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WIAW: Back to the Grind

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Happy Wednesday!


Over the long weekend I had some time do some food prep to help make packing lunches and snacks for the days I’m at campus all day. It saves money and frankly most of the food is meh. So I’d rather pack my own.

Scenes from Monday Food Prep:

Chickpea, black bean, tomato & cucumber Salad (which you can jazz up later)
2013-09-02 16.45.29I have a hard time cutting onions, and I love making faces, so this happened:2013-09-02 16.17.06The fruits (or really onions and mushrooms) of my labor.2013-09-02 16.45.23

So my fun bit of prepping really helped for a crazy day on campus:

Breakfast:

Left over pancakes with yogurt and peaches. Mmmm.

Pumpkin RecipesSnack:

Kashi coconut & chocolate bar (from my foodie pen pal) and iced coffee

2013-09-03 11.34.04Lunch:

Mixed greens with pecans, avocado and sprouts with a sesame dressing.
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Dinner:

Recognize that salad? Plus I added some pesto and slivered almonds.WIAW

Dessert:

Banana-Pumpkin “soft-serve” with a little maple peanut butter and coco peanut butter mixed inWIAWNot pictured: I had 2 other apples through out the day but I ate them so fast I forgot to take a picture.

Nothing too sexy for WIAW but it certainly helped fuel me from the time I got on campus 8am to the time I left 10:30 pm. Luckily Tuesdays are my only super-busy day like that.

Question:

  • Do you food prep?
  • What’s your favorite lunch to pack?

 

 

 

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  1. I just came across your blog today, and wow.. I’ve been missing out. I love it! All of your meals – especially dinner, sound and look incredible. What all did you add to your dinner salad?

    p.s. if you light a candle when cutting onions, your eyes won’t tear

    • Thanks so much! Your blog looks great too. In the chickpea salad there were also black beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and I added almonds and pesto. Great advice because I have the hardest time cutting onions.

  3. When I was in college, I would make a huge kale salad on the weekends, and it lasted me a few meals. It keeps really well, and the kale softens over time. For lunch, I would usually bring a salad and a yogurt parfait with frozen fruit (to keep it cold) and granola.

  4. Hahahah Georgie – I have the same problem when cutting onions too!! & I’m having chickpeas in my salad today! Forgot about those yummy little guys 😛 Uhh, banana pumpkin anything sounds delicious. I’m certainly preparing myself for the pumpkin-anything obsession that I feel coming on! Hope your school year is going well so far! WOO, senior year!! Go girl!!

  6. OH yum all of your eats look super delicious 🙂
    I hate cutting onions too…my eyes turn bright red and puffy ahah

    I actually don’t food prep and the only “set” meal I have of the day is breakfast, but I’m trying to figure out a routine that will sustain me.
    Lunch especially is hard…I never know what to eat lol. I usually just end up snacking on whatever I have laying around at our house!

    Have a great week!

    • It’s so tough trying to fit food/cooking into a routine, especially if you do enjoy it but just don’t have the time some days. I try to prep food to make things quicker but a lot of times what I’m craving that day ends up determining what I eventually eat.