what i ate wednesday: hodge podge
I broke the cardinal rule of healthy eating and frugal grocery shopping this week—I didn’t make a menu. I just couldn’t muster the energy to plan out food. I’m a huge proponent of menu-planning, but even I can’t be bothered with it sometimes. So instead, we just headed to the grocery store and picked up lots of staples—yogurt, berries, apples, eggs—and called it a day. So, this week’s food is going to be a bit of a hodge podge. Back on the menu-making bandwagon next week.
- Breakfast: Two runny eggs over two slices of whole grain toast, plus lowfat Greek yogurt with strawberries and blueberries on the side. I also had an unpictured mug of decaf coffee with a splash of almond milk.
- Morning Snack: Apple, grapes, Laughing Cow and a hard boiled egg.
- Lunch: It doesn’t look pretty, but it was deee-licious. Cooked farro (my favorite new-to-me grain), tuna, hummus, black beans and corn relish. Plus a four-square of dark chocolate.
- Dinner: Grilled chicken sausage, peppers and onion, a side of roasted cauliflower and some watermelon. Eaten al fresco!
- My failure to clean my plate. My cauliflower lovin’ heart filled up too quickly to finish the rest of my sausage and peppers. Oh well, it’ll make for a delicious lunch. I mostly just snapped this picture because I pretty much never leave anything ever on my plate, so this was a rare occasion that needed to be documented!
What’s the best thing you’ve eaten so far this week?
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I’m Cassie. I’m a Midwestern girl trying to live a healthy life without being too crazy about it. I’m a lover of fresh veggies, bright colors, craft beer, hiking, funky eyeglasses, and really, really dark chocolate.
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Fresh picked raspberries with dark chocolate chips! Gotta love summer berry season!
Oh YUM! I need some raspberry plants STAT!
Those sausages look really tasty. The best thing I ate this week so far is a freezer breakfast burrito. http://www.shutterbean.com/2012/freezer-breakfast-burritos/
Yum! Those look delicious!
The sausages & peppers look so yummy!
Chicken sausage from TJs! Hard to beat it.
Breakfast looks amazing!
It was pretty good! Eggs on toast is one of my favorites.
I love your pictures! The fruit and cheese plate is my favorite!
Me too! I love shooting out on my back deck. The lighting is pretty much always perfect.
I love your pictures taken outdoors. Make the food 100xs better.
Can I request a post with recipes containing farro? I think that lunch looks DELICIOUS and I’m beginning to get a bit burned out on my current go-to grain to throw into salads/eat all the time (whole wheat cous cous, I’m not over you, we just need a break). Also, your meals on WIAW always look amazing and if I had a million dollars I would totally hire you to be my personal chef/menu planner. In the meantime, I’ll keep reading your blog.
Hahaha! Absolutely. The corn relish recipe is coming up tomorrow and literally, that farro recipe is just cooked farro + a can of tuna + a dollop of hummus + a spoonful of corn relish. Easy peasy!
That farro salad looks amazing, and I must recreate it for my lunch tomorrow. Could you spill the ingredients for the corn relish?
The recipe will be up tomorrow!
Your hodge podge looks pretty fantastic:) I can’t even imagine the deliciousness that happens in your kitchen when you actually plan!!