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You are here: Home / Weekend / Brighten My Day

April 8, 2008

Brighten My Day

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Fresh flowers from our garden! I picked them right after my workout and within 20 minutes they had opened up beautifully. We’re getting some sun today but this has been the Gloomiest April EVER. I hope I haven’t been too grumpy on you guys!

Workout was fun (elliptical and abs, as predicted) – I feel so drained of energy from this chest cold, but the two times I have felt energetic today were during my workout and walking with Christy. Guess it’s a positive feedback cycle: energy breeds energy. Oh, and food helps too 🙂

Veg

Lunch was a plate of veggies with homemade navy bean dip (pureed navy beans with a touch of yogurt and spices to taste). I used to hate ALL raw veggies, so this was quite a big moment for me to eat so many at once! But I wanted to have our bean dip for lunch, and this seemed like the easiest application. Kashi crackers on the side 🙂

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Plus fresh mango (the other half of the other day’s diced mango)

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And Fage with almonds.

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This lunch kept me full for a while – guess it was all the veg fiber! It totaled about 500 kcal, 18 grams fiber and 27 grams protein.

Banana Snack

Boy do I LOVE bananas. I haven’t always loved them so much – it’s a 2007 onward thing – but I don’t know if I will ever get sick of them!

Banana Muffin Top (that’s what I’m calling these) plus a small banana with cinnamon

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With hot tea and flowers to improve my mood:

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Off to do some work, make my lunch, make dinner, eat dinner and hopefully relax with In Defense of Food this evening!

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  1. Nick says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    Looks like a perfect spring snack, possibly because those flowers are so nearby. I’ve been making homemade refried beans (similar to your navy bean dip) but you should try them. I’ll be posting a recipe soon, but they’re real simple. Cook 1-2 cups of dried beans, remove from pot, cook 1/2 chopped onion in 1T olive oil & add the beans back, mash with some kind of mashing device and add water as necessary to achieve consistency. Add plenty of salt too, they turn out incredible!

    – The Peanut Butter Boy

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  2. hk says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    love the flowers, so pretty!

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  3. JENNA says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    KATH,
    im sort of confused on why your lunch had so many calories?? it doesn’t look like the food you ate was high in calories? I guess i’m just confused on how you can eat this meal and it be 500cal. vs. a meal with a big sub sandwich(yesterdays lunch) and consume the same? what made for so many cals. in your lunch today?

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  4. JENNA says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    also, do you put an icepack in your lunch bag to keep your yogurt cold? 🙂

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  5. Kath says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    Nick,
    You haven’t been reading KERF long enough to know that onions are a FORBIDDEN ingredient to mention here 😉

    Jenna,
    The bean dip contributed 100 kcal – it’s much more calorie-dense than most people think. The Kashi crackers were another 130, Fage and Mango 80 kcal each, almonds about 40, and the rest filled it up to 500.

    No icepack – I hate cold yogurt. I have sensitive teeth and don’t really eat/drink anything cold but maybe ice cream, which I take a long time to eat.

    Kath

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  6. rhodeygirl says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    yummmmmm and prettttttyyyy

    i wish i had such a green thumb (and a garden!)

    your flowers are SO beautiful!

    and the food looks amazing, as always.

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  7. JENNA says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    grr..calories add up way too fast!! 🙂

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  8. Kiala says

    April 8, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    I have a cold, too! But if you can work out, so can I.

    If I get pneumonia, though, I’m suing this blog.

    Hahahaha.

    No.

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  9. Kristie says

    April 8, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    The flowers are gorgeous. I can’t wait to see flowers growing outside around here. We are still stuck with little snow patches so no greenery just yet…

    The food looks delicious. I feel like I could just pick that fresh mango right off the screen and eat it.

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  10. Heather says

    April 8, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Those muffin tops look amazing!

    Your blog makes me want to buy new plates and placemats, by the way… super cute 🙂

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  11. Anne P says

    April 8, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    ha, i was reading nick’s entry thinking “oh no kath hates onions!!”

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  12. HokieShelley says

    April 8, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    from the gals who brought you Veganomicon…

    free recipes!
    http://www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/index.php?list=byCourse

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  13. Sonia says

    April 8, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Am really sorry but I lost the link Kath once posted about calculating upper and lower limits for HR for my polar F4. Does anyone remember that link? Thanks.

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  14. Romina says

    April 8, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    My goodness! You already have flowers? They’re gorgeous!

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  15. Ally says

    April 8, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    What beautiful flowers!

    I haven’t liked bananas that long either! I read somewhere that they were ‘high in sugar’ so I stayed away from them for awhile. I can’t believe I did because they are simply one of the best foods!

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  16. VeggieGirl says

    April 8, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Fresh flowers? Check. Crisp, raw vegetables? Check. Fresh mango? Check. MORE delicious foods? Check. Looks like SOMEONE is having a wonderful Tuesday, for sure!! :0D

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  17. Caroline says

    April 8, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Kath–If you like muffin tops, I actually recently bought a muffin top pan from Amazon. That way, you get nothin’ but the top! It’s a great alternative to buying Vitatops online, if you’re into those.

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  18. n/a says

    April 8, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    Hi Kath,

    i just wanted to say that i read your blog every day and it has been soo helpful. I will not lie, i used to have an eating disorder, seeing how well and healthy you eat daily has helped me considerably. Thank you so much it helps more than you can possibly know.

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  19. Mom says

    April 8, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    This is Kath’s mom. Her dad and I LOVE onions. And her grandfather grew wonderful onions in his garden. We tried and tried over the years to get her to like them. I even tried to bribe her once. Not sure how much $ but a certain amount if she would start eating them (a modest amount but enough for a middle school trip to the mall to get a cute top or new pair of shoes.) No luck. She refused.

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  20. Betsy says

    April 8, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    pretty flowers!!!

    Nick will learn….

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  21. Jessie says

    April 8, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    Ha, its pretty cute that your mom comments on here 😀

    Cute story Mom!

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  22. BethT says

    April 8, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Haha, that is a funny story about the onions. It’s so sad, because I cannot think of anything more delish than a lovely caramelized onion, and/or the smell of onion and garlic cooking!

    Anyway, Kath, with all the mango you eat, do you ever think about making fruit salsa (with mango or pineapple, cilantro, etc)? I bought a prepared version at Whole Foods and it made me think of all of your mangoness lately. It is so good on fish and mexican dishes.

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  23. Tina says

    April 8, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    Pretty flowers! We’re not even close to blooming flowers in Boston yet, but we might hit the 60s this week!

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  24. Kath says

    April 8, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    n/a,
    So glad you find the blog helpful 🙂

    Mom,
    If I hadn’t inherited your sense of SMELL then I might like them! Unfortunately nothing overpowers the nose worst than onion breath, taste and smell!

    BethT,
    I like mango salsa, but I don’t it’s worth the effort to make!! Be we have made it before – perhaps it will make an appearance 🙂

    K

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  25. Lisa says

    April 8, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    hey everyone….KATH

    could I use steel cut oats for your baked oatmeal recipe? i don’t have any rolled oats on hand!

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  26. Kath says

    April 8, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Lisa,
    Since steel cut take so much longer to make, I would partially cook them first and finish them in the oven. Or they might just need to bake a really long time…. I’m not quite sure how much longer though because when I make them on the stove-top I always add liquid after they are 2/3 done. You could certainly prepare the oats and then assemble a casserole and bake for 10-15 minutes to let the flavors blend.

    Kath

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