Flatiron Flavor

Two Days Worth

Yesterday was a super busy day! I woke up and started getting ready for work as per usual, but decided to do a few sets of crunches, squats, calf raises and girl push ups. Maaaybe I will try regular push ups later this summer. So glad I got a bit in before work! Speaking of work, it was insane!! I had something due and we sent out the notification/announcement emails and I was slammed with lots of disappointed people. so sad and hard to deal with especially when I have no control over who is awarded grant money.

Anyways…I started the day off right with a cup of coffee DD stye from my French Press. Mmmmmm. I knew I had one more cup of instant oats at the office but wanted to supplement it with extra plain oats. Instant oatmeal that’s flavored is often too sweet for me. I bought a big bag of organic oats a few weeks back and keep them in the old Quaker oats container for easy access. The instant oats are 220 cals + about 75 from the plain oats…I don’t really count calories anymore but I was just thinking about it yesterday.

For lunch I packed a veggie sushi I bought from Whole Foods on Monday as well as some cherries! Sooo goood! For snacks I had the leftover pita chips, snap peas w vinaigrette, and an orange. Yup, cherries in a cherry bowl.

Due to the emotionally/mentally exhausting day, all I wanted to do was relax-ish. Kev and I hit Sprouts for the weekly groceries. In my bags: mango, nectarines, yams, cereal, a new kind of organic wheat bread, peanuts for next Tuesday’s baseball game, a 100% all natural pork tenderloin, yellow bell peppers, whole wheat linguini, two sauces, and strawberries.

I was starved by the time we left. As my “appetizer” I had a glass of champagne at Kevin’s house and we headed to Bombay Bistro in downtown Boulder. As a starter they bring you garlic naan with a tablespoon or so of chickpeas and onion relishy type of concoction and a pureed spinach sauce. The bread desperately needed a sprinkle of salt, but I LOVE salt on everything.

My entrees were a vegetable curry with basmati rice as well as saag with chickpeas and more basmati rice. Kev had a hot curry sea bass that was delicious!!

So, it’s not the prettiest, but it’s delicious and spicy and fantastic.

The saag and basmati rice was taken to be my lunch the nest day. I don’t know what changed, but I loce love love curries now. Before I thought they were gross and smelled like b.o. Hehehe.

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As much as I would like to have a nice calm morning, it never seems to turn out that way. I ended up putting cereal into a bag and called it breakfast! UGH. I had my usual cup of coffee and the bag of cereal at the office around 8-9 this morning. Work has been extremely stressful so I took an early lunch and had my leftovers, an orange, and a cup of chicken noodle soup.

My soccer game tonight was at 7:40 so I had to have an earlier dinner so I would have time to digest. I had a nectarine, a few carrot sticks, a bowl of soup, and a bit of pasta.

I had one slice of this orange and gave the rest to Kev.

This is the whole wheat orzo that I bought from the farmers market a few weeks back. It turned out so-so. I’m not sure I would even call it good. It was jut edible. We had a mixture of olive oil, herbs and spices on the orzo. I think the pasta needed to be cooked in more water (it was a little gummy) and cooked longer? Ah well. I’ll try again.

Now this bar of chocolate was GREAT! They put a love poem in each one! If the picture came out just a bit more clear I could have shared it with you. I had a few of these squares right before soccer. We got our butts kicked at soccer tonight. As we usually do. This team honestly doesn’t belong at the level we are playing at, but for some reason they let us stay! Play up to play better!