WIAW: I’m a Lucky Girl

Oh hello.  It’s that time of the week again.  It’s funny how apprehensive I was about jumping on the WIAW bandwagon and now I can’t wait for Wednesday to roll around so I can participate. 

This may or may not have taken place last night as I was driving Joey and I home after his softball game.

Me: Guess what tomorrow is.

Joey: What?

Me: WHAT I ATE WEDNESDAY!!! *Puts hand in the air for a high-five*

What can I say, I like to party.  So let’s get this one started.

I was not off to a good start this morning by forgetting to take a picture of my pre-morning run snack.  But it looked a little something like this.

Date filled with nut butter, except this morning it was chocolate almond butter.  Doughy chocolatey goodness.

Real breakfast immediately followed my run.

Overnight oats:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1 small banana
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds

Topped with:

• coconut granola
• crunchy peanut butter
• very berry coffee cake crumbles – one of the perks of working at a coffee shop is getting to take home pastries at the end of the night 🙂

I’m a very lucky girl and was treated to lunch and a massage by my mama and I’d like to think I treated her with my presence and by suggesting we get pizza at Lucky Pie because unlike the part of the family she has to live with, I can do gluten and dairy.

We shared a pizza so we started with salads.

House salad with some incredibly delicious dressing, but next time remind me to order no onions.  Red onion chunks just rub me my taste buds the wrong way.

Then on to the main event: pizza!

Puttanesca Pizza: tomato sauce, olives, capers, roasted garlic, oregano, chile flakes.

This pizza had me at capers and olives – loooove both – like ‘used-to-get-a-jar-of-capers-in-my-stocking/Easter-basket’ love.  That’s normal, right?  Turns out this pizza was vegan but of course us cheese lovers had to add some mozzarella.  It was a good decision. 

Okay this is the part of the post where things get a little messed up.  In real time I haven’t actually gotten to the whole snack/dinner part of the day so here are some examples of both from earlier in the week.

I may not mention how often I eat cereal on the blog, but it’s one of my favorite snacks.  Although I always end up adding fruit, nuts or more likely, both.

Cereal with almonds and banana, apple, date muffin that I toasted in the oven and smeared with some Earth Balance.

Yeah, I think I’m gonna have to go grab me one of those muffins right now!

And I’ll share last night’s dinner.

I’m fairly sure this was my first time eating radishes and was surprised by the taste.  They’ve got a bite to them!  But I really enjoyed them.  But what’s not to enjoy – just look at those colors.

This dinner was fabulous.  Good work, Cooking Light.

Orecchiette with Peas, Shrimp and Buttermilk-Herb Dressing

Glad I doubled the recipe with this one.  Leftovers, here I come!

And here’s an interesting fact.  Usually I don’t snack at night since I eat dinner late but lately I’ve been ending the night with a snack.  Moving must make you hungry.  I wonder what I’ll have tonight!

What were you lucky enough to do/eat today?