Back to Life

Andy and I have been working on getting back into our normal routine. It is hard to remember what that normal routine is since we barely remember what we did before we bought a house and planned a wedding. We are trying to focus on cooking more and maintaining both inside the house and the yard.

Sunday- Sunday was a catch up on projects we have wanted to do day. First we had decided we would smoke pork for pulled pork. Andy started the Boston Butt at 8 AM. The night before we had rubbed with mustard and the spice rub and let it sit overnight. Once we were both up, Andy did a quick trip to the store for some sides and we got started. We started by trimming the trees around the roof. Then we did some rearranging of the shed to get bikes in a better position. We also cleaned up the porch which had become a dumping ground for all sorts of stuff.

Andy enjoying our new furniture!

We had some friends over to enjoy the pulled pork. Dinner was the pulled pork with homemade Carolina BBQ sauce, coleslaw, salad and baked beans. It was delicious!

Monday- I started my day with a smoothie. I have changes my smoothie recipe up a little bit. 1/2 c frozen blueberries( 0 PP) , 1 C spinach (0PP), 2 TBSP 0% Chobani (1 PP), flax seed (1 PP) and 2 scoops EAS Lean 15 Protein Powder (2 PP). For lunch I brought leftover salmon and quinoa. I also brought an apple and a Grapefruit LaCroix. After work I headed to the gym for a quick cardio session. Dinner was a half of a baked sweet potato topped with 3 oz pork and carolina bbq sauce. I paired this with a side salad and some coleslaw

Tuesday- Breakfast was another smoothie, just like Monday's. For lunch I brought my lunch to ensure I wouldn't eat the lunch that was brought in. I made a salad topped with 3 oz salmon and my homemade asian salad dressing. I also brought watermelon and an apple. For dinner I kept everything really simple. Turkey roll-up, baked sweet potato topped with a little cheese, salsa and guacamole. After dinner and doing a couple of chores around the house I treated myself to a SkinnyCow Ice Cream sandwich.

Wednesday I decided to change up breakfast a little bit because I had a busy day at work. I made a breakfast sandwich on a Light English muffin (3 pts) with a whole egg (2 pts), one slice of deli turkey (1 PP) and 1/2 oz of provolone cheese (1 PP). It always shocks me that an egg sandwich is 7 PP but I stay full throughout the morning and find that I eat less at lunch. Lunch was half of a Panera Chicken Poppyseed Salad (4 PP). After a busy day at work, I headed to the gym for some strength training. Then headed home for dinner. I decided to make lettuce cup tacos for dinner. It was simple enough. I cooked up some ground turkey with some homemade taco seasoning topped that with a little cheese, guacamole and salsa.

Taco Lettuce Cups and Sparkling water!

Thursday Breakfast was another egg sandwich with some adjustments. I used a Light English Muffin (2 PP),  one egg white (0 PP),  0.2 oz provolone cheese (1 PP) and on Jimmie Dean turkey sausage patty (1PP). I also had iced coffee with 1/4 cup of 2% milk (1PP).

Delicious 5PP breakfast

For lunch I brought a basic taco salad made with 3 cup romaine lettuce (0 PP), 3 oz of cooked ground turkey (5 PP), 2 tablespoons guacamole (1 PP), 2 tablespoons salsa (0 PP), 1/4 cup shredded cheese (3 PP) and cucumber. This was accompanied by an apple and sparkling water.

For dinner I sauteed some bok choy and onion and we topped it with taco meat, salsa, guacamole and 1/4c cheese. We also got ready for Dave Matthews Band and we enjoyed a relaxing night in the hot tub. 

Friday For breakfast I have a breakfast sandwich that Andy was nice enough to make for me (7 PP) accompanied with coffee and a 1/4 cup of 2% milk. For lunch we had a team lunch to celebrate our project Go-Live. We brought in some delicious Thai food, so it was a little harder to stay on track so I focused on avoiding the rice and noodles and really just ate the curry and the samrod chicken. After work Andy and I headed to the Dave Matthews Band Concert in West Palm Beach. Andy had smoked a pork shoulder during the day and picked up sides at Publix. It was not very good points wise but it tasted delicious and I spent 3 hours dancing up a storm!

Saturday Andy and I got up and met up with our new friend Nick. We went to a diner for breakfast. I got a delicious Irish eggs benedict. It was a toasted english muffin topped with tomato, corned beef hash, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce at Sara's Kitchen in West Palm Beach. It was amazing!! After that we headed to Twisted Trunk Brewing for a couple of beers before tailgating. I tried a watermelon saison, english pale ale and a session IPA. They were great beers. We then headed back to the venue for night two of DMB. We ate pulled pork again with sides of beans, potato salad, and macaroni salad. It was another great night of Dave music in the rain.

Since we are now in August, I wanted to set some goals for August which are realistic since it is also honeymoon month.