Tuesday Eats

Tuesday is here and with it another lunch box and run down of the things I am eating today.

Breakfast: whole wheat toast (1)  with 1 teaspoon of peanut butter  (2.5)
Breakfast total 3.5 points
Tuesdays at the office are tricky for staying on target since the company picks up starbucks coffee with an array of pastry for us. The plan have a smallcoffee because I need it today if I plan on staying up until 10 pm for the CVMC general meeting.

The makings of a  healthy lunch box

Lunch today is a dinner repeat really  1/2 cup of pasta (4)  a side of salad greens , no dressing no extras (0), hard boiled egg (2) I also packed a snack of 20 almonds (3 ) and a  1/2 cup of seaweed rice balls from Trader Joe's (2)

Lunch total 11  although  5 of these points count for a snack.
 On the agenda  as far as fitness and activity goes today I am still on the fence. it's raining this am so I am not sure if I am really up for walking in the rain this afternoon. I feel a cold coming on and don't want to make it worse.

Lunch packed up in the box.

I'm Back With A Lunch Box

Howdy! I can not seem to get into  swing of things these days. Theres a lot on my plate and my mind but lets see if I can get back on track with blogging and posting eats and activity  points  something new this year.
numbers in ( ) indicate WW point value

Breakfast: 1 slice  wheat toast (1) , 1 teaspoon  peanut butter (2.5) , one morning star veggie breakfast patty (2), muscle milk smoothie (3)
breakfast total- 8.5 points

Lunch: side salad (0), salame sandwhich (4), hard boiled egg (2) , fig newton cookies ( 2)
Lunch total - 8 points

Plans for dinner ... unless something changes pasta with turkey meat spinach and mushrooms, salad

Activity plans for the day : lunch walk   30 minutes = + 2 points
                                        Flow Yoga class  90 minutes = +5

Pre Holiday Weekend Eats

Last day at the office before a long weekend and holiday fun. Oh how I can not wait to get the heck out of this place and spend time with my little family.  On the menu today:

Trader Joes , peanut butter crunch bar- 3 points
Yoplait lite  blueberry yogurt-3
1/2 cup pasta a la E (E made dinner for me last night thx honey!) 5
Side salad -0
1/4 cup pineapple chunks 2 , I will proably  chop these down further and put them on my salad since I  do not use any dressing and I could use a  new take on side salads these days .

Hope you have a  great day. I have lots of plans for blogging while I am on a break and for the new year.

Keeping Calm

AHHH! This is how I have been feeling the last few weeks. I have been so busy! I hate totally avoiding a bunch of things that were everyday priorities, like blogging! I am going to be checking in from time to time this Christmas week and plan on recommitting to my writings of my many little adventures both little and little free. Ciao and chat soon!

BTW love the print? You can pick up one at my favorite place to shop these days Etsy of course... and don't bash me for shopping so much hand made I am putting money back in the pockets of people who need it.

Market Run Monday

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What $90.25 gets you at the CV Trader Joes

purchased but not seen because of these huge bags of chips

milk - 2 gallson
light egg nog - 1 gr fat littles love it!
hummus, salsa, dip
cheese , string and shredded
tomatos
granola bars
juice
cookies, chocilate chip and candy cane joe joes
pasta noodles- strings and lemon parrapadelle
pasta sauce
lunch meat- salame and italian turkey
bread - cracked wheat sour dough
yogurt -vanana ... vanilla and banana . genius name :)
chips- whjite corn rounds and salt and pepper
ice cream - sublime ice cream sandwhiches and french vanilla -quart
canned OJ
bagged pasta dinner
brown rice
bananas

Not a lot these are the basic s in our house. Still need to head to Costco to do some shopping for:

chicken -whole and parts
ground turkey meat- a staple in my freezer
pork chops for when I want to mix it up

I can not really think of anything else that we need when we get there but you know how it is at Costco you walk in with a plan and walk out with a long list of items  you did not realize you needed. LOL

Heads Up! ALL of my X mas shopping was done on Dec 1. WOO HOO. I finished up with some Cyber Monday super deals. So glad I started shopping in August. I will need to make one fianl trip for a gift for E once I get his wish list.

