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And So the Adventure Begins

by Eating Bird Food on March 18, 2010

After a few days of different breakfasts (smoothies, eggs, etc) I was craving a big bowl of oats this morning after my 6 AM spin class.

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I whipped up my standard oatmeal/oat bran combo and topped it with chia seeds and a spoonful of sunflower butter. I loved having the chia seeds on top because they didn’t suck all the moisture out of the oats like they do when mixed in.

Before getting to today’s lunch I want to share yesterday’s because it featured two new products I recently purchased.

Just s simple spinach wrap with fresh spinach, red onion, yellow bell pepper, and rice shreds drizzled with homemade lemon tahini dressing.

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The Ole Xtreme Wellness Spinach & Herbs Tortilla Wraps were a super find at Target. They’re super soft and only 70 calories each!! I’d buy these again for sure.

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The Galaxy Foods Rice Shreds (Mozzarella Flavor), which I bought it to use in the Polenta Casserole recipe I made a couple days ago, is from Whole Foods. It’s okay, but not overly flavorful. I’m not a huge cheese fan in the first place so fake cheese doesn’t really appeal to me. I’ll be using the rest of this package, but I probably won’t be purchasing it again. I’ll also note that although it’s made from a rice base, it’s not completely suitable for vegans because it has casein.

As for today, I came home and heated up a “new to me” Kashi meal, Veggie Chana Masala.

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This frozen meal was on sale at Kroger a few weeks ago and I couldn’t resist trying it. You all know I love my Indian food! I really enjoyed the combination of chickpeas, red peppers, roasted eggplant, carrots and edamame. The zesty Garam Masala sauce was a little on the spicy side but I like it hot so it was perfect in my book.

Overall, I’ve been quite impressed with Kashi’s Vegan and Vegetarian entrees (hello Kashi Mayan Harvest Bake). They’re great when I’m in a rush – short ingredient lists chocked with lots of healthy veggies, low calories, and minimal prep and clean up time. What’s not to love?

For dinner I stopped by my favorite local market and grabbed a few pieces of tofu, some sprouts, cucumbers and sun dried tomatoes from the salad bar. I brought the goods home and added them to some baby spinach and yellow bell pepper and topped it all off with the lemon tahini dressing.

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All I can say is YUM!!! Seriously, this was so good.

Do you know what else is good? I’m leaving work early tomorrow and traveling with my girl Stephanie to Fit Bloggin 2010, a conference for those that blog about fitness, wellness, good food and a healthy lifestyle!!!

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I can’t wait to meet all the other bloggers and hopefully learn a thing or two.

Are you attending Fit Bloggin? If so, please say hi if you see me. I want to meet as many new people as possible!!

If you’re not attending, no worries. I’ll be blogging about everything that’s going on so just check back here to see what we’re up to.

Happy weekend my friends!

- Brittany

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Optimized

by Eating Bird Food on March 3, 2010

I decreased the size of all the photos for this post in photoshop and saved them for the web. Hopefully this actually does something helpful for load time because it took a good chunk of time. Luckily I didn’t eat a ton today and only had 6 photos to share. :) On that note, if anyone with a Digital SLR has any tips on what they do with their photos before putting them in their posts, I need some advice. Is there a faster method than formatting each photo individually?

Okay, now to the fun stuff… I had the stove top version of yesterday’s breakfast. Have a mentioned how much I love sliced bananas cooked in with the oats?

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And, as it turns out this combo was just as creamy as it’s microwaved counterpart. Take that electromagnetic waves. <– I think I had been slacking on the milk and bananas lately and had forgotten how creamy they make oats.

I walked home for lunch in the damp, cold weather and all I wanted was some warm soup.

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Turns out I had a lone can of Progresso High Fiber Tomato Basil waiting in the back of the cabinet. It was actually quite tasty, probably due to the fact that it has 13g of sugar per serving. I wasn’t too excited when I read that. :/

I also had a few crackers topped with left-over tuna salad.

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And, drum roll please… I didn’t have a lunch dessert. 1 March Madness Challenge goal met for the day! <–Speaking of which, I am super excited that many of you want to join in on the March Madness Challenge. I would love to hear about your goals so leave a comment or shoot me an email and let me know what your plan is!! Also, it’s not too late to join, hop on board the challenge train today!

No sweet snack right after lunch, however I did however pack this guy for later in the afternoon.

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Yum! I’m still loving the chia seeds in these fruition bars.

Isaac picked me up from the office and we hit up the gym a strength training workout – Biceps and Back. We usually both go our separate ways at the gym but it was fun to workout together. It made me workout a bit harder, which is always a good thing, right?

I was starving for dinner – I almost forgot to take a picture! I had the same salad from last night with a bowl of leftover sweet potato lentil chili that had been in the freezer.

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The Morningstar veggie chik’n patties I’ve been having in my salads lately are awesome. The ingredient list is a little long but I must say that I’m totally digging them right now! They’re super quick to heat up and the taste is really good – nothing like actual chicken.

Now ladies and gentlemen (yes- I do have a few male readers!!), I give you the latest and greatest feature of EBF – Fridge Finds Wednesday!

Each Wednesday I’m going to feature something about, in, on, or around my fridge – a new product, a photo that hangs on the front of it, or who knows what. I think it will be fun.

And, who better to start off this feature than Mr. Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan.

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This a postcard (purchased but never sent to anyone) that is hanging on our fridge with a cool homemade bottle cap magnet. And, since he’s made the blog, here’s a nice little tune for you to enjoy – my favorite Bob Dylan song!

Love, hate or never listened to Dylan? I wanna know!!

It’s now 9PM, which means I’m done with this post just in time for the new episode of Modern Family that’s coming on!! So excited.

- Brittany

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Feb Already?

February 1, 2010

I slept in quite late this morning. I think the snow on the ground and 12° weather contributed to the extra half hour in bed. The bad news: the late rising meant no yoga or working out before heading into the office. The good news: I still had time for a delicious bowl of combination [...]

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Snowed In, Yet Again

January 30, 2010

Another weekend, another snow storm. There’s a nice tall blanket of snow on the ground, Isaac’s been sledding, Olive’s having potty issues again, and I’ve been bundled up inside for the majority of the day. When we woke up there was only an inch or two of snow. I mentioned to Isaac that we should [...]

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My Favorite Things

December 8, 2009

Since Oprah’s talk show will be ending in the near future (sad, I know!!) someone will need to fill the My Favorite Things void. I thought I would take it upon myself to do just that by sharing with you my favs from 2009. Sorry I don’t have a big gift bag with all of [...]

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Change of Plans

November 26, 2009

Everything was looking up this morning- I had a 3 hour work day ahead and Isaac’s temperature was down to 98°. It seemed that we would still be able to celebrate Thanksgiving with Isaac family as previously planned since he was feeling better. I had a delicious bowl of oatmeal/oat bran with some of the [...]

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