My career as a food blogger was very short and didn't work out too well, however, I am starting a new blog on wordpress (in case I develop this blog further, it seems that most people jump over to wordpress). If you happen across this, join me at beckm82.wordpress.com to follow along with my journey.
Happy New Year!!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
"eat from home" month
In an effort to save money (starting a new job next week and had to quit my bartending job, therefore reducing the amount of money in my pocket), I've decided to try to eat as many meals as possible from my cupboards/fridge. I started by cleaning the kitchen to see what expired and what I have to work with. I found that I buy a lot and then don't use it, so here goes....
yesterday's eats:
breakfast was banana nut cheerios and vanilla soymilk
lunch was a bowl of wolfgang puck chicken tortilla soup
dinner - spinach and blueberry salad with raspberry vinagarette and a small bowl of potato soup (it ended up being very salty so most of it went into the fridge for someone else to eat)
snacks included - banana with almond butter, blue corn chips and salsa...and other things, which I cannot remember right now
today I started off with a "nest egg" (cut a hole in a piece of toast and cook the egg in it), a glass of soymilk, and a small bowl of blueberries
at lunch, I didn't not eat at home. I was running errands with my mom and she bought me lunch at Subway...veggie sub and a fountain diet coke (I get strange cravings for fountain drinks)
dinner, which I just finished eating, was a MASSIVE spinach salad with chicken, feta, strawberries, the last of my blueberries, and raspberry vinegarette. I also had an amazing roll that was made with honey butter. I'm not normally crazy about rolls but this was SO GOOD!
I also had some snacks that I don't remember and later I am going to attempt to make a strawberry/mango smoothie for mamacita so I will probably have some of that.
In hindsight - I really need to buy a camera, not only will it help me remember what I ate (undocumented snacks) but it will also make this blog a little more exciting.
Oh, I also spent 30 minutes on the elliptical while my nephew was napping...good stuff!
yesterday's eats:
breakfast was banana nut cheerios and vanilla soymilk
lunch was a bowl of wolfgang puck chicken tortilla soup
dinner - spinach and blueberry salad with raspberry vinagarette and a small bowl of potato soup (it ended up being very salty so most of it went into the fridge for someone else to eat)
snacks included - banana with almond butter, blue corn chips and salsa...and other things, which I cannot remember right now
today I started off with a "nest egg" (cut a hole in a piece of toast and cook the egg in it), a glass of soymilk, and a small bowl of blueberries
at lunch, I didn't not eat at home. I was running errands with my mom and she bought me lunch at Subway...veggie sub and a fountain diet coke (I get strange cravings for fountain drinks)
dinner, which I just finished eating, was a MASSIVE spinach salad with chicken, feta, strawberries, the last of my blueberries, and raspberry vinegarette. I also had an amazing roll that was made with honey butter. I'm not normally crazy about rolls but this was SO GOOD!
I also had some snacks that I don't remember and later I am going to attempt to make a strawberry/mango smoothie for mamacita so I will probably have some of that.
In hindsight - I really need to buy a camera, not only will it help me remember what I ate (undocumented snacks) but it will also make this blog a little more exciting.
Oh, I also spent 30 minutes on the elliptical while my nephew was napping...good stuff!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
September 1 - I'm Ready!
I've been...not blogging. I would love to do this regularly but I'm not sure if I'm completely into it. However, today is the first day of September and I start a new job in exactly one week and it seems like the perfect time. Now, if you want, you can take some time to get to know me.
My name is Becca. I'm 26 years old and live just south of Pittsburgh, PA. I've always been interested in getting healthier, but I'm not exactly someone that you would think of as healthy. I've belonged to gyms off and on since college (I am a Slippery Rock University graduate and loved the college days as a double major in English Education and Theatre) but I never really went to the gym regularly.
Last winter, I was googling something random and one website that came up was www.healthytippingpoint.com I read this blog and was hooked and began to go through more and more blogs....love them all! I've never been a blog reader but I was so inspired by all of these women who are right around my age. That was when I decided that I wanted to change my life. I've been taking small steps and have had many major setbacks (willpower) and that is a big reason why I haven't started regularly blogging (I can't post a day when all I had for lunch was a "dirt" dessert because my neighbor sent it over!) I did my first 5k (walk) on Mother's Day, Race for the Cure, for which I organized a team of friends and family members, including my 86 year old grandmother (a breast cancer survivor). I was hooked, I loved being around so many people. Due to not too much money because of not working much this summer, that was all I've been able to do.
