My friend Cassie at work said late this afternoon “I am so lost, I don’t know what you had for breakfast!” While this seems a bit unusual just to post once, I think I am going to like it!
Breakfast was spicy oats with bacon and a fried egg – those farm fresh eggs really taste so much better to me! Breakfast comes in at 315 calories, 15 fat, 17 protein, 27 carbs and 4 fiber.
This is so filling – too bad you can’t see the hot sauce, I hadn’t mixed it in yet, but trust me, it was there! So in planning my menu yesterday, I didn’t do my normal grocery shop, but I think if I am creative enough (sorry Tony!) I can get away with what we have in the house – it could be interesting!! So I like to call my lunch “leftover wrap.” It was 3 ounces of my chicken from last night, a sautéed red pepper, pickled jalapenos, 1/2 ounce fresco cheese, celery and carrots, using the last of one container of cottage cheese. I actually scooped the cottage cheese into my celery and it was really good! And a small apple on the side I ended up eating late in the afternoon.
And of course, my cottage cheese was spiked with Tabasco!
So this afternoon I was trying to figure out what I had at home that could become dinner. I ended up making burgers with yucca chips. You are probably thinking, yucca chips? They are sold in my ethnic grocery store – the inside is hard like a potato, but the skin is almost like tree bark, which is not edible. Yucca is also an excellent source of iron. Looks kind of ugly from the outside!
Peeled and sliced – they took about 10 minutes to cook – we noticed that some of the thicker cuts were just a tad chewy on the inside, but the skinny ones were really good! And I cooked them all in one batch!
Tony noticed we had avocados we forgot to make guacamole out of yesterday, so that made the perfect dip for the chips! I love guacamole, I still kick myself that I didn’t even try avocados until 5 years ago!
I had leftover pasta salad and cucumbers from yesterday too as side dishes. I had just the cucumbers.
My burger ended up being 3 ounces cooked – on a light Wonder whole wheat white bun. I had about 3 ounces of the guacamole, 10 yucca chips and cucumbers.
My friend Renee brought me a huge zucchini – look at how big it is! Dinner comes in at 560 calories, 35 fat, 27 protein, 36 carbs and 11 fiber!
I don’t like to eat these when they are this big, but they are perfect to shred for breads and muffins. In fact, as soon as it cools down in the next couple weeks, I have an amazing death by chocolate zucchini muffin that is out of this world – and figure friendly!
Stats for the Day:
- 1307 calories
- 62 fat
- 90 protein
- 107 carbs
- 29 fiber 😀
- 45 minute walk with my friend at lunch
- possibly another trip to the gym with Hannah tonight – I haven’t decided yet!
- 30 minute hill climb on the spin bike! 😀
Hope everyone survived their Monday – see you tomorrow night! 😀
Those yucca chips look so tasty! I’ve seen yucca at the store, and shamefully, never tried to cook it. Might have to whip up a batch of these soon!
Hmmm, I don’t think I’ve had yucca chips, but they sound good. I’m a big fan of plantain chips myself 🙂
ah! I just bought some yuca and I can’t wait to make some “rounds” out of it! You got me all excited 😉
That zuchinni is HUGE! I’m looking forward to your recipes for it.
Glad to be back in the blogosphere – I have missed your awesome looking eats!!!
Thank you so much for identifying the yucca; I have seen it in my local produce store, but never knew what the heck that was! You are always so creative in your cooking!
posting once a day will probably be a nice break for you — still dont know how you managed three a day honestly 🙂
That is one MASSIVE zucchini! Can’t wait to see the muffins!!
Glad you’re using that Tabasco 😀
beautiful day of eats! and yay for guac 🙂
i can’t wait to see the chocolate zucchini muffins!
Yum! Yucca chips! You almost have me sold on a deep fryer!
Wow! I need to try yucca. sounds fantastic!
Your yucca chips look great!
And I love seeing the Tabasco on the cottage cheese again; I still haven’t tried it, but I will soon! 🙂
Whoa! Huge zucchini like that freak me out. 🙂
I LOVE farm fresh eggs. Just looking at the different colors and sizes makes me happy.
What a great looking breakfast! The jalapeños look great too.
I’m loving the idea of those yucca chips! I’ve never tried that, but it looks like something right up my alley.
That is a huge, huge zucchini! I agree, they are too big to just eat when they get that size. The one’s we’ve been getting from J’s mom’s aren’t THAT big, but grilling them helps I’ve found. They aren’t as gooey in the center as when you steam or bake them.
That all looks just amazing. A friend of ours brought us a cucumber that was that big. Don’t tell anyone, but it was really too big to eat, so I threw it away. . .
I can’t wait for the chocolate zucchini recipe!
I found a massive zucchini at the farm stand the other day! I’ve gotta try out your spicy oats, they look awesome.