Weekend Eats + A Lesson On Going With The Flow
Sharing another post with some eats, these being our weekend eats to hopefully give you some inspiration with eating and with being more intuitive with choosing foods. I'd shared before with you guys a typical "eats" day at work, but weekends can be different and unpredictable so I thought it might be nice to show you what a weekend looked like. Not a typical weekend because that doesn't exist. But at least a weekend in general. And I hope you'll see that there's no "perfect" way to eat...only what's best for you!
So this weekend, my hope was to make it out to get some plants for a vegetable garden and some indoor plants because I've just been craving some greenery indoors. But, the rain and the fact that our car was stuck in the shop quickly changed our plans. But I will say, the slow weekend, that I can thank the weather for, was much needed and much appreciated. I have a pretty busy week coming up with 2 speaking engagements and work and client calls, so needless to say...I feel like God used the weather to help me be still this weekend.
Breakfast Saturday started with some eggs, avocado, toast, and sauteed spinach. I'm usually a sweet kinda breakfast person, but this morning I woke up craving savory! I decided to use the rainy weather to my advantage and sought out to make some recipes that I'd been wanting to make but didn't find time for. One of those being this Pinch of Yum recipe for Chipotle Sweet Potato Noodle Salad. Sooo good!
After lunch I was craving something sweet as usual. So I thankfully remembered that I had some "Bliss Bites" left over in the freezer that I'd made a few weeks back from my A Couple Cooks Cookbook. These are so great to just keep in the freezer for "emergencies :)" For dinner I had planned on making soup, but last minute some friends of ours from down the street asked if we'd like to hang out for games. So, instead of taking time to cook, we decided to head to our favorite pizza place that was on the way and get a couple of slices quick before heading to their house. Paul and I usually will get 3 slices to split between us...I chose 1 margarita pizza and we shared the broccoli rabe and sausage one.
Sunday we slept in...until 8! Lol, but that really is some major sleeping in for me. I used to find myself jumping out of bed in the past. Part of my disordered mindset with food/exercise. Sleeping in was wasting time in my mind. But, thankfully I've dealt with that and gladly take an opportunity to just stay in bed a little longer.
We woke up and made our favorite breakfast lately...oatmeal with apples and peanut butter. Paul didn't like oatmeal when we first got married. But I've converted him. He's now the one who asks for oats in the morning! Fancy that! We stayed home from church today because we didn't have a means to get there...sadly. But also, we just wanted some time to relax and I believe sometimes Sundays can be best spent staying home. So, we instead took our bikes out for a long bike ride.
When we finally got back, we were ravenous! I had a leftover burrito from trader joes, was still hungry, so had a leftover hotdog from last weekend when we had a barbecue. Hot dogs aren't my first choice, but it sounded good, so there.
After dinner I actually took a nap! Which is unheard of for me! But I found myself after lunch still thinking I was hungry, then realized that my "hunger" feeling was actually my "exhausted" feeling. Sometimes those two seem similar to me. But I realized that eating more wasn't going to really make me feel better and that my true need was sleep! So sleep I did. For like 2 hours.
The rest of the afternoon Paul and I spent talking to family and wishing our moms a happy Mother's Day. We ended the day with a batch of this Summery Veggie Soup, again from Pinch of Yum...I'm in a Pinch of Yum kick right now! The meal was complete with wine and toast with butter. Then really completed with some more of those bliss bites I talked about earlier. So good! I was reminded this weekend the importance of going with the flow, which was something I didn't do so well with when food controlled my life. I'm still learning that sometimes you change plans to bring more joy into your life and bring opportunities for relationships and friendships. And that's ok! Change is good, and inevitable. It's how we manage it that matters. Even little things like a change in plans with dinner to make time to hang out with friends. Or not being able to do as much because of the weather and our car situation. Change helps to mold us into strong people. Change helps us to be people who care for others.Hope you had a great weekend!