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Archives for April 2012

Tasted Table, In Pictures

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Breakfast: Boiled Eggs & Green Apple

Lunch:  Another Chopped Salad

Snack:  Green Smoothie

Dinner:  “Sushi”

Two notable things happened tonight.  First, Angela and I had plans to meet for yoga and sushi, but Austin traffic got in the way of the 7PM class so we had to improvise.  We went on a 3ish mile trek through downtown, stopping at a sushi place mid-way for some dinner.  Second, this was my first opportunity to test out the new Tasted Menu Austin app.  The Tasted Menu folks reached out to me last week asking if I would test out their app and after doing a little research I gladly accepted.  The purpose of the app is for users to rate specific dishes at a restaurant rather than the restaurant as a whole.  Not only can you view the dishes that others have rated, but you can view the restaurant’s entire menu within the app.  I’m really digging it so far and I think it will be a super resource as the user base grows and more feedback is given.

Chop Chop

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You know how most of the time you finish eating a salad, not because you’re full, but because you’re over it?  Then two hours later when you’re prematurely starving again, you’re like “man I wish I would have finished that salad”?  Number one reason why salad choppers are magical.  They allow you to turn a boat load of greens into a normal sized portion that’s super filling and far from boring.

They also allow for a perfectly even distribution of ingredients and dressing.  A Type A personality’s salad dream!

I’ll be making a lot of chopped concoctions over the next few weeks, so I hope you’re as eager about de-fluffing for summer as I am.

A FoodFash Chop

Handful of greens (I used baby romaine)

2.5 ounces of solid white albacore tuna in water

1/2 avocado, roughly chopped

1/2 green apple, roughly chopped

1/3 cucumber, roughly chopped

1 tablespoon Vegenaise

1 tablespoon white balsamic vinegar

Chop, chop, chop and enjoy!

Nature’s Bagel Chip

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Ohhh what I wouldn’t do for a lox bagel!  Love.  Well love/hate.  I love the stuff so much that I can’t stand to see a crumb wasted, so I eat it all up to the point of miserable fullness.  But since there’s no room for miserable fullness over the next five weeks, I’ll be spending this time coming up with solutions.  Lox bagel-esque solutions.

Sliced Cucumbers = Nature’s Chip Bagel Chip

If I had thought this whole thing through, I would have purchased some red onions and capers at the market.  But I didn’t.  So I merely sliced up some cukes, slathered with Tofutti “cream cheese”, and topped with slices of smoked salmon.  De-lish!

These lox cukes were a super fast weekday lunch that could also be a super fun weekend breakfast.  A feel good, super fun weekend breakfast at that!

P.S.  I snuck two workouts in today, which could be responsible for the overuse of exclamation points in this post!

Birthday Bikini Challenge

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So it’s that time of year again.  The time of year when I realize I packed on a little too much fluff during the chilly months, my weekend uniform will soon be a bathing suit, and my birthday is right around the corner.  This same sense of panic rushes over me every year around this time.  But this year I’m getting double serious!

Why so serious this year?  Well, this year I’m turning the big 2-9 and there’s a lot of internal pressure that goes on during your final days as a twenty-something-year-old.  I can already feel it.  So double serious it is.

I have approximately five weeks to get into the best bathing suit shape of my twenties.  Competing with my 22 year old self won’t be easy, but I’m making a plan and sticking to it.  Ballet and yoga days will have added cardio and non-yoga days will have AM workout videos.  Weekday dairy (other than the occasional Greek yogurt) will be a thing of the past and fruit with every meal will be the new norm.  I’ll be saying “see ya!” to empty carbs and “helloooo!” to green smoothies.  Bring on the birthday bikini challenge cause twenty nine is going to be a good looking year!