It seems that the pumpkin shortage from last season has finally hit me!!! I went down to the pantry to grab a can, to try out Kath’s pumpkin pie yogurt for tomorrow’s breakfast, and there wasn’t a-one left! I am pretty broken up about it. Hopefully if I venture to the store for some next weekend, I’ll be able to find a can somewhere. My fingers are crossed. And as a result, some rearranging was just performed.
Monday | (soaked oats with dried fruit. i should write these down soon! i forgot about them until last night just before i went to bed.) (leftover pasta with blush sauce & 1/4 cup black beans) (pizza. papa’s request for his first night “home with his girls.” :-p)
Tuesday
B (overnight oats with vanilla chai protein powder, a nod to Heather’s! she has been so many meal inspirations this week. i’m excited to play with this one.)
L (tempeh sandwich with bbq sauce & avocado)
D (red quinoa salad with nooch {?!}, cayenne pepper sauce, pepper & onion, okra, tomatoes, blue cheese, zucchini… can’t wait to play around with the nutritional yeast, either. so many meals to sample this week. hopefully it works out this time, haha.)
* Making hummus for later in the week.
Wednesday | (hummus with carrots & 1/2 cucumber. english muffin with tomato paste & blue cheese) (out for dinner!)
Thursday
L (leftover quinoa salad with red sauce)
D (hummus with 1/4 cuke and carrots. grilled veggie, veggie burger, tomato paste sammich on wheat bread)
Friday | (grocery store salad bar?) (wheat bread french toast, stuffed with cream cheese? haven’t made this in a year; it sounds like a perfect friday night idea as i type this…)
Vega – yeah, not my favorite either. I love Jay Robb and Sun Warrior rice protein powders. They’re both great, but I think Jay’s is my fav.
Forget the overnight oats, I want that tempeh, avocado, and BBQ sandwich. Yum – love tempeh, and it is no where to be found in Fife Lake, MI. Oh well, it will be back in my life soon enough.
What brand of protein powder do you use? Vanilla chai sounds yummy, and I bet it made some great overnight oats!
I’ve been using canned butternut squash in place of pumpkin all summer. It’s much easier to find these days!
I ruined my lunch plan because those darn protein oats kept me so full. And the last of my avocado will go bad if I don’t eat it tonight, so the tempeh will be making an appearance in my quinoa salad. BBQ sauce is my fave tempeh topping. But I think your beautiful MI trip was completely worth the sacrifice.
Right now I’m using Vega Health Optimizer, I’m going to link it the next time I write. It is not my favorite. It leaves a sort of… health-food-coating on my tongue. It’s better in smoothies, I think. But it was a little pricey for me, so I’m determined to love every scoopful somehow. One of the only other kinds I’ve tried was french vanilla Designer Whey protein. I was looking for a veg option instead, just because, but I think I’ll be going back to that one. Maybe chocolate, for desserts! I haven’t found any powders from hemp / rice / anything else yet. I’m thinking GNC, maybe?
And I kept reading about you using the canned butternut squash. In my head, I decided that’s just what you called pumpkin! Hahaha. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it. If I can’t find either, I will be throwing down in the grocery store on Saturday morning.