I want to start by saying thank you to all my wonderful readers who provided me feedback on my camera situation. Because of your response, and all the info you armed me with…I’m pretty sure my wonderful husband may have ordered my birthday present a few months early! I’ll keep you updated!

Next up: A spicy oatmeal “How to”!

I’ve gotten a lot of questions lately as to how I make them – so I figured I’d give a description, and make a permanent post on the recipe tab.

Ingredients I use (feel free to get crazy if you have better ideas!)

• packet of regular (plain) instant oatmeal – my preferred brand is Target generic
• Morning Star sausage patty (you could use another version)
• 1 egg & 1 egg white
• Hot sauce

Now, I make this at work, so I do the whole thing in steps!

Instructions

• cook the egg and egg white at home
• throw the eggs and the frozen sausage patty in a little baggie to take to work
• make the oatmeal in a bowl using hot water
• while the oats are “plumping”, microwave the egg and sausage for a minute
• cut up the egg and sausage and throw them in the oatmeal
• add as much hot sauce as you like – in my case A LOTTTTT!

Final product should look something like this:

And this is what my breakfast has looked like during the work week for the past 2 weeks!

Lunch yesterday – a salad of course:

Paired with carrots, broccoli & hummus:

I polished off the rest of my TJ’s Greek yogurt for my afternoon snack…

Man those blackberries are delicious! And they were pretty cheap at TJ’s considering they aren’t in season in cold cold cold Cleveland, Ohio!

When I got home from work – I wanted to munch on something, but wasn’t ready for dinner.  So I had a little bowl of PB Puffins, and then took Lando for a stroll around the neighborhood!

By the time I was actually hungry for dinner, it was almost 8pm – and my stomach felt sort of weird.  I thought a sandwich might do the trick of making me feel better…

And it did!  I felt much better after my chicken/French Onion laughing cow sammy…and not to long after – I got a text from my friends – they were up at the bar near our house, drinking Strongbow drafts for $2  – I mean – HELLO – who can turn down $2 Strongbow drafts? So I went up and had a few with them, and came home and munched on some sweet potato fries that I had made early, but wasn’t hungry for at the time:

These were damn good! 

Breakfast was obviously spicy oats (pick a picture, any picture – you know what it looks like), and for a mid-morning snack – I tried a new Luna Bar!

This bar surprised me!  Most of the Luna Bars I’ve had, always have some sort of chocolate or yogurt on the bottom – this didn’t!

It was really quite good!  If you don’t like the Luna bars because they are too sweet or too artificial tasting – TRY THIS ONE OUT! I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

For lunch I switched it up since I’ve been craving carbs lately, and had a TJ’s veggie lasagna:

This is such a delicious and FILLING lunch (and ORGANIC!) – the whole thing is 290 calories! 

Snacks were carrots & hummus, and a chick pea wrap:

I forgot how much I like these wraps – I made it one day out of necessity (it was all I could pull together out of my cupboard) – it’s just a Laughing Cow wedge spread on a whole wheat tortilla, with chickpeas and hot sauce.  Seriously – SCRUMPTIOUS!  ;grin:

For dinner, I need to make up for my “no salad” lunch – so I had a salad, and another sandwich…

and the last of my blackberries for a sweet treat

After I let dinner settle, I headed up to the gym for a 4 mile run.  I’m using part of the training schedule that Andrea is using – for a 10 miler I’ll be running in April!  (I have got to post the races I’ll be running this year for ya’ll!)

When I got home, I chugged two HUGE glasses of water, but really wanted something nice and cold to eat – so I cut up an apple and an orange:

With some chocolate that I melted and drizzled over the fruit – yeah, I live life on the wild side! 

That’s about it kiddos – I’m tired and I think it’s time for bed!  Tomorrow’s Friday!  WOOHOO!