She Says: Hold Onto Your Hats!
This is gonna be a long one!
Monday’s lunch was in two parts and used up all my Pecan Butter. The good thing about the Salad Challenge is that I know I will get in my veggies at some point during the day.
Part I – Before Shred
- Wrap
- Pecan Butter
- Part of Banana
Part II After Shred/Before Yoga
- Greek Yogurt
- Other part of banana
- Pecan Butter
- Baked Oatmeal Square
The Oatmeal Square was
- 1 Cup Spelt Flour
- 1 Cup Oats
- 1 t Baking Soda
- 1 t Vanilla
- 1 Flax Egg
- Soy Milk
All mixed in a bowl and baked for about 12-15 minutes.
Obviously running out of butter necessitated a trip to Whole Foods for more pecans. I bought two cups and grounded those babies for a looong time. I didn’t toast the pecans this time and I don’t love the result as much. It has a different, more pecany taste and is a little grainier than the first toasted batch. Don’t worry. I will eat it all up.
I also got to sample some new to me products while at Whole Foods
First up was the Lesser Evil Table – The Krinkle Sticks were pretty good. Kind of like a cheese doodle with all the cheese sucked off. Slightly less dense. No popcorn was consumed during testing. I don’t know why.
Next was the City Girl, Country Girl Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almonds. Sadly, all the cookies were crumbled by the time I got to them, so I didn’t get the full experience. I do know they are the crunchy variety and tasted nice. Even if they crumble they would be good in yogurt and the ingredients are stellar.
Dinner was a salad for Leng’s Salad Challenge:
- Spinach
- Radicchio
- Cucumbers
- Tomatoes
- Black Beans
- Kidney Beans
- Corn
- Whole Wheat Whole Foods Pita
- Dijon Vinaigrette
Week 2 – Break The Habit Challenge
I know it’s hard to believe, but this is actually an improvement and I haven’t bitten in a week! Before I go to bed I am going to apply some nail strengthener stuff that Mark’s mom gave me. How are you doing on your habit breaking challenge?
Tags: Break the Habit Challenge, pecan butter, pecans, salad, samples, shred, yogurt
April 21st, 2009 at 7:07 am
first of all, those gooses (Geeses?) are so cute.
Secondly, my 30 day “break the habit” challenge is to start flossing, and i’ve done SOOOO well. thanks so much for getting me motivated!!!
April 21st, 2009 at 7:27 am
Cutest duck bowls ever; and the contents are holy yum!!
Hooray for making progress with the challenge!!
April 21st, 2009 at 7:31 am
yeah… i was spending all afternoon thinking about how to make it tasty for a non mushroom lover like yourself, and I simply COULDN’T think of a good way besides not to eat it hahahaha. I was trying to get creative with sauces, but in the end it was too hard.
great progress on your challenge!
April 21st, 2009 at 7:56 am
horay for sampling new food in WF… I wish they do it more often in my local WF.
And good for you on the first week challenge! Keep that way and you’ll have pretty nails soon!
April 21st, 2009 at 8:06 am
Good for you for not biting your nails for a week! Keep up the good work!
April 21st, 2009 at 8:10 am
Yummy samples at Whole Foods! Great progress on your challenge!
April 21st, 2009 at 8:10 am
love the bowls
great job on the no-biting!
April 21st, 2009 at 8:13 am
GO YOU and your nails!!! Awesome! Sooner than you think you’ll be getting manicures
You make me want Pecans:) mmm!
April 21st, 2009 at 8:28 am
yay for nut butter! I think I would be totally happy to subsist only on bread, nut butter, and banana. My favorite!
April 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am
GREAT job with the no nail biting! It’s SO HARD!!!
I need to try to make my own nut butter…
April 21st, 2009 at 8:54 am
Gosh nail biting is my bad habit too. I’m trying though – putting on nail polish all the time kinda helps.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:56 am
I am not doing so hot on the challenge. To be truthful. I’m trying to give up sweeteners. There is definitely Sweet n’ Low in my coffee this AM. Bah!
April 21st, 2009 at 9:23 am
Love your site. Been a reader for a little while – wanted say Way TO Go! on the nail biting. I don’t do it, but my mom does. She does it more when she is stressed. The nail strengthener is a great idea. It tasted really bad – so my mom says =) My bad habit are those little packets of yellow crack. But I can’t give it up yet. I just gave up the coffee mate – one thing at a time or I might explode. =)
Kris
April 21st, 2009 at 9:25 am
Pecan butter… YUM! I mixed some in with some other things the last time I made nut butter, but I should make a batch of straight up pecan butter the next time. Goodness knows, my parents’ trees keep me well supplied with pecans!
Good luck with the nail biting. I’ve never been one to bite my nails, but I have some friends who fight with that habit!
April 21st, 2009 at 9:54 am
Congratulations on the challenge! It’s been FOREVER since I’ve been able to see any white on the tips of my nails. Keep up the great work.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:19 am
those swan bowls are the CUTEST!! shred AND yoga?! youre a stud.
so what pacing group are you in for the brooklyn half? btw, for some reason i thought that race was cancelled. im doing one in central park on sunday and i am SOOOOO nervous. i cant even remember what pacing group i put myself in for that one, but ill be ok with being in a slower group for a longer race. i dont have a garmin or any other special watch with super cool features, so thats why i had no clue how i run, but i guess i should have figured id be in decent shape since i run several miles a day every day i dont work.
sorry i just wrote an essay.
oh, and i agree with the salad challenge, i love that i am forced to make creative yummy salads bc i dont have to think about getting in my veggies.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:28 am
congrats on the progress wiht hte nail biting challenge!
those swan bowls look just like these measuring cup I spotted this past weekend at anthropologie – super cute!
April 21st, 2009 at 10:35 am
How were the oatmeal bars? I’m liking the artful banana!
April 21st, 2009 at 10:54 am
How long is this salad challenge? And can I use Vicodin as croutons?
April 21st, 2009 at 11:10 am
Your WFs has better samples than mine!! We only have oranges or tortilla chips – I want cookies and Krinkles!
April 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am
I LOVE those swan bowls! At my WFs (its really a smaller community market bought out by WFs!) they usually only have the same granola at the end of each cashier line to sample.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:15 am
I NEED those bowls! Are they ducks or swans? Regardless, they are too effing cute.
The WF stores in my area are LACKING in samples. seriously.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:18 am
can I just say I love kidney beans? Im about to eat a very similar salad to the one you have up there!! yumm…
good job on the nails!!!
April 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am
Love the swam bowls! Fun sampling too!
April 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
Great job with resisting to bite your nails!
April 21st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
OMG! You almost have nails. They look better already. Once you have a manicure and your cuticles are pushed back they will look even longer. Keep them polished so that they don’t break. Congratulations on the first week of success.
April 21st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Sagan: The Oatmeal Squares were very plain tasting, but I like that kind of thing.
Re: Bowls – They are measuring cups from Anthropologie.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Hehe–love those goose measuring cups. We have the same ones:)
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
[...] might remember that I mentioned on Monday that I was able to sample some City Girl Country Girl cookies at my local Whole Foods, [...]
April 25th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Good job on not biting those nails!