Heart Thrive

Last night Isaac and I planned to cook dinner together. I went straight to the gym after work and when I arrived home he had done much of the chopping and had even started the process of cooking a “surprise.” The surprise ended up being roasted butternut squash, unpeeled, cut in quarters, and coated with a bit of olive oil. Twas a grand surprise as I love all things butternut squash. Especially fries.

After the squash had cooked a good 40-50 minutes at 400° and the stir-fry was complete we sat down to our lovely meal and an episode of 2.5 Men. As we were eating Isaac asked if it was okay to eat the peel. I said it probably was okay, but that I wasn’t going to eat it as it was too tough. He tried it, liked it, and then made me try it. I tried and I liked it as well. So there you have it, butternut squash peel, once roasted is tender, quite delicious, and very much edible.

If you haven’t tried roasting a butternut and eating the skin I highly recommend it. It makes preparing butternut squash a tiny bit more appealing than they are already because there’s not a ton of peeling and chopping involved. Anyone who’s made butternut squash fries knows what I’m talking about… those babies are a piece of work to chop.

Moving right along to today- I’m feeling a little disconnected. I spent the entire day at a conference for work and missed over 40 emails on my gmail account and 20 emails for work. It’s crazy what happens when you are away from the computer for a day.

I didn’t know what was going to be scheduled for lunch at the trade show so I packed my own.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, banana, green grapes and a Raisin Spice Heart Thrive( for a snack). The show was really slow and it seemed like the day revolved around when the next food break was going to be. Typically the trade shows have a lot of food but most of the time it’s not very healthy fare. However, today’s options weren’t too bad because they offered fruit at breakfast and for a mid-afternoon snack, plus they had a veggie tray with curry dip at the evening reception. I ate quite a bit and mostly because I was bored. But at least, they had plenty of fruit and veggies. For lunch I went and checked out the options but decided I would rather have my packed lunch over the pasta they were serving.

After standing all day I decided the last thing I wanted to do was go to the gym. So now I am home and getting ready to watch a movie with Isaac….

Hope everyone had a marvelous hump day!

- Brittany

P.S. It’s been brought to my attention that gargling salt water doesn’t protect against the flu- sorry for that misinformation. You can never trust a chain email.

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