Super Salad

Sometimes after a rough Monday, you just want something easy, healthy and delicious.

Salads will always be my favorite easy meal. I was going to cook, but I just wasn’t feeling it and I was desperate for a plate of veggies! Plus I love chopping veggies, am I the only one? It’s so fun!

This salad contained:

Spring Mix

1 tomato

1/2 a cucumber

Green peppers

Steamed green beans

mozzarella cheese

After I made the salad I decided to make a fun salad dressing. I used 2 TBS garlic lovers hummus, 1 tsp EVOO, 1 tsp balsamic vinegar, 1 TBS nutritional yeast and a small drizzle of lemon. This was soo good, but very thick! I mixed everything together and spread it all over the salad. Best salad I have had in a while!

I love salads because they are a good way to get in a ton of nutrients and vitamins. I usually add beans, egg whites or tempeh for protein if I am eating a salad for a meal, but tonight veggies were good enough for me.

What’s your favorite salad topping? Mine is croutons!

So today marked the first day of a my getting into shape plan. I woke up early and went for a nice 2.5 mile run. It felt awesome to get my workout done in the AM. However, my eating really wasn’t great. We had food brought in at work, and although it wasn’t unhealthy—salad, roasted veggies, pasta and rice, I just ate way too much :/ Then I had plans after work so I had a large snack thinking I wouldn’t be home until late, but then my plans fell through so I felt like it was a waste. Oh well, tomorrow is a new day! I am going back to spin, and I will be trying out a new gym I am planning on joining. My current gym is women only and I have never had a male spin instructor like I will tomorrow, so I am hoping all goes well!

My Favorite Meal

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I have been SO motivated to blog over the past few days, but didn’t have anything blog worthy to share until tonight. My meals have been less than stellar because I haven’t been able to make it to the grocery store until tonight. It’s been really crappy here in Boston and when you have to walk to the grocery store and managed to lose your only umbrella in your move, it makes it hard to get motivated to grocery shop…. until you remember you moved 10 minutes from Heaven.

 

So tonight I made a quick stop at whole foods after my Zumba class. I just needed a few things..my body was CRAVING veggies. Here’s what I made out with

Green beans, corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, green pepper, apple, plum, fresh parmesan cheese and hummus (on sale for $1.50!). This is quite a bit of delicious food for only $13, right? I should write a post about this sometime, but I am the ultimate  savvy shopper when it comes to whole foods. At Trader Joe’s or anywhere else I always go over budget, but while at whole foods, I stay on track!

For dinner, I made the best meal ever.

Seriously, could anything be more delicious?!

The bad news is my smoke detector is the devil, and went off for a good 15 minutes while I was making dinner. It also goes off when I shower. Apparently it’s a steam detector, not smoke.

Shrimp Scampi (Serves 1)

1 serving of the pasta of your choice, I used whole wheat linguine

1 serving frozen shrimp

1 TBS olive oil

1 TBS minced garlic

Sprinkle of fresh Parmesan cheese.

Start by cooking your pasta per the directions on the box. While the pasta is cooking, defrost your shrimp in some cold water. Coat a frying pan with your EVOO and garlic and begin to cook on low until the garlic is browned. Once the garlic is browned, add you shrimp and cook on medium for about 10 minutes or until it’s heated thoroughly. Add pasta to the shrimp, mix and a generous helping of Parmesan cheese.

The Whole Foods Parmesan I bought was the most delicious thing ever!

For the salad I just used 1 pickling cucumber, 1 tomato, a few basil leaves, and a few squirts of balsamic and EVOO. It was delicious as always. I am anti lettuce these days, and think I am going to turn into a tomato because all I want to eat are tomatoes and basil.

I am currently coming up with an awesome weight loss, get fit plan for September, I can’t wait to share it. One thing I am working on is becoming a morning exerciser…starting tomorrow! So tell me this, when do you work out? Have you made the switch from PM to AM?