Happy Friday! I don’t think I have ever done a “what I ate today” post before. I know you are all pretty much on the edge of your seats to know what a vegetarian mother runner eats in a day so I am sharing yesterday’s eats. I notice the Friday Five theme today was food so I figured I’d link up with Courtney, Mar and Cynthia today and share my typical meals.
I have a few “go to” breakfasts and lunches that I switch up on a typical week. I usually eat 5 times a day with 3 meals and 2 snacks. I do not currently track foods or calories.
Breakfast
I love breakfast! When I start off with a good breakfast, I feel like my day of eating just “runs’ smoother. As I’ve mentioned in my Meatless Monday linkup, I love to make a breakfast dish on a Sunday evening that I can enjoy all week long for breakfast. I usually alternate between fritatta dishes and oatmeal bakes. This week I am enjoying my blueberry banana oatmeal bake and 2 cups of coffee and sparkling water.
Snack – morning run followed by a homemade Butterscotch chocolate chip oatmeal bars filled with all kinds of healthy goodness and sparkling water.
lunch
I usually have a big salad of some sort with beans or cheese in it but this week I had a craving for a sandwich and came up with this plate of yumminess. I have now made this grilled cheese with hummus, avocado, spinach and tomato 3 times this week. It’s my new fave! Finished my 32 oz bottle of water.
3 Hershey kisses-I need some sort of chocolate everyday and these are my go to.
Snack 2
Skim milk latte grande-I am not a milk drinker so adding it to coffee is the perfect way for me to get my calcium in each day. That’s how I rationalize the afternoon coffee fix.
I am so into these Cara Cara oranges the past few weeks. They are a cross between grapefruit and orange so not too sweet. I had one of these after coaching Girls on the Run today. Normally, I would have some almonds or a cheese stick but I wasn’t that hungry today.
Dinner
With a crazy evening lacrosse schedule for my son, I picked up a Mexicali Vegan salad from Chop’t filled with veggies and beans and caught up on some blogging while eating. Usually, my dinners are recipes that I am testing out for Meatless Monday, soups or stir fry dishes with tofu.
I had at least 84 ounces of water/sparkling water throughout the day.
Most days my breakfasts, snacks and lunches do not vary too much. I try to mix up my dinners more while trying to accommodate my meat eating family. Confession: I often end up making 2 meals.
Join me for Meatless Monday for more healthy recipes!
I love your take on grilled cheese, that looks delicious!! I haven’t heard of those oranges before. That sounds good, too. My husband likes grapefruit, although I don’t. But a hybrid type fruit might be good!
They taste more like oranges not sour at all! The grilled cheese is the bomb 🙂
I generally eat the same things throughout the day in different (or even the same) forms. I like what I like!
I am exactly the same way! It’s easier and I don’t have to think about it as much
One of these days I do plan to do a WIAW. I just have to remember to take photos of everything!
Right now I’m really into the Sumo tangerines, but sadly they were gone when I went to the food store this week.
I told you the hummus grilled cheese was addictive! So good. So good for you!
I am not vegetarian; I eat everything, but I eat vegetarian a lot, and yes, I often end up making 2 meals. Which kind of sucks.
The hummus with all the veggies is so good!
Always interesting to see how other runners fuel!! Especially since we all need more veggies in our life!
Yes we all need more veggies in our life for sure!
I eat the same foods in a rotation during the week for sure. You are making me want to healthify my snacks 😉 My meals are always very healthy. My snacks… not as much!
Healthy snacks are not hard you just have to plan ahead! I love to make my own bars and freeze them.
Still need to make me some of that blueberry oatmeal bake! Looks so good!
You will love it!
Everything that you had eaten looks so tasty. I have a hard time eating foods that don’t include meat because I feel like I just compensate with more carbs that are not necessarily healthy.
I think it takes some practice at first and then it becomes naturally easy to use beans and veggies in place of meat. I don’t think I eat a ton of carbs.
That oatmeal bake looks so good and such a good idea to make it at the beginning of the week so you can eat it all week! And that grilled cheese? Yum! I love the hummus, avocado, cheese combo! I went to Chopt a few times when I lived in the DC area but I really LOVED SweetGreen. Now I want a salad!
OH yeah I love sweet green as well! Lots of salad options
Such a healthy day! That grilled cheese looks amazing!!
I kind of came across it by accident and it was so good!
I think I could be a vegetarian…maybe…but I do love chicken and fish. So maybe not. Your food always looks so good!
Ah thanks so much! You could be a vegetarian on some days 🙂
that sandwich and orange look amazing!!! reminds me it is time for breakfast! wish i had one of those oranges right now!
The sandwich I came across by accident and it was so good!
That grilled cheese sounds delicious! And it’s great that you get so much water in through the day. I still struggle with that.
I really like to drink sparkling water have you tried that?
I love Cara Cara oranges! We just discovered them this year too!
I know where have they been all this time?!