So, fast forward through the few blog posts to the beginning of September. I'm set, I'm ready! Yesterday I went to http://www.fleetfeetpittsburgh.com/ and, for the first time, got fitted for tennis shoes by someone that listened to what I was doing and wanted to do and any foot problems (overpronating and the need for an ankle brace when walking more than a mile) He set me up with some Saucony's (very odd to go for this when I'm used to shopping for pretty pink nike's...just because they're pink and nike's) But I love them! I also have a 5k coming up in 2 weeks, which will become the start of my competitive walking (maybe turn into running some day?) career.
I also hope to use this blog to document my meals, keeping me on track. I've never been much of a cook but I've declared September "eat from home month" in order to save money. I've gotten so many ideas from blogs but haven't used that many of them. However, I will not have many pictures up because my camera has officially died.
If you read this the whole way through, I'm impressed. I feel like I overwrote and added a lot of side thoughts but once I started rambling, I couldn't seem to stop. Please join me on this journey and I hope that it's a good ride!
My name is Becca. I'm 26 years old and live just south of Pittsburgh, PA. I've always been interested in getting healthier, but I'm not exactly someone that you would think of as healthy. I've belonged to gyms off and on since college (I am a Slippery Rock University graduate and loved the college days as a double major in English Education and Theatre) but I never really went to the gym regularly.
Last winter, I was googling something random and one website that came up was www.healthytippingpoint.com I read this blog and was hooked and began to go through more and more blogs....love them all! I've never been a blog reader but I was so inspired by all of these women who are right around my age. That was when I decided that I wanted to change my life. I've been taking small steps and have had many major setbacks (willpower) and that is a big reason why I haven't started regularly blogging (I can't post a day when all I had for lunch was a "dirt" dessert because my neighbor sent it over!) I did my first 5k (walk) on Mother's Day, Race for the Cure, for which I organized a team of friends and family members, including my 86 year old grandmother (a breast cancer survivor). I was hooked, I loved being around so many people. Due to not too much money because of not working much this summer, that was all I've been able to do.
So, fast forward through the few blog posts to the beginning of September. I'm set, I'm ready! Yesterday I went to http://www.fleetfeetpittsburgh.com/ and, for the first time, got fitted for tennis shoes by someone that listened to what I was doing and wanted to do and any foot problems (overpronating and the need for an ankle brace when walking more than a mile) He set me up with some Saucony's (very odd to go for this when I'm used to shopping for pretty pink nike's...just because they're pink and nike's) But I love them! I also have a 5k coming up in 2 weeks, which will become the start of my competitive walking (maybe turn into running some day?) career.
I also hope to use this blog to document my meals, keeping me on track. I've never been much of a cook but I've declared September "eat from home month" in order to save money. I've gotten so many ideas from blogs but haven't used that many of them. However, I will not have many pictures up because my camera has officially died.
If you read this the whole way through, I'm impressed. I feel like I overwrote and added a lot of side thoughts but once I started rambling, I couldn't seem to stop. Please join me on this journey and I hope that it's a good ride!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
What's Going On?
I still haven't gotten around to writing regularly or properly introducing myself to my readers (if I have any) But....I have good reason, at least for the last few days.
Thursday - I came down with the flu. Spent the whole day in bed or else throwing up, lovely...it was one of those ones with the sensitive skin too, so everytime my blanket touched me it was unbearable but I was freezing without it. Yeah, miserable.
Friday - I started to feel better around 3am Friday but spent the whole day in bed. Ate some toast in the morning, which was fine, but made myself sick at lunch and had a headache so went back to bed and then had some soup later that night and went to sleep at around 9.
Saturday - I was fine this day but my stomach hurt from my major "ab workout" on Thursday. This made me kind of miserable and I was pretty much out of commission for that day as well.
Today - I spent today trying to catch up on everything that I got behind on over the past three days...very uneventful and not exciting so, there you have it!
In other news, if there is anyone reading this, two awesome giveaways to tell you about...both from fellow Pittsburghers!!
the healthy lawyer has a giveaway (ends Tuesday morning) for a greens+ product (and a way to get free samples) here:
http://healthylawyer.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-samples-of-greens-for-all-readers.html
and learn, run, eat...repeat's Michelle has a giveaway (ends Wednesday night) for her fave. things below...if you enter this one, let her know that you found the giveaway on my site!:
http://learnruneatrepeat.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-favorites-for-you.html
Enjoy!
Thursday - I came down with the flu. Spent the whole day in bed or else throwing up, lovely...it was one of those ones with the sensitive skin too, so everytime my blanket touched me it was unbearable but I was freezing without it. Yeah, miserable.
Friday - I started to feel better around 3am Friday but spent the whole day in bed. Ate some toast in the morning, which was fine, but made myself sick at lunch and had a headache so went back to bed and then had some soup later that night and went to sleep at around 9.
Saturday - I was fine this day but my stomach hurt from my major "ab workout" on Thursday. This made me kind of miserable and I was pretty much out of commission for that day as well.
