• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
Search
  • About
    • Contact
    • Press
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • 100 Oatmeal Recipes + Whipped Banana Oatmeal
    • The Best Overnight Oats Recipes
    • Smoothie In A Bowl
  • Nutrition
    • Top 10 Nutrition Posts
    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight Change
    • Becoming A Registered Dietitian
  • Home
    • Free Workshop
    • Digital Clutter Course
    • Shop Our Home
    • How To Declutter Your Kitchen Cabinets
    • Kitchen Organization Accessories
    • 5 Tips for Keeping a Clean House with Kids
  • Beauty
    • My Beauty Routine
    • My Top 10 Favorite Beautycounter Products
    • Products For Brighter Skin
    • How to Apply Skincare in the Right Order
    • Anti-Aging Line Review
    • Safer Sunscreen
  • Kids
    • Mazen’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Birth Story
    • Baby Food Favorites
    • My Kids’ Favorite Toys
  • Life
    • Fitness
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
    • Shop
  • Freebies

Kath Eats logo

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
Search
  • About
    • Contact
    • Press
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • 100 Oatmeal Recipes + Whipped Banana Oatmeal
    • The Best Overnight Oats Recipes
    • Smoothie In A Bowl
  • Nutrition
    • Top 10 Nutrition Posts
    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight Change
    • Becoming A Registered Dietitian
  • Home
    • Free Workshop
    • Digital Clutter Course
    • Shop Our Home
    • How To Declutter Your Kitchen Cabinets
    • Kitchen Organization Accessories
    • 5 Tips for Keeping a Clean House with Kids
  • Beauty
    • My Beauty Routine
    • My Top 10 Favorite Beautycounter Products
    • Products For Brighter Skin
    • How to Apply Skincare in the Right Order
    • Anti-Aging Line Review
    • Safer Sunscreen
  • Kids
    • Mazen’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Birth Story
    • Baby Food Favorites
    • My Kids’ Favorite Toys
  • Life
    • Fitness
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
    • Shop
  • Freebies
You are here: Home / Weekend / Clickity Click

November 11, 2008

Clickity Click

I have done nothing by respond to emails and do other online work since I came home from Chicago! There’s just so much information to sort! But it’s all by choice, I suppose. Here’s our group photo from this weekend of the Quaker Team and us bloggers 🙂

Breakfast was a rockstar! 😎 I didn’t even start to get hungry until noon. On most days I start to get hungry around 11 and let it build up until noon but today it was delayed. I wasn’t that hungry when I got up this morning though, so maybe there are other factors involved.

On to lunch – Ham + Laughing Cow with Mustard and Romaine on Dakota Bread –

DSC05831

A fruit medley

DSC05833 

Chobani

DSC05829

And to my horror – expired!! I’ve got one more from this batch too. I’m going to eat it tomorrow for breakfast. It looked and smelled fine, and usually there is a grace period of sorts on these dates. Had anything looked out of the ordinary I would’ve tossed it.

DSC05830

And half a Country Square. I brought this to crumble on the yogurt, but I ended up eating it for dessert instead.

DSC05828

Couldn’t have asked for a better (packed) lunch!

DSC05827

The poor husband was up at 3am this morning and is working until 8 tonight – when he has to immediately go to bed again! I hope I can see him for 10 minutes at least today 🙁

Back to the grind…

More posts from Kath:

Filed Under: Weekend

Reader Interactions

Previous Post
Overflow
Next Post
Bars + Bites

Comments

  1. VeggieGirl says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Love the fruit medley and the Country Square!!

    So sorry about the yogurt being expired – bummer 🙁

    Good luck to Matt with his early schedule; and good luck to YOU with the rest of your day! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Stephanie says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    Oh I love when sandwiches are made with the ends of bread loaves…that’s the best! Pretty good looking lunch Kath.

    Reply
  3. Amanda in Pittsburgh says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Your sandwich is making me hungry and I just ate! HAHAH! :o) AWESOME!

    Reply
  4. Halie says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    When I saw that you were eating a Chobani I immediately thought “Are those still good?” thinking they would have expired by now! Bummer I thought correctly! I really hate when food expires, and I have a real phobia of food poisoning, but I usually will take my chances.

    Your fruit looks yummers!

    Reply
  5. Sarah says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    I agree – eat the yogourt! I think that yogourt in particular is one of the dairy products you can easily get away with eating after the expiry date – like my mother says “It’s not like it turns into toxic waste at midnight of the expiry date!”.

    Milk on the other hand – is the one dairy product I WILL pour down the sink sometimes even a couple of days before the exp. date. I’ve had one too many bowls of cereal/cups of coffee ruined by that business…

    Reply
  6. Ellie says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    For what it’s worth I usually pay no attention to yogurt expiration dates. I mean you can keep it for basically forever. I’ve been known to eat yogurt that I bought two months ago. I get the Wallaby yogurts and after like two months the only thing happens is they tend to get separated-y.
    I’m very cautious about expiration dates for other things, but yogurt I think is pretty low maintenance.

