Hola Everyone. Hope you had an awesome day. I was off to a slow start this morning, but then I made a steaming cup of Tazo Awake tea, and I was good to go…at least for a little while.
I ended up having a pretty good day. I had a very long meeting on a project I’m heading and it went fantastic. Now I have even more work to do, but I’m so psyched about it.
For lunch, I had a very healthy salad with a bunch of goodies added in…
….including:
Chopped Chicken and Baby Spinach Salad
- 3 cups fresh baby spinach
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 oz chopped rotisserie chicken
- 1 1/2 oz mixed cheese (I used cheddar and feta)
Dressing
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
The salad was fantastic and very refreshing on a hot summer afternoon. Although the salad was pretty filling at the time, I did end up having 2 Dr. Kracker flatbreads later in the afternoon.
I was really hoping to take a walk after lunch but my husband’s car battery died and I had to be on stand by to help him. Luckily, a few nice people stopped to give him a jump. We now have a shiny new battery, but the radio doesn’t work. It needs to be “reset” – it’s a built-in security thing. I ended up taking a walk after dinner instead.
Dinner was on my own tonight (hubby working late) so I didn’t feel like making anything elaborate:
I made a 1/2 peppered turkey and low-fat salami sandwich with cheddar cheese on multi-grain bread from the bakery. Caution, this sandwich looks much bigger in the picture than it really was! I also had a few sour cream and onion chips and a few slices of a granny smith apple on the side.
Some people need a huge dinner or at least a hot dinner to be satisfied. I literally grew up on sandwiches – they were a necessity in my house with 5 kids all active in team sports. So now, I actually find sandwiches comforting. You can also create so many different and healthy masterpieces with a sandwich. I love experimenting with them, seeing how I can make a better, tastier, and more healthy sandwich.
And, another great thing about eating a light sandwich dinner – aside from no clean up – is that you have room for dessert!
Just like the sandwich, the ice cream looks bigger in the photo because I served it in a very small “dipping bowl” dish. It was actually equivalent to about 1/2 cup.
I have an early morning tomorrow. I’m waking up at 5:45 Am tomorrow to run because I didn’t run today. Night everyone!
I noticed your comment about the food looking bigger in the photo. One thing you might want to do is add something to your photos that show some scale.
Is there a reason you use such small plates. I know when I go to gourmet restaurants, they often use big gorgeous china plates, and the food become a work of art on that plate. It appears in many of your pictures, you use small plates and fill it up. Just curious.
Keep up the great posts and photos.
Hi Alexandria,
Great suggestion about adding something to the picture to show some scale. As for my small plates, using small plates for meals is a trick I’ve learned over the years. If you start with a small plate, you can’t fit a lot of food on your plate all at once. So it forces you to take smaller portions, at least initially. Then, when you’ve finished, you can take a few minutes to decide if you want “seconds”. By the way, I would LOVE to get those huge fancy plates you see in restaurants (especially for pasta) but it’s just not in the budget right now!