Sprint 2 the Table

Appetites and Adventures

I Feel Scrambled + WIAW

By

I feel scrambled.

It’s our busy season at work and I’ve been traveling, working, and not doing much sleeping.  There are so many things I’ve fallen behind on.  I’m seriously behind on blog reading, returning emails, and blogging topics.

I totally neglected to share an awesome offer from my friend Calee with you all.  She’s offered a 15% discount when you use code “sprint2thediscount” in her Etsy shop.  I first saw her goods at the Blend Retreat last year and fell in love.

A couple of my current favorite designs: 

I’m going to stop feeling sorry and move on to some positive news.  Last week I talked about the threat of a bacon shortage.  Apparently there will be no baconpocalypse.

It wouldn’t be Wednesday if I didn’t blog about bacon, right?

I was almost too grossed out by this pic to post it…

According to a Mother Jones article, the swine shortage will “shave just a pound per capita off of US bacon production in 2013.” that means there are still 45 pounds of bacon per person for the year.  Is that enough for you?

The real scare is fish.  Climate change will sharply reduce the productivity of the oceans, meaning less seafood.  the most affected ares are in the South, so those of us in the US and Europe probably won’t feel the bite.

It’s a new month (can you believe it’s already October?!), which means a new  What I Ate Wednesday theme.  Jenn just got even cooler in my eyes for going PINK this month for Breast Cancer Awareness.  we’ll be sharing out Halloween-themed treats… as if bloggers needs any more reasons to eat pumpkin. 😉

 Check out my sometimes spooky, sometimes pink eats below, and then click here to head over to Jenn @ Peas and Crayons to get to see how everyone else is getting their Halloween on this month!

Meal 1:

Like every morning, I enjoyed my morning cocktail: a mix of Apple Cider Vinegar, Glutamine, and Fitmixer Aminos.  I ran out of my favorite and I was forced to use a sample pack.  It’s grape flavored.  Not my favorite… to be fair, I don’t like grape flavored anything.  I was desperate.

After a quick 2 mile walk, I enjoyed a new scrambled egg-creation.  Egg whites, sweet potato, and a spiced maple-peanut sauce.  PB & Speggs?

Served with a side of pear sprinkled with cinnamon.

This combo was the highlight of my day.  Peanut butter and sweet potatoes were made for each other and you guys know I love my PB & Jeggs creations.  The addition of some maple extract and a little nutritional yeast further blurred the sweet-savory line, creating a breakfast I’ll be repeating ad nauseam.

Recipe at bottom.

Meal 2:

Spooky Green Frozen Custard at 11am?  Why not?

Vega was nice enough to send me their Vega One French Vanilla protein powder to sample.  Obviously, I couldn’t just eat it plain… so I made a frozen custard and topped it with a crumbled Endurance Cracker from Angela.

It had a wonderful flavor!  I tried a little plain to test it out first, and I think it would be still be good without the flavor additions.  My only complaint is that I’d like to see another 5g of protein (it only has 15g) and fewer carbs (11g).  I fixed the protein problem by adding tofu, which made this a creamy custard-like frozen treat.

French Chai Pear Frozen Custard

  • 1 serving French Vanilla Vega
  • 3 oz tofu
  • 1 pear
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp cardamom
  • Pinch cloves
  • 1/3-1/2 C unsweetened almond milk
  • 5-6 drops liquid Stevia
  • Ice, to taste
  • Guar gum (optional, but will thicken and add creaminess)

Meal 3:

My lunch went pink!  I’ve been all over prepared salmon burgers found at Whole Foods.  They are frozen, but not bad!  This one is the Lemon Dill flavor.  I topped it with my Sweet-Potato Chipotle Spread and served it with a side of chopped red cabbage and asparagus tossed in a lemon-rosemary white bean dip.

Meal 4:

I posted this brown meal on Instagram and a commenter informed me brown food is the most appealing to humans, and that blue is the least.  Weird, huh?

This was certainly appealing post-workout:

Tempeh and cauliflower roasted in a sauce of nutritional yeast, sriracha, and lime juice, along with a fried egg. #yolkporn

Normally I don’t roast veggies mid-day.  It seems like to much trouble to heat up the oven.  Well, my own was already hot from giving the butternut below a thorough roast while I was at the gym…

Meal 5:

I was going to have another cauliflower crust pizza.  After taking too long in Whole Foods I decided to spare you make a quick stir fry.

