Produce-less

Hello, all!

I don't want to complain. I realized this week was bad because all I did on Twitter was complain. Once I noticed this I tried to think of something non-complain-y to report, but the closest I could get was "it's an iced-coffee kind of afternoon" which I knew secretly meant "I'm exhausted and don't want to be here and maybe, just maybe, an iced-coffee will make me feel better." Then my iced coffee date ditched me so I didn't even get that.

Anyway, I'm still feeling complain-y so I'll try to make this quick so as not to rub off on you. It is the weekend, after all!

I should have gone grocery shopping this week, but could never find the time. (oops, complaint) I realized I was trying to get my fruits & vegetables from atypical sources this week...which meant I didn't have much fresh produce in my house. You will notice my food is less fresh and more frozen, juiced, canned, or scavenged than usual!

Luckily I had a pint of blueberries in my fridge, as well as a giant container of plain yogurt. On Sunday I portioned out the yogurt for the week so I'd have something easy to grab for breakfast. I paired it with cereal, berries, and coffee. Wait, can you 'pair' more than 2 items???

For snacks I worked through the banana muffins that I made on Sunday (carried to work in my adorable cupcake holder!) Can I count banana muffins as fruit? I'm not a big juice drinker, but I picked this up at Whole Foods because I had a $1 off coupon. I've been reading a lot about the benefits of coconut water, so I was excited to try this. Peach & guava are 2 of my favorites, so I really enjoyed this juice. I believe each serving (1/2 of the bottle) is 100 calories.

Lunches consisted mainly of canned soup - a good way to get veggies when you don't haven anything fresh on had. This is corn chowder, which I had with crackers, hummus, and grape tomatoes (fruit).

Dinners were put together mainly from my freezer. I killed a box of veggie burgers and a bag of edamame.

And I finally broke into the giant bag of Pirate's Booty. I have to portion it out, because I could easily mindlessly eat half the bag.

One day this week we had a 'food day' at work. There is another vegetarian in the area, so we usually divide and conquer when bringing in food to share - she'll bring fruit and I'll bring veggies. I (obviously) had to pick up veggies at the store for this occasion, and built a veggie tray with hummus.

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) no one ate the veggies so I ended up bringing most of them home. I also snagged some of the leftover fruit. Funny, those who brought in cookies and candy didn't have any leftovers to bring home....be nice, Lizz.

That night I had leftover fruit & veggies and a cheese tortilla with salsa (fruit/veggie for sure) for dinner.

Well, at least the leftovers gave me enough produce to get through the weekend. I may not have to go to the grocery store after all!