Happy Wednesday, and more specifically, Happy What I Ate Wednesday 🙂
As always, this huge, AWESOME link up is hosted by the wonderful Jenn at peas and crayons.
For this week, I am using the theme What I Ate: Race Week. While my stomach is a bunch of nerves the week before a race, I also try and eat VERY simply and balanced. No soda or alcohol, sess processed foods, more easy to digest, tummy friendly, healthy carb filled delicious grub.
Let’s check out how successful I was this week 🙂
Breakfasts
My breakfasts during the week were a lot of fresh fruit, granola and unprocessed (aka expensive but totally worth it) yogurts. This meal is my normal go to jump start to a healthy day, and it worked well for me race week. I did up my granola intake, but justified it with the carbo loading.
for my weekend breakfasts, I went for my favorite carb heavy meals. Cinnamon crunch bagels, apple crunch pastries, the good stuff :). All in the name of racing, of course.
Lunches/Snacks
I don’t eat many “real” lunches through the work day, and tend to snack my way through. The week before the race, it was a lot of NUUN, trail mix, granola, and high in carbohydrate, simple snacks. My favorite was probably that edemame hummus up there. Delish!
Dinners
I ate more sandwiches than I care to admit the week before the race. Normally with a side of very simple greens and chex mix. Hey, it worked for me. I did also manage to squeeze in some other, more “real” meals, including sushi, cobb salad and pasta. Yum
Treats
I made an apple pie while Zach was traveling, and ate that UP during the week leading up to the race. Lots of healthy carbs in that one, right? 😉
And that, my friends, is what I ate for the Race week.
Thank you again, to Jenn, for hosting!!
Question of the afternoon: Share your favorite eat of the past week.
Probably that darn apple pie. YUM.
I hate to admit it, but after my 22 miles this past weekend, I came down hard on some local pizza. Hard.
BTW, that is a precious little teapot.
Did that sound manly?
I’m not hating on the comment. You can appreciate a nice piece of cookware. I’m OK with that.
We have the same teapot in black … actually I think we are a family teapot fetishists, my teen boys couldn’t wait to buy my wife a new one for her birthday 🙂
Nothing wrong with that! 🙂
We can’t have nice things like teapots because our toddlers break them! True story.
My husband breaks them as well. Also true story.
When your toddlers become a 6’2″ 15.5 year old and 6’3″ 17 year old they can they reach and break the things you could formerly keep safe … another true story 🙂
Ha! I’m not sure if ours will get that tall, but I have enrolled them in stilt school. Probably not the best idea.
Why hate to admit that? Pizza is the best fuel, post and pre run!
My favorite eat was on Saturday when Kyle made us pad thai for dinner (from scratch). Soooo good.
TWIN I ATE PAD THAI FOR DINNER SATURDAY. Wait — we already discussed this, didn’t we.
WHAT??? (I can’t remember if we did because we always do the same thing). I remember now that you got pad thai and edamame hummus before the race! Man, twin thing strikes again!
We’re crazy I tell you. In the best possible way.
Best. Way.
yum, your eats look to die for!