Rarely do I eat chicken.  Tonight I was running really late and picked some up at Whole Paycheck Foods.  It was pre-grilled.  I knew it would be dry.  I bought it anyway.  It was dry.  Note to self: Don’t shop hangry.

In the Mix:

  • Dry Chicken
  • Eggplant
  • Brussels
  • Asparagus
  • Red Cabbage
  • Red Onion
  • Garlic
  • Marinara
  • Ricotta

Meal 6:

Another late night working.  Another #strangebutgood candidate.

This is sort of like my Mexican Hot Chocolate Protein Ice Cream, except this one adds a cheese cake component.  I know it sounds strange… but I blended in some cottage cheese.  It added just the right amount of cheesecake tang.  It’s also less green in color because I used zucchini as my veggie rather than spinach.  Topped with cinnamon. 

Meal 7:

Have you tried Heather’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin Cake yet?  You should make it ASAP.  I’m on my 4th.

The perfectly moist and delicious microwave cake was incredible.  Again.  This time I subbed 1T ricotta + an additional 1 T almond milk for the pumpkin (another WF #fail – they were out of pumpkin) and topped it with a scoop of Chocolate-Peanut Butter Arctic Zero.

Sweet Potato Scramble with Spiced Maple-Peanut Sauce

  •  1/2 C egg whites
  • 1 tsp flax
  • 1/2 C sweet potato, pre-cooked and lightly mashed
  • 1 T peanut flour
  • 1 tsp nutritional yeast
  • 1.5 T water (or other liquid)
  • 1/4 tsp maple extract
  • 2 drops liquid stevia
  • Pinch of cloves

Scramble egg whites and flax over medium heat until almost done.  Add in sweet potato and toss to combine.  Cook 1 min more, just until the potato is warm.

In a small bowl mix together remaining ingredients to make the sauce.  Pour over the scramble and enjoy!

Serves 1.

***

The protein count for the day: 164.1g.  A little low… this work/workout schedule craziness is killin’ me, Smalls!

What is the last thing you forgot in the oven?  Anything?

It seems like everyone is stressing lately – are you entering the busy season full-force too?

Comments

  1. That is a thorough roasting! I’m way behind on blog reading too. And blogging. Classes are kicking me in the butt and stomach simultaneously.

    There’s so much more to the pig than bacon. I hate bacon; a good homemade sausage is so much better. Also I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before but I really need to make that sweet potato spread. It looks awesome.

    • I must agree – homemade sausage is the best. Or fresh bacon – there’s a place here that made a lamb bacon that would blow you away.

  2. That’s interesting about brown foods being most appealing. I actually think that blue food would entice me more…or any other brightly colored plate of food! I saw that pic of the burnt BNS on insta and was wondering what you did with it….burnt or not, I am not sure I’d be able to chuck it out! Hope work isn’t too crazy! Especially with Diwali coming up in the next month, it is our busy season too!

    • I don’t waste! I used that butternut like a champ in a practice round for my demo this weekend.

      Will you do a post on Diwali? I love learning more about other cultures.

  3. Lord, stressed doesn’t even BEGIN to explain it! Oh, if only there were more hours in the day…then I’m sure we’d busy them up too and complain about needing more! 😉 I only hope that things settle down at least a little bit before the holidays get into full swing…I’m SO not ready for that yet!

    What the heck is that bacon fish thing? It looks so creepy! I was actually going to pick up some bacon at the store the other day (I’ve almost got my courage up to try cooking it again) but they were out of the brand of center cut that I like and I wasn’t going to waste my money gambling on any of the other brands. Bacon is a very serious purchase you know! 😉

    How in the world do I ALWAYS miss your #yolkporn IG uploads?! That has got to be the sexiest egg I’ve seen all week! And that reminds me…I need to go to Publix and pick up a head of cauliflower…they’re on sale 2/$4 this week! Have you seen Meg’s cauliflower garlic sticks? http://megfit.blogspot.com/2012/09/cheesy-cauliflower-garlic-sticks.html TOTALLY HAPPENING! 😀

    And thanks for the shout out woman! I love that you put a little spin on it with the ricotta…like I said on Twitter, I really want to try that for breakfast this morning…IF I’m conscious enough to handle mixing ingredients that is. For the last two days I’ve been having casein mixed with superfoods powder and a puffed wheat cake for dipping…quick, easy, full of protein, and low in carb…the perfect zombie breakfast! Lol

    It’s been a while since I’ve forgotten something in the oven, but I did pull a rookie move and turned my back on a bowl of oats in the microwave a couple of weeks ago…omg, what a flippin mess!

