. As you can imagine, I was famished afterwards…
A freckled smoothie – ½ banana, 1 peach, ½ cup vanilla soy milk, ½ cup water, ice, 1 scoop protein powder
And then after my shower, I had breakfast part 2.
Coffee and a millet bread + avocado sandwich
After this, I was on the move again! As I mentioned on Tuesday, my co-worker Steve hurt his back, and is having trouble lifting his little boy. So I went over to his house to help out during the day while his wife was at work.
Dark hair and bright blue eyes – this kid hid the gene pool jackpot.
He is too adorable for words.
I came home for lunch and threw together the most delicious salad for lunch.
Zucchini, carrots, edamame, celery, avocado and hum-cue-vay (hummus + bbq sauce + soy vay teriyaki)
And…
after some dark chocolate fuel, I went back to Steve’s house to help out with the little nugget after lunch, and then home again for a snack.
Raw zucchini + carrots + cilantro spring rolls – dipped in peanut sauce (peanut butter + soy sauce + water)
Meeker has to work late tonight, and I didn’t want to eat dinner (or just sit around) without him, so after my snack I took Punky to the dog park for about an hour. The weather was a little cool, but the sky was blue, everything was fresh and gorgeous from all the rain we have been getting, and I got a chance to chat with my grandma on the phone. I was in heaven, and so was the Punkster.
Now I’ve got some broccoli roasting in the oven, and some burgers ready to go on the grill –I’m just waiting for the hub to get home from work…hurry Meek!!
What’s your favorite snack? I always draw a blank when it comes to snacktime – sometimes it takes me 30 minutes just to DECIDE on something to eat. Suggestions, please!
Rollin’
Posted: June 22, 2010 Filed under: Delish Dinners | Tags: avocado, basil, carrots, spring rolls, zucchini 34 Comments »After spending the morning at the gym, and the afternoon at the pool, I came home to make spring rolls for dinner!
The first go-around with the rice paper was a major fail. The directions said to soak the rice paper wrappers TOGETHER to in boiling water for 15 minutes. Overkill. I checked on the soaking papers after about 5 minutes and they had already turned into a bowl of mush. So, I threw those out, and decided to soak the next batch individually in warm water. After about 30 seconds – they were the perfect texture to work with…
Zucchini, carrots, avocado, and basil
Rollin’…
Done!
Not perfect, but they stayed together, and they were scrumptious!
Served with a peanut dipping sauce:
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 tbs. soy sauce
- Juice of one lime
- A few splashes of water
Make these! The whole process only took about 20 minutes (and that includes the silly rice paper catastrophe). So summery and yummery. Yes, yummery.
Ever had a cooking disaster? Do tell…
Leftover Salad Central
Posted: June 16, 2010 Filed under: leftover lunches, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, leftovers, salad, salsa, trail mix 25 Comments »Wow…that spin class this morning was ridiculous! There were only six people in the class, and everybody was huffing, puffing, and dripping sweat for the entire 60 minutes. I loved it, and I love that it left me with a monster appetite for the rest of the day.
Before I left, I had a homemade energy bar.
When I came home, I had leftover falafel salad.
Lettuce, corn, carrots, celery, falafel, mustard + red wine vinegar dressing
I was still hungry after this beast, so I mixed up some trail mix. Love.
Walnuts, carob chips, almonds, dried cranberries
Throughout the afternoon I had milk, watermelon, about a gallon of water and some more almonds. Like I said, spinning left me with a monster appetite. When Meeker got home, I made him a broccoli + spinach + mushroom quiche…he devoured the the.whole.thing.
Crust made out of crunched cheerios and almond meal + sautéed onions, spinach, broccoli, and mushrooms
3 eggs + ¼ cup cottage cheese poured over and then baked for 10 minutes at 425* – I can’t attest to its success because I didn’t have any, but like I said, Meeker ate it all – which means it was probably edible. No guarantees, though. That boy will eat whatever I set in front of him.
For my din din, I wanted another salad. It was too hot for anything else…plus you all got me thinking with your taco salad toppings from last night.
Spinach, ground turkey, tortilla chips, avocado, kidney beans, salsa
And I finished off the night with a few bites of this….
This stuff has the best texture…it’s kind of chewy, which sounds weird, but is really heavenly.
Whee! Tomorrow is the best day of the week, and I’m off to watch So You Think You Can Dance. I definitely don’t think I can dance, but I like watching that show and pretending.
Leprechauns
Posted: March 17, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, cauliflower, chia seeds, hummus, peanut butter, salad, soup, yogurt 33 Comments »Hello Friends! Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I had a blast with my day (I’ll elaborate later) and I hope you all did as well. I started my day off with pilates and yogurt.
- Yogurt
- Walnuts
- Chia seeds
- Coconut granola
- Peanut butter
Yum city.
I had a bar mid-morning, and then ran home for a salad at lunchtime
Lettuce, avocado, steamed cauliflower, hummus
I also had a string cheese in the car on the way back to school. Dinner was another Rachel Ray creation, Sausage and Broccoli Rabe Stoup. But instead of the broccoli rabe, I used regular old broccoli.
I had this mug x2 and it was delicious! I can’t even remember the last time I ate meat, and this tasted especially good tonight.
In the 3rd grade world…
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (and those mischievous little leprechauns!), I played a trick on my kiddos today. When they went to PE this afternoon, I TRASHED the classroom: knocked over desks, TPed everything in sight, hung green streamers from the ceiling, threw pencils on the ground, scrawled “leprechaun notes” on the board, etc. When the kid’s returned from PE, I told them the leprechauns did it – and if they cleaned it up, they would get a little cookie and an extra recess.
To say they were thrilled would be an understatement. Teachers down the hall heard the screams and stopped by to make sure everything was okay. It was so uplifting to share in their excitement. I couldn’t stop smiling for the rest of the day; their enthusiasm was contagious.
One Hour Delay
Posted: December 9, 2009 Filed under: Breakfast, dessert, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: avocado, baked tofu, banana, cinnamon tea, hummus, spinach, sun butter, sweet potato 18 Comments »I woke up and it was twenty-two degrees BELOW zero. Insanity. I’m moving to Arizona.
Because of the chilly weather – we had a one hour school delay, which means nothing for teachers because we have to be there on time anyway – but I did get an extra hour of plan time chatting with other teachers.
Before all that, I did about 40 minutes with Dave Farmar and then ate something weird (at least for me) – I claim to not like bananas, but have been loving them lately, especially with sun butter.
And when I got to work – I found chocolate chip banana bread in the lounge (thanks Kalen!)
It was heaven eaten along with my Wednesday coffee…
Thank you, thank you, thank you Tona…you are so kind.
Lunch was thebesthingever.
A sweet potato (cooked last night) with hummus and avocado on top. Oh my word – deliciousness.
At my after school job
(I just sit in the office and answer the phones) – I ate the most crispy, delicious apple of all time.
I set the real apple on top of a picture of an apple…so clever!
Upon returning home, I baked tofu and cooked some spinach.
The whole wonderful mess was doused in the best bbq sauce of all time
Dessert was two unbelievably good cookies…
And something I have been drinking a ton of lately…
Cinnamon tea with vanilla soy milk.
Keep your fingers crossed for outdoor recess tomorrow!
