Weekly Menu

(Courtesy of Org. Junkie) Week of 1/11-1/17 Monday Lunch & snacks – Already packed: tuna sandwich with mustard and fresh spinach on wheat, small orange, carrots w/ almond butter, one low fat cheese stick, banana Dinner – Pounded walnut strozzapreti Tuesday Lunch – Leftover strozzapreti or salmon salad with veggies, orange, yogurt w/ apples and [...]

Popping In

Exercise update – The weather and wind cooperated (27*F, 10mph breezes) so I was able to get in a full 7 miles today.  W00t! That’s the longest distance I’ve done since before my 10K in October.   I kept it easy and, aside from two large sketchy dogs startling me around the 4 mile mark, [...]

Food & Exercise Log

Breakfast One mug of organic coffee with organic skim milk and Peppermint Mocha Coffee Mate, which probably cancels out all of the organic.  One trick I have learned with flavored Coffee Mate is to first use nonfat milk to cool the coffee and dilute it a bit.  By using milk first, you eliminate the need [...]

Quiet Weekend

Well, my other computer got completely owned by a virus on Friday, which was fun. Saturday consisted of baking banana bread (my best recipe yet – so good!!), going for an easy 6 mile run in the snow (gorgeous – I took some pics with my camera phone, will post if any turned out well), [...]

Greek Yogurt Banana Bread

Greek Yogurt Banana Bread (My entry into the Stonyfield Farm Na Moo Ste Sweepstakes for bloggers.) Ingredients 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 3 ripened, mashed bananas 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 cup plain Oikos Greek Yogurt 2 cups flour, sifted 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda Instructions Preheat oven [...]