Day 5

Today has been a little weird, but definitely great food day. I went to work a fundraiser with the school I'm student teaching with and did not have time to fix every thing the right way. I still followed the plan, just a little differently. I did my grocery shopping for the week today and am really excited about what I have to eat the next week! Obviously I got lots of sweet potatoes and pears, but I also bought some quinoa (which I can't wait to try), wheat germ, and turkey burger patties. I got the turkey burgers cause they are already in 4 oz portions and that will be really easy!

Breakfast:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats with 1 tablespoon of flax seed and 1/2 tablespoon of bee pollen
• Scrambled egg whites Florentine
  
• Coffee

Nothing really different here!

Mid-morning:

• 1 scoop whey protein powder

All I had time for was the protein shake here because of the fundraiser.

Lunch:

• Spinach salad with 5oz canned tuna.
  
• Broccoli, cauliflower, and carrot steamer bag- 1 cup
• water
  

Mid-afternoon:

• 1 scoop whey protein powder
• 1 gala apple

Had to be quick again because of the fundraiser.

Dinner:

• 1 sweet potato cut and baked into sweet potato fries.
  
• Broccoli, cauliflower, and carrot steamer bag- 1 cup
• 1 piece cod poached in tomato-basil sauce
  

I decided to go ahead and eat a whole sweet potato tonight because I was unable to eat 1/2 of one earlier today. My friend came over and I cooked dinner for us. I cut up two sweet potatoes and brushed them with a little olive oil and sea salt and baked them until they were crispy. I purposely made them early so we could have them as an appetizer. The cod was excellent. I found the recipe on the Whole Foods recipe app on my iphone (just another reason why I love Whole Foods)! I've never poached fish before so I didn't know what to expect, but it was delicious! For the sauce I started with a small sweet onion and then added 1/4 cup wine, diced tomatoes, basil, and fish stock. After that simmered I put in the fish and about 12 minutes later it was done. Quite possibly the flakiest sigh I've ever had. After I took the fish out of the sauce, I squeezed in some fresh juice from an orange and let it simmer for about 10 more minutes in order to thicken up. Wow, it was really good! I put a picture of my plate on here, but the picture does not do it justice! It was delicious! Can't wait to eat the left overs tomorrow! :)

Exercise:

• 25 minutes on the elliptical at the gym
• Ab ripper X