Eat whatever you want! sometimes...

It's Thanksgiving ok, and chances are you could be away from home. And the social faux pas of hiding your lunch cooler under the table and bringing out your pre-made Tupperware oddities, is just too destructive!

Instead, load up on the salad (hopefully the cooks were kind enough to leave the dressing on the side) and search for Clean veggies with a lot of flavor! Find those good cuts of turkey and if they are cooked just right, you wont even need to bother with the gravy! Watch out for those breads and white carbs though, yikes! Looking at potatoes, hopefully there is a yam option that hasn't been bastardized by marshmallows and brown sugar (never understood that one). And trust me, I can make some killer mashed potatoes from scratch, but I would only about 1/4 cup, once a year. What makes things so delicious??? BUTTER! ; )

So don't go into the holiday season about to commit social suicide or create that high level of guilt that will ravage you for days to come, be calm, cool and collected and remember, its JUST ONE MEAL!! That meal alone, will not make you squishy!

YAWN....

WOW...what a blogging snooze-fest this has been! I am even feeling let down! Lame-sauce!

With work/coaching/training all in FULLLLLLLL swing, eating and food prep has become condenscend and sporatic. Both quite bad! I have found a few secrets along the way, that have helped eleviate some of the stress associated with Calories and caloric density when i just can not prepare REAL food!

Pictured here is a meal from Amy's! Awesome stuff! You can find many Organic meals, most are WELL under 300 calories, and if a grain is included such as rice, it is brown or whole wheat! Sodium content is low as well. This one's protein is tofu, but I am pretty sure you can buy them with meat as well. Another GREAT easy meal is one made by Helen's Kitchen!! Excellent stuff! Now I haven't seen many selections of these in the standard grociery stores, but I know here locally Clarkes carries them and I think Vons...YUMMY!!

Dinner salad packed with WOW: Goji berries; avocado; spinach; cherry tomatoes' peppers; papitas and some GOOD cheese....can't go wrong! And you can eat the WHOLE mixing bowl worth of it

Lunch packed with Things That Grew

Grab your favorite veggies! Here we had cucumbers, tomatoes and avocado with a little salt on them. Ezekiel muffins (AWESOME bread selection) with egg and tomatoe with some tofu (or your favorite) cheese! Easy, light, and HEALTHY!! On the side a banana sliced (we figured that weighs in at a whopping 109 calories) plus some fresh strawberries covering 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt! Drizzle some Agave nectar on top and BAM! Dessert!

And for some Delicious Desert on the go?!?!?!?! Trader Joe's PB & J bar. Although a friend said it has POTATO CHIPS in it (erm...i used to put them IN my PBnJ in grade school...) Excellent cap to a long day of work and training with that excellent dark chocolate to cap it off!