    Reply
  7. Marianne says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    Don’t worry about the date on your yogurt – it’s a “best before” date, which doesn’t mean it all goes to crap on that date. Plus, since it’s in single serving containers, it hasn’t been exposed to air/contaminanats that could cause it to go off faster.

    Reply
  8. Julia (Santa Barbara Dreaming) says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    mmmm fruit medley. so fresh looking!
    I really like the group photo from the weekend I love how everyone’s holding a canister of oats.
    And I usually eat yogurt that’s “Expired” up to about a week after. 😉 I’ve never had any problems.

    Reply
  9. Runeatrepeat says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    I agree with many others here on past expiration date yogurt. It already has (healthy) bacteria in it. I tell myself that the good bacteria will battle the bad and I can still eat it.

    I want to try those Country Squares, but I have not seen them at my Whole Foods. Boo.

    Reply
  10. Mel says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    I love the group photo, it’s a great souvenier.

    I agree with everyone else about the yogurt, you’ll be fine. I’ve actaully seen some packs (I think it’s yoplait) that says it’s good so many days past the sell by date. 🙂

    Reply
  11. Biz says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    Great picture with Stephanie!

    Poor Matt!

    Storage: Yogurt may be kept well covered in the refrigerator for seven to 10 days past the “sell-by” date. If it is kept longer, it will develop a stronger taste. Freezing yogurt is not recommended because of the variable results in texture.

    Hope that helps!

    Reply
  12. jess says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    is that your little lunch bag? It’s too cute! I always keep things a little after the sell by date- as long as it smells and looks fine… haha. have a great one!

    Reply
  13. Maggie says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Yeah, I think the expiration dates have a very large safety period built in. I wouldn’t worry 🙂

    Your lunch looks delicious. Hope you get to spend some time with the husband today!!

    Reply
  14. Shelby says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Arg! I hate when things expire without you knowing!!! Sometimes it will be when I want to make a recipe and I pull it out to use it and it’s gross.

    Your lunch bag is adorable btw!

    Reply
  15. Melissa says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    I am getting more and more jealous of your weekend in CHicago! WHat a weekend to be there!

    Have a great day Kath!

    Reply
  16. Grounded Fitness says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    busy couple! Hope things slow down for you soon, but not TOO soon 😉

    Kelly Turner
    www.groundedfitness.com

    Reply
  17. Sarah says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    Kath,
    I was just curious if you have changed your perspective on any of the Quaker products after going to this conference. I personally feel Quaker puts more processed crap and added sugars into their bars, cereals, and instant oatmeals than is really necessary, and I read on Leslie’s blog that there was an “intense conversation” about this among the bloggers at the conference. Were you one of the ones who discussed this? Would you mind telling us about their response? I am just curious.
    Sarah

    Reply
  18. Sarah says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Oh, and PS my husband is super busy like that too recently, and I honestly just got done crying about it. It’s hard to blame your husband for being busy with a job they (a) love and (b) support you through school in (I’m in grad school too) but I keep thinking: I didn’t sign up to be single and stay at home alone and eat alone when I got married!

    Reply
  19. Steph says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    yikes i have definitely eaten expired chobani before haha, but only by a little and it was fine. your fruit combo look great!

    Reply
  20. Amanda says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Yummy lunch! I had a ham and laughing cow sandwich too!! Do you not like tomato on your sandwiches or is it just easier to leave them out when you pack? I find they add SO much to my sandwich, I wrap my tomato slices in saran wrap separately 🙂

    I’m also going through the trying to eat things before they expire thing. I live by myself and can’t pass up buy-one-get-one-free lunchmeat deals, but then I am racing to eat it before it goes bad!!

    Have a great day – enjoy the alone time while it lasts, I guess!

    Reply
  21. Oh She Glows says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    I learned in a nutrition course that yogurt is often good 2 WEEKS after the expiration date- how cool is that? Yay for health bacteria!
    Obviously, if it looks or smells weird then toss it, but for the most part it will be fine to eat past the date.

    I love the fruit medley today!

    Reply
  22. Mara says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    There’s an old wives tale that says that when you get the end of the bread, you’ll have a son!

    Reply
  23. Rose says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    I think I have the same lunch bag…. in red! Is it a Built?

    Reply
  24. seelee live (for the love of peanut butter) says

    November 11, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Kath, I read one of Sarah’s comments about the oatmeal conference. I do agree that they do put some unnecessary sugars into their pre-individually packaged oatmeal packets, but not to their old-fashioned rolled oats. But chewy bars on the other hand, are not as “natural” Am I correct? So curious, please Enlighten us!

    Faithfully, FortheloveofPEANUTBUTTER!

    Reply
  25. Jennifer says

    November 11, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    I understand an attachment to a lunch bag. I forgot mine (with my lunch inside) on the metro last week and I was SO depressed. I was totally looking forward to my lunch- greens with grilled chicken, half avocado, artichokes, italian dressing, with half a whole-wheat bagel, and the snacls for later- apple and cheese stick- and instead had to waste money to get a lunch not half as good.

