The other day at work I did a Panera run for several of the attorneys at lunch. I always use my Panera card for the points. They mentioned that I had a free birthday pastry that needed to be used by May 10, otherwise I’d lose it. So I did a quick pit stop on the way to work. So many choices! But one that I kept coming back to is the pecan and peach muffin. Huh. Such an interesting combination! Here is a picture from their website.
Now here’s the shitty picture I took – I have no idea what setting my camera was on, but obviously I wasn’t even close!
Thank goodness that I looked up the calories before I ate it – it was 510! And it wasn’t even that big! (that’s what she said!)
So I ate half, gave the other half away because I know myself – had the other half been sitting on my desk, I know I would have eaten it in the afternoon. I had yet another one of my Pillsbury muffins on the side.
I didn’t have a lunch workout because I had errands to run. I may or may not have stopped by the Goodwill! I didn’t buy these, but aren’t these snowmen cute??!!
As I was driving to work I realized that I didn’t make anything specific for lunch, but then I started to think about what was left in my lunch bag at work: leftover taco meat, romaine, red cabbage, cheese, low carb tortillas – yep, a taco panini was born! I ended up buying tortilla chips and bottled salsa for $3 to round out my lunch. Holy balls this salsa was almost too spicy for me, but I kept dipping my chips into it!
I actually loved the added crunch of the red cabbage. Fridays at work are notoriously slow. In fact by 3:30 it was only me, one associate and the new secretary. She came over to me and was like “what’s the deal?!” It’s either crazy busy trying to get letters out at the end of the work, or it’s a ghost town – yesterday it was a ghost town!
I had no idea what I was going to make for dinner. Wasn’t sure what Tony’s appetite was going to be like. I had cheddar brats, gyros sandwiches that I could have made but that didn’t sound good to Tony. He ended up having a BLT!
Well, long time readers know that I LOVE PARTY PIZZA FRIDAY. I could have it every Friday and never get sick of it. One of the first recipes I posted on this blog was my Food Processor No Rise Pizza dough – way back in September of 2008!
Here are just a few of the pizzas I’ve made over the years:
So last night I made myself a bacon, feta and cheddar pizza. I ate half of this 12 inch pizza. So good! I used my tomato spinach sauce from my ravioli the other night as the base.
Tony did a Sam’s Club run for prescriptions and bought this giant container of strawberries for me – only $2.98 for a 2 pound container! They are huge!
And even without my lunch time workout – I did okay on my steps!
Happy Early Mother’s Day to all you ladies!! Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Hannah and I are meeting at my Mom’s house after church for a brunch. I am making homemade pork and apple sausage, potato crusted quiche and fruit kebobs. We are going to go thrifting after that and take a walk on the nature trail near my Mom’s house – let’s hope the rain stays away Sunday! Have a great weekend – see you Monday!
You are so creative with your meals when you have leftovers, I admire that.
Didn’t you have to work at the restaurant last week? Or did you have a couple of days off?
I had the weekend off from the restaurant – typically I work every Friday and Saturday night, but thought it would be nice to have the weekend off for Mother’s Day! 😀
Okay, Biz. I know you love snowmen. And I do, too. It’s the #1 way I decorate my house over the holidays… But don’t summon them! We had snow this time last year! 😉
I am sad to say I rarely purchase items from Panera anymore. Don’t get me wrong…I LOVE Panera, cheese bagel, choc.chipper cookie, breakfast souffles, the list goes on but every since they have the calories posted next to the item I can’t bring myself to “waste” calories on such items. Example the muffin you bought is the same amount of calories in a whole meal 🙁 The snowmen are cute. Our goodwill doesn’t usually have snowman or other “out of season” items out all year. Yes, you are one great pizza maker. I have personally tried a couple of your pizza recipes. The Deep Dish you make is my all time favorite.
I love how good your lunches look even when you don’t have a plan! SO yum. And that pizza! Gah! Hope you guys are having a fantastic weekend. Happy mama’s day!
That Panera muffin is frightful, but your lunch sandwich looks amazing.
Sounds like it’ll be a nice Mother’s Day. Enjoy!
I have been getting the power steak bowl at Panera every so often on my way into work. Steak, eggs, avocado, and tomato – super filling and delicious. I’ve had that Goya salsa before and it’s awesome!
Tomorrow I am having brunch with my family. MAK has to work, so I probably won’t see his Mom except for stopping by to give her a gift. My son has a baseball game, and I can’t think of a better way to finish my Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day to YOU (and your awesome mama), Biz!
Other than the tomato, I’d be all over that Panera bowl – I’ll have to check that out.
Happy Momma Day to you Erin! 😀
Lately I have been making pizza’s with the large “grande” 12″ tortilla crusts. I finally found one of those pizza gismos (at a thrift store) that I can make the pizza on it, shove it in the oven leaving the pizza on the rack so it gets crispy. When the pizza is done shove that gismo under the pizza and pull it out, cut it and walk it to the table, gosh it is handy. I can eat the whole thing with no problem.
Must hit Sam’s club for some of those strawberries!!!! Have a wonderful Mother’s day, sounds like you will enjoy the day and the moment!!!
So is it a tortilla Louise, or an actual pizza crust like Boboli? Sound delish either way – we got Tony’s card in the mail today – thank you!!
Happy Mother’s Day Beth. You are a one of a kind woman and I mean that in the best way! I rewarded myself yesterday with an early mother’s day/birthday present and bought myself a fitbit flex. I met the 10,00 steps and didn’t even get my gadget set up til mid afternoon. Are you still taking friends? if yes, how do I add you? Keep up your inspirational motivation ways. 🙂
Aw, thanks Laura! I sent you an email invite! Let me know if you don’t get it, or if you used a different email to sign up for fitbit – way to go!
I am registered on my gmail address for fitbit. Same address as here minus the aol part. Nothing was in my AOL mail, I even checked the spam 🙁 I hope you have good weather tomorrow and have long( and many many steps) walk.
I really must start making some of your goodies from the site.
Your pizza always looks awesome, I usually take the easy way out and buy the already made wheat pizza crust from Wal-Mart. Need to break out the food processor and make my own.
That salsa is added to my to buy list.
Hope you have a wonderful Mothers Day! 🙂
Jamie you’ll love the salsa – flavorful spicy and mine only cost $2 for the bottle!