Tuesday and Wednesday Lunch Boxes

Tuesday Lunch
Slice of turkey and side salad with no dressing
2 pt blueberry mini muffin (tj's)
Cheese stick
Kashi Crackers

The only thing I ate from this lunch on Tuesday was the crackers. (3)  I had too much coffee at the office and was full.


So I saved the energy in making a  new lunch last night and just did a repeat minus the crakcers. I replaced that with a 5 point Larabar Cherry pie. Not the best option but Something I can eat before my massage session this afternoon to give me fuel to get through the work, or palpating muscle and tissue.  I also got a 1 point hot chocolate  from the not so great taco truck that visits my office and an order of toast.

Lunch LAST Week

Monday




Tuesday


A small glimpse of what my lunches looked like last week. I am taking a break from posting about my  daily eating for the week. Since it's Thanksgiving week and I know I am going to be eating way more than  I should come the end of the week I thought I would just keep what else I am eating tight lipped for now.

Sick Day BOO HOO

This pretty much sums up my day. The littles have been fighting some sort of gross bug that has finally landed on me. Today os my first official day of my new schedule of three day weekends and I had high hopes for today and my weekend, however it seems besides going out with my sister for her 30th b day tomorrow I will be grounded. I am hoping for lots of rest but I know that is most likely not in the cards.  I hope you all have a fun and healthy weekend and that the sniffles skip your house!

More Littles Fun

After breakfast  I washed the littles up and got them started on some coloring projects  to keep them busy for E who still needed some time waking up.  Notice my fun splash mat is a mat I made out of  LMG's first art projects from preschool. I still need to button it up but have not had the time to finish it 100% and to blog about it but its  fun and reversable and  both he and I are very proud of his artistic abilities.

Breakfast Bentos

Sunday was a busy day for me I awas headed out to Napa with some of E's aunts for a lunch date and a day of tasting. I was very excited since it was my first trip to Napa and we all know how much I have come to love drinking wine.

Before I headed out for a fun in the sun Sunday I had to deal with household business. Not a lot . I just got the littles up and situated for the morning. I decided on a breakfast bento of waffles with syrup, yogurt with bunnies on top and a banana.

No comapling from LMG. He gobbled it right up!


That's a runny nose for BBD . He is not turning his nose up at his breakfast bento.

My Thursday Night!

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Dinner and Lunch

                                              Dinner : rice, salad, and one chicken leg



     Lunch : Salad with carrots and salsa, chicken leg,  HB egg and fig newtons, and raisin crunch cereal

Happy Wednesday, Lunch Box Time

Wednesday... How I love thee one more day of work this week then I am home with my bebes. I can not wait!
On the menu today:

Breakfast muscle milk smoothie (3)  1/2 cup of fruity cheerios (2),

Lunch: Salad with cucumbers, salsa and strawberries (1), left over salisubury steak from dinner two nights ago ( repeated this from yesterday did not eat it )  (4)  also a TJ's lemonaide box  and I packed a  veggie sammi on tortilla with yogurt chive spread  cucumbers, sprouts and a sprinkle of cheese. I am doing a massage sesison after work today and will need to fuel up before I hit the table.

Happy Monday Lunch Box!

Monday after Halloween Eats. I totally left the idea of counting points behind this weekend. But now its time to get with it again.  I placed the box in front of the jar of our candy loot from this weekend to remind me to stick to it, and not cheat. But truth be told I think the candy fairy will be coming to our house soon enough this week.  I found a list of  fun ideas on what to do with the left over candy. Want to learn more click here

Breakfast: Muscle milk Smoothie (3) , fruity cheerios  (2)

Lunch: Green salad (0), pasta with sauce and cheese (4) Hard boiled egg (2)  Four strawberries (2)

I also had a mid morning snack of a Gerber graduates granola bar apple cinnamon flavor (1) I  know kinda silly but I picked a box up at the dollar store to keep in my desk in case I get hungry while working.

