Howdy!
I want to thank you all for your support and advice yesterday. It’s assuring to hear that a lot of other people are going through similar experiences— it just goes to show how hard it really is to rest more and eat more!
Unlike last week’s WIAW, which was all about recurring food themes, I’m going to attempt to bring a little more variety to the table with some new foods and some foods that I’m bringin’ back from the past. If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that I’ve been posting meals like it’s my job. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually post a picture of something other than food… But food is usually more interesting than, say, my face? Or the generic sunset/fresh snow/cat-all-up-in-my-grill picture? Not that those aren’t fun to look at though! I don’t know where I’m going with this. I’m done. Food pictures.
Check out Jenn’s linkup for some more spice of life!
{These are some eats from different days in the past week!}
Breakfasts
Gina’s cookie dough cereal with strawberries and banana
New: Love Grown Peach Almond Vanilla Hot Oats with a dollop of peanut butter and strawberries on the side
New-ish: Greek yogurt with sliced banana, a strawberry banana muffin, chia seeds, hemp hearts, and a big spoonful of pepita sun seed butter. This was so good that I had it again the next morning…and again yesterday morning.
Hot banana oatmeal in a cherry butter toffee peanut butter jar. RIP peanut butter jar.
Lunches
Avocado toast, caprese salad, and two soft-boiled eggs with s+p
New-ish: Turkey, cheese, lettuce, jalapeño greek yogurt dip panini + side salad with tomatoes and homemade peach jam vinaigrette
Snacks
New: Bell peppers with jalapeño Greek yogurt dip from Costco
New: Some bites of these Rickaroons that my mom bought via @Kayleale on Instagram. I’m telling you, my mom is a social media/foodie picture aficionado now.
Giant, juicy oranges
New: Strawberry banana muffins (used this recipe minus the streusel). Oh so wonderful!
New: Not dried leaves…not goblin feet….Dried pears! Nothin’ but pears and they’re delicious, I promise.
Dinners
New: Sushi date with a couple girl friends! Eel cucumber roll and Fantastic Roll (tuna, salmon, yellowtail, avocado, and marbled seaweed with a special dipping sauce). YUMFREAKINGTASTIC.
Bringin’ it back: Kylie’s Whole Grain Crust Pizza Quiche! I made this once before, and I thought it was due time to make it again. I don’t make a recipe more than once very often!
New: Homemade whole wheat crust margarita pizza! I was ridiculously close to tossing the dough when I made it, but I’m glad I stuck with it. It turned out quite tasty!
A slice + side salad with some on-the-brink-of-too-smelly leftover salmon.
Desserts
More of these babies. {Recycled photo}
Bringin’ it back: PEANUT BUTTER BANANA SOFT SERVE!!! With some Greek yogurt for added creaminess and protein. I’ll be adding the Greek yogurt from now on— so good!
I also want to add that my “little sister” from dance company, Lilly, tried overnight oats for the first time and LOVED them! I was a little too excited.
In a sunflower seed butter jar, making it the optimal experience.
It was certainly nice to add some more fun flavors to my palate this week. Although, I could probably live off of just bananas, yogurt, avocado, brown rice, and grilled chicken.
Happy Wednesday! Yesterday was a half day because of the snow storm, and today may or may not be a two-hour delay…(I’m typing this on Tuesday night). Either way, stay safe and warm wherever you are!
So tell me:
Did you try any new foods this week?
Have you ever tried making a homemade pizza?
What kind of Instagram photos do you enjoy seeing the most?
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Ah! That’s awesome you’ve taught a friend the glory of makin overnight oats. I’ve been wanting to try avocado toast, but never have HOw do you like it? Do you add any seasoning to it?
The “glory” of overnight oats is right! I’m having some of the glory right now 😉
Gah! You MUST try avocado toast. I just toast up some bread, smash a quarter of a ripe avocado on it, and season with some sea salt and lots of freshly cracked black pepper!
Hahahaa those goblin feet gave me a slight shock :p ..ooh that homemade pizza looks yumm. Last I made pizza from scratch was a few years back, in school! Yeah that long :(. I’m not good with trying totally ‘new’ foods..like I probably would be scared to have Eel sushi!
