Lunch Today

Insanely Easy Chicken Salad (one 5 oz. can chicken plus 1 tbsp lite southwest ranch dressing) on sandwich thins, 6 oz. baby carrots, and 1 oz. honey roasted peanuts.

 

Awesome Lunch



Leftover Whole Wheat Protein Pancakes with Smashed (Skagit Valley) Raspberries!!



Lunch Outside



Enjoying a lovely lunch outside...so nice!



Broccoli Salad

I bought a lot of broccoli on sale last week. I noticed yesterday that it was still sitting in the crisper drawer, staring back at me. There was too much to just steam and eat plain (obviously I am the only one in my household who eats broccoli...), so I knew I had to take drastic measures. This called for some...broccoli salad!! I made up my recipe as I went along, using ingredients I had sitting around.

French Bread Pizza

This is not a healthy recipe, but it is super easy and really yummy. I don't think I've had french bread pizza since high school hot lunches, but it sounded really good so I thought I would make it! Great for those days you can't or won't or don't want to cook a "real" dinner (um, every day for me?!).

The Best Crock Pot Turkey Chili

This is one of my favorite recipes to have for Sunday brunch with my family - it makes a lot and I always have yummy leftovers for lunches. It is also easy to make while I'm at work since it cooks for 8 hours. It makes the beans super soft, which is great because there are few things worse than crunchy beans (besides gory movies and the dentist). You can keep all the ingredients on hand -- ground turkey in the freezer and almost everything else in cans -- so another easy meal to whip up with minimal effort.

You can find the original recipe here. (I always omit the onion and no one notices, but I suppose most people would add it so I left it in...) Makes 9 servings - 260 calories each (303 grams). Serve with your favorite toppings -- cheese, cornbread, tortilla chips, etc.

Random Fun Stuffs

I'm not sure where this came from, I saw it on Facebook...

Had lunch outside on our deck on the 4th of July!

From our upstairs on July 4th

Lunchtime Adventures

Leftovers!

Knitting in the Park...or parking lot haha

Simple Lunch 3

When the weather looks like this...

you need a lunch that sticks with you...

2 packets low sugar Quaker instant oatmeal and a banana!

Simple Lunch 2

Two bean and cheese burritos and baby carrots/sugar snap peas and Diet Snapple! 500 calories total. (Lunch is usually my biggest meal of the day).

I used the fajita-size (small) Carb Balance tortillas for 85 calories each and 1.5 servings (3/4 cup) of no fat refried beans mixed with 2 tablespoons of Pace hot salsa, topped with 1/4 cup of Mexican blend cheese.

Yum.





Simple Lunch

Spicy black bean burger with whole wheat sandwich thins and veggies.

Breakfast of Champions

After I got home from hot yoga this morning, we had a power breakfast! Jeff made the egg scramble and I added the strawberries and yogurt because I was very hungry.

Egg Scramble

Egg Scramble = 4 eggs, a splash of milk, 4 ounces of taco-seasoned ground meat, and 1/4 cup of Mexican cheese sprinkled on at the end. Sooo good!

Strawberries and Yogurt

Let me know if you can't figure out the recipe for this one...