Your grilled cheese LOOKS amazing!!! I’m like you– don’t track calories or foods– just enjoy eating 🙂
Thanks and yes that strategy is working well for me right now
Those Cara Cara oranges are my favorite!!! I’m with you on the chocolate every ay too. Must. Have.
Must have indeed! 🙂
That sandwich looks sooooo good! I don’t eat a lot of cheese as it doesn’t agree with me, but that sounds so yummy I may have to make it!!
I think you could try it with less cheese and more hummus
Your meals look so much more delicious than mine…. especially breakfast… My oldest son started lacrosse, too, after he quit track because he hated it… sigh.
Mine loves lax! They work them hard. I love my breakfasts and the casseroles work well for me
That sandwich has me craving on for real,…right now! I generally make either an “egg bake” with vegetables or an oatmeal bake for breakfasts/snacks for the week 🙂 I always go to fresh fruits and/or vegetables for snacks! Dinner is generally a hodge-podge…with a little guy that will eat ALMOST anything I put in front of him and a husband that works late, I cook twice a night (unless I feel that the leftovers can suffice the hubs).
That’s great that your little one will eat anything! Makes it so much easier
My meals don’t change much either, but sometimes I’ll switch things for the season. I don’t like to cook during the summer so I do go more towards salads that I can throw together.
IN the summer I like to grill a big plate of veggies and then use them all week in different stuff
It’s so good to see that as a vegetarian you really don’t miss out on any fun foods! Los of yummy good-for-you snacks and dishes!:):) The Cara Cara Oranges are the Best!
No I try to mix up my meals and eat a wide variety.
OOH lot’s of good ideas. I am not vegetarian but I like to make at least 2 meals a day no meat. I love your baked oatmeal recipe and have adapted it for my own!
Oh good glad you liked the oatmeal it’s one of my faves
As much as I plan on mixing things up, I find myself going back to the same foods over and over. Lately that’s been taco salads, bananas and peanut butter, and smoothies. Don’t mess with a good thing right?! 🙂
I kind of feel like that too sometimes it’s just easier
Cool to see what you ate! That grilled cheese with hummus, avocado, spinach and tomato looks delicious! And those cara oranges look so refreshing! Yum!
The sandwich was the bomb!
Yum. I want to eat all of this right now.
Yup that was the idea! Have a great weekend
I tend to mix up my menu from day to day, with the exception of breakfasts which are pretty standard. I’ve been really into those cara cara oranges lately too!! I seriously ate 3 the other night for dessert. They are so good!
Wow you do like them!
Mmm I could get down with your daily eats 🙂 YUM.
Ha thanks!
That grilled cheese looks amazing! i haven’t had one in so long, but that? I can wrap my head around that one!
It sounds odd but seriously trust me! Or come over and I will make you one
I need to drink as much water as you do! It’s cool to see how you eat in a typical day. I wish I could test out your recipes!
You can! They are not hard to make really you can do it. I love to drink sparkling water do you ever drink that?
Looks like a great variety!
I try to get it all in!
Everything looks so tasty! Those almond bars sound so yummy! I try to mix it up, but it doesn’t always work out that way.
All we can do is try! Thanks
Your grilled cheese looks DIVINEEEEEE
It was a weird combo but so good!
I mix it up often but I since YTT started I’ve been using the same menu 2 weeks in a row. This might be a habit that continues even after I’m done with the training.
Have a great weekend Deborah!
Thanks you too!
Your grilled cheese sandwich looks so good! Next time I make grilled cheese I’m adding hummus, avocado, spinach and tomato 🙂
I highly recommend it!
I like snacking on the Cara Cara oranges. Stumbling this post to share.
There are good! thanks
I usually make a breakfast for me and my husband to eat all week because it makes the mornings so much easier. That grilled cheese looks amazing!
It really does make it so much easier to have breakfast ready to go!
I get fixated with something and will eat it once a day for a while. Then I get tired of it and move on. I do eat some sort of salad as a meal or side most days.
I eat the same thing for breakfast almost every single day (Shakeology shake with an English muffin), but mix up my lunches and dinners to keep things more interesting.
I find it so much easier to have a few go to meals ready each week.
That sandwich looks delicious! I love sandwiches for lunch. I’d love to see more of these features because I want to eat less meat but just never know what to eat to feel full too.
Ok I will do some more posts! I never know if people like to read these types of posts or not.Thanks!
That sandwich!!! I want it, want it!! I will be making that, thank you 🙂
Everything here looks so awesome – now I’m hungry again!
The butterscotch oatmeal bar looks amazing.
I love what you eat! xo
Ah thanks I hope you enjoy some of the recipes! have a great day
Your meals sound delicious (as a fellow veggie, I’m always looking for easy go-to recipes for lunch/dinner). Definitely going to try that grilled cheese variation. YUM!
Oh the grilled cheese is the bomb! Enjoy and thanks for stopping by. Hope you check out some of my other veggie recipes in my index