What We're Eating

Breakfast: Basmati rice and oats with tamari-nutritional yeast dressing, a spinach-pumpkin seed veggie burger, and guacamole

Lunch: Roasted vegetables (sweet potatoes, carrots, jalapenos, cabbage, potatoes, and onion) with Field Roast sausage, dill pickle cashews

Dinner: Pizza with vegan cheese and jalapenos

Breakfast = 2 slices honey wheat toast with 1 tbsp natural peanut butter, banana

Lunch = oatmeal with zucchini for volume, melted cheddar, salt, and pepper; fresh strawberries

Dinner = pulled turkey, BBQ baked beans, maybe some potato chips

Snack = 1 fun size Twix

Meal 1:
*another poppy seed bagel. Will be happy when these are out of the house.
*leftovers -- Field Roast vegan sausage and green bell peppers, both sauteed in olive oil, over lentil penne

Snack:
*16oz of Lipton Pure Leaf unsweetened iced black tea (usually avoid getting tea in plastic bottles but I already drank from my water bottle so didn't want to take it to Dunkin Donuts)
*Clif Bar, nut butter filled peanut butter kind. I have never had this before but it was really good. It might become my emergency on the go food since it has a decent amount of calories and balance of macros, travels well, and tastes good. It does unfortunately have refined sugar but it's not that much compared to some of the other bars. I might also try to make a healthy no refined sugar version of Clif bars to have for breakfast at home.

Meal 2: we went out to dinner for Valentines' Day but since it was around 10 PM and we don't generally make a big deal of Valentines' we ended up going to the local diner (it's a nice diner, not a greasy spoon LOL)
*wrap with fresh mozzarella, pesto, and grilled vegetables (greens, portobello mushrooms, red peppers, zucchini, eggplant, tomato). I think the wrap was whole-wheat but not 100% sure.
*side salad (spring greens mix, tomato, carrots, and red onion) with balsamic vinaigrette (might try to see if I can get the side salad dressing free next time)

But seriously...eating out is the hardest thing to manage. I got one of the "healthier" choices and it's good that I had about 1100 calories left because I'm pretty sure it took up all of them! I'm also way over my fat macros for today. I don't know how people manage eating out. Since I don't eat meat that limits the choices even more. The diner also has some really beautiful cakes. Today they had a rainbow one (maybe for all the same-sex couples celebrating Valentines' Day?) and a really good looking Oreo one...I was tempted but I quoted Dr. Now to myself "fancy cake is not on the diet plan." Not even going to eat any Valentines' candy tonight since I'm already way over fat.

goals: not sure on white flour since the wrap might have not been whole wheat, not sure on refined sugar but probably around 15-20g, approximately 94g protein

Breakfast: instant oatmeal - cinnamon & spice
Lunch: homemade egg salad on a Sandwich Thin with strawberries
Afternoon snack: string cheese and veggie sticks
Dinner: breaded & baked tilapia, with roasted potatoes and a small side salad
After dinner snack: maybe some tortilla chips & salsa, we'll see

Breakfast: Coffee with creamer
Lunch: BBQ tofu salad with lettuce, carrot, black beans, and avocado
Afternoon snack: 2 slices of leftover homemade pizzay boyfriend and I made for Valentine's. c:
Dinner: probably a brownie made by a friend, topped with ice cream. Maybe leftover homemade chocolate covered strawberries.

Breakfast: Morningstar veggie sausage link rolled up in a cooked egg with salsa, 1/2 orange, coffee
Lunch: 1/4 Muffuletta sandwich, small side salad with artichokes and avocado
Snack: chocolate baked donut & blueberry baked donut, coffee
Dinner: sushi, seaweed salad & edamame

We're celebrating my husband's birthday today so lots of restaurant food and snacks. I want to fit in a long bike ride between the donuts and sushi!

