I couldn’t decide between an end of the month goal post or a What I Ate Wednesday. So you get both!
Breakfast
Yes, I finally bought more oatmeal. And enjoyed it with peanut butter and pumpkin butter. PB&PB oats!
Last month’s easy goal: Try a new food each week. Success.
New easy goal: Try a new food each week. I just plain ol’ love this goal.
Lunch
Jackfruit and cauliflower mole on a bed of spinach.
Last month’s creative goal: Paint, draw and write more. Success on the painting front.
New creative goal: Continue setting aside time to paint, craft and art as much as possible.
Dinner
Butternut squash cornbread. Squornbread? Had two generous pieces with a giant spoonful of peanut butter. I love the inclusion of squash in this, but I am still on a quest for the perfect cornbread recipe.
Last month’s money goal: Track where my money goes. Success until I spent $800 getting my car fixed and then just didn’t want to know/gave up.
New money goal: Use coupons more often.
Dinner Round 2
Post-workout smoothie. Yes, my smoothies and my camera rarely align. This held a frozen cherry-protein powder-chia seed-almond milk smoothie. Trust me.
Last Month’s Personal Goal: Be more outgoing on an occasion or two. Success! Signed up for (and am attending) hand-building pottery classes.
This Month’s Personal Goal: Do it again! Find something else new or slightly out of my comfort zone to participate in.
Snacks
One nectarine (morning), one pear (afternoon) and two bites of a disgustingly mealy apple. Disappointment.
Last Month’s Fitness Goal: Start doing some classic lifting. Did the ol’ bench press/military press/deadlift/squat cycle for a week, burnt out on it fast.
This Month’s Fitness Goal: Start using heavier free weights, but stick to what is fun.
Have goals for the new month? Eat anything good lately?
ForgottenBeast 
Car issues are the absolute worst. They are sooo frustrating and always expensive. My goal this month is actually to track what I am spending. I just spend and forget it! Not good not good.
That had been my plan, too. I guess it pays off when you have those unexpected obnoxious car bills…
love your breakki!
Your foods look great and I like all of your new goals! And that corn bread… well squash corn bread?! AWESOME!
Awesome goals and eats! I’m planning on using more coupons too! I always clip them out but then forget to use them before they expire!
Same–or I leave them at the house and don’t remember until I walk in the grocery store…
I’m going to do my goals tomorrow. My personal goal is very similar to yours. Except I’m more like a seven-year-old about it, because I want to do something new and also make a friend. Ha!
I was going to include the social aspect of it, too–but then realized all the hobbies/activities I want to sign up for are decidedly for an older crowd, haha. I’m secretly a 60 year old woman, I do believe.
I like your “try something new” goal, too. It’s fun to see what you come up with!
Can we see some of the painting, please? I mean, if you’re going to tease us with a goal, I wanna reap some of the rewards, too!
Mint.com. It’s my geeky accounting self’s dream for managing my finances. I was the girl with 6+ spreadsheets back in the day. This does it all for me.
Pumpkin butter is my absolute favorite butter. So, so good!
Roll on, September!
I’m too paranoid to give an outside source my bank info, haha–otherwise I would sign up for mint in a second! It sounds like my style of organization.
And I’ll see what I can do about a painting post 😉
Love the butternut squash cornbread!
I’m still working on September goals, but I love how you shared yours this time 🙂
Hooray! You have oatmeal again! I was starting to worry about you 🙂 Your meals look good – even though I am actually not sure what jackfruit is :))
I love all you goals, they sound really good. And great job on successeding with your August goals 🙂 Those pottery classes sound cool 🙂 I would also like to step out of my comfort zone a bit!
I was starting to worry too, haha. Life just wasn’t complete without oatmeal! In fact, I went to the store and specifically ONLY bought oatmeal. I’m out of everything else pretty much, but I DO have my oats 🙂
It could be worse – you could have bought only milk or something like that. It is much better surviving on oats than in milk 🙂
I am thinking you love peanut butter.. ! it is good stuff, especially off a spoon from the jar in the fridge!
Haha, how’d you guess?? I’ve been known to grab a spoonful from time to time as well 🙂
Blehh car issues are the worst! Never fun at all 😦
Nice job on your August goals and branching a bit out of your comfort zone!
I’ve never had jackfruit! I must track this down. (I cannot leave a type of fruit unturned haha)
Nice job on your August goals!!! 🙂
I’ve only had it this once–but will definitely be using it again! Found it canned at the Asian supermarket–haven’t seen it in regular stores though.
The jackfruit looks like it would be worth tracking down. Not in my college town though. All we have is Walmart.
Great job on your goals! I especially like one about going out of your comfort zone. Pottery class sounds like fun!
Yeah, it was pretty hard to find–haven’t even seen it at Whole Foods-type stores, only at a the HUGE Asian market across town. And pottery is awesome! Although I’m terrible at it 😀
You did great on last months goals!!! So impressed! Im actually thinking about moving to a new apartment, together with others :O I LOVE to live by myself, but it leaves me broke every month, and I want to be able to save up some money for more FUN! So my goal this month is actually to try to find a new place to live 🙂 Maybe 😉
Living alone definitely has its up-sides, but I adore my roomies (most of the time, haha) and wouldn’t trade ’em for anything–So good luck with your house-finding goal! Sounds like a good one 🙂
Car crud. Yuck!
Great goals!
Maybe try tracking everything but the car expenses.
I totally forgot about pumpkin butter!!! When I came to England last year I missed it SO much, but I couldn’t find it anyway. I suppose I could make it myself now, but it seems like so much work!
Definitely worth the work! And didn’t realize it was such an American specialty…
❤ the PB PB oats… I'm excited that it's getting closer to fall/winter foods like pumpkin butter…one of my favs!!
It’s still SO hot here, but I couldn’t resist the call of pumpkin goodness 😀