In case you’re new around here, each Wednesday is a post all about the good and sometimes not so good eats for one day of my life. I try to give you weekends, weekdays, and holidays so you can see some variety! Todays eats just happen to be yesterday when the kids and I attend music classes and we pack a lunch and are pretty much gone for a good part of the day. Then it’s a rush to karate and dinner after that. I find if I pack well, I don’t come home too ravenous and eat everything in sight before dinner.

Here’s how the day began:

Ruby wants my cheese stick but she’s not getting it! So not my typical healthy well balanced breakfast but it is what it is sometimes!

My mid morning snack was some almonds.

I did redeem myself by packing a healthy lunch and snacks for the rest of the day at music school.

See? Not too shabby right? That’s a 100 calorie flat bread whole wheat flax wrap with peanut butter and jelly mixed inside. Some fresh cucumbers from my garden. Baby carrots and hummus and an orange for the afternoon.

Hubby cooked last night and made some flounder using cornmeal for coating and seasonings. Also some fresh tomatoes and green beans from out garden, yum! The garden was the best thing this summer ever! So very happy hubby finally built me a garden!

And I ate the entire bowl of popcorn and did not share…….some nights that’s how I roll!

What about you? Do you eat popcorn and not share? Or what’s your “won’t share it if you paid me” snack?

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Today’s food journal is from last Friday, one of our last nice days weather wise, before we were hit with rain and thunderstorms and lightening for most of the weekend!

Breakfast was my Gluten Free banana bread muffin cut in half with peanut butter spread in between and it was good!

I love fruit and nuts! Almonds are my favorite!

I’m back to tracking my food to take off a few pounds that have creeped up and tracking my food is the best way that works for me. I am already a clean eater, no refined sugars, limited natural sugars like in fruit, pretty much gluten free for the most part, yet have gained weight over the last few months. Why? Because I like to eat and I have a problem with portions, so even eating healthy food one can gain weight. So I said all that to say, yes I even measured out my nuts!

NEW recipe, can’t wait to share, and I ate 3 for lunch!! You can probably figure out for the most part what’s inside, light and healthy and amazingly delish!

An afternoon snack while I worked. In the bowl is my new favorite snack, Just Great Stuff, which is powdered peanut butter. This is the chocolate peanut butter version and still only 40 calories. I shared a video about it in case you’ve not heard of this brand. I don’t buy PB2 because of the sugar in it so this brand works for me much better.

For dinner the hubby and kiddies were on their own as I was able to meet my mommy friends and enjoy dinner at Panera! I chose the Shrimp and Soba noodle salad and loved it. I just bought some soba noodles which are made from buckwheat which is gluten free, so I plan to make a version at home!

Have you ever tried soba noodles?

Can you relate to the “eating healthy, why have I gained weight” syndrome?

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Happy Wednesday! Here’s what I’ve been eating lately! This edition of WIAW is part of a large group of fabulously fit and healthy bloggers sharing their eats over at Peas and Crayons!

I’m trying to reduce my carb intake in the evenings and at lunch too. Just feel it helps me feel less sluggish and I am trying to lose some weight I’ve gained over the last few months. Summer swimsuit season brings on my hustle bustle get this done attitude! I want to be a fit toned momma of 3. I refuse to be a flabby 41 year old frumpy momma! So that’s why I was at the gym at an ungodly hour, 5:15 am, for a spin class! Here’s my red sweaty proof pic!

So here’s one day last week although I can’t recall what day I took these pics, please forgive, but you get the idea!

I made this new recipe last week, Dairy Free Sugar Free Vanilla Chia Pudding.  Had one as a snack and the other was staring at me at breakfast time the next day so there. Yep, why not have it for breakfast? It’s got milk, chia, full of fiber and protein too. And it was good!

An easy lunch of peppers, cucumbers, beets, and some grilled chicken and a side of fresh cherries!

Afternoon snack was a corn thin topped with light cream cheese and apple juice infused dried cherries I found at Whole Foods.

Coconut Curry Chicken with broccoli and brown rice was on the menu for the family but I opted to skip the brown rice. I’m trying to reduce the amount of carbs I have at night.

And of course I’m always making new recipes for my family. These are a take on a no bake cookie, but since my boys have nut allergies they can’t have peanut butter so it’s chocolate oatmeal and they are good! Thumbs up from the family as this was my second attempt at them. Recipe will be posted soon!

Oh but I didn’t eat the whole plate, I had like 2 or maybe 3 LOL!

 Do you try to avoid carbs at night or does it not really matter to you?

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