Mrs. Baby
Posted: April 28, 2011 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: apple, cake, insomnia, juice, mango, oatmeal, roasted veggies, veggie wraps 24 Comments »Sleeeepy.
I woke up at 1:39am and couldn’t go back to sleep. I read part of this book. I cleaned the house. I played with the cat. I went to the gym.
After I got home, I managed to fall back asleep around 4:30, and slept like a rock until about 6:00.
Whereupon I drank some juice…
ate ½ of this bowl of oatmeal (it lost its appeal midway through)
and finished it all off with a few bites of cake.
Lunch
Two veggie wraps: spinach, cucumber, bean sprouts, spicy mustard
mangoes are hard to slice with a butter knife
Obligatory gala x2
Dinner
The roasted veg.
Zucchini and carrots were eaten plain. Sweet potatoes were dipped in spicy bbq sauce.
In the 3rd grade world…
I get called a lot of things throughout the day:
Mrs. Unger, Mom, Dad, Grandma, Mr. Mendez (the other 3rd grade teacher’s name).
I respond to them all.
But there was a new one today that made me laugh. A little girl walked up to me today, gave me a hug, and addressed me as Mrs. Baby…
Apparently, my kiddos are as preoccupied with Baby Cake’s approaching arrival as I am. Maybe it’s because my bulging belly squished her in the face when she attempted to wrap her arms around me for a hug.
8 months
Posted: March 3, 2011 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: 8 months pregnant, belt, falafel, juice, protein, roasted veggies, toilet 24 Comments »Brownieees!!! I’m so excited to jump in on operation BTB (better-than-boxed). Thank you so much for all the recipes – I don’t even know where to start, but I know I’m thrilled about it.
I also know that I’ll probably spend our entire grocery budget on chocolate, eggs, and oil this week.
But, no better way to celebrate being 8 months (32 weeks) pregnant than with a massive brownie bake.
(I had just finished crying my eyes out when this picture was taken…a parent yelled at me today over a silly misunderstanding. I don’t like being yelled at.)
To fuel this bulging belly, here are some things I ate today.
Juiced into….
Sprouted grain tortilla with mixed nut butter and raisins
Roasted carrots, potatoes, and asparagus – this was actually dinner last night, but I had leftovers for lunch today.
Mama Pea’s Protein Packed Falafel with Vegan Tzatziki – really delicious. Meeker was shocked when I revealed that it was vegan.
In the 3rd grade world…
During CSAP testing, we have to take ‘group bathroom breaks’ so that the kiddos stay quiet and don’t disturb other testing classes.
While we were lined up outside the restroom this morning, I heard a shriek come from the boys’ bathroom. I sent my co-teacher (male) in to see what was going on, and it turns out, a boy in my class had dropped his belt in the toilet.
Yup, he took the whole belt off to use the restroom and it ended up in the toilet.
Don’t ask me how/why it happened.
Appetite!
Posted: February 28, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: burrito bowl, CSAP, green monster, kabocha, leftovers, roasted veggies, singing 15 Comments »Happy Monday! Hope yours’ all went quickly…mine whizzed by, which is always fantastic.
Breakfast
1 cup coconut milk, 2 handfuls spinach, 1 scoop protein powder, 2 cups ice, ½ cup water, 1 banana
Mmm, lick.
Lunch
Leftover orzo/veggies on top of a bed of spinach
Dinner
I received a sample of Rice Select products to review this weekend, and decided to start with this guy tonight…
I cooked a cup, and then turned it into a veggie burrito bowl.
Brown Texmati Rice, black beans, roasted carrots, zucchini, and kabocha squash, guacamole, and salsa
So dang delicious. Loved the rice. Loved the veggies. Loved having an appetite at dinnertime.
In the 3rd grade world…
We are gearing up to start the second round of standardized testing (CSAPs) at our school. It will last 3 weeks, and it’s a big push for everyone in the building. We try to get the kiddos jazzed about the tests (a difficult task), so last year the teachers wrote and recorded this song and sang it to the students at an assembly.
The loved it. Hope you do too.
Sleeping and Eating
Posted: January 15, 2011 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners | Tags: eating, eggs, fruit, pancakes, parents house, roasted veggies, sleeping 29 Comments »I just got back from my parents house, where I did nothing but sleep and eat for the last twenty-four hours.