    • Yeah – if you are going to buy bacon you MUST get the good stuff. Do you have a local butcher? I feel like TN should be full of local bacon….

      I had NOT seen those cheese sticks. I need them. Right now. Why did you show me that 3 days before cheat day and right after I ate thew last of the cauliflower?!

    • Yay! I’ve made it 3 nights in a row… last night was a cray modification I need to share ASAP…

  6. I’m still thinking about people liking brown foods more than blue. I usually think brown = bland. Hmmmm…

    I have to try your “custard.” That sounds way better than plain PRO powder. Oh and Heather’s PB Pumpkin Cake is divine!

    • Really? I think brown – flavorful. Maybe because I associate it with Indian or Ethiopian foods?

  7. I (kind of) know what it’s like to be crazy busy during a “busy season”! Hopefully it is almost over? Justin has busy season from December through March – and while he doesn’t travel, he works into the wee hours of the night so sleep isn’t too great.. and he eats out most meals!

  8. Yup, pb n’ sweet p’s were made for each other. So tasty! I haven’t tried the WF salmon burgers, but the frozen ones from TJ’s aren’t bad. I was actually thinking of buying some for my lunch next week.

    • The WF are made by Sonoma brand. TJs stuff is too high is sodium, which makes me very sad ’cause it’s tasty!

  9. don’t worry about catching up on blogs. They will always be there. Hit read all in that reader and take a nap. Then go eat some more brown food, cause we like it, yes?
    LOL.

    xxoo

  11. I tried to memorize all the meal #s I’d comment on below but I kept on adding to the list with every image I saw. Yum is all I can say..minus that scary bacon thing. Ew.

  12. Jason threw away all the cheese in the house (he’s convinced that it’s making me feel sick) so I put some nutritional yeast in my eggs this morning. Not bad! I was going to do the PB&Jeggs with the apple like you suggested, but I got lazy and didn’t want to cut up the apple!

    • He just threw it out? That’s sweet… but ouch!

      Really? An apple was too much? LOL! You crack me up. 😉

  13. I will gladly share my portion of bacon with the rest of the world. I’m such a giver! Haha. You know protein cakes are my favorite! I am off to check out what Heather is up to! I hope you have a great day and hopefully it’s not too scrambled!

  15. Thanks for the shoutout!!

    Jenn IS the coolest. The three of us need to get together.

    Also, wtf bacon fish??? grosssssss.

    And 45 pounds will cut it for me. I’m switching the macros in my diet after reading “making the cut” last night. Apparently my metabolism type does best on higher carb/lower protein/low low fat (damn). No nut butters (it even said “AVOID” — yikes).

    But, I’ll go with it for a while. i was a HUGE freak about the late 90s/early 2000s “low fat fad” and it always worked for me, so maybe there is something to it for me.

    However, Mark is, of course, completely the opposite of me, so that should be interesting trying to feed us both while losing weight (though he should lose weight anyway if he just starts counting calories).

  17. I’m not sure I’m in the “busy season” but I am busy with study for my NASM CPT, working part time (though this week full-time), trying to decide if i want to go back to school for a Masters, getting CPR certified and still getting used to living back at home..busy busy busy.

  18. I already tweeted you this, but YES I’m entering a very stress-full phase too 😐 I’m as tense as an elastic band and I can’t seem to do much about it… there’s just so much going on, housework (yard, wallpaper, painting, etc) work, school, running my own practice, and then all I want to do like blogging, gym, friends… too much to do, too little time! Love your eats though! As for the chicken, it made me laugh 😉 Been there, done that! What else made me laugh is the pumpkin 😀 HA! I just uploaded a picture on my WIAW on how I burned my pumpkin too 😉 Lol! ~Sorry pumpkins~ Love, Leanne

    • An elastic band is the perfect description! Ugh. Hope things calm for you… and that you could salvage the pumpkin. 😉

  19. i seriously want you as my cook, I mean it. help this lame girl out. i saw you tweeting so late in the night, yes I wake up from my sleep and go on twitter randomly but still I felt bad for your busyness. hang in there! You seriously inspire me daily just with your fitness and lifestyle goals.