Today - I spent today trying to catch up on everything that I got behind on over the past three days...very uneventful and not exciting so, there you have it!
In other news, if there is anyone reading this, two awesome giveaways to tell you about...both from fellow Pittsburghers!!
the healthy lawyer has a giveaway (ends Tuesday morning) for a greens+ product (and a way to get free samples) here:
http://healthylawyer.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-samples-of-greens-for-all-readers.html
and learn, run, eat...repeat's Michelle has a giveaway (ends Wednesday night) for her fave. things below...if you enter this one, let her know that you found the giveaway on my site!:
http://learnruneatrepeat.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-favorites-for-you.html
Enjoy!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Intro Post - FAIL
I just realized that I never did an actual introductory post...so I did one tonight, only for my internet to cut out on me and not save anything. Therefore, more blogging activities will come at another point...arg!
Recent Obsessions...
Once again, it's been a while!
I've been working on changing my diet, trying to eat healthier every day. I've almost completely given up meat...I was a vegetarian for 7 months last year and I've learned that I don't quite have the discipline to keep going with it. However, I don't eat much of it anyway. Hmm...I've been obsessing over a few things, let's get to them...
Flat Out Wraps...or more specifically, pizzas made with these wraps! Delish! I've been making them with every veggie under the sun and they're fantastic.
Bananas, but not banana soft serve. So many bloggers have been making it, but I did and possibly had too ripe bananas because it was awful!
Zucchini - muffins, chips, anything! My neighbors have zucchini coming out of their ears lately and they barely eat it so I've been trying out a few different recipes. What's your favorite way to eat it?
Also, an awesome CHOBANI giveaway below. I think it would be fantastic to win...I've been wanting to try it but I've been scared because I tried the honey one (stupid because I'm not crazy about honey anyway) and I thought it was awful...
MegaNerdRuns: CHOBANI Review and Giveaway!
I've been working on changing my diet, trying to eat healthier every day. I've almost completely given up meat...I was a vegetarian for 7 months last year and I've learned that I don't quite have the discipline to keep going with it. However, I don't eat much of it anyway. Hmm...I've been obsessing over a few things, let's get to them...
Flat Out Wraps...or more specifically, pizzas made with these wraps! Delish! I've been making them with every veggie under the sun and they're fantastic.
Bananas, but not banana soft serve. So many bloggers have been making it, but I did and possibly had too ripe bananas because it was awful!
Zucchini - muffins, chips, anything! My neighbors have zucchini coming out of their ears lately and they barely eat it so I've been trying out a few different recipes. What's your favorite way to eat it?
Also, an awesome CHOBANI giveaway below. I think it would be fantastic to win...I've been wanting to try it but I've been scared because I tried the honey one (stupid because I'm not crazy about honey anyway) and I thought it was awful...
MegaNerdRuns: CHOBANI Review and Giveaway!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Things might be changing soon but, just in case someone is actually reading this, I'd rather not talk about it until it happens!
In other news, I've been reading about Trader Joes for months now and I learned that there is one in Pittsburgh and I was in the city yesterday so I took a field trip....love it! I didn't want to do a whole big shopping spree but I did buy: Dark chocolate covered edamame, peanut butter pretzels, chocolate cats, some Clif bars, veggie burgers, sweet potato bisque, and maybe some other things...I definitely need to get back there as soon as possible. What's your favorite TJ item?
What else....
foods today: TJ cereal (flakes with chocolate...another thing that I bought yesterday) with blueberries, Amy's sweet corn chowder, sweet potato and veggie burger.
Is anyone doing anything big for the 4th of July? I'm heading to Maryland with some friends for the weekend, looking forward to it!
Lastly, The Healthy Lawyer ( http://healthylawyer.blogspot.com/ ) is doing a giveaway for Nana's Cookie Company, they look great so check it out!
In other news, I've been reading about Trader Joes for months now and I learned that there is one in Pittsburgh and I was in the city yesterday so I took a field trip....love it! I didn't want to do a whole big shopping spree but I did buy: Dark chocolate covered edamame, peanut butter pretzels, chocolate cats, some Clif bars, veggie burgers, sweet potato bisque, and maybe some other things...I definitely need to get back there as soon as possible. What's your favorite TJ item?
What else....
foods today: TJ cereal (flakes with chocolate...another thing that I bought yesterday) with blueberries, Amy's sweet corn chowder, sweet potato and veggie burger.
Is anyone doing anything big for the 4th of July? I'm heading to Maryland with some friends for the weekend, looking forward to it!
Lastly, The Healthy Lawyer ( http://healthylawyer.blogspot.com/ ) is doing a giveaway for Nana's Cookie Company, they look great so check it out!
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