What I Ate Wednesday {WIAW}

It's that time of the week again! WIAW = What I Ate Wednesday!

Last week over 100 bloggers shared what they ate with Jennifer over at Peas and Crayons! As always, if you need meal inspiration click on the logo below to drool over lots of appetizing photos and recipes!





My body has decided to reject the idea of coming home from the beach... I am now sick, but taking every precaution to get well before I return to OCMD this weekend! I have been taking medicine, drinking lots of orange juice (the more pulp the better) and resting (days off from the gym - boo).

I always have the strangest urge to work out when I am sick, but I made a promise to myself that I would take three days off so I could heal. Hopefully I will be back to spin class tomorrow!

Before I talk about the boring breakfast and lunch eats I have to share with you last nights dinner!!

Shrimp "Fried" Rice loaded with veggies!

1 medium red pepper sliced
1 cup brocolli
1/2 cup peas
1/2 eggplant sliced
1/4 cup sliced carrots
1/2 pound shrimp (cooked and peeled)
1 cup rice (brown or white - i add fiber when using white)
1 egg, 2 egg whites
1 teaspoon fish oil
1 teaspoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce (more or less to taste)
1 tablespoon olive oil

Directions:
Cook your rice (1 cup rice, 2 cups water) and set aside. In a large pan add all veggies and olive oil and cook until soft (with some bite left). I always add in the peas last since they cook faster! Add fish oil, sesame oil and soy sauce to pan with rice. Crack your eggs and mix in a separate bowl (no egg shells in my food!). Add to the rice and veggie mixture. Cook over medium high heat, mixing until eggs are fully cooked. Top with shrimp, a couple extra shakes of soy sauce and pepper!

I love making this dish when I have tons of veggies left over and hardly anything else in my pantry! So delicious and easy!

In other news...

I have been having a packet of this for breakfast:

With this for lunch:

Told you it was boring!! I also had half of a light ceasar salad with my soup. Yup, still boring.

Since I am headed to the beach again this weekend and had no time to shop I am going to write out my shopping list so someone please hold me accountable!!

-New bathing suit
-Easy cover up
-Black and white shorts
-Bronzer
-Eyeliner
-Wine (sangria and jazzberry)
-Flip flops
-Snacks and lunches

Tomorrow/Friday I am preparing lots of snacks and lunches we can take with us on the beach, so stay tuned and suggestions are always welcome!!

What I Ate Wednesday {WIAW}

I'm linking up with Jen over at Peas and Crayons for this weeks WIAW!

For the past week I have been eating lots of cereal. I always switch up my breakfast (unlike all you oats lovers) but couldn't shake a big bowl of honey nut cheerios with strawberries every morning.

I know some of you say cereal can only be a snack. It never fills you up. Maybe you are eating it without ginormous strawberries on top. This holds me over until 11:30 and I just suck it up until noon.

This morning I switched it up and made me and CL blueberry pancakes (i had leftover batter from the weekend). I topped it with a heaping amount of sugar free syrup. mmmmm.

One huge, thick and dense pancake coming right up! I used frozen blueberries and trader joe's buttermilk pancake mix. To be honest, I think the best pancakes turn out when I add in some greek yogurt to the batter!

I love crock pots. Who doesn't? I even have an app on my iPhone for crock pot recipes but nothing beats the classic pot roast. Especially with local meat, because it really does beat the roasts I used to buy from the grocery store.

I cheat and use the seasoning packages but you could easily build your own.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I always sear my roast in a pan with olive oil, salt and pepper before putting in the crock pot. I add in half of a white onion sliced, two medium red potatoes and celery. Other good add ins would be any root vegetable.

Add the suggested amount of water per seasoning package (3 cups), set your crock pot to low, put a dish towel over it (to secure the heat) and you have an amazing meal waiting for you when you get home.

So amazing that you won't even want to stop eating long enough to take a picture.

But no worries, it's summertime and there is no way you and your mister can eat an entire roast. So that can only mean you use the leftovers for shredded beef bbq sammys in the morning.

Yeah. you are drooling right now. Just admit it. Do you see how easily that roast was shredded. It literally fell apart when I took it out of the crock pot! CL had his on Ezekiel bread, I just couldn't do that to my bbq....I put on a potato roll.

I paired this with some no sugar added apple sauce, half and apple and some sliced berries for lunch.

I'm not going to lie. I can't wait for lunch.

What did you eat today? What's your favorite thing to cook in a crock pot?