Days 5 & 6: Hungry

Here's a caveat to the title of this post: I was hungry because I didn't plan (or pack) quite as well as I should have. Let me explain...

On day 5, which was Sunday morning, I babysat in the morning from 8:30 - 12:30 pm, so by the time I got home, I was starving for lunch. I had leftover salmon and vegetables waiting for me in the fridge. That's sounds all fine and dandy except for the fact that I hate leftover salmon. I have given leftover salmon so many tries, and it honestly fails me every time. Maybe I need a new reheating technique (like reheating on the stove top or something), but damn, my lunch left me hungry. Nevertheless, I had to meal plan, grocery shop, and meal prep, so dinner was a late one again.

Then today, I meal prepped and prepared and brought my lunch to school and was all ready to go (even turning down the alluring food truck option), only to realize that I left my roasted potatoes at home. My meal was incomplete. I was sad... and hungry again by 4 pm. UGH.

Note to self: Don't forget crucial pieces of your meal at home.

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Day 5 recap below!

Breakfast – 8:15 am

• Hard-boiled egg

• 2 slices of Pederson’s bacon

Snack – 11:00 am

• EPIC chicken sriracha bar

Lunch – 1:00 pm

• Leftover salmon

• Leftover mushrooms, yellow squash, and broccoli with a roasted red pepper sauce

Dinner – 8:15 pm

• No fuss salmon cakes (from the Whole30 book)

• Green beans, peppers, mushrooms, and onions with olive oil, salt, and pepper

As I was meal prepping and cooking for the week, I snacked on the roasted potatoes which were intended for lunch for day 6.

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Day 6.

Post-Workout Snack – 6:30 am

• Small handful of cashews

I got up early this morning and went to the gym. I ran/walked on the treadmill for 2 miles. I would have run the whole thing, but I made a poor choice in sports bras… #ouch *facepalm*

Breakfast – 7:30 am

• Leftover mushroom and sausage frittata with Frank’s red hot

Lunch – 12:15 pm

• Tuna boats on romaine

• Side of peppers, blueberries, and strawberries

I would have had roasted potatoes too, but alas, I left them in the fridge. *crying*

Snack – 5:00 pm

• Roasted potatoes

• 5-6 blueberries

Yep, as soon as I got home, I ate the potatoes. I was hungry AF.

Dinner – 8:00 pm

• Mixed Berry RXBAR

• Zucchini and yellow squash noodles with leftover meat sauce

• Sautéed mushrooms

I woke up from a nap around 7:30 pm and was really lethargic and exhausted. On day 6, you're apparently supposed to just want to nap, and I definitely did that. When I woke up, I was really hungry, so I ate an RXBAR. However, they're starting to taste like candy, and I feel like I'm in danger of using them as a replacement for sweets, so I'm probably going to have to cut those out.

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Finally, we have my grocery list and meal plan for days 6-10 as well as a picture of all my lovely groceries from this trip. On this trip, I went to Trader Joe's and spent about $100, and then I went to Whole Foods for some remaining items I didn't find at TJ's and spent $20.