    • I’d love to cook for you! Transfer to ATL. 🙂

      Thank you so much, Alex. I think you rock.

  20. Yup, that is definitely roasted! :-p

    I hate grape flavoured anything too…but I love grapes. Probably because grape flavour doesn’t take like grape…it tastes like purple. That’s how I always describe it :-p

    • Isn’t it creepy how grape flavor isn’t even close to a grape?! You are so right about the taste of purple.

  21. haha! Well i Instagramed that I forgot my kabocha squash in the oven yesterday! 😛
    Those maple eggs look amazinG!!!!!!! I can’t wait to try them.
    Have you ever heard of any of the flavor powders out there? I saw some online but had never heard of them before? Figured i’d ask another creative foodie!

    • Oh no!!! It looks like all of us were burning winter squashes. LOL!

      What do you mean flavor powders? Like protein powder? I’ve tried a lot, but vanilla is my fav so I can funk it up on my own.

  22. definitely in the busy season, too, love!!!!!

    Everything looks great AS ALWAYS! I really need to make Heather’s recipe 🙂 I also love the combo of tempeh and cauliflower you did 🙂

  23. Hmm, that food-color thing makes sense. I mean, most brown things are at least edible/won’t kill you, even if they don’t taste good. But brightly colored stuff? Danger time! I mean, if we go way back, short of blueberries, blue isn’t a color a human would ever connect with food, so we wouldn’t be “trained” to see that as an appealing color. And “grape flavor?” Nope. Can’t stand it. I like grapes, I like things that taste like actual grapes, I do not like “grape flavor.” Speaking of colors/tastes you’d never actually come across in nature…

    • You just won the prize for the most intelligent comment ever. That sound vaguely familiar from school…

  24. I am DROOLING over all of your meals!! even with you being so busy, your meals rock. I love that sweet potato egg scramble. Reminds me, stlll need to get maple exract. In regards to your question – I was slow all summer long and now work has really picked up the pace, so yeah total “busy season”. I can’t blog as much as I want to and coming up w/ new zumba routines has been on the back burner..ugh!! at least we’re half-way though the week. Hope you get some sleep!!

    • Thank you so much! It’s my one creative outlet. 🙂

      Maple extract is a staple for me. It’s second only to almond, which I adore.

  25. I can’t believe you left the oven on when you weren’t at home! I’ll leave the slow cooker on, but I’ve burned things in the oven on accident and set off the alarms before. Or maybe that is just me 🙂

    • I do it all the time! A large sweet potato is perfectly roasted in the time it takes me to go to the gym. This does not hold true with a squash. 😉

  28. Haha, love your comment about the bacon shortage :O I’ll have to let one of my good girlfriends who was in a panic know!

    P.S. I was just at WF and had a pack of Vega in my hand to try but I put it back- I need to just suck it up and try it already!!!

  29. haaa, I’m with Sarena, I’ll give my share of bacon too… 😉 and that fish?? oh good gravy.

    I like um… blue BERRIES? 😀 but yeah, not too many “naturally occurring” blue foods out there, right? I do like some color, but sometimes the good stuff IS brown.

    crazy busy over here, and I don’t see the end of the tunnel any time soon. just remember to take some time to breathe every now and then, and be grateful you CAN keep up with the busy, right? XXO!

  33. Aw, I’m sorry you’re in such a busy season. That just plain tough! You should totally do a post on your job if you haven’t already… I think that’d be super cool!

  34. I’m seriously behind on all those things too – seems to be the new norm in my world. But i’m here now! Great idea for the French Chai Pear Frozen Custard recipe, I have some samples to test still waiting at the house, might have to give this a try! And I didn’t forget them, but I did burn some kale chips this weekend. Apparently they cook much faster here in Denver, it’s the first recipe I’ve noticed a difference!

  35. I always love your food mixtures! Ick, hate bacon. I almost lost my appetite after that picture ha;)
    Yum to the butternut squash. I’m weird and like squash slightly crispy…well maybe not that crispy ha ha.
    This time of year is always super busy for everyone! I guess its the rush before the holidays or something.

