Guest post and a hungry day

First things first: If you haven't stumbled upon it yet, the wonderful and sweet Lara of Thinspired asked me to do a guest post for her on my methods of grazing. Check it out here! It was a really fun post to write and I'd like to say hi to any new readers that may have discovered me through her. Hooray for food blogger networking!

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Meal numero uno yesterday was a delicious bowl of oats. Yes, I finally had a fantastic bowl of oatmeal. I think I discovered what my taste buds had been lacking these past couple weeks: apricot jam!!! Not just any jam, this tart, low-sugar jar of perfection is homemade by my mom and there is a limited supply (sob!) but I'm enjoying the heck out of it for as long as I can.

• 1/2 cup oatmeal
• 3/4 cup water
• half a banana
• cinnamon
• cashew butter
• the saving grace - apricot jam!

Mid-morning snack:

Thank goodness for the 10 grams of protein in this bar because I wasn't able to eat lunch until 2! When breakfast is at 6, that's waaaaay too long for me. Food was the only thing on my mind, I just wanted to cry. That or punch someone in the face....either way. Hangry.

My snack lunch was a plain Chobani yogurt with Kashi Go lean,a honeycrisp and some snap peas.

I can't even tell you how happy I was after eating. Life was worth living again. :) You understand my exaggerations right??? Oh and I would like to add that I didn't have any digestive issues/pains from the yogurt! I realized that around 4 and did a little happy dance.

After work I ran to the store to stock up on produce again. Apparently I saw more and more items to purchase because before I knew it I had spent nearly $100. My normal grocery shops (for both my husband and I) are between $40 and 70 so this was surprising. Of course I didn't go shopping last week so I suppose it evens out.

By the time I got home I was - you guessed it - hungry again. I attacked this box of cereal. Poor thing, never saw it coming.Multiply that handful by a million...Sadly, cereal alone couldn't solve my hunger troubles so I made a ww tortilla wrap with a little surprise inside.
Earth Balance almond butter and dried fruit. Weird? Probably. Good? Yup!

Dinner was a recipe for Cabbage Roll Casserole I found on Lyn's blog, Escape from Obesity. If you've never read her blog I highly recommend it. She's such a terrific writer and her posts are always fantastic.

Brown one pound ground beef in a pan with a chopped onion and a few cloves of chopped garlic.

Add spices (garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne pepper, black pepper, thyme, sea salt...), Worcestershire sauce and tomato paste. I used leftover marinara and pizza sauce. It tasted just fine.Add half a chopped cabbage.Stir to combine and set heat to medium-low. Simmer for about 45 minutes or until cabbage is soft.Final product: please ignore the heavy use of flash photography. It's dark in my kitchen...Normally I would have served this with some fresh rolls or homemade bread. Unfortunately I didn't have any ambition to make it so I made some brown basamati rice instead. I topped my plate with some Cholula post-photo.

This was a tasty, easy meal to prepare and gets two thumbs up. My husband even went back for a second plate. :)

Dessert was completely unintentional and unphototgraphed. I had a few more pieces of dried fruit and then half an apple that I cut up for Dave. He never eats fruit!! All he had yesterday was some beef jerky and then two plates of the above dinner. Uhhh, could we be more different??

Workout: 4 miles on stationary bike - not much of a workout is it?? Maybe I should call it something else. I do a lot of random moves/stretches throughout the day that I never mention on here. Squats while brushing my teeth. Calf strengthening moves while at work. I never sit down except to eat my lunch during the day. I suppose all this adds up to something, right?

Questions: Do you find that you eat more than your significant other? Uhh, yeah! If they have questionable eating habits do you try to change them? I don't try to change Dave's eating habits too much but I sure wish he would eat breakfast. He barely eats at all during the day and then stuffs himself at night. He loves vegetables though so I can't complain about that. He will eat fruit but I have to wash, cut and plate it for him before he'll eat it. Men.