Marching into a Healthy Year

Happy Thursday! Just one more day until the weekend :) I’m so ready – we’re supposed to have pretty nice weather Saturday and Sunday, so I’m sure we’ll be outside with Maggie.

Breakfast today included one of my new finds from the grocery store.

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Nick made us some eggs and coffee while I cut an apple and toasted up some crumpets!

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Crumpets is a fun word to say, don’t you think? Plus, I could read (and understand) all the ingredients AND they’re only 60 calories each!

I topped one crumpet with some Crofter’s North America (blueberry and cranberry) jam and one with some TJ’s pumpkin butter that I found in the fridge.

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That pumpkin butter just tastes like fall! I guess I better finish it before spring is officially here ;)

Work was pretty busy this morning, so I’m enjoying my lunch break with a side of House Hunters and some awesome leftovers!

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I heated up some leftover ham/broccoli/mushroom casserole and some green beans and broccoli that I had in the fridge.

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I love meals like this! Casseroles are so comforting and filling.

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As soon as I’m done eating, Maggie and I are off for our lunchtime walk.

Did you know that March is National Nutrition Month?

Brittany posted a challenge earlier this week to make your own goals to eat healthier during March, and I’m totally in for this. After such a cold and miserable winter and a trip to Spain, I feel a little off-kilter in the planning and eating well areas. Super cold winters like this make me want to just lay in the house and be lazy, but I want to go into spring and summer feeling great!

I may come up with more goals, but these are mine right now:

  • Get more snack ideas! Most days at work, I get hungry in the afternoon. Often, I find myself with no snack at all or just bars, and I don’t want to rely on those. I want some real food! So I need to brainstorm and try to remember snacks I used to have and bring those back into my life.
  • Eat more veggies than fruit every day.
  • Eat as much local food as I can get. I’m re-reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and with spring right around the corner, I’m getting so excited about buying all kinds of things at our farmer’s markets. In fact, I have plans to go on Saturday.

Are you doing the challenge?

 

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So…with those goals, what are your favorite healthy snack ideas?

12 comments

  1. Crumpets are super fun! :)

    My favourite healthy snack is an apple with nut butter

  2. Apples, snap peas, Amazing Grass bars….yum!

  3. i’m real curious to know what a crumpet is. lol i’ve never heard of them before!

    my fav snack is probably carrots and hummus or i sometimes dip them in mustard!

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  4. crumpets are an AWESOME word to say. you have to say it with a british accent though and then it becomes 100X more cool ahah

  5. I’ve always wanted to try a crumpet, simply because I never knew what it was.

    My favorite snacks are fruit, nuts/nutbutters, cereal, and smoothies.

  6. Okay my new favorite snack is carrots with salsa. Especially with a really yummy salsa like Rojo’s Peach Mango Salsa! What I love to do is get it ready the night before or in the morning. Then the salsa soaks into the carrots. Eat with a fork and enjoy!

    I have a goal of trying to buy more local food, too!

  7. I like to put some PB on an unsalted rice cake and jelly on another then smoosh them together and pull apart.

    I also love hummus and veggies :)

  8. My favorite snacks: cottage cheese with chickpeas (newest “discovery” borrowed from Janetha), carrots & cucumbers with hummus, banana & almond butter.

  9. YEY for crumpets.
    I love those. We had them a lot growing up and I usually buy them over bagels every time. Only thing that sucks is that they have a short shelf life/fridge life .

    I love casseroles and pasta bake type meals too, There is something about them that is just so warm and comforting.

  10. I will definitely try the challenge. Since the Boston Marathon is in mid-April, I am in general trying to really boost my healthy eating to a new level so I feel good!

  11. I love your March goals–I am all for trying to live the most healthy and balanced lifestyle possible :-) Good luck!

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