Friday:
Meal 1:
*plain whole-milk yogurt
*Amy's Organic non-dairy bean and rice burrito
*onion bagel (last one!)
*a tiny amount of leftover red lentil penne (for some reason my husband ate all the pasta except a tiny bit)
*16oz of unsweetened extra creamy oat milk

Snack 1:
*16oz of Lipton Pure Leaf unsweetened black iced tea
*Clif bar, nut butter filled peanut butter flavor

Meal 2:
*Nasoya fortified tofu sauteed in olive oil with radish greens, black pepper, paprika, crushed red pepper, and turmeric, over whole-wheat spaghetti
*salad -- celery, tomato, baby carrots, radishes, mini cucumber, McCormick black garlic seasoning

Snack 2:
*caramels from Valentines' Day

Saturday:
Meal 1:
*protein shake with Vitamin Shoppe PLNT vegan chocolate protein powder and unsweetened extra creamy oat milk
*Ezekiel 4:9 golden flax cereal with plain whole-milk yogurt and frozen mixed berries
*Clif bar, nut butter filled peanut butter flavor

Snack 1:
*16oz Starbucks unsweetened iced green tea
*black tea made with strawberry and cucumber infused water (at fancy coworking space that I had a meeting at)

Meal 2 (while doing work at Panera):
*Pick Two with Baja mac and cheese (has avocado and pico de gallo) and ten vegetable soup
*baguette on the side
*raspberry almond thumbprint cookie
*32oz unsweetened plum ginger hibiscus herbal tea

Meal 3:
*leftover whole-wheat spaghetti with tomato, radishes, nutritional yeast, black pepper, and paprika

Snack 2:
*16oz of unsweetened cashew milk

Breakfast: oatmeal with peanut butter & strawberry jam, coffee
Lunch: tamale casserole (masa, black beans, tomatoes, tons of peppers and a little cheddar melted on top), baby spinach and arugula side salad with ranch
Dinner: 2 chicken chunks, pea salad, and green beans.

Breakfast = oatmeal with melted cheddar, salt, and pepper (I ran out of zucchini 😢)

Lunch = turkey sandwich with American cheese on honey wheat bread, fresh strawberries

Dinner = spaghetti and meatballs

Breakfast: Apple carrot muffin

Lunch: Chickpea linguine with broccoli, tempeh, and tahini sauce, Clif nut butter bar

Dinner: Black bean bisque, garlic biscuit

Breakfast: coffee and protein shake
Lunch: turkey meatballs and a low carb peanut butter cup
Dinner : tuna and green onion salad on a oat fiber wrap

Breakfast: 1 egg bean sprout omelet with Sriracha drizzled on top, 1/2 small can of rinsed mandarin oranges, coffee
Lunch: large salad with TVP "taco meat", lettuce & shredded cabbage and carrots, sauteed peppers, chopped green onion, salsa & sour cream.
Dinner: 3 slices homemade pizza, thin wheat crust with mushrooms, peppers, onions, tomatoes & light on the mozzarella. Diet soda (I don't drink it often, but like it a lot with pizza since I'm not drinking alcohol this year)
Afterward, a cup of Earl grey tea and dark chocolate Kit Kat.

Breakfast: Egg Whites with cheese and salsa. Banana.

Lunch: Veggie Burger with Cuban Mustard and fries.

Dinner: London Broil, roasted fingerling potatoes, steamed spinach

Snacks: Built Bar in Strawberry Creme and a Yasso bar in Black Raspberry

Meal 1:
*the rest of last night's leftovers -- half a block of crumbled Lightlife flax tempeh sauteed in olive oil with turmeric and paprika, with a tomato on the side
*two slices Wholesome Pantry sprouted whole grain bread with 1 tbsp Pure Blends coconut vegan butter
*1 cup plain whole milk yogurt with 1 cup frozen mixed berries
*protein shake with 1 scoop Vitamin Shoppe PLNT chocolate vegan protein powder, water to dissolve it, and 8oz unsweetened extra creamy oat milk

Snack 1:
*1 tbsp unsweetened dark chocolate chips
*5 dates
*2 mugs decaf English breakfast tea with 1/2 cup unsweetened cashew milk in each
*1000 IU vitamin D3 supplement

Meal 2:
*Amy's Organic southwestern burrito
*1/3 container of Tribe Mediterranean olive hummus with nutritional yeast and hot sauce
*baby carrots and celery with black pepper and paprika, for dipping into the hummus
*1 serving Bush's sea salt bean chips, also for dipping into the hummus

Snack 2:
*1 tbsp unsweetened natural almond butter

totals: 0g refined sugar (yay!), burrito had some white flour, 93g protein