What I Ate [From a Package] Wednesday
Yesterday was full of packaged food.
Calm down.
While I do agree that an abundance of processed/packaged/preservative-ridden food isn’t exactly idea, I’m willing to make exceptions. I think there is some good stuff out there! So here we go.
A What I Ate Wednesday Exclusive. I’ve also included links to all of the nutritional info on the store-bought stuff, if you’re into that sort of thing…
Breakfast:
A lovely bowl of my new-favorite-cereal: Fiber One Honey Clusters.
Click here for nutritional info
Morning Snack:
New Special K Peanut Butter and Chocolate Granola Bar, with some Diet Lipton Green Tea.
YUM. I used to drink tons of this tea in high school, and I’d forgotten about it for awhile. My love for it has returned. And hey, it’s cheaper than Kombucha!
Click here for nutrtional info.
Fun fact: I used to eat literally 3 servings of Special K with Strawberries in the morning, but I picked out all of the freeze dried berries because they’re nasty on their own, and I didn’t put milk in my cereal. So there you go.
Does anyone else find a morning snack necessary to function?
Lunch:
Pacific Foods Vegetable and Lentil Soup
Tasty!!!! Oh my gosh this soup was so good. The box is supposedly 2 servings, but come on. It’s lunch for one. Who divides this boxes into two meals?
Click here for nutritional info and remember to double the counts if you eat the whole box.
Afternoon Snack:
I’m usually starving when I get home from work. But all the fiber in that soup kept me pretty content until I got home. Of course, I still needed something when I got home. So I decided to have an apple + peanut butter. (At least these weren’t packaged!)
Dinner:
Yep, this was a package too. (What? Stop looking at me like that.)
Tortellini topped with some olive oil, parmesan cheese, salt and red pepper flakes. It was so simple, and I really liked it. Galen didn’t like it, but I think it’s because he mixed it with that Philadelphia cream cheese sauce stuff. Bleh.
I also had a simple salad (which actually didn’t come from a bag. So be proud of me.)
My resolutions post from Monday was rather broad, and while those are still my main resolutions, I thought of a few others:
- Pack my lunch at least 3 days a week. (I can still get a simple side salad from work for under a buck, so I’ll probably keep doing that! Simple way to get in my veggies!)
- Spend less $$$ on food in general. I’d say spend less at the grocery store, but that means I’d end up buying my lunch at work more often… so I’m just going to say spend less on food in general
- Finish things 100%. I’m super guilty of doing everything almost all the way. So my room is sort of clean. My closet is basically organized. My to-do list is almost complete. I want to really get things done this year!
One last thing… if you live in Richmond, I’m working on a RVA Restaurant Review Page! It’s now posted in one of the tabs up at the top. Most of the posts aren’t true “restaurant review” posts (just posts where the meal was in the post), but I’ll try to add more in the future!
What’s your favorite packaged food?
i try not to eat a lot of processed foods, i’m not huge on cereal or pre-packaged meals to begin with, but i don’t see a huge problem with eating them.
did you really only eat like 12 tortellini for dinner? geez girl, sometimes you have to ignore those “portion” or “serving” sizes. that’s just not enough. haha.
Haha that really was all the tortellini I ate but you should have seen my salad. It was HUGE! haha
Nothing wrong with a packaged thing now and again. And definitely nothing wrong with an apple and peanut butter. YUM. An A.M. snack is a necessity for me, too–but I also eat a freakishly early breakfast (4:30am), so I would never make it to noon without one.
Those soups are seriously so delicious… and definitely a meal for one! 😉
seriously that soup sounds AMAZING. And its packed with lentils, so it really cant be bad for you 😉
Oh and you had an apple!! Thats like bonus points!
Definetly tea or soup! Happy WIAW 🙂
I with ya on getting things done 100%. I always start a project and then never finish. But this year I am going to change that habit!
i love that you address the dreaded packaged food issue here. i often find myself hesitant to post when i eat pre-packaged foods. fact is (like you said) some of them are not all that bad for you and sometimes (well..often) life is busy and they are necessary!
I think package food is totally ok if you are making healthy decisions with the packaged food you are consuming and that is exactly what you did. Nothing you ate was filled with sugar and I am pretty confident you could read and understand most of the ingredients on the side of the package (at least for the most part). The packaged food filled with partially hydrogenated oils and lots of other fancy words are the issue!
Yay for apple and PB! 🙂 I’ve been meaning to try those new special k bars, they sound tasty!
Happy first WIAW of 2012!!
Packaged food is awesome in my opinion 🙂 But I see an apple in there, so you are okay! haha
My favorite packaged food is probably cereal, or pretty much any type of Clif bar!