What I Ate Wednesday 3

Linking up with Jenn and my fellow WIAW-ers to show you my eats from Monday! This was a vegetable-light weekend, especially when I essentially subsisted tortilla chips and coffee to nurse my hangover on Sunday (…it’s science, people). So when Monday rolled around after traveling to Spokane, I was intensely craving lots of proteins and vegetables. I have to say, this was an unusually low-carb day for me. When my disordered eating was at its worst, I restricted carbs like crazy and it was really quite unhealthy for mind, body, and spirit. Nowadays, I generally incorporate more fruit and whole grains (and wine and chocolate).

BREAKFAST

I kicked off this gorgeous Monday with a sweaty spin session at The Union and then a monster breakfast at the Safari Room at the Davenport Hotel. This was a delicious vegetable omelet with whole eggs, mushrooms, spinach, peppers, and onions. Canadian bacon and coffee on the side. The hostess also gave me some fruit, but I kind of ignored it and was all about the savory breakfast. I almost cleared my entire plate of this bad boy.

LUNCH

Unsurprisingly I wasn’t hungry until like 2:30pm for lunch. A teammate had picked up salads from my favorite place in Spokane - Mizuna! They make a killer tofu or Ahi tuna salad. I know I’ve written about their amazing salads before, and if you follow me on Instagram, I post weekly ‘grams every Thursday of me eating this salad on the plane. Probably gets boring for the rest of you, but I just can’t get enough of their signature salad! It’s spinach with cilantro, cabbage, cucumber and carrots with grilled tofu and pickled ginger and a sweet sesame miso dressing. This time I added avocado, which was actually an awesome idea. Will repeat. I only ate about half this salad, to be honest.

SNACK

Unsweetened iced green tea from Starbucks! Not sure if this even qualifies as a snack.

DINNER

After a long day of work, I grabbed some Japanese food to end the day! I nibbled on some miso soup and seaweed salad to start, and then scarfed all of my sushi rolls. This no-rice, cucumber-wrapped roll had tuna, smoked salmon, avocado. spring mix, and asparagus in it. The smoked salmon flavor was actually a little intense - next time I may ask for fresh salmon. I love the no-rice rolls though! I should learn to make these at home - I’m sure it’s not thaaat hard. I love that this Toro Sushi in Spokane offers gluten-free soy sauce - even some of my favorite fancy sushi places in LA don’t do that.

Also - note the magazine on the side? After noticing from my WIAW last week and two weeks ago, I ate literally every meal in front of my computer. Trying to incorporate a little non-screen time into my day.

DESSERT

I typed up this post and sipped on a a little of Dr. Brew’s Spiced Apple kombucha. I drank about half before realizing that the second ingredient was black tea…any idea if kombucha is caffeinated? It took me a while to fall asleep, even after I read several chapters of the third “Fifty Shades” trio (might actually be the worst book I’ve ever read). Welp!

So there you have it! A veggie heavy day of eats.

CALIFORNIA people: Nate and I will be driving up highway 1 from LA to SF this weekend to finalize our move. Where should we eat along the way? I’d love to do a WIAW of our road trip eats!

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