Growing little Baby Cakes is taking a lot of energy, and week particularly drained me. So my parents’ house was the perfect place to relax and be waited on hand and foot. I got there around 7pm last night, and my Daddy had cooked up a spectacular dinner.
Roasted veggies on top of rice with fruit salad on the side
I slept for a good 10 hours, and then dragged myself out of bed to eat more (I feel a little like a hibernating bear). While I was waking-up/sitting on the couch chatting with my mom – my dad brought us a little grapefruit appetizer to start with.
Then he came out with the full breakfast about twenty minutes later…
Blackberry pancakes and scrambled eggies.
I think I might have to make this a regular weekend getaway.
Juice and Leftovers
Posted: December 28, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners | Tags: juice, juicer, mashed potatoes, roasted veggies 21 Comments »One of my Christmas gifts this year was a juicer! Something I have wanted since I became a fruitarian have been pregnant. I crave juice all the time, so it is wonderful to be able to make it myself.
This morning’s mix was one pear, one apple, and a couple of handfuls of carrots and broccoli florets. It was delicious – I can’t wait to experiment with it! Anyone have any good juice combos?? I really want to try some things with leafy green goodness.
We spent the day shopping/making gift exchanges, and when Meeker had to go back to work, I came home and had some Christmas leftovers for dinner.
Mashed potatoes, roasted veggies, and gravy
And now I need to run to the grocery store to restock our fruit supply…really I just want another 5 lb bag of grapefruit.
Best Lunch
Posted: September 9, 2010 Filed under: leftover lunches | Tags: apple, roasted veggies, sweet potato 24 Comments »Let me introduce you to the best sack lunch I’ve ever had.
Mondo roasted sweet potato with roasted veggies leftover from last night.
There was a little bit of hummus left on the veggies – just enough for some taste. I mmmmmed and ahhhhed my way through the whole bowl.
Then, as if this wasn’t perfect enough, my ex-chinese student from last year (remember her??) brought me a freshly picked apple.
Ohmygosh it was sour and crunchy and PERFECT. Exactly how I like them. It doesn’t get better than roasted veggie and a sour apple.
In the 3rd grade world…
I have a student who doesn’t want to move to Texas because it’s “hot and human”
So, I’ll ask you guys the same thing I asked my kiddos today:
If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why?
(Also, thanks for your well wishes with my raining room yesterday, all was fixed by 7:30 this morning!)
I say ‘no’ to oats.
Posted: September 8, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: chicken, hummus, KIND bar, oats, peanut butter, rice noodles, roasted veggies 38 Comments »The problem with oats…
Is that they make me hungrier then I was before I ate them. I know I’ve been through this before – but every few months, I try them again – and without fail, I finish the bowl feeling famished. This bowl should have done the trick: banana, sweet potato, ½ cup oats, almond milk, flax cereal, peanut butter, chocolate peanut butter.
But even when the bowl tips the scales at over 400 calories, like this one did, I’m left with a growling tummy. I was furious with my breakfast (even thought it was tasty) and had to eat a bowl of cereal before leaving so that I didn’t keel over from starvation on my walk to work. Stupid oats.
Lunch was light, but held me over nicely. Better than the oats.
Rice noodles in broth with pieces of chicken – all leftovers from last night.
Plus another pink lady in a sweater. (I still can’t get over how awesome that sweater is)
After the kiddos left for the day, I had my favorite bar for snack.
These are so stinkin’ good. (Especially propped up on my Dr. Seuss mug)
For dinner, I had a big fat bowl of roasted veggies with hummus.
Cauliflower, eggplant, zucchini, red onion, broccoli, carrots, green beans – tossed in evoo and garlic, then roasted at 425* for 45 minutes. Perfection.
In the 3rd grade world…
A water pipe in the ceiling of my classroom broke today.
Spewing water through the ceiling (and the lights!!) all over the floor and the kid’s desks. Thank the Lord that the students were not in the room (…can you imagine?!) I left school around 5:15 and the plumber still hadn’t showed up. I’m just hoping my classroom is back in working order tomorrow at 7am!
