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WIAW: Bare Cupboards Edition
You guys. Before we get into today’s post, I have to tell ya’ll about my travel day I had on Monday. It was a very nice day in Illinois – upper 60’s, sunny, and warm. I even went for a late morning walk with my mom before driving to the airport!
Good times 
Then around 3:00 we headed back to Normal to catch my flight. Want to hear what I had going against me on this travel day?
- My flight way delayed
- There was a blizzard warning in Boulder County starting right when my plane was supposed to land (8-14 inches of snow…NBD!)
- I had no idea where I parked my car at Denver International Airport (blonde moment)
- I had to drive home in a blizzard
Lovely!
Fortunately, aside from a flight that felt like a roller coaster and subsequently coming thisclose to ralphing in my purse, spending only 15 minutes looking for my car (I chose the right lot!!!) and driving home in sleet and insane winds, I made it home before midnight and in one piece. That’s all I could ask for.
Then yesterday I spent the day cleaning and training. However, I wasn’t able to get to the grocery store, and when I came back home the kitchen was bare! That’s the problem with leaving for a trip before the weekend and getting back after it – ya skip grocery shopping day! (At least I do.) So today’s edition of What I Ate Wednesday includes eating whatever I could find in the cabinet and fridge for the day.
Breakfast – 7:45 a.m.
When I got home around midnight the night before, I inhaled a piece of toast with coconut butter along with a banana and almond butter before passing out. So when I woke up I wasn’t too hungry for breakfast. Plus, we had about zero breakfast foods. However, I did have a hard boiled egg in the fridge, so I built on that. I had the last slice of toast the night before, so I made a little muffin concoction out of almond meal, butter, an egg, and some baking soda, sliced it in half, and stuffed it with the egg and some avocado.
Surprisingly, this was SO delicious! Love those accidental delights 
I also had my morning vitamins alongside – I missed them all weekend while I was gone!
I didn’t have to train until afternoon yesterday, so I took Shane to the dealership and then headed to a yoga class. Unfortunately, the snow started heavily falling, and it scared me, so I turned around and came right back home. Instead of yoga-ing, I cleaned the entire house and did some laundry. It needed it!
Lunch – noon
An evol burrito I pulled out of the freezer. I love these things! They make great tasty lunches when there’s nothing else in the house
But it only filled me up for a couple hours (it’s a small burrito if you ask me) so I had a snack a little later before heading into the gym to train my clients.
Snack – 2:30
Like every other meal, there wasn’t much in the way of of food selection for snacking, so I rolled up some avocado in a few pieces of turkey. Then I called it good after splitting a bag of Popchips with Shane.
PS – note the color on my nails! Now remember it, because surely it will be the last time in a looong time before it happens again. My mom was so kind to treat me to a manicure while I was visiting home. I feel so girly and pretty! I love having my nails look all pretty, but they’ll likely be chipped by the end of the day. I’ve been perusing Lauren’s jamberry shop, though, which seem like they’d last much longer than a manicure!
After snacking I headed to the gym to train a few clients. I also got in a little treadmill walking and did a few chin ups. They’re my favorite resistance exercise of the moment 
Dinner – 6:45 p.m.
We had some jalapeño chicken sausage in the fridge, along with some frozen spinach and butternut. So I heated up some butter in the skillet, and then threw everyone in the pan to heat up. I also added salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cayenne. It turned out really tasty! I went back for seconds.
Dessert – 9:00 p.m.
Low calorie, low sugar, fat free protein ice shake!
Just kidding. It’s really this stuff.
Full fat, full flavor. When it comes to ice cream, I need the real deal! Anybody with me? Actually, I prefer most of my foods to be…real.
And tomorrow shall include a trip to the grocery store, since the only thing here for breakfast is…leftovers from last night’s dinner, haha
What are some of your go-to meals when your cabinets are bare?
Oh my goodness! I WOULD LOVE TO GO GROCERY SHOPPING WITH TODAY 😀 hahahahahaha <3 I just went with my parents last night 🙂
so happy you had a nice time with your Mom 🙂 I love how close you are with her <3
I'm so sorry you had to drive home in a blizzard!? how scary! i couldn't have done that!
congrats on the microwave muffin success! it looks so fluffy! I want a recipe missy!!!!!! 😉 i am very very impressed 😀
I also love your idea of rolling up some deli meat with avocado!!!!!!! what a great thing to share 😀 thank you thank you <3
I started laughing about your ice cream. that first description you gave of it i was like really? i don't think she's serious lol
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Usually almond butter toast or sandwiches, protein bars, egg sandwiches or soup!
