Total monkey.
There’s nothing more distracting than wanting to be somewhere you’re not.
Actually, I don’t really care where I am. It’s more about who’s with me. The company makes the location. Which is why yesterday I had a case of the Tuesdays.
But now it’s Wednesday. The next sunrise I see will be with Vegas. With the first Christmas tree I’ve had in 5 or 6 years. And flowers. I bought a poinsettia for the first time ever. Who am I?!
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This WIAW I turned out a lot more prepared-looking than it felt! Either way, it was good.
Read on for my eats, and then check out Jenn’s blog for everyone else’s delicious creations!
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Breakfast:
After my morning cocktail, I ate my morning sludge. While baking a pie. ‘Tis the season!
Breakfast was a concoction I’ve been eating a lot lately. TVP and oats made with carob powder, cinnamon, chcolate liquid stevia, and an egg white. Topped with blackberries. It’s actually really good!
Mid-Morning Snack:
Arugula salad with raw zucchini, pepper, and fresh lemon juice with my Sizzlefish salmon. I really love salmon. Would it be acceptable to eat it every meal?
Lunch:
Shredded up no-salt deli turkey with red bell pepper and tossed with salsa, nutritional yeast, and balsamic vinegar. With one of my Apple Carrot Protein Muffins for dessert.
Mid-Afternoon Snack(s):
I was feeling a bar. Have you guys tried Think Thin bars? I think they changed formulas… for the better! I got this at Whole Paycheck Foods (obvi). That Pumpkin Spice. Get. It.
Dinner:
This… well… it was a little hurried. But whatever. Corn tortilla topped with red peppers, egg whites, nutritional yeast, and one tasty local #yolkporn moment.
Dessert:
Milkshake Greek yogurt bowl topped with popcorn, chocolate chips, and cocoa powder sauce. I used the new Quest vanilla milkshake protein powder, which I love. It was an excellent post-workout dessert.
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Is it just me, or has this been the longest week ever? An. Tici. Pation. (Name that movie.)
What is your favorite oatmeal mix-in? Besides nut butter… too easy! 😉
What’s your favorite holiday decoration? I love having a real tree – they smell so good!
I’d love to have a real tree but not going to happen this year. I love mixing in frozen fruit and hemp seeds into my oats. I like adding egg whites as well. So yummy! Yay for Vegas!! Hope your case of the Tuesday is gone 🙂
That post-workout dessert bowl looks epic- nicely done! Favorite oatmeal add-in is definitely banana….and chia seeds for extra fluff!
I haven’t had chia in forever! Need to go get more.
Salmon for every meal once we become millionaires. Wait… we should totally invent salmon oatmeal. Seriously. Fish broth, miso,…I’m getting ideas here.
OMG. If you did that, you’d be my personal hero.
You read my mind. Longest week ever. Friday needs to get here asap!
Favourite oatmeal mix in: coconut shred and nut butters! Not that i eat oatmeal because they’re not paleo/keto friendly.
My favourite thing abit the holiday is the smell. I love anything peppermint.
((whispers))
shortest week ever ONLY because I move next week 🙂
That dessert bowl looks delish. Enjoy!!
Favorite mix in is protein powder, I guess that’s obvious too, haha. Hope your week goes fast so you can see your man 🙂
Minus the meat and eggs I want you to become my personal chef during the week. Seriously, your weekday meals are way more creative than mine.
And we never had artificial trees so yes to real ones. My favourite decoractions? All of those reminding me of ny childhood – handmade ornaments included.
I was vegan for a bit… I could totally do it! 😉
Yup…this week is DRAGGING. Of course finals week is taking the longest to get through. 🙁 Anyways, I looooove all your fishy snacks each week! Seafood lovers unite!
Hope they went well!!!
When I know I’m leaving for a trip, the week always seems to drag forever. I add in cinnamon apples to my oatmeal – just nuke apples with stevia and cinnamon and bit of lemon juice. Save travels tomorrow!
Ohhhh… I never thought to cook the apples first. I tjust toss ’em in. I’ll have to try this! Sounds more pie-lie. 🙂
Yum! I need to learn how to make popcorn without an air popper, my mom sent me one for my birthday and I blew the fuse since I didn’t realize voltage matters 🙂 lol Yummy food as always enjoy VEGAS!! xo C
I just put int in a paper bag, fold it over a new times to seal it, and push the popcorn button on my microwave! Really easy, and you can shake on any flavors you like.
