This morning was another early one- I'm getting back into my early-rising groove :) I breakfasted on the usual bowl of cereal, caught up on all of your lives, and headed to the gym, as usual. I did Week 2 of Gina's plan for the last time, since she's posting a new one tomorrow. I'm actually really starting to like strength training, and how it's way less monotonous than cardio. Don't get me wrong, I'm not giving up running or my beloved elliptical soon (half marathon training starts this week...yay!), but it's nice to mix things up a bit and still feel like I'm getting a great workout. I also love that her routine uses mostly your own body weight with some added small weights. I've always felt like such a weakling trying to use the machines alongside all the muscle men!
For lunch, I decided to make a variation on something I'd read about on Allie's blog the other day and have been dreaming about ever since:
BANINI! ~2T cashew butter, sliced nanner and cinnamon on a Food for Life Brown Rice tortilla
Allie, girl- where has this combo been all my life?! I've tried heating banana/PB sammies up in the microwave before, but cooking it in a skillet made it 98098745 times better. I seriously suggest you all try this!
I did homework all afternoon (blechhh), breaking for the usual snackage:
Baby carrots, Mary's Crack and Tribe hummus, plus the last 2 squares of my Lindt dark chocolate. Nom nom nom.
Dinner came a few hours later, a slight variation on yesterday's lunch:
1/2 block Nasoya firm tofu marinated in olive oil and balsamic, romaine, tomato and nutritional yeast
I had a very nut buttery two part dessert: first off, an unpictured Fuji topped with PB&Co. Mighty Maple, then this bad boy:
Frozen banana + PB&Co Dark Chocolate Dreams
Next to the banini (so fun to say!!), this was definitely one of my top eats for the week. Something about chocolate + PB + banana just feels so ridiculously indulgent. I used to hate bananas, and I've had two today...along with 2 servings of PB! It's an addiction, and I love it :)
Well, homework beckons :( I need to stop leaving it off until Sunday night! Have a great Monday loves...only 5 days until the weekend!
What's one food you used to hate and now like? What's at the top of your favorite eats this week?
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20 comments:
Your lunch looks SO GOOD!!! I am definitely going to try that combo...can you believe i've never had cashew butter?! I know, i'm deprived. ;) I'll have to put it on my grocery list!
banana+cashew butter=omg YUM!! it's been way too long since I've had cashew butter! I need to make some ASAP! I've done 3hrs of HW today...ughhh! (sundays!) I hope you had a great weekend! ya ya for enjoying strength training!..it's not my fav so girlies who like it are my heros! hehe! xoxo!
omg i hated bananas grwing up too, what the efffff!! hahai dk what is wrong with me :) i love them now. that banini does sound fabulousss... anything pb banana is a winner for suree
xoxo
shelley
Hmmm...I used to hate spinach as a kid, and now I eat it almost every day! Typical :-)
Oh man I used to hate shrooms and tomatoes--now can't live without!
I used to hate brussel sprouts, but now I love them all roasted up with some garlic & EVOO!!! love the weekend countdown, crucial :) thanks for stopping by my blog, glad I found yours!
I am totally making a frozen banana treat! That would be a healthy dessert for me to eat:)
I would say the top of my eats this week have been either home-made cookies or bread. Both of which I ate too much of and probably weren't all that good for me!
I actually used to not like sweet potatoes and am now eating more of them.
What do you generally have for breaky??
my favorite snack ever is PB&Co. Mighty Maple with organic Fujis.
I used to HATE tomatos.. now i adore them :)
even the small ones that "explode".. bleh.. but i still like them :P
And one thing I used to like.. bananas, and loaath. cannot.stand.bananas.
Great blog! I'm loving the pics! I can't wait to try out the banini. Yum!
haha your banani looks like my bolani! except yours is sweet and i've never tried it...um i should fix that! early rising is so nice once you get into it!
I used to dislike bananas too! Now I eat them almost everyday! And I am definitely going to be trying the frozen banana!
Yay for half marathon training! I get really excited about running lol
One food I used to hate was brussel sprouts and now they're my favorite veggie :D
Gosh, that banini looks freaking amazing, what with the cashew butter!
I used to HATe broccoli to death, I even puked when forced to eat it. NOw, I eat it every single day! Haha!
Hey girl! Glad you found my blog and stuck with it even though I went MIA forever! And I'm glad you commented because it brought me to your wonderful blog! Always exciting to discover young and fabulosa NYC foodies! Can't wait to keep reading!
Your lunch looks awesome!
I used to hate brussel sprouts and now love them!
I used to HATE HATE HATE (HATE!) green olives & capers. As in, couldn't even enjoy a sauce that had either of these ingredients in it (even if I wasn't aware they were in there)! It was weird because I have always LOOOOVED black olives... I have no idea what possessed me to try a green olive again a couple years ago, but I did - and I loved them! Now I can snack on them & I actually like them just as much as (if not more) than black olives. I don't know how/why my tastebuds changed, but they did, and my food world is richer because of it. ;-)
That banini (very fun word) looks delicious! I love almond butter, banana, and cinnamon, and cashew butter sounds like an awesome twist!
Thanks so much for your sweet comment, it totally brightened up my day!
I want to make a banini now, just so I can say it. ;) Oh Lordy there are so many foods that I used to dislike when I was little, but I was a really super picky eater back then. Like all I would eat was oatmeal and bananas... Should have introduced baby Rachael to baninis lol! But I used to refuse to eat grape tomatoes because of how the seeds would splatter, and now I like them!
Rachael*
Skillet that bad boy? Nice touch. How do you stay focused doing work? I get distracted within minutes... even worse since the blog world has taken over my life.
I'm so glad I found your blog, it's kind of crazy how much we have in common! We're exactly the same age, go to college in NYC and love food. Crazy. I have sooo many friends at NYU, it's such a fun area to go to school in.
Thank you for your sweet comment on my blog:)
OOO the banini looks tasty. I think I'm gonna have to try that! Cashew butter? hmmm, gonna have to search for that.
I love mushrooms now. Didn't care for them before.
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