    • I like my squash crisp too… I just picked around the “super” crisped parts. Can’t be wasteful!

  38. UMM HOLY DELICIOUSNESS. 😀 I seriously need to come live in your kitchen for eternity– all of your egg concoctions never fail to make me ravenous haha!
    I feel ya on things starting to get super busy–it’s been getting pretty hectic in my neck of the woods too. But every now and then, I just have to take a step back, recharge, and take a nap in a hammock 😉

  39. My days have gotten ridiculously hectic lately as well and I have no idea why. I even had a day off from work today but still felt like I was running around like a headless chicken. Maybe it’s something in the air? Hopefully things slow down soon… especially because we don’t want to be burning the house down when we forget things in the oven 😉 I haven’t let anything get -that- roasted in quite some time, but I left some chicken breasts in the oven once and by the time I got to them, they looked like strips of black bacon. Oops?

  40. Oh my, can I come over and eat at your place? You do always have the most colourful and creative meals!

    The last thing I forgot in the oven? Okay, so this is embarrassing. We had a super busy day at the work and I forgot the sandwich breads in the oven. Actually, it was my colleague’s job to bake them but I still blame myself for not having had an eye on them. Too bad when they’re the signature dish of the place you work at, ahem …

      • Well, we kind of did. But it was frozen meaning we had to anxiously wait for it to thaw and meanwhile get snarked at by customers. It.was.awful. Now, though, I can have a laugh at it :D.

  42. I was so upset when I heard about the bacon shortage. It’s so funny you mentioned it. So salty & delicious.

    It was a late day at work and I have all the ingredients for your sweet potato scramble. I am all over that. Thanks for sharing.

  44. If I were to go back to eating meat, it would be bacon…until I saw that fish thing.
    I don’t forget things in the oven. Instead I just forgot to turn it off. I’ve done it with the gas burners too. Thankfully, the Hubby always checks behind me!!
    I love, love roasted cauliflower and yours look great. I just bought one the other day, and I can’t wait to tear it up…in a good way.

  45. Yes, things are ridiculously crazy here too. I often feel like I am struggling to keep my head above water. This must just be a busy time for everyone!
    I love your addition of maple to the peanut sauce. I am in love with anything maple and am always looking for news things to add it to 🙂 It’s delish!

    • I wanted to do that so badly after the damn squash incident! Hope things get easier for you!

    • Can we have a blogger work group? We could meet up to have company while getting our shizz done. And we could bring snackage. Mmmmm…

  50. Ugh. I feel you. People are starting to wonder where Grubarazzi is. LOL…. she’s just f’n busy. I’m cooking and coming up with new recipes I just don’t have the energy to pull out that camera, prep a shot, write it all down, think for longer than a minute before I am distracted by the need to write a 10 page research paper. so, ugh, I know how you feel 🙂

    We are still alive and kickin’ though, aren’t we?! I think it’s awesome that you keep up with your fitness aspirations even when you are swamped. You’re awesome!

    and so is the bacon fish…wtf.

  51. LOVE the sound of that peanut sauce…LOVE it.

    I do NOT love the grape fitmixer. I’m so glad I didn’t buy the whole tub of it without tasting my sample pack first. Still think the fruit punch is amazing of course. 🙂

    Thanks for the yolk porn.

Trackbacks

  1. […] more strict.  The latest adjustment it sodium.  I’m only allowed 500 mg a day.  No more bacon, […]

  2. […] on top of an arugula salad.  I was saving room for dessert: cocoa-roasted kabocha topped with peanut flour sauce (I get my peanut flour on iHerb – use discount code USO924 for $5-10 off your order) and […]

  3. […] Plated on a corn tortilla (which I had no illusions of trying to fold into a taco) with arugula and tasty local #yolkporn.  Side of roasted kabocha topped with peanut flour sauce.** […]

Follow Me!

instagram_b facebook_b twitter_bpinterest_b
rss_a email_ayoutube_b googlep_b

Popular Posts

Home | About Me | Privacy Policy | Fitness | Recipes | Training & Nutrition

Affiliate Links: This site is monetized through the use of affiliate links. This means that if you were to make a purchase through one of these links, Sprint 2 the Table would receive a small percentage of the sale price. Thanks for your support!