Healthy Eating at the Ballpark

Greetings from Boulder, Colorado

**My sister took this picture from her phone on Tuesday morning — are you jealous you don’t live here?**

As you may have noticed, I spend a LOT of time at Coors Field.  In a perfect world, finding fresh healthy food at the ballpark would be easy, but the reality is there’s nothing available that meets my guidelines for “good food.”  SOLUTION: Pack your own food!

I tossed together this salad in a matter of minutes and threw it in a container to bring to the park.  Before making the salad I asked Joey if I would look stupid eating this next to nacho-chowing fans, but then I thought ‘Who cares what I look like!’ If it’s a choice between eating something good or starving my way through the game just to avoid weird glances in the direction of my salad, I definitely pick good food.

Dressing = balsamic + honey + s & p + olive oil + dried basil + mustard, so simple.

As it turned out, we didn’t end up going to the game anyways.  It was POURING, the highway was flooded and it took 20 minutes to get from our exit to the next.  We guessed the storm was headed for Denver so at the very least the game would be delayed and I was NOT in the mood to wait for the game to start so we made a game time decision and turned back around.

By the way, the storm never reached Denver and we missed another walk-off homerun 😦

Another day, another open.  Yes, I’ve opened the library at 7 am two days in a row now.  Early morning run?  Bring it on!  Early morning work?  Kill me now!  At least I had this tasty breakfast to wake me up.

Sidenote: In my guidelines for exciting oats yesterday I totally forgot to mention mixing it up with different varieties of oats!  Case in point, today’s steel-cut oats vs. yesterday’s rolled overnight oats.

• Steel-cut oats (boil 1/2 c water + 1/2 c vanilla hemp milk, mix in 1/3 c oats and cook covered on low for ~25 minutes)
• 1/3 a ripe banana (broken into pieces and whisked into the oats — the banana should break up and you won’t be able to see the chunks anymore, unless you want some, of course)  P.S. the banana will smell so so good!
• Package up 1T granola (Just Bunches), 1T yogurt (Honey Noosa) and thin slices of 1/2 a peach
• In the morning reheat oats (you may need to add some water to help loosen it up) and top with granola, yogurt and fruit, enjoy!

The flavor of vanilla, honey and peaches have been tasting so so good on oats, I highly recommend you try it out!

As good as breakfast was, lunch definitely beat it!Get used to seeing more “far away pictures” — My mom keeps complaining that everything is too close up!Cinnamon Raisin Swirl + fruit compote + goat cheese = MAGNIFICENTWith blueberries and kiwi on the sideI’m mourning the near end of this bread along with the graham crackers 😦 must re-stock!

ATTENTION: I WILL BE 21 AT MIDNIGHT!!! We’ll be heading into Boulder tonight but I promise to keep it semi under control.  **I’m not much of a drinker** PLUS

• I will have been awake since 6 AM
• I have breakfast plans for Friday at 9 AM

I’m off to take a nap 😀

Happy Alllmost Friday!