Love Of Oats

A blog dedicated to balancing a healthy and fun life… with oats!

Monthly Archives: April 2008

Guilty Pleasure

I finally lost the stuffed-to-capacity feeling at around 3pm, after a cup of Tazo Zen, so I decided to try out my new find @ Target… THE CLIF MINI BARS… I picked these up on Sunday and was somewhat skeptical, just because of the bad reaction I had to the mini Luna bars… I don’t know why I was skeptical because I love Cliff bars… I could eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner… Now, onto the review… these were all around P.E.R.F.E.C.T!  There’s no other words… it was so nice not to have to open a bar, break it in half, and tape the rest of the package up!  Plus it was 100 calories vs. 120-140 for half a normal Clif bar (granted it is a bit smaller)… I had the crunchy peanut butter flavor and savored it, I can’t wait to try the other flavors, even though I know they will all be yummy since they taste exactly like the full-size bars…  Mmmm mmmm mmmm…

Ok now I will stop obsessing about Clif bars because I’m sure I’m probably scaring some of you out there!

Dinner was a change… We had to drop off another car at the shop (my brother’s needs to be fixed before he comes home from college), so it was a quick dinner for us… We had the frozen California Pizza Kitchen Garlic Chicken pizza… CPK is a guilty pleasure for me and reminds me of our last two summer trips with our friends to Jamaica & Punta Cana (because we always got the bbq chicken pizza from the airpoints)… I liked this pizza, but it wasn’t nearly as good as the bbq chicken pizza…

After dinner I went for an hour long walk… I was going to head to the gym, but it seemed like a nice day weather-wise, so I figured I should take advantage of it… The walk was nice, it was a little brisk though… I pretty much powerwalked through the entire thing… my neighbors may think I was weird because I was definitely pumping my arms ;)

Hope you all enjoy your night!  I am planning on finally watching last Thursday’s LOST episode – since all my schoolwork is DONEEEEEEEE!

Overate?

Today is definitely not going as fast as yesterday, but I’m almost halfway through my short workweek, so I’m trying to be optimistic… it almost feels like a Monday to me, I guess I reversed the days!

The breakfast bulgur held me over AMAZINGLY well, I can’t get over it… I was a little skeptical since the serving size is half of what oatmeal is… I still needed my mid-am snack, but not until 10am (ate at 5:45am)! I had a cottage cheese with 1/4 cup of Kashi Go Lean. If you can’t tell, adding Kashi to cottage cheese or yogurt is my new favorite snack combination!

Since it’s a little damp and semi-dreary today, I thought a soup & Sandwich combination would be best & filling. Well, this lunch didn’t dissapoint. I had 1 cup of Amy’s Black Bean soup (oh how I missed you!) and tuna, dijon mustard, & spinach on a wheat english muffin… I am SO full that I feel like I overate… However, I did the quick calorie math in my head and figured out my lunch was around 300 calories, not a lot… but I’m guessing I feel that way from the fiber from both the soup & the english muffin…

Ok, well it’s back to work… I wanted to ask you all: What are your favorite on the go snack combinations (so I can get some ideas for our long car ride on Friday!)?