What I Ate Wednesday #17

 


 

Good Morning! Today is a fun day of sharing my eats from one day last week! I love to be accountable to you all and share with you my day. This day happens to be last Friday. It’s usually a busy day as we are off early to head to homeschool co-op until the afternoon. I pack my lunch the night before in my easylunchbox and head to teach writing to 8-10 year olds! LOVE IT!

I share my food using my iphone so most pics aren’t the best of lighting but you get the idea!

This last Friday my hubby and oldest went camping with his boyscout patrol in 20 degree weather, oh yes they did. Better him than me is all I can say. So I decided to have the younger two enjoy a playdate with some friends. Their mom and I had dinner together. Thankfully I didn’t have to fuss about it as I had left over chili I had made the day before and she was more than happy to enjoy some with me and a cup of coffee! Turned out to be a great Friday rather than a lonely Friday without my older boys!

 

 

This is my NEW FAVORITE way to eat eggs and oats! I call it my Oatmeal Berry Breakfast Cake! Click the link to see the recipe and WAY better pictures of this masterpiece! It’s also gluten, dairy and sugar free! It puffs up like a cake, and is made in 3 minutes in the microwave or you can cook it in the oven as well. Perfect combo of protein and healthy carbs!

 

Lunch was my new tri-color Greek style quinoa salad. I have to say that I normally just enjoy the white quinoa but found the tri-color one at Trader Joe’s to give it a shot. It still tasted delish but I found no difference in taste.

Ever try it? What’d you think?

Along with the quinoa salad which was over a bed of raw kale to bulk it up, I had pistachios and pineapple chunks with low fat cottage cheese. It was filling!

 

 

 

Baby carrots seem to always be a snack for me daily but I am watching calories to take off about 5 pounds so dipping them in my favorite nut butters was not an option since I knew later I was going to be having a heavier dinner. Don’t get me wrong, I love nut butters and they are certainly healthy but I tend to overdose on the recommended 2 tablespoons and usually eat way too much, so I’ve decided to hold off from opening the jar for a while!

 

 

Dinner with my friend was my Slow Cooker 4 bean Chili, which I adapted slightly from my original recipe (which has horrible pictures back when I first started blogging) so you can see how far I’ve come with a lot of practice!

My friend left kind of late so nothing else was eaten for the rest of the night and also because my daughter had a sleep over and I was quite simply wiped out.

I went to bed! :)

You can see more yummy eats from other bloggers over at Peas and Crayons!

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About Brenda

Hi! Welcome! My name is Brenda and I am a mom to 3 beautiful children, a puppy and a picky husband who I absolutely adore after almost 15 years! Over the course of the last 25 years of my life, (Yikes I'm feeling OLD!) and numerous diet failures, yo-yo-ING weight, crying and praying to God for a solution to maintain a healthy weight and stop the cravings, I have come to the decision that I simply cannot have certain sugars in my life! (To read my full story see, MY SUGAR-FREE JOURNEY.) YES, it is true, no white sugar and other products that contain it. BUT that has not stopped me from enjoying this life! My passion is cooking and I love entertaining friends and family, which makes it pretty cool that I can always try out new, healthy (insert sneaky laugh here) recipes on them!! SO finally after quite some years experimenting and creating recipes without white sugar and white flour, and receiving requests for these very recipes, this blog has come to be! If you are a woman who has recently lost weight and desires to maintain it, you will find encouragement and fabulous recipes here! If you a mom who is struggling to take that baby weight off, you will find help here! You may not even need to lose weight but you desire healthier recipes for yourself and family, you are at the right place! If you still desire to get to that goal weight (yep, that's me!) but still love to entertain (me again!) and don't know what to make, seek no further-- Sugar-Free Mom is the site for you my friend! Come on in and enjoy! Blessings, Brenda

5 thoughts on “What I Ate Wednesday #17

  1. I made your breakfast cake the other morning and it was totally delicious! I only had frozen blueberries, but it was awesome! Will have to try this with other berries as well. Thanks for the recipe!

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