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Recent Eats: Give Me Salad Edition

Time for a look at some recent eats! As always, good stuff for ya today. 🙂

Breakfasts/Brunch

I’m not going to show the smoothies (will wait for the challenge week one recap for that) but I have a couple others breakfasts to share.

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My favorite breakfast pita with scrambled eggs, spinach, roasted tomatoes, feta and cucumber yogurt in a soft, warm, fluffy pita from Nolen Kitchen. I went for Sunday brunch after teaching yoga.

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Banana egg white oatmeal with apple butter and peanut butter. This was my March 31 breakfast before the smoothie challenge started!

Lunch

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LOVED this lunch! Turkey wrap and a seasonal salad with strawberries, avocado, walnuts and feta.

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Whole Foods salad bar with some of their Sonoma Chicken Salad on top and a kombucha.

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I ate this ready to go salad from Trader Joe’s on Monday while I was cooking for my client. It was full of good stuff like edamame, quinoa, chick peas, sunflower seeds and dried cranberries. Need to recreate this combo at home!

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Last, a salad with roasted butternut squash, deli chicken, avocado, walnuts, dried cranberries, tomatoes and feta with homemade whole grain honey mustard.

I’ve been all about the salads since the weather has been nicer!

Dinner

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Baked flounder with panko, basil pearled couscous and roasted zucchini.

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Spinach gnocchi with sauteed mushrooms and shrimp topped with parmesan and truffle oil. Asparagus on the side. This was my favorite dinner of the week. Ah-mazing!

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Marinated chicken breast with roasted butternut squash and roasted cauliflower.

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And finally, a leftover quinoa stuffed pepper with a nice broccoli slaw I whipped up on the side. It had plain greek yogurt, a little mayo, a little apple cider vinegar, a little sugar, tomatoes, avocado, dried cranberries and sliced almonds.

What have you been craving lately? 

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