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Finally

by Eating Bird Food on July 1, 2010

I had plans tonight! No, not going to the gym or cooking dinner or baking cookies – actual plans, with real people. Of course I’ve been enjoying my time with Olive and the escape artists but having a dinner date with friends was much needed.

We went to Ipanema Cafe – one of the best vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Richmond.

Their chalkboard menu changes regularly, but the tofu sandwich is pretty much always there and calls my name every time. It was calling tonight but I decided to ignore it and go with something wild and crazy, and what’s more wild than a black bean burrito?

The burrito had beans, rice, plus grilled veggies – and as you see, it was quite massive! I was hungry and everything was delicious so I ended up polishing off the whole shabang including the side salad. Normally side salads aren’t that great at restaurants but Ipanema has a carrot dressing that’s pretty amazing… enough said.

So before developing a burrito food baby at dinner I worked today, had breakfast and lunch, went to the gym, consumed 1/2 of a cantaloupe, and baked gluten free cookies.

For breakfast I had the best overnight oats with a side of cantaloupe from our CSA.

Per the usual I woke up starving so 1/2 the overnight oats were eaten before the gym and 1/2 were eaten as a recovery snack after my HIIT workout.

And for lunch I had the biggest salad ever:

CSA spring mix
frozen peas (love the added sweetness of peas in a salad)
tomatoes
1 hard boiled egg white
Kaia Foods Sprouted Sunflower Seeds (YUM!)
onion
Annie’s Goddess Dressing

And, more cantaloupe.

Just to put things into perspective – the salad bowl was huge!

Last but not least, before dinner I came home and baked a little treat to take the ladies I was meeting up with. I knew one of them was gluten free so I decided to try my hand at some gluten free cookie making with Tropical Source dairy and gluten free chocolate chips and Pamela’s Baking & Pancake Mix.

I followed the recipe for Pamela’s Chocolate Chip Cookies on the side panel of the bag, which is also online.

Just in time for Cookie Friday!

I subbed coconut oil for the butter and left out the walnuts, but otherwise followed the recipe and the cookies came out looking lovely. I didn’t get a chance to try them yet, but hopefully they are good because I gave a few to my friends at dinner and I hope to share the rest with a some other familiar faces.

Alright, Olives cuddled up in a little ball beside me and the beds calling my name. Gotta get some rest for the holiday weekend that’s about to start tomorrow.

Goodnight friends!

-Brittany

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Salad overload

by eatingbirdfood on May 14, 2009

I’m trying really hard to do all the right things for my knee to heal quickly and properly – moist heat, ibuprofen, elevation, REST= skipping the gym. The last part is so hard for me. I miss my normal routine and the energy I GET from working out. In turn I’ve found that it’s making me a tad bit cranky… sorry Mr. Isaac. Oh well… since I’m not doing my usual cardio or even walking to work as usual, I’m WORKING hard,to keep my eats “clean.”

Yesterday started out fine: oatmeal, oatbran combo, 1/2 of a banana in the mix and some trying to be Better N’ PB on top.

Mid morning I broke out some cubes of perfectly sweet cantaloupe. I am loving this melon right now.

Lunch at home, salad with fresh lettuce, brocc, shrooms, lots of garbanzo beans, and I used salsa as the dressing.

On the side I had a small heart, I mean sweet potato. Maybe it’s because I’m a v-day baby, but I love hearts so this little potato made my day.

It got a little over done in the microwave, but was still edible. And, I ended lunch on a sweet note with a few raisins.

After work I headed to Isaac’s school for an “art gallery” and “dinner” The art gallery was actually self portraits painted by his 1st-5th graders framed and on display for their parents to purchase. The dinner turned out to catered appetizers- I didn’t get any pictures but the highlight was definitely fruit kabobs dusted in coconut and cinnamon on coconut milk soaked skewers (awesome.. right?) Well the fruit was as lovely as it sounds, but wasn’t quite cutting it as my dinner so I also had crab dip, pesto encrusted cheese on crackers, spinach filled puff pastries, and about 10 pretzels- some were dipped in yogurt, others in chocolate. Overall, it wasn’t clean eating or what I really wanted to be eating but it’s what was there…

I jumped back on the wagon this morning with plain oatmeal with 1/2 of a banana cooked in. I haven’t had plain oatmeal since I was introduced to oat bran- I’ve been doing the combo thing, but I enjoyed the chewiness of the oats all alone this morning. Lunch ended up being an egg white with pepper and hot sauce AND a big salad with salsa as the dressing. I don’t think I’d tried salsa on salad until this week, but I am totally loving it!

I knew I wanted butternut squash fries for dinner, but didn’t know what to have with them. So I had a salad (what else is new?) I did throw in some different ingredients- feta cheese and TJ’s sweet poppy seed dressing.

Salad and garbanzo bean overload these past couple days…. but I’m not complaining.

And just when things start to get boring around here, I have some exciting stuff coming up soon….. so get ready.

Plus, it’s almost FRIDAY. HOORAY! It’s going to be a busy one for me. Work all day then off to my niece’s dance recital which is a 2 hour drive away… whew. I’ll probably be back with a post on Saturday. Until then…..

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The new Crisper

May 13, 2009

Tuesday’s eats were v. similar to that of Monday’s. I started with the banana oats, although this time I spruced them up with a little ground flax. The variety of flaxseed I have currently is from Trader Joe’s. (Golden Roasted Flaxseeds). I don’t love the flavor/smell of the roasted seeds so I think next time [...]