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I try to keep some canned soup or a frozen meal on hand for emergencies…or I take a walk to one of the coffee shops down the street :-p
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Eggs, eggs, and more eggs. And peanut butter toast or toasted peanut butter and jelly if there is bread!
Oh man, I can totally relate to this! It usually happens right before or right after a trip. It happened last night so dinner consisted of a sweet potato, frozen veggie, tuna & avocado bowl. Luckily those things are usually on hand on our house. Have a great day Paige!
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Ditto on the ice cream! Unless it’s froyo from a shop, I can’t stand the froyo in the container from the store. Just isn’t the same. Full fat ice cream all the way!
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Agreed! Sometimes you just need to real deal! I always do real maple syrup, if I’m using milk at least 1%, no skim and if I’m making making and cheese, I need the fat in it! No fat-free business lol 🙂
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Oh my god your travel day sounds like a complete nightmare! Driving in the snow after a long day of flight delays and a rocky flight in general, oof. I can just imagine it. And I love the ice cream at the end! fat free sugar free…justtt kidding! Haha, I buy the full-fat version whenever the mood strikes me too. It’s delicious!
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I am in Denver airport right now waiting to board my flight to LA as I read your post about Denver airport!
Hope you have a safe flight to LA!
For “bare cupboards”- your meals all look pretty tasty to me! 🙂 I am SO with you on ice cream. I don’t get it often, so why not go all out? I do like some lighter versions, but nothing beats the taste of full-fat, regular ice cream. Breyer’s Vanilla is my favorite ice cream ever (I could sit and eat the whole carton…) and the Aldean’s brand is realllllly good too.
Have you been to the Farmer’s Market in Boulder yet? I know I asked you that before but can’t remember. I say that we go there on my first Saturday in town- they have incredible food vendors there and the BEST ice cream too! The last time I went, I had a burger and ice cream for lunch while watching hippies swim in the river. (Pure happiness!)
Looking at all the jamberry nails is dangerous- there’s SO many I want! Luckily they’re buy 3 get 1 free!
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I have lost my car at airports so many times. So frustrating!
I feel like I never have food… I have go-to items. Frozen individually wrapped chicken from TJ’s for stir fryes or chicken pasta (always have pasta!) or something involving tortillas, cheese and beans 🙂
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I just took my sad chipped nail polish off yesterday. I love painted nails, but they never last long on me and I have little patients when it comes to painting them and letting them dry for only lasting a couple of days. UGH. Love the pink! Cute! I seem to always have eggs in the house, even when we leave. They are my go to quick meal and there are always frozen veggies around for me to add to an omelet.
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Everything looks pretty great for having bare cupboards! When that happens to me cereal is often my meal of choice!
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That has happened to me more times than I can count – it’s always funny to see what you can create. We’ve made vegetable stews with the leftovers before, or jambalaya. One of those “throw everything in a pot” creations is always a winner. 🙂
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You look so much like your mom! I totally understand you on the ice cream front. I don’t eat it every day, but when I do, it needs to be the real deal!
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Hey GIrl. FINALLY got to your comments page, and loved the results— thanks for teaching me OHH wise Paige 🙂 — Glad u are home and safe—- miss u already. Successful weekend if i do say so myself. And your eats look nommmmmmtastic
XO
Agreed. Successful weekend indeed 🙂 miss you both!! Thanks for everything.
Paige that bread concoction looks really good! Microwaved??
Yep! I just kinda eyeballed the measurement but used almond meal, butter, an egg, s&p, baking soda, and baking powder.
At first glance I thought that burrito was a protein bar and I was like, ewwwwww. Haha
Full fat, full flavor all the way!!
I couldn’t agree with you more on having to have real ice cream…ESPECIALLY when it comes to Cookies n Cream!! That will forever be my absolute favorite ice cream. I tried Arctic Zero’s Cookies n Cream and it was such a huge disappointment! 🙁 Nothing compares to the real thing!
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