Happy Humpday!!

Yesssss tomorrow is Thursday and that means the week is SO close to the weekend! It’s only downhill from here, baby!! I’m particularly excited because the hubs and I are going off for a cheap-o beach weekend! My parents live in Sarasota, so we’re staying there Friday night – Monday and have plans to just lay about on the beach, soakin’ up some rays, read some good books, take some long walks on the beach, maybe do some kayaking in the gulf…ooh, I can’t wait!!

(Although I am bummed that I have to come back to work after that. I was supposed to have all next week off, but now the other half of the development team and I have to go babysit volunteers and paint the interior of the school’s building that’s affilitiated with the non-profit I work with. Stink, stank, stunk!)

I’m going to divide the rest of this post up in three: morning/lunch/snacks, fitness, and dinner. On your marks, get set, GO!

MORNING/ LUNCH/ SNACKS

Well, this morning at work I actually got a mini-workout in! I had to return a bunch of (super heavy) table mirrors to a wedding vendor. Well, they were doing a bunch of road work downtown, so I had to park by the city hall and make FOUR TRIPS to bring everything back! All in a skirt and cute little sandals. And I’d like to give a little shout out to all the gentlemen who stopped to help me instead of just smile and stare as I passed. NOT!

All that to say, I had an earlier appetite! Here were my eats to last me the day:

I ate the gala apple around 11. Then I broke into the chicken, spinach, strawberry salad and cucumbers around 12. Then I was still hungry so I had the Z-bar early afternoon. I think I munched a couple almonds at some point (I was mucho hungry today!). Then, before my evening workout I had 1/3 of the super yummy Odwalla super protein bar. YUM!

FITNESS
Y’all, I have to say it – I’m proud of myself today! I officially jogged the furthest distance I have yet! I know for you bloggers who are serious runners out there, this is no big deal. But I have always struggled with doing much more than three miles. But today, as I was driving to meet my husband to go to a park, I knew I wanted to jog/ do jog intervals the whole 4.5 miles. So that’s’ what I did! For the most part I stuck with jog 5 minutes, walk 1. At the half way point I was super tight, so I stopped to stretch a bit more. Then finished up!! Then did a half mile cool down walk (it’s so beautiful out there, I kind of just kept going and going!). So in actuality, my total mileage (not counting the downtown mirror lugging “fun” trips this AM), was 5 miles.

DINNER
Dinner tonight was something we thought would be easier/ not as labor-intensive as it was. Since we got back a little later from our lakeside jog, Ross and I were both in the kitchen working on dinner. Hellloooo chicken pot pie!! We watched a Bobby Flay throwdown the other night which inspired it.

The sweet potato biscuit crust is the same as Bobby Flay’s. I pretty much used his exact recipe except cut down on salt and used whole wheat flour. And warning – you are going to need much more flour than it calls for!! And don’t freak out about the butter at first, like I did – we had WAY more than enough dough! There was plenty of dough to cover the pie dish, plus make a dozen biscuits, and that was only using half the dough! The other half is in the freezer!

The inside was 2 chicken breasts cubed and sauted with red pepper powder, ground black pepper, kosher salt, and paprika. For veggies I used half a white onion, 2 small white potatoes, 2 carrots, and some frozen peas.

For the sauce I made a rue. Start with 2 T. butter and 2 T. whole wheat flour. Whisk over heat until there’s a nutty flavor/ scent to it. Then slowly start whisking in skim milk until you reach desired thickness. Also add some garlic powder and paprika.

Combine it all, top with your rolled out dough, and cook in a 375 degree oven for about 20-25 minutes.

Yum! Although I maintain it was wayyy too much work for how late we got back. Oh well! We ate, we enjoyed, and now we chill.

Y’all have a GREAT end of the week now!!