WIAW: Still Loving Apples, Cashews & Lentils

Hi and Happy Wednesday, though most of your days have already come to an end! I feel like this week has been zipping by.

Thanks to you ladies for your sweet comments on yesterday’s post. Like a few of you mentioned, what matters most is how I feel in my own skin. Living healthily and happily is a constant balancing act, and I’m just trying to find that (almost) perfect balance that makes me feel best — although I must add that I feel pretty happy and healthy already!

With that being said, today I’m joining the Peas and Crayon linkup party for a What I Ate Wednesday post. It’s actually all of my eats from yesterday, and includes a few of my recent food loves: apples, cashews and lentils.

Breakfast: chopped apple sprinkled with cinnamon + almond butter + Kashi Go Lean! Crunch cereal

Lunch: I sautéed a veggie burger and combined it with avocado and lentils. I’m still diggin’ TJ’s precooked lentils.  

Snack: Pre-workout I had a snack of a Zing protein bar and some cinnamon almonds. I haven’t bought a 100-calorie snack pack in awhile since cutting out most overly processed snacks like the typical 100-calorie ones, but I nabbed a box of these 100-calorie cinnamon almonds because it seemed convenient to grab on-the-go. Plus, I’m obsessed with cinnamon!

Dinner: My last meal of the day was kind of two-part. First, I steamed local yellow beans that I had nabbed at this quirky health food store in my town called People and Planet. They’re cool because not only do they sell a lot of great brands that I might not necessarily know of (they’re where I found, and now regularly buy, my Zing bars!), but they also sell local produce. I also made mini whole wheat cheese quesadillas.

Secondly, I made a recipe from Jazzy Vegetarian Classics for white bean cashew dip. The cookbook was recently sent to me to review, so stay tuned for a full post on it once I try a bunch of its recipes, but this was the first recipe I made out of it. I give it a thumbs up! It was a bit nutty with a lemon zest and a garlic kick, and my hubby liked it too. We ate some the dip with baby carrots and crackers.

And that’s all she wrote for yesterday’s eats. Good night!