WIAW #21: Falling back on familiarity

Hi guys! Happy What I Ate Wednesday! Today I've got six hours of class from 2:30 until 8:30 pm that I'm dreading - I'm always falling asleep by the time 8 pm rolls around! I can't wait until I can come home after that, curl up on the couch with some tea, and read everyone's WIAW posts. It's something I look forward to every week. :)



As I mentioned in my last post, this week I've been trying out one of my New Year's resolutions to plan my meals for the week. I've been doing pretty well with it, but yesterday I just needed a break. I've been trying out tons of new recipes lately and yesterday all I wanted was to cook some easy, familiar, boring foods. And so I did.

I started off my morning with a big bowl of pumpkin banana oatmeal (cooked with milk, chia seeds, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice) topped with granola, soy nut butter and pumpkin butter.



It may be boring and predictable, but it never gets any less tasty!

I had class from 8:30 until 11:30 and then lunch, which was another favourite of mine: a sandwich with hummus, avocado, cucumber, carrot, sprouts and tomato, with an apple on the side. Sometimes I find myself eating this same lunch 3-4 times per week!



I let it digest for an hour then went to spin class. I was hesitant about going at first because my legs were a little stiff, but spinning always loosens them out for me. Once my legs were feeling good, it was a great class!

When I got home I refueled with a smoothie using Meg's recipe. The only changes I made were using frozen instead of fresh blueberries, milk instead of almond milk, and kale instead of spinach. It turned out so nice and thick!



Smoothies never keep me full for long though, so I was starving by 5 pm. I had stuffed peppers on my menu plan for the night, but I wanted something faster, so instead I just made a good old tofu and veggie stir fry with my sunflower seed butter sauce.



After doing some readings, watching Glee, and reading some blogs, I made myself my go-to night time snack of vanilla Greek yogurt, pumpkin, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and granola. Unfortunately the usual pleasure of eating this snack was ruined by some seriously funky tasting yogurt. Eww! I had to eat some pineapple after to get the taste out of my mouth!



I guess that means I won't be eating yogurt as planned for breakfast this morning... so I'm off to whip myself up a batch of pancakes! I hope you all have a great Wednesday!

What's the best thing you've eaten lately?

What are some of your favourite familiar foods that you like to fall back on when you don't have any other meal ideas?