Hello on the beautiful sunny day! I had to pass on my $1.00 Jamba Juice oats today. I was not walking those extra 10 blocks in this rain. I started the day with a lovely green juice instead.
It contained kale, romaine, lemon, ginger, apple, celery, cucumber, and carrots.
This one was not so good. I think I will ditch the celery next time!
I arrived at work and warmed up with some oats and coffee.
I used Nature’s Path flax oatmeal, banana, cinnamon, and Navita’s Naturals Raw Cocoa Nibs. Yum!
Back to yesterday….
I went to Hale and Hearty Soups and got a delicious salad.
I forgot my camera as you can probably tell. The salad contained cucumbers, carrots, edamame, goat cheese, and avocado. Perfect combination! I also decided to try their signature Hale and Heart Vinaigrette since everyone around me was ordering it. I really enjoyed it.
I snacked on a Z-Bar later in the day. I tried to snack on an apple too but someone stole it from the fridge. Love when that happens.
After work, I went to Core Fusion. Dori and I decided that we would go twice a week from now on. We both want to get more strength training in so I figured last night would be a nice night to go! It was incredibly hard as always but a great workout. I plan to go once more this week too!
Dinner
I mentioned yesterday that I had 6 packages of hot dogs from Applegate Farms. I looked in my freezer and realized that they also sent me chicken strips, patties, and bacon! I decided to incorporate the Organic Chicken Strips into dinner last night.
Haha okay let’s check out the nutrition facts!
Organic Chicken Strips
Serving Size 3 Strips (84g)
Servings Per Container About 2.5
Calories 160
Calories From Fat 60
% Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Amount/serving DV%
Total Fat 7g 11%
Saturated Fat 1.5g 8%
Trans Fat 0g —
Cholesterol 35mg 12%
Sodium 180mg 8%
Total Carbs 11g 4%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 1g —
Protein 12g —
Vitamin A 2%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0%
Iron 10%
Organic Chicken, Water, Organic Rice Starch, Sea Salt, Natural Flavor, Breading: Organic Wheat Flour, Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Sea Salt, Torula Yeast, Organic Soybean Oil, Organic Paprika, Batter: Water, Organic Wheat Flour, Sea Salt, Organic Garlic, Organic White Pepper, Organic Flavorings (Organic Rosemary Organic Sage And Organic Marjoram), Organic Cayenne Pepper, Breading Set In Organic Expeller Pressed Vegetable Oil.
I like that the strips are high in protein and low in sodium. Most frozen foods are very high in sodium but 180 mg is not too bad for these. I cooked them on the skillet with some mushrooms.
While they were cooking, I decided to make a massaged kale salad.
I started off by rubbing Navitas Naturals Coconut Oil on the kale leaves.
I then rubbed half of an avocado all over the leaves. I added some salt, pepper, and lemon juice and sliced up a little more avocado for the top.
I topped the chicken and mushrooms over the salad once they were finished cooking.
The salad came out great! The chicken tenders were crunchy and similar enough to regular chicken tenders from restaurants. They were not greasy and made a wonderful salad topping! I topped everything with Vivi’s Original Carnival Mustard Sauce. I will do a full review on it next week but it gave my salad some nice little extra spice!
Dessert was Brown Cow Greek yogurt with a crumbled Purely Elizabeth Cocoa muffin (my 3rd muffin of the day,oops!) There was also some apple butter and chocolate chips hidden under the muffin!! Yum!
What is your favorite yogurt topping?
I’d have to go with the above for my favorite! Usually I don’t have muffins around so pumpkin butter, chocolate chips, and grapes are my 2nd favorite toppings!
I am off to go run to the store in the rain! I forgot gum and can’t sit here for 5 more hours without something to chew! Have a good one!
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I had to skip out on Jamba Juice Oatmeal today also! So sad!
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Homemade Granola!!! the best!
Massaged kale salad? Does that make the kale more tender? i have had it roasted and i cant imagine it being a mellow leaf. Is it really bitter???
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
It makes the kale nice and soft and gives it flavor. I can’t eat kale plain but this makes it really good! Not bitter!
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Oh yeah, and DUDE what is UP with all this FRIGGN Rain?????
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I am so tired of the rain over here lol…but at least it is not snow lol
OMG Daisy looks too cute in that pic…is that her surprised look?
I love putting PB and Banana in my Yogurts =)
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
That is Daisy’s “feed me some chicken” face!
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My favorite topping is a crumbled Glo bar. It is sooo good.
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Haha, Daisy wants in on that chicken action!
I am with you on ditching the celery from juice. I tried it once and said NEVER AGAIN! I’m just not a fan. Other than that, though, your juice combo is just like mine and it almost never fails me!
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Yes, thanks for the juice recipe! I’ve been making the same one almost every morning! I thought I’d attempt some celery today but I will stick with the usual!
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I love Applegate farms – so lucky!
I’d love for you to check out my blog – http://katiechangesforkatie.blogspot.com/
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I keep meaning to make a marinated kale salad and always forget. They look really good.
I like muffins in my yogurt too. Or chocolate chips. Or bananas. Or all three!
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everything looks delicious!!
my favorite yogurt topper? PB AND CEREAL!
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Granola! I love the crunch it adds. Adorable pic of the kitty
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Daisy is all “I CAN HAZ CHIKN STRIPS MOMMA?” So cute!
We had snow in Boston, but now it’s downpouring. Oh well, maybe it will be dry this weekend?
I wish we had Core Fusion in my area. Do you know if it’s on dvd?
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Yes it is on DVD! I have 2 of them! They sell them on Amazon.
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WOW great yogurt combo girl!!! how do u like the Brown Cow yogurt?
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Yes love it! It is similar to Oikos. Thick and creamy
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No Jamba Juice oatmeal for me today either – it’s closed because of all the snow (and the sidewalks are covered with over a foot of snow, so the walking wouldn’t be easy either)! Ah well, always tomorrow
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haha i love your cat in that picture! & i like my oats w/ cereal & banana & pb but i am always open for new thingss
xoox
shelley
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Your salads look so amazing! I went through a salad phase a while ago and I have slowly grown out of it, now I want it to come back.
I am dying over that picture of your cat. She almost looks FAKE! Seriously, those eyes, I love it.
Favorite yogurt topping…my homemade granola and a bit of crunchy peanut butter.
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what a great kale salad so inventive! i would never be able to come up with something like that!
hahaha i’m glad you weren’t stuck with 6 boxes of hot dogs. those chicken strips really sounds good and i’m glad they’re low in sodium. definitely gonna keep my eyes peeled for them!
get that gum girl i understand your urgency
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
I learned about the kale salad from Gena at choosingraw.com. Genius!
Got my gum and it stopped raining!
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I realllly want to try Brown Cow yogurt!! I’ve never tried grapes on yogurt – that is on my list. My favorite topping is puffins!
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I love mushrooms! There’s some Bellas in my fridge waiting to be delivered to my stomachs.
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fav topping? guess that would have to be slightly melted peanut butter.
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Muffins are typically my favorite topping but Kashi Crunch is a good replacement. Heads would roll if someone stole my apple from the fridge!
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bananas in yogurt!
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apples, berries, granola, pb and dried fruit! wow, that’s a lot! and cinnamon!
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I LOVE Applegate Farms, but I wish I could find more of their products here. I can get like 2 things!
I love adding granola bars, trail mix, or muffins to yogurt.
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