Simple Changes September

TGI Cookie Friday!

September 11, 2009

What a busy and stressful day.  I am very glad to be home and relaxing on my couch.  Let’s rewind to lunch.  I started with a bowl of Minestrone Soup Moved onto a green salad with spinach, romaine lettuce, cucumber, mushrooms, tomato, carrots, shredded cheddar cheese and Corn and Black Bean Salad I made earlier [...]

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Nothing A Little Ice Cream Can’t Fix

September 10, 2009

After lunch I went from meeting to meeting.  At around 4:15, I started making a MASSIVE to-do list.  I did what my brother-in-law calls a “brain-dump.”  I have been feeling a little overwhelmed so I needed to take a step back and reorganize my thoughts and desk in order to be a little productive.  I [...]

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The End of an Oat-Tastic Day

September 9, 2009

Tonight Matt and I enjoyed Oatmeal for dinner.  Not your normal oatmeal, but savory oatmeal.  I spotted something similar a while ago on Kath’s blog – Matt and I are big fans of the fried egg in oatmeal.  Tonight’s bowl contained: 1/2 cup of Organic Oats cooked in water 1 egg basil and parsley – [...]

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Yoga – Day 1

September 8, 2009

After attending the Healthy Living Summit in August, I decided one of my health goals for this year was to try yoga – I was struggling with how I was going to do this until I received an email last week from the Health and Wellness office on campus who was offering 5 yoga classes [...]

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Vegetable No-Noodle Lasagna

September 7, 2009

Inspired by Rhodey Girl Test’s Zucchini Nonsagna, I set out to create a similar but different dish based on what the Runleangreen family enjoys.  Matt is not the biggest fan of zucchini so I knew I couldn’t have zucchini be the  star ingredient.  Instead, I used the following vegetables I picked up from the Farmers’ [...]

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Sleeping through Lunch leads to Dinner

September 6, 2009

This afternoon my throat started to hurt a little and I got very sleepy.  I decided to take a nap and ended up waking up 3 hours later.  I must be fighting something and hopefully this nap helped – I just hope I can fall asleep later! Since I slept through lunch and it was [...]

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First Squash of the Season

September 5, 2009

I was right this afternoon – that blueberry muffin did nothing to satiate my hunger.  Next step…I rolled in the big guns. A small pita with Chocolate Soy Nut butter. Finally I was content.  Next I hit the supermarket and Target.  We hadn’t been to the supermarket for a normal shopping in two weeks so [...]

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