What I Ate Sunday
Sunday was a day filled with good food and lots of walking. That basically makes it the perfect day in my book.
In the morning, we stuck with our standard routine of drinking coffee, eating breakfast, and reading the paper. I had a bowl of Greek yogurt with some blueberries and granola with lots and lots of coffee.
I would normally go to gymnastics around lunch time but it occurred to me that we had an open day ahead of us. These don’t happen all too often so I demanded we go on an adventure. (I wish I could say it was more of a request but I suppose it probably came a cross as a demand…) The sun was shining so my original idea was to go on a picnic but we ended up finding ourselves in Church Hill. We grabbed lunch at Union Market so we could eat lunch on their patio. I had a delicious pesto grilled cheese with a kale Caesar salad. (They use tofu in the dressing, no anchovies!)
I also washed it down with a glass of ginger Barefoot Kombucha which was awesome. It’s rare to find kombucha on tap so when I see it, I can’t resist! The ginger gave it a spicy kick that I loved. We ended up walking around Church Hill for a while. Alex got me a pedometer last week and I’ve gotten really into it. I’ll tell you my total for the day at the end 😉
When we got home I was in the mood for a nap. I’m not a nap taker so it was kind of weird but it just sounded so good. We ended up napping for about 45 minutes and it was glorious. I totally get why people are into napping!
We headed out to church and I talked Alex into walking (again, that pedometer is motivating!) so we walked to church which is almost 1.5 miles each way so it was quite a hike. We ended up having to walk pretty fast so we weren’t late! Oops.
Once we got home, I did a little recipe testing.
The end result was the single serving banana bread recipe I posted on Monday so I ate part of that and then I had a small bowl of whole wheat pasta.
I kept it simple with olive oil, garlic, salt, and spices. Sometimes I’m just in the mood for this! My plan was to have some greens by making a simple cucumber salad but unfortunately my cucumber had gone bad. Such a bummer!
Alex was excited to watch the Wisconsin game, so I sort of watched part of the game (while browsing Pinterest) and at half time he took me to Sweet Frog for some frozen yogurt.
You can’t see it all but this was cookies & cream, chocolate chips, cake batter, strawberries, and coconut. Delicious. Not a bad way to end the day!
I ate quite a bit of food but I also clocked in over 15,000 steps! That’s a whole lot more than I can usually get during the week so I’m glad we got to go out and enjoy the fresh air.
What are your favorite frozen yogurt toppings?
I’m linking up with Peas and Crayons for What I Ate Wednesday!
That lunch is my idea of perfection. Weekends with good food and walking are my favorite. There’s something so nice about being able to move around all day (especially when you work in an office most of the time)
Somethings plain pasta with a bit of olive oil and cracked black pepper is all I need to be satisfied, and I love bow-tie pasta, who am I kidding I love any kind of pasta!
Haha me too! Any shape of pasta is good with me 😉
15,000 steps?! Yay, Liz!! I love topping my fro-yo with strawberries, mangoes, and Reese’s cups. And cheesecake bites. Weird combo, but I kind of love it 🙂
Omg the cheesecake bites. So good.
Wow! 15,000 steps! Good for you. I should look into buying a pedometer, it would be fun to keep track of my steps and I’m sure it would motivate me as well. Walking is definitely my preferred type of exercise 🙂 I’m right there with ya!
I cannot resist a kale salad. I know that makes me disgustingly trendy but I’ve yet to be disappointed by a kale salad 🙂
I just have to give you mad props on your froyo selection. I am physically unable to fill my cup halfway. And then of course I love all the crazy toppings too. Your combo looks tasty. I’ll have to try coconut with cake batter. Yum!
Your food looks really good. Like I want to eat at your house 😉 I like to have vanilla ice cream {it has to be a good tasting vanilla} with oreos as a topping. I also like to add a cherry on top. Or hot fudge/caramel, chocolate cookie dough bites, reeses or m&ms…Depends how I feel 😉
I put more hot fudge and chocolate crunchies than I do yogurt!
That kale caesar salad sound awesome! I love when places offer a veg-friendly option 🙂
I live right down the street from a Pinkberry and have been fighting the urge to start that habit. It sounds like a good excuse for a walk today though… hmmmm…