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Lunch, Snack and Dinner Picks and Change Ups this Week!

Feeling hungry? I ate mostly the same meals I posted for last week but I have changed things up with my lunches.

What’s new this week?

Spring Rolls

It is pretty easy but I have to be in the mood.

You will need:

• Rice paper
• Chicken strips
• Lettuce
• Chili Pepper Sauce
• Cucumber and/carrots (sliced)

1. Turn your tea pot on! All you need is a plate, bowl or flat pan wide enough to soak your rice paper.

2. Pour your hot water in that space and gently dip and lay your rice paper in the hot water.

3. While the water boils, you can cut up your cucumber, carrots, and break down your preferred green lettuce. I’m using Red Oak here.

4. You can use tofu, shrimp or chicken. Or just enjoy your veggies! I just bought pre-cooked and sliced Trader Joe’s ‘Just Caesar Chicken’ to just get it done already!

5. When the rice paper is soft, place it on a towel.

6. Place your veggie, meat and sauce picks as horizontally as possible- not too much or it is a pain to fold!

Note: I like to use either the chili sauce or the Japanese sesame dressing. If you like, you can do a Vietnamese style peanut dressing. I prefer putting the dressing in with the filling since dunking my roll for every bite adds extra calories. I use probably a teaspoon of either sauce and it flavors the roll just fine and it is less messy.

7. Fold it just as you would a skinny a burrito! Place one side of the softened rice paper over the filling scooping it in and toward you. Then, wrap one side over the right and then the other in from the left like a gift. Finally, roll it over one more time. The softened rice paper is quite sticky so the towel will help absorb the extra water on the outside and allow the inside to be a great adhesive to lock in all the goodies.

8. Do it again or  JUST EAT IT! I may make as many as three but two is just as good.

Again, the better the horizontal placement of your fillings, the less likely it will rip.

Most of these items I bought at Trader Joe’s but the rice paper I got from Whole Foods. Thanks to living in LA, I know I could get them in Little Tokyo or Korea town too.

As for snacks,

 Snack Pick

Raw almonds

Now, stop right there! This is a very dangerous grab. Sure! These are unsalted but when you are hungry, they are savory and you taste every compacted cell in them. You will want more!

So before you fall into the trap of constantly sneaking yourself another one, use a 1/2 cup size zip lock bowl and fill that only by a half which is 1 serving size of nuts. (I took a photo but its missing.)

*You may have noticed that none of these photos are professional so it’s safe to say that I do not have a camera crew following me around. Oh snap! One day, I’ll have the hair dresser, make up artist and camera crew.

This week, I purchased zucchini and yellow squash too. I have some dinner ideas for that and I will post that later!

In the meantime, I truly need to think PORTION, PORTION, PORTION!

Here is my menu for every 3 hrs:

1. Protein Shake
2. Yogurt, fruit, almonds meal
3. Spring Rolls
4. Almonds
5. Eggs, onions, cheese, roasted peppers

I confess! I can get so excited to eat that I’ve got to watch those darn portions! I would say that I am most concerned for my dinner portion because it may affect my morning run. Immediately after my evening workout, I am not so hungry but once I start cooking, I just want to throw everything in!

These ziplock cups truly help me not to just dump the entire Reddi-Egg carton into the pan! I love the flavor that onions and the jarred Trader Joe Roasted Peppers make along with the 1/4 cup of shredded cheese. Tonight, I threw in a little zucchini and a sprinkle of Gorgonzola and a squirt of mustard. Yeah, mustard! Strange but good. That’s all I can say… If loving food is wrong… I just better get my PORTIONS RIGHT!

Alright, that’s it for my foodin’. Time to get ready for the easy 4 mile run in the morning. I am still gauging what foods will not upset or interrupt my morning run. One cannot take a book’s word for it. Lucky for me, I can just do like Nike and JUST EAT IT! Then see how I go! (or not go!)