Tuesday & Wednesday Eats

Tuesdays Lunch Box
Mini bagel (2)
Chicken sausage(3)
White beans (3)
Laughing cow Cheese (2)
I also packed  some tofu and orange slices  but did not eat them

Todays Eats
 Breakfast: Muscle Milk smoothie (3), rice cake with peanut butter (2)
 Snack : Orange slices (2) fruit strip (1)
 Lunch: Half of a chicken breast (2.5) 3 tablespoons of mashed potatoes  and gravy (1), WW 1 point bar.

This Kid Has Kooties

A case of the kooties has hit our house with LMG coming down with pink eye on Friday afternoon. I picked him up for his tuff tumblers class at my moms and was shocked to see a collection of green yuck oozing from his left eye as well as a very swollen eye socket. Poor little! Since then its been a weekend of staying close to home while my little recovers and I run back and worth disinfecting everything and constantly washing my hands. Lets hope we all don't end up with it.

A Littles Dozen

They could  not wait! They had to have a cupcake right then and there. I of course waited until they were a little coler but I gave in and let them have a bite.

Silly littles

A chocolate cupcake with Halloween sprinkles

I am by no means a baker. I attempt to bake and things get ruined. E likes to blame the oven but secretly I think he knows its me. For some reason I can never master the science of baking and so I rarely do so. I am a much better cook than a baker. Yesterday was super wet and miserable and I thought what can I do to make this day a little more exciting  for my little fab family ... I came up with the answer. Cupcakes!

Okay. Truth be told I totally cheated and got a box mix and a little tub of frosting and took the easy way out  but they came out delightful. I made a few tweeks to the oven with temp and time since the dratted thing runs way hotter than I would like it to. Then the littles and I spent the afternoon mixing , pouring, cooling and frosting cupcakes. It was more me  doing all the work and BBD trying to stick his little fingers in everything I was doing. I snapped a few pictures of the finished cupcakes but forsome reason they are not pulling up on my phone. Sorry.  They were great. E and  the littles gobbled them up like hotcakes and I treated myself to one. Yum! After this successful cupcake day I think I am reconsidering baking and may try and bake a few things from time to time.

Soggy Day Lunch Box

What an awful day already. Woke up late thanks to a little that snuck into bed with me and threw my internal body clock off with his  wiggling in the middle of the night.  As I was rushing to work in the soggy weather I was harrassed by a police man ... I was going the speed limit but he still choose to flash this big light on me  make me pull over and then he drove right by me . I guess I should be happy that it was a little warning  to slow down and not a ticket but that made me even more late. I gave into cold weather temptation and got a latte and a nibble  from Starbucks I did not even finish because the both tasted nasty.


Now on to the box.

Breakfast. I give up on that points wise . Forget about it
Lunch: brown rice, black beans and chicken  (4), cheese stick (2)
Snack : a choice of a lara bar  cherry pie (5) a tj cereal bar (3) or a rice cake (1) depending on how this day goes will be the deciding factor.

Rainy Day Eats

Tuesday Eats:
Breakfast : Muscle Milk Protein Shake (3), sourdough bread w/ PB (3)
Snack : I packed the same apples I proably will not eat. if this becomes the case I am just going to boil the apples I have a make apples sauce... is that how you make apple sauce? I don't know
Lunch: Brown rice with black beans and chicken (5) , mini bagel (2) , String Cheese (2), Fruit Strip (1)

* I also packed a rice cake  but may not eat it. I have found I am rotating eating some of my box items  during different parts of the day.I am also thinking a mini  bagel and a rice cake are not the most wise things to bundle together but I may save the rice cake for a pre workout snack to get me moving a little more at the gym this afternoon. I have been dragging butt maybe because I am tired and its a low energy part of my day... I will see how this works.

Monday Lunch

Monday Eats

Breakfast : Muscle Milk Smoothie  (3) , rice cake (1)
Snack: Chocolate Chip Cliff bar (5) Fruit Strip (1)
Lunch : Banana (2) String Cheese (2)  pasta (4)
I did not eat the apple.