Five Things, Five Tries and now…
Five Meals for Wednesday
I eat pretty healthy–or so it seems if you follow my typical WIAW. Where it gets not so healthy? Weekends and Thursday friend nights. Luckily neither of those fall on Wednesday. So in the interest of looking like a responsible eater, the following is an outline of the five-ish meals I typically eat on a weekday.
Breakfast. Hot carbs & nut butter.
PB or SSB enjoyed with oatmeal, pancakes, brancakes, muffins, etc…
Breakfast Round 2. Fruit & protein.
Breakfast Round 2 may involve fresh fruit and a handful (or two) of nuts, or it may involve a protein powder and fruit smoothie. Or it may be this morning and involve a soy latte and a treat…
Lunch. Veggies & protein. In a giant bowl.
Whatever veggies were on sale/looked good at the grocery store chopped up with some lettuce and topped with chickpeas, tempeh and lots of mustard.
Dinner. Legume-based flatbread & veggies.
A great accompaniment for chickpea-and-hemp flatbread? Steamed artichoke and a bowl of nooch sauce to messily dip everything in.
Dessert. Dark chocolate & almond milk.
Or popcorn with raisins. Or a healthy (ish) cookie or two.
There are, of course, snacks involved, meal add-ons and the random fridge snatch here and there, but this is a pretty standard outline of What (Five Meals) I Eat (Daily).
Do have a regular weekday food schedule?
Your dinner sounds really awesome! You keep making me want to try out making flatbreads but Im so afraid!
My breakfast is usually eggs (sometimes oatmeal or pancakes) and fruit, I typically a big old salad for lunch, and a huge hot mess for dinner.
I need to get on the artichoke train. I love it, but have never cooked one myself. They are dirt cheap right now at the store and I want to pick some up but Im afraid Im going to fail at them and then hate them forever lol
I’m still lovin your brancake idea, it looks so good! And you just can’t go wrong with nut butter for breakfast either heehee
I had an unfortunate experience with over-cooking some artichokes in the microwave last week. Poor artichokes.
Your food looks yummy!
We went to a salad bar last night with the tastiest vegan corn bread. It made me think of you.
Have you been to Souper Salad before?
Aww, so sad! I’m glad I didn’t know microwaving was an option, or I’d probably have done the same thing, haha. Hmm, had to look up that restaurant, looks like the only one in TN is in Chattanooga. Ah, well. If they expand this way, I’ll definitely have to check it out! I can’t say no to good cornbread. Or even subpar cornbread–I’ll still eat it.
It should have worked! I had steamer bag and followed all the directions.
Sometimes the best intentions don’t make have the best outcomes.
Wow that dinner looks awesome- artichokes are one veggie I’m yet to make at home…do I dare say I’m kinda scurrred!
I was terrified too, haha. They were on sale, but I only bought one for just that reason–I had no idea how to cook it/if it would all go horribly wrong. If only I’d known how easy and delicious they are! Hopefully they’ll still be cheap when I go grocery shopping again this coming weekend…
LOVE that steamed artichoke with nooch sauce. How have I never thought to pair the 2 before? Yum.
I don’t know how I hadn’t done it before either! Or where in the world the idea came from–but yes, it was amazing. The two flavors go together SO well, I can’t imagine dipping artichoke leaves in anything else now…
I like your photos in this post. Are they iPhone photos??
They sure are, fellow iphone user
Or, well, the artichoke one is regular camera, but all have been sent through instagram.
<3 !
Everything sounds good, but I haven’t had lunch so…Anything would!
Whatever that breakfast is, I want it! The cakey things look crisp and delicious and the banana’s at perfect ripeness
I’m in such a food routine/rut all week; same breakfast, same second breakfast after I do the horses, same lunch, apple on way home….creature of habit much?!
That banana WAS perfect! I’ll take brown and spotty over underripe any day, but this one was at the perfect balance between the two. And my brancake? Amazing. I’m even more excited to eat breakfast than usual these days. I love tasty new breakfast finds! And yeah, planning on sharing a recipe, it’s just so simple.
Looking forward to it!
You DO eat ridiculously healthy most of the time. But it’s clearly something you like, so why mess with success? It makes those weekends/Thursday nights taste that much better!
I think it helps that I’ve found super easy and quick meals that ALSO happen to be healthy, because I’ll take FOOD NOW and convenience over just about any other feature of a meal
And yeah, it does make the times I take more time to make less healthy things/go out to eat just that much better!
So healthy, I love it. We ate artichokes a lot growing up, they are my dad’s favorite.
My dad loves them, too–as long as they’re dipped in mayo. Which may or may not counteract how healthy veggies are, haha. But for some reason, they seem to be a more man-approved veggie than other options…
You really do it super healthy, I salute you! Your dinner looks delicious, I’ve never cooked an artichoke before but I’d love to give it a go
You should do it! I thought it would be some complex and gourmet process…but you really just dump it in a pot of boiling water