Kath Eats Real Food

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Who’s The Boss?

Girls’ Day Out was a ton of fun!! I hopped on my bike and pedaled 4 miles to meet Michelle, Diana, and Amanda (Amanda, get a blog!) at Dean & Deluca in the sunny weather. My nice husband offered to bike there with me to keep me company, so that was fun too 🙂

I can’t pass up a big salad for lunch, so that’s what I had.

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The layers included:

  • Mixed greens + spinach
  • Broccoli
  • Mushrooms
  • Tomatoes
  • Cucs
  • Sprouts
  • Roasted veggies
  • Roasted red peppers
  • Sundried tomatoes
  • Carrots
  • Dried cherries (the highlight!)
  • Avocado (about 1/4 of one – yum!)
  • Garbanzo beans (~1/4 cup)
  • Dijon dressing, which I used about a tbsp of.

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MY OTHER RECIPES

After lunch I had a cracker with raspberry jelly + cream cheese for dessert.

We moved next door to see He’s Just Not That Into You. I brought my bag of Jelly Belly to share and had two small handfuls of those – and a few of Michelle’s sour patch kids!! Yay for candy at the movies!

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The movie was very cute. Kind of like Love Actually with all the different stories and very cute romantic comedy style – not cheesy either. And I though it was a very ‘pretty’ movie to watch with the settings, fashion, etc.

Soaking Up Sunshine

I biked home solo, but the weather was gorgeous and I took my time. I knew when I got home I wanted to keep playing outside! I decided I’d let the husband be the boss and would ask if he wanted to go running, walking or just sit on the patio and let him decide. Much to my surprise, he wanted to go running (he said it was “restless” today). He also chose and route and the mileage, so we ended up doing a 5-mile loop to this park. It was a nice run, but I am always more sluggish in the afternoons.

I was hungry when I got home, so I had this Kashi bar before we went on our run –

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I took about 2 bites and felt it was kind of boring, so I jazzed it up with Barney Butter!

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Dinner + Drinks

After a quick second shower, we sat down to watch an Office episode before we started on dinner.

I asked the husband to make me a POM cocktail while I got the computer all set up, and look what he made! He had one too (his had vodka 🙂 ) Mine was POM, tonic, a splash of cherry juice, a splash of orange juice. I think he snuck in a splash of Triple Sec too 😳

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I also put the husband in charge of the slaw side tonight. (Cabbage was $.47/lb so we decided to center the meal around it). Here’s the dressing he made to toss with about 4 cups of cabbage:

  • Zest + juice of two oranges
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tbsp canola oil
  • 1/2 tsp red curry powder
  • 2 tsp mustard
  • 1.5 tbsp mayo
  • Salt + pepper to taste

It was very good!! Best slaw we’ve ever made. However, we both agreed that some carrot, apple, raisins, orange, and/or nuts would have been very good in this too.

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But the “entree” of dinner was Spinach + Fontina chicken sausage from Trader Joe’s.

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I butterflied mine to make a sandwich on GH Sourdough bread. Plus ketchup and mustard.

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And pickles!

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While this dinner was filling and satisfying, it desperately missed sweet potato fries!

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Love TJ’s!

Check out this hilarious Trader Joe’s video Fig sent me today! I feel like there are so many products I have yet to try!

 

Our forecast suggests this warm weather is going to stick around for a few more days. I bet we only have one more cold spell and spring will be here! I remember that spring came early last year too.

I don’t have my two nutrition classes tomorrow due to a big webinar that the ADA is putting on, but I do have 9:30 Biochem. The original plan was to go to Biochem in my workout clothes and come home and go to the gym, but the boss said at the end of our run that he’d rather go first thing in the AM (which means getting up at 5) to get it over with and get his body clock back to early mornings. Going first thing would give me more time to study, so we’ll be getting up early tomorrow after all!

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  7. awesome salad and I loveeeee TJ’s chicken sausages! they are delish! def try the apple one if you get a chance!

    TJs is like one of my most fav. stores everrrrrrrrrr! SO HAPPY TO LIVE SO CLOSE TO ONE!!

    have a great night Kath!!!
    P.s. I totally thought your barney butta covered granola bar was like an oatmeal taco/burrito thing with PB on top. AHH you should totally do that as one of your “kids” meals like the banana and pb hot dog and apple fries!!

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  16. Fun day today! 🙂

    We almost got TJ’s chicken sausage, too, but ended up getting the chicken patties instead. We didn’t eat them tonight, though, but can’t wait!

    Diana

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  21. I saw that movie last night! I thought is was so cute but a little long….

    Kashi has now joined the peanut butter recall I believe. I think I read that on a blog somewhere? You should look into which bars have been recalled by them because I know there are a few. I threw away mine today just in case. I don’t want you to get sick!

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  23. #1 – I love your salad in a box, looks great and tasty!
    #2 – So excited to see the movie, already have a Tuesday night girls night planned
    #3 – love ‘pomtinis’, its my parents drink that they serve at all their parties, with triple sec and either tequila or vodka

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  26. Love TJ’s! that is a great commercial!!

    That chicken sausage rocks! I bought it about a month ago – so many ways to use it! I like it best on a hot dog bun or in pasta. I couldn’t think of a good condiment for it when on the bun. Any ideas??

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  28. I really love your blog. Healthy eating is my goal these days and your blog helps so much. I forgot how much I loved oatmeal until going to your blog now I eat it quite often. I’m to try the salad (above), it looks really good. Thanks for sharing.

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  29. i totally agree about the movie — i saw it yesterday, and it def reminded me of love actually (which happens to be the only dvd i actually own!).

    and that sausage is SO good — i tried it a couple months ago.

    nice job on the double workout today! way to take advantage of the perfect weather 🙂

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  35. I had a similar big salad from Whole Foods today! I saw the movie last night and thought it was like Love Actually too!

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  36. Aww I love the trader joes video. Makes me happy yet said to see it. hahaha.

    Looks like your day went fantastic. Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

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  41. Love the Trader Joe’s video! He actually shows the TJ’s I go to in San Francisco when he shows the line of cars waiting to get into the parking lot. It’s always packed!

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  42. My fiancee and I love TJ’s sausage and use it in a ton of our recipes too. We definitely got a good laugh out of that commercial, very funny and true!

    -kristen

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  47. haha…funny TJ’s commercial.

    Where is that TJ located? Ours doesn’t look like that! Ours is definitely more ‘quaint’ looking.

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