What I Ate This Week: Day Six.

Ahhhh, sleeping in. It is so amazing. By sleeping in, I really mean staying in bed 'till like 8 or 9, since I'm usually up at 6, but it's still pretty awesome.

This lovely morning, I slept in, lazed around for a bit, then did an easy pace 2-mile run to loosen up for my race tomorrow!

I planned on eating a light breakfast a bit earlier, but it really ended up being around 11. Oops. I wanted to do avocado toast again, because it was amazing yesterday, so I made an egg, fruit, and a handful of sauteed spinach with a bit of chopped garlic and EVOO to go with it.

Breakfast, 11:00: Avocado Toast (on Ezekiel Sprouted Grain and Seed Bread), Egg, Berry and Banana Fruit Salad, Sauteed Spinach

I met a good friend for lunch in Palo Alto today, and we tried Sliderbar. I decided to go with one bunless veggie burger slider (homemade black bean patty, yummm), which had aioli, red pepper, and cucumber, and one spicy chicken slider (appropriately named "Hot Chick," lol!). We also shared sweet potato fries!

I stopped by Whole Foods on the way home - they had a wine-tasting there, but as I had to drive home, sadly I did not partake. I did, however, pick up lots of stuff for the coming week's recipes, and a pint of this local ice cream from Petaluma: Straus Creamery. I tasted it (for quality assurance, of course!) this afternoon, and it's as good as it sounds!

I decided to make kale chips today as well, as I had some leftover kale from this week. I used Oh She Glows' All Dressed Kale Chips recipe!

I wasn't hungry, so I stored the kale chips in some baggies to use for this week. The leaves and stems that I didn't use went into a baggie into the freezer to put in green smoothies.


Enjoyed some iced coffee on a hot afternoon while making the kale chips :)

Salad Course, 6:30: Lettuce and carrots with cauliflower/chickpeas, sunflower seeds, raisins, blue cheese, and lemon vinaigrette

For dinner, I got slightly lazy, and used a Tikka Masala Simmer Sauce to cook some chicken breast. But, paired with the lentils from this week, it was an AWESOME Indian dinner combo. I made some brown rice in order to add some extra carbs for fuel for tomorrow!

Dinner, 7:30: Chicken Tikka, Lentil Coconut Curry, Butternut Squash Puree, Brown Rice, Plain Greek Yogurt Topping

Finally, I made the best yummiest dessert ever. I took the extra baked apple half from last night, added chopped dates, and re-warmed it. I topped it with some caramel ice cream and oat granola, and YUM. It was like an apple crisp!

Okay, got my stuff laid out for the race in the morning - see you tomorrow for the last day of this little project!