    Grrrrrrrrrrr

    Reply
  26. Moran says

    November 11, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    What a great photo!
    And I LOVE the new header!

    Reply
  27. Melissa (the other one) says

    November 11, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    Yuck, poor Matt! 🙁 And I feel bad for myself b/c I have to get up at 5:30! I couldn’t imagine 3! But I have to get up and do something I hate (going to work) so I guess there are pros and cons either way! 🙂

    yum, lunch looks delish! you’re giving me some great ideas of what to do with the pomegranate sitting on my counter!

    Reply
  28. rhodeygirl says

    November 11, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    pretty lunch!!!

    have a fab afternoon

    Reply
  29. Fig says

    November 11, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Kath:
    No worries the date on yogurt is the sell buy date for stores. It is consumable for 2 weeks after the fact.

    Can you post more info on the bar you had with lunch?

    Reply
  30. Lisa says

    November 11, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    Mara – when I was growing up, I was told that eating bread crusts would give me curly hair and the ability to whistle. Wonder bread, indeed.

    Reply
  31. ashley (sweet & natural) says

    November 11, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    Pom seeds are everywhere! I’m going to have bite the bullet and go buy one now.

    Reply
  32. JC says

    November 11, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    You could probably go a few solid weeks past the sell-by date, especially for something like yogurt which was invented to keep well.

    Reply
  33. Julie says

    November 11, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    LMAO!!!! Curly hair and the ability to whistle! Too funny! I’ve got frizzy hair and the ability to whistle; maybe I got the burnt crusts. =)

    Reply
  34. Julie says

    November 11, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    LMAO!!!! Curly hair and the ability to whistle! Too funny! I’ve got frizzy hair and the ability to whistle; maybe I got the burnt crusts. =)

    Reply
  35. Oh She Glows says

    November 11, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    Kath, regarding the study that the RD talked about the benefits of a 610 cal breakfast- did he site what study this was from by chance?

    Reply
  36. ModelBehavior says

    November 11, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    no worries about the expired Chobani Kath, I ate one of mine SEVERAL weeks after the expiration date and it was just fine! Since you don’t open them untill you eat them I think they are ok, I would be much more cautious if it were a big container that had already been opened!

    www.modbehav.com

    Reply
  37. Kelley says

    November 11, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    I try to eat 1800 calories a day, so if 610 of that is for breakfast, do you try to keep lunch and dinner each under 500? And then one snack for around 200? I find that really hard to do. But maybe doing that will jumpstart my plateau. Thanks for the insight.

    Reply
  38. sarah says

    November 11, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    3 am to 8 pm is even worse than the day i just had (4 am and got home at 7). he should go into medicine 🙂

    Reply
  39. cathy dooley says

    November 11, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    Hi Kath! I have a question, are you working right now that you are going to graduate school? I am starting in the spring and i don’t know if i should go part-time. Thanks!

    Reply
  40. HangryPants says

    November 11, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    Great picture! Sorry about the yogurt. I bet it’s fine and would probably eat it if it’s not stinking up the fridge. 😀

    Reply
  41. Megan says

    November 11, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    That fruit looks yummy! Love the group pic!

    Reply
  42. Kath says

    November 11, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    Sarah,
    My opinion didn’t really change, but I think I have a better understanding of WHY they put lots of stuff in some of their products: because there are people that like them that way. We bloggers told them LOTS of our opinions on what we’d like to see in upcoming products, including lots more natural ingredients and such. It was a two-way conversation – us learning, them listening.

    And I’m not mad at the husband at all nor do I blame him! We just have to squeeze in time when it’s there. And I kinda like having the house to myself. It stays cleaner 😉

    Amanda ,
    I’m not a huge tomato eater, and they’re going out of season. They’re too much of a hassle to pack! But if I loved them, it would prob. be worth it.

    seelee live,
    I’m not sure which bars you’re talking about – I’d have to see the ingredients list. But the Simple Harvest line is awesome.

    Fig ,
    It’s an Honest Foods Country Square – more info here: http://www.honest-foods.com. They are good!

    Oh She Glows,
    Sorry, I’m just re-quoting him.

    Kelley ,
    I don’t think the 610 number is set in stone it’s the concept that’s important and it was probably just the average of the bigger breakfasts people ate. Just take the concept of bigger breakfast, smaller dinner and see where that takes you.

    cathy dooley,
    If you count 20+ hours a week of blogging and blog-related work, then yes, I’m working part-time 🙂

    Kath

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Search

Topics to browse >>

Get my exclusive promos –>

    Footer

    hi! Im Kath.

    I'm a Registered Dietitian, healthy eater, and mom of two from Charlottesville, Virginia. Here you’ll find a healthy mix of real-life meals made from whole ingredients balanced with the pleasures of life, including buttercream frosting and good wine. Plus a sprinkle of nutrition, home life, beauty, parenting, and travel.
    about | privacy policy | contact

    Recipes

    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • All Recipes

    Nutrition

    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight

    Life

    • Exercise
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
    • Instagram
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube

    Copyright © // 2023 Kath Eats Real Food
    Jump to top