Hello again FitFeat friends! 

Ahhh, part one of the workday is done.  Part two starts shortly! 

So I have some rewinding to do for the EATS!  I already gave you my Saturday FEATS when I last left off (the 4.75 mile SNOWY hike). 

Saturday was all about the xmas shopping again.  I have one thing left and then I am TOTALLY DONE!  Even with MSP’s stuff. 

My lunch break at home consisted of some leftover Amy’s Organic Vegetable Barley soup, with some added spinach, chopped tomato and extra salsa to give it an extra VEGGIE boost.  Just a note to any of you who eat Amy’s soups or would like to:  this particular flavor will give you hellacious onion breath.  Arm thyself with breath mints!

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We had another invitation for dinner at our dear friends’ house (Jeff and Tricia) where Tricia made a FANTASTIC mexican burrito buffet.  She was so sweet to make some halibut for me since I don’t eat chicken.  Her guacamole was TO-DIE-FOR and I think I may have eaten at LEAST 1.5 avo’s worth of guac on chips.  For my dinner portion, I put my halibut on a bed of spinach with a little dollop of refried beans, some salsa, and sauteed peppers.  It was FANTASTIC!  Thanks T & J – we had a GREAT time!

Sunday  morning MSP and I left the house early to hit up the Whole Foods brunch buffet.  But unfortunately they don’t start the buffet until an hour after the store opens (and we were there at the door before they opened like some crazed Black Friday shoppers, anxiously awaiting the unlocked door so we could RUN in and get our healthy breakfast options!)

I did grab a Kombucha Tea at their coffee bar to tide me over:
  

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Then we had to go elsewhere for Plan B.  So I had a Veggie Benedict, hold the hollandaise, hold the fried potatoes and give me extra veggies please.  They did exactly as I requested and it was DREAMY.  It had artichokes, tomatoes, spinach and mushrooms.  I’m getting better at putting more veggies in during the breakfast hour, eh?  ;)

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For some reason when I look at that picture of my breakfast benedict, I keep thinking of this Geico commercial and humming “I always feel like… someone is watching me-e-e”:

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Later in the day I thought I’d get a little creative and try to do something different with my baked greens.  I’m STILL trying to use up that HUGE bag of turnip greens I bought.  Here’s what I came up with:  

Lemon Dill Baked Turnip Greens: 

I drizzled about 1/2 tbsp olive oil into a big bowl, gave a good squeeze of lemon juice twice around the bowl (in Rachael Ray style) and tossed in 1/2 tbsp nutritional yeast.  Fill up with turnip greens, add the lid, and start shaking the bowl.

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Lay out onto a large baking tray.  Sprinkle with sea salt and dill.

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I baked these at 250 degrees for 20 minutes.  That was NOT enough to get the water dehydrated from the stalk portion, so I’ll go back to 350 degrees the next time and just cut down the time.  Ideally you want to catch these just before they cross the line from CrispyTown into BurntVille.  The dill flavor baked out so I’ll REALLY sprinkle ‘em good next time.  

Then I made some Buffalo Broccoli:

In the same big bowl I now added another 1/2 tbsp olive oil and about three long rotations around the edge of the bowl of Frank’s Red Hot (so that when I shake the bowl, there is also flavoring on the sides).  After well coated I got them loaded onto the tray, and sprinkled sesame seeds on top.  I would suggest doing these at 350 degrees as well, and bake to your desired level of doneness.  In the 250 I wasn’t even on the same MAP as CrispyTown.  But they tasted GREAT!  Had good zip!

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A small combo bowl of each was consumed during the Broncos Game.

FitFEATure:  When you are in a “snacky” mood, having something like baked greens to ‘mindlessly’ munch on in front of the TV is a much better option than traditional snack food.  It’s super high in fiber and nutrients and MUCH lower in calories. 

Now if only I’d known I would run out of time Sunday and NOT get in the yoga I’d hoped to, I would have done my “Football Watching“ workout!   

Have a WONDERFUL Monday evening FitFeat Friends… and if you ARE planning to watch Monday Night Football,  I challenge you to do that workout! 

See you tomorrow!

– Shari B. =)

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