Fueling on Plants, Lunching at Work

Hello Bloggies!!

I hope your 2011 goals and intentions are going strong. I have been doing really well by staying active, eating healthy and trying to get as much GREEN into my diet as possible.

I like to start my day off with a a very GREEN shake in my Vita-Mix. 

Jammed pack full of greens - Spinach + Kale

I absolutely LOVE Amazing Grass products, they make me feel, well amazing! I make sure a scoop of Amazing Meal is in my smoothie as well as the Wheat Grass powder I just purchased from iherb.com

When I have more time or am real hungry I opt for some oats instead.

Rolled oats cooked on the stovetop, splash of almond milk, walnuts and coconut butter

SCRUMDILLYUMPTIOUS!!!!

Sometimes I fit in my workout before work and others after work. Do you prefer a AM workout or a PM workout? For me I guess it always depends on the day and my mood. Also if I am rushing to get to work, or if I overslept you better believe I am working out in the PM :)

Here is a yummy salad that I created last week:

Kale, Cuke, Spinach, Carrots, Tomato + Sunflower seeds

I have also opted to bring my lunches to work from now on, I am eating leftovers from tofu to chili to stirfry. We have a microwave at work so it definately works out nicely.

Re-heated Vegan Chili, I think next I am going to add tofu to my chili.

Savory Sweet Potato Soup

re-heated Tofu StirFry

Today it's a "TST"

Tofu, Spinach, Tomato Sandwich

I baked some tofu this weekend and have some leftovers - I thought why not on a sandwich??

I warmed the 3 slices of tofu in the microwave and placed on my pre-made and brought from home sandwich, complete with Ezekiel bread, Veganaise, yellow mustard, spinach & tomato.

This was way good! I will be posting the tofu recipe soon!!

I hope you have a wonderful week!!

Nichole

Keeping Up With The Vegetables

TGIF!! Hope your first week of 2011 went very well. I thought I would recap how my meals went this week:


Part of my goals this year was to eat more veggies daily and get as much leafy greens into my diet as I can. Here are some progress pictures:

Spinach, Tomato & Cuke w/ Balsalmic

Morning Smoothie's

1 cup spinch, 1 cup kale, 1/2 cup almond milk (unsweetened) 1/2 frozen banana, Amazing Grass Amazing Meal, 1 scoop of wheat grass powder and 1 TBSP flax oil

Another Huge Salad - Spinach, Kale, Cukes, Tomatos, carrots, toasted seasame seeds and sunflower seeds + some light balsalmic

Every morning I had a very Green smoothie, every lunch I had some leftover Vegan Chili from New Years Eve. Most dinners have been very green large salads and some vegetables and some Vegan Alfedo w/ broc.

I also had a huge plate full of brussel sprouts and asparagus last night which was not photographed due to me extra hungry from working until 8pm at the builder show.

I hope you have a great weekend!!!

Nichole

Cold Weather Meals

Happy Friday!

Less than a week until Thanksgiving is here and I can't believe it snuck up so fast this year!

Look what I found in my garage... well actually Kujo found it.

That is a salamander. Didn't think they could survive the winter months in Wisconsin??? Either way I couldn't find myself to put it outside, I actually let it be, not sure if it will live or die?!!?

Moving on to some yummier things....

My favorite meal in the winter...

Vegan Chili, lots of veggies (lunch portion)

Find my Chili Recipe HERE.

I had some sweet potatoes that I needed to use up as well as some other random ingredients that went along very well with Averie's recipe for Savory Pumpkin, Potato & Carrot Soup.

I used what I had on hand and didn't follow her recipe exactly but I am sure it was pretty much the same soup. 

I used 3 Sweet Potatoes (chopped)

1 can of pinto beans

and 1/2 can pumpkin that I had leftover

1 C carrots (chopped)

Cumin

salt & pepper to taste

Red Pepper flakes

and some other spicy/savory seasonings on hand

4 C of water

1 cup of vegetable broth as well was mixed in

A great cold weather soup. Couldn't taste pumpkin at all.

Delicious!

Nichole