Over the weekend I found these new to me wraps.
They don’t feel quite like a flour tortilla or a corn tortilla, but I thought shit – for 50 calories and 6 grams of fiber per wrap, I’d make a breakfast panini out of them.
The verdict? Just okay in the panini – they didn’t crispy up like flour tortilla so, just the edges were kind of crispy, but the rest was chewy. I think I’ll use them like a regular wrap with the rest of them.
Still super busy at work and I even contemplated working through lunch yesterday. But then I saw how some of my 101 Days of Summer Challengers are posting positive things they are doing on our Facebook group page and email string, and I just put on my shoes and got out there. Across the street from our office are thousands of these “weeds” but don’t they look pretty?
I ended up getting in 2.5 miles before heading back to my desk – I always have to keep in mind #wycwyc!
Have you tried Bush’s Beans latest bean flavor Sweet Heat? OMG, so spicy flavorful good. But 1/2 cup serving is 170 calories and doesn’t look like much. So I decided to heat up A WHOLE can of green beans and tossed the baked beans with that and had a side of reheated Greek Chicken – so filling and delicious and this took me a long time to eat – the whole plate is 390 calories!
After work Hannah and I ran a bunch of errands to get ready for our vacation. My Aunt has a Keurig so we went to Aldi and stocked up on k-cups, went to Wal-mart to get a few things. We were walking in the back of the store by the frozen pizzas, and well, this stopped me in my tracks.
1/4 of the pizza was a serving for 290 calories – not too bad! So we came home and heated it up. The verdict? It was spicy, but it was still a fucking frozen pizza and as I was eating it, I was thinking to myself I could have made one of my no rise pizza doughs in a minute and made a much better pizza. Worse than that? I ate 1/2 the pizza! It wasn’t even that great. It was like I was already in vacation mode and didn’t give a shit. But that stopped me in my tracks even more. What exactly should vacation mode mean to me? I need to switch the focus off of food, although food will be front and center all of next week, to focus on the family members I will be seeing, the change to read some books I downloaded on my kindle, float in the river. I can’t start out the vacation thinking it’s one long giant buffet table at Vegas. I won’t have my next WI until July 8, and I need to stay at 169 or see a loss. So THAT’S my vacation mode – still getting my 10k steps in a day, spending time with family and basically dominating at all the board games. Charlie, you’ve been warned.
So while I was eating that third slice of shitty frozen pizza, I canned my salsa! I was lucky enough to be given this deluxe electronic canner from Ball.
This is truly worth the $300 price tag. I used to have a giant canning pot – but to heat the water to a boil because I had to have water an inch over the tops of the jars, it would take forever to come to a boil, and the whole kitchen would be sopping wet with the steam. No more! Simply add 48 ounces of water in the pot. Add your clean jars, sans the lids, and hit pre-heat and they heat the jars for 12 minutes. Take the jars out, fill the jars with salsa, wipe the rim, and gently put on the lids and rings, close the lid and press the salsa button and 40 minutes later your jars are canned. I can only fit 4 pint jars in at a time, but once that 40 minutes is up, I just hit reset, and start with the second batch of pre-heating the jars. I ended up with 10 pint jars of salsa – plenty to bring on vacation.
This is totally off track, but if you love pickles as much as I do – you’ll try this. My brother or Mom brings me Fickle Pickles from Texas. They are so good – different from any other pickle I’ve ever eaten. Well, when I eat all the pickles and am left with the brine – I simply add more cucumbers! This time I added some fresh dill from the farmers market, and cut up about 4 Kirby cucumbers and in a few days you’ve got crisp pickles!
I did end up getting all my steps in yesterday too – I think I am on day 10 or 11 of having 10k or more!
The stretching felt so good before work yesterday, going to do the same this morning. TWO WORK DAYS LEFT before our road trip begins! Woop!
Make it a great day! Question of the Day: How do you treat vacations? Just eat whatever and make it up when you get back? Do you decide which meal you may splurge and keep on track? Curious!
That canner looks amazing! I NEED THAT!
I love if we can have a fridge in the room and then I get yogurt and fruit that I can have for breakfast, it’s most likely a salad for lunch, and dinner is where I splurge a bit. And I do have alcohol daily on vacation – that’s a splurge in itself! I try to keep walking!
Have an amazing time!
I’ve only done one vacation where I was careful to eat well. I just don’t like to worry about what I’m eating, I want to live it up, and I enjoy the “freedom” to do so. *shrugs*
I’ve never canned properly, I had no idea you had to boil the jars so long!! Wow. That automagic canner is the diggity.