Hooked
Posted: September 1, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, leftover lunches | Tags: banana, celery, garlic rice, hummus, nutritional yeast, peanut butter, roasted potatoes, roasted veggies, sticky notes 17 Comments »I’m hooked on bananas. I used to despise them, but something changed, and now they’re my favorite quick breakfast.
Banana split. On the left, Dark Chocolate Dreams PB. On the right: creamy peanut butter with chunks of raw carrot cake.
Sandwiched and eaten on my walk to school.
For lunch, I had more favorites. I’m 100% hooked on roasted potatoes AND my garlicky pesto rice.
A cup of each. Plus an old time favorite that I’ve been hooked on since I was a kiddo.
I drizzled the pb and ate the mess with a fork.
(On my walk home from school, I saw the high school cross country team running through the park. It made me want to run alongside them! I’m totally hooked on running, and I miss high school cross country.)
For dinner, an old time favorite that I’ll never tire of: hooked on roasted veggies.
Carrots, yellow squash, zucchini, red onion, broccoli, eggplant, tomatoes, chickpeas, hummus, nutritional yeast, balsamic vinegar
All mixed up and ready to eat! Deeelish.
In the 3rd grade world…
I love organization and everything that goes along with it. Sticky notes included.
I have my kiddos hooked on phonics sticky notes. We take our ‘reading notes’ on them and then stick them to the board as we review. After we stuck them up there, 2 little boys asked: Can we organize them by color??
Uh, yes please. My heart melted, and I gave them both high fives.
Also, thanks for all your encouraging Trunchbull comments. I got a phenomenal night’s sleep last night and felt much more like Ms. Honey today. Smiles all around.
No, I don’t want more snow.
Posted: April 7, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: beets, carrots, chili, ginger, hummus, milk, polenta, roasted veggies, shredded wheat, spinach 44 Comments »I woke up at 4:45am to the sound of snow plows. I felt around for Meeker’s iphone to check our school website for a snow day, but no such luck. I made the best of the situation, pulled myself out of bed and did the 30 day shred. Then I had a yummy mug of juice.
I stuck it in the snow just to prove that it really does snow in April. In the blender went:
- 1 beet
- ½ inch grated ginger
- 1 cup frozen spinach
- ½ cup POM juice
- 2-3 frozen strawberries
Interesting? Yes. Tasty? Yes. Fantastic? No. I think if I had a juicer, or better blender (Vitamix, are you reading this??) it would have been fantastic. There were little beet chunks that kind of turned me off, but the taste was really good. I also had another breakfast a couple of hours later.
Shredded wheat and pumpkin flax granola with rice milk
At lunch, I had chili/polenta leftovers, carrots and hummus, and hot water.
Snacktime.
When I got home, I went for a long, unwinding walk while my dinner roasted.
Purple cabbage, beets, carrots, broccoli, hummus, nutritional yeast
In the 3rd grade world…
Today, a little girl told me I had an enormous butt. Not everything that kids say is cute and endearing.
List
Posted: March 10, 2010 Filed under: Breakfast, Delish Dinners, Mid-Day Yummies | Tags: broccoli slaw, cookies, green monster, leftovers, peanut butter, roasted veggies, tofu, yogurt 33 Comments »I like lists, so here is a list of the fantastic things about my day. No surprise that most of them are food.
1. Green Purple Monster
Banana, blueberries, spinach, protein powder, almond milk, peanut butter, chia seeds, 2 clementines, water
2. Leftovers for lunch
Baked tofu and broccoli slaw
3. Snacks that involve peanut butter and coconut
½ cup plain yogurt, 1 spoonful peanut butter, coconut granola
4. Exercise. I started to take Punky for a walk, but it felt so dang good to be alive and outside that I ended up running sprints on a nearby field in the dark. It felt phenomenal. It was snowy and blowy, which leads me to #5
5. This hat
6. Roasted Veggie Dinner. This one wins as THE favorite. Hands down.
Sweet potatoes, zucchini, red onion, eggplant. Topped with a yogurt/spicy mustard/bbq sauce mix and walnuts and pepitas.
7. Cookies. I haven’t had one yet, but I’m sure it will make the list in about 5 minutes.
I made these cookies last night, but substituted the chocolate chips for chopped up chocolate truffles.
8. Straight from the 3rd grade world…puzzles!
The teamwork with which my kiddos have been working on this puzzle all week makes my heart smile.
