Busy Day Ahead!

Today is my last long day at school First up is my fluid mechanics final exam at 8:30, then a short break followed by my computer science exam at 12:30. This is the second CS exam, I wrote the paper one on Monday and today’s exam is actually on a computer. I’m a bit nervous because it will be graded electronically, which means that one little typo will lose me a lot of points since no one actually reads the programs we write. Did that last sentence even make sense? If not, let’s just say that I’m a bit nervous! After that exam, I have a 30 minute break before I have to meet my partner to discuss our assignment that’s due in another 30 minutes. Hopefully she’s got it all figured out because I don’t even remember how I did my half anymore After all of that I have a PJ party with a kids group I volunteer with. I have to admit, supper may just be cake I’ll try to pack some food to take with me, but that’s getting a but scarce around here

With this busy day in mind, I’m spreading my meals into mini meals today. Each meal isn’t really complete in the sense of having all the food groups but I will try to get them a in at some point throughout the day! Breakfast is the simplest of muesli’s – just oats and yogurt. I didn’t even have a piece of fruit on the side, but you can bet that I’m having some caffeine before my exam!

Snack number one is a larabar

Yes, I took that photo last night in my semi-dark room as I was packing

Snack number two, more of a meal, is leftover cauliflower curry and black rice. It would probably hold me better if there was some protein, but I don’t know what I feel like eating with this so it will be on it’s own.

Other snacks I’m bringing with me to eat as I need them are carrots, peppers and a kiwi

A busy morning!

I’m glad to report that my post spinning snack filled me up wonderfully! I ended up taking my cheese oat muffins with me and eating one while I did a quick change from bike clothes to weight room clothes. I then headed over for a super quick upper body weight session to really tire me out. As I walked home, I ate the other muffin amd I have to say that I really wasn’t hungry come lunch time!

On a side note, I definitely preferred these muffins with the oats ground into a flour better than whole! It made them much more muffin-like.

As I said, I wasn’t too hungry for lunch, so I had a light salad with spinach, yellow pepper, mushrooms and chicken. This wasn’t really my whole lunch but it was all I wanted at the time, so off I went to do some runnung around that needed to be done. As I was nearing the end of my errands I started to feel hungry and it hit me really quickly so I knew that I needed to eat right away. Luckily, I was near my fave health food store and I stopped in to get a larabar. This time I chose the cinnamon roll one – yum! When I got home, I completed my lunch with a tortilla pizza with lots of veggies.

And I believe that I was still under 500 kcal for my spread put lunch!

Goodnight!

Thought I’d do a snack post tonight since my snack was so substantial. Some days I eat 3 meals further apart with small snacks during the day and some days I eat more like 4 meals. I guess today’s a 4 meal day! Here’s a quick photo recap:

My Kashi bar… it was good but not as chewy or nutty as expected. This guy was the peanut peanut butter flavour. Has anyone tried any of the other kinds?

Next up was a carrot asI tried to decide what I really wanted. I was starving tonight!

Finally I decided on a bowl of oatbran cereal made with water for achange since I’ve already had at least 3 servings of milk today. I drizzled on some honey and cinnamon for a bit of flavour.S ee you for breakfast:)

Breakfast anyone? (lunch!)

Well I thought I’d change things up a bit today since I don’t have any classes to rush off to this afternoon I had breakfast for lunch: an omelet filled with mushrooms and cheese. I used a fat free egg substitute, wich is something I don’t normally do because I prefer to eat more naturally (of course there are also times when I treat myself to junk food )

The reason I used liquid eggs is that I didn’t have room to carry eggs and I was afraid they’d break on the walk home from the grocery store. Sounds a bit strange, but I always shop with a basket instead of a cart and I know that my reusable grocery bags will only hold what will fit in the basket. I know I could get more bags but I don’t have a car so this way I only buy what I can carry

Back on topic, here’s my large omelet:

Going back to this morning, I had an OK spinning class. It was just OK because I was later than I like to be – I like to get there early to get set up and start my warm up before the class starts. I find it hard to get into the right mindframe when I’m late and I don’t feel properly warmed up. That said, I still worked my butt off and felt better after the class than I did going in! Here’s what I snacked on afterwards while I listened to my prof lecture about safety on construction sites:

The perfect post-workout snack: it’s my homemade “larabar” that I made last night! I have to say that these are almost as awesome as the real thing. I should mention here that I’ve only tried the cashew cookie one and this has the exact same ingredients (cashews, dates) so I would hope it would taste similar! I don’t think I’d attempt to make other flavours myself.

Pasta Overload!

OOPS, I didn’t think that through very well did I? I had a casserole made with a layer of whole wheat rotini, a layer of cheesy crabmeat (think lasagna filling) some kale, another layer of rotini smothered in a tomato cream sauce and topped with a bit of shredded cheddar. At least it was healthy, like almost all of my meals are: the cream sauce had no cream in it, just skim milk and about a tablespoon of flour to thicken it. I then threw in some canned tomatoes (drained), crushed red pepper flakes, salt and pepper. I think tomorrow night I will have to steer myself away from pasta

After supper I had a bit of a DIY “craving” so I decided to continue on with my newest obsession: Larabars. Yes, that’s right, I tried to make my own “Larabar” Here’s what I did:

• Buy dates and nuts
• Realize the dates have pits in them and get really sticky fingers removing said pits
• Grind nuts in food processor (very important to do this before getting it all sticky from dates!)
• Set aside nuts and puree dates in food processor
• Try to combine nuts and dates un food processor
• Realize that the mixture is much to thick to be mixed this way
• Try a spoon
• Finally just stick hands in bowl and mix well (not the same bowl as the food processor blade!)
• Wrap in plastic and flatten into a nice rectangular shape
• Cut a piece off the end and enjoy “larabar”

Yes, that’s really the procedure I followed! It was very sticky and fun, but I think I did too much finger licking during the process! I’m stuffed again.

The final product:

Sorry I couldn’t take any photos during the process, it was just too messy to risk bringing my camera out