¡Hola! How was your Tuesday? Watching “Biggest Loser”? I have wavering feelings about this show… in fact, I think one of my first posts on Hollaback Health might be about it. Hmm.
At the office I spent my entire morning fixing a file that had been mixed up. It was actually the first file I ever worked on when I started working at the office! That worked up an appetite for my amazing lunch.
1 carrot (yes, I'm obsessed); snow peas; tofu taco (2 pieces baked tofu, spinach, Laughing Cow light wedge, whole wheat tortilla)
Chobani strawberry
Seriously, that tofu taco was amazing. The tofu was from Sunday night when I pre-baked some tofu for the week. I mixed 2 tsp of molasses, 2 tsp of soy sauce, and a couple dashes of lemon pepper and brushed it on both sides of the tofu and baked it at 350* for 30 minutes. Perfect!
After work, I picked up the puppy and brought her back to the house where I had myself a little snack before leaving again to nanny Thing 1 and Thing 2.
1/2 cup Cheerios, 1 Organic Weetabix biscuit, 1/2 cup 1% milk, blueberries
While sitting on babies, I had a cup of coffee with a splash of creamer because by 5pm I was dragging. Thankfully the children were well behaved today and in great moods. Their mom bought a new house today (!!) so I drove them over to see it instead of waiting for her mom to get home. They’re super excited for the pool. And let’s be honest, I kind of am too. It is open and warm, and they’re moving before I leave the beach, so I should get to use it at least once!!
When I got home, I relaxed and caught up on emails, Twitter, etc. Finally I started on dinner. I have literally been dreaming of this meal for weeks and finally decided to make it. A while ago I had amazing veggie leftovers from an Indian restaurant and served it over a sweet potato. Awww, that post looks so old school. I’ve come a long way! And that was just before I went officially veg!
Anyhooooo…. I used leftover vegetable vindaloo and topped it on a sweet potato. Well tonight I attempted to recreate this. I sauteed up shallot, carrot, zucchini, broccoli, spinach, and celery in cooking spray, hot chili oil (a few dashes, that stuff is hot!), curry powder, and cayenne. I then added canned, diced tomatoes and some more curry powder and let it simmer while the sweet potato baked in the oven on 425* for 30 minutes.
While slicing up celery, I had a little appetizer 
Celery stalk with sunflower seed butter
Then came the amazingness of dinner!!
Vegetable vindaloo over a roasted sweet potato, sprinkled with nutritional yeast
I swear, there is a sweet potato somewhere under all that. And something I haven’t had in forever, a BEER!
Heineken Light
Having been out of college for forever 4 months, I couldn’t even finish this beer!! I left a few swigs. It was crisp and delicious, and killed the spice in my mouth, but it makes me tired! I am more of a wine girl, usually, and I really don’t care for liquor — with the exception of the occasional whiskey sour — but it was a fun change, at least!
Question: What are some good travel foods?? I’m flying to Austin for 3 days (Thurs-Sat) and I know we’ll be eating out a lot, but I want to take a few things with me. I want to pack my lunch (tofu taco!!!) for the plane on Thursday and obviously can’t take anything that will warrant me a pat-down at security or spoil, but I’m thinking maybe some trail mix, granola bars…. suggestions?
The Hollaback Health blog is so great! I can’t wait to read more of it. I packed some apples, a couple of larabars and trail mix for my flight. I also splurged a little on cost and went to this amazing Sandwich place when I was on my layover at San Francisco airport
thanks for the tips
I definitely have a couple apples, what a good idea!
I’m all about apples, dried fruit, granola bars and coffee when I’m traveling, but I’m more of a road tripper than flier. Hard to predict that I’ll find something worth eating so I have to make sure I have something to keep me away from fast food. Try to find a quality grocery store near where you’re staying before you get there, if you’re going to have to provide your own meals.
I went from an obsessive Biggest Loser watcher to an outright hater for a few reasons, if you ever want to talk about it.
right now I’m switching between being teary-eyed (one of the contestants had a death in his family) to hating it. you know, the usual.
dried fruit! great suggestion! the whole foods flagship store is actually in austin, so I might make my grandmother go just so I can see it. but I need to figure out what I can actually take back on a plane or not…. but I’ll be in richmond all next weekend, so I could just wait and go to the whole foods there…. conundrum.
I LOVE Austin-so jealous!
I always get freaked out about not having enough food on the plane so I like to go overboard with snacks.
Some of my faves baby carrots and snap peas (I usually wrap them in foil or a plastic baggie), shelled edamame (I put that in a tupperware), a high fiber tortilla with peanut butter (to sate my sweet tooth)…also trader joes makes great individually portioned trail mixes.
I think I’ll have stuff to take with me and then I’ll just steal snacks from the continental breakfast to use as snacks throughout and on the way back. I think I’m going to take thurs’s lunch and also some small snacks that won’t weigh down my pack. thanks!!!!