That pumpkin bar… must find those!! Sadly the nearest Whole Foods is 4 hours away! The breakfast concoction looks delicious. I have TVP but I haven’t made it yet… I’m not sure what to do with it! Might have to try it with oats for breakfast 🙂
I think they have then a regular stores too – Publix and Kroger here carry them!
That’s one pitfall to living in the desert. No real xmas tress. I mean you can get them but you have to water them constantly and I don’t do high maintenance anything.
Vegas got one for the desert! I guess you just have to water it more?
ROCKY HORROR! I need to watch that movie again…As for oatmeal – jam. or protein powder.
Rocky is the jam. I really think you could be a little sister.
My favorite oats add in in a blended banana and handful of spinach… its like a green smoothie in your oatmeal… you just and the blend to your oats while they are cooking and then you can put nuts or berries or pb or whatever on top – nutmeg and cinnamon work well!
I love it! I put spinach in everything!
longest week indeed. too much stuff coming up, i’m craving the weekends!
SNOWMAN!!! Anything really with a snowman, that’s my christmas obsession. I need to share a picture of my big snowman I added to the front porch. 🙂
So come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab!
this week HAS gone slow, because today WE LEAVE for vacation!! and heh, we’re going to Vegas. we both get Vegas this week 😀
have a great time! XO
Hahaha! I knew you’d get it.
I had Vegas here… that would been awesome if we were there at the same time! I’ll be there a lot more soon… you should come back!
i eat salmon or balls (err bites) at every meal. Not lying. It’s the only thing around sometimes. LOL! and this week is FREAKIN LONG
I really am just going to show up at your door one day. With Vegas. Don’t worry… we’ll have wine.
I am all about decorating the tree. We just did ours last weekend and it involved lots of frolicking and booze. You need to pick up a mistletoe too.
Done. It’s in the kitchen… “because that’s where you are the most.”
i am so jealous of all your food combos! I am so boring compared to you!
I definitely think it’s acceptable to eat salmon at every meal. I would! Well, except maybe dessert…salmon sundae? Eh…I’ll pass. Ha! Never tried the Think Thin bars, but they sound good!
I hope you got a REAL tree (base on your ending question…I’m assuming it’s real!) When people pull out their “tree” from the attic every year?…I’m like…no. That sucks. It needs to be real. Christmas has a smell. It smells like a daggum pine tree. I’m getting my tree this weekend. I wait until just after the rush, that’s when they go on sale BIG TIME. You’re right about company. I can be at the most pompous event in Charleston and be miserable because everyone is pretentious and only cares about selfies, or I can be at a post-5K-race party with a bunch of sweaty badasses and have the time of my life. That happened last weekend.
Oatmeal mix-ins….I only eat cold oatmeal (hot is just a bit too mushy for me) but I add protein powder (so obvious/easy), no cal sweetener, and plain Greek yogurt to my base. I don’t get creative with my oatmeal base, but I’ll throw nuts or fruit on top. I’ve smashed bananas and mixed them in and topped it off with walnuts. I’ve also thrown pumpkin in my base (with pumpkin pie spice) and topped it with pecans and maple syrup. And another time, I added dark cocoa powder to the base, and topped it with raspberries and Walden Farms no cal chocolate sauce. And granola…I think. I’m sure it’s been done time and time again…
My favorite decoration is the tree. But really………I just love the LIGHTS!
Hot oatmeal is too mushy for you? This is mind boggling for some reason… but I guess I get it. But yogurt is mushy!
Maybe gloppy/slimy is a better description. I just struggle with certain textures. I will eat it hot occasionally….after intentionally overcooking it. But your photos make hot oatmeal look amazing, despite my strange aversion.
I will take that as a compliment.
I had that pumpkin spice ThinkThin bar and loved it! Tuesdays are the worst by the way… it’s when I realize the week has started. Monday, I’m usually excited to go back.
My favorite oatmeal mix in are chia seeds, so filling.
A real Christmas tree is something I yearn for every year. I love seeing/smelling it and tend to spend more time in the room it is in. This sounds a bit cheesy but I love my Ugly Sweater Nutcracker from CB2, he cracks me up every time I walk by.
Hope Wednesday brought you great joy!
That doesn’t sound cheesy at all! Now I must have an ugly sweater nutcracker!
im eating my smoothie with oats…