I used to stress over vacations but not anymore. I eat what I want. Our last vacations were all more active than before and we stayed often in agriturismo’s which means there’s no food in the room. The past years I haven’t gained on vacations.
I still have that canner on my wish list! It would make things so easy. I also re-use my pickling liquids.
I leave tomorrow at 3 for our first of two weekend trips. Camping and I haven’t even packed up the car yet. It’ll happen! 🙂 ENJOY your vacation, Biz! Just enjoy it!
I am kind of afraid of canners, but you make it sound easy. I love that pickle idea. Who’d of thought? Have a great vacation~
On vacations for me – it really depends on where we are going. Like if we go to New Orleans – all bets are off because the food is amazing there. Other places I will eat more like I do at home with some treats.
What a great idea with the baked beans. I love them, but your right a serving of them looks really sad. I am going to try mixing them with green beans. Brilliant! Have a fantastic vacation!
After going through the loss of Tony with you, we learned to just live each day to the fullest and love each other like crazy and have fun. Some days we eat more than others but we always make an effort to enjoy each moment. I for one have learned to just “chill,” and relax no matter what situations are facing me. I just went through two hard things involving a friend and also one involving finances. Just prayed and did the best I could, let the “friend” go…..and she came back days later, and the financial situation was worked out….it was a mistake. So we now make each day a vacation day…….Thanks Biz for teaching this to us! We took it all to heart! Have fun on your vacation!
I used to see vacations as a reason to let loose. That was until I realized let loose meant inevitable weight gain. Now many of our trips center around a half or full marathon that I am running. I also use traveling as an opportunity to try local hot spots that are preferably vegan. We tend to walk a lot when we go away so I don’t stress over a glass of wine or a sweet treat. I don’t necessarily keep up with a food journal while away, but I don’t abandon healthy living. I just feel better when I’m treating myself the right way.
Vacation? What’s that? If I were to go on one, I would just enjoy each day and then get back to a more serious regime upon my return to the Homeland. I bet your relatives would like to taste all your amazing creations, along with the biscuits! I see you grilling meats with twice baked potatoes, corn on the cob and big refreshing salads! YUMMY. Enjoy your free time Biz. you deserve it!
Oh heck…just enjoy your vacation….enjoy family and food, isn’t that what vacations are about??? Vacating the busy humdrum life and having fun!!!!
I can’t remember the last vacation I had, so I don’t know what mode I am to be in. All I know is I would enjoy the sites and sounds, the relaxing and eating and deal with weight loss when I come home….life is too, too short!! Just enjoy!!!
So, on my vacations, I eat and drink whatever I want. Nothing is forbidden. Somehow doing that it seems like I want less food. Every vacation I’ve ever been on, I’ve lost weight, whether or not I exercised. It’s weird but I feel like stress plays more of a part in my weight than what I eat and on vacation, I’m stressless. I guess that’s why I tend to lose weight.
Are you sure that is a weed? It is such a beautiful photo. You have become a very talented photographer 🙂 I don’t remember the last vacation I took so I’m not sure what my eating habits were like. I can only imagine the tension (fun kind) at the table when you guys play board games. I bet the faces at table look like those people playing poker for money. Except maybe for Charlie’s face. I don’t know him but I can’t imagine him with a serious expression ever :0 )
You know, I live in Texas and I’ve never heard of Fickle Pickles! I’ll have to investigate…
I get that vacation mode with food…it’s a balance, because you do want to experience different food that you don’t get at home, but going overboard is really easy. Here’s hoping you and I can manage our vacation eating reasonably well.
Depends…Some places the food is too good to pass up and I try and balance it out with exercise. Sometimes I skip formal exercise and just eat normal. That all depends on the weather and if I am training for any event. Currently I am training for a 1/2 trail marathon and we aren’t taking “true” vacation, just weekend camping trips. Not too sure we will get a true vacation in this year. Time will tell! Have lots of fun- I miss Virginia and the great seafood you can get there. When I lived in Richmond I shocked my parents by taking them to Captain Dee’s for the best fried oyster dinner, I would love to get one of those today…
Happy Vacay!
I definitely know that mindset. I always have the assumption that I’ll gain 5 lbs on vacation.
But when I was at my healthiest, I actually *lost* weight on vacation. (http://seasonitalready.com/2012/05/18/staying-healthy-on-vacation/)
It’s all just about being mindful of what and how much you are eating and to keep moving (which you are already very good at.)
But I totally hear you when you say that you get into vacation mode before even being on vacation. We sometimes do that a week in advance. It’s silly because it often means going out so that we don’t have any leftover food to go bad in the house. But we spend more money going out than we would on the food that would have been wasted. There really is no logic there!