I admit, the dried pears do look pretty frightening.
Eel sounds like the weirdest thing to try at a sushi restaurant, but it’s cooked and tastes amaaaaazing (like better than any other protein I’ve had). I 100% recommend trying it one day!
We make homemade pizza ALL the time. Jeff has been perfecting the thin crust, and every time it just gets better.
Awesome! I might need some lessons from him, because I was so close to chuckin’ this batch of dough!
ALL of your food looks INCREDIBLE! I am stuck in a food rut and on repeat so I haven’t had too much “new” lately, I am jelllin’! haha 😉
Don’t be fooled though— I’m still having lots of the same ol’ things too! 🙂
I’m pretty sure that all of my highest liked IG photos have been food ones… meaning people only like me for my eats 😥 Buuuuut it’s all good because those are normally the kind of of pics that I like the most too 😛 It’s just neat to see what other people are eating and get new ideas… which I sort of need since I’m basically surviving off of snack plates and granola bars at this point.
I feel like some people at school know me well just because of all my food pictures…But you’re right— I do like food pictures the most 🙂
I need to make your granola bars. I want one every single time you mention them!
Lovin this post- I’m always looking for new healthy food ideas and snacks and you listed a ton! I eat a yogurt bowl every single day and I love the idea of adding the sun seed butter and chia seeds. Your lunches look great too- especially that panini! Where do you get jalapeno greek yogurt dip?!
I love getting snack/meal ideas from other blogs too! The greek yogurt dip is from Costco. If you like the tanginess of Greek yogurt with a little kick, I would definitely recommend it!
Everything looks so good this week! Or maybe I’m just extra hungry? Lol probably a mix of both!
That pizza looks awesome! I’ve never made pizza before (real pizza vs English muffin pizzas😉) because baking with yeast always intimidates me🙈.
And I 100% agree with you that food Instagram pics are the best! No offense to all you cat lovers out there!
Have an awesome day girlie😘💗
English muffin pizzas are what I would make a majority of the time 😉 This was my first time baking with yeast, and I miiiight have slipped up somewhere in the process, but things turned out a-ok nonetheless.
Hope you’ve been having a great day, Katie!
Okay I seriously love every single thing you eat! What kind of a camera do you use? Your pictures are fantastic! The dried pears sound really yummy – although they do look like goblin feet, lol! I’ve never made pizza dough, but I’ve added my own toppings to a premade one 😉 I’d like to try and make my own though! Happy WIAW!
It’s definitely a more fulfilling experience eating pizza when you make your own dough!
I use a Nikon D3100 that my mom bought as a family camera. It’s safe to say that I make the most use out of it though 😉
Happy WIAW to you, Leigha!
Can you fedex me all those meals? For real?
I haven’t made dough dough from scratch since I was young, but I recently made soft pretzels with yeast and it wasn’t too nerve racking! I love foodie instagram photos but not when I’m hungry. That is a recipe for disaster!
I only send things by Canadian geese, Arman, you should know that! 😉
And you’re right— Instagram food pictures + hunger = no bueno.
You can never go wrong with adding peanut butter to the mix. 😉 I love topping greek yogurt with all sorts of fruits and mixing in peanut butter. It gives off such a smooth creamy texture you can’t beat! Avocado toast is so good. I love avocados alone. They have flavor that I can’t describe but enjoy. Strawberry banana muffins? I need to get on that! I love making homemade pizzas. Having the ability to customize with what you have is so fun and yummy. That soft serve? LOVE.
I love making homemade pizza! Back in the day my mom used to make it with the bread machine. Now we stick to Trader Joe’s pizza dough and it’s still just as fun 🙂 Love all your breakfasts!!
We used to have a bread machine also! I don’t know what happened to it…But making it with a stand mixer worked out just fine 🙂 TJ’s dough is definitely convenient and tasty too!
I need to know your technique for how you got your semi-soft boiled eggs so perfect in the above picture? I’m always trying but they either end up too soft or overcooked.
My mom cooks them for 7 minutes and then plunges them into cold water right after taking them out!
So many good eats – I’ll have to bookmark this post and come back to it in the future!
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