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Stranger Things Have Happened

by eatingbirdfood on July 27, 2009

I think I captured all my eats today, which is rare, because normally I don’t have the time to take a picture of every little thing I eat, plus some stuff just isn’t really blog worthy.

Today’s breakfast = totally blog worthy. Chia Seed Oats.

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Notice the congealedness today? It’s because I actually let them sit for about 10 minutes before digging in. I am usually starving and have no patience to wait.

Work went well for a Monday morning and I walked home for lunch per the usual. I put the left over tzatziki to good use and made little pita triangles with hummus, tomato, red onion, avocado, and the tzatziki.

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These little babies were so easy and so GOOD! The pitas that I used are awesome because they don’t break apart when you stuff them like most other pita breads do. They’re Joseph’s Middle East Bakery Low Carb Pitas. I’ve talked about Joseph before when I tried his lavash bread. Now it looks like the domain for his website has expired. I’m wondering if they are still in business? I surely hope so, because I’ll be quite sad if I can’t find these pitas anymore.

With lunch I also had the rest of the Amy’s Black Bean Soup from yesterday.

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And some fresh cherries (this plate X 2). Gotta love fresh cherries!

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Once back at the office I got right to work and by mid afternoon the trail mix was calling my name. I had one small handful.

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And then another.

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And I may or may not have gone back for a few more pieces. I’ll keep ya guessing!

After eating the mix I wasn’t satisfied and decided to eat the snack I had brought from home – another flavor of Rachel’s Cottage Cheese – Pear Mangosteen this time!

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This one lived up to it’s name. It was wickedly delicious. It probably had something to do with the sweetness, as this one had double the sugar in comparison with the one with red pepper. But, I tend to like fruit with cottage cheese so I’m not surprised I like the Pear Mangosteen better.

This evening I decided to go shopping in lieu of hitting up the gym. It was for good reason. I have a wedding to attend Saturday and I bought this dress over the weekend but I need a new pair of shoes. I found a pair tonight at DSW that I thought would work perfect. Too bad I got home and tried them on with the dress and I wasn’t in love with how they looked together. Oh well, I guess I might have to go shopping again… how very sad. :)

Once home, Olive and I went for a walk while I baked some sweet potato fries.

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With the fries I had a veggie egg with sauteed summer squash, red onion, green pepper, and hot salsa.

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It was a great little dinner. I love love love having breakfast for dinner. It’s been one of my favorite meals since childhood.

Keeping with the breakfast theme I also had a small mug of kashi go lean, a sliced berry and unsweetened almond milk for a snack.

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Totally hit the spot. I’m off to read and try to get to hit the sack early. I was up much of last night due to a huge storm that came through. Every few seconds my entire bedroom was lit up from the lightening. Plus, Isaac had already left for DC so I only had little Olive to snuggle. I’m not usually scared of storms, but trust me this one was on the intense side.

Good night friends!

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Falafel Pitas

by eatingbirdfood on July 26, 2009

Today was your average lazy Sunday. All wasn’t lost though because I did get some school work done, made my way to the gym, and prepared a fab din for Isaac and I.

Lunch was an avocado massaged kale salad with red onion, locally grown tomatoes, green peppers, and cucumbers (love that Isaac’s parents have a garden!!), nutritional yeast, sea salt and ground pepper.

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With a small bowl of Amy’s Black Bean Soup. Not going to lie, I think I might have a small crush on Amy.

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I finished off lunch with an organic white nectarine. I bought this on a whim at the grocery store on Friday and I’m so happy I did. It was delish.

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Plus, the insides matched my nail polish….

After lunch I changed from my pajamas into my workout clothes (told ya it was a lazy sunday). Too bad I ended up just lounging around the house until 4PM. I’m known for doing this on the weekend. I wake up and get dressed in my workout clothes with all intentions of going to the gym right after eating breakfast. Then I get distracted, either by things online (twitter anyone?) or household stuff like cleaning and laundry. It’s basically me wearing my workout gear all day to remind myself to go to the gym… Kind of funny. But actually I love wearing workout gear- it’s comfy and yoga pants make my butt look good. :) If I could, I would totally wear them to work. We have a very causal dress code at my office, but I haven’t tried wearing yoga pants just yet.

Once home from my afternoon sweat sess I went to work making dinner. I took the advice from my readers and made a tzatziki sauce to go with the Falafel Sunshine burgers.

The ingredients included garlic, cucumbers, lemon juice, Fage greek yogurt, and S&P.

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I also added a little feta cheese to the tzatziki for a nice twist.

Falafel Pitas- EBF Style

I cut two pitas in half and put a thin layer of hummus on one side. I added the burger, tomato, red onion, and romaine lettuce and then topped it all with a blob of tzatziki.

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They turned out perfect, maybe not quite as good as the Amsterdam Falafel Shop at 1 am after a night of binge drinking, but still pretty darn tasty and much healthier.

Isaac and sat down to a romantic falafel dinner while watching last week’s episode of Next Food Network Star. Guess I’ll be watching tonight’s episode sometime later this week- I’m always behind on watching my DVRed shows (and I don’t even have that many). I’m not a big TV person and whenever I do actually watch tv I like to multitask. It drives Isaac nuts.

Off to get ready for the work week. Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.

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