HEALTH: Busy Bee

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Time To Relax

After a hectic day at work I am now relaxing for the evening and catching up on almost a full week’s worth of Days Of Our Lives. Hubby is out at a work function this evening so it’s just me for dinner, which was an omelette w/ swiss cheese & spinach on an ezekiel tortilla. Easy and delicious.

Ahhh the weekend is here. It’s looking to be quite a fun one – tomorrow morning I have my first group run with Team Myles at Point Pleasant Park and then I’m meeting Ang, Jaime & Tash for coffee and we’re all heading over to OptiMYz Live, which is a big health/fitness expo being held downtown. I’m really excited to check out all vendors and attend a speech on Eating Local & Organic by the owner of the Wooden Monkey. Plus, I’m going to try and squeeze in a little visit to Bishop’s Cellar to use up a surprise gift card that I received today. I’ll be sure to report back all the deets!

Thought it would be fun to share a yummy meal we had the other night. I’m a huge fan of stir fry, they are healthy, filling and tasty. Last night we had Thai Red Curry Chicken.

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To save time I picked up pre-chopped carrots, pre-washed snow peas and bean sprouts. Hubby quickly sliced up an onion and mixed bell peppers. Throw them all into a big frying pan and let cook….

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Meanwhile, I de-boned the two chicken breasts and cut into small pieces, cooking in a separate pan.

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Once cooked, mix into the veggies and stir in 1 cup of the red curry sauce. I love “cheating” with sauces. They always taste fabulous and you can generally find
low calories ones. This sauce, Sharwood’s Thai Red Curry, was 60 calories for 1/4 cup.

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Served with my fav PC Thai Rice Stick Noodles. This dish (including the noodles) made 4 servings at 490/calories each.

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This made awesome left over's for my lunch today. :)

So, like I said relaxing for the evening – boob tube, laundry, blogs & tea.

Happy Weekend Bloggies!!

Monday, February 15, 2010

Comfort Food Kinda Weekend

I managed to sleep in this morning until a little after 7am. Whoot! That is awesome for me, usually I’m a 5am kinda gal. Plus, I got to bed before 9pm last night; my body obviously need the sleep. I’m all rested up and full of energy again. Good thing because I’m scheduled for 13K today.

For breakie I made us homemade fried egg sammies.

Pan-fried egg on a ww bun w/ a bit of melted old cheddar, crispy slice of ham, tomato and a handful of baby spinach.

Side of juicy, fresh pineapple. Soooo good!

Going to back track a bit to yesterday….
I got out for my scheduled 3K run and came back and inhaled my lunch. I think this was the best pot of chili that I’ve ever made! On Friday night, I browned the lean ground beef & veggies and then threw everything in a pot and simmered on the stove top instead of the usual slow cooker method AND I used a better quality chili powder. Really made all the difference in the world.

My chili includes: lean ground beef, red, green & yellow peppers, onions, mushrooms, black beans, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, chili powder, fresh ground pepper, paprika, & garlic powder.

Looking forward to enjoying the leftovers all week!

My pictures always seem to come out so much better when there’s a bit of sunlight. The kitty kats seem to enjoy it too.

After lunch, I threw a gigantic 10lb chicken in the oven. (Seriously, I’ve had smaller turkeys!) and prepped the veggies for dinner w/ the fam.

Mid-afternoon Mom & I got to work on dessert. I didn’t want anything too heavy so I suggested that she pick up an angle food cake and some cool whip. This is what we came up with:

We created a filling with fresh pineapple, cool whip, shredded coconut & chia seeds and used it to make a layer cake. Sprinkled the top with chia & hulled hemp seeds.

Mmm a fantastic dinner! I had chicken breast w/ homemade gravy, healthy mashed taters, carrots & baked squash. Was nice to enjoy a yummy meal and have some QT with everyone. :)

Yup, it truly has been all about the comfort food lately. Anyways, can’t believe the weekend is almost